After so long finally SimpleFolio 1.6 is out and better then ever! Slimmity is currently rocking a modified version of SimpleFolio, thanks to me wanting to use SimpleFolio as the theme of the site the theme release got pushed back a bit… had it done since last week but didn’t feel right releasing the theme while the site was rolling on twenty eleven!

The theme comes with 3 different portfolio pages, it also uses the following:

• FlexSlider by WooThemes
• prettyPhoto
• Mosaic by BuildInternet
• NHP Theme Options Framwork
• Social Icons by Komodo Media & Premium Pixels

The theme has threaded comments, infinite sidebars, portfolio from a category, ability to exclude the category from the rest of the site to read more about the theme and download it please visit the theme page

Please visit the forums for support

Going back on topic, I’m not the kind of person that goes on many social networks took me a while to even start using Facebook for Slimmity, so while finishing up SimpleFolio I found my self having to add simple things like the social widget that the theme had some time ago that only included: Twitter, Faceboo, RSS Feed & Email Feed. So when I went over to Komodo Media to get their social icon set and saw that I barely knew 4-5 of the sites listed there. Maybe I’m exaggerating but I really know very few from the list.
So my question would be, would you rather SimpleFolio have a built in social box in the single posts and a larger list of social sites on the widget other then the 4 links mentioned earlier? Or ( I rather you choose this option) Get a hook after the post so you can add what ever plugin you like for sharing?

I would also like to know, does your current theme or themes you developed have built int social links for posts.

So after Google didn’t get me an answer tried WordPress’ Codex and hit another blank, they didn’t even have information on the filter ’the_content_more_link’ have to admit I got a bit mad but then I tried my “last resource site” which is Adam Brown’s WP Hooks and checked the specific file that contains such filter. I found this as the solution because I finally had the variables that I could use to manipulate the link. After seeing how simple it was I just started laughing.

Alright so not so much of a tutorial more of a snippets or maybe a story? So here’s the little code that had me searching for a whole 25mins

add_filter('the_content_more_link', 'more_button');
function more_button($more_link_text) {
return '<div class="readmore"&gt;&lt;a href="' . get_permalink() . '">'.$more_link_text.'</a></div>';
}

Obviously ‘get_permalink()’ gets you the link to the post and ‘$more_link_text’ is the text you put in ‘the_content()’ to be displayed, this way you can still manipulate the style or structure of the link but giving the final user the option to change the text.

Don’t forget this little code goes into your functions.php file.

So far I’ve used

• Basic Quicksand
• jQuery Mosaic for front page and a portfolio layout
• prettyPhoto for the lightbox effect
• Google Fonts – Droid Sans as default

Front page will allow more then 3 widgets but all widgets will have the same height to avoid some issues.

This will just be an early release with simple features but as the time passes I hope to add a lot of other features. I really want to provide a lot of page templates but honestly I cant think of what templates to create…
Not sure if I i should add a contact page template since there’s a lot of good plugins out there to manage this.

Any input is welcome.