Updating to Jump Start 1.1 – Support Archives 2012

Plugins

When you update to Jump Start 1.1, make sure you also update to the latest versions of our main plugins, if you’re using any of them:

We’ve also got a new plugin for Portfolios integrates great into Jump Start and the Layout Builder plugin, if you like the idea of separating these items from your standard posts: Theme Blvd Portfolios

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Sliders

In v1.1 of the Theme Blvd Sliders plugin, we’ve done a lot of re-structuring within to allow sliders to work more efficiently and be much more extendable for developers.

This is not required, but after installing this new Sliders plugin, your current sliders will run much more efficiently on your site if you go to each in the Slider Manager and re-save them.

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Theme Options

Some of the theme options have changed a little. So, make sure to checkout your updated Theme Options page to see if there’s anything you’d like to adjust.

WordPress Admin > Appearance > Theme Options

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Lightbox Integration

This update makes Magnific Popup the new default lightbox for our themes. This lightbox is nice, simple, and performs much better responsively at various viewport sizes.

This change does not effect how lightbox functionality is integrated with featured image options and galleries. However, using rel="themeblvd_lightbox" will no longer work.

See the lightbox integration section of your updated documentation in your theme’s download package for more information on incorporating lightboxes into your pages and posts manually, with the new system.

To get prettyPhoto integrated again with featured images and galleries along with use of rel="themeblvd_lightbox", you can simply install and activate this plugin: Theme Blvd prettyPhoto

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Google Analytics

Google analytics has been removed from your Theme Options. This is something we’ve wanted to pull out for awhile, as it isn’t really something that should be in a theme.

To get Google Analytics running on your site again, we’ve got a really simple plugin we’ve just released you can use that will continue working no matter who’s theme you switch to in the future. After installing our plugin, Simple Analytics, go to WP Admin > Settings > Analytics and simply input your Google Analytics Tracking ID (i.e. UA-00000000-0).

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Menu Issue

If you’re using one of the previous starter Child themes, because of the updated Superfish jQuery plugin used for the main navigation, you will most like run into this issue:

Within your Child theme’s style.css, find where the submenus have a top margin, which will look something like this:

#primary-menu > li > ul {
	border-top: none;
	margin-left: -1px;
	margin-top: 41px;
}

And adjust the margin to compensate for the submenu already starting at the base of the top level menu. For example, the new default is 1px of top margin like this:

#primary-menu > li > ul {
	border-top: none;
	margin-left: -1px;
	margin-top: 1px;
}

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If you have questions about your updated theme, don’t hesitate to post in the support forum.

Also note that this update brings the Theme Blvd framework from 2.2 to 2.3, and a lot of code and been re-structured and re-organized. So if you have questions about specific customizations you’ve made that used to work and no longer do, feel free to post in the support forum.