Carrington Blog 2.0 beta 1
As discussed at WordCamp Denver, we’ve got a new version of the Carrington Blog theme available now as a beta.
This release has a variety of new features, including:
- Threaded comments.
- Lightboxes for image galleries.
- Customizable colors.
- Selectable custom header images.
- Simplified CSS and more efficient CSS delivery.
- Updated and improved README files (also available online).
There is a little more we plan to add before the official 2.0 release, but we wanted to get this out for feedback and bug reports before we package up the official 2.0 release.
The download link is available on the Themes page.
This site has been updated, of course, as an example.
Categories: Announcements, Carrington Blog
[...] team and I at Crowd Favorite have gotten a new version of our Carrington Blog theme ready for testing. This has a bunch of new features, and we’ve tried to improve the [...]
by Carrington Blog 2.0 beta 1 | alexking.org on Mar 6, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Hmm, not getting any CSS from css.php, just giving a 404 error. Probably a plugin interfering or something.
by Xander Moyler on Mar 6, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Yep, it was just me. This theme gets better and better.
by Xander Moyler on Mar 6, 2009 at 4:25 pm
testing threaded reply
by Dork on Mar 6, 2009 at 6:34 pm
test comment～～
I am using carrington V1.1, but I can not active Ajax comment when I choose “Yes” in option page.
by leinky on Mar 7, 2009 at 1:31 am
test comment
by nir on Mar 11, 2009 at 7:02 am
Excellent news. This is a fantastic theme. I am most grateful for the hard work Crowd Favorite are putting into this project.
by David on Mar 7, 2009 at 7:06 am
This really is the next K2!
by miek on Mar 7, 2009 at 7:31 am
I am new to Your Theme. Wanted to ask one thing. If your theme is a GPL one, then why 2 paid options being shown here: http://crowdfavorite.com/store/ What is included with that $50 and $250 License?
by Navjot Singh on Mar 7, 2009 at 9:37 am
Purchasing a Carrington theme helps support our development of it. GPL doesn’t mean you can’t have a price tag on something.
by Alex King on Mar 7, 2009 at 10:15 am
Hi, can you add RTL support version of it ?
by Mena on Mar 7, 2009 at 2:49 pm
We’re happy to add custom functionality to our Carrington themes. This isn’t currently a feature on our list for the 2.0 release, but if you’d like to sponsor the development of this we’d be happy to consider adding it.
Please contact us through the Crowd Favorite web site if you’d like to discuss this further.
http://crowdfavorite.com/contact/
by Alex King on Mar 7, 2009 at 3:03 pm
okay, i have send a message for that
by Mena on Mar 7, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Newbie trying hard to understand…
1. I did not see where to change colors and images for the theme.
2. I would like to add this as a widget – I currently have it as a separate page, and I’d like to put it in one of the sidebars. Is that possible? Or can you only use widgets that are included with the theme?
3. I think I understand that nesting pages would be difficult? It would be nice to have an About page with a couple of sub-pages.
This template is wonderful, thank you for all the hard work. I’m sure I’m only seeing 10% of what it can do, but what I see is awesome. I haven’t yet switched to this template (I’m using theme tester) because I have to rearrange my pages to make sense with this theme. I’ve tested several other themes looking for one I like, but this is tops.
walt
by Walter Feigenson on Mar 7, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Sorry, I didn’t see the forums – I’ll see if i can find an answer there.
by Walter Feigenson on Mar 7, 2009 at 11:59 pm
I’m using MAMP to develop locally and the stylesheet isn’t loading correctly. When I visit the css.php file directly I get an “undefined index error”, a few more errors and then finally the CSS markup. I suspect that its a permissions issue, but after trying a few chmod things I couldn’t figure out a solution — any advice?
by Chris Jennings on Mar 8, 2009 at 12:11 am
I’m having the same issues with WAMP! Not sure if I like the CSS method anyway.
by Scott on Mar 10, 2009 at 7:09 am
Try the latest in SVN. Also, try turning off error display.
by Alex King on Mar 10, 2009 at 8:14 am
nice its very simple but elegant, i like this. i hope for personal modification this theme is not too difficult. thank you!
by joels on Mar 8, 2009 at 4:54 am
The thing I like about this is the threaded comments on pages work without any tinkering. of course you introduce this now that I figured out the tricks to getting them to work in standard themes. I am going to have fun with the Jam version…
by Brad on Mar 8, 2009 at 7:30 am
Looking pretty good.
by Moses on Mar 8, 2009 at 8:09 pm
looking nice. keep it up guys
by Andy on Mar 9, 2009 at 7:03 am
Does this use WordPress 2.7′s comment threading feature or is it developed in-house?
Anyway, great job on this theme.
by Will on Mar 9, 2009 at 7:13 am
This uses the standard WP 2.7 threaded comments feature. Carrington builds entirely on core WP functionality to ensure as much forward compatibility as possible.
by Alex King on Mar 9, 2009 at 8:56 am
I really like this theme for my new blog notesonneworleans.net. It seems to fit perfectly. But I don’t see how to change any of the elements like font size. Also, I want to be able to monetize it with Adsense and the like but I don’t see where in the CSS to do this. It doesn’t seem like a standard CSS. I am new to all this.
Is there a way to do this? A tutorial? Or should I just go with another theme…
Thanks
by Richard Bienvenu on Mar 11, 2009 at 10:34 am
testing the comments
by sean on Mar 21, 2009 at 5:57 pm
[...] 2.0 has been aging like a fine wine since the beta release in early March. In that time, features have been refined, bugs have been fixed, documentation has been improved, [...]
by Carrington Blog 2.0 - Carrington on Apr 30, 2009 at 7:42 am