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

[Sohaib Saleem]

+1 :)


On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Charles Oloo <oloo6382 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks done for the update and dedication
>
> Charles
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 7:30 PM, 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
>> Jabber: york at jabber.isoc.org <mailto:york at jabber.isoc.org>
>> Skype: danyork   http://twitter.com/danyork
>>
>>  http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/
>>
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