One of the major and most powerful differences between ThemeStarta and other visual or WYSIWYG platforms is that the theme creation process all happens through the plugin, leaving your designs as regular independent themes that are easy to reuse over and over again. Other visual or WYSIWYG platforms basically take the approach that you install your theme on a particular site, then modify its appearance through various options panels to suit the site you’re installed on. ThemeStarta...
As you can see, there's a lot going on at PlanetStarta right now! This is a major announcement and there's a lot you're gonna want to know about, so grab a cup of coffee and sit back while I fill you in on: The new evolution of PlanetStarta - The PlanetStarta Club: Including the Theme Club, Developer Club and Enterprise Club The new PlanetStarta Club Forums: Including PlanetStarta Club Offers, Member Showcase and Private Club Rooms But before I talk about the new evolution, let's...
UPGRADING? Download 2.3 from your Member Dash. Upgrading from 2.2 ThemeStarta Editor / 1.2 ThemeStarta Framework If you are upgrading from 2.2 to 2.3, you can follow the "Minor Update" process here: http://www.planetstarta.com/tutorials/upgrading-themestarta/ Please note however, there are two fields that have had their position in the editor altered: the site width and top spacing field. Hence, during upgrade they may default to 960px site width and 0 top spacing, so please check...
Gabriel Collignon, another exceptionally talented ThemeStarta user, shows excellent design skills in his creation of this custom theme for pizza restaurant "Pizza Happy". Brilliant use of color, background imagery and slideshows come together to make this site highly professional and very compelling - I know I for one feel hungry now!
Jesus Fonte is a fantastic PlanetStarta Member who, like many, had very limited experience creating WordPress themes before starting out as a ThemeStarta user. He is now more than capable not only of producing high end themes, but of offering his excellent design and consultancy services to others. His own consultant service website is a showcase in itself of the design skills he has acquired using ThemeStarta:
Take a look at this wonderfully elegant, clean theme design by PlanetStarta Member Carol, for a fashion and jewelry store:
As you read in the announcement for ThemeStarta 2.2, upgrading a theme to work with the new version requires our major update process where you take a fresh version of the ThemeStarta Framework and import your settings into it. In short, to use the newest ThemeStarta your theme must also be built on the newest ThemeStarta Framework, version 1.2. Accordingly, if you want to use ThemeStarta 2.2 on any other theme you'll need to ensure its framework it up to date. We are currently going through...
We know that everyone is going to be over the moon with this announcement... ThemeStarta Now Mobile Ready! As of ThemeStarta Version 2.2 creating mobile friendly responsive themes is a walk in the park. Just switch "Responsive Settings" to "Enable" in this new settings area under ThemeStarta Options:
With the release of WordPress 3.4 a lot of awesome new things are happening! The new official Theme Customizer is now available to all, and we have accordingly been able to upgrade the support code written into themes by ThemeStarta. Now, instead of just the old deprecated functions 3.3.x required to add header and background customizer tools to the admin panel, your theme will check that your user is running 3.4 or above and will use the new and up to date "add_theme_support"...
Sean Lowery, PlanetStarta Member and supremely talented designer of MSG - Minisite Graphics fame, has just released two five-pack bundles of ThemeStarta Framework based offline & mobile WordPress themes and they are all absolutely stunning! Here at PlanetStarta we can't quite decide what we're more excited about: 1. How amazing these themes look and how well they are working for their customers, one of whom generated $12,500 in income from a website creation client within two days of purchase, or...
We have just opened up a brand new special over at the Warrior Forum on an Extended License for the StoreStarta theme and plugin bundle. If you don't yet have StoreStarta, now's the time to grab it as this is a spectacular limited time deal: SEE THE SPECIAL NOW. For anyone that grabs this special, you'll also then be given the opportunity grab two extra StoreStarta themes, also for a phenomenal discount with Extended Licenses for both. The two extra themes are our brand new SalesPage Starta,...
Head to your Member Dash to download version 2.1.1 Thanks very much to the Member who let us know there was a small bug in the block stacking function of version 2.1. We've just uploaded a fix for this bug so please head to the Member Dash asap to grab the updated version. It just so happens that we also had an extra new feature already built in to ThemeStarta which we were about to release in the next few days, so you'll all be happy to get a hold of it early! You may have heard some of...
StoreStarta owners will be very happy to hear that the new 1.1 plugin and theme versions have just been released, and are now available for download in your Member Dashboard. For those that don't yet own it, hang tight for a day or two as we have a super dooper special coming up - details to follow. Along with a heap of new features, the StoreStarta settings interface has also been updated in keeping with our new extra user friendly interface design style: The list of newly available...
There's a new version of ThemeStarta on the block and it's awesome! Head to your Member Dash to download it now. Version 2.1 of ThemeStarta brings with it a couple of minor bug fixes, and a couple of fairly major changes. Newly Designed Full Screen Theme Editor Leading the pack is the newly designed full screen editing interface. No longer are you stuck working in WordPress' cramped admin area, or with its default interface styles. We have reworked the interface with unique ThemeStarta...
A warm welcome to all as we mark today's calendar with the official launch of PlanetStarta. Yes, we've rebranded and SpiderWeb Press, as much as we loved it, is no more. We've also changed the name of our flagship product, the Website Weaver. After months of extensive development on the next generation of our highly popular WordPress theme creator and editor plugin, we've given it a new name to celebrate its new look and enhanced power. Enter ThemeStarta....