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 […]
New Themes: Ari and Shirmish
I am pretty excited about adding new themes to UBC Blogs. We are planning to add a couple of new themes every Friday for the next little while. ARI The first theme we are adding is Ari. A responsive and minimalistic theme designed by Elmastudio. Ari will give your blog a modern minimalistic look and […]
New Plugin: Feed Key Generator
The “Feed Key Generator” plugin is now released for all UBC Blogs users. The plugin enables access to your private blogs’ feeds through a 40 character key which you can give out to anyone that you wish to enable access for. Furthermore, you can always reset the key if you feel the current key might […]
Open Attribute plugin now available.
The Open Attribute plugin has now been added to UBC Blogs. The plugin allows a user to add licensing and attribution information into a blog post / or entire site. Advanced options such as the ability to opt out posts from licensing, add multiple licenses and tweak the look of the license output. Top enable […]
New Theme: Manifest
The Manifest theme is all about the content. No widgets and sidebars just 500px of single column content space nice and clean. The wordy types will appreciate very “McSweeny’ish” .
New Theme: Oulipo
If you like clean minimal styling this theme for you. Oulipo puts the focus on your content with a grid-based design and elegant typography, it makes a perfect theme for e-portfolio, journal or photo blog. Features: Three Columns Threaded Comments Right Sidebar Fixed Width Custom Background Custom Header Custom Menu Theme Options Sticky Post
Remote Publishing is now working.
A long standing bug has been fixed that was preventing users from using the xml-rpc remote publishing features on UBC Blogs. For those unaware of the feature you can use this to post / edit content using native iPhone/iPad, Android or BlackBerry apps. To get this going on your blog follow these three steps: 1) […]