And here are some of the more important improvements that can be found in latest updates of our themes:

Improved Theme Options Pages with additional features, like:

• Pages & Categories Excluder
• Categories Excluder from the Loop

Added Post Thumbnail support


We integrated this awesome feature in almost all of our themes, except those that don’t really need it: Photoland, Sensor, Photoblog.

One-click theme install

Since many things changed in WordPress, we are trying to keep up with these changes, so now all our themes can be installed directly from the WordPress Dashboard, uploading the .zip file of each theme, without having to upload it manually through a FTP Client as before.

Download is available for confirmed customers on our Forum. Check each theme’s group announcements.

BEFORE YOU UPDATE
Unfortunately there’s no quick & easy way to do an automatic update to the new version. If you haven’t made any modifications to your theme files, then you can overwrite your old version. If you have made modifications (customizations) to your theme, you will need to backup firstly your old theme, and then make modifications again in the new version. You can also compare your old modified file against the updated file with any good HTML Editor or use an online tool.

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Improved back-end settings for theme, will allow you to manage exactly which articles you want to be featured in the slider. Also the new Themes Back-end Panel has a lot of new options like:

• Exclude Categories from the Loop
• Categories & Pages Excluder from Navigation
• 3 built-in widgets: Recent Comments, Popular Articles & Flickr Photos
• For more detailed features visit themes page

The new feature “Post Thumbnail” is fully supported by this theme, and this means that you should install the theme on WordPress 2.9+ if you want all features to be supported.

1. A new Full-Width Slider

Previous slider wasn’t very easy to use and many times conflicted with third-party lightbox plugins. The new one is very flexible and easy to modify as you want. You can also disable it from Theme Options Page.

2. Thumbs, thumbs, thumbs…

Another problem for many of our customers is now solved! No more custom fields needed for article to create thumbnails.
Since WordPress 2.9 has been released, we have implemented the great feature called “Post Thumbnails“, which allows you to upload any image and use it as thumbnail, even without having it in the content.

Also we implemented another feature, that will pull the first image from articles content to be used as thumbnails, for articles that don’t have a “Post Thumbnail”.
But we haven’t forgotten about those who were using custom fields in previous version of Yamidoo to create thumbs. If your website contain articles without images or Post Thumbnail, then the assigned custom field will be used.

3. “the_content_limit” function was replaced with “the_excerpt”

In previous version we were using “the_content_limit” to limit the length of text appearing on homepage, in places like: featured slider, featured categories. But now we replaced it with the “the_excerpt” function, so you can manage the text appearing on homepage, adding it in the”Excerpt” box.

4. Enlarged space for articles

The articles area has been enlarged to 600px, so you can be able to post larger images in your articles.

5. New features in Theme Options Page:

Categories & Pages Excluder from Main Menu
Category Excluder from The Loop – very useful when you want to hide and prevent duplicate posts from Featured Category on Recent Articles.
Logo Path – you can easy upload your modified logo image.

And here is another list of minor updates in new version:

• Added drop-down menu for Pages
• Added a “Share on Facebook” button
• Comments styling was changed
• Added “Full Width” Page Template.
• Added built-in “Flickr Widget”

(click on image to see full Options Page)

• Download is available for confirmed customers on our Forum

BEFORE YOU UPDATE
Unfortunately there’s no quick & easy way to do an automatic update to the new version. If you haven’t made any modifications to your theme files, then you can overwrite your old version. If you have made modifications (customizations) to your theme, you will need to backup firstly your old theme, and then make modifications again in the new version. You can also compare your old modified file against the updated file with any good HTML Editor or use an online tool.

Photoland Theme

Photoland Theme uses the Cufon text replacement technique, but you can disable it in the Theme Options Page. Also the theme comes bundled with 18 fonts for Cufon, all you have to do is choose them in a drop-down select box in the Theme Options Page.

Photoland Theme does not use the usual sidebar as we wanted to leave maximum space for your photos (960px). However you can add your Widgets in the footer, which is split into 4 columns of equal width.

