The next update is Finally out. Still have to finish the documentation on the new features. Remember this is a FREE update for everyone who has already purchased the Templateer.
The biggest improvement and the most time consuming was to integrate the Templateer Advanced Options into the Artisteer Theme Options. Now the options are all in one place and categorized so that things are easier to find. Here is the standard Artisteer theme options.
The clickable logo now uses the WP media uploader and you get to see a preview…
The ad shortcodes now show a preview of your ad code…
You can now use a standard page as your 404 error page. Just create a new page and then select it from the dropdown…
The Simple FAQ can now have all of its style parameters customized…
The Read More (or continue) link can contain text of your choice, an image of you choice or a button using your themes default button style…
A new author page. You have the choice to use a new author page that will show the author bio and avatar plus the titles with links to all of the authors posts…
Three new cool shortcodes. One to add a snapshot of any website, another shortcode that will place a single post (either full content or excerpt) into another post or page and finally a shortcode to add any sidebar into the content of a page or post.
A custom sidebar generator. Now you can make as many sidebars as you want and use the sidebar shortcode above to place in a post…
But wait, what good would a sidebar generator do if you couldn’t do something special with it. Now you can substitute whatever sidebar you want for the Primary and Secondary sidebars for any page/post…
Here’s an example of a page made with the new Sidebar As Content page template.
Here’s the page template options for the Sidebar As Content page template…
Sometimes you don’t want the Top and Bottom sidebars to be on every page by default. Now you can turn them off by default and choose when to turn them on…
There is also a new option to use a
different custom menu on any page/post.
The custom header feature on each page/post now uses the WP media loader so uploading images is easy and you get to see a preview of what’s going to be shown on that page…
The custom page/post background also has an image uploader and preview of the background in use…
Below are some additional features added on 07/12/12 (TT v3.1.215)…
Top & Bottom Widget Areas
Control the Top and Bottom widget areas. Normally you can not control the top/bottom widget areas on the index, archive, author 404 or search pages because these pages are fixed, hard coded pages. But now you can now turn these areas off and position them to span the entire sidebar/content width.
Custom Post Types
Custom post types are a great feature but Artisteer doesn’t make a provision for the Theme Options meta boxes to appear except on standard pages and posts. Now all custom post types will have the standard Artisteer Theme Options plus you can specify which custom post types will have the Templateer custom header and sidebar meta boxes…
