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Version: 1.1
Release date: Apr 29, 2008
Release Notes:

  1. Fixed CSS issues here and there. The look and feel should be a little bit better now
  2. Added option to enable/disable the sidebars
  3. Added option to enable/disable the font resizer
  4. Added option to enable/disable the post navigation
  5. Added option to turn on/off the excerpt on home page
  6. (Hopefully) fixed the update notification mechanism
  7. Did some SEO optimizations
  8. Added support for Related Posts plugin. You just need to download and activate the plugin.
  9. Removed the inbuilt Asides support
  10. Tried to internationalize the theme. But, alas, a failed attempt.
  11. Started using WP’s in-built support for Tags instead of UTW tags.

For more details, please have a look at the differences between source code for v1.0 and v1.1.

Tested on : I have tested this theme with Wordpress 2.3+ and Wordpress 2.5+. I used Firefox (version 2x, 3x on Ubuntu/Windows/Mac OS X), IE (5/6/7 on Windows), Safari (Mac OS X) and Opera (Windows). It seems to be working fine.

Version: 1.0
Release date: Mar 14, 2007
Release Notes: There were some features added and more bugs were fixed. This vesion doesn’t work with WP 2.3 and above.
Tested on : Wordpress 2.2 with IE6, IE7 and Firefox

Version: 0.95 beta
Release date: Mar 04, 2007
Release Notes: I have fixed a few more bugs. Also, based on feedback, I have added a few new features. If you are upgrading, please read this post first.

Added Feature(s)

  • Automatic notification of updates. Users can now see a notification of new versions on the Hemingway Options page. I picked the idea from the wordpress plugin Sociable.
  • Added templates for UTW 3.x Single Tag Page and Tags Archive. Users can now use these to create required pages.
  • Numbered comments
  • Added Recent Comments block. It work’s out-of-the-box. Note: I have used Simple Recent Comments by George Notaras. User’s don’t need to install the plug-in for this block to work.

Bug Fixes

  • Simple CSS fixes to style.css e.g. added properties for code tag
  • Fixed white.css
  • Removed all PHP short tags
  • Less errors with CSS validator and none with XHTML validator
  • Updated Javascripts used by the theme to latest versions

Tested on : Wordpress 2.1 Ella with IE6, IE7 and Firefox

Version: 0.93 beta
Release date: Feb 21, 2007
Release Notes: I have tried to fix all the issues that were brought to my attention. It’s been great to get all the feedback.

  • Added Feature(s)
    • Fixed white.css provided with Hemingway theme to work with HemingwayEx. Now, if you don’t like all the dark colors of HemingwayEx, you can just go and select the white.css as the stylesheet using the options page
  • Bug Fixes
    • Bottombar and Slidebar blocks scale properly on IE6, IE7 and Firefox
    • Setting of Excerpt length wasn’t working
    • Fixed an issue with IE6 and the ‘open navigation’ button
    • IE6 doesn’t work well with transparency. Fixed the background transparency for blocks in IE6
  • Tested on : Wordpress 2.1 Ella with IE6, IE7 and Firefox

Version: 0.9 beta
Release date: Feb 18, 2007
Release Notes

  • Added Features
    • New horizontal navigation menu on top giving access to pages in the blog
    • A new HemingwayEx Slidebar, similar to the Hemingway Bottombar. It can be customized though the options section. Note: This addition has been inspired by the design at jek2k.com. Ppl… please stop coughing :-)
    • Added simple support for Asides
    • In-built support for Ultimate Tag Warrior 3 worpress plug-in
    • Author can now set the length of excerpt of posts displayed on homepage using the options section
    • Added a couple of new blocks
    • Viewers can now comment on Pages as well
  • Tested on : Wordpress 2.1 Ella