Did you know you can password protect any page or post in WordPress?
Just look over to the right as you edit any page. Under the Publishing area, you will see a section for “Visibility”.
Simply select “Password protected” and choose a password.
The content of the page will now be hidden unless you know the password.
As of tonight, we have a great new feature that is requested often… Full screen video home pages!
You can now choose whether to use the slideshow of images, like all sites have had up until now, or replace that whole area with a video.
Simply login and visit “BlogSite Options->Home Page Options”. Select which option you want and paste and embed code from Vimeo, YouTube or any other site. You will want to customize the code as you grab it and make it 1000px wide.
We recommend using the “New” embed codes offered by Vimeo or YouTube. Why? Because they will automatically provide replacement versions for mobile, iPhone and iPad. If you use the “old” versions you only get a flash player that will be unwatchable on some devices.
How do you know what the “old” or “new” emded codes are? They will ask as you grab the code from the site, but generally the “old” codes start with the word “embed” or “object”. The “New” codes start with “iframe”.
Did you know there are lots of ways to add video to anywhere on your site, including a full page video?
Here is an example from our Latte Demo (view on live site):
You can add a smaller video to the side of any page (where the thumbnail image would normally go).
You can add video or any other embedded media anywhere in the middle of your normal page content with the embed shortcode.
There are lots of options, all of them spelled out on our “Adding Video” page on the support site.
Based on the feedback received from our clients, we’ve added some new treats to Latte (soon coming to the rest of our themes). Latte now has the ability to add or remove both your twitter feed and your blog feed. You can also name your blog feed whatever you want, brand it…if you will. This is Latte with both feeds turned off:
This is Latte with both feeds on:
We also added a slew of backgrounds to the Latte and will soon add them to the rest of our themes. So many to choose from, or you can add your own, or a color…endless possibilities. Have fun playing!
One of the most popular requests we have had since before we even launched is the addition of fullscreen image galleries. To see beautiful images fill an entire screen makes them that much more impressive. Until now the common belief was that only Flash is capable of this. Not true. Not anymore.
As part of the development for our newest theme (soon to be released) we thought it would make sense to develop the full screen galleries as well. It is hard to do them justice in a small blog post so we have added the full screen galleries to all of our theme demos…
There are two new shortcodes to use with the galleries. Previously to display a single gallery, you would use the shortcode “seo_gallery”. Now just use “seo_fullscreen” like this:
seo_fullscreen category="categoryname" gallery="galleryname"
Or to automatically display all galleries on a portfolio page, you can keep using “seo_album” but tell it to use the full screen display, like this…
seo_album display="fullscreen"
Remember to place those codes between brackets [shortcode goes here]. Unfortunatley, I can’t type out the exact example or it will try to place a gallery here.
We love hearing from you! We received an overwhelming amount of requests to bring back our Lifetime Membership offer. So that is exactly what we are going to do. It will be for a limited time only, but not to worry, we’ll give you plenty of warning before the offer ends.
We’ve also extended our 7-day free trial period to 14 days. Again, we’ve heard you and want to make sure our clients have enough time to really try out our sites before purchasing. Keep the feedback coming.
