Seen the Thesis Theme 2.0 offer yet? (read point #4 at bottom of page)
This is one of the cool things about being a part of the Thesis community.
There is no finished-product as such because it’s a work-in-progress. Other theme developers have to juggle multiple themes and so updates become infrequent once they are shipped.
Consequently, new Thesis releases do generate quite a buzz in our small community, fuelled by Chris Pearson’s relative secrecy about what he’s working on at any one time.
What we know about Thesis 2.0 as of February 12th 2010
- Thesis 2.0 release is imminent (due out any time now
- Rumor has it that its a self-sufficient CMS, not requiring WordPress..
- There will be a Skins market. Chris will aim to do 5 designs this year.
- New pricing structure $297 floated around. Existing customers = free upgrade.
- Stylesheets will be reduce from 4 down to 2.
- Will be a way to download and share core SEO and design features within community.
February 11th 2010
Chris sends out an email, adding:
- Thesis 1.7 will be released within the next 14 days.
- You’ll be able to save and restore the Thesis Options without having to be woefully inefficent.
- Control the indexing (noindex, nofollow, noarchive) on every page of your site
- New headline filter
- 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.
February 9th 2010
Chris appears on Webmaster Radio to speak with Joost. Here are the key points:
2 mins 20 secs – this has become Chris’s mantra: ‘To build the ultimate publishing platform for the web’.
9 mins 12 secs – Chris really doesn’t seem to like the wordpress platform.
10 mins 55secs – Aims to reduce the number of stylesheets from 4 down to 3, and eventually 2, to reduce code bloat.
31 mins – LeVar Burton uses Thesis.
33 mins – surprised at lack of diversity in Thesis sites out there. Took a full year for people to understand what people can do with Thesis. Really only in the last 3 months has there been a real increase in skins being used for Thesis.
34 mins – my goal is to lead the creative charge to show people what can be done with it.
38 mins – Unique styling for each post. Thesis can do this, but will definitely do more of that in the future. e.g. getting rid of sidebars, coming in 2.0 post and page templates. On this post do I want to show sidebars? Apply CSS classes that affect all code within body tag. But does require user to be totally savvy.
43 mins – Chris’s background.
46 mins – When Thesis 2.0 comes out, we’re going to redo the pricing structure. Bottom line is anyone who buys now will get the full monty when we upgrade. Floated around idea of $297. Talks about Thesis theme skins market, how he’d work on doing 5 skins throughout the year plus a host of other designers.
January 29th 2010
Chris lets it slip that a future Thesis won’t require WordPress.
4th January 2010
Chris interviewed by Art of Blog. He announces three things:
1 – Pearsonified Design
He is going to port the rather lovely Pearsonified design over to Thesis and eventually release that skin to the public.
2 – Version 1.7 vs. Version 2.0
Going to rock out a new version of Thesis theme, though unsure whether it will be 1.7 or jump to 2.0. He’s got a bunch of 2.0 code written, but is yet to decide whether he’s going to make the leap. If it’s 1.7 it will be out in the next 3 weeks.
3 – Community sharing
Adding a way to download and upload and share your options, so that will make it easier to skin out a site and encourage sharing of core SEO and design settings.
Incoming Thesis Theme Search Terms:
- thesis theme latest version
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- thesis theme bloat
- latest build of thesis theme?
- thesis theme code bloat
- thesis theme rumors
- thesis theme 2 0
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Seen the Thesis Theme 2.0 offer yet? (read point #4 at bottom of page)