[Chapter-delegates] Warning - Advance notice about a new version v1.2.0 of the ISOC WordPress theme coming next week

[Talha Habib]

Thumbs up, keep up the good work.

Thank you
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Talha Habib

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On Nov 23, 2013 8:31 AM, "Dan York" <york at isoc.org> wrote:

>  Chapter delegates,
>
>  I wanted to give you all a heads-up that next week I plan to release a
> new version 1.2.0 of the ISOC WordPress theme.
>
>  WARNING!!!!   You *will* need to change the front page of your site
> after updating to this version!
>
>  The reason for the advance notice is that if you have your site
> configured for "automatic updates" using the "Theme Updater" plugin and you
> just do the automatic update and don't look at your site... your front page
> will be broken until you update it.
>
>  In the process of updating the Deploy360 site to be based on the
> standard ISOC WordPress theme, I made a great number of fixes, feature
> requests and changes to the theme.  The single biggest change was to get
> rid of the hard-coded "News" column on the left that many people (myself
> included) found annoying and restrictive.   Now instead the front "Home"
> page has three separate "widget-enabled" columns so you can set up those
> columns in whatever format you want (and you can also have a 2-column
> layout if you want).  You can still have a "News" area, but you now have
> the flexibility to NOT have that in the left column.
>
>  Those of you who want all the details of exactly what has changed can
> visit:
>
>
> https://github.com/internetsociety/isoc-wp/issues?milestone=7&page=1&state=closed
>
>  (And thanks to ISOC-PL's Marcin Cieslak for helping with a fix to one of
> the issues.)
>
>  You can see the new and improved theme in action at
> http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/
>
>  I'll send out a message next week when the new version is ready for
> usage.  I just wanted to give you an advance warning that you can't just
> update or upload this new version of the theme and expect it to work with
> no changes.
>
>  Regards,
> Dan
>
>  P.S. There are still other bugs and feature requests pending on the
> theme but this release represents the major ones found to date. The full
> list of feature requests and bugs can be found at:
>
>  https://github.com/internetsociety/isoc-wp/issues
>
>  You're welcome to raise additional issues and feature requests there -
> and if you have any WordPress or PHP expertise you're welcome to contribute
> to the project as Marcin has done!
>
>  --
> Dan York
> Senior Content Strategist, Internet Society
> york at isoc.org <mailto:york at isoc.org>   +1-802-735-1624
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>
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>
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