We are very happy to announce that the Lifestyle 4.0 theme is now available. This theme is the third to be professionally optimized by Joost de Valk, who is on our development team. Because of the amount of optimizations/changes to the theme files, it will require you to load the new version.
For those of you who have already purchased the Lifestyle theme package, you can download the latest copy in the Theme Download thread in the support forums. All others can purchase the Lifestyle theme package here.
New Theme Options
We are also very happy to announce that a new options page has been built for the Lifestyle theme which is more efficient and includes additional options.
Auto-Sized Thumbnails
Another awesome feature with this version of Lifestyle is the ability to now display automatically generated thumbnails on the homepage. You can see that the sizes of your thumbnails can be configured on the options page.
Support For Localization
Another awesome feature that is included with the Lifestyle theme is support for localization. We have been asked numerous times if our themes can be localized, and we are going to make sure that all of them can be internationalized into different languages.
Sidebar eNews & Updates
In previous versions of the Lifestyle theme, we required the use of a text widget to display the Google/Feedburner eNews & Updates section. We felt that was a bit clunky, so we’ve now included the ability to enable/disable that section from within the dashboard, and provide a box for you to place your Feed ID.
Here’s a screenshot of how the new Lifestyle theme options looks:
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I was literally uploading 3.0 to a new site as I read this – cancel that, look forward to checking out these new features!
Great work as always guys, cheers
Ah, glad I released it this morning then, as they say – timing is everything!
You have made a mistake on the sentence : “the Lifestyle theme package here.” the link of “here” is not correct => http://http//www.studiopress.com/themes/lifestyle
But, it’s a great theme !
Thanks Yann, I have corrected the link!
Awesome Brian!
I will update several client sites and all the updates will be welcomed!
Steve
YIPPEE!
I am so excited to have the Lifestyle theme updated. I’ve had a client who has been waiting patiently for weeks in anticipation.
Can’t wait to play with it.
Thanks Brian, Joost and all
I know I’ve asked this question before but I’m interested to understand what Joost is adding. I’m a big fan of his work and just want to ask so that I can continue to develop my understanding of SEO.
One of the past comments of RT and SP themes is that the home page header tags were H3 rather than H1 and H2. Small point I know, but I’m keen to learn more about SEO and the work Joost is doing.
Thanks.
Fantastic, this is the one I’ve been waiting for!
Good job Brian
Nice to see the theme updated
Hello Brian:
I tried to download the latest version from the support forum. But looks like file name is the same as before. Does it reflect new updated version of Lifestyle theme?
Thanks
Leo
Hey Leo, yes, the zip file is an arbitrary name, but the download itself has version 4.0.
This is probably a stupid question but if I upgrade to 4.0 from 3.0 will I have to make all the changes to the theme all over again so that it will work the way I have it now? I did things like make the header bigger, added a second set of boxes in the body, and a few other cosmetic changes. Have been getting rave reviews and comments on the site, so thanks for that, but not sure it is worth upgrading if I have to make all those changes again. Thanks.
Jeff
I am having issues with the Auto-Sized Thumbnails showing up on the front page. I am using the lifestyle theme and when I upload a picture to my post, the thumbnail picture won’t show up on the front page. Am I inserting the picture in the wrong spot? The options page even shown that they are supposed to show up. Can someone help?
I really like Lifestyle theme, just missing big auto-generated thumbnails from the category page..
I am having the same problem as Sebastian – thumbnails dont show up on the home page – I have tried entering custom fields like thumb, thumbnail etc but still nothing! If anyone knows the anser please help!
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