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I am super excited to announce the release of our newest WordPress theme, Traction! Traction is a dark and clean magazine style theme with a robust options menu and built in support for WordPress post thumbnails. This is the theme I meant to design when I started Punchcut late last year, it just wasn’t ready yet. Traction comes with a boatload of features, including three colors schemes (red, blue, green), built in Twitter support, and much more. I encourage you to browse through all the features and take it for a test drive. Be sure to let me know what you think in the comments.

New Pricing

As previously announced on Twitter we have rolled out new pricing for our themes. I have some great news if you were a PRO member as of yesterday. You have automatically been upgraded to a VIP PRO Membership! What does this mean? This means you get access to all of our current and future PRO themes, including Traction. Yes, you are that special. We aren’t even selling these VIP PRO Memberships right now, so you really should feel special.

New customers buying our themes shouldn’t feel left out. Your regular PRO Membership (free with any theme purchase) entitles you to 25% off all future theme purchases.

Theme Updates

We also released new versions of all our other themes today (Vigilance, Titan, and Punchcut). Here is a quick breakdown of the changes and fixes:

Vigilance

• Bug Fix: Added more specific ul.children selector to avoid extra spacing on nested lists inside entries .
• Bug Fix: Fixed PHP comments in the footer.
• Miscellaneous: Cleaned up the admin and added notation for PRO and non-pro features.

Titan

• Bug Fix: Added back the extra unordered list to avoid breaking the layout when you add widgets.
• Bug Fix: Correctly aligned the navigation menu dropdown
• Bug Fix: Added more specific ul.children selector to avoid extra spacing on nested lists inside entries.
• Bug Fix: Fixed PHP comments in the footer.
• Miscellaneous: Cleaned a bunch of cruft from the stylesheet.
• Miscellaneous: Cleaned up the admin and added notation for PRO and non-pro features.

Punchcut

• Bug Fix: Added missing language hook
• Bug Fix: Correctly aligned the navigation menu dropdown and fixed the weird persistent hover bug
• Bug Fix: Added more specific ul.children selector to avoid extra spacing on nested lists inside entries.
• Bug Fix: Fixed PHP comments in the footer.
• Miscellaneous: Cleaned up the admin and added notation for PRO and non-pro features.

Feedback Please

Please let me know what you think about the new theme and anything else in the comments.

We have 2 new page templates hot off the press and available to our PRO members. You now have the option to use a dedicated Archives and Sitemap template on your blog. These are pretty handy if you want to give your readers a quick and easy way to scan over your content. To use your new templates create a new page called “Archives” and select the “Archives” page template from the Attributes menu on the right hand side of the page editor. Publish the page and you are done. You would follow the same steps to create a Sitemap page.

If you have not customized your PRO child theme then simply upload and overwrite your old theme with the new one (make a backup just in case). You can download the new child themes from the member resources page. If you have made customizations please follow the manual upgrade instructions below.

Vigilance manual upgrade instructions

• Download the new PRO child theme (Version 1.33) from the member resources page
• Copy the new archives.php file and the new sitemap.php file into your PRO child theme
• Change the version to 1.33 at the top of your style.css file

Titan manual upgrade instructions

• Download the new PRO child theme (Version 1.22) from the member resources page
• Copy the new archives.php file and the newsitemap.php file into your PRO child theme
• Copy lines 40 and 41 of the new style.css file into your existing style.css file directly above /* Make all custom CSS changes BELOW this line
• Change the version to 1.22 at the top of your style.css file

Punchcut manual upgrade instructions

• Download the new PRO child theme (Version 1.02) from the member resources page
• Copy the new archives.php file and the new sitemap.php file into your existing PRO child theme
• Copy lines 40 – 45 of the new style.css file into your existing style.css file directly above /* Make all custom CSS changes BELOW this line
• Copy line 56 of the new header.php file over line 56 of your existing header.php file
• Change the version to 1.02 at the top of your style.css file

Titan 1.21 is now available for download. It contains mostly bug fixes and adds support for post/page thumbnails. PRO members head to the member downloads page. Free users can grab a copy from the theme page.

Titan PRO child theme updated to version 1.21

The Titan PRO child theme has been upgraded to version 1.21. If you have not customized your PRO child theme feel free to simply replace it with the new version (make a backup copy just in case). If you have customized your PRO child theme please follow these simple instructions:

• Download the new PRO child theme (version 1.21)
• Add the new /functions folder to your existing titan_pro folder
• Replace line 11 of your header.php file with line 11 from the header.php file in the new child theme
• Add line 43 from the new child theme header.php file to your existing PRO child theme
• Edit your style.css file and change the version to 1.21

If you are a PRO member and would like a diff file detailing the changes please post a request in the support forums.

