Barring any major snags, the Mimbo Pro theme will be released in less than two weeks. It will be sold exclusively through a new WP theme marketplace run by a blogger/friend who also contributed some fancy programming to Mimbo Pro’s control panel options. Here are some features to look forward to:
- A custom script that automatically crops and resizes images
- Google Analytics and Feedburner options in the control panel
- Advertising management in the control panel
- A built-in contact form with control panel options
- Control panel options for the carousel, lead story and featured stories — total homepage control, no more editing templates manually!
- Attractive custom templates for: search results, date archives, sitemap, contact, author archives and category archives
- Author highlighting and gravatars in the comments section
- Tabbed separation of comments and trackbacks
- Printer-friendly rendering of single post pages
- Custom image gallery template that pulls from all uploaded images
- Dynamic subpage menus for parent pages
There are additional I’m excited about, some I’ve never seen anywhere else. We’ll be fine-tuning things in the next ten days or so and giving close attention to the last tiny details. Though I wish the release date could have come sooner, I’ll be proud when the final product launches knowing that we took our time to do things the right way.
Stay tuned, and meanwhile check out some screenshots:
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