Plugins

All four plugins should work fine in Wordpress 2.7 without modification, baring any last minute changes in WP v2.7, which is highly unlikely.

Themes

I have updated all themes to work on Wordpress 2.7 and should be backward compatible with v2.5. The most visible feature would have to be the threaded and paged comments. Of course you need to be running on WP v2.7 to use them. View the individual theme’s changelog to see the changes in the latest version.

Remember to backup your theme first before upgrading and report any bugs you found.

For existing premium theme owners, I will be sending out the emails with download links when Wordpress v2.7 is officially released.

A comparison of the Default wordpress theme (v2.7 alpha vs v2.6.3). In short, my free/premium themes should continue to work in v2.7. Just that features like threaded comments and sticky post styling will not be available. Yet

Old: <div class=”post”>
New: <div <?php post_class() ?>>
Found: multiple files
Display the classes for the post div e.g class=”sticky category-uncategorized tag-untagged”. Using this function will break your theme on older version of Wordpress (< v2.7). Not using this, however, you are unable to style your individual sticky/category/tag post. Workaround would be to do a if function_exists() check.

Old: <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>
New: <?php get_search_form(); ?>
Found: multiple files
Will first attempt to locate the searchform.php file in either the child or the parent, then load it. If it doesn’t exist, then the default search form will be displayed. Probably can safely ignore this for now because if you use this template function, your theme will not be backward compatible to older version of Wordpress (< v2.7).

New: <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> Atom Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>" />
Found: header.php
Add Atom feed link

New: <?php if ( is_singular() ) wp_enqueue_script( 'comment-reply' ); ?>
Found: header.php
Add script for threaded comments if current page is a single post, is a page, or is an attachment.

New CSS classes in style.css, mainly for the threaded comments
.thread-alt {
.thread-even {
.depth-1 {
.even, .alt {
.commentlist li ul li
#commentform {
#respond:after
.commentlist li ul li
.children

comments.php: Major code changes. I think this post on Wordpress 2.7 Comments Enhancements will do a better job of explaining the changes.

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My current stable of premium themes:
OneNews
Eco Nature
Technoholic

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Just a rough preview of the Wordpress theme I’m working on. Celebrity Gossip is heavily inspired by Kineda. Really love their simple yet elegant design. But much work remains to be done. Stay tuned..

And please keep your eyes off Leah Dizon and focus on the design

Stumbled across the RSS Includes Pages Plugin and thought it might be useful for the OneNews Wordpress Theme. The plugin was created out of the need to include pages in the RSS feed, thus automatically notifying popular ping update services to crawl your pages.

This is a perfect plugin for the OneNews theme when used in the multiple-pages aka Alltop mode. Ping every new page created by downloading the RSS Includes Pages Plugin here.

Due to popular demand, the OneNews theme has been updated to support multiple pages of news like Alltop. Available only for the premium version.

For those who bought v2.0, this is not a required upgrade. So if you are happy with your current installation, you can skip this. If you like to have this new feature and willing to re-configure your installation, please contact me and I will email you the new package. Include your Paypal email address so that I can verify that you bought the theme.

Contact me here

So you want to add more pages of news on different topics, something like alltop.com. It will take a bit of repetitive work as you will be creating a new page template for every single topic you want to add. The instructions below works for the free version of OneNews Theme.

1. Duplicate index.php and rename the file as onenews-1.php
2. Open onenews-1.php and paste the following code right at the top
   

   <?php
/*
Template Name: onenews-1
*/
?>

3. Continue editing onenews-1.php to add/modify feeds for this specific topic. When done, save and close file.
4. Login to Wordpress Admin and Write Page
5. Enter a title, content can be empty, and select onenews-1 as Page Template
   
6. You are done for this topic. Rinse and repeat for new topic, taking care to increment every instance of onenews-1 to onenews-2 in every step.

I will leave you to figure out how best to present your homepage (index.php). The wp_list_pages template tag might be useful.

For the premium version, you can still follow the instructions above, duplicating home.php instead of index.php in step 1. However you won’t be able to use the OneNews widgets. I’m trying to figure out a user friendly way to implement this. Stay tuned by subscribing to my blog .

If you are upgrading from v2.6.1, simply download the changed files zip package here. Scroll right down to the bottom of the page and click on “Zip Archives”. With only 12 files to upload, that should save you loads of time.

A minor upgrade for most of my older free wordpress themes:

• Gravatar support
• New image and caption css class introduced in WP 2.6.1

Themes updated:
Artificial Intelligence
Fashionista
GenkiTheme
GenkiTheme (Fixed Width)
GreyBlog
Internet Center
Internet Music
Internet Sharing
Orange Web 2.0
Red Business
Small Studio
SoftwareHolic

Wordpress Theme OneNews has undergone a major revamp. Some new features

• Robust SimplePie RSS
• New web 2.0 interface
• No plugins required
• Tested on WP 2.6
• Free and Premium version

Check out the new OneNews WP Theme