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  • Ocular Professor
  • Current Version: 1.3.1

Ocular Professor is a photoblogging theme for WordPress that features large images, gallery support, and threaded comments for WordPress 2.7. Ocular Professor was featured in The Best WordPress Themes of 2008.

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  • CMS: WordPress

Version 1.3 was designed to utilize some of the new features released with WordPress 2.7, most notably threaded comments. The theme is still backwards compatible with WP 2.5+, but the comment formatting will be slightly different for pre 2.7 versions. OP has been tested in OS X with Firefox, Safari, Camino, and Opera. It has also been tested in XP with IE 7, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. I don’t have any plans to test/tweak for IE 6 ;P.

Features

  1. Threaded comments (WordPress 2.7+)
  2. A widget-enabled footer with special styling for all default widgets
  3. A “Featured Post” section that, when enabled, allows posts to sit outside the normal flow of blog posts (for pre 2.7 installs that don’t feature the ’sticky’ posts)
  4. Special formatting, such as drop-caps and image captions
  5. Author comment highlighting

Changelog

January 24th, 2009

  • Version 1.3.1 released
  • Fixed an issue with wp_footer(); hook that was affecting plug-ins
  • Added a style rule to improve image scaling in IE

December 30th, 2008

  • Version 1.3 released
  • Support for threaded comments added (WordPress 2.7+)
  • Improved support for captions

October 23rd, 2008

  • Version 1.2 released
  • Added hooks to the header and footer to ensure plug-in compatibility

September 9th, 2008

  • Version 1.1 released
  • Added author comment highlighting

August 23rd, 2008

  • Version 1.0 released

If you use and enjoy Ocular Professor, please consider donating via PayPal or sending a book from my wish list.