Changelog

• New Feature! Add built in support for post/page thumbnails (WordPress 2.9)
• Security Enhancement: Sanitized the get_search_query function.
• Style Enhancement: Improved margins on in post photos.
• Accessibility Enhancement: Added a skip to content link.
• Bug Fix: Removed extra unordered list tag.
• Bug Fix: Fixed broken page in IE6.
• Bug Fix: Added wpautop for the footer about box and the notice box.
• Bug Fix: Added support for comments on pages.
• Miscellaneous: Updated .po and .mo files along with language instructions.
• Miscellaneous: Updated all links with The Theme Foundry URL.

Download Version 1.20: PRO Members head to the member download area. Free users grab your copy from the free download page.

Titan has now been upgraded to our new framework and is ready for translation! We just recently completed this process with Vigilance, our flagship WordPress theme. We didn’t want Titan to feel left out, so she is now sporting a shiny new options page and framework as well.

What’s New?

New theme options page and framework

The theme options page has been completely overhauled and is now sitting on top of a robust framework that allows you to extend the theme options in all kinds of exciting ways. Think of it as a quicker and more powerful theme engine. The look of the options page has been completely refreshed with usability in mind. This is really something you need to see and experience for yourself to appreciate, so jump in there and take a look!

Internationalized

Titan is now ready to be translated into your language! The theme package now includes titan.po and titan.mo files which makes it super simple to translate Titan into your preferred language. As soon as I start receiving completed translations I will setup a dedicated language repository. Please send all your completed translations to themes {at} jestro.com.

Complete list of changes

Here is a complete list of changes for version 1.20:

• New Feature: Option to hide the static home link from the navigation menu.
• New Feature: New post_class() and body_class() functions allowing for easier CSS customizations.
• New Feature: Titan is now internationalized and ready for localization.
• New Feature: Brand new theme framework and theme options page.
• New Feature: Child themes now inherit all files including images. Include all your customizations in one place and forget about it.
• Performance Enhancement: Combined the remove browser default stylesheet with the master to improve loading time.
• Performance Enhancement: Removed extra function call from footer to improve performance.
• Bugfix: Fixed duplicated <title> and tagline.
• Bugfix: Properly aligned footer columns to the grid.

• Bugfix: Missing paragraph styling in the sidebox
• Bugfix: Long post headers were not wrapping correctly

Titan has been very quick, lean, and stable since it’s initial launch 4 short months ago. If you have any bug reports please post them in the comments.

Summer Sale!

Due to the success of our Spring Membership sale we are running a summer sale! This time around the sale is limited to 100 coupons. Sign-up now and save $5 off PRO membership with coupon code 34D3F.

We just pushed out Titan 1.11 with some new features, bug fixes, and modifications. Here is the laundry list of changes:

• Feature: You can now disable Flickr from the theme options menu and use a footer widget instead
• Feature: Added a style for <h2> tags in the top notice
• Feature: The image .border class now actually puts a nice border around an entry image
• Bug Fix: Sidebar photo was too wide by a couple pixels
• Bug Fix: Hide categories from navigation menu did not work
• Bug Fix: Incorrectly closed list
• Titan now registers a sidebar by default
• The notice is no longer enabled by default
• Cleaned up and streamlined the notice theme options
• Corrections in the about section of the footer

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• Changed the look of the top notice to improve visibility and cleanliness.
• Tweaked dimensions and added more width to the content. It felt cramped.
• Fixed the Flickr link issue and provided clear instructions in the options menu.
• Added a toggle on/off option for the Twitter & Email links.

Download Titan 1.1

Titan 1.01 was released today. We don’t plan on releasing a new version every day, so don’t get your hopes up! An annoying bug popped up that prevented the Sidebar Adbox from being disabled. This seemed pretty important and worthy of the quick release. Be sure to post any bugs you find in the comments so we can start knocking them out.

Premium and Free

Titan is a super clean, premium quality WordPress theme that is completely free. Titan is released under the terms of the GNU GPLv3. We know you are really excited to read the license, but we will sum it up for you anyway:

• Titan is free for you to download, customize, and use.
• You aren’t allowed to distribute Titan under a different license.

That was easy, now on to the fun stuff.

Titan’s Features

We could go on and on about all of Titan’s features. Titan comes equipped with a handy Theme Options Menu that allows for some serious customization out of the box. Here are a few of the features Titan has to offer:

Twitter Ready

Twitter is the hot new kid on the block, and using Twitter with Titan is incredibly easy. Insert your Twitter URL in the Titan Options Menu, hit save, and you are good to go!

…using Twitter with Titan is incredibly easy.

Flickr Footer

Want to share your Flickr photos on your WordPress powered site? Titan makes it easy. Insert your Flickr URL into the Titan Options Menu and your photos show up in the footer, nicely and neatly arranged. That was easy.

Super Clean Drop Down

Titan features a super clean and flexible drop down navigation menu. You can even include/exclude specific pages or categories in your menu using the Titan Options Menu.

Want More?

Are you looking for more powerful features? How about your logo in the header? Or maybe you need a couple extra page templates? Sounds like you might be ready for a PRO membership. Head over to the sign-up page and grab one.