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Posted by: Jennifer Zelazny on May 23, 2011

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The Basics

Lucidity is theme built with one thing in mind: making it as simple as possible for users of all levels to customize and control their content and layout without knowing or editing the PHP/XHTML/CSS. With this theme – WordPress administrators can set the colors of the page background, header background, link colors, enter in their feedburner and analytics code, as well as add links/icons to their social network sites all without making any modifications to the template files or CSS.

Theme Demo

*This theme is licensed under the GPL license.

SDAC Plugin Update: SDAC Translate 1.2.4

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Posted by: Jennifer Zelazny on March 18, 2011

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Two updates in one day…and not to fix any bugs! That’s right. After updating the plugin to version 1.2.3 – we received another request to add Georgian to the languages we support. So – as of version 1.2.4 – you now have Georgian as new language option.

Download SDAC Translate now from the WordPress plugin repository!

As always – thanks for the feedback/feature requests!

SDAC Plugin Update: SDAC Translate 1.2.3

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Posted by: Jennifer Zelazny on March 18, 2011

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Until now – if you wanted to use this plugin on your site – the starting language defaulted to English. With version 1.2.3 of SDAC Translate – you can now define your starting language.

Set "Translate From" Language

Download SDAC Translate now from the WordPress plugin repository!

As always – thanks for the feedback/feature requests!

SDAC Plugin Update: SDAC Post Slideshows 1.1

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Posted by: Jennifer Zelazny on February 23, 2011

Categorized: SDAC, SDAC Blog, SDAC Products, WordPress Plugins

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After getting some great feedback about our SDAC Post Slideshows plugin – we updated it and added in a number of new features.

  • You can define what post ID you want to use (handy when using do_shortcode() or re-using a slideshow in another post/page
  • You can define the new defaults using the shortcode (fx=”fade”), etc
  • New version of jQuery Cycle (includes effects)
  • You can now define the slideshow effect
  • You can now define the slideshow timeout
  • You can now define the slideshow speed
  • You can now define if the slideshow should pause on hover
  • You can now define the slideshow background color
  • You can now define the slideshow border color

Example slideshow:

Default Settings

Default Settings

You can customize a number of slideshow specific options (fx, timeout, speed, pause, as well as the background color and border color). You can also set these within the shortcode manually if you want to add a slideshow into your WordPress theme templates.

Slide Options

Slide Options

You can also set a number of slide options (width, height, image width, image height, text width) to fit your individual slideshow needs.

Quick Add Button

Quick Add Button

There is a button (in the HTML tab) to easy add in the shortcode that generates the slideshow. You can always manually enter the short code as well.

Adding Slides

Adding Slides

Adding slides is as easy as clicking a link. Add up to 25 slides. Slides can contain images and text, just images, or just text - you choose!

If you have any feedback – let us know by creating a post in our support forums!

You can download your copy of this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sdac-post-slideshows/

Lucidity 2.0 WordPress Theme Released

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Posted by: Jennifer Zelazny on January 31, 2011

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We rebuilt this theme from the ground up while keeping the same goals in mind that we had for Lucidity’s original release: ease of use, customizable, and fun. We added in a ton of new features, cleaned up the admin, and give you much more customization options.

Features

This new version is full of features to make your site customizable.

  • Use WordPress menus for your header navigation (drop down menus are also available by default)
  • Show/Hide Search in the navigation bar
  • Manage Ads (ROS/Home) for the leaderboard and two sidebar ads (widgets)
  • Define custom meta tags for easy site verification (without touching the theme code)
  • Choose your site colors/font
  • Show your social network links so your visitors can stay connected
  • Auto re-direct your feeds to your Feedburner account
  • Easily add in your Analytic code (Google/Quantcast) (without touching the theme code)

Screenshots

Requirements

Lucidity 2.0 requires WordPress 3.0+

Demo

See Lucidity in action at: http://lucidity.sandboxdev.com/

Miscellaneous

The theme also supports threaded comments and sidebar widgets by default. Lucidity is a great theme for all levels of users and will continually be developed to add more features and additional functionality.

Support

Support is available at the SDAC Inc. Forums.

Purchase

Buy Lucidity WordPress theme now

SDAC Plugin: SDAC Post Slideshows

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Posted by: Jennifer Zelazny on October 8, 2010

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We are happy to announce our latest plugin: SDAC Post Thumbnails. This plugin allows you to easily add in slideshows (text and/or images) by populating a few fields when creating a new post.

Default Settings

Default Settings

You can customize a number of slideshow specific options (fx, timeout, speed, pause, as well as the background color and border color). You can also set these within the shortcode manually if you want to add a slideshow into your WordPress theme templates.

Slide Options

Slide Options

You can also set a number of slide options (width, height, image width, image height, text width) to fit your individual slideshow needs.

Quick Add Button

Quick Add Button

There is a button (in the HTML tab) to easy add in the shortcode that generates the slideshow. You can always manually enter the short code as well.

Adding Slides

Adding Slides

Adding slides is as easy as clicking a link. Add up to 25 slides. Slides can contain images and text, just images, or just text - you choose!

