Evolutive customers can find the plugin in their Versioning Board.
Cluster-One version is coming along with the upcoming super-upgrade of C1.

Today we're glad to announce that Evolutive is now 2.5!
Lots of new features are in the pack and some minor bugs have been fixed, most of them have been previously discussed on our Boards, here's a quick list of what's new in the pack:

• Fixed Header position option

  You can now choose a new layout option for the header (without coding, only one click): Top - Left - Top-Fixed
  This simple yet powerful option will keep your header contents always on top, @_MAX23_, asked for this feature via @Superthemes but we're sure many of you will appreciate it!
  You can check how it looks on E2 Minimum.

• Smoother post loading transitions

  We've upgraded the post loading transition dynamic in order to make it even smoother than before, since E 2.2 you can choose the transition duration and now its an absolute breeze!

• Static Pagination Nav option

  Evolutive comes with a native Ajax powered pagination dynamic that allows a smooth and clean paged posts navigation, however you can now choose to switch back to the canonical WP navigation via Evolutive Settings, no code needed, just a select. This option was requested by Sandiver on our Support Boards.

Plus now Evolutive comes with a new layout mode variant: MINIMUM

MINIMUM turns your E2 Theme in a super-simple, even more minimalistic layout. No title, no categories, no frills, just content.
Live Theme Editor still works perfectly on this layout mode, however some features have been disabled to make it lighter and faster. You can revert to Normal mode whenever you want, without loosing any previous customization.
Check demo on E2 Minimum.

Upgrading E2 is quite simple:

1. Get it from your Versioning Board.
2. FTP login to your wp-content/themes directory.
3. Rename your current evolutive2 theme directory (we're doing this to keep a backup copy, just in case).
4. Unpack and upload the latest theme release in your wp-content/themes directory.
5. Done!

These free tools are great for both Portfolio sites and in  general for WordPress blogs, hotel sites, company websites - you name it, we have it: everybody can benefit from these general tools.

1. WP Database Backup - if you ever lost some content, you know what it feels like. Better be always prepared - this simple plugin lets you schedule  backups too, so once properly set, you might forget - until you need it.  Not the most complete backup tool available today - but I've been using since many years with success.
2. WordPress SEO by Yoast. If you want to be really serious about SEO this is the best plugin avaible today, hands down. It takes care of disabling indexation of useless archives or any other template or specific page you want, and customize the meta tags. A neat preview features lets you understand what will happen in the Google search results when G picks up the entered metadata. Excellent!
3. More Fields. If you are playing with custom fields, you'll love this plugin, which enables you to build beautiful user interfaces for handling your custom field data.
4. Redirection. If you had a site for more than one year you know managing 301 redirects and 404 errors is always important.
5. Auto Featured Image: Forgot selecting the featured image on lots of posts? Let this plugin do the dirty job for you!
6. AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild: if you change your thumbnail sizes, you need to regenerate thumbnails. This simple tool will allow you to do so. A good alternative in Regenerate Thumbnails.
7. Ozh' Admin Drop Down Menu
   WordPress 3.3 introduces a nice navigation menu for th WordPress administration panel, but this plugin frees much more space for your actual content, so for better concentration on your content creation process, give this plugin a try.
8. Embedit Pro by SuperThemes
   One stop solution for embedding HTML from custom fields or managing HTML "snippets" you want to use through your site to have multiple instances of  "Buy Now" Paypal button, Contact button, or some content of your choice.

1. You keep control and ownership of your content. WordPress is an open platform. This is priceless. If you ever decide to migrate your site, can always do that. Not so easily with Wix or the like.
2. A quick start, one minute install platform that still has room to grow.
   Never used WordPress? Buy a simple 10$  php/mysql hosting, find one of the many hosting packages who have automatic install of WordPress. Spend a day with it. You'll fall in love.
3. The biggest selection of layouts, or create your custom one.
   Again, being  an open platform, there's a huge theme design community. This means for you that you can change your theme layout choosing from thousands of options (including our themes, for the best customizing experience)
4. Enhance your site functionalities in infinite ways, choosing from the biggest library ever of plugins, or asking a programmer to code your custom request. Forget about it if your site runs on close, proprietary  platform like Cargo. Your site can be more original and powerful.
5. Publishing new content, updating old contents, replacing images is easy and fast.
   Nobody wants a dead website. Content is king, and everybody knows portfolios need to be updated, biographies changed...WordPress will make doing these changes easier and faster than most other platform. There are more chances that you will actually update your content when you need to.
6. You will never be alone.  Maybe your neighbour too may be using WordPress!
   Being WordPress the most popular CMS in the world, there is a huge community of users, coders and bloggers who can support you in cause of trouble, or help you making the most out of this platform.
7. WordPress will help managing your images. Mass image upload, thumbnail creation, gallery management: powerful and easy too.
   Dealing with images is one of the most important tasks in building a Portfolio website. WordPress comes with great features, from uploading many images at a time (just using the shift key while selecting files to be uploaded) to cropping and resizing. Just take your time exploring the upload window, and you'll easily master it. Not enough? There's a great documentation out there.
8. WordPress will lead you out of evil technologies like Flash.
   Want to build a Flash website in 2012? With CSS3 knocking at the door, jQuery animated themes like Evolutive2 who still needs Flash? Maybe only your old-fashioned Flash guy who doesn't own an iPhone, and wants to charge you for every site update.
   Flash is outdated technology for a lot of reasons. Stay away of it, even if you are building a photography site!
9. Publish easily from your mobile phone too
   Adding  content with your mobile phone can be a cool plus and help those lazy people update their portfolios more often.
10. You learn something useful: you will master a flexible technology, should you ever need to build a different kind of site for your company, your secondary business, your know how will not be wasted.
    Learning from scratch a new platform is something nobody wants to do. At least, do it for just one time in your lifetime!

