ChameleonThe new version for our Chameleon 2.0 theme is here with some interesting improvements. This version has been submited for WP approval and will be available for download in next hours/days. In this new release you will find:

Possibility to set the home page to “widgetized”:

Selecting this new option, your home page will have a sticky posts area, and three additional widgets areas which work the same way than any other sidebar. Just drop your widgets on any of the ‘home’ sidebars, and you will get them in your front page.

Sidebar position:

Now, you can choose to set your sidebar at right (default) or at left. This makes your theme more flexible.

Full support for child themes:

If you want to customize some parts of Chameleon, now you can do it as a child theme. Maintaining the Chameleon code with no changes will help you in future updates. Just create your new theme directory, set a style.css file on it, and set on the file header the template to ‘chameleon’ (or the directory name where you installed it). You will find some useful information on codex about child themes.

Allow to force options on WordPress MU (or Standandard):

You can now change some options by creating an alkivia.ini file and setting there your options. Also, you can use the alkivia.php file to override some framework options. By setting the options on the alkivia.ini file, these will be disabled on the admin options page.

Options can be set on plugins and child themes

The theme includes now many filters and actions. One of them is ak_chameleon_options (from framework hooks) where you receive an array with loaded options and you can change or set new ones and return the modified array.

Other changes

Also, some internal changes have been done and some new settings have been added. Most of them are small corrections or options for best configuration. Samples are to hide the uploaded header image, disable the sidebar search box or exclude some pages from the menu bar.

Hope you will enjoy this new release!