Posted on Wednesday, November 23, 2011
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Ryan
We’ve had a flurry of you reporting over the past few weeks that the most recent update didn’t go well for you. Unfortunately, this coincided with the primary developer of WP Paintbrush Ryan Hellyer receiving scheduled surgery to repair an old injury and so we weren’t able to get it fixed until now. Apologies for the delay. This particular bug only seemed to fix a small number of you with a specific server setup. We’ve changed the theme to compensate for that now and it should work just fine.
Along with the WP Paintbrush upgrade are some child theme upgrades too. So make sure you upgrade your child themes at the same time … http://wppaintbrush.com/themes/
Head on over to the download page to check out the new version of WP Paintbrush!
Posted in Beta, themes
Posted on Thursday, November 3, 2011
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Ryan
Along with our child theme announcement today, we are also proud to publicly announce a new theme which we have in development called WP Paintbrush Magazine theme.
Read more about the new theme on the WP Paintbrush Magazine theme page.
Screenshot of the WP Paintbrush Magazine theme
Posted in Beta, themes
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Ryan
Our initial releases of the WP Paintbrush beta have included a feature which allows for changing designs only from within the front-end editor. The new version of WP Paintbrush released earlier today has removed this functionality and replaced it with a much better system involving child themes. Now instead of changing designs from the front-end editor, you can use the regular WordPress theme page to select a child theme of WP Paintbrush. Head over to the downloads page to check out the new version.
We only have one child theme available at the moment, but we will be adding more over time. Check out the WP Paintbrush 2011 child theme to try the first one out.
Regular themes admin page in WordPress, demonstrating the new child theme functionality for WP Paintbrush.
Re-editing old designs
The new child themes can be edited individually. When you change to another child theme, edit that, then go back to the original child theme, the design you were working on will still be available. Previously changing back to the original design you had been working on would wipe all of your changes. Of course it is possible that you may wish to reset the theme back to the original design, you can do this by using the “Reset” feature found under the “Appearance” menu in your WordPress admin panel. This allows you to take the individual child theme back to it’s original design.
Exporting child themes
We will have an export tool for creating your own WP Paintbrush child themes available within the next week.
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Version 1.0.6 beta of WP Paintbrush is now available for download. This version features a combination of minor bug fixes and the addition of some new features for improving support for a magazine layout plugin plus some new features in relation to child themes which we will be posting about shortly.
The following bugs were fixed for this release.
- The header and footer area was sporadically disappearing on changing designs
- Individual designs could not be edited and stored for later use
- The default tags sidebar widget was not loading correctly
- The button for closing the front-end editor was sometimes malfunctioning
- Fixes relating to extending the theme via plugins
Posted in Beta