We’ve released a new version of the Carrington Core – the engine that powers the Carrington framework. This version has a few moderate list changes, some of which are pretty interesting. In particular:
- Added support for custom post types (WordPress 3.0)
- Support for child themes (including adding templates and plugins in child themes that do not exist in the parent theme)
- Allow custom functions to be filtered into the Single and Comment template selection process (already supported in General context selection)
- home.php is now only used in is_home() situations, not is_front_page() (reverses feature requested and added in v. 2.5)
Other changes:
- Make the posts_per_page setting work as intended (only on initial query)
- Support for nesting templates inside sub-directories in misc/ and forms/
- Removed use of deprecated function `get_the_author_ID`. Replaced with 2.8 `get_the_author_meta` (since 2.8.0). Users of versions of WordPress prior to 2.8.0 should be aware this change will cause problems for them.
- Define required Carrington settings in a more forgiving way, making it easier to use just part of Carrington on a site when desired
- Make gallery settings (implemented in CSS) specific to each gallery
- Added changelog
Get the Carrington Core 3.0 release from the public SVN directory:
http://carrington.googlecode.com/svn/framework/tags/3.0
I’ve been looking at this is trunk. for the last few days. I’m glad it’s been released. I’m going to start playing around with the custom post type features. Thanks Alex and the rest of the crew at Crowd Favorite.
Will the Carrington themes for download be updated to Carrington Core 3.0?
Yes, though you can upgrade any Carrington theme by simply replacing the carrington-core directory.
could you guys please advice to the documentation if there is any – moreover I was wondering what’s happening the Carrington Core after Carrington Build was released.
The documentation is all publicly available in the SVN repository and packaged in the README files of each release.
Carrington Core is complimentary to Carrington Build. Core provides easy templating for pages where that is needed while Build provides the ability to create rich page layouts.
I tried to get child themes to work using the trunk when you first announced it, and just gave up and started coding changes to carrington-blog instead. Have you made more improvements in that direction?
This is the first release with official child theme support.