After major updates for our GeoPlaces and DailyDeal themes we finally got around to update some other fan-favorites.
Around a month ago we released eMarket, a sleek eCommerce theme with some new functionality. That functionality is now coming to the rest of our eCommerce pack! Upgrading your current eCom framework will get you a wealth of great benefits like:
Flexible checkout with PayPal Pro that enables customers to checkout even if they don’t have a PayPal account
Better back-end content organization with Products as a new custom post type. Your posts and products are now completely separated!
Improved Guest Checkout makes checkout as quick and painless as ever!
New Transaction Reports section makes tracking your sales stats a breeze
HotelBooking is an advanced Templatic theme that enables anyone to run a small hotel with ease. Today’s HotelBooking upgrade will make your day-to-day site management even easier!
Bulk Import/Export for rooms
This feature will make transferring content between two HotelBooking powered sites a breeze. It will also enable customers with a lot of (different) rooms to easily upload that content.
Custom taxonomy for rooms
Room taxonomy will open a whole new world of possibilities for your HotelBooking theme. It will also make creating rooms more easier since you’ll be using the same tools you would normally use to create your posts. Since posts and rooms are separate managing each will be super easy. With rooms no longer being tied strictly to your theme options area you’ll even have the option to add them directly to your custom menu.
Other awesome improvements
Improved seasonal prices
You can now book a room even on category listing pages
Room sorting/ordering is now possible because of the room custom taxonomy
Various minor improvements and bug fixes
To test out these new features head over to the test site. To purchase the theme click here
Excited about the upgrades? Tell us how you feel in the comment section below.
Last August we released Daily Deal, a unique WordPress theme that enabled anyone to create a fully-functional deals site. After the release there was one feature that people requested the most – an affiliate module. Starting today that feature is finally available!
Existing DailyDeal users and club members can download the newest version of DailyDeal from the member area. If you’re interested in purchasing DailyDeal be sure to check out live demo and the product page.
Affiliate module included in DailyDeal is similar to the module already available in our eCommerce themes. The module enables you to extremely easily setup registration and tracking of your affiliates. Adding affiliate links and managing affiliate members is straightforward and intuitive. When users purchase a deal using one of the affiliate links a new order will be generated in the back-end. Admin can then approve or reject that order.
New DailyDeal comes with other improvements as well. Added Sold Out functionality automatically marks a deal as sold out when all available items have been purchased. This is what your sold out deals will look like.
Layout options have been revised and now give you the option to transform the look of your deal pages, as well as the submit deal page. You can now choose between a right or left sidebar. On top of that, a new sidebar area has been included – “Sidebar for post deal page”. As the name suggests, you can have a specific sidebar for your deal pages.
The update comes with several small tweaks and improvements. For instance, the profile page is now showing your gravatar image, profile image upload has been removed.
New DailyDeal is available for immediate download in our member area. Visit our test site and check out the theme back-end option. To purchase the theme click here
Are these the upgrades you wanted to see? Leave your comment in the comment section below.
Few months back some of our business colleagues asked “do you have a theme that helps us create a site like TechCrunch, Mashable or other tech news site?”. At the time we had some magazine themes in our portfolio but none that helped them publish news while also helping them earn revenue strategically. That conversation led to a few additional conversations on what exactly is required to run such a site. Those were the first steps towards making TechNews.
TechNews, a magazine theme we’re releasing today helps you build a professional blog or news site quickly in WordPress. The best thing about it is it’s strategic structure and world-class design with awesome typography that will give your site a real professional look, like TechCrunch, Mashable and other tech news sites.
Right element at the right place, that’s the main benefit of this theme. Nope, it does not include any of those advanced modules but whatever you require in a tech blog, its there.
The homepage features a cool slider to highlight your top stories, right after that you can highlight some other stories followed by a super cool widget that lets you list your news posts in list/grid view that can ajax-fetch more posts continuously. The sidebar includes unique social media, popular widgets and other important custom widgets. Big footer with 100% contrast could be useful to showcase more of your important, universal elements across your website.
Another awesome thing about TechNews is it’s responsive design. It won’t matter whether your visitors are visiting the site on their desktop or mobile device – your site should look great regardless. To test the theme responsiveness just open the live demo and resize your browser window.
This particular theme holds importance in its own way at Templatic office. We hope we got this right and that this theme will help you build a professional tech news site that brings you tons of traffic.
Video Overview
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Tweet about the theme by clicking on the “Tweet” button or Like/Share the theme on Facebook in the next 2 weeks and be among 2 winners who will get a copy of this theme absolutely FREE! Twitter users will be notified via a direct message. You must follow @templatic in order to participate.
The winners of TechNews theme are Facebook user Chris Casties and twitter user @SP_AB. Big thank you to everyone who participated and congrats to the winner!
