WordPress 2.6 (Tyner) is out, which means it’s time for a round of WordPress theme and plugin updates.
I’ve updated two plugins and two themes:
- Cleaner Gallery plugin – Download
- Get the Image plugin – Download
- Options theme – Download
- Structure theme – Download
Please note these are WordPress 2.6-only upgrades. Downloading these for previous versions of WordPress may break your blog.
Continue reading to see which files you should definitely update if you’re using the Structure or Options themes. You might want to clear your browser’s cache or download history if you’ve recently downloaded one of the themes to be sure you get the latest version.
Options theme changes
Here’s the changelog for version 1.2.1.
Critical update files
I advise you to update these files if you are running WordPress 2.6.
/app/get-the-image.php/includes/gallery-stream.php/widgets/gallery-stream.php
Enhancements
These are not necessary, but will allow you to set your default avatars from the admin panel, which is a WordPress 2.6 feature. Also, comments.php is ready for the Subscribe To Comments plugin (valid XHTML fix).
comments.phpsingle.phpauthor.php
Version changes
These aren’t necessary, but will help you keep track of what version of the theme you’re using.
style.cssreadme.txtfunctions.php
Structure theme changes
Here’s the changelog for version 1.2.1.
Critical update files
You should update these files for WordPress 2.6 compatibility.
/app/get-the-image.php
Enhancements
The enhancements let you control your avatars from the WordPress admin. Also, comments.php is ready for the Subscribe To Comments plugin.
comments.phpauthor.php
Version changes
These files will allow you to keep up with what version of the theme you’re using but are not necessary.
style.cssreadme.txtheader.php
Now, you can safely upgrade!
Most of the critical upgrade theme files here are only critical if you’re using certain features. I always advise users to stay updated on the software, plugins, and themes they’re using.
Feel free to stop by the forums if you need help or experience any problems. See the changelog files if you’ve made major changes to that file and need to manually upgrade.
Now, as soon as bbPress updates, I’ll be able to update my own WordPress install.
Wow! That was fast!!!
Thanks!
I will try it right now
Dear Justin,
I just wanna send you a line saying that you keep impressing me! Impressing me with your high level of service and support, guidelines with a very high degree of userfriendliness, your professionalism in what you do and last but not least your dedication towards development and being a huge inspiration.
My upgrade of both WordPress 2.6 and Options 1.2.1 just now went smoothly and, of course, error free.
Many thanks Justin!
Hi Justin,
thanks for the fast changes for 2.6
I updated options theme manually.
Your changelog instructions were great.
Matthias
Nice how you stay on top of your themes. Thanxs for your hard work. Your themes are as good (if not better), than many premium fee-based themes.
Good work!
Awesome Justin Thank you very much for keeping the “premium” free market flowing. I have 3 sites running it now and still find new features. The only thing that makes a good theme is support and updates, and I await M with great anticipation.
Thanks!
Dear Justin! That’s really fast & good enough Updates! I’m always thanking you for all of your efforts!
Go ahead!
Great news, I wasn’t expecting it to be released this early. I was just wondering though why you’re holdind back on your upgrade? What does it have to do with BBpress?
Hi Justin,
Great! But, I only got the news of WP 2.6 release on my Dashboard release. WP2.5.1 didn’t notify me to update.
Your change log instruction is nice. Someone can only upload only the modified files instead of overwriting all the files. Error free upgrading.
So do you mean that WP2.6 is not compatible the current bbPress version?
All updated here with only 1 wp/plugin related incident!
I really liked the way you laid out just the changed files and their order of importance. Uploading those files only made my Options upgrade so much easier since I have made some changes to a few core files, only 1 of which was affected by your update.
Hey Justin
The Theme doesnt handle the captain tag on the main page if its at the top of the post.
It appears that there is a new way of inserting images into a post. and it wraps a captain tag around the image, its also not applying the float left and right but they might be problems for wordpress to sort
but the caption tag, is appearing on the main page excerpt as code almost, any idea what this might be ? just insert an image at the top of a blog post and save up and look to see on your main page what i mean
Guillermo
Well, I made the changes weeks ago, but my copy is the development versions. It just took me about an hour to apply the changes and test them with the latest release versions.
Reinar Svendsen
You’re welcome!
