While Connections Reloaded 3.0.2 perfectly supports WordPress 2.9, the new version of WordPress introduced the feature of Posts Thumbnails.

For some strange reason, your theme needs to have the necessary code to “enable” this feature.

So, I decided to put together a version of Connections Reloaded that adds supports for the new post thumbnail features of WordPress.

If you’re using this theme, you’ll notice a new section in your New Post screen that allows you to designate an image as a post thumbnail.

By default, the posts do not display the post thumbnails, since each display requires two database queries. You can turn this on by visiting the Connections Reloaded settings page.

If you are running this theme on your blog, do consider a donation.

Read more and download Connections Reloaded

If you’re following me on twitter, I recently tweeted that I was working on an updated version of Connections Reloaded. After a few revisions to fulfill all the requirements of the repository, I give you the new and improved Connections Reloaded v3.

The biggest feature addition to this version of the theme is the inbuilt options page that allows for easy customisation from within WP-Admin itself.

The screenshots above give you an idea of what options are available. I plan on adding more options. Comment and let me know what you would like to control from the options page.

Besides this, I’ve also worked on increasing the security of the theme. If you notice an vulnerability, please bring it to my notice before making it public.

There has been slight cleaning up of the code and I’ve also added the .sticky class to the stylesheet for sticky posts. While the theme always supported this, it wasn’t obvious.

So, go ahead give the theme a try. Current users, remember to upgrade. And, if you’re using the theme, do consider a donation.

Awoke this morning to find a lot of traffic being referred from Mashable.

On further analysis was pleased to find out that my WordPress theme Connections Reloaded has been featured in Mashable’s 20 Great Free WordPress 2.7 Themes. Mashable is one of the top blogs on the internet with over 168K subscribers and 35K Twitter followers.

Many of you may be aware that I updated Connections Reloaded recently for WordPress 2.7. It includes complete support for WordPress 2.7 including paged and threaded comments, gravatars, tags etc. As well as complete backward compatibility with versions of WordPress as early as v1.5.

So, if you’re running and earlier version of WordPress, you don’t need to worry about upgrading.

If you’re not running Connections Reloaded, why aren’t you?

Download Connections Reloaded or view the Demo.

I had posted earlier that I had submitted the updated version of my theme Connections Reloaded to the repository. It’s finally been approved today. So, grab it while it is hot

The changes in this version are:

• Complete support for WordPress 2.7
• Threaded comments and paged comments are now supported
• Custom Header. Now you can change the image header from within WP-Admin itself
• Support for all versions up to WordPress 2.7. So, even if you haven’t upgraded to 2.7, you can use the theme without modifications.

Download Connections Reloaded or view the Demo.

Overview

Connections Reloaded is a two column, fixed width theme derived from the Connections theme by Patricia Müller.

Features

Connections Reloaded is highly rich in features. A non-exhaustive list follows:

• Theme options page to quickly configure the theme. Includes some basic settings, comment below to tell me what other settings you would like to see. Current options are:
  • Header options:
    • Favicon
    • Feedburner / Custom feed
    • Customisable list of pages to display in the header menu
    • Any custom code you want
  • Content options:
    • Choose if you want to disable the display of tags on homepage / archive pages etc.
  • Footer options:
    • Any custom code you want
• Support for gravatars
• Support for widgets (custom widgets are included). Access it from Appearance > Widgets
• Custom header images. Access it from Appearance > Custom Header

Donations

Themes don’t write themselves, people do. Developing a theme is a time consuming process. As a strong believer in open source, Connections Reloaded will always be released under the GPL license.

If you are running this theme on your blog, do consider a donation.

Demo and Screenshots

Questions & Known Bugs

Please post any bugs / support requests at the Support Forum.

License

All files and their contents are licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Downloads

Download Connections Reloaded 3.1

I put up the Connections Reloaded 2 Roadmap over a year ago and updated the same with the Connections Revolutions Roadmap in mid-Feb.

It’s December now and the only site that is running Connections Revolutions is this blog.

With over 6000 downloads from this site alone for Reloaded, to be honest I lost the interest to create an updated version of this theme.
Nor did I receive any encouragement for the same, either in the form of donations and/or through requests.

Just got a request today about Connections Revolutions and would like to throw this question over to the public.

Would you like to see a Connections Revolutions? And what would you like to see in it?

It will have all the features of Connections Reloaded, but in addition to that it will sport a 3-layout, have complete internationalization, additional page templates, better WordPress Widgets support.

I also plan on implementing easy editting of the theme in the Admin area itself.

But, I will not commit to any timeframe. Studies, maintaining this blog and Techtites, besides my other ventures is a full time job.

If you are keen to get Connections Revolutions out, please send in your donation.
I hope to raise $500 by December end or early January.

You can send in a donation via Paypal. Click the button below. It will send you to the Paypal site.

Remember that donations of $50 and above will receive a special mention on the PR5 Donation Received Page

If you don’t wish to donate, you can even buy advertisements on various pages and feeds.

Connections Reloaded today crossed 6000 downloads.

And that is counting downloads only from this website. There are other theme sites where this is being downloaded from and I have absolutely no track of those numbers.

Thanks to everyone who is using this theme.

If you love the theme, please do consider a financial contribution.

Have you made changes to the theme? And would you like to show off? Comment and tell me about it.

WordPress.com is asking users to submit requests for new themes for use on their WordPress.com Blogs.

Wouldn’t be correct for me to so. Hence, anybody like to suggest Connections Reloaded?

Connections Reloaded today crossed 5000 downloads.

I am sure there are a lot more unaccounted for downloads from various other theme sites hosting my theme.

Am glad that this theme has found favour with the WordPress Community.

For all you users out there. Thanks for making this theme so successful. If you love the theme, please do consider a financial contribution.

Some of you may be aware of Blogflux’s Theme Directory.

I had added Connections Reloaded a long time back to it and decided to check on the same today.

The 3.7 rating so far generates mixed feelings and I am hoping for a better rating.

Please do visit the theme page in the directory and rate the theme. And post a few comments as well

Thanks.