Theme roadmap and 2.1 update

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Hello all,

I will periodically write here a new thread where we can discuss what will be implemented in the next versions. In addition to the small fixes and improvements we have some very big updates that will come in the long run.

Please know that we are working full time and we dedicate all of our attention to this theme and to the support.

We are now working on this:
– fix the sticky posts – on the homepage loop since update 1.7 they are missing.
– the new adsense code
– text color for menu option

We are also investigating and we want to implement if it’s possible this:
– color themes on each category (the theme will change it’s entire color theme when you are on one category or on posts from one category)
– a system that will remove duplicate posts everywhere – in response to this thread

Research:

In the long run we are working on a new panel system. It’s still in the early stages of design but we finished the requirements and a basic framework to work on:

We will use this panel on all of our products from now on and it’s designed to work also with Newspaper. This panel will take us at least a month to be finish and it order to make it compatible with the Newspaper theme I think we have to redo the ads section of the theme and the category settings section but all the other settings should be easily be moved to the new one.

Besides this we also do some interesting stuff to push the limits of wordpress themes 🙂 stay tuned.

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Awesome! I’ll be waiting for this! 😀

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Impatiently Waiting. I wonder when presumably is published?

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Thank you! 😉

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Thank you for keeping us up to date!

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What about several user suggestions? I don’t know how to handle some needed feautures such as
– slider gallery of uploaded article pictures (with optional captions) – not jetpack
– implementation of formats with icons for gallery, soundcloud, cite… not only the video template

Waiting for a official implementations or doing this by myself and fix that by every update?
Is it possible or needful to make a list here or somewhere else?

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Awesome!

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Looks nice!

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suggestions:
– BREAKING NEWS
– Multiple Slides
– Rotative Feature

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Sounds like you wont get out of work any time soon.

Another thing you may include, already sugessted earlier:
– better/richer navigation menus – see Bucket. It seems to be possible without delaying the page load.

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Colour theme across different categories! Yes that is exactly what I need 😀

Also as a suggestion please could bring some of the Visual Composer elements from Magazinly across?

e.g: FAQs, Separator, Separator with text, Gallery, Call to Action button, Accordion…

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@thomaspe: you mean something like a MegaMenu? Yeah, that would be cool. An own implementation of this or the possibility to use a Navigation plugin liek that.

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@betterretailing: Have a look at the funnction.php. There a some funtions deactivated for the visual composer.

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@mbasche

Cheers! Thats pretty useful

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Keep great works guys.
Cheer up.

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Hello,

We released yesterday the 2.1 update and we finally added the google adsense asynchronous code.


@thomaspe
– we are well aware that we may need to improve the menus 🙂 . I don’t know yet if we should continue and finish the panel or go after the menu system first.


@betterretailing
– we encountered a lot of problems when we try to implement per category color. I’m sure we can figure it out!

– the visual composer components are there but we didn’t manage to style them. I wanted for quite some time to enable it on posts and the idea to include the default controls is grate in that case.

Thanks guys for the encouraging messages and please don’t get mad if we don’t manage to release all the features that you request. We have almost 100 feature requests and issues on our tracker and we receive new ones daily. We have to be very careful what we pick. We are also experimenting with a lot of things that go from the youtube api, an unique grid system, to crazy server / hosting profiling tools 🙂 .

~ Radu ~

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Although we always want more, be shure: Most of us are really content with what we already got. Thanks for your continued effort – and releasing updates every 7-10 days.
Very much appreachiated.

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RADU:
v2.1 — BRAVO!!! This update has the last items on my “action list” of things we needed for the base usage beyond tricky whirling dervishes and bouncing balls. Awesome, as we say here in Southern California 😉

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Great. I like new panel. I want to try now 🙂

regards
http://carrero.es

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Please fix the Facebook official plugin issue with pagination and, if possible, I would love to see a better navigation menu like ubbermenu – or make it compatible with. Thanks!

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can’t see new panel on 2.1 update ? any idea ?

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For some time the “update plugin” message went away but now again I have the same problem popping up again.
I get the “update” symbol message but nothing has to be updated..
Was this bug resolved? Did I miss a theme update?

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Looking forward to this!

*What was just released on the version that was available for download on December 23rd? It doesn’t mention it in the theme download or area with other updates listed.

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@mmcmsp I will see what we can do about that

@BigN0701
sorry for the delay, I hope you solve the problem

@Marija1m1
It was not resolved 🙂 it’s a issue that is hunting us for quite some time …. it drive me crazy and it’s hard to debug because it appears just sometimes.


@sbo
I will update the theme forest details page shortly.
v 2.1.3
* fixed an ugly bug with slugs that begin with span row and container
* fixed pinterest button media
* improved adsense synchronous ads
* fixed rss excerpt not respecting the wordpress option
* small code improvements
* better windows phone 8 compatibility
* better responsive videos (including dailymotion)
* Better mobile (windows phone 8 and android) expirience on our demo

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If you have support questions / issues please open a new thread 🙂 . I will be back with more details about version 3 soon.

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