• Support for custom taxonomies within the general context
• Added support for custom post type archive pages in general context
• Support for post formats in the single context
• Relies on features in WordPress 3.1
• Implemented checked() and selected() functions for options
• Added PHP doc blocks
• E_NOTICE clean
• Updated some variable names

The new version is tagged and available at in our public SVN repository on Google Code.

You can replace the carrington-core directory in any Carrington theme with this new version to take advantage of these new features.

UPDATE: The latest versions of the Carrington themes are available on Google Code.

Please download from the themes page and be sure to check out the recently updated and expanded developer documentation.

• Added nonces to settings page
• Made title of settings page filterable
• Made menu item title filterable
• Support custom post types in AJAX archives
• Version # now tied to WP release # (this version, 3.0.1, released during WP 3.0)

Get the code from the public SVN directory:

http://carrington.googlecode.com/svn/framework/tags/3.0.1

• 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

Here is the (current) plan in a nutshell:

1. Done: Create separate community support forums for our three consumer Carrington themes (Blog, Text, Mobile). These are now live and hosted on the Crowd Favorite website.
2. Done: Create an additional community support forums for developers and designers to work together regarding the Carrington framework and Carrington JAM.
3. Done: Deprecate the Google Group. It gets SPA, it’s hard to find things in old threads and it’s confusing to have both end-user theme support and developer framework support in one place.
4. Planned: move all framework documentation, etc. from this site to carringtonframework.com. We’ve got some good plans for making that site a great developer resource, no idea on timeline at this point. Also, we want to add inline documentation to the code to support some of these efforts – patches welcome.

Sorry for the constant shuffling around of late. Hopefully in the near future everything will be settling into their more permanent locations.

You can grab the latest from SVN on Google Code. Then simply replace the carrington-core directory in your theme with new version you have checked out from:

http://carrington.googlecode.com/svn/framework/trunk

and that should do it.

Note that the way child theme support is implemented, your child theme can add new templates to your theme as well as overriding existing templates. I think this is necessary for Carrington – it allows you to create custom templates for your specific site and have them upgrade cleanly via the child theme.

Feedback welcome.

UPDATE:

The steps to test if you want to make a child theme for a Carrington theme (before this support is rolled out in new releases):

1. Download the framework from SVN using the URL above and replace the carrington-core directory in your parent theme.
2. Create your child theme (which can include new Carrington templates).

That’s it.

Please download from the themes page.

Please download from the themes page.

Please download from the themes page.