We’ve done this along with some simple changes to licensing:

1. As I’m sure you appreciate, we’re now a GPL only site - all themes are available under the GPL with no restrictions applied.
2. Membership will entitle you to things such as original source material - for example, the Word Documents for the WordPress User Guides we’ve produced.
3. There’s just one price, and this gives access to the forums for £25+VAT per year.
4. We give no guaranteed support in our forums - if you need SLA’d support you have to head on over to Interconnect IT and ask them about support contracts.
5. But we’ll be there - ready to answer questions where possible.

The idea of memberships is that it’s a way to support our development of future themes.  They take a lot of time, and cost a surprising amount of money to develop.  Whilst goodwill is wonderfully, it doesn’t pay for food on our tables.  Consequently we encourage you to a: join the forum and take part and b: if you love our themes you should give us good reviews and ratings, and mention us where you can.

We’re a community now.  Welcome!

• Anvil 2.0
• Blend 1.5
• Evening Sun 1.1
• Grassland 2.0

Caribou and Dovetail will be updated and released in updated versions as soon as we can.  We hope you can appreciate that updating for new releases of WordPress is sometimes a difficult and time consuming process.  If you enjoy our themes, why not help promote them by giving them a great start rating on the repository?

Thank you!

But what use is a load of blurb when you can simply go to the theme demo and find out for yourself?  Try it, come back, and you’ll see where we’re coming from!

• Easy multi-page highlight items from the Write Posts Options
• Automatic image resizing for the highlight spots and thumbnails
• Front page/section slider for top spot items
• Time saving features for busy WP users
• Uses its own WordPress Taxonomy for control
• Sophisticated colour picking controls
• Section & Category colouring for navigational clarity
• Multiple Javascript highlight spots
• Light server & bandwidth load - a full section page can be under 200K
• Great WP compatibility, will not break your WordPress install if you uninstall
• Incredible browser support - works in all browsers we can find, even phones
• Fast rendering even on older computers
• Multiple section support with colour coding for large sites
• All the other stuff we do, ease of use, MU compatibility, and fast loading

Caribou is only available for download to Spectacu.la members and cannot be purchased from any other site.  If you find others selling this theme, please let us know!

Screencasts

We have created a series of screencasts for Caribou, with more to come:

• Creating Sections
• Setting Up Your Home Page
• Setting Up Navigation

The screencasts are currently subtitled only, with the voice track to be added soon.

PHP5 Only

At the moment it’s worth noting that Caribou is designed to take advantage of PHP5 features.  If your server is running PHP4 you need to ask your hosts to switch you over.  PHP4 is no longer supported and there may no longer be security patches issued this could seriously compromise your server. Caribou now works fine under PHP4, I’d still advise everyone to move over to PHP5.

01^st May 2009: The theme has been temporarily withdrawn.
As the club is now 100% GPL we are having to re-work some elements to be compliant. Sorry!

01^st July 2009: Caribou is back and 100% GPL compatible.

27^th July 2009: Caribou 1.0.6 released with a new ‘wide post’ scheme available to those of you who like more space for your content - this puts the post-meta information below the post rather than in the small sidebar to the right.  The commenting engine is now based on our popular javascript based system which is configurable and flexible.

23^th December 2009: Caribou 1.0.7 released with updates for Wordpress 2.9 and improved features. Replaced the highlight image picker with a new ajax arrangement that should make assigning thumbnails to posts a lot easier.