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Foxland products for free

All my themes and plugins are now free. At the moment I feel that’s a permanent decision but you’ll never know. I want to thank all who have supported my journey. Either by purchasing, helping, or sharing ideas. I’ll do my best to answer some of the questions you might have. Why free? I don’t …

Kuorinka theme updated to version 1.5.0

Kuorinka theme and Kuorinka Plus Plugin for it has been updated. The biggest change is that Kuorinka theme now supports WordPress Core Logo feature. That can’t be behind paywall in Kuorinka Plus Plugin anymore because otherwise Kuorinka theme couldn’t be in the WordPress.org repo anymore. Logo feature is now under the Customizer → Site identity. Unfortunately you …

Toivo theme updated to version 1.2.0

Toivo theme has updated to version 1.2.0. The biggest change is that theme is now using WordPress Custom Logo feature. Before logo was from Jetpack plugin. Unfortunately you might need to set up your logo again. Go to Appearance → Customize In there go to Site Identity Click Change logo and select your logo again Save …

Changes in Foxland

Today is December 6, 2016, Finland Independence day. We are now 99 years old and I salute my home country from the bottom of my heart. Feature image (dark road with arrow up) represent December here in Finland pretty well, at least here in Helsinki 🙂 But what were the changes in my theme and …

2016 Guest Posts in WP Tavern

In 2016 I wrote two guest post in WP Tavern. Behind the Scenes of WordPress.com Themes with David Kennedy Why PixelGrade is Experimenting with a $225 WordPress Theme on Themeforest In David’s interview we talked about themes on WordPress.com, Twenty Seventeen, theme user experience, accessibility, theme business, and other theme-related topics. This was part of my …

WordCamp Finland 2016

Welcome to WordCamp Finland 2016! It will be on April 15th in Helsinki followed by a workshop and contributor day on the 16th. Get you ticket now, I’m certain that we’ll be sold out sooner or later. If you have never been in WordCamp here is short info what it’s all about. WordCamps are casual, locally-organized …

Update: EDD Members and multisite compatible

EDD Members is membership add-on for Easy Digital Downloads Plugin. Root functionality is based on calculating expire date for users. Then we can have private page, post or any post type based on expire date. Expire date has been saved in User Meta and that’s perfectly fine. But if you had multisite install expire date …

Content Restriction and EDD Members working together

Did you know that you can set membership site also using Easy Digital Downloads. It’s the best plugin for selling digital products. There are at least three add-on plugins that can help you with Membership sites. Recurring Payment Content Restriction EDD Members I’ll give you short example how Content Restriction and EDD Members works together. …

Accessibility in WordPress Helsinki Meetup

In Tampere there have been active WordPress community and they have had their own WordPress Meetup several years. Now also Helsinki have our own Meetup group, everyone is more than welcome to join! We have very open atmosphere and we are definitely going to see lot’s of great topics. WordPress Helsinki Helsinki, FI 1,140 Members …

French Themes for French-speaking WordPress community

I’m more than happy to announce that my themes will be also in Hexagone. It’s a French theme shop aimed at the French-speaking WordPress community and it’s maintained by Devin Price and Fx Benard. Devin is a WordPress developer who also maintain DevPress theme shop. Fx maintains WP Translations and he’s really passionate about translations. I’ve know them …

Update on support lengths

Most of my themes and plugins have three price options. All price options will create one year license.  It means that you’ll get automatic updates for one year. But different price options have different license count for sites and support lengths. Basic: License for 1 site + support for 6 months. Standard: License for 2-4 sites …

Plugin releases: EDD Members and Feedback

I started out building only WordPress Themes but building Plugins is equally fun! May I proudly present EDD Members and EDD Feedback. Even if they are commercial plugins I have decided to publish them public in Github also. Business men will probably think that’s just stupid, now you never gonna sell any licenses. But I have …