Free support for this plugin is available at the SDAC Inc Forums. Feel free to give us some feedback – we are always looking to improve our plugins as well as to add in additional functionality.

Behind the scenes:

  • This plugin uses jQuery Cycle.
  • You can custom size your slideshow to fit your layout without changing any CSS files.
  • You can add the slideshow easily into any post by using the “post-slideshow” button in your editor toolbar (HTML).
  • You can add in as many or as few slides as you want.

Download

Download Plugin (from WordPress.org Plugin Directory)

Include or Exclude Category for RSS Feed or Search

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Posted by: Jennifer Zelazny on June 16, 2010

Categorized: HOWTOs, SDAC Blog, WordPress

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There are certain times when you need to include or exclude certain categories in the feed or search results. The easiest way to take care of this is to add the following to your functions.php file.

function sdac_remove_from_feed( $query ) {
	if ( $query->is_feed ) {
		$query->set( 'cat',-1 );
	}
        return $query;
}
add_filter( 'pre_get_posts','sdac_remove_from_feed' );

The code above will exclude all posts that are in the category with ID 1 from your feed. If you wanted to exclude everything from the search results – you would change one line:
$query->is_feed to $query->is_search

If you wanted to only show items from the category with ID 1 – you would just need to remove the “-” before the category number.

Note: You can include/exclude items tagged, etc by changing the ‘cat’ to whatever else you would normally use in the query.

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Posted by: Jennifer Zelazny on June 1, 2010

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Why Lucidity?

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Posted by: Jennifer Zelazny on July 14, 2009

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I have personally created over 100 WordPress themes for friends, family, and clients over the last 4-5 years. Over this time – I have been working on a “starter” theme which would allow me to have something to use for each new theme I create, all while giving the users the most easy way to control their content and everything about their site.

I finally did so by developing Lucidity – a commercial WordPress theme. This theme is great for people who want to control colors, add in their analytics code, their social network links, and just start blogging. Changing background colors, link colors, etc is as easy as copying and pasting in color codes into the admin.

This theme is also great for developers as well because if offers a solid start at theme development – with the customizable options for their clients on top of everything else.

All the code is cleanly written and not overcomplicated so it is a great theme to use or simply learn from.

You can test drive the site: Lucidity Demo Site, and also purchase it as well.

We will continue to develop the theme and use our user’s feedback to make it even better.

If you have any questions or comments – feel free to leave them here or in the forums.

Lucidity WordPress Theme

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Posted by: Jennifer Zelazny on July 6, 2009

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Lucidity Theme

Lucidity Theme

Lucidity is an easy to use, intuitive WordPress theme that is highly customizable by any level of user. Lucidity is perfect for people that are looking for a minimal clean lines layout with minimal code for fast page loads all while having the ability to control content and layout using the admin. This theme also supports threaded comments and sidebar widgets by default.

Take Control!

After building over one hundred custom WordPress themes – we decided to put together something that the majority of our clients wanted: the ability to control basic settings like colors, fonts, adding external code, etc to their site without having to touch the templates, know CSS, or mess with the .htaccess file.

Changing The Appearance is Fun!

We all love options. With Lucidity – you can easily change the look and feel of your site by selecting one of the several options available in the admin.

Simply select the font you want to use on your site in the drop down menu, save the selection, and reload your site to see the changes.

Fonts

Choose Your Font

Choose Your Font

Now you can customize your site – with your own preferences without having to know CSS or pay a designer to change it for you.

Colors

Changing colors is something that most people love to do, but get frustrated with CSS. With the easy to use point and click color picker – simply point to the color you want, save the option and your web site will use the newly selected color.

Control Appearance

Control Appearance

Say goodbye to editing the CSS file and looking up the color codes for the colors you want to use.

Feedburner Is Easy

If you use Feedburner – you can copy and paste your custom Feedburner URL into the Feedburner field and all your readers who want to subscribe to your RSS feed will be directed to your Feedburner URL.

Add Feedburner Code

Add Feedburner Code

No more need to edit your .htaccess file, add a plugin, or do anything more than a simple copy and paste.

Follow Me With My Social Network Links

If you are like most people – you want to share your social networking site links like your LinkedIn Profile, your Facebook page, and your Twitter feed. With Lucidity – you can easily do so by copying and pasting your social networking sites into the admin.

Add Your Links/Icons

Add Your Links/Icons

Show all your sites easily in the header of your site without having to upload images, edit template files, or add in any other special code.

Stats Please

Companies like Google and Quantcast make it easy to track your web site’s stats. Simply copy and paste the code they give you into the admin and it will be automatically be added to each page, post, attachment, etc page in your site.

Add Analytic Code

Add Analytic Code

No plugins or messing with templates required.

Support

Support is available at the SDAC Inc. Forums

Demo!

You can demo this theme: http://lucidity.sandboxdev.com

Purchase!

This theme is available for purchase: Buy Theme ($50.00)

Looking for a simple catalog solution? Check out our Lucidity Catalog Theme.

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