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WordPress 3.2, Beta 2 is released and it introduces some new features and major improvements. WordPress CMS keeps getting better and better and there’s no denying it.

Excited? So are we. Some of the new features in WordPress 3.2 are:

Distraction-free writing:

The visual editor’s got a major overhaul. It now allows full-screen mode for distraction-free writing.

HTML editor, too, is also available in the full screen mode. The options which you see at the top, automatically hide while writing a post, and appear again on mouse hover on the top area. Now the writing environment really looks cool. You can now focus on what matters the most – the content. After all, good content is what matters on a website.

Admin User Interface:

This is not a major change, but just a little facelift.

The new admin user interface looks sharp with some minor changes in the positioning of the options.

New Default Theme:

WordPress 3.2 Beta 2 comes with a new default theme – Twenty Eleven. This new theme is based on the popular Duster theme.

What’s new in this theme ?

• Two types of color scheme – light and dark
• Option to change link color. Now there’s no need to delve in coding and make changes to do this task
• Change layout. From the options you can change layout to left sidebar, right sidebar or no sidebar
• New option to show a random image each time a page is viewed
• Text color can also be changed without the need to delve in coding

Admin Bar

Some more links and options are added to the admin bar to make it more useful. e.g. Add new post, page, media, links, user, etc.

Performance Improvements

Things will get faster with the release of WordPress 3.2. There are some under the hood improvements to speed up your website/blog. After all, speed matters.

Browse happy

WordPress wants you to browse happy. What this means ? Whenever you visit the Dashboard using an outdated browser, WordPress will let you know that a new version of the browser is available. It’s always recommended to use the latest version of any browser.

New System Requirements

WordPress 3.2 has new minimum system requirements. It requires PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0 to run. So ensure that your webhost supports this new system requirements.

Note: This is a Beta release and its not recommended to run on a production environment. Please test this only on test server/environment. Its always recommended to run only a stable version on live environment.

Download the beta version by clicking on below link.

Download WordPress 3.2, Beta 2 from here

Do you want to contribute and report any known bug with this beta version ? Report any bug which you find in alpha/beta forum.

In last 3 years, you’ve seen us releasing different, niche specific themes in our Premium Themes Club. The club now features 60+ plus themes in different areas from application like portal themes to business, portfolio, multimedia, magazine, e-commerce and so on. Each theme have a specific purpose and helps creating quick, professional website using WordPress for any business.

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Icons, as we already know, are so useful and important in a web project. We’ve released quite a few e-commerce WordPress themes here but for the first time on templatic, we are releasing these beautiful icon set for free. We call these as Glyphs, because they represent things in pictorial form. Sometimes, you don’t need to say anything and things are self explanatory. These icons will let you do this exactly. These icons will really serve a great purpose for those who are just starting out their new Ecommerce projects. We’ve wanted to be pixel perfect, and we really think that we succeeded in this. Every minor details are taken care of, and here’s the result – presenting 50 Glyphs.

These are 50 icons of 256 × 256 size in PNG format. Take a look at this and let us know what you think about it. Comments are always welcome. Now your icon collection definitely needs something awe-inspiring. Go, grab it !

Download

Feel free to download the glyphs and use it on your projects.

Download Templatic Ecommerce Glyphs Icon Set
50 icons | 256×256 pixels | .PNG format

License: You must link to this blog post when sharing the Icons, and you must not upload these files anywhere else. This icons set is released under Creative commons 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License.

You guys loved our earlier posts showcasing theme previews. We received many positive and constructive ideas about what features to include in our upcoming themes. Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to showcase a preview to the themes released in last 3 months because of frenzied development and release schedule. But hey, we are back again with the teasers.

Here are some previews of some of the upcoming themes we are excited about. What’s special about our themes is that they are strategically structured. We try to wire frame and iterate them unless a satisfactory layout is created that includes most of what a particular niche theme requires and works best for the business. Talks apart, here’s the previews…

StoreBox and several other ecommerce themes

This has been long time pending. It’s been real long since we released an ecommerce theme on this site. Well the wait is almost over and you should see few dynamic themes about to be released in this niche very shortly.

