Originally released almost 3 years ago, the Daily Deal theme was designed to allow anyone to start a deals website; a “Groupon clone” so to say. Today this market has dwindled a bit, but Daily Deal, as one of the original deal themes on the market is still finding its way to WordPress installs around the world. Because of this continuing popularity we’ve just released a major update which will make Daily Deal fully responsive! All new “mobile first” codebase The previously mentioned responsiveness is actually just a small part of the overall change done to Daily Deal. To ensure the theme is up to today’s standards we’ve re-coded it to use the popular Foundation framework. This lightweight framework is known for its performance and mobile-first approach. Not only it’s responsive, Daily Deal is now one of our best responsive themes! I should mention that the features you loved from the previous version have stayed mostly unchanged. The design is also virtually identical. Apart from the improved performance on mobile phones, one of the things you probably noticed is the increased width. The main Daily Deal container is now 1200 pixels wide and thus better optimized for today’s desktop resolutions. Customize Daily Deal in real-time Use the Appearance ⇨ Customize section to tweak theme colors and significantly alter the look of your site. The beauty of the WordPress customizer is that everything you change is reflected (in the preview window) in real-time. Along with changing colors you can also use the section to change your logo, favicon and body background image. Lastly, if you’re running WordPress 3.9 and above you can use the Customize section to preview widgets. Regarding the update itself Theme updates at Templatic are free for all active members. So… if your Daily Deal license is active, head over to the member area and download Daily Deal. Please keep in mind that this is a massive update. If your Daily Deal-powered site is heavily customized, updating will undo most of those customizations. For general tips regarding theme updates please open this article. Other notable improvements Google Fonts – use the WordPress Customizer to quickly change the font of your site. Choose among dozens of available fonts. Custom CSS Editor – make CSS edits directly from your WordPress Dashboard and save them to the database. Worrying whether you backed up custom.css will no longer be an issue. Better... Read more »
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