I am very excited to release v0.5 of Ashford and Ashford Pro. Following on the heels of Smashing Magazine selecting Ashford for a second time, listing it with other top WordPress frameworks like Thematic, Carrington and Hybrid, this release is the most child theme friendly version so far. With this release of Ashford v0.5, Added over two dozen [...] Read more »
Smashing Magazine has selected Ashford for a second time and listed it with other top WordPress frameworks like Thematic, Carrington and Hybrid. Ashford is not yet ready for third-party development, but the v0.7 will see the publication of child theme documentation. With the next release of Ashford (v0.5), I will be selling new momblogger themes and offering several [...] Read more »
I just noticed that a decent number of people are searching for how to remove the breadcrumbs. As this is a usability feature that I thought a “premium” theme should include, I am kind of surprised. You can expect in the next release to get a theme option to turn breadcrumbing off. See I’m listening [...] Read more »
Announcing the new release Ashford for WordPress websites. Download Ashford v0.4 New page templates include a simple FAQ template and a sexy carousel landing page that does not take a Ph.D to implement Preview a pro blogger layout template which is NOT yet ready for use but will be in the next release Blog [...] Read more »
Ashford got a temporary color change to match the default colors of the new Superfish drop down menus. In the process, I refactored every page testing it against several child themes. There are a great deal of changes with this release so it is numbered v0.2. I expect to do a few more releases pre-version [...] Read more »
I am offering six free web packages to ministries that use Ashford as the theme for their web sites. I am happy to announce that I have 3 of the 6 organizations in the pipeline. In addition, I am fixing bugs that are reported. In this case, I was able to clean up some defects [...] Read more »
I am glad to announce that I added the first subtheme to Ashford in the release ready for download today. As I stated before, Wireframe is a “base” subtheme. Ashford is really a theme platform with plenty of premium features. The subthemes will allow you more options to customize your site than just changing background [...] Read more »
I am happy to announce the newest release of Ashford. Download it now! If you want to use Google Analytics to track metrics, you can now paste the your code snippet directly into the Theme Configurator. Ashford will automatically add this code to the bottom of each page and begin reporting data back to Google. [...] Read more »
I just released v0.1.2 for download. You can read the changelogs below. I also will be updating the code documentation with the new files. Readme v0.1.2 Readme v0.1.1 This release is worth trying out (as the code is less embarrassing), but here are the items on my near term road map: Removing [...] Read more »
I’m at work on v0.1.2 basically refining the theme as I build this web site using the theme. For the next few releases, I I will release updates on Tuesdays. One the the challenges that I’m facing is providing a great theme that looks good and can be easily used to run a web site. [...] Read more »