Fully Customisable Drop Down Menus in HeatMap 3.0.5a beta
WordPress 3.0 is nearly here, so its time to have another look at the new menu manager, and integrate that lovely new feature fully into the HeatMap Theme drop down menus.
Version 3.0.5a beta allows both the pages nav bar and the categories nav bar to be fully customised using the new WordPress 3.0 menu manager. You can still use the old menu system too if you prefer your drop down menus to be automatically generated.
So, WordPress 3.0 beta testers start your engines! Custom WordPress dropdown menus are here!
As ever, the beta is available from the Heatmap Insider Beta Downloads area.
Categories: Theme Updates Tags: beta, dropdown, update, upgrade
HeatMap Ads Theme 2.2 rc1 beta released
We’ve fixed up a few bugs that were buggin’ us, and added just few more features…
- Demo Mode – When HeatMap Theme is first installed it now starts up in demo mode showing the diagram of widget positions, with some widgets actually in place. Demo mode doesn’t actually add any content to your blog or change any widget positions that you’ve already set up. Turn demo mode off and all your content will miraculously appear again. Our intention is to expand demo mode to be a full scale ‘preset widget’ mode eventually - ie. a superquick way to set up all the widgets straight from the ‘zip wrap’, but for now its just a demo mode.
- Save buttons EVERYWHERE – Up till now you had to make the long trip down to the bottom of the options page to press [SAVE]. No longer. There are save buttons everywhere you might need them in this release.
- RSS images are now TRANSPARENT gifs – when surfing the web looking at what people are doing with their HeatMap Theme installations we noticed that people were having trouble matching the colours of the RSS images to their custom backgrounds for the cat-bar… sooo we’ve changed them to transparent gifs so you can avoid that colour matching headache.
- Direct links to the Authors of each post have been removed – Why? I was uneasy about the implications of using the_author_posts_link() to return the author of each article as it reveals the username of the author (a feature of WordPress that I think needs to change). Don’t worry; if you do like things that way - you can just uncomment the relevant code and all will be as before
For now, you can download HeatMap Ads Theme 2.2 beta rc1 from this site, and we’ll be submitting it to the WordPress Theme directory in due course.
Categories: Theme Updates Tags: beta, update
