Posts Tagged ‘update’

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.

NEW RELEASE HeatMap Theme version 3.0.3

HeatMap Theme version 3.0.3 has just landed in the Insider Forum Downloads area

This release brings a couple of extra useful goodies which HeatMapsters have been asking for in the shape of two new page/post templates which allow you to…

• Switch off the ads and/or auto thumbnails images when using the WordPress Gallery feature in pages or posts

• Turn off the auto thumbnail images when you are manually inserting images into pages or posts

These nifty little templates help to keep your blog formatting stay just as lovely as it should whenever you are using images in your pages and posts.

HeatMap Theme has just celebrated its 250th member, so if you are using the free download version, loving your HeatMap Theme and would like to take advantage of the latest and greatest theme updates direct from HeatMapster HQ then we invite you to jump aboard and join our happy band!

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.

Visit the HeatMap Theme Store

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

Nine New Child Themes! plus HeatMap version 2.4 now available

Another nine new colour child themes for HeatMap Ads Theme have now been added to the HeatMap Insider Forum for your downloading pleasure!

In addition, all of the previous child themes have had a bit of spruce up, making a grand total of 17 child themes available.

The new and spruced up child themes all now include css for rounded corners to add a nice touch for browsers that support ’rounded-ness’.

Also in other news…

HeatMap Ads Theme 2.4 has now been released along with HeatMap Extras Plugin 1.3 (Drop down menus). These releases just fix up a couple of small bugs and typos, plus changes the way that the nav-bar and cat-bar text is centered vertically to make things look a bit more consistent in that area across a wider range of browsers.

NEW HeatMap Theme Version 2.3 Released

HeatMap Theme 2.3 is now out!

This version tidies up a few issues and adds support for threaded comments (woohoo!)

Things to know…

• The logic of the ‘Display Title and Tags’ tick box has been ‘inverted’ – It defaults to ‘on’ instead of ‘off’.
• Time formatting of posts and comments are now set to show whatever defaults you set in your theme admin.
• Child Theme override of common.php and preset.php now works properly – no need to copy every php file that contains common.php to your child theme anymore if you have made changes to common.php

Minor things

• Fixed ‘no posts found’ error – when posts are not found there were some situations where the code that displayed the error threw a wobbly – the error should be nice and tidy now.
• Removed double semicolon error (;;) in style.css
• Made more room on the categories bar – you should now be able to fit more categories in there.
• Categories and Pages nav bar overflow – no more annoying artefacts if you try put more categories or pages on the nav and cat bar – excess words will not show.
• Eliminated the references to missing images in the css.
• Styling of ol and li lists now looks neater and wraps around ads better.
• Preset Mode – No longer contains any simulated ads.

For HeatMap Insider Members, this release is teamed with updates for the HeatMap Extras drop downs plugin which now sports 4 levels, and the HeatMap Child Themes which now have appropriately coloured threaded comments styling.

NEW HeatMap Theme 4 Level Drop Down Menus + Child Theme Update

The HeatMap Extras Plugin has now been upgraded to provide 4 level drop downs (3 levels plus the nav bar)  for both pages and posts.

Child themes also now have threaded comments styling to suit their colours.

If you need the multi level drop downs or the child themes what are you doing hanging around out there?  Come on inside! (the HeatMap Insider Forum that is!)

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

HeatMap Theme Drop Down Menus (soon!)

You asked for it and its nearly ready… (patience young Jedi, patience)

Yes HeatMap Theme now has its own drop down menus plugin.

It provides a really neat drop down menu for both pages and categories, with a rather fetching slight transparency to it.

It plugs directly into the new 2.2 release of HeatMap Theme, but those who have modded their 2.1 HeatMap Themes directly (instead of using a Child Theme) need not despair. We will be providing instructions so you can easily slip in the plugin and get those lovely drop downs working.

Everyone who has bought the HeatMap Theme colour pack or donated $35 or more will recieve the new plugin as our complimentary gift to you.

“So”, we hear you say “when can I get my bloggin’ paws on this plugin?”

As soon as HeatMap Theme 2.2 rc2 becomes the official release, we’ll release the Drop Downs plugin at the same time, and we’ll combine it into the HeatMap Theme colour pack.

(**Update 5/9/09 … we’ve decided to make a just few more improvements to the new release of HeatMap Theme 2.2 so it will probably be about a week before its all good to go!)

There’s even more cool stuff coming down the pipe!

If you haven’t grabbed your HeatMap Theme colour pack then this is what you are missing out on:

• The colour pack of Child Themes makes the task of modding HeatMap Theme sooo much easier!
• When you have a question you can ask us and a real live expert person who knows heatmap theme inside and out will answer! (thus making things even easier)
• You’ll receive cool new Heatmap Theme goodies for the next 12 months without paying any extra!

Need more convincing? Check out the testimonials of HeatMap Theme users!

Now over to the store with you poste haste

HeatMap Theme 2.2 rc2 beta released

HeatMap Theme 2.2 rc2 has now been released. There were no problems reported with rc1 but before we make this one official, we decided to squeeze in an update which will allow HeatMap Theme to have an ‘extras plugin’. In the first instance the extras plugin will provide an additional drop down menus function. Install it, have a play and if you find any gremlins inhabiting this release then drop us a line. Use the installation instructions for the rc1 release.