A couple of weeks ago, we gave you a sneak peek at the upcoming version of Standard Theme. Today, The 8BIT Team is absolutely pumped to show you the final product.
Let’s take a look…
Face Lift
As outlined in the preview, we’ve attempted to provide a better look and feel and overall user experience.
To that end, we’ve attempted to pull this experience through the entire theme. Aside from a brand new administration panel:
We’ve also provided a refresh of the default style that ships with the theme:
On top of that, we’ve made it even easier for you to customize the look and feel of your blog even without touching the custom.css.
We’ve included some new framework level options that make it incredibly easy to move the navigation and sidebar, add custom background images, and even support for custom menus:
Brand New Shiny Things
In addition to a full set of new features, we’ve also written a couple of plug-ins specifically for Standard Theme.
This includes a new Follower Count Plug-in (coming soon in a stand-alone release) that will showcase the total number of Twitter followers and FeedBurner subscribers:
On top of that we’ve included a brand new version awareness functionality such that Standard Theme will notify you when your theme is out of date and that it’s time to upgrade. You do have the support license with free lifetime upgrades, don’t you?
Finally, there is no need to reconfigure each installation of Standard Theme as we now offer the ability to import and export settings from the previous version of Standard Theme.
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, But a Video is Worth…?
Yes, there’s more more to say about what we’ve introduced in the new version of our WordPress Theme, but perhaps the video tour would help to demonstrate what you can expect:
But That’s Not All!
We’ve covered more features, licensing updates, and general notes about our new theme over at the Standard Theme blog.
So before grabbing your copy of Standard Theme 2, head on over and check it out, and don’t forget to subscribe!
If someone has already bought the Standard Theme will they have to buy Standard Theme 2?
no, but only if they’ve got the support license. you can upgrade if you need to here: http://standardtheme.com/upgrade/
I have a support license. Where would I go do download? (Please excuse me if these questions are covered somewhere, I looked and didn’t see them).
you should be able to download the new version off the forum.
it just appeared. thanks!
whaaaa hoooooooooooooo, this is awesome
Exciting….
A picture is worth a thousand words so a video is worth 24,000 words a second!
haha. agreed!
nicely done…
Awesome!
Agreed. Hey guys, can I borrow 50 bucks?
Thank you! Lots of great new features. I really appreciate all of the work you guys have put into this project.
Anxiously awaiting access to the forums..No idea why, I won’t be able to touch ST2.0 until Saturday anyway.
Tom, you have 48 hours to approve, or you are so not getting a good tip.
You were approved before you left this comment.
You are too good.
Wow! I’m so glad i’m on your side of the fence with Standard Theme. You guys are obviously working hard. Thanks for all that!
Excellent work, guys! It’s a masterpiece.
Tom,
I just upgraded to the support license. Can you grant me access to the forums so I can download StandardTheme 2? Appreciate it! Can’t wait!!
i got in on the first run…and can’t seem to remember my username and pass for the forums…help me obi-wan…
got it…just had to reset password…downloaded…and will change this weekend! thanks!
Finally had the time today to convert to v2! It looks so sweet over on http://gbrenna.com
I love all the functionality you’ve built in. Made it super easy for a noob like me to customize it!
Good stuff, Graham. Nice background….;)
No way, dude. There’s no way you’re a noob!
I saw your blog and it’s very nice.
I’m a noob. Look at mine. And that’s with the help of quite a few people