Thesis 1.8.5 Now Available | Bloggers Lair | Yakezie Forums

The title says it all. Those of you using the Thesis theme should know that there is an update available (click here).

Taken from their post:

Here’s what’s new on that front:

• Fixed theme preview in WordPress 3.4 for normal and multisite installations
• Improved multisite post thumbnail handling on a wider variety of server setups
• Resolved
  layout.css

  error message in multisite that appeared (wrongly) due to certain user permissions

Next, we’ve made three small modifications that will help you keep search engines happy while providing some additional layout flexibility:

• Updated the
  author

  microformat in post bylines so it passes the Google Rich Snippet Tool without any warnings

• Basic HTML tags are now allowed inside widget titles, so you have more presentational flexibility in those areas
• In previous versions, if you added a nav menu via a widget, it would display horizontally like the default nav menu. Now, menus added via widgets will display just like a normal vertical list of links, so you won’t have to waste time undoing undesirable styles.

Also, WordPress improved image captioning in version 3.4, and this affected the way Thesis displayed captions. In previous versions, we used a shortcode hack to get them to display properly, but thanks to WordPress 3.4, we no longer need that shortcode.

Updated JS libraries included in Thesis Design Options → JavaScript to their latest versions
* Prevented the <!–more–> tag from appearing in meta descriptions in situations where the description is pulled automatically
* Prevented an empty #comments div from appearing on pages with comments
* Fixed a minor HTML error in the Killer Recent Entries widget that occurred under certain circumstances
* Minor fixes to prevent string offset errors in PHP 5.4 and WP debug mode

Sweet… Just in time for my stepfather's blog. :)

Eric – NarrowBridge.net said:

They have been cranking out updates regularly for a while. I wish it was as easy as upgrading a plugin to update to the newest version. I have Thesis on 10 sites, so updating takes a while.

Yeah, I agree. Believe it or not, I have around 25 sites that have the Thesis theme on it…this will not be fun! It will probably take me an hour or two to get through them all. I wish they were able to push the update to current users.