After overwhelming feedback by The Times community, v1.3 is the most exciting yet! With a major overhaul of the Header, Tabbed Module, and Options Panel I’ve added 11 new features all while streamlining the code to make The Times load faster.

If you haven’t done so, be sure to upgrade to Wordpress 2.9 to take advantage of the Logo Upload/Edit feature now standard in The Times.

Greg Rickaby dESIGN is proud to present:

VERSION 1.3 (1.01.09)

Front End:

• Header: @font-face Text Logo
• Header: Added Date & Time
• Header: By popular demand; nixed 468×60 banner, replaced with 234×60 half-banner
• Tabbed Module: Tweaked CSS to set spacing
• Tabbed Module: Added border
• Tabbed Module: Tweaked CSS to set spacing
• Tabbed Module: Added “overflow:hidden” to prevent overflow of content
• Accordion Slider: Added + sign before Titles

Options Panel:

• Added ability to upload a Logo using Wordpress 2.9  image editor
• Added ability to turn on/off Top Left Links
• Added ability to turn on/off default Thesis Navigation
• Added ability to turn on/off “Auto Generated” Homepage Teaser Box Titles
• Added ability to give Homepage Teaser Box Titles custom names
• Added ability to set time-zone
• Renamed “Body” Tab to” Sitewide”
• Moved “Select Skin Style” to “Sitewide” Tab
• Moved Logo Upload to “Logo” Tab

Back-end:

• Moved all jQuery to jquery.js and all Java to java.js to improve download speed
• Moved all jQuery and Java CSS to script-styles.css to improve download speed
• Moved all color attributes from custom.css to individual styled style-sheets
• Added Comments to all attributes in individual styled style-sheets for easier customization
• Major documentation overhaul
• Minor Options Panel CSS tweaks
• Combined IE7 & IE8 style-sheets. Re-did conditional CSS code

Bug Fixes:

• Added footer link and H3 style attributes to all six “styles”
• Several IE CSS fixes (too many to list)

After 11 straight hours of (uninterupted) coding v1.2 is ready for download.

Options Panel:

• Removed extra “save button”
• Removed post count from Breaking News Box
• Added HTML & PHP functionality in Vanity Box
• Added Debugging option

Back-end:

• Updated documentation

Bug Fixes:

• Added VivaThumb code to Breaking News Box
• Changed documentation to reflect Featured Video code
• Fixed multiple categories displaying incorrectly in Homepage Teaser Boxes

Download The Times Now

Just 12 days after I released The Times, v1.1 is ready for download.

What’s new?

Options Panel:
- Refined and styled to match Thesis
- Category drop-downs
- Footer “Vanity” section

Back-end:
- Featured content slider is smarter and handles video better
- Image slider now supports videos too
- Slimmer code for faster loads
- VivaThumb integration with ALL sub-loop generated images (with caching!)

Front-end:
- 6 Selectable styles
- PSD for drop-line.gif so you can customize further

Bug Fixes
- Several IE7 & IE8 CSS fixes
- Set overflow to hidden on Tabbed Module and Module #2
- Featured content slider would display Video AND Image
- When custom field was set to “video” Thesis would show the video in the Multi-Media box

Don’t forget on Monday we are going to move everything over to ThesisThemes.com – if you already have a log-in there you don’t need to do anything. The Times will show up in your list of available downloads.

Go get your copy now! The Times v1.1