If you’re installing Thesis for the first time… (via official installation instructions)

1. Upload the new Thesis 1.6 folder to your /wp-content/themes folder.
2. Locate the /custom-sample folder and change its name to /custom.
3. Locate the layout.css file inside your newly-renamed /custom folder, and change its permissions to 666.
4. [optional but highly recommended] If you’d like to give Thesis the ability to auto-crop thumbnail images for you, then you’ll want to change the permissions of your /custom/cache folder to 775.
5. Inside your WordPress dashboard, go to Appearance ? Themes, and then activate Thesis 1.6.
6. You’re done, but make sure you check out both the Thesis Options and Design Options pages that now exist inside your WordPress Dashboard. You’ll be able to do things like set up your navigation menu, set fonts and font sizes, select your layout, and much, much more. To put it simply, this is the part of Thesis you don’t want to miss!

If you’re upgrading Thesis…

In version 1.6, the /custom folder contains more files than it did in previous versions. Follow the directions below very carefully to ensure that you have a seamless upgrade!

Your new /custom folder should contain the following files and folders:

• /custom [folder]
  • custom.css [file]
  • custom_functions.php [file]
  • layout.css [file]
  • /cache [folder]
  • /images [folder]
  • /rotator [folder]

The only critical change here is the addition of the /rotator folder. In the future, instead of copying both your /custom folder and your /rotator folder, you’ll only have to move your /custom folder, and that’ll take care of every possible customization you can make to Thesis.

In order to provide you with the best possible navigation solution, I had to make significant changes to the nav menu CSS classes for version 1.6. If you’ve customized your nav menu extensively, then these new changes will no doubt affect your existing styles. If you need assistance in adjusting your styles to this newer, better structure, please drop us a line in the forums.

1. Back up the /custom folder from your existing Thesis installation to your hard drive. Also, if you’ve uploaded your own images to the /rotator folder, then you’ll want to back that up, too. After you’ve done that, you should move the /rotator folder into the /custom folder on your hard drive.
2. Upload the new Thesis 1.6 folder to your /wp-content/themes folder.
3. Rename the /custom-sample folder to /custom, and do not overwrite this folder with your existing /custom folder!
4. Instead of overwriting the new /custom folder with the one you just backed up (as you are probably accustomed to doing with previous versions), copy the contents of the /custom folder you backed up in Step 1, and paste it all into your new /custom folder, which should also contain layout.css.
5. Set the permissions of your new layout.css file to 666.
6. Make sure your /cache folder’s permissions are set to 775.
7. Inside your WordPress dashboard, go to Appearance ? Themes, and then activate Thesis 1.6.
8. Visit the Design Options page, ensure that Thesis is not giving you a warning about the file permissions on your layout.css file, and then hit the Big Ass Save Button.

Back when I was a young Turk, I played a lot with a series of blog platforms and content-management systems (CMS) — early PHP/MySQL “LAMP” — called Nukes.  There was PHPNuke and my favorite, PostNuke.   I used PostNuke for my personal web site and for early variants of Memes.org.  Well, it’s been a long time but PostNuke has come a long way, baby, and is now called Zikula.  I am going to be seeing if I can find ways to use it, both for personal and professional projects.  You should surely check out Zikula, too.  Download it now and check it out: Zikula-1.2.0.zip and Zikula-1.2.0.tar.gz

Main points of this release

• New language management system utilising gettext
• UTF8 support (just mentioned in the upgrade script now)
• Support for internationalisation (correct date and currency display)
• Fully indexable multi-lingual content
• Right to left display support
• Full review of language strings
• CSS and Templates improvements
• Centralization of css classes for Zikula forms (z-form)
• Usability and consistency
• Reworked SeaBreeze theme
• Dozens of bug fixes
• CSS/JS on-the-fly optimisation
• Simplified upgrade process from Zikula 1.1.0+ to 1.2.0
• Improved UI of installer and upgrade scripts
• General facelift to the user interface
• Auto update checker for the core
• Users module introduces an API to let the site’s Profile module to handle the dynamic user data in the Users’ forms (see system/Users/pndocs).
• Outsource further VA modules
• Optimized module installation workflow

Download link:

Zikula-1.2.0.zip (5.45 MB)

MD5: 180425f0a9c3eeab8cdd742a608e9ee2

SHA1: a079331f622020150ab6333cca79b1855b11a4b7

Zikula-1.2.0.tar.gz (4.26 MB)

MD5: a019ea98a85b8d05afb19d2af23fbd5a

SHA1: 451cd39c816ac463f0e96ea31c4d68a6e625f387

Changelog link:

http://code.zikula.org/core/export/27416/tags/Zikula-1.2.0/docs/CHANGELOG.txt

Developer documentation and videos

http://community.zikula.org/index.php?module=Wiki&tag=TranslationIndex