Squible Beta 2 Release Notes
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Contents:
a. Introduction
b. New in Beta 2
c. Fixed in Beta 2
d. Installation


a. Introduction
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After a fairly long delay, Beta 2 is here. The recoding of the theme really required me to jump it up a full version number rather than the incremental bugfix I'd initially been planning. Widget support is the primary reason for this, and the system replaces the elements system I'd previously built, since essentially it's the same thing, and we may as well have just the one standard, huh?

As always, head to the discussion board for the latest info, bug reports, and the like.

- James Carppe (karrde)


b. New in Beta 2
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- Widget support! Elements have now been replaced with widgets, and as such this theme now requires that you have the Widgets Wordpress plugin installed. Simply activate the Widgets plugin and you'll see a second tab on the Presentation submenu called "Sidebar Widgets". In here, you can configure what you want where, in a nifty drag-and-drop environment!
- Widgets themselves! I've converted the existing elements that weren't already covered by stock widgets into widget form, and should be placed in your Wordpress plugins folder. Once they're in there, activate them in the Plugins section of the Wordpress administration panel, and they should then become available for you to use in the Sidebar Widgets section. Easy!
- Colour configuration via the Squible configuration page in the Wordpress administration panel - as well as boxes to enter the hex codes in, theres even a popup colour picker, and a sample to see how it looks!
- For browsers that support it, when you try and print a page, it will come out in a printer friendly version. Fancy!

c. Fixed in Beta 2
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- wp-print has been removed due to issues with it and some permalink configurations, and has been replaced with a print stylesheet for the site (see above).
- General cleanup and reorganisation of the Squible configuration page.
- Modified some of the display methods and CSS code for the site to improve compatibility and widget support.
- Merged custom.css and style.css into just style.css - seemed pointless having two.
- Cleaned up the extraenous style definitions in style_ie.css - reduced the file from 11kb to 1kb!

d. Installation
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1. Download the package from http://www.squible.com/.
2. Extract the contents of the archive to a temporary directory.
3. Upload the squible subdirectory from the archive to your Wordpress site through FTP or whichever method you use, into the /wp-content/themes/ folder (so you'd end up with it all in /wp-content/themes/squible/).
4. Login to your Wordpress administration panel.
5. Go to the Presentation page and select the Squible Beta 2 theme.
6. Go to the newly appeared "Squible Theme Options" tab in the Wordpress admin, and configure the theme to your liking.
7. Enjoy Squible!

To install widget support:

1. Download the Widgets plugin from http://svn.wp-plugins.org/widgets/trunk.
2. Upload the Widgets plugin and its accompanying widgets to your Wordpress site through FTP or whichever method you use, into the /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
3. Upload the contents of the widgets subdirectory from the Squible archive to your Wordpress site through FTP or whichever method you use, into the /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
4. Login to your Wordpress administration panel.
5. Go to the Plugins page, and activate the Sidebar Widgets plugin, along with the widgets you wish to use.
6. Go to the Presentation page, then the Sidebar Widgets page, and configure the panels to your liking.
7. Enjoy Widgets in Squible!