Last week, I asked all members who are using the BlogSkin to send me links to their blogs to include it in a special roundup at FamousBloggers.net. The reason is to promote our members and their active blogs.

I got great respond, however I couldn’t feature all of them on the blog post because they are too many

So, I decided to split the list into two posts, here is the first one:

BlogSkin Blogs

I will be working on the second roundup, probably for next week as I have a list of another 10 awesome blogs to share.

Many thanks, I appreciate your support.

Good news for WordPress fans, this is an update for our latest post about the Thesis Reviews plugin. We’ve decided to release the plugin for FREE for All Thesis Theme users, this is not all! We’ve also re-coded the plugin and make it work with any other Theme, not only Thesis!

It’s now available for download at WordPress plugin directory.

Download Author hReview plugin for WordPress

* Please, rate the plugin if you like it.

Also, check and signup at the plugin site to receive updates about the Author hReview plugin

This is how your review post will show on Google search results:

Enjoy!

Here is a sneak peek of our latest plugin in development, the Thesis Reviews Plugin adds Google Rich Snippets for author reviews and rating stars to your blog posts, this is great for review products as you will be able to show the rating stars in Google search results, which will increase conversion, traffic, and follow that with more sales and profit.

You can see the plugin in action at FamousBloggers.net blog.

* Update:

• The plugin has been released to the public at WordPress.org plugins directory. You can download it from here: Author hReview (please rate it if you like it).
• Also, feel free to signup for updates on the plugin site here: Author hReview
• Read and comment on my Thesis Theme review.

Thesis Theme Reviews Plugin

We will be adding an option page specially for the plugin to give you the ability to customize the way it will work on your blog.

Here are a few screen shots to show you how it will look like:

The plugin will add a new meta box to your post editor, this will allow you to add all review information you need.

Post listing also display which of your posts are actually reviews, and what kind of rating it has:

Here is how the option page will look like, it’s Thesis Theme style:

The plugin comes with it’s own widget, to allow easy display reviews and rating on your blog sidebar:

This will be a great addition to every Thesis blog. If you would like to get updates subscribe to our blog, we hope you will like it.

The new Thesis Reviews Plugin will be released soon, and it will available for Free to all our premium members. This means you will get a free copy when you purchase any of our Thesis Skins.

We are so excited to share this awesome news with our members, now you can easily use GetResponse with our BlogSkin, the latest stable version of BlogSkin 1.4.3 has an easy was to integrate the optin forms with GetResponse email service, that makes the BlogSkin support three major email service providers.

The BlogSkin supports these email services

• Aweber
• MailChimp
• GetResponse

Here is list of other enhancements and bug fixes we’ve included in the BlogSkin 1.4.3 release :

• Added integration to GetResponse
• Added a fix for Google authorship
• Use global function for skin name and link in admin bar
• Protect directories on server
• Added new function, Google publisher badge on home page
• Added meta property=”og:image” for Facebook, it supports auto generated thumb as well
• Remove Google search widget (not supported anymore by the skin)
• Change opt-in form from your@email to Your Email, trying to avoid blind subsribtions
• Fix background images in shortcode boxes

Also you may be interested in changes of the BlogSkin 1.4.2 release:

• Added Meta og:image to assign Facebook image when sharing, it reads from thesis_post_image
• Added the option to show “All Categories” on the slideshow
• Added new custom field “slideshow” to override thesis_post_image
• Added option to show/hide feed icons on top area of the header
• Added display sidebar optin on categories, front page, single pages
• Added display top optin everywhere
• Fixed an issue with the top banner widget
• Fixed typo in options page

All members can download the new release from their account. Upgrading from older version is included in the download package (PDF file).

If you don’t own BlogSkin yet, then get it now!

We are so excited to pronounce the BlogSkin 1.4 to our members, with a lot of enhancements and all the awesome features your have been waiting for. The BlogSkin 1.4 is officially integrates with Aweber and MailChimp APIs with a fully customizable optin forms! We’ve tried our best to responded to every single feedback by our members and added more options to allow more control over the Skin with no coding required, all can be done via the BlogSkin options page.

