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Plugin Launch: Typecase, A Web Font Manager

Posted by admin on April 30th, 2012 with 3 comments

Here at UpThemes, we’re all about awesomeness. That’s why we developed an easy-to-use typography manager with over 200 custom fonts from Google Web Fonts and baked it into all our themes. Since we’ve been working on revamping the UpThemes Framework, we decided to move our Typography Engine into an awesome WordPress plugin that can be used with ANY theme! We’re calling it Typecase, and you can download it for free.

Download Typecase

Check out Typecase Pro

We’re also excited to release Typecase Pro, which adds the ability to edit your fonts live on the front-end of your website! This makes it easy to tweak fonts and selectors on the fly, allowing you to browse and select custom fonts that look great on your website.

Typecase Pro has a one-time cost of $19 for an individual site license.

Using StoreFrontal and WordPress to Set Up Your e-Commerce Store

Posted by Siobhan on April 24th, 2012 with 0 comments and tagged: ,

With StoreFrontal, it’s quick and simple to set up and run your own eCommerce website. This tutorial will show you how to sell ebooks through your website, but you could follow the same steps to sell and digital product such as:

  • Software
  • WordPress themes and plugins
  • MP3s
  • Other digital downloads

It’s simple to follow so your shop should be up and running in no time!

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We Just Launched the StoreFrontal Theme – Now Win a Free Copy!

Posted by admin on March 21st, 2012 with 4 comments

It’s been a few long months in the making, but we have finally released the StoreFrontal WordPress e-commerce theme – along with a sweet giveaway! You could win a copy of the StoreFrontal theme or a totally rad UpThemes t-shirt! This theme is extremely unique and easy to customize for your business. Just upload a logo, select your color scheme and activate the WP e-Commerce plugin and you’re ready to start selling your products professionally!

Check out the StoreFrontal Theme and Theme Demo and then enter the contest below:

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We’ve Moved Our Plugins to WordPress.org!

Posted by admin on February 17th, 2012 with 2 comments

If you ever wondered why we didn’t host our plugins on WordPress.org, there are a number of reasons, the first one being that we super dislike SVN. Beyond that, we’ve been missing out on some great exposure through WordPress.org’s plugin hosting. As a result, we decided to go ahead and move our plugins over there so we could share with the whole class and hopefully build some relationships with folks that need our plugins.

Here are the links to all plugins we’ve moved to WordPress.org:

Go ahead and download them and let us know how you feel about them! Just shoot out a tweet @upthemes and we’ll check your feedback.

Twitter Search for WP Now Available for Free on WordPress.org

Posted by admin on February 17th, 2012 with 2 comments and tagged: , ,

The awesome Twitter Search plugin that we released last year just hasn’t been selling very well and we think it’s just because there’s a lot of competition in the twitter WP plugin space. That’s why we decided to release it for free to anyone who finds it useful, but we also wanted to move it over to WordPress.org to make it more visible and easy to find.

The thing I love about this plugin is the ability to add as many different customized Twitter widgets as I want and drop them into a post, page, or widgetized sidebar.

Twitter Search widgets are incredibly flexible and optimized for high-traffic sites due to the use of the Transient API.

Learn more or download Twitter Search for WP

Plugin Release: Say Hello to Kint Debugger

Posted by admin on February 17th, 2012 with 0 comments and tagged: ,

A few days ago, we released a free plugin called Kint Debugger which is a wrapper for Kint, a PHP debugging tool that makes debugging and dumping variables and arrays a much more pleasant experience.

Kint Debugger integrates seamlessly with the popular Debug Bar plugin, making it easy to incorporate into your daily development process.

This plugin was put together by our lead developer, Brian, after years of wrapping var_dump() and print_r() with <pre> tags.

Learn more and download Kint Debugger

Extreme Cyber Monday Deal – 50% OFF

Posted by admin on November 28th, 2011 with 1 comment and tagged:

UpThemes is excited to present an exclusive deal on all club memberships during Cyber Monday! Save 50% on all themes and club memberships by entering the coupon code “CYBERMONDAY” during checkout.

This deal is valid today only, so make sure to take advantage of it before it’s gone!

Teaser: StoreFrontal E-commerce Theme

Posted by admin on November 18th, 2011 with 12 comments and tagged: , ,

We’re getting ready for another exciting theme launch. Our second e-commerce theme, StoreFrontal, is a minimal and classy e-commerce theme with out-of-the-box support for the WP E-commerce and Jigoshop e-commerce plugins. This theme was designed by world-class designer Vin Thomas, currently of Fixel, a design company with members all across the country.

This theme will also come packaged with a light and dark style and the brand spankin’ new View.js lightbox from Rogie King’s Fine Goods Market. As always, there will be built-in support for over 200 custom web fonts through the UpThemes Framework Typography Manager.

Screenshots below: