We’ve had an incredible response to the Agency theme in its first 24 hours of being live, so we thought we’d sweeten the deal a bit. We’re giving away 5 copies of the Agency theme, a rad UpThemes t-shirt (pictured above), and a one-year Developer Club Membership.
All you have to do to enter is follow the instructions below. The more ways you enter, the more likely you are to win, so enjoy:
Despite stiff competition, WordPress is rapidly gaining popularity as a microblogging platform. If you already know and love the world’s favorite CMS, there’s really no reason to use another service. There are many good microblogging themes available these days, which let you create a Tumblr or Posterous-style blog, but with all the power and flexibility of good ole’ WordPress.
The long-anticipated Agency theme has finally been unleashed upon the world. Agency is a theme for design companies and freelance designers to showcase their portfolio and team members quickly and easily.
One of the great improvements of the recently released WordPress 3.3 is the enhancement to the contextual help feature for admin screens. Originally, the contextual help screen was largely rudimentary, and designed to display basic text.
However, contextual help was improved considerably in WordPress 3.3, with an all-new Screen API, and UI enhancements such as tabs and a sidebar. These enhancements are perfect for organizing contextual help, especially for Themes with complex Theme options, and/or tabbed UIs for Theme settings pages – in other words, these enhancements are perfect for UpThemes!
Being a theme developer means staying up-to-date on the latest WordPress features and changes to ensure our themes remain compatible and enjoy enhanced features that live in harmony with core WordPress code and utilities. The new Theme Customizer is certainly one of the most exciting features for theme developers in quite some time, allowing us to add our theme customization controls into a live customization panel that makes it super easy to view and update your theme’s design quickly and easily.
If you’re running a design or development company, then this theme was made just for you. Agency is a beautiful design-oriented WordPress theme that allows you to showcase your projects and team members with the greatest of ease.
If you’ve ever come across Rogie King’s Fine Goods Market, you’re one of the lucky folks that realize the pure insanity of his amazing design talents. A few months ago, we came into an agreement to incorporate Rogie’s View.js into future themes at no additional cost to you, even though it costs us a license fee to use it. Our goal is to bring you the best quality designs and features as possible.
For your sampling pleasure, we’ve even added View.js to UpThemes.com. Click the image below to see it in action:
As of right now, View.js is currently available in the StoreFrontal theme and Micro theme and will soon be available in all themes with a future update to the UpThemes Framework. We hope you enjoy!
Much of the focus of the upcoming WordPress 3.4 release involves Themes and the Appearance Settings user interface. In addition to some under-the-hood improvements to handling of custom header images and custom backgrounds, WordPress 3.4 includes some improvements that will be readily apparent to end users.
If you hadn’t heard, we just released a brand new web font plugin called Typecase. You can read more about that in our launch blog post here.
We’re excited to announce that you can now apply kickass web fonts directly to your Page.ly website! With an exclusive partnership between UpThemes and Page.ly, we’ve made it even easier to apply any of 500+ Google Web Fonts to your website. For all new customer signups on Page.ly, Typecase comes pre-installed and ready for you to browse and apply custom fonts to ANY theme! Simply visit the Typecase page in your WordPress admin and start adding fonts to your collection. It’s that easy!
If you’re not yet a Page.ly customer, you should be! Sign up here.