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FontMeister Version 1.01 and a Suffusion Update

Sayontan — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:07:25 +0000

I patched a minor problem affecting some users of FontMeister. Affected folks were unable to add new fonts to their stack – this update should take care of the problem.

A small Suffusion update – I am working on a new skin. It is going to look very different from what you have seen from me, and will no doubt showcase the tremendous power of the theme and its markup. At present I am stuck with the look and feel for the featured content and the menus, but apart from that, the skinning activity is more or less done. One thing that I haven’t been able to decide on yet is whether to release this skin as a part of Suffusion or as a child theme – very soon the WP repository will start supporting child themes.

I haven’t devoted any time to the “responsive” aspects of the theme – I have been too busy with my family, my work and other things. I will probably get started on this after my vacation in June / July. Before that I hopefully will be able to release a version leveraging some of the capabilities of the upcoming 3.4 version of WP.

FontMeister Version 1.00

Sayontan — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:23:42 +0000

For the longest time I have wanted to write a font management plugin to facilitate the easy addition of fonts to a user’s font stack. Finally last week, after submitting the HTML5 edition of Suffusion I had some breathing room to fit the development cycles required for such a plugin.

I would like to introduce you to “FontMeister – The Font Management Plugin”. FontMeister is being written with the goal of bringing together fonts from all big sources into your WordPress dashboard. In this first release I have built support for Google Web Fonts, Typekit and Fontdeck. In subsequent releases I will be extending the support to other providers and I will also include the capability to upload @font-face kits.

As a bonus for Suffusion users, the fonts that you pick in FontMeister automatically get added to the drop-down lists in the Typography section of Suffusion’s options.

You can download FontMeister from WordPress. Enjoy!

Suffusion Version 4.2.0

Sayontan — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:04:44 +0000

Okay, so now I can finally check the HTML5 box off Suffusion’s checklist. Version 4.2.0 was approved earlier today and it has the following changes:

New Features:
1. HTML5 and Semantic markup
  I have converted Suffusion from being an XHTML transitional theme to an HTML5 theme. Often when theme developers say their theme is HTML5 compatible, they mean that their theme uses . Suffusion does that of course, and also gives you nice semantic markup out of the box. If you are wondering what semantic markup means, I explained the term and the attendant changes in a post in March. If you go through that post, you can see the list of markup element changes as well.
  
  If you have Custom Styles, make sure you are using the new selectors for them, as per the linked post above.
2. Extensive Support for Custom Post Types
  I have done two things on this front:
  1. Provided a new page template called “Custom Post Type Archive”: When you create a page, you can assign this template to the page and save this page as a draft. Upon saving you will see a new tab in the Additional Options for Suffusion titled Custom Post Type Archive. In this tab you can pick things such as which post type you want to show, what kind of layout you want for it (Full posts, Excerpts, Tiles, Mosaic or List), what taxonomies you want to show for it, where you want the bylines displayed, etc.
  2. Provided a new set of options under Suffusion Options → Custom Types → Layouts: This is for the single post displays for Custom Post Types.
3. New Action Hooks
  The following new action hooks have been added:
  1. suffusion_before_post – Executed before every post. This takes 3 parameters: the post id, the layout (blog, tile or mosaic) and the current post index.
  2. suffusion_after_post – Executed after every post. This takes 3 parameters: the post id, the layout (blog, tile or mosaic) and the current post index.
Changed Features
1. I changed the tile layout / magazine layout / custom layout from a JavaScript-based layout to a CSS3-based layout. This should make sure that the tile spacing is more accurate. Of course, there is IE, which doesn’t support the requisite CSS attributes. For them the JS-based former approach should be used.
2. I have upgraded the embedded JQuery Masonry script to the latest version.
3. I have also optimized some of the JS and CSS within the theme appropriately.
Bug Fixes
Since I released a bunch of patches over the past few weeks, there is only one fix, which is for the bug with respect to duplicate content from the Featured Content section showing up in the posts below.

