The wait is almost over, at least for the smart folks who own a Thesis Developer’s License. Thesis 1.7 is almost ready to go into beta mode, according to Chris Pearson. In fact, Chris was busy today giving us a sneak preview of the new options panels. Here are a couple of the highlights:
- Thesis Options will be renamed Site Options, shrink, and be more organized.
- Design Options gets all sorts of new built-in Javascript libraries, and comment settings
- Brand new Options Manager lets you import / export settings from the Thesis options pages. Amazing tool for Thesis skin designers.
- New Page Options panel to fine-tune SEO settings.
Better organization, better control over SEO, and the Options Manager. Sounds like it should be Thesis 2.0, but it’s being released as 1.7. Even with all these goodies that we get to enjoy, I’m sure Chris was hard at work under the hood, tweaking and optimizing code that we’ll never see.
Though there has been talk about a price hike, nothing has been done yet. You can still get in on the Thesis goodness for $87. Of course, you really should go with the Developer’s Option at $164 – that lets you use Thesis on unlimited sites, and you get access to beta releases.
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