UBC Blogs October 2013 Facelift
We have updated UBC Blogs to WordPress 3.6.1 and during the upgrade we also decided to update the look and feel (which had not been refreshed since 2011). From the functional perspective, everything remains the same, except that we are making access to groups and forums slightly less obvious as part of the long term […]
New Theme: Twenty Thirteen
With the new version of WordPress comes a new theme. Twenty Thirteen has a warm and colourful feel. It also features great typography and is mobile ready. Enjoy.
New Theme: Twenty Twelve
Twenty Twelve continues to improve over Twenty Ten and Eleven. Twenty Twelve theme for WordPress is a fully responsive theme that looks great on any device. Features include a front page template with a its own widgets, an optional display font, styling for post formats on both. Check it out.
French Language Support
This was long overdue but UBC Blogs now has the french language translation files enabled. To enable this on your blog goto Settings-> General -> Site Language Currently the following themes have translation files (more to come): TwentyTen TwentyEleven Responsive *Not all plugin and themes have multi language support so milage may very but if you […]
New Themes: Sunspot and Pilcrow
Two new theme additions: Pilcrow (http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/pilcrow) Sunspot (http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/sunspot)
New Themes: Ascetica and Rumput Hijau
Continuing our streak of adding more modern themes to UBC Blogs. This week I am happy to be adding two themes that both feature great typography and a responsive design. First up is a very clean blog / portfolio theme called Ascetica by Griden. Simple portfolio and blog theme with responsive layout, sticky posts slider, and […]
New Theme: Pink Touch 2
Another new theme today. This one is very tumblr’ish. Single column just about the content, features include a custom header, custom background, and maximum three widget areas in the footer.
New Theme: ChaosTheory
Added a dark single-column theme with a minimal, techy feel. This theme supports custom background, header and menu. Also supports featured image and featured header. It’s built by Automattic!
New Theme: San Fran
San Fran is a blogging theme focused on typography and content. Several different color schemes to choose from. The typography and color are quite stand out – particularly the default orange color. Custom menu option are available. Intuitive and easy to use theme option.
New Theme: Responsive
This weeks new theme is Responsive as you might guess by the theme name this theme is “responsive” (for those that do not know that just means it will adapt to the device size). That’s not all this theme has to make it awesome, it also comes with several customization features via the theme options where […]