Try pasting the following codes in a demo post on your Evolutive 2.4 or check E2-demo for further reference.

The basic slider:

[c1_slider]
[c1_slider_img]http://superfolio.org/e2-demo/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/10-kilian-eng.jpg[/c1_slider_img]
[c1_slider_img]http://superfolio.org/e2-demo/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/13-kilian-eng_12.jpg[/c1_slider_img]
[c1_slider_img]http://superfolio.org/e2-demo/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/17-kilian-eng_16.jpg[/c1_slider_img]
[/c1_slider]

New options available on E2.4:
thumbs: thumbs-before, thumbs-after, dots-before, dots-after - shows clickable thumbnails\dots before or after the slider, default none.
transition: effect - A complete list of effects is available here, default fade.
timeout: number - Sets the timeout for autoslide in milliseconds, default 0 => no autoslide.
prev_next: visible, hidden - Shows\hides the Prev - Next buttons above the slider.

A slider with thumbnails after and Wipe transition:

[c1_slider_2 thumbs="thumbs-after" transition="wipe"]
[c1_slider_img]http://superfolio.org/e2-demo/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/20-kilian-eng.jpg[/c1_slider_img]
[c1_slider_img]http://superfolio.org/e2-demo/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/13-kilian-eng_12.jpg[/c1_slider_img]
[c1_slider_img]http://superfolio.org/e2-demo/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/17-kilian-eng_16.jpg[/c1_slider_img]
[/c1_slider_2]

An autoslide slider that automatically slides after 3s with clickable dots after, turn left transition and no Prev-Next buttons above it:

[c1_slider_3 timeout="3000" thumbs="dots-after" transition="turnLeft" prev_next="hidden"]
[c1_slider_img]http://superfolio.org/e2-demo/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/17-kilian-eng_16.jpg[/c1_slider_img]
[c1_slider_img]http://superfolio.org/e2-demo/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/10-kilian-eng.jpg[/c1_slider_img]
[c1_slider_img]http://superfolio.org/e2-demo/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/13-kilian-eng_12.jpg[/c1_slider_img]
[/c1_slider_3]

Styling and managing your contents with E2 and WordPress is quite easy, however some of our users asked us if there was a way to publish contents via mobile, so here's a quick and clean solution to setup and maintain a flog-styled WordPress with E2 and a very useful plugin: Auto Post Thumbnail. This simple yet effective plugin will basically add the first image in the post as the featured image.

I personally run E2 in this kind of Flog mode on my Tipografo/Flog, where i publish content only via iphone, here's how:

1. Make sure you're running the latest version of E2, check the Versioning Board to get latest release!
2. Install Auto Post Thumbnail
3. Install WordPress app on your mobile devide (iOS, Android)
4. Configure the app to connect with your WordPress setup
5. And you're ready to go!

Launch WordPress App

Choose a blog \ add photo

Select media to upload

And here you go!
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Evolutive is now 2.3. Some bugs have been fixed and a set new useful features have joined the party:

• Superthemes E2 Contact Form - Many of you have asked a custom built contact form that wont brake your navigation, now you got it! With this one click setup plugin and by adding a quick shortcode in your posts a nice contact form will come out, already styled accordingly to your actual theme colors!
  

• Global Background Image - This lovely new LTE function will allow you to add a full background image to your E2 simply providing a valid jpg/png/gif url. This was one of the most used snippets for the Advanced Mode, now you can manage it easily with LTE. Check our Testrun for a demo.

  

• Auto Scroll to top - You can now choose to disable the default scroll-to-top effect available on Evolutive when closing a post.
• Webkit support for custom scrollbars - New, polished sidebars on webkit based browsers!
• IE8 CSS Fix

Embedit PRO allows you to embed HTML with two different methods:

HTML Snippet Embed: Super simple. Super convenient.

