All of our themes now have built-in support WordPress 3.0 menus and are available for download at your PageLines LaunchPad account. A fresh menu may have to be applied initially to get the main navigation updated, but here’s a look at what you get with the new menus.

Goodbye Plug-ins

3.0 menus are going to replace the need for plug-ins like “Exclude Pages” and “My Page Order” which modified the code to achieve custom navigation solutions. Here’s what WordPress states in the codex about the new feature…

“The Menus feature allows you to create a navigation menu of pages, categories, custom links, tags, etc. that is presented to your visitors.”

Custom Menus on the Fly

You’ll also be able to drag and drop items into the desired order/hierarchy, create multiple menus and even link to specific posts as needed.

We have created three locations for you to use these menus right out of the gate. The main navigation and two footer locations, one for the default Pages widget and one for the Stay in Touch widget.

You also get to add one of your custom menus to any other widgetized area via the widgets panel!

Some of the new features to look forward to:

Design Options

• New Cufon Font Replacement
• Meta Bar and Text Color Options
• New Individual Page Color Options

Sidebar and Widget Options

• Left Sidebar Page Option
• 3 Additional Widgetized Areas (lets you put widgets practically anywhere you want.)
• Multiple Sidebars for More Flexibility
• New 5-column footer

More Page Template Options

• New carousel templates with FlickRSS, NextGen Gallery, or post thumbnail links
• Full Width OR Standard Page Carousel Template
• More options for handling excerpts, thumbnails, author bios, the welcome message, and sub-navigation

Feature Slider and Fboxes

• Shortcode ready feature slider and fboxes
• Add Feature Boxes and Slides with Just One Click
• Option to Display Thumbs, Numbers, or Names in the Slider Nav

We appreciate all that our affiliates do for us. To recognize this dedication we are upgrading our affiliate system to give our affiliates the tools they need to succeed.  This is why we are moving to the ShareASale affiliate network and encourage all of you to join us there.

As a part of the PageLines team on ShareASale you will enjoy robust tracking, on-time payments, great customer support, and much more.

In conjunction with this move we are going to step up our effort to get our affiliates off the ground by offering:

• • 33% commission
• • lifetime cookies
• • better tracking and support
• • bonus incentives each month
• • data feeds & analytics

If you don’t have an account with ShareASale already, the sign up process is simple. Visit the PageLines Affiliate Page on the ShareASale site:

PageLines Affiliate Sign-up

-The PageLines Team

The WhiteHousePro theme just got a major upgrade! We’ve added the new and improved PageLines framework, which means more page templates and sidebars, a more intuitive interface, and improved overall flexibility of this professional CMS theme. We also improved a lot of graphical elements and tightened up the look and feel.

With the new version you can now use your feature slider above your posts page. You can also use the feature boxes on any page you like. This sort of flexibility is just small taste of the major improvements we’ve made for WhiteHousePro 3.

Some of the new features to look forward to:

Design Options

• Cufon Font Replacement
• More text color options
• Global AND individual page color options

Sidebar and Widget Options

• Left sidebar option
• 3 additional widgetized areas lets you put widgets practically anywhere you want.
• More sidebars giving you different sidebar options for certain pages.
• New 5-column footer

More Page Template Options

• New carousel templates with FlickRSS, NextGen Gallery, or post thumbnail links
• Full width carousel template
• More options for handling excerpts, thumbnails, author bios, the welcome message, and sub-navigation

Feature Slider and Fboxes

• Shortcode ready feature slider and fboxes
• Ability to easily add more feature boxes and slides with one click
• Feature slider navigation options (display number, name, or thumb)

We are really excited about this release and as always can’t wait to see what you do with it.

This video quickly covers how to force the social media icons in the header to open in a new browser window or tab. Generally speaking you can force any link to open in a new window by adding target="_blank" inside of the link tag like so:

Creating a custom login logo is a very simple task and will give the appearance of a customized content management system created just for your client.

Update: Using the method outlined below will work great, however, when you update wordpress you (or your client) will have to redo these steps. Using a plug-in like this one can solve the problem.

Step 1:

Create an image called logo-login.gif that is approximately 310px by 70px.

Step 2:

Use an ftp client to replace the current image located in the wp-admin > images folder.

Step 3:

Refresh your browser; You now have a customized login page perfect for impressing clients!

Bonus:

You can follow a similar protocol to replace the WordPress Dashboard logo; replace the wp-logo.gif image and make your image approximately 30px by 30px.

This video will show you how to create navigation items that link to category specific blog pages so you can separate content with more flexibility.

The new and improved iBlogPro4 is here with new features and options designed to improve ease of use. Why all the changes? Because we listened to what you had to say about iBlogPro3 and took action!

Using the new PageLines core framework we’ve added more page templates, page specific options and much more so that making a fully customizable and professional website is at your fingertips. Here is a short overview of some of the changes:

• New Footer —with 5 columns
• Page Templates—including a left sidebar option
• Color Options—a new darker nav and added hexidecimal color options
• New Widgetized Areas—like a full-width area above the footer
• Shortcode Ready—Perfect for advanced slider customization
• and more…

New Footer: This footer is replacing the minimal one line footer from past versions with a fully widgetized footer perfect for listing pages, links, archives and copyright information.

New Shortcode Library & Feature Slider Thumbs: The new slider has added shortcode functionality that allows you to display dynamic content like a google map. Additionally, the feature slider navigation numbers can now be replaced with either thumbnails (pictured) or with the title of the slider.

Note: You can download the full pdf version of each here: Visual Layout Maps

Today we wanted to take a minute to introduce our new theme: EcoPro. Likely most of you have already heard about EcoPro, but we wanted to make sure that everyone knows about the improvements we’ve been making and what’s special about the release of EcoPro.

Its been a few months since our last theme: StationPro. In order to keep the quality of our products at the highest level we’ve been hard at work creating new templates, tools  and a new system for managing options/features.

New Highlight Page Template:

The coolest thing about EcoPro is that on top of all-new functionality we are giving 10% of every sale to protecting and maintaining the environment.

Some new features:

• Custom Widgets We’ve added some of our own widgets
• Shortcode Library You can now use shortcodes to add flexibility and functionality
• Carousel Features NextGen and Thumbnail options added.
• New Sidebars More widgetized page areas for your convenience
• Tons of new Page/Post options Too many to list!

New Theme Admin & Options: