This is from Thesis wordpress theme creator Chris Pearson
First, I’m going to release Thesis 1.7 over the next couple of weeks.
Developers will get a beta version, and then everyone will get the final
release once bugs are squashed (I like to think there won’t be any bugs,
but then again, I WOULD think that). Our last release, 1.6, was biased
toward design, but 1.7 is going to bring you more technical detail that
will further improve on our world-class SEO framework. Here’s what’s new:— Options Manager. If you’ve ever delivered a Thesis site to a client,
then you know what a pain in the butt it can be to go into a new site and
set every single option by hand. With Thesis 1.7, you’ll be able to save
and restore the Thesis Options without having to be woefully inefficent.
Oh, and skin developers? You’ll be able to use this new functionality to
share font and design settings, and this will make it easier to help people
set up your awesome skins on their sites!— Insane New SEO Controls and Detail. Thesis has always been optimized
and
ready to perform in the search engines, but there were still some areas
where exacting, precise controls were lacking. Not anymore. Version 1.7
contains a totally redesigned document that allows for SEO customization
at a level that no one has ever seen before. You’ll be able to supply
details, and even control the indexing (noindex, nofollow, noarchive) on
every stinkin’ page of your site. Better still, you’ll find a new page in
the Thesis Options panel that will give you total control over all these
details on your Category and Tag archive pages. Optimize EVERYTHING because
that’s how you win on the Web, and that’s what Thesis is all about.— New Headline Filter. This one’s a bit technical, but I’m using (and
loving) it on my newly-relaunched version of Pearsonified
(http://www.pearsonified.com/), which is running on a pre-release version
of Thesis 1.7. Basically, this simple filter will allow developers to
show/hide headlines, and you’ll be able to use this to create more diverse
post styles on your site. I’ve used it to create “asides,” which are a
little less formal than my normal posts—here’s an example (note the absence
of a headline and byline):
http://www.pearsonified.com/2010/01/web-publishing-2010.php. It’s just a
little thing, but oftentimes, things like this bring the most joy to people
who like to customize their sites!— Beefed-up Internationalization. Thanks to the help of our fans in other
countries, I’ve been able to identify certain parts of the code that were
not so translation-friendly. To fix this, I’ve gone through every single
string in Thesis and made sure that everything is up to spec for
internationalization. Now, it will be easier than ever to use handy
translation software to translate Thesis into different languages!
