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StartBox 2.7 Now Available!

StartBox 2.7 Now Available!

I’m excited to tell you about some of the things that have changed in StartBox in the new 2.7 release! You can review the full changelog below, but here are the important highlights: Eliminated Dependence on TimThumb StartBox 2.7 now does all of its custom on-the-fly image resizing with native WordPress functionality. This means you can still use [...]

Meet Brochure: A Magazine Theme, With a Touch of Style

Meet Brochure: A Magazine Theme, With a Touch of Style

Without a doubt, magazine-styled themes have been a staple format in the WordPress theme ecosystem. They’ve also been fraught with user experience challenges, mostly faced by site operators who are just trying to set up their content and “make it look like the demo.” In terms of visual design, most magazine themes also try to [...]

Weekly Dev Meetings, Fridays at 11am EST, #wpstartbox on IRC

Weekly Dev Meetings, Fridays at 11am EST, #wpstartbox on IRC

Beginning 11am EST this Friday, February 1st, we will hold a Weekly Dev Meeting in IRC in the #wpstartbox channel on Freenode. During these regular meetings we will discuss a variety of topics, including: core features, version roadmaps, release schedules, testing and experimental branches. Everyone is welcome to join and participate.

A Breath of Fresh Air

I’m very excited to announce today that, as of this moment, StartBox has found a new home within the WebDevStudios family. This means a number of amazing things for everyone (you, me, and WDS, too). What’s Changing? For me, this means an entire team of people contributing to StartBox Themes and now StartBox Plugins (yes, [...]

StartBox 2.6 Released

After more than 8 months without an update, I’m happy to finally report that StartBox 2.6 is available for immediate download. Members can access it via the Members Area downloads, everyone can download it for free via Github, and, as always, if you already have it running on any site you can update automatically right from within the admin dashboard. What’s new? Read on to find out!

Register A New Sidebar

Learn how to register new sidebars, and generate the entire sidebar markup and output, using just 2 functions. StartBox makes it easy!

Override Option Defaults

Learn how to override any of the option defaults with your own defaults. This tutorial covers replacing them either during your theme’s activation and/or when the user clicks “Reset Options”.

How To Remove or Disable Theme Options

At some point or another you’re probably going to want to remove an option from the Theme Options page. It’s equally likely you’ll want to remove an entire panel of options, ar even ALL the default panels. Maybe, just maybe, you want to disable the Theme Options entirely (hey, it’s your prerogative). This tutorial covers all four scenarios.

Register/Unregister Page Layouts

In this tutorial we’ll walk through how you can register or unregister your own page layouts for use on the Theme Options page and on individual Page/Post/Category/Tag editors.

We’ll also go over how you can alter styles or conditionally fire code based on layout.

Create Your Own Options Panel

In this particular example we’re going to add an options panel for a Site-wide Alert, like the one found in the Primary Theme. These settings will allow the user to type in whatever text or HTML they want and enable it for display just beneath the header throughout their entire site.

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