As a way of getting back into the habit of blogging for Ashford, I just want to celebrate sale the 100th copy of Ashford Pro. Thanks everyone. Pro owners are the ones which push the ongoing development and improvement of the FREE version of Ashford. So anyone using the Free version, should thank you too. [...] Read more »
Ashford is free and will remain free. If you need unlimited support buy Ashford Pro for only $49: Learn how to customize Ashford Find out how to use Ashford features to build the pages you require Advocate for new features There will be support for advanced users as well as developers using [...] Read more »
Ashford now supports using thumbnail images in its blog layout. Using an “hero” image is now an important part of running a professional blog. The best blogs select eye catching images that relate well with the title. Our latest release is optimized to use a 300×220px image in single blog post. (It supports the use [...] Read more »
Many web site owners and developers will happily dance on the grave of Internet Explorer 6. We can not count the hours and brain cells wasted on that browser since 2001. However, as the Site Point blog points out IE6 will not die soon even though version 8 will be pushed out by Microsoft as [...] Read more »
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Ashford child themes Both of the sites profiled here, use Ashford as their parent theme adding a custom child theme to give it the right visual design. This means they are free to upgrade to any future release of Ashford and get every new feature I build without changing their child theme. Ashford for small business [...] Read more »
I want to thank Jacob Gube for including Ashford in his list of beautiful WordPress themes. The screen shot included there is from a couple releases back. I know this current default theme is boring; but I am still focused on the code. I expect to with a major update to the default theme with [...] Read more »
Okay, I am making some significant improvements to Ashford as a WordPress Theme framework. In my next release 0.1.5: Subthemes (a.k.a. child themes) are added using the little discussed “Template:” setting in style.css. Special thanks to Op111.net Sandbox “class-generating function” combined with 960 Grid System to make Ashford a killer WordPress framework for developers [...] Read more »
I want to thank Smashing Magazine for choosing Ashford as one of their High Quality Free WordPress Themes.
The next release of the Ashford Theme will include the framework needed to support subthemes. Ashford is unique because I am building it to be a WordPress theming platform. This means that by loading one theme you will be able to choose from a number of subthemes that fit your style better. The first subtheme [...] Read more »