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  1. Custom Layout Manager (Like Sidebar and Menu Managers)

    Could be a plugin like sidebars were abstracted from the framework. We could create any number of 1,2 and 3 column layouts all with varying widths.

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    • Create RSS Feeds of a Themes Changelog

      Would be cool to be able to subscribe via RSS to a theme's changelog.

      I can imagine using google reader to keep up-to-date on all the themes I'm using across 40+ websites.

      I know there is a theme notification option in the the framework but I have to be logged in to the site, this would let us get notification without being loged in to a particular site.

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      • Crowdsourcing theme

        Whether it's raising money or awareness for ideas gamification to attract an audience to your brand is what's becoming popular.

        www.thunderclap.it do it perfectly without any commerce and it would be great to see woothemes having something similar.

        If the theme is there then I'm sure some extension developers could look at a crowdfunding element to complete the circle.

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        • Import and Export Theme Settings

          I would like to be able to export theme settings into an XML format and then be able to import them into another site running the same WooTheme. I find i'm often developing themes on one server then installing the theme on another only to realize I forgot about the theme settings.

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          • Whitelight Content Slider

            Add content capability to Whitelight's slider so that users can include more text - using the content instead of the excerpt, and allow extra formatting for the inclusion of shortcodes - for buttons links, such as "Read More".

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            • Continuity Program Management

              Marketers that offer a continuity program where a customer is enrolled in an auto ship program, need specialized tools for managing these programs and need to allow the customer to manage their own programs as well. Here are some features that would be extremely helpful in a plugin, or core functionality, to anyone offering this type of continuity program:

              Self-Service customer management interface allowing the customer to :
              1) Increase/decrease/add products to a continuity program
              2) change the billing date of the program or the date their credit card is charged.
              3) adjust the shipping date for the monthly recurring…

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              • Updating Journal theme for WooCommerce.

                I realize Journal theme is an older theme and hence isn't being updated beyond bugs and fixes but updating the theme to match any of the newer themes would improve its appeal. Journal is a great theme and the closest match to site's like The Daily Beast and other news sites and hence some publishers like myself have found it unmatched.

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                • testing lab for woothemes

                  time to get a testing lab for woothemes where you ensure old themes that you still support are working properly with the latest version of wordpress etc etc.

                  constantly fixing incompatibilities with custom css is becoming a bit of a nuance.

                  Feature pitch has such issues (the highlighted featured tab doesnt work with wordpress v 3 custom menus)

                  Inspire's mini-features show up, but only displays my icon and the title, not the text in the body of the mini-features.

                  the small things that count, and i'm sure there are many more such incompatibility issues or other bugs...

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                  • Video embed in Canvas Slider

                    To get the business slider to work more like the Simplicity slider where you can have video in a slide that actually looks like it's part of the layout rather than shoehorned in there...

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                      under review  ·  2 comments  ·  Components  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                    • Please create a Recording Studio Theme

                      I would like to see a theme oriented to recording studios. ie; about, all the social love; twitter feed facebook box etc and page for equipment, pricing ie; per hour all day etc.., contact There are a couple available on monstertemplates, but nothing good for wordpress.

                      3 votes
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                      • Featured Post widget

                        Create a generic version of portfolio widget that can be configured to pull other post-types (in given taxonomies etc).

                        This could be used on homepage/landing pages

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                        • Original Themes - Layouts

                          I feel like the majority of the themes released lately on here are very similar. The last few releases don't strike me as been very different from one another. Using canvas and a little tweeking I could have made anyone of them.

                          I vote to see some completely new layouts. Full screen image responsive. Or a visual builder for canvas (my favorite theme).

                          How about a parrallax scrolling theme. Maybe a mobile first design not just responsive.

                          How about a buddy press theme.

                          If I wanted 5 different repsonsive themes I would have just paid for them on themeforest.

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                          • Create a parallax theme

                            I know scrollider is «almost» a parallax theme, but I would love to have a true, fullscale parallax theme from you guys.

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                            • Fallback to default index.php if show_on_front is selected but page_on_front is equal to 0

                              If you are using static frontpage (`show_on_front`) in WordPress' setting, but `page_on_front` is not set, it is better to fall back to the `index.php` instead of the `template-blog.php`.

                              By doing so, you can have a separate url for blog, e.g. http://www.example.com/blog but still use the default theme's frontpage (index.php). Otherwise, if you leave out the `page_on_front` in the setting, the posts page is also used as the frontpage - so, http://www.example.com/blog & http://www.example.com is the same.

                              Code changes:

                              woo_load_posts_page_blog_template (functions/admin-functions.php )

                              From:

                              if ( 'page' == get_option( 'show_on_front' ) && ( '' != get_option( 'page_for_posts' ) ) && is_home() )…

                              3 votes
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                              • Remove deprecated function in shelflife

                                1.2.1

                                includes/theme-actions.php, L66. get_theme_data, it is deprecated

                                http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_theme_data

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                                  We are doing this on a per-theme basis, now that WordPress 3.5 has gained traction.

                                  The get_theme_data() calls in the theme-actions.php file aren’t used in the theme and will be removed.

                                • Theme Estate: Tutorial or option to take control of permalinks

                                  I bought the theme Estate with support. It is translatable and all options are available to change all the option I need, BUT: The permalink structure of the part where to put in the properties is not customizable, what makes the theme unusable for my German homepage.

                                  The terms in the permalink I need to change are:
                                  - property
                                  - propertytype
                                  - propertyfeatures
                                  - location

                                  I contacted the Woothemes Support (Maria Scrapello): No support for this, because it's "not just a few lines of code". For me it's a significant and basic feature of a theme to localize it and…

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                                  • Add support for colorpicker (and other) field types in woothemes_metabox_create_fields

                                    The woo_add_metaboxes allows you to add additional custom fields to post types. Unlike the general settings, there's no support for a colorpicker. (Or, for that matter, borders, fonts, and so on, all available now on the general settings when you extend those.) Since the code is already written in one part of the Framework, how about making it available in this other part of the Framework?

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                                    • Add Click and Pledge

                                      Add the payment gateway Click and Pledge which is a payment processor used by many non-profits.

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                                      • Content Layout Templates (Like Simplethemes)

                                        Simplethemes, in my opinion, is an inferior product to Woo but their quick page templates are fantastic for non coders. Interesting and full looking content layout is always the struggle once a site it built. These templates and possibly more extensive short code options would add big to Woo's content layout arsenal.

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                                        • Themes with full width / screen background slideshow

                                          Recently I had to do a job with very specific type of theme:

                                          www.nanonaglebirthplace.ie

                                          The request was for full width background slideshows on each page ( except for front page ). The client has seen this on many HOTEL sites:

                                          EG: http://www.aherlowhouse.ie/index.html

                                          I asked woo died they do themes like this, answer was no, not at this time. SO, unfortunately I had to go elsewhere and pony up. I ended up using this from Duotive. I have to say credit where credit uis due, an excellent theme:

                                          http://demo.duotive.org/duotive-5ive/

                                          I of course, would much prefer to have used or use in…

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