Well, above is sneak peek of my upcoming WordPress theme which is currently in the process. If everything goes well, I will be probably releasing it by next coming week. Main intention is to replaced Diana, but since the color scheme is different from the Diana, I am not too sure whether I should release it as another new theme and continue improve Diana along side, or totally replace Diana with this.
Features of the theme
- Usage of WordPress’s custom field (for the image in featured posts which will be auto rotating)
- Two types of theme (one for using as CMS and another one for blog)
- Support for several plugins out-of-the-box (lifestream, cforms, related/recent/popular posts and twitter-tools)
- Widgets support
- Dynamic Menu Highlighting (Unlike current Diana, only top level categories and pages will be displayed on the navigation)
- Support for Version 2.7 (I will be doing the development on 2.7 and will do cross-testing with 2.6 as well)
- No support for IE6 and below
Well, I have not been able to release any update for Diana at all this few weeks. All due to increasing projects and workloads that I do not have any available time set for Diana’s updates yet But it is not going to die this way, probably I will set aside sometime in a few week times to continue updating the Diana to a better one.
The plans I have in the pipeline will be -
- Fully compatible with widgets
- Out of box support for LifeStream, flickrRSS
- Design changes
Just updated through SVN again to latest development version availble, and there are two new changes to the dashboard inside WordPress’s admin panel. As stated in the screenshot above, you can see there are two container, one for inbox (which usage and purpose is still ye to be announced) and another one for Quick Post, where you can write the post just from the dashboard page instead of going to the write page. Although I have no comment for Inbox container, I think the Quick Post is pretty useless, at least for me.
With the new function called Inbox appearing in WordPress 2.7 Hemorrhage, there are speculations about what it is gonna be and how will it serves the bloggers. Nothing is confirmed yet as there is still two more months until 2.7 is released to public and WP team can still remove it.
Lots of guess regarding the Inbox function. Some thinks it is something to do with threaded comment which WP has promised to add in the upcoming version. Yet I don’t think it has to do with comment but instead it will be a totally new feature that most of us do not expect WP to release in 2.7.
Maybe, it has to do with the BuddyPress which aim is to bring social networking to WordPress. It may become WP answer to new version of MovableType (Pro) which includes tools to transform blog into fully functional social networking site.
Whatever it is, I am quite pleased with the UI changes to the admin as well as posting page, and cannot wait to see WP bringing us new features in 2.7.
Recently, after updating my WordPress blog via SVN, I have seen changes and new features inside the admin panel (some usable and a few still prototype). WordPress 2.7 Bleeding Edge has been changed to Hemorrhage (which is a hit song by Fuel, a rock band). All the WordPress codenames used to be Jazz related except for this one.
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