Hey guys,

Just a short post for anyone experiencing problems with the contact form on their blog. 2.0.2 now comes with the option to use SMTP to ensure your mail gets through. This tip will assist you if you receive the “Could not instantiate mail function” error when testing your form. It looks like this: (more…)

Hey guys! It’s your friendly neighbourhood Karl here. I wanted to let you all know that 2.0.2 has just been uploaded to the members system. Here’s a run down of the changes:

New Features

1. One Panel now attempts to generate thumbnail images for your posts as you are writing them. Every time you hit ‘Update’ post, the post will be scanned for images to use, and a batch of thumbnails generated accordingly. Thanks to Fahad for suggesting this feature!
2. I have re-written the Contact Form page template. It now uses PHPMailer (already packaged with WP) to send mail. For everyone who has issues with the form I have added some lines to the code that will allow you to enter SMTP details for use with the form. This means if all else fails you can use Gmail or whatever SMTP provider you like to ensure that you are getting your mail from it. I will be doing a tutorial on here and possibly a video explaining how to set this up in the coming week. (more…)

Hi Guys, Karl again.

Hope everyone is well and thank you to all the subscribers of this blog. Welcome back.

I’ve decided to move One Panel to a faster release cycle (2-3 weeks), implementing less features, more often. The question is ‘what do you need now?’ I have a list as long as my arm of the features I thought about implementing during the 2.0 release, but I’m interested in what you guys feel is missing from One Panel.

If you have an idea then add it to the comments. If you agree with someone else then just type the comment number and say ‘+1′ please (or even ‘++’ if you are a geek like me). The suggestions with the most ‘+1’s will get implemented first.

Here are some of the ideas I had:

Highlights
Allow for featuring of posts, pages, video’s and eternal links.

Thumbnail Generator
Add an interface for the thumbnail generator to the WordPress ‘Edit/Add Post’ page.

Menu Builder
Allow for manual building of menu’s, choosing the posts or pages to add to a specific menu.

Contact Form
Addition of a module that allows manual entry of SMTP server details to ensure emails reach their destination.

I will also be having a look at the suggestion box in the forum long term.

Thanks guys!

Hi Guys - Karl here

As some of you know, our expansion plans fell through. So its back to just Lee, Jay and myself now.

I’ve been churning through the OnePanel code lately looking for bugs and such. But largely just refactoring code.

I’ve also added a massive debug platform, and am now gradually working my way through the code adding log entries to assist me with fixing bugs and anomalies. In future this will run in the background and notify users of any errors or anomalies that may have occured, requesting them to click a button which will send the data to us for analysis. This is a much better way of handling bugs in my opinion. I have already managed to speed up the use of WP admin massively by restricting the OnePanel plugin from running in full force in the admin panel when OnePanel isnt in use.

For anyone that is interested in the improvements and latest development, I have added nightly SVN builds of the OnePanel code to the members area. WARNING though, its not adviseable to ever run these development builds in a production environment. They are not stable and will not be supported as such.

I would also like to add a little note to anyone who reports bugs. First of all thankyou! and Second of all please make your bug report as comprehensive as possible. If we are unable to replicate the problem you are having we have no way of fixing it. So please provide PHP and Wordpress versions. As well as any other plugins you may be running. Also if you could tell us the steps you took to trigger the bug, we will be in a much better position to fix it!

Thank you all, look forward to your comments.

Well, we finally made it. One Theme 2.0 and One Panel are publicly available, the new site is up and looking fantastic, and the new shopping cart has been implemented - meaning you can now purchase the new themes. Its been a long hard journey, but we made it. And we couldn’t be prouder. We would like to thank you all for being so patient, and for sticking with us. If it wasn’t for the enthusiasm of our community none of this would have been possible. (more…)

BETA 3 has been released today and is by far the most exciting release so far. Notable new additions include the Thumbnail Generator and the Localization tool.

In previous versions of One Theme users had to prepare each thumbnail image for use with One Theme on their local machine. Cropping or resizing the image in an image editor such as Photoshop or Gimp to the correct size for each thumbnail type. Once that was done, the image had to be uploaded to a server using an FTP client. The URL of that image then had to be added to the chosen post’s Custom Fields for each thumbnail. This could all be quite a hassle if you had 3000 posts on your site, and the common practice in such cases was to simply de-activate thumbnails, much to the detriment of the aesthetics of your blog. (more…)

Hi Guys

We just shipped 1.1.4. Upgrade now!

This is just a little fix, but it makes some very important changes:

1. One Theme Installer - This means no more nasty error messages when installing, we’ve ported the installer over from the 2.0 tree to 1.1.4 for your pleasure. (more…)

More coffee! This place has been so hectic as of late. As we get ready to go to an early beta with 2.0, tensions are high and so are pulses. It’s been a good ride this time around, we are very proud of the way everything has been redesigned from the ground up, the code base is much bigger. But the greatest thing about the way its been coded is that theres the possibility for so much more freedom. New features just keep appearing out of nowhere. And the scope for future development is huge, there will be some killer features to come in the following releases - 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3. (more…)

Hello All!

We hope you had a fantastic holiday season. We know you have all been eager to get your hands on One Theme 2.0 and news has been sparse.

So we thought we would cheer you up a little by giving you an exclusive preview to the new Control Panel…

introducing One Panel. (more…)

Just wanted to let you all know that we recently made some significant improvements to the Member’s System.

The new system sports a far superior layout, and aswell as managing your license keys and login details, you can now download the latest version of One Theme straight from the member’s system.
It’s worth noting here that all the previous versions are also available for download, however we highly endorse the use of version 1.1.2 at the moment due to its massive speed increase. (more…)