Kuorinka and Mina Olen theme updated

Kuorinka theme Kuorinka theme have updated to version 1.2.0. I wanted to roll new WP 4.1 functions in and here is the short list of new features. Add our team member menu. Add support for new the_posts_pagination function. Support for new WP 4.1 title tag. Theme works in older versions of WP but I naturally …

Introducing Feedback add-on Plugin for Easy Digital Downloads

One of my customers asked me is there a way to send automatic feedback emails after user have purchased products via Easy Digital Downloads Plugin. He said that it was coming more and more difficult to manually send emails to customers and ask for product feedback. I could not find any extensions for this job and …

Introducing Membership add-on Plugin for Easy Digital Downloads

Justin Tadlock have written excellent tutorial how to run membership site. I’m using similar method in this site also. But my system have couple of downsides I’m not happy with. I needed to write extra plugin that give customer 6 months, 1 year or 2 years access to support forums after they purchase theme or …

Foxnet Themes changed domain name to foxland.fi

You may have noticed that you’re now under domain foxland.fi, not foxnet-themes.fi. This is were I demonstrate my themes and plugins from now on, commercial and free ones. There were couple of reasons why I switched domain name. First of all, I wanted to move my site to better, faster and top notch host. There …

Help me to help you

I have simple request. I want you to help me to help you. You translate my theme and I’ll do the same for you. I’m not begging you but it would be nice for both of us.

Themes and Plugin updates

Most of the themes and plugins have been updated and they now work better with WordPress version 3.9. Here is the most common things that was making some problems. Themes Widgets should now appear also in theme customizer. Some themes still don’t support this new feature but I’m working on updates. Some themes had some …

Plugin release: Webshare

I have always had difficulties to find fast and attractive social sharing plugins. I’ve tried Jetpack sharing module and Floating Social Bar just to name few. But there was always something missing. Then I visited VelocityPage blog and immediately saw that I wanted to have those kind of Social sharing options. Simple font icon with …

Paytrail Payment Gateway Published

I’m happy to announce that new Payment Gateway for Easy Digital Downloads plugin is finally ready. I think I started to work on in about 6 months ago, then I put it on hold for a couple of months and coded most of it in December 2013. I have full trust on EDD and Paytrail …

Changes in Foxnet Themes site

There are couple of important changes in Foxnet Themes site. Here is short summary about changes. Paytrail payment gateway I rolled out my first commercial plugin. It’s Paytrail payment gateway add-on for Easy Digital Downloads plugin. I guess site name is now No, not another theme and plugin shop. License length Commercial products now have …

Paytrail Payment Gateway demo for Easy Digital Downloads

I’ve been building Paytrail Payment Gateway add-on plugin for Easy Digital Downloads. It’s been fun and another step that I want to take on my WordPress trip. I don’t go into all details just yet but there are couple of things what I’d like to say.

Curriculum of WordPress School

I wrote in WP Daily about WordPress Curriculum and now that they have closed they site I feel like I should back up my writing here. I know that original post is now re-directed in torquemag but I don’t feel that comfortable about it. So here is the orginal article.

WordPress School Curriculum

People at WP Daily were too kind that they let me write some thoughts on WordPress Curriculum.

Stay calm, stay calm, stay calm

Stay calm, stay calm, stay calm. It’s pretty hard because some ass**** hacked this site and my other site. Here is some reading what you should do after site got hacked.

Please, please use a Child Theme

YOU BROKE MY SITE!!!!!!!!???? AFTER UPDATE ALL MY MODIFICATIONS ARE GONE, PLEASE HELP ME FIX IT!!!!!!! This is not a story of Johnny Rotten. And story doesn’t start with line “once upon a time”. And it definitely doesn’t have a happy ending. Still wanna read it?

Me, myself (and I)

Because no one else will interview me, I decided to do it myself.

Smashing Icon Set

I’m guilty as charged using these Smashing Icons.

Zappy new year 2013!

Have a zappy year 2013! Cheers! I hope Foxnet Themes is gonna fly like an angel. Well at least with one wing.