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.
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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.
Here at UpThemes, we’re all about awesomeness. That’s why we developed an easy-to-use typography manager with over 500 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.
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.
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!
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:
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.
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.
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.
