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Christmas is a time for good news only, so don’t get upset of all those phishing guys trying to vilify TemplateMonster.com reputation. Our Monster is unstoppable like Santa Claus! So we won’t stop (do you here us web Grinches?) rejoicing all of our customers or simply our friends with fresh premium quality designs! Ok, now let’s get straight to the point!
Today we’re happy for WordPress team and community. And TemplateMonster.com would like to congratulate WordPress key developers on their fresh release of WordPress version 2.9! The new version had over half a million downloads already! Want to know what’s so special about WP 2.9? A few of the headline features to be mentioned are global undo/trash, built-in image editor, batch upgrades, plugin compatibility checker, easier embeds and much more! You can read all about it and watch a handy intro video at a WordPress 2.9 Video Presentation!
What’s more, TemplateMonster.com is utterly excited to announce that we tried hard to do our best to make our WordPress themes compatible with new WP 2.9 version and yes! We did it! Now you can enjoy all the convenience of WordPress 2.9 with our high quality spectacular WordPress templates! Enough talking, for we guess you are in fever to try it out! Feel free to check out our amazing WordPress themes collection!
You may have heard that tomorrow will be the last day that the King of Pop will be in front of his dearest audience. There’s no way we could possibly stay aside from paying the last tribute to MJ the Great – please welcome our own little brick in the endless wall of the loving memories. The Michael Jackson WordPress theme we have produced was inspired by and is meant for sharing whatever the memories you may have, there are surely tons and tons of these memories.
Plus there’s a special price for this theme – we charge only $35 which is mostly the transaction and maintenance fees. In this way we strive to make it as affordable as possible and thus to attract maximum of you guys to keeping the good memories of Michael Jackson. Let’s just not forget that several generations of us were raised with his music on the background. So let his music live forever within each of us while we all will keep and share the memories.
Ok, here we go with the new Easter surprise for you. As we have mentioned on our blog earlier, we start the Easter giveaway. What we’re giving away this time is nothing but the beautiful Easter WordPress theme that we’ve designed and produced exclusively to please you guys on Easter. What’s also good about it is that it’s totally free and you may use it for your own purposes! The terms are as usually – use it for your own blogs, review it and praise it in all ways that you consider necessary 
Just make sure you don’t resell it and don’t include it into your design portfolios – it’s not very good to benefit from the free product this way, besides – it’s Easter time after all. So be righteous and use the theme wisely
Oh, one more thing! You can see this WordPress theme in action right now while you are reading this. We love the theme design so much we even decided to apply it to our corporate design for several days. Anyways, happy Easter to you and your families! Enjoy the theme!
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You have probably noticed the beautiful custom design for TemplateMonster’s corporate blog (the one you are reading at the moment). Well, it really is custom, made by the designers that we work with. And now this WordPress theme is available for regular purchases at TemplateMonster.
So in case you would like to customize your own blog with this particular Christmas WordPress theme (as we have in just two or three minutes) you may easily find it among other Christmas Templates or WordPress themes. Hurry up to use it right now – Holiday season is on fire!
Here are several technical recommendations for you considering how to use our WordPress themes for earlier versions of WordPress. The thing is that our themes are designed for WordPress 2.1 and if you want to use them for the older WordPress 2.0.x version here are several suggestions for you:
get_links_list() function has been changed to wp_list_bookmarks()
wp_list_bookmarks() is used for the links output from the bookmarks menu ( displays bookmarks found in the Bookmarks Management screen) and it’s not supported by the previous WP versions. Currently this function works only with Netscape and Mozilla but WP developers promise to make it cross-platform in the very near future.
