Standard Theme has made quite an impact since it was launched less than a year ago. We quickly established our sea-legs as a team, turned around, and released Standard Theme 2 in the summer. This was shortly followed by Live Theme and ChurchAnalytics. Our product line continues to receive an amazing response, and we’re truly grateful for those of you have that have jumped on board, but I hope you didn’t think for a minute that the 8BIT team was slowing down.
For the past couple of months, we’ve been hard at work continuing to improve our flagship product Standard Theme based on some key areas identified by us (we love to use it, too!) but also by many of you in the forums.
Strictly talking numbers, we’ve introduced over 40 fixes, improvements, and new features to Standard Theme. We’re pumped to be releasing this today.
Here’s some of the stuff you can expect:
A Few Fixes and Improvements
Here’s some of the stuff you can expect in this new version…
- Improved page load times
- Improved search engine optimization
- Greater localization
- Support for the new Twitter Sharer
- Better support for multiple authored blog posts
- …and tons more
Fresh Out of The Shrink Wrap
In addition to basic improvements and features, some of the newer sutff we’ve added is:
- New framework-level functions for customizing certain aspects of Standard
- Support for up to three custom menus
- Official theme documentation
- Brand new version of the Follower Count widget
You can read the entire listing of changes at The State of The 8BIT.
If you’re already a Support License holder, jump in the forums and download the latest version. If you’re a Standard License holder, now is a great time to upgrade. All it takes is once to receive lifetime access to all future versions.
We’re all really excited about this release!
Reba says
In the future could you include a list of changed files? I would love to be able to just upgrade the certain files that have changes to them.
Tom McFarlin says
The features in 2.5 wouldn’t allow us to easily do that for prior versions of the theme. It’s arguably one of our biggest shortcomings.
With the next major release of Standard this isn’t going to be a problem :).
Chris Ames says
Reba:
Terrific request. Thank you!
Kyle Reed says
looks like I have a lot of work to be doing very soon
Stephen Bateman says
Upgrading should be pretty easy if you used Child Themes…
Dustin says
Sweet!
Jon says
Looks sweet. Once bug I found on the test site is if you search for something, the results page shows Zero twitter and feedburner followers. And when you click on different pages, it shows a different number. Why is this?
thanks!
Tom McFarlin says
Hey Jon – thanks for the heads up.
We’ve not deployed the update to the demo site yet. That should be fixed when we do.
Appreciate it :).
Chris Ames says
Woot!