The F2 WordPress theme gets an update. Long time it’s been, and this time it’s a big update. Version 2.0. The theme is completely overhauled and rewritten from scratch based on the _s theme.
Responsive
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
— Charles Darwin
Yes, with version 2.0, F2 embraces responsiveness. The theme now adapts to different screen widths and looks good on any device you view your site in.
Color schemes
In addition to the default blue color scheme, F2 2.0 comes with three more color schemes.
List of changes
The theme is almost completely modified. Here’s the list of changes (only the major ones):
- Responsiveness
- Color schemes
- Layout choices: there are four layouts to choose from — right sidebar, left sidebar, two sidebars, no sidebar.
- Customization using the interactive WP customizer interface
- Support for the post thumbnail feature
- Support for ‘aside’ post format
- Google Web Fonts ‘Bitter’ and ‘Gudea’
- HTML5 & CSS3
- New options (or options that have undergone a complete change): logo image, header image, sidebar width, sidebar font size, content font size, option to show only excerpts (instead of full posts) in home page, custom css.
- Removed options: header bg color, header bg image (and related options), header text color
Further updated to v2.0.1 with
- Added translation in Bulgarian and Portugese languages (thanks to Vladimir Borisov and Pedro Padron for the respective translations)
- Few other changes and fixes.
IMPORTANT NOTE
There is one word of warning for users of the older versions of the theme. When you upgrade to version 2.0, you will lose all customization, including all customization you have made using a child theme, because the markup, classnames, etc., are greatly modified. If you have too much of customization, you may want to stick with the older version. Treat F2 2.0 as an entirely new theme, albeit very similar to the older F2 in style and features.
Download
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All documentation and instructions are included with the package.
It will be a while before F2 2.0 appears in the WordPress theme directory as the theme has to pass through a review process. The newest version can also be downloaded from GitHub.
Using an older versin of F2 but I can update through admin. Have acess to a shared computer only, so I can’t download any files, that is barred. How do I update?
You’ll have to wait until the new version is reviewed and made available in the WP theme directory. That will be in about two weeks time.
That’s *can’t* update.
(Proofreading is your friend.
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I love this theme so much. Version 2 feels very great!
One Question: I use wp-jquery-lightbox for displaying images. Menu is on a layer over the images. Also on other lightbox plugins. Any idea?
https://www.box.com/s/bpld868jemxm9nfza0d7
Powie, thanks for the feedback. I understand why the condition occurs, will fix that as soon as possible.
that I like your theme goes without saying, and I thank you for it. However your auto-update, although seamless, caused considerable mayhem. My widgets went missing and then didn’t fit. Widgets I don’t want appeared. The colours are very dim and the adjustment possibilities are so different they send me into a flat panic. I thought I let you know. I’d rather stick with the old version.
I love the theme and the responsiveness but how can I disable the “mobile site version”? The regular looks so great on my phone I’d rather not have the plainer one at all.
It’s coming, an option to disable the responsiveness, in the next version.
Never mind, this was the jetpack plugin overriding things. I’ve disabled jetpack and everything looks great again on the phone.
Great theme, thanks!
Is there any way to rotate the image in the site logo? Thanks – great theme! I have started testing it on one of my sites and am impressed.