BranfordMagazine WordPress Magazine Style Theme Version 4.2 released

29.01.2010 in News 2 Comments

Today I released the latest version 4.2 of my popular WordPress magazine style theme BranfordMagazine. This version adds some more functionality to the theme and the options panel and removes all W3C validation errors.

The optionspage which was introduced in version 4.0 does now have additional setting areas for the advertising space in the sidebar and an area to enter Google Analytics code. You can now manage those areas right from the options panel in your Wp-Admin area. Also additional default settings have been introduced to avoid instant setup errors.

Custom Excerpts with “more” Links

The functions.php file now has not only an area to define custom excerpt lenghts but also an area where you can define the appearance of the default WordPress excerpt “more” string [...] as well as it is now really clickable (which it is not by WordPress default). A tutorial will follow soon.

100% W3C valid

One of the features that was missing in all previous versions is that BranfordMagazine now is 100% W3C valid. All errors have been erased. You will not really see this modification because the theme used to work without issues anyway but it is another improvement in terms of clean coding.

Here´s a list of the new stuff:

• Optionspanel with additional settings for Google AdSense and google Analytics
• Default settings of the options panel that work for most default WP installations
• Custom excerpts with clickable “more” links
• 100% W3C valid

If you want to update

If you want to update from version 4.1 to the new version 4.2 you need to replace the following files:

• functions.php
• index.php
• header.php
• sidebar.php
• /incudes/ui.tabs.php
• style.css

The Future

There´s more to come in future releases. I´m also planning to release a “Pro” version of BranfordMagazine with a whole bunch of new features and an optimised design. So stay tuned for updates.

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