Theme Description
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— Version 1.6.1 is Available.
Gateway Studios, Simplicity Overhaul features a simple yet beautiful design, that will impress your visitors with its delicate form. The theme comes with many great features that just work out of the box, without the need for plugins, making Gateway a very smart decision with everything Integrated.
A lot of flexibility has been integrated into the theme, so you can use it from a Personal Site, to a Photography Blog to a complete Studio Website. You have an arsenal of Features and Customization at your disposal, and also a Clean Design created with usability and typography in mind.
Screencasts
- Configuring the Gateway Slideshow
- Configuring the Gateway Portfolio
- Excluding Posts from your Homepage/Blog
- Using the Chrome/Safari Inspector to make changes to your theme’s CSS
Features
- 3 Color Options: Orange/Black/Blue + Custom variant, create new color themes with ease!
- Unique Image Slider
- CUB3R Integration, with Random/Manual transitions
- Built-in Pagination and Sub-Navigation, no need for plugins
- Normal Logo / Full Width Header, with exact positioning
- Automatic Dropdown Menus for Blog & Portfolio Categories
- Support for the WordPress 3.0 Menu Manager
- Extensive Theme Options, with 7 option pages, easy to configure
- Custom Post Writing Panel, including CUB3R Controls
- Custom Page Writing Panel, supporting Icons
- Fully Loaded Contact Form, with AJAX & Validation Features
- Twitter Integration
- 2 Blog Layouts: Normal & Full Width
- 2 Post Layouts: Normal & Full Width, each post can have its own layout
- 100% Multilingual, customize & Translate the theme with ease
- Automatic Image Resizing/Scaling
- Portfolio Lightbox Gallery
- Built-in Portfolio Widget
- 7 Widget Areas to choose from
- Custom Archives Page Template, which can be configured
- Full Width Page Template
- Threaded Comments, up to 5 levels
- Cross Browser compatible & Valid XHTML 1 .0 Strict and CSS 2 .1
- All PSD Files Included
- Complete PDF Documentation (27 pages)
Color Variations & Layouts
Changes for Version 1.6
- Added compatibility with WordPress 3.1
- Updated prettyPhoto Lightbox
- Updated Theme & Admin branding
- Dropped PHPMailer, now using WordPress built-in mail functions (1.6.1)
- Minor CSS Fixes to the contact form (1.6.1)
Changes for Version 1.5
- Fixed bug in subnavigation
- Implemented PHPMailer class with UTF -8 support for contact form
- Fixed Twitter feed bug that prevented tweets from showing (1.5.1)
- Added Support for WordPress 3.0+ Menu Manager (1.5.2)
- Fixed Dropdown Menu bug present when Cub3r enabled on Safari (1.5.2)
- Improved Compatibility for WordPress 3.0+ (1.5.2)
- Fixed bug in Portfolio, which prevented Vimeo videos from playing (1.5.3)
- Added/Fixed some missing Multilingual strings (1.5.3)
Changes for Version 1.4
- Fixed layout bug when floated images were present
- Fixed page display on search results
- Enhanced pagination functionality when a custom page is set as the front page
- Fixed twitter bug that didn’t show any feeds when the last tweet was a retweet
- Fixed bug that prevented vimeo videos to be displayed on the lightbox
- Upgraded prettyphoto to 2.5.6
- Fixed bug in portfolio widget
Changes for Version 1.3
- Added Smart Image Scaling for Normal & Full Width Layouts
- Enhanced Portfolio Video Posts
- Added Portfolio Hover image for Videos
- Improved Post Thumbnail generation
- Added video settings to Post Writing Panel
- Post Writing Panel is more intuitive & user friendly
- Added backwards compatibility with Gateway 1.2 and below
- Updated version string for embedded scripts
- Fixed post excerpt generation
- Added more step-by-step instructions to PDF Documentation
Changes for Version 1.2
- Typography/Layout Fixes and Improvements
- Portfolio Page can now have a custom icon
- Enhancements to Post Excerpts
Changes for Version 1.1
- Added a Custom Color Option, you are now able to create new color themes with ease
- Added ability to add a background image / color, with positioning / repeat options
- Fixed bug in header.php, which prevented plugins from working correctly
- Fixed bug in portfolio items, thumbnail was not displayed when having multimedia url’s
- Fixed some compatibility issues with PHP 4 .x
- Header/Logo now can be up to 860 pixels width, automatically expands vertically
- Added 3 more widget areas
- Usability improvements on portfolio items
- Link on the logo can now be removed
- Twitter/Contact section can now be enabled/disabled
- Fixed broken layout when many tags were present
- Updated documentation
Credits
The awesome images used in the live preview, are from the following Flickr users: Luis Hernandez (d2k6) and Emma Royle (BatgirlBob).