If you want to convert the 2.1 version to the 2.0.x, you need to follow the instructions below:
1. If you’re not planning to use widgets in this theme you should:
1.1 open sidebar.php file in your folder with the theme
a) change the wp_list_bookmarks() for the get_links_list();
b) replace < ?php wp_list_categories('show_count=1&title_li=0'); ?> with < ?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&optioncount=1&hierarchical=0'); ?>
1.2 open header.php in your folder with the theme and delete < ?php language_attributes(); ?>
1.3 open searchform.php in your folder with the theme and delete < ?php the_search_query(); ?>
2. If you’re planning to use widgets in your theme you should:
2.1 open header.php in your folder with the theme and delete < ?php language_attributes(); ?>
2.2 open searchform.php in your folder with the theme and delete < ?php the_search_query(); ?>
2.3 open functions.php file and change the wp_list_bookmarks() for get_links_list();
Attention! The WordPress 2.1.1 version has recently been declared dangerous. The reason for this is that a security breech was created by a hacker. It was also determined that a hacker gained access to modify the download file. Fortunately, only the 2.1.1 was affected by the hacker, and not all of its downloads were corrupted.
Nevertheless, the entire version was announced to be dangerous and a new version, 2.1.2 was released. WordPress 2.1.2 does not differ from the previous version very much. It includes only minor changes and has completely verified files.
So you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately if you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days.
Read more in release – “WordPress 2.1.1 Dangerous, Upgradeâ€
You have probably heard that Word Press has released a new version 2.1. Template Monster is happy to keep up to date – We now offer our customers WordPress Themes for version 2.1. They are fully compatible with the system update and supportive of all new features which are:
- Autosave – makes sure you never lose a post again.
- New Tabbed Editor – allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post.
- The Lossless XML Import and Export makes it easy for you to move your content between WordPress blogs.
- The completely redone visual editor also now includes Spell Checking.
- A Redesigned login screen from the Shuttle project.
- WordPress Administration Panels have been refreshed to load faster and be more visually consistent.
- Better internationalization and support for right-to-left languages.
- Much more efficient database code, faster than previous versions.
- The Upload Manager lets you easily manage all your uploads pictures, video, and audio.
…and much, much more.
The new Word Press Themes begin with number #13773. For websites using the older versions of Word Press we will still offer templates compatible with the older system, even while we offer the updated models. If you want to optimize our WP 2.1 themes for 2.0.x version use the instructions.
Learn more about Word Press 2.1
Yes, Halloween is almost here. Time to make ready for that haunting time of year. Don’t ignore your Gothic and Demonic clients or visitors. Template Monster designers present four wicked templates – 3 Flash Webpage Templates and 1 Wordpress Theme – just for your ghouls and goblins.
Flash Template #9644
Let the Witch or Warlock in your life feel like a Vampire with one of these Templates. Remember, each template is designed under esthetic encantations, approved by Ghosts, validated in black of night, for the dead and undead.
The Monstrous Template Team
We have received some complaints since posting “More on WordPress Themes – Why They Work So Wellâ€. We have taken these complaints seriously, so we tested all of our WordPress Themes with each version of WordPress higher than 2.0.1 and all of them are working perfectly with each version. We appreciate the opinions of our customers and thank Michael personally.
I would add that if you have problems in the future you should contact esupport.template-help.com. by way of the ticket system, and you will receive professional help.
As a sequel to the last announcement Template Monster again wants to thank the buyers of our WordPress Themes. Last week we shared some of the responses our customers have sent about WordPress Themes that they have bought. We want to make sure to mention some more of these customers and print their comments as well.
Marc Navarro says, “A friend of mine has a small advertising agency. He showed me your templates, and in fact their website is done using TM products. . .I use it for commercial purposes. The reason to use WordPress is because the system is supposed to be much more simple to maintain than flash or html based websites. . . I prefer Wordpress. . .in my opinion, it’s better than blogger as it offers more possibilities.â€
Corey G says, “I found your website using a search engine, keywords -website templates. . .I bought your WordPress designs because they are nice and I use them for mostly private purposes. I’ve tried Word Press, and blogger.com for about 4 months. Word Press is my favorite so far.â€
Please remember Template Monster wants customer satisfaction. If you have any problems with your WordPress Theme contact marketing@templatemonster.com for an updated and widget supporting version of your template.
The Template Monster Team
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