I have been working hard on a new style for my theme options pages that can consistently be used for all of my themes. After a few revisions, I believe I have hit the mark and have since updated all of my themes with this new options page style.
A Widget Style Interface
I wanted to create a style that blends well with the default WordPress admin, but at the same gives you clean and easy to follow theme options. With that in mind, I duplicated the style of the default WordPress dashboard and created a “widget” for each theme option which allows you to configure all your options individually. This will also make it very easy for me to add new options for future theme releases.
Stay up to Date With Press75.com News and Themes
I also wanted to create an unobtrusive way for you to stay up to date with the latest Press75.com news, theme updates and new theme releases. You will find a “Latest Press75.com News” widget within the right hand column on each theme options page. I have also integrated a mini theme store within the WordPress admin which allows you to see the latest themes released on Press75.com. Simply click “Purchase Themes” under the “Appearance” tab to view all the latest Press75.com WordPress themes.
This is a great feature.
Thanks… glad you like it.
Beautiful! Really makes me rethink my own theme options!
Really its sounds excellent. This is a great feature. I really like it very much It makes me thinking about my own page’s theme options. Anyway thanks a bunch for sharing. Keep blogging.
Excellent! When will this feature be avail?
Updates have already been sent out for the majority of my themes.
Wonderful. How can I re-download the themes?
They are automatically sent to the email address you used to purchase the theme.
Awesome job with the new options pages. Your themes are some of my favorite.
Thanks for that… Glad you like the changes.
Jason,
I really like the changes you’ve made. I especially like Massive News.
If I can comment about what I’ve experienced while creating my web blog, I think it may be of some value.
I’m a IT Director but by night I indulge my passion. travel and photography, so I combined the two and created a travel review site with my photographs.
Like most folks, I run ads.. some from Google Adsnse, Commission Junction, Adsdaq etc. The most frustrating tasks for me is implementation of ads from various ad networks.
My current theme does a fair job at allowing me to integrate my Google Adsense ads on the side and on the top banner, however I still find it somewhat difficult to put ads where they really mater and that’s inside the postings of each posting I create daily.
My research shows if a discreet or even and overtly placed ad is integrated with your postings then the CTR increases. It is entirely possible you don’t want your theme to be cluttered with ads etc. If that is the case then my comments are for not.
If in fact you desire to make your theme a little more valuable and user friendly would it be possible to include more ads placement features and built in video functions and a carousel feature.
I find your themes to be fresh and clean and would love to switch to your more eye catching theme but I think it lacks the features I need to make the full switch. I’m also concern developers forget about the webmasters who already have a them and forget to focus on how easy or not to upgrade to the new released themes.
I hope my comments have helps.
Keep up the great work.
Richard
Richard… Thank you very much for your detailed comments. I will keep these things in mind when working on updates and new themes.
Wonderful. How can I re-download the themes?
Updates have been sent out to the original email address you used to purchase the theme or themes.
Jason
Very clean options page style … did you made the boxes collapsible? Maybe an idea to organize it if you plan to include more features. Keep on the great work.
Working on making the boxes collapsable for the next release.
I didn’t get the email with the update. Would you mind sending it on to me?
For which theme?
Twitter seems a good place to ask random questions but as its blocked where I live, I’ll have a bash here.
I notice that with nearly all new themes that are coming out on the net that when you want to make a comment about something someone has said in the comments section on a site, you simply click reply and a drop down comment form appears. But with your themes the whole page has to reload and reconfigure to the bottom of the page.
I was wondering if you were going to start doing the simple drop down boxes with all your future themes?
WP is not my speciality so I have no idea if its complicated or not.
It does make themes look and flow a lot better though.
regards
Sven.
That is a feature I am looking into for future themes.
nice one bro! keep it up, this would be very useful!
Thanks. Glad you like it.
Jason – the theme I’m using is TV Elements.
(see above)
Your themes rock. You should check out TTFGen for an easier way to embed fonts in your themes. TTFGen will generate the images in the same way that cufon does, except you can upload your own fonts. It’s done in jQuery and PHP. A wordpress version will be available soon.
Check it out.
http://www.ttfgen.com
Nice work on TTFGen. Thanks for the link.
I didn’t get the update either. I purchased the On Demand theme in June.
The On Demand theme has not been updated since then.
The new options look great. Do they work for tv elements yet? I have not received an email update. If one is available, could you email me the update? Thanks! ~ Joel
TV Elements will receive these new options when the next version is released.
Just checking…the post says that all the themes options pages have been updated… but the actual update ‘release’ for On Demand isnt out yet – is that right?
Just making sure Im not missing out on that precious email. :o)
Many thanks for all your continued work on some already excellent themes!
The On Demand theme will receive these new options when the next version of the theme is released.