Today, I updated my last theme, Igloo, to new version of WP, 2.8 Baker release….thus all bizzthemes are working fine with newest release of WP – now go and update when you’re ready:

Berita v 1.5 – Demo | Download (updated)

IsoTherm v 1.4 – Demo | Download (updated)

Inuit Types v 1.8 (remains the same) – Demo | Download (updated)

Igloo News v 3.4 - Demo | Download

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Here is yet another Igloo Theme release and as always it’s much better than its predecessor, in this case v3.2! Update is quite significant but most of changes are done in code so you might not see how much work was behind it. I think that this will be the last major update (for some time now) as I’m working on new theme that should also rock – Inuit Types.

Here’s the change-log from previous version:

• * archive.php – Redesigned Results
• * header.php – Redesigned Feedburner support
• * index.php – No image arrow before ‘Read Full Post…’
• * functions.php – Total Redesign
• * No ‘Read Full Post…’ in ‘Boxed Full’ format
• * Deleted Green Black CSS skin
• * Dropped First big letter in single posts
• * CSS clear before the end of each box
• * Updated SEO – better structure of page/tag/category/post titles
• * Updated typography
• * Re-programmed Sidebar Tabs
• * Clearer CSS design (better shadowing, clean page names etc.)
• Pagination support
• Header / Footer scripts in admin
• Select pages/categories to exclude/include now super simple
• Custom CSS stylesheet for custom user preferences
• Comments now include edit option for admins and moderators
• Added RSS link for search terms and tags
• Integrated Popular Posts in Sidebar (no plugin required)

Demo | Download

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Today, new Igloo theme has been released, it’s version 3.1 now! Another major feature was added, Breaking news option and some other enhancements + bug fixes. Breaking news are quite complex and I’ve had lots of headaches over this feature. Posts that are labeled with ‘breaking news’ category appear in 3 steps:

1. Small Alert box (this box will be visible for 12 hours)
2. Breaking News box (it looks like featured posts on homepage, this box will be visible for 7 days)
3. Breaking News Post is turned into normal one and is listed among regular posts (this happens when breaking post is more than 7 days old)

Other new features + bug fixes

• Integrated Image Caption
• Revised Feedburner management (you can now choose which feedburner server you’re using: http://feedproxy.google.com/ or http://feeds.feedburner.com/)
• Fixed Footer page management
• Improved Top page drop down
• Twitter plugin added
• Ideas and Tips RSS ticker revised (‘problogger’ and ‘dailyblogtips’ added)

Demo |  Download | Support | Features

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Breaking News in Igloo Theme

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Finally after few weeks of tweaks new version of Igloo came out. My main focus was on standardization of all elements, thus I’ve validated all my code (W3C) and made it compatible with WP theme requirements. I could take it to their repository but I’ll still wait a bit to get some feedback from you.

In this release no plugins are needed whatsoever,…from now on I just recommend them as major ones are now embedded into theme functions.

Some new features were introduced:

• Relative Dates in Comments – new
• Choose Blog Title over Image logotype -new
• Total Feedburner Management – new
• Show Feedburner Feed Counter (Chicklet) – new
• Custom Control Panel – new
• Exclude Categories/Pages from header – new
• Include Pages in Footer – new
• 3 layouts to choose from – new
• Option to hide Top Categories and Sidebar Tabs – new
• Embedded AdSense Support – new
• Child Pages Ready (up to 4 level drop-downs) – new

And design improved:

• Cleaner design
• Shadowing of top boxes
• Introducing new layout (2 column boxes)
• Better image border effect
• Fixed Widgets Design

And typography upgraded:

• Better H1,H2,H3,…H6 look
• Better Code Highlight
• 3 level bullets and numbering
• Better paragraph and line spacing

Also some features were dropped:

• Center Widget – It was ugly
• Custom Bookmarks – Much better plugins are out there
• 200×200 center banner – no center widget

Demo |  Download | Support | Features

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Igloo News 3.0 Released

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This update is again quite significant. Some pixels were fixed and no bugs as none was found. A really big update was done on design, which has changed on all theme skins, it is now more SEO and user friendly. Typography has changed to >font-family:Georgia, Times, serif< on all major areas and now has more magazine-like look.

Also some new features were introduced, most notable is option to hide comments counter on home page. This is very important if blog doesn’t have many visitors from the start. Nobody likes to see all posts tagged with ’0 Comments’ so I’ve changed it to ‘Comment’.

And for conclusion I have to emphasize that my aim is to develop Igloo Theme to be better than even best commercial premium themes – Hopefully I succeed

Download and Demo

Screenshot:

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Igloo News Updated to Version 2.1

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I made mistake with my last version, it is no major bug or anything, the problem was with style switching on front page. As I use the same release in my demo version I forgot to delete some useless style-switch drop downs and feedback link in released version 1.0.2.

You can delete this manually or just overwrite theme header.php file if you haven’t customized it of course. Please download latest version 1.0.3 here:

Delete this:

<link rel=”alternate stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/skins/2-black.css” title=”black” />
<link rel=”alternate stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/skins/3-red.css” title=”red” />
<link rel=”alternate stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/skins/4-green.css” title=”green” />

Delete this:

<div class=”alignright switcher”>
<form id=”switchform”>
<select name=”switchcontrol” size=”1″ onChange=”chooseStyle(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value, 60)”>
<option value=”none” selected=”selected”>Default style</option>
<option value=”black”>Black</option>
<option value=”red”>Red</option>
<option value=”green”>Green</option>
</select>
</form>

</div>

And…Delete this:

<li><a href=”http://www.kampyle.com/feedback_form/ff-feedback-form.php?site_code=9849398&amp;form_id=8175&amp;lang=en” onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘popupwindow’, ‘width=438,height=500,scrollbars,resizable’); return false;”>Give Feedback</a></li>

Again sorry for the inconvenience!

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Igloo News Updated to Version 1.0.3

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There were no major fixes, just some minor changes in style.css and orher template files to correct layout for few pixels. I tend to be perfectionist and those pixels bothered me for some time – now space between containers is fixed.

Other major changes were made to Google Analytics Settings. I removed it alltogether from theme administation and imposed proven plugin that really rocks and it is quite simple to manage too. Plugin is called Google Analytics for WordPress…I think it is better to leave analytics development to others and concentrate on better things that make my theme better than others – desing and usability. Plugin is included in ‘plugins_important’ file which you can find in theme directory.

Now download it and Give Me Feedback if you have something to say.

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Igloo News Updated to Version 1.0.2

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Finally after weeks of work I’ve put together my first wordpress theme with all the premium features you can imagine. Also there is a support guide that helps users find info quickly and easily….And best of all it’s FREE. There are no hooks or anything, I’m just doing it to enhance my online presence by giving sth to community,…so enjoy;)

Demo Here | Download | Support | Features

Main Screenshot:

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