If you are a Gabfire client, then you know we frequently update our themes. Our clients knows how much we value them, and the effort we put into updating older themes with newer features.

NewsPro was our first theme released over three and half years ago. It has been updated several times since, and today, we have another great update for NewsPro users.

To keep it short, NewsPro has been completely revamped under the hood with re-written style files and integration of some of our newest features. This is great for NewsPro users who have been requesting a more optimized theme with the latest Gabfire framework. The latest update includes the following:

Updated theme framework giving you the option to use all the latest Gabfire widgets.

Category Templates – We have also received a lot of requests from our clients to implement category templates into NewsPro. Without touching any code, you can not define any of your category pages to be structured within 4 different formats:

• Default category archive [link]
• 2 column cat egory archive [link]
• Media category archive [link]
• Magazine category archive [link]

The update is available via your download link or the user dashboard. Go get the latest NewsPro and enhance your site.

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Just a quick one today. In our aim to continue bringing you more value and powerful themes, we’ve been busy on improving our most popular theme. On that note, Advanced Newspaper owners will be glad to see the following updates in version 2.1:

New and/or Relevant Updates:

• Theme control panel update
• Custom Query widget added
• Implementation of Fancybox slider
• Alternative inner-page gallery
• Improved presentation of overlay objects on media gallery via Fancybox
• Updated Gabfire-media function
• Permalinks for featured thumbnails
• Updated Facebook Like widget
• Timthumb script update

Bug Fixes / Adjustments:

• Tag-based inner-page slider fix
• Featured slider navigation fix
• Mid tabbed slider cleared after 4th post
• Loop-media custom taxonomy display fix

You can retrieve the latest version of the theme from your original download link. Go get it and send us your feedback on the forums. If you don’t own this theme, you can buy Advanced Newspaper here.

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One of our most popular and stable themes just took a giant leap forward. The Advanced Newspaper WordPress theme has been updated to version 2.0 and incorporates several new features based on customer feedback over the past year.

Advanced Newspaper 2.0

We promised to take Advanced Newspaper to the next level, and think it is now one of the best newspaper or magazine theme in the market. So here’s just some of the excellent features packed into the all new Advanced Newspaper theme:

Multiple Category Page Layouts

You loved the front-page, but asked for a more creative category page to capture the same feel of large newspaper sites. Well, how about 4 different possible layouts? That’s right! Your category page no longer needs to be a bland list of articles. You can select from the following layouts:

1. Default
2. Two-Column
3. Media
4. Magazine

We think this enhancement definitely differentiates Advanced Newspaper from other themes in the market. Now you can be proud to run an online newspaper or magazine that can match the look and functionality of more popular sites with much larger budgets.

Mid-Slider

Some of our customers asked for a a neat way to add more content and categories. We took that into account and revamped the mid-slider to include the ability to add more photos and categorical content.

Latest Framework Update

As part of this massive release, we updated Advanced Newspaper to the latest Source framework. This means you’ll now have even more options to . For example, there are Custom Post Types for Photo and Video, and many of the most common modules are available as custom Gabfire widgets. With all these updates, you have more flexibility to make your theme look and feel exactly as you envision.

Enhanced Navigation

Within this update we also took the opportunity to update our navigation and add in a neat overlay to engage readers. That’s in addition to the lightbox-like overlays you’ll find throughout the site for photo galleries and videos.

New Control Panel

With all these new options to play with, it was only right to equip Advanced Newspaper with a new control panel. With dozens and dozens of options to configure, you’ll find the theme control panel to be addictive. Just don’t let it distract you from writing great content.

Go Get It

If these changes peak your interest, then you need to go check out the demo or purchase the Advanced Newspaper theme. Every day your site is not online is another day you are not being found. Let Advanced Newspaper get your content front and center! This is one of the most popular and robust newspaper themes in the market. Go Get It!

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With the significant improvements introduced within our Source Framework, we have been working hard on transforming all our themes onto this excellent framework. The momentum continues today with one of our most popular themes – Blognews – being updated to the latest framework. Thousands of users are already taking advantage of Blognews and they’ll be happy to know that the update includes streamlined code, better organization, and excellent widgets to further enhance your site.

