Heatmap Theme v3.0.2 NEW RELEASE
HeatMap Theme 3.0.2 has now been released and comes with 2 new features…
Post Thumbnails
StuartWider.com gets the Thumbnail Feature makeover!
Its now super easy to add thumbnails and images to your posts and pages using the Post Thumbnails feature. Just set the thumbnail image in your WordPress Post Editor and the image will automatically be sized and included in your Recent Posts Plus sidebar Widget, pages or posts. You can also choose to automatically align these images left or right from the HeatMap Theme options page (this is feature only available in 3.0.2).
You can see this feature in full effect on stuartwider.com.
Hide either post details or the comments count (or both!)
Some Heatmapsters wanted more from the Hide Post Details Feature that was introduced in 3.0.1 and now you’ve got it. You now have the option to hide the post details (eg categories, tags, date, author etc) but still have the comment count showing!
Again you can see this in full effect on stuartwider.com. Note the neat looking comment count where normally the full post details would appear on the home page under each post.
Bugs Eradicated
Child Themes now correctly pull their favicon from the child theme itself.
Compatability
Please make sure you are running WordPress version 2.9 and upwards.
Support and Extra Goodies
The supported version of HeatMap Theme version 3.0.2 is available from the HeatMap Insider Forum.
Categories: News, Theme Updates Tags: download, update, upgrade
NEW RELEASE Heatmap Theme v3.0
Heatmap Theme v3.0 now comes with lots of additional features which make it easier to create ‘niche site style blogs’ – so that means the ability to go ‘minimal’ with less distractions for visitors.
You can see the latest v3.0 update in action on http://creativitypro.com – notice how some elements have been turned off to give a simpler cleaner look, with the sidebar switched from right to left.
Sidebar Switching
You can now switch the whole sidebar left or right for maximum heatmap experimentation. Pop your ads in the fabled top-left hot-zone with ease!
Hide the Page navigation and Categories navigation bars
You can now entirely switch off the Page Nav and Categories Nav bars!
Hide the RSS Icons and Links
Want your categories to go the full width of the cat nav bar? Then you can by switching off the RSS Icons and links.
New RSS Icons Widget
If you switch off the RSS Icons you can still have them in your sidebar using this new widget.
Hide the Search Box
You can eliminate the search box so your page nav can go to the full width of the theme. There is of course a Search widget should you still need that function to pop in your sidebar.
Hide Post Details
Going for a minimalist neat look? You can now turn off all the post details for every post on the home page, posts, pages, categories, search and archives.
Footer Bars
You can switch them off too!
Bugs and slight annoyances fixed
- The theme now comes rounded corners for the default inbuilt classic graphite style – you could only get those in child themes previously.
- I moved the search in the nav bar 1px downwards just to make it look a little better in Firefox.
- I noticed that the post details box for each post was out by about 5px. I’ve fixed that up in the CSS.
- The (EDIT) link for each post has now been moved out of the post details box and underneath the POST it relates to. This is of course required because you now have the option to switch off the post details and therefore would not be able to (EDIT) the post unless I changed this!
- Removed the pesky NO CATEGORIES message on the cat bar when you have no categories in your blog – some people dont have any categories in their blogs – go figure!
- Removed the pesky NO POSTS message when you have no posts in your blog – giving you the option to just have a site entirely made up of pages!
- Fixed various low-importance minor typo issues.
Members Release
As of this version, the latest release of Heatmap Theme will always be a members download.
Additionally I will also be making a ‘free to download’ earlier version available, for those who want to give Heatmap Theme a whirl before joining our growing community of fellow HeatMapsters on the HeatMap Insider Forum.
Want to join us?
I look forward to meeting you on the Heatmap Insider 
Categories: Theme Updates Tags: download, update, upgrade
NEW HeatMap Insider Forum
HeatMap Theme users now have a new place for us all to get together and call home 
It’s called the HeatMap Insider Forum, and its the new official HeatMap Ads Theme forum where you can download all the extra goodies such as the coloured child themes, the drop down menus plugin, and get access to in-forum support from myself and other helpful HeatMapsters. In addition to the downloads and support there’s already lots of hints, tips, customisations and solutions in the forum, and our happy band of HeatMapsters is growing everyday.
Over the coming months I’ll be creating more child themes, add-ons and HeatMap Theme updates and they will all be accessible to subscribers in the HeatMap Insider Theme Downloads Forum.
What are you doing hanging around ‘out here’ ? come on in!
I look forward to seeing you on the inside (the HeatMap Insider that is)
Stuart Wider – HeatMap Ads Theme Designer