You can create and  store HTML snippets in a specific menu, and then add them in your content   just clicking the "HTML Snippet" button in the post editor.

[A note for geeks: it's like creating on the fly a new shortcode that you can use on every post or page of your blog.]

View this quick start video and see how useful and easy this is.

After embedding your code, in your post you will see that a contextual "edit snippet" direct editing button is provided for the site administrator's convenience. So you can immediately tweak your embedded HTML, useful for changing sizes on the fly.

HTML Snippets can be a handy way of having a "pastebin" for your stuff too - play with it, you'll love it.

Custom Fields content embed. Quick & no-frills.

Are you familiar with custom fields? Paste your HTML code to embed in a custom field of your choice, and then place a shortcode in your  content by   clicking the "Custom Field" button.

[Note for geeks: EmbedIt will paste for you a "post-specific" shortcode, which calls a custom field]

See how it works - watch the video: it's easier said then done.

This is very useful when you need to quickly embed just in a single post some HTML, without leaving the post editing window.

GET IT NOW. Stop fighting with your content!

DOWNLOAD, enable, zero configuration necessary.
Learn how to use it: watch the videos above if you did not yet.

Embedit PRO will save you a lot of time, a quick solution for many occasions. No messing around, and compatible with any html embeddable service. And of course, you can write your own html code, without having the hassle of dealing with the WordPress WISYWYG editor.

When Embedit PRO is useful?

It can be very handy when you need   to:

• Embed Youtube videos into wordpress - sometimes the auto-embed does not act like you wanted to, or you want more customization options
• Embed Ustream, LiveStream, SoundCloud or any other service which gives you a HTML embed code into your WordPress site, without needing any extra tools, keeping "one size fits them all" approach instead of having tons of active plugins.
• Embed a custom Google Map into wordpress
• Embed some custom  HTML code into wordpress
• Embed Ads in WordPress: for example EmeditPRO can be used to place some specific Adsense code into each single wordpress post  deciding WHERE it should go. Some people want to do that to maximize revenue.
• Embed IFRAMES into a WordPress page or post. Sometimes it can be a pain, things get better with EmbedIt snippets and their contextual editing link.

 A note for former EmbedIt plugin users - very important

You should definitely start using Embedit PRO, but don't throw away the old EmbedIt, if you were using it on  your site.

Embedit PRO it's a completely simpler and more efficient way of doing HTML embeds, and it's more  compliant to the WordPress stardards. It is much more powerful and flexible too. It takes advantage of some of the best WordPress features like custom fields, custom post types, and shortcodes tightened together. It does not have any of the limitations of the original EmbedIt.

If you were using the old EmbedIt plugin, KEEP BOTH VERSIONS ACTIVE

Your old content still needs the old  Embedit plugin (unsupported, still available here) in order to be displayed properly. Not a problem since they are both VERY LIGHTWEIGHT plugins, the new Embedit PRO makes less queries to display your posts.

Let's start by our goal: building a website that looks and acts like RomeLuv.com, using WordPress and free plugins, and our free Evolutive Lite WordPress Theme.

In RomeLuv, posts are organized by category, and shown ordered  by user rating, in the homepage and on each category page.

Each post has it's map and a simple star user rating; a page with a global map allows to view all posts on a Google Map.

The beautiful grid-based layout is provided by the Evolutive Lite Free WordPress theme, but I'm going to share a slightly modded version, so you can save some time.

So, are you ready?

1. Install WordPress
2. Install the Evolutive-Lite RomeLuv Custom theme
3. Install the RomeLuv Google Maps for WordPress Plugin. This plugin allows you to enter an address on each post and generate the maps. Please configure the plugin settings - you need to obtain a free Google API key, and I love to have the map automatically embedded in the single posts. You can choose a size as well.
4. Install the WP-PostRatings plugin - and maybe later  configure the labelsaccording to your desire (Ratings menu > Templates)
5. Install the LightBox Plus plugin if you want images in lightboxes. The auto-lightbox function of the EvolutiveLite theme was disabled.
6. [OPTIONAL] Install the WordPress SEO plugin by Joost De Valk. This is the best SEO plugin for WordPress to date, and I really recommend using it, and configure it according to your website's structure and content.
7. Enter some content, add some posts correctly entering the address in the field under the WYSIWYG editor - test if everything starts to work. It should
8. Add a new page to your blog and enter the [GLOBALMAP] tag. This page will show all the posts on a map. The single page template has been hacked to the width is maximized (compared to the single posts), allowing a larger map.
9. Add some fantasy and a bit of PHP/CSS coding to customize colours and behaviour.

There may be some things which can be surely improved, but this might be a very useful starting point for everybody who wants to get their feet wet into geoblogging and building a destination guide. Everything is free and released "as is", so have fun !

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