Here’s a short list of what you can expect with the latest version of Blognews theme:

Flexible Featured Slider

Using theme options panel, you can set most recent posts to display on featured slider or posts based on a category, specific user-defined tag, or custom field values.

Multiple Page Templates

Included are several custom page templates ready to use. For example, page templates include Blog, About, Media, and Services pages.

Gabfire Widgets

Continuing with the ease and flexibility motto, the theme also offers several Gabfire widgets which can be positioned throughout dozens of widgetized areas on the home page.

Buy it Now and Start Your Online Newspaper / Magazine

If you are already running Blognews, then feel free to download the updated version. However, if you are looking for the perfect theme to start an online newspaper or magazine, then look no further. Blognews comes equipped with everything you will need – just ask the thousands of users who use it for their sites. Now it’s even better and more powerful on the Source Framework. Take a look at the Blognews demo or purchase this amazing theme.

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In the interest of updating our themes to ensure you get access to the latest features, we have been busy updating the Transcript theme. The most noticeable updates are behind the scenes and will be seen in the new control panel. Here is a quick round-up of some of the exciting updates:

Framework

The theme has been updated to our latest framework which has already been introduced into the NewsPro and LinePress themes. Additionally, code has been optimized, and in some cases, completely re-written.

Theme Control Panel

Like our more recent themes, Transcript finally has the same theme options panel to easily configure your theme settings.

Inner-Page Slider

The inner-page slider automatically grabs all photos uploaded to a post and displays them in a neat format. It supports auto rotation, and can be enabled/disabled on theme control panel. With the latest update, you can even assign a tag to determine which posts display in that neat slider.

Improved Thumbnail Logic

Not only is the thumbnail logic more flexible, but it is also faster. You can set a thumbnail using WordPress’ built-in featured image functionality, setting a custom field, or setting the theme to use the first image in the body of the post.

Comments

The comment layout has been updated slightly for good measure.

Additional Enhancements

• Category Page Headline Posts
• Better Typography
• Ready-To-Use Gabfire Widgets
• Multi-Site Support (WPMU)

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Per our tweet and tease on the support forums yesterday, the NewsPro theme has been updated with some exciting new features. However, the most noticeable updates are under the hood, and can be seen in the back-end control panel. So here’s a quick round-up of the latest updates to one of the best newspaper themes in the market. (p.s. we love newspaper themes!)

Theme Control Panel

What about it? Well since our users loved the new options panel introduced into the ShowFolio theme, we decided to do the same with NewsPro. So check out the new options panel which is far more organized and contains several enhancements not available in previous versions of this theme.

Inner-Page Slider

You asked for a custom inner-page slider. Well, we delivered. See this post on the demo for a wonderful example. With the latest update, you can even assign a tag to determine which posts display that neat slider.

Gabfire Widgets

Want more flexibility from your theme? We integrated several widgets that can be used across the 26 widget areas / sidebars readily available in NewsPro theme. Put the following widgets anywhere you want on your site:

• About Us
• Archives
• Latest Twitter Tweets
• Flickr
• Most Recent Posts
• Most Recent Comments
• Social Icons
• Subscribe by Email (FeedBurner)

Check out the footer on the demo for some examples of these widgets.

Image / Thumbnail Management

To make your life easier, we’ve integrated powerful waterfall logic into the theme to handle all your image and thumbnails. You can set a featured image using WordPress’ built-in functionality, a custom field, or include it into the body of the post. And better yet, our sliders can display images based on a selected category or a tag which you can assign from the options panel. Plenty of thought and man-hours have gone into this major update, so get your copy of the best newspaper theme on the net.

Same Look, Improved Navigation Menu

You probably will not see any difference in the navigation menu, but it has been gutted and replaced with an entirely new and improved JavaScript menu that is faster and more flexible.

Category Page Headline Post

To add a creative twist to the standard category pages, a number of users requested a revamped category page that had a headline post. Browse the NewsPro demo, and check out this feature on the category pages. This is just one step towards custom category pages which we are working on for future enhancements.

Dozens of Theme Updates

To make NewsPro even more powerful and flexible for your online newspaper magazine or blog site, we have enhanced several additional features. Grab a copy of this excellent newspaper theme today and see for yourself what the buzz is about.