Just like last month here’s another overview of all Templatic tips of the day. If you’re a Twitter user you can access our tips with the #templatictip hashtag
Templatic tips of the day for February 2012
February 1 Missed a few or our daily tips in January Don’t worry, here’s a list of all templatic tips for last month bit.ly/wbvwha
February 2 Want to know how default WordPress themes evolved over time? Don’t miss this article http://bit.ly/zfKuF8
February 3 We updated GeoPlaces v4 beta again. Don’t miss this release, biggest yet with over 30 fixes -> http://bit.ly/vZW3Wh
February 4 Want to import tweets into your WordPress site? Don’t miss this article -> http://bit.ly/wKlB7g
February 5 Want to remove the image gallery from specific posts in GeoPlaces? With this quick fix you finally can -> http://bit.ly/w7euKC
February 6 Read more about new Templatic videos in the following article http://bit.ly/Aaa4Jj
February 7 WordPress as a Learning Management System? Yes, you can do even that -> http://bit.ly/x2i9EV
February 8 Want to see more about our Vacation Rental theme? Make sure you don’t miss this short video overview http://youtu.be/-ytmtkG_sY0
February 9 Using Google+ ? Make sure you add “Add To Circles” badge to your theme http://bit.ly/zo73Jp
February 10 Just a reminder; we released a new update for GeoPlaces v4 beta today. Download it here http://bit.ly/vZW3Wh (members only)
February 15 Here are some great design tips and resources for all non-designers http://bit.ly/w8oQlC
February 16 Did you know you can specify how your site is viewed on mobile devices? More in this article -> http://bit.ly/w2eYns
February 17 Here’s a short guide that could make your lives easier…7 steps to speed up your WP site -> http://bit.ly/yAyUVf
February 18 Ready to tinker with your wp-config file? Here are some things you can do with it -> http://bit.ly/wxdkjk
February 19 Hikari Category Permalink – must have plugin if you’re using category permalinks http://bit.ly/wukhok
February 20 Be one step ahead and get ready for most common WordPress issues. Read all about it in this article -> http://bit.ly/zia3ja
February 21 Use Limit Login Attempts plugin to stop hackers from getting into your wp-admin http://bit.ly/x4PeK7
February 22 Find out which plugins are slowing down your site – using a plugin :) http://bit.ly/xFIoiQ
February 23 Having problems dragging and dropping widgets? Click “Screen Options” on the widgets page and set “Enable accessibility mode”
February 24 Planning to customize your theme? Learn how to use Firebug -> http://bit.ly/yE42Gn
February 25 February is almost over but you still have time to vote in the Member of the Month awards -> http://bit.ly/yqBELJ
February 27 Locked out of your WordPress admin account? Here’s what you should do -> http://bit.ly/A104e3
February 29 Having issues with Feedburner? Try reading this short tutorial, perhaps it helps -> http://bit.ly/xzdpya
With GeoPlaces V4 finally released the team is working on updates of some other themes. Meanwhile, we’ve prepared the theme of March – Tech News.
Though magazine themes might be considered a bit of outdated and overdone; looking at our portfolio, we clearly lack a theme that a tech blog can use. Tech News is a responsive theme targeted towards those high tech bloggers who need a world class design for their high traffic site. Watch this space for more details as well as our Facebook and Twitter channels.
It’s been a while but the waiting is finally over; GeoPlaces v4 is now officially available! We realize it took longer then we originally planned but that extra time only made the theme better. Even though the front-end looks very similar to GeoPlaces v3 there are a number of new additions. To see what’s in store for you please visit the live demo. We implemented hundreds of major and minor tweaks into GPv4, it’s safe to say that pretty much every aspect of the old theme was improved upon. Enough chitchat, let’s go over some of the things you’ll see in GeoPlaces v4
GeoPlaces v4 is a completely free upgrade for all current GeoPlaces users! Not a member? Click here to purchase the theme
Better monetization – make even more money
GeoPlaces v4 takes monetization on a whole new level with features like recurring payments and price packages. If you ran a successful directory with GeoPlaces v3, expect to significantly increase your revenue with the new version.
Recurring PayPal payments are finally available and will help you earn even more money
Price Packages that enable you to diversify your price options even further. Among other things, you can even set the price package to only apply to specific categories
Transaction reports with ability to export data into a .csv file
Ability to change for featured listings on homepage and category pages
Better listing and theme management
To make content management easier we implemented dozens of various changes. Creating listings for you and your visitors have never been easier
Custom post types for both Places and Events will enable you to keep better track of your content. WP posts are used for blog
Based on Google Maps v3 – no API key required
Completely recoded image upload (no flash)
Support for mega menu plugins like UberMenu + mega menu widget included with the theme
Much more theme options; change things like background color directly from theme Design Settings, added ability to change listing sort order and much, much more
Claim listing feature
More options when adding cities, more streamlined input
User profile fields – add new custom fields for user profiles
More security options
Restrict theme options for specific usergroups
Block suspicious IP addresses and stop them from spamming your site
Revised custom fields
Unlike “one for all” deal in GeoPlaces 3, now you can create fields for specific categories and for a specific post type (Place or Event)
Custom fields are easier to manage because of the revamped custom fields screen
“Add a custom field” offers a wealth of new possibilities like choosing the location of the field (front/back end), setting a different validation type and even the ability to apply a custom CSS class
For the first time you’re also able to search through the custom fields using the Advanced Search page template.
Other improvements
Ability to show the big map in category listings
Add and show category descriptions to explain what each category is about
Improved listing navigation with sub-categories below the parent category
Limit the image upload size
Full compatibility with WP-reCAPTCHA enables a bot-free user experience
Import-Export
With GeoPlaces v4 comes the ability to separately import places, events, blog posts and cities. If you’re using GeoPlaces 3 and wish to export your content into GeoPlaces v4, update your theme to the newest version (3.3.1) and use the improved Bulk Upload section to export your data. For more info on this please click here. For a complete tutorial on upgrading from GeoPlaces v3 to v4 click here.
For the best viewing experience please watch the video on YouTube in 720p or Full HD.
Thank you!
This post marks the ending for the longest public beta testing in Templatic history. During that time almost 500 topics were created and 2000 posts submitted that resulted in hundreds of various bug fixes and improvements. Thank you for your continuous support and understanding through the numerous delays. All of you made GeoPlaces v4 what it is today – most feature packed geolocation theme out there!
Did GeoPlaces v4 meet your hopes and expectations? Tell us what you think in the comments section bellow.
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