There are a couple of minor niggles, neither of which is a bug. These come down mostly to my extreme level of exhaustion last week:

I forgot to update the version number that shows up in the back-end. It still shows up as “4.1.5.b4”, while it should be “4.2.0”. This doesn’t affect any behaviour, mind you. It is just something that I missed changing.
I also forgot to update the PO file for translation. Again, the main impact is in the back-end translations and it will not affect your site’s visitors.

A big thank you to the beta testers for this version, Mark et al!

Suffusion Commerce Pack Version 1.02

Sayontan — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:44:30 +0000

This is a late announcement regarding an update for the Suffusion Commerce Pack. I released version 1.02 of the plugin a couple of days back, but got too buried in my work to post this update. The version addresses a problem with the Prospress module in the auctions page.

I have also submitted version 4.2.0 of Suffusion for approval and it has got approved. It should go live in a few days.

Suffusion Commerce Pack Version 1.01

Sayontan — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:58:19 +0000

Suffusion and Photonic pretty much hold a duopoly over my WordPress development efforts, relegating all other plugins to the backburner. In this release of the Suffusion Commerce Pack I have fixed a bug with Prospress pertaining to its use with WP 3.3.

Support for WooCommerce and WP e-commerce are in the queue, as soon as I can get to it.

Suffusion Version 4.0.7

Sayontan — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:56:26 +0000

Version 4.0.7 of Suffusion, released earlier today addresses a minor bug. If featured content was enabled on a tile layout view, and if duplicate display was disabled, the tile layout sometimes got hammered. This version should take care of that.

Do pitch in with your comments about 4.2.0. I am getting ready to push that into the approval queue.

Suffusion Version 4.2.0 – Beta Release 4

Sayontan — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 06:25:17 +0000

This is hopefully the last beta for version 4.2.0. I am making beta release 4 available for you to try out. This release has some minor fixes:

The saved options in the Custom Layout section of the Edit Page screen were not showing up in the back-end.
There was a bit of a problem with the size settings for the Custom Layout template – the widget sizes were not showing up correctly. Now, apart from a small alignment issue with the “auto-arrange” option, everything should be working fine.

Do give this release a try! This is essentially the last opportunity to try out your corner cases before I make a formal release of this version.

Suffusion Version 4.2.0 – Beta Release 3

Sayontan — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:48:31 +0000

Following some more testing from Mark, here is beta release 3 of Suffusion. The following are the key changes to this beta:

The mosaic layout and the list layout were sometimes showing incorrect titles if used with the new Custom Post Type Archive layout. This should be fixed now.
There was a critical problem with post backgrounds in IE8. Hopefully it should all be good now.

I urge you to give the beta a try if you haven’t done so yet. Though the volume of changes isn’t very high, it is still very far reaching in terms of impact. Since completely new HTML5 markup has been introduced, giving the beta a run will definitely facilitate a “no surprises” experience.

Suffusion Version 4.2.0 – Beta Release 2

Sayontan — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:41:21 +0000

I have made the second beta available for version 4.2.0. I did mention this in a comment last night, but for the benefit of the testers I thought it might be a good idea to make an official post for this.

You can get the beta from here. The beta fixes a couple of bugs reported by Mark:

There was an issue with incorrect sidebar counts coming up in the new Custom Post Type Archive.
There was another problem with the “auto-arrange” for the Custom Layout template not working correctly.

Give it a try and let me know if things are fine.

Suffusion Version 4.0.6

Sayontan — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:52:19 +0000

Version 4.0.6 of Suffusion got approved a little while back. This is mostly a small release with the following changes:

I added the capability to store the generated CSS as a CSS file. If you go to Back-end → Site Optimization, you will see the option to store the CSS as a file, which is the new default.
There was a minor issue with the “Additional Options for Suffusion”, where the contents of the box were overlapping with things like the Media Upload panel. This should be fine now.
I put in a conditional check for loading the JQuery Cycle script, so that if Photonic exists, the script will not be double-loaded.

Enjoy this release and let me know of any additional issues that you find with the beta version.