Here is the changes we’ve made to the BlogSkin 1.4:

• Integrating MailChimp
• Using Aweber API
• Option name/email to optin form
• New slider with new slider options
• Added new custom menu (Now we have two menus)
• Options to remove/show thesis nav menu
• Option to show/hide post image from teaser
• Option to show/hide post image from single posts
• Option to show/hide images on related posts
• Google+ icon, and rel=”me” to navigation icons
• Added Google+ and Blog Name to WP user profile page
• Enhanced author info box, author archive page and added rel=”author”
• New widget on top of content box
• Added option to use own image and title for the stop box
• Default widget note if empty
• Added “Edit BlogSkin” link to admin bar menu
• Correct H1 tag in header and logo
• Changes to CSS regarding fonts
• Added a code to display properly on iPhone and iPad
• Add option to enable/disable RSS icon on header
• Add option to enable/disable search bar on header
• Allow use your own image in stop box
• Integrate with commentluv premium (add Twitter Link field to comment box)
• Changes to BlogSkin options page
• Fixed bug in facebook comments
• Some other bugs fix
• Changed CSS files structure for easy styling
• Remove Lazy load plugin (Lazy Load is currently not usable)

Yeap, it’s a long list!

We are so proud of this release of the BlogSkin, and we consider it the best we’ve done so far. Also, the BlogSkin is our best sales product, this is why we put a lot of effort in updating the skin and make it better.

It’s yet the best internet marketing skin for thesis in the whole market.

If you are already a member, please login to your account now and download BlogSkin 1.4 (Please read the manual in PDF format included in the download package for upgrade)

This new update is available for free to all our BlogSkin members, and also for our personal and developer memberships owners.

If you are new to our website, check out the BlogSkins for Thesis Theme, you are going to love.

We are so excited to pronounce the new Product Skin, which has been added to our Thesis Skins Gallery today, it’s one of the best thesis skins we ever created because it is creativity, it simply will help you build amazing landing pages and squeeze pages using Thesis Theme in no time just make sure to have you sales copy and images ready and you will see by yourself.

Check out the Product Skin for Thesis Theme.

Hi everyone, today DiyThemes released Thesis Theme 1.8.2, it has some fixes to make sure that Thesis Theme is compatible with WordPress 3.2 as the category page SEO controls were not showing up, also they have added a new dashboard news widget with links to the latest posts from the Thesis blog to keep you updated all the time.

We’ve upgrade all our Thesis Skins to work with Thesis 1.8.2.

How to upgrade your Thesis Theme

Follow these steps to upgrade your Thesis Theme:

1. Upload Thesis_182 using FTP to /wp-content/themes folder
2. Move your skin custom folder to /wp-content/themes/thesis_182 folder
3. Set the permissions of your new layout.css file to 666.
4. Make sure your /cache folder’s permissions are set to 775.
5. Inside your WordPress dashboard, go to Appearance ? Themes, and then activate Thesis 1.8.2.
6. 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.
7. You are done.

If you have any problem upgrading your Thesis Theme, don’t hesitate to let us know in the support forum, we will be glad to assist you.

Have you upgraded to latest version of Thesis Theme yet? We’ve upgraded our premium thesis skins to the recent version of Thesis theme 1.8.1, and it’s ready for download in member area. So if you are using Thesis 1.8.1, make sure to upload the 1.8.1 options .dat file when you install any of our skins for the first time.

Check out our awesome collection of premium thesis skins

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If you are a member of our ThesisAwesome.com free download center, then check out the new Recent Posts with Thumbnails plugin that we’ve created especially for Thesis Theme responding to our members today!

Our easy installation Recent posts with thumbs plugin adds a new widget free of options in your WordPress widget page to simply allow you to display recent posts with thumbs plus number of comments.

All members with free access will be able to download the widget and use it for free.

Get Recent Posts with Thumbnails Widget Now!

Also check our other free plugins for Thesis Themes.

Note: This plugin is coded for Thesis Themes only and you must use Thesis Post Image for the widget to work, we don’t guarantee same results if you are using any other WordPress theme.

Good news everyone, our new thesis skin is ready, we call it the Silver Skin because it’s color scheme and clean design, plus it that has our awesome option panel with a lot of enhancements and options to help you create a better blog with less work.

The Silver Skin is a two columns design, and it has a very simple and clean layout. We’ve added extra widgets, featured articles slider, Aweber opt-in forms integration, multi-authors options and much more, it’s really amazing and easy to manage.

All members who has our personal or developer membership will be able to download the Silver Skin right a way from their account page.

Check out the Silver Skin demo and it’s features.

Get Thesis Silver Skin Now!