Arras.Theme Update: Single Post

March 4, 2009 at 3:40 AMarrasthemeWordPress

I know that it’s been a really long time since Arras.Theme has an update. I had to put aside the theme development due to school work and now that it’s done I’ve started development on it again.

For the upcoming version, you will see a lot of changes in terms of both the backend code, as well as the visual frontend of the theme. The CSS and theme library files are more organised now (no more throwing everything into one file).

Another important aspect I hope to achieve is to ensure that theme is easily customizable, and at the same time users are able to apply the theme updates easily without breaking their blog. One of the solutions would probably be using the parent-child theme structure as post here. Using action hooks might be the way to go, but this will definitely give a problem to those who do not know PHP.

Of course, the other issue that needs to be addressed is the compatibility with WordPress 2.7. So far, I have completed the new comments template, with has comments threading and paging introduced in the new version. The pingbacks and comments are separated, and the overall design has changed.

Oh bother, I’m not really a fan of writing a lot of stuff, so I will just let the pictures do the talking (don’t mind the layout, it’s still being experimented!):

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7 Comments
  1. Andreas says:
    March 4, 2009 at 7:10 PM

    Will existing customers have to buy an upgrade or will it be free to upgrade?

    Thanks!

    • zy says:
      March 4, 2009 at 7:13 PM

      It’s a free upgrade. I’m not intending to charge customers on updates for now.

  2. Jamie says:
    March 4, 2009 at 7:31 PM

    Excellent – am looking forward to the release. I hope you completed your final year project with total satisfaction in it :)

    Jamie

  3. kahpeng says:
    March 4, 2009 at 7:46 PM

    Glad to hear that. Good changes, can’t wait to see when the upgrade released.

  4. WishBoNe says:
    March 4, 2009 at 10:22 PM

    I did a change to my theme at my blog, the pagination doesn’t work. I like to be able to paginate the home page if possible. Is it not supposed to paginate?

    Pagination works on the Categories and Archives though.

    • zy says:
      March 4, 2009 at 10:24 PM

      Yes, paging does not currently work on the home page, it’s been addressed in the upcoming version.

  5. Emrulez says:
    March 5, 2009 at 4:32 PM

    Hi,

    Nice to see there is development again.

    When can we expect the update?

    Thanx In Advance,

    Emrulez