I’m glad everything went smoothly for you. I’m always so eager to upgrade my WordPress, but I’m sadly awaiting a bbPress upgrade because WordPress 2.6 changed the cookie settings, which makes some user login stuff incompatible.
Matthias
Glad you got it going. I tried to keep the changelog informative enough for everyone to manually upgrade. They could’ve been better, but I wanted to go ahead and get the releases out.
Missy
I find it’s better to go ahead and stay with the flow of everything. Even if I had to take a little time out of my planned schedule, it was worth it to go ahead and fix some incompatibilites.
MhawSayar
I assume everything went smoothly for you then.
Jylan Wynne
My forums run on bbPress and there are some cookie problems between the two systems. I’d rather give it a few days than have to deal with the possible headaches involved.
J Mehmett
I hope to make these types of updates more common. It was the reason for the huge changes in both Structure and Options 1.2. I had cleared out all the code to make it as easy to upgrade as possible.
Versions 1.3 of both themes should be relatively headache free once I get them rolled out.
The bbPress problems seem to be with WordPress’ new cookie system. I believe it’s a minor issue though. I think they’ll get a quick release out soon. Here’s the forum thread about it.
Raimy
Most of the core files will probably only ever undergo minor changes, which will make updating the theme very easy.
I also hope to have some kind of newsletter or something with my upcoming site to let users know when there are updates.
Aidan Cufe
Both themes seem to be handling the caption tag fine for me as you’ve described. I added no additional styling for the caption tags but will in the next update. I felt this was pretty minor and most users usually change their stylesheets quite a bit.
If you have problems, feel free to stop by the forums and link to the page, so we can see what’s happening.
I actually upgraded to 2.6 even though I’ve just started a forum, and the login works. According to the threads that I read about it its because of a few lines of code in the wp-config.php file. You can see what I mean in the wordpress integration settings in bbpress.
I had these in already as I was having problems logging in to both when setting the forum up.
Justin, you are the man. I’ve worked with several premium WP themes, but was amazed by the Options theme. Thanks for the quick fixes for 2.6 version.
I setup it up for a reggae band and they love it.
Hi Justin,
Thanks for the great theme – just did my upgrade – took less than 10 minutes and all works perfectly!
Thanks
Grant.
Jylan Wynne
Hmm…My local setup just started working correctly yesterday. Logins seem to be working well if I login into bbPress first, which is what most of my users would do anyway. I wasn’t having any success before.
I’m also running a third piece of software that has an effect on logins too (a secret part of my upcoming Project M).
I might give it an upgrade this weekend because it doesn’t look like bbPress will be updated soon.
Sterling Okura
No problem. Sometimes, it’s easy for me to forget these things because I’m always working with the latest versions of WordPress, but I remember the image script issues popping up a while back.
The reggae band site is cool. I was listening to the two songs in the sidebar over and over last night as I was coding some things.
Grant
Cool. I’m glad all is well. I think this may be the only upgrade I’ve ever done without a hitch.
Hi Justin,
Great work! I really love your Options theme, I use it on all my websites.
I have a problem though:
On the old Wordpress websites I had it on (version 2.5), when I upgraded Wordpress I had no problem.
Last day, I built a new website, and pushed Wordpress 2.6 directly there.
Now my Popularity contest plugin does not want to activate on this website ONLY. I tried the different solutions offered on the support forums I found, but it still doesn’t work.
Do you have any idea why this does not work anymore? I wanted to give you a “heads up” because I suspect many more will have this problem in the near future.
Now I don’t want to look like I ask you to find a solution or patch the plugin for me — I’ll surely manage without. But could you think about offering more options for popularity plugins? Is there any other?
By the way, when I activate the plugin it says:
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Thanks a lot for this great theme! You are great!
Hi I Just Installed Wordpress and Using Options Theme. this is My site http://downloadhindisongsmp3.com but here Came Problem I’m Unable to Setup Feature Gallery. Dont Know Why i Tried Everything u Shows in Forum and Documentation … Please Suggest me How Can I Fix It…
Regards
Burhan
i love you man
I uploaded your template to my themes folder however the thumbnails for the themes won’t show up. Has anyone had this happen to them?
Troy
You should go to the support forums if you need help.