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As I am sure you are all aware, continual improvements to WPUnlimited is of high priority to us, and so today, we’ve released version 1.1. This is gets a full point bump because of some great feature additions, as well as improvements over previous versions in many different ways. Please upgrade today, if you are already a WPUnlimited user.

What’s New?

The new features include:

• Import and Export of Theme Settings and Graphics
• Custom Links in Navigation
• Categories as Main Navigation
• Dropdown Navigation for Sub-Pages and Sub-Categories
• SEO Improvements
• CSS Optimization

WPUnlimited users asked for most of these improvements and we’ve added them. We are especially excited about the import/export feature.

Changed Files

If you have changed files in WPUnlimited, and don’t want to loose those changes, here is a file list of what was modified to get to this new version, so you can upload just these files.

• style.css
• functions.php
• footer.php
• header.php
• comments.php
• css/admin.css
• javascript/admin.js
• images/bookmark_small.png
• functions/admin.php
• functions/actions.php
• functions/importexport.php
• functions/widgets.php
• functions/declarations.php
• images/menu_icon.png

If you have any questions, comments, concerns, please let me know.

For a while now people have been creating some sort of rivalry between Thesis and WPUnlimited. I am a big fan of Thesis, and everything they’ve done, and have nothing but respect for the whole team, from the support staff, to the theme’s developers and marketing staff, but Jim Kukral has created a site called WordPressThemeWars where he is currently matching Thesis against WPUnlimited. We can’t tell if he has any bias in this competition, since he is using WPUnlimited for his own blog, but has “Vote for Thesis” in the header.

Of course this is a popularity contest more than anything else and because Thesis has a bigger install base, more popularity in the mainstream WordPress community and has been around longer, it will win, but we still enjoy being listed as a competitor.

A feature to feature comparison between Thesis and WPUnlimited would show that they are really meant for slightly different markets, but if you’d like to vote for either theme, I suggest checking out the site and selecting your favorite theme. Once you’ve done that, please feel free to come on back, and let us know which theme you selected and what your favorite aspect of that theme is (even if you voted for Thesis).

WPUnlimited is still a young WordPress theme, and your feedback will help decide the development direction that we take. Don’t underestimate your own thoughts in shaping what we already think is the best WordPress theme.

For those of you that have been waiting for a simple way to upgrade from the $59 personal license to the $150 developer license, we’ve now added the option. Log into your account, and from the drop down box select License Upgrade. Pay the difference, and you’ll gain access to the Developer license, allowing you to install WPUnlimited on all of your sites, as well as any projects you might be working on for others.

We haven’t been able to set up WordPress in such a way that we can give open access to the back end of WPUnlimited’s options panel, and so we want to know what screencasts you want to or need to see? We can focus in on the use of any single option, or how multiple options come together, but we need to know what is important going forward, so we don’t waste time screencasting features you care nothing about.

Let us know in the comments below, what we’ve missed focusing on, and we will make sure to get a video of that out shortly.

A few days ago we released a bug fix release for WPUnlimited. We are on our way to releasing WPUnlimited 1.1 shortly, but there were some pressing issues we wanted to fix for people without making them wait any longer.

The files modified were:

• styles.css
• functions.php
• functions/declarations.php

The changes include:

• css is now valid
• fixed gravatar options and display
• header title error on setup is not gone
• loop error when dynamic tabs is added into “tabs” sidebar should be fixed
• version check enabled

If you have any questions, comments, concerns, please let me know. Hopefully, this will be one of the only releases to contain solely bug fixes.