Social Sharing icons are already built-in into the posts, so there is no need to use additional plug-ins for that.

The theme also comes with 2 special widgets:

• WPZOOM: Authors List shows a list of all contributors on your blog. This is especially useful when you have more than 1 registered authors.
• WPZOOM: Gallery allows you to include photos from a FlickR photostream. Again, no need for plug-ins.

If you have more questions about Photoland Theme, feel free to ask in the comments or on our Support Forum in the Pre-Sales section.

With every new theme we release, we gain numerous new customers and fans. And since many of our customers wish to personalize our themes, we receive plenty of requests for theme modifications and customizations.Unfortunately both me & Dumitru don’t have the time to accept these requests, as we are busy offering support for existing customers, as well as working on new themes. So, we feel that now is the time to take the next step and to invite everyone to join our Theme Customization Team!

These are our requirements for developers who want to join our Customization Team:

• Good knowledge of WordPress Themes
• Experience with WPZOOM Themes is an advantage
• Reasonable Portfolio

And this is what we offer to everyone who joins our Customization Team:

• Full access to our Support and Customization Sections on the Forum
• A steady flow of customization requests from our customers
• Affordable packages that include all our existent as well as future themes.

So if this sounds good to you, then drop us an email on hello@wpzoom.com or via our Contact Form, including a short bio and a link to your portfolio.

NOTE! There is no deadline to join our team, but the sooner you join the sooner you can start earning money!

Just like other themes of ours, such like Professional and Impulse, the newest theme – Sensor Theme comes with a very clean and well structured layout, 14 color styles and a very slick jQuery Slider.

Sensor Theme

Our new theme Business Bite is our first theme developed for WordPress 2.9 (also compatible with 2.8), and it supports the new “Post Thumbnail” feature, and you are able to add or change any image you want to be shown as a thumbnail in the Featured Slider.

For starters, take a look at the Live Demo of this theme, and make sure to let your feedback on this post regarding the things you like or not in this theme.

Business Bite Theme

Here are some other great unique features:

• 4 Custom Widgets: Flickr Gallery, Latest News, Social Profiles, Contact Widget
• Nice styled Call-To-Action buttons
• Featured Slider
• Unique Theme Options

Full CMS Control

With an easy to use administration panel, you can configure any details of the theme to your liking. And since WordPress isn’t a platform just for blogging anymore, you can give a reliable look to your website and your business. However, you can still use this theme as a blogging platform, and run a niche blog as a very powerful marketing tool, that could help your business.

2009 Highlights

But let’s take a look back at important events of 2009 and see what happened:
February, 24 – We released our first theme – Yamidoo Magazine. And this theme seems to be a big success, being our most popular theme so far.
May, 8 – Three months after first released theme, Zenko Magazine has appeared – a new born theme presented by WPZOOM.
July, 1 – WPZOOM has been redesigned to a new professional look, Dumitru joined our team, and two new themes have been released.
July – December – We developed new themes, and now we offer 13 nicely designed Themes, 2 of which are FREE!

What’s new in 2010?

2010 is almost here, and we don’t want to set any important goals for the next year, because we have a lot of unfinished tasks from 2009, like developing new themes, updating old themes with new features and much more!

Here is just a quick preview of our upcoming themes. Some of them will be released soon after New Year!

We wish you a happy New Year and we’ll see you in 2010!

And here is what we prepared for you this time:

All Themes Pack for only $199

(including 11 Themes, worth more than $600)
Yes, it’s true! You can grab all our 11 themes for only $199! This means that you buy each theme for only $18!
Do you think you can resist this offer? Check again our awesome and professional themes and be sure not to miss this special!

(don’t forget to use discount code “50OFF”)

50% OFF on any licenses with coupon code: “50OFF”

If you plan on buying only a certain number of our themes, be sure to use discount code “50OFF” to pick up any of our themes for only half the price!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

This offer is valid till 1st of January 2010!