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FaveBusiness (formerly Carrington Business) and Carrington Build 1.2 Released!

December 21, 2011

FaveBusiness (Formerly Carrington Business) version 1.2 Why the rename? Carrington Core, Carrington Build, Carrington Business – It was confusing! We are reclaiming “Carrington” as the name for our underlying theme technologies (Core and Build), and are therefore renaming all of our themes accordingly. Here’s a Sampling of new features and changes in version 1.2. Taxonomy…

Introducing Annotum: a scholarly publishing platform built on WordPress

November 23, 2011

Today we helped launch a new WordPress theme called Annotum. Annotum was built for scholarly journals and publishers to have a robust, WordPress-based platform for authoring and publishing. This theme also serves as a possible alternative as users transition from Google Knol to WordPress. Crowd Favorite worked in conjunction with Solvitor to ideate, design, and…

Introducing Social: social-media friendly WordPress plugin

August 10, 2011

We’re excited to jointly introduce Social, a new WordPress plugin compliments of MailChimp. Social is a plugin to help bring the social media discussions into your WordPress site: Facebook comments, Twitter mentions, retweets and replies. It provides site owners the ability to broadcast new posts to Facebook and Twitter. It also allows commenters to comment…

RAMP customers: plugin released for WordPress GUID compatibility

August 1, 2011

The CF GUID-Fix plugin corrects duplicate GUID values created with versions of WordPress that exhibited a non-unique GUID bug. This has been described in detail via an email to existing customers: There were certain versions of WordPress that contained a bug that caused the value in the GUID field in the “posts” table of the…

Crowd Favorite participating at WordCamp San Francisco 2011

July 29, 2011

Crowd Favorite is excited to be attending and participating at WordCamp San Francisco 2011 in August. For those who haven’t attended, the San Francisco conference is the premiere gathering for WordPress designers, developers, bloggers, and other professionals and users alike. With over three days (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) of sessions, you’re bound to find the right…

Easy content deployment solution for WordPress: RAMP

July 21, 2011

Crowd Favorite has announced our latest WordPress offering to help facilitate easy content staging and deployment between servers: RAMP. RAMP, originally meaning “Review And Move to Production”, is introduced on Alex’s blog: At Crowd Favorite we are fortunate to have some really great clients. These clients are running some pretty big web properties on WordPress,…

Carrington Build and Carrington Business Theme versions 1.1.2 Released

May 24, 2011

Carrington Build version 1.1.2 Today Crowd Favorite has released the latest version of Carrington Build. This version 1.1.2, includes a few bug fixes and improvements on existing features since the release of version 1.1.1. Please see the change log included in the Carrington Build package for more details. Carrington Business version 1.1.2 The Carrington Business…

Alex King Speaking at WordCamp Seattle 2011

April 11, 2011

Crowd Favorite’s founder, Alex King, will be speaking at WordCamp Seattle later this week. Be sure to check it out if you’re in the Pacific Northwest. [blog post]

Carrington Build and Carrington Business Theme versions 1.1.1 Released

March 21, 2011

Carrington Build version 1.1.1 Today Crowd Favorite has released the latest version of Carrington Build. We were hoping to avoid the inevitable .1 release, but there were a few things that popped up that we wanted to make sure we took care of. The update, version 1.1.1, includes a few bug fixes and improvements on existing…

Carrington Build and Carrington Business Theme versions 1.1 Released

March 10, 2011

Carrington Build version 1.1 Today Crowd Favorite has released the latest version of Carrington Build, the best drag-and-drop page templating system for WordPress. The update, version 1.1, includes numerous bug fixes since the initial release and a handful of new features: Support for WordPress 3.1 A new Carousel Module has been introduced which allows users…

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