Appointment

You asked for it and you are going to get it. Appointment theme for doctors, therapists, consultants, spa or salon owners, astrologers or any service based business who require their customers to set prior appointment. We are sure you will love this strategically beautiful theme. It is structured and planned in such a way it will help you showcase all aspects of your business while also allowing you and your clients to dynamically manage appointments with your business.

Plus One

Named after google’s plus one feature, this unique theme lets you vote on a post you like. Also you can enable your visitors to submit an article and keep track of their favorite posts.

Kind of a mini social media site based on WordPress.

Spa & Salon

A slight variation to the appointment theme, this theme particularly focuses on spa or salon business. It has some similar features of the Appointment theme, plus some specific features.

Hotel Booking

This upcoming elegant theme will focus on hotel business and hotel room booking. This theme is specially crafted for hotel business owners. Make sure you check this one out.

More?

Well this is preview to some of the themes coming up shortly at Templatic. Are you looking for a particular theme that is not available at Templatic store yet? Wish to share some unique theme ideas? Please comment here and let us know how we can improve.

Feedback & Suggestions

We’d love to hear your feedback on upcoming theme previews showcased here. It will help us make some last minute critical changes in the themes if required. Love them? hate them? Just shoot your opinion via comments.

MiniMagazine is our yet another magazine/news theme with clean and minimalistic look. Your initial impression might be that this is not an advanced theme that usually comes out of Templatic’s den but that’s where the real catch is. This magazine theme is actually very ‘different’. Combining simplicity and advanced blogging to create something you can actually use to make a quick magazine site.

Some of the standard + unique feature include:

• 5 detailed color schemes
• Super clean layout
• Built in 8 Page Templates
• Integrated 30 Shortcodes
• Advertisement widgets
• Design settings panel
• And many more regular features

The design settings panel will let you configure many settings to customize the theme. You can change the background color, link color, hover color, etc, and the best part is, you can do all of this without even touching a single line of code.

It comes in 2 base color variations – Dark and Light. Take a look at the links below and choose your style.

MiniMagazine Light Theme View Live Demo | View Details and Buy

MiniMagazine Dark Theme View Live Demo | View Details and Buy

We hope bloggers will love this new theme because of its super clean strategic layout and great advertisement placements easily configurable via drag and drop widgets.

Our fingers are crossed as this product might entirely fail or succeed :). What do you think about this latest beauty?

You may have noticed that there has been slight delay in the themes being released recently. That is because we’ve been adding stability to the business and kind of in-house reformation which will be visible to everyone in coming days. Good news is, we should be releasing 3 brand new themes in next 4 weeks.

Today is the release day of yet another niche theme that you can use to give a facelift to your Web Hosting business website. Yep, there is a fierce competition in WebHosting business but if server management is your expertise, reseller web hosting makes it easy for you. Our WebHosting theme makes it even easier giving you quick online presence in easy, affordable way.

With this theme, you can build a clean professional website for your hosting business. The homepage highlights your hosting plans, features, prices and call to action buttons. Ofcourse these features can be easily managed from the theme backend options and widgets. What’s more, the entire homepage is widget ready. Simply drag and drop any sections you wish. Add or remove.

It ships with five detailed, pixel perfect color schemes. Use color scheme that suits your brand, change logo from design settings and you’ve got a brand new, fresh online presence ready in minutes. With this theme, all you need to take care is add your own data. Rest of the things are taken care of.

The webhosting theme is built upon our own new framework with 30 shortcodes and 8 page templates, numerous design flexibility and custom widgets. Design settings of the theme will let you can control different options of your site like changing logo, RSs feed settings, enable/disable cufon font, adding Google Analytics code, SEO options, style and color settings, change page layout, etc and these are just few benefits of our powerful framework, there’s much more hidden inside.

WebHosting Theme View Live Demo | View Features and Buy

Like I mentioned, there has been delay in release of the theme but once you explore this theme, you will find that its time well spent on this latest goodie from templatic :).