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Auto Support Registration for new Press75.com Customers

Jason Schuller — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:01:58 +0000

Something I have been meaning to do for quite a long time is integrate auto support registration for all Press75.com customers. Until now, this was a painstaking manual process which entailed new customers having to manually register within the support forums and then verify their membership via email. This was very time consuming for both the customer and myself.

As of today, support forum registration is automatic. When you make any theme or theme pack purchase on Press75.com, you will automatically be registered within the support forums and will be notified via email of your account details. I know this is not going to be groundbreaking news for most of my users, but think of it this way… it gives me more time to work on new themes and old theme updates.

Auto Installation of Required Plugins for Press75.com Themes

Jason Schuller — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:10:58 +0000

I have been busy trying to find ways to make the installation process for themes even easier for all levels of WordPress users. Downloading and installing required theme plugins doesn’t take long, but I have made this process much faster by creating an “auto-install” option upon theme activation. Basically, after activating any Press75.com theme, you will be notified as to which plugins are required along with an “Install” link. Click the “Install” link to auto-install each plugin and then simply activate them after the installation process is complete. Check out the video below for a quick demonstration of this new feature.

New Customization Options & Updates

Jason Schuller — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:04:20 +0000

The release of “Social Life” is the start of some brand new customization options coming to all my future WordPress themes. The more I continue to develop on my new theme framework, the easier I am finding it to integrate many of the features users have been looking for. Some of the things I would like to integrate into my new themes include navigation customization, enhanced featured content customization, post layout options, enhanced background configuration options, improved advertisement management, social media options and much more. I am going to try an implement many of these things within my next few themes including the updated version of On Demand and TV Elements.

An Improved Customization and Update Process

Customization and theme updates have always been a touchy subject in the past. I am working on ways that will make the process of customizing themes a cinch including the use of “child” themes. By using child themes, your customizations will be safe and sound when I make updates to the core theme framework. I will explain this in further detail later, but I just wanted to give Press75.com customers a heads up as to what I am working on.

The Social Life WordPress Theme

Jason Schuller — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:01:26 +0000

Integrating All Your Favorite Social Media

The Social Life WordPress Theme integrates all your favorite social media services into one page. Display your Twitter Feed, Flickr Photos, Delicious Links, Vimeo Video and more. The Social Life theme makes this all super easy by providing simple configuration and management options (see video tour… right). Easily disable any service you do not wish to use, configure navigation options and much more.

NikonFestival.com

Jason Schuller — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:34:26 +0000

To celebrate HD video within the Nikon D5000 we’d like you to show us “A Day through your Lens.” Using my On Demand theme.

DogManiaSeattle.com

Jason Schuller — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:33:14 +0000

We provide dog grooming, daycare and training services for your beloved pet here at Dog Mania. Using my Cafe Press theme.

SketchTheatre.com

Jason Schuller — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:32:29 +0000

Sketch Theatre exists for one express purpose — to expose young people to the myriad career opportunities available to creative individuals. Using my On Demand theme.

WhatIsPaul.com

Jason Schuller — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:27:52 +0000

SIMON PEGG, NICK FROST AND GREG MOTTOLA INVITE YOU BEHIND THE SCENES…

WordPress 2.9 New Features and Press75.com Themes

Jason Schuller — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:32:45 +0000

WordPress 2.9 should be released to the public sometime within the next month or so, and if you didn’t already know, it will include several new features that will change the way you use Press75.com themes.

Post Thumbnails

This basically duplicates the functionality of my Simple Post Thumbnails plugin, allow you to easily add a post image of any dimension wherever you want in a theme. I am currently testing this functionality with my newer themes and will consider it as a potential replacement for the Simple Post Thumbnails plugin that I current use for all my themes.

Basic Image Editing

This allows you to scale and crop images within your media library within WordPress. I’m sure several of you will be very interested in this functionality. Personally, I prefer to edit my images prior to upload, but for those that need to edit on the fly, this is a must have.

Widgets Outside of Sidebars

Really, you could do this anyway prior to this new template tag, but I suppose this makes it official. I am playing around with different ways to introduce functionality and theme options primarily within widgets which would allow you to customize your theme in an infinite number of ways. This functionality will take that concept to the next step.

Media Embeds

Some of you love my Simple Video Embedder plugin, and some of you think it could use some improvement. The new Media Embeds functionality in WordPress 2.9 will change the way you embed media within my themes, making it much easier to embed virtually any type of video however you want.

There are several other features coming to 2.9, but these are the select few I thought you would be interested in regards to Press75.com themes. As soon as 2.9 is official, I will be updating all my themes to take advantage of these new features and more.

The Video Elements WordPress Theme

Jason Schuller — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:26:50 +0000

Your Video Theme Solution

Video Elements has been re-designed and re-built from the ground up providing you with the features you need to easily run and maintain any video centric website. Easily publish any embeddable video format as well as high quality post thumbnails in seconds, and seamlessly blend non-video posts as well. Customize your logo, featured content options and more with a brand new theme options page. In short, Video Elements pretty much does it all and makes is easy at the same time.