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Second Anniversary Sale & Giveaways

2nd anniversary

Tomorrow marks another fantastic year for Themify — it is our second aniversary! We would like to thank everyone for supporting Themify. To celebrate this big day, we are having a HUGE sale and giveaways. From today to next Monday August 13, 2012, we are running a 50% sale off all themes and club memberships. That is $34.50 to join our Standard Club (normally $69) to get all themes or $19.50 to get any 2 Standard themes. Enter coupon code 'happy2' on the sign up form to redeem the discount. This promotion also applies to the existing members, so this is a good time to stock up more themes. Hurry, sale like this only happens once in a year.

The Giveaway

For those who have never tried our themes, here is a good opportunity to get our themes and club memberships for free. Just tweet a message for us and paste your tweet URL in this post to enter the draw. We will randomly select 5 winners to receive any 2 Developer themes and 3 winners to get one year of free Developer Club membership.

How to enter the giveaway:

  • Follow @themify on Twitter if you haven't done so (optional)
  • Then tweet the following message (copy exactly):

    Themify is running a 50% sale to celebrate their second year anniversary. Don't miss it: http://bit.ly/QL1wCf

  • And then paste your tweet url in this blog post (you can get the url of your tweet by clicking on the date/time stamp of your tweet on the Twitter.com site)
  • Contest ends on Aug 14, 2012. Good luck everyone!

Hiring: Theme Support

We have a theme support position open. The support team mainly responsible for the forum support and theme updates. The right candidate must have good written communication skills, familiar with WordPress backend admin and strong CSS knowledge. Having experience with our themes and framework is a plus. This is a part time position where you can work remotely.

To apply: please email your resume along with your hourly rate to jobs @ themify.me or send via our contact form.

Fullscreen Gallery Theme

Please welcome our first theme designed by our developer Elio Rivero - Fullscreen (demo). It started with a simple discussion about fullscreen galleries and Elio suggested to take responsibility to design it. We agreed to it because we thought it would be fun to have a theme designed from a developer's perspective. After hours and hours of hard work and collaboration, Fullscreen turned out to be a gorgeous photo gallery theme. The entire process was very fun and we are extremely happy with the outcome. It is the best responsive theme to showcase your photos in a complete fullscreen mode.

Get this theme at a discounted price: use the coupon code "fullscreen" to save 30% off this theme until Jul 31, 2012.

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National Day Sale

Happy Canada Day to all Canadian visitors. Also, we would like to send an early happy Independence Day to the US visitors. For those who don't know about the national day in North America, July 1st is Canada Day and July 4th is Independence Day. To celebrate this holiday, we are running a sale from today to 4th of July. Enter "nationalday" coupon code on checkout to save 30% off any theme or Club Membership.

Pinterest Inspired Theme: Pinboard

Big fan of Pinterest? You've got to love this new theme we have to offer - Pinboard. It features an auto stacking layout with infinite scroll as seen on the Pinterest desktop site. If you are unfamilar with the term "infinite scroll", it means that new posts are loaded automatically when you hit to the bottom of the page. The stacking layout works perfectly and responsively on any resolution (both desktop or mobile devices such as iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, and Android). Check our demo and resize your browser window to see how the layout adapts.

Wanna grab this theme at a discounted price? Use the coupon code "pinboard" to save 30% off this theme until Jun 29, 2012.

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Themify Framework Updated to 1.1.6

We've been working very hard on improving the Themify framework. For those who are not a big fan of TimThumb, we have a good news in this latest release. Now you can use the WordPress generated thumbnails for the post image instead of the TimThumb script with our themes. Below are the details about this update.

WordPress Feature Image

Themify themes uses WordThumb (similar to TimThumb script) to generate thumbnail images with different dimensions on the fly. However, some users are unable to use the image script due to server compatibility. Users have always been able to disable the image script via the theme option panel, but then images have to be manually cropped before uploading to the server which can be an inconvenience for some users. For this reason, we enhanced our framework to allow you to select the thumbnails that are generated with WordPress. With the new version, once the image script is disabled, a dropdown will be available for you to choose which image size to use. The image sizes (thumbnail, medium, large) can be set at WordPress Media Settings. In other words, you can specify 250 x 250px medium size to be used in the archive pages and 560 x 300px large size for single post page.

image size selection

Regenerate Thumbnails

We've also integrated a regenerate thumbnails feature in the framework. The regenerate thumbnails allows you to re-generate a new set of thumbnails that are already uploaded to the blog. This tool is useful if you've changed any of the thumbnail dimensions on the Media Settings page.

Post Image Migrator

In this new framework version, the post image uploaded via the Themify Custom Panel will be attached to the post and set as the WordPress Featured Image automatically. For those who are using the older versions where a custom field was used to handle the post image, you can use the Post Image Migrator to convert the Post Image custom field to WordPress Featured Image.

Shortcode Button

Along with many new parameters added to the shortcodes, we've added a shortcode button on the editor to make inserting shortcodes easier and faster. Now you can specify the shortcode parameters using the visual dialog box.

image size selection

Detail Changelogs

For more details on this release, please read the changelogs.

Shopo: A New Ecommerce Theme

Please welcome our third ecommerce theme, Shopo. It is designed for larger shops with large selection of products. It has many promotional areas: duel navigations in the header, welcome message, feature slider and product slider. Functionality wise, it is similar to the other two ecommerce themes that we have: MinShop and ShopDock. Unlike the traditional shopping cart experience, the ajax shopping cart built in this theme allows your customers to add/remove items from the cart without redirecting the page. And of course it is responsive! The layout automatically adapts to user's viewport area beautifully. It works on desktop and mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, and Android.

As usual we are offering a 30% disount code for this new theme. Use the coupon code "shopo" for a 30% discount off this theme until May 31, 2012.

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Showcase Your Sites on Themify

We at Themify are proud of the recent growing up experienced. It's all thanks to you, our valuable customers and your support. That's why we are always looking for more ways to give you something back.

Today, we're launching Showcase, a new section on Themify where you will be able to submit your sites, gain exposure and why not, show off the result of your hard work. We invite you to explore the current selection of sites, check the original site, and then to submit yours, mentioning the Themify theme you used on your site.

Themify showcase

Minshop Release

After the great success of our popular ecommerce theme, ShopDock, we are happy to announce our second ecommerce theme release - MinShop (view demo). This theme features an Ajax shopping cart where buyers can add or remove items with a single click without reloading or redirecting the page. This simplifies and enhances the shopping experience. It also includes a large panel slider and a product slider where you can feature your products. In term of design, it is simple and minimimal that is suitable for any general shop. It can be easily customized with our theme option panel. Not to mention it is a responsive theme. What is responsive theme? Basically, it means the layout is automatically adapted to any resolution on any device whether desktop or mobile such as iPhone, iPad, Andriod, and Blackberry.

We are offering 30% disount code for this new theme. Use the coupon code "minshop" for a 30% discount off this theme until April 20, 2012.

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Easter Holiday Sale

The Themify team would like to wish everybody a happy Easter and safe long weekend. As usual, we have sweet deals for special occassions like Easter. We are running a long weekend sale starting today until next Monday April 9, 2012. Enter "easter" to save 30% off all themes and club memberships.

Easter sale