Feedback and Suggestions

Tell us what you think, or show your love for this theme, by purchasing it or providing more feedback. As you can see, we take users’ suggestions very seriously and constantly incorporate them into releases. Let us know what you think of the updates either here in the comments or on the support forums.

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It’s been only two weeks since we released Showfolio – our first theme of the new year – and we already have an awesome update for our users. Those lucky customers who are proud owners of Showfolio can download the latest update now.

Theme Options

New Theme Options framework. By far the most noticeable update is the sleek new options panel. Using Devin’s great work over at WPTheming which was inspired by WooThemes, we have integrated a new theme options panel which will surely be welcomed by our users. It’s been something on the to-do list for quite a while, and about time we got around to it. If you’re a Showfolio user, take a look by downloading the latest version. Here’s a sneak peek:

Also included in the latest version is Turkish Language translation file.

Using WordPress For A Portfolio

WordPress has moved beyond just a blogging platform, and is capable of taking on various roles. Showfolio is a perfect example of how a theme can be used to to showcase your work and maintain a blog all on one site. Using Showfolio, you can build just about any type of website, so do not limit yourself. We already have photographers, designers, developers, and artists using it as a great-looking portfolio, feature-rich blog, and flexible CMS. Find out what you can do with Showfolio.

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Then we promised. Now we deliver! We could have released this version of NewsPro Magazine as just another new theme from the NewsPro Magazine stable for a price. But we value our promise that we made to our customers in early 2010. Hence we’ve chosen to release the brand new theme as an update to the existing NewsPro Magazine theme, but with couple of new additions/features. In other words, our customers, who have purchased a copy of NewsPro Magazine in the past, could own the new theme as a free update from our server.

The new theme runs on Gabfire Framework, backed by SEO code for better search engine results, and a very user friendly theme settings page for easy use. Other notable features on the new version are the featured slider, gallery slider on the front page, and photo+video gallery modules. Further, like in our previously released themes, the current version also supports category based advertisements.

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We are excited to announce the release of WpNewspaper v1.5, an upgraded version of the extremely popular WpNewspaper template.

The new version received an Extended Theme settings page that will let you make all the customization and configuration you want in a flash. The multilevel drop down navigation makes page navigation a cake walk. WpNewspaper v1.5 also offers category-based ads support. So now you don’t need to scratch your brains or make any software customization to make your web page ad compliant.

More than anyone else, we understand the importance of being visible in search engine results. Hence the new template has been search engine optimized for all major search engines out there on the design table itself. You don’t need anymore tampering with the design/codes to make it search engine friendly. Finally, the Localization (gettext) support and enhanced site features make the WpNewspaper v1.5 a different beast altogether than the one you’ve already been used to.

We like to keep you guessing until the update circle is completed. There are few more dots to be connected before the final version hits the market in the next few weeks. For the time being, we are keeping it a secret. Check this space regularly for all the updates!

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Even at the onset of 2010, we knew that this is going to be a different year for us altogether. We could have build up one theme every month; but as we told before, we decided to revamp the structure of our old themes so as to make them more robust and user friendly.

With that said, while working on the update of Advanced Newspaper theme, we have made a decision to build our own framework and worked very hard to build a framework architecture that stands out.

Currently, we have updated Advanced Newspaper theme and Transcript theme, and here with this post, we also would like to let everyone know that we have blognews theme as well, built on our new and exciting framework architecture.

Being a firm believer that change only brings progress, we’ve made robust changes in backend at a code level, updated the theme control panel, and introduced a new slider which supports auto rotation, alongside including a multiple dropdown option with a support to new custom menus functionality of WordPress. Further, we’ve carefully re-defined the widget sections as well.

As a part of our framework, we implemented some other nice features such as,

• Category based advertisement
• Inner page slider, which auto grabs all uploaded photos and display them inside post similar to featured slider.
• A very nice attachment page to display photos in posts and to increase page view of your site.
• Video and Photo gallery pages
• An advanced theme control panel

We like changes, and we will keep surprising you in future with such exciting changes and addons for WordPress blogs and websites.

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