2.9.0 *Important* Update.

2.9.0 – Get it Here:

https://github.com/orangeman555/symbiostock/blob/master/symbiostock.zip?raw=true

First, the most important update:

Update your auto-log-in emailer.

1 — Once you upgrade to 2.9.0, turn off the theme by activating a WP default theme.

2 — Go into plugins, and delete the Symbiostock Emailer plugin. *Very important*

3 — Activate Symbiostock or your child theme.

4 — Now follow the directions (it should be prompting you) to install the Symbiostock Emailer plugin.

If all goes well, your sign-up process will now auto-log-in a person with their chosen password. In the world of wordpress, this was not easy!

New Option to Turn off Customizer

I’m finding that if you use Dragonfly with the customizer options turned on, its more harmful than helpful. Likewise clean-theme tends to get over-ridden. Here is what you can do to get more control:

Admin -> Bee -> Settings : You now have an option to turn off Symbiostock customizer. Here is Dash-photo: http://www.dashphoto.eu/ — he is still getting converted over, but you can see it looks much nicer when the customizer isn’t over-riding colors and positions, things look good 😀

NOTE – you can adjust your menus then turn off the customizer, benefiting from menu location, but turning off most other style-oriented over-rides.

This is just an option for those using clean-theme or who wants more control over their styling.

Front-page widget issues fixed

Some people had some weird layout issues with the front-page widgets, and they would collapse and stack a little wierd. With a responsive theme its a lot like herding cats. Consider those particular cats finally in their pen again.

BAD NEWS: I will not be switching the featured image widgets to show more images. Right now there is a very very tight rule keeping them stuck at 24. It won’t be until later that I can finally find a way to over-ride this. I gave it a few hours to no avail. I have to find a way to intercept the process early, but thats quite complex.