Unyson Framework

The Unyson Framework is truly one of the simplest to use and most complete WordPress theme framework you'll find around these days. You actually may find it hard to believe that so many cool features are actually free and not disguised under a dual licensing model like most similar products and you'll end up looking at every file in the theme download package and double-check to see if it's actually licensed under the standard WordPress GPL license alone.

Created to aid the process of building a WordPress theme from scratch, you can use Unyson to build custom sites for your clients or go all out and build your very own themes to sell on marketplaces like ThemeForest or MOJO Themes.

Developers can benefit from a huge array of features and nifty tools to easily add complex functionality to their themes, ranging from interface elements up to backend components that work silently under the hood.

There's a large collection of option types available, which developers can use to build their very own custom "Theme Settings Panels" for controlling the functionality of their themes via a special section in the WordPress backend.

There's also a sidebars management utility for creating custom sidebars and showing them only on special pages, along with lots of custom sidebar widgets included out of the box with the standard Unyson package.

Since SEO is the most important part to manage after a site has been built, Unyson helps out with this facet as well, by providing a special section for editing site-wide SEO related settings, and also adding a special meta box to each page for editing these details on a per-page basis.

And since we're talking about "per-page basis", we also have to give props to the ThemeFuse team for building one of the easier to use page builders around, a special GUI that lets non-technical users create the pages they want using the classic drag&drop editing pattern.

The page builder includes support for controlling not only the page's layout, but also its content, allowing users to easily drag and drop a "content element" inside the page's wireframe, moving it using his mouse in the desired position, and then edit its content, with different options available, based on the chosen content type that was added.

This feature is probably the best one in the entire framework, letting you build complex themes that you can let your clients edit using a kindergarten-friendly GUI.

But the good things don't end here. Just to name some of the other functionality included with Unyson, we have support for a built-in custom post type called "Portfolio", a slider management utility, an automatic (scheduled) site backup utility, lots of shortcodes, a mega menu builder, pricing tables, breadcrumbs navigation, and also lots of documentation.

Installation:

Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/themes/ directory.

Activate the default theme through the 'Appearance' menu in the WordPress backend.

There's also a special package that can be installed as a WordPress plugin. You'll find it on the WordPress plugin repo.

What is new in this release:

• Removed array_merge($old_opts, $new_opts) from options save
• Tabs, Boxes, Groups, Options are now displayed in the order they are in array (not grouped)
• Option type multi-picker fixes
• Added the possibility to use custom framework-customizations directory name

What is new in version 2.3.2:

• Removed array_merge($old_opts, $new_opts) from options save
• Tabs, Boxes, Groups, Options are now displayed in the order they are in array (not grouped)
• Option type multi-picker fixes
• Added the possibility to use custom framework-customizations directory name

What is new in version 2.2.7:

• Removed array_merge($old_opts, $new_opts) from options save
• Tabs, Boxes, Groups, Options are now displayed in the order they are in array (not grouped)
• Option type multi-picker fixes
• Added the possibility to use custom framework-customizations directory name

What is new in version 2.1.25:

• Added the FW_WP_List_Table class
• Option type multi-picker: added support for short-select
• Option type slider and range-slider design fixes
• Extension activation fix: Some required extensions were not added for activation

What is new in version 2.1.3:

• Multi-site:
• Only network administrator can install/remove/update extensions.

What is new in version 1.4.9:

• Option type background-image fix
• Other minor fixes

What is new in version 1.4.1:

• Backup extension: minor fixes
• Finished the Update extension: theme and extensions update works

What is new in version 1.3.0:

• Added Events extension
• Added Feedback extension
• Builder: added Undo/Redo, FullScreen and Templates functionality
• Added option types: datetime-picker, datetime-range, map
• Shortcodes extension changes: The 'supported_post_types' config key is deprecated, use add_post_type_support($post_type, 'fw-layout-builder');
• Added calendar, map and fullwidth-section shortcodes

What is new in version 1.2.8:

• Fixed wrong usage of the $this->locate_(css|js)_URI(...) in extensions, replaced with $this->get_declared_URI(...)
• Include framework-customizations/theme/static.php later than all other static.php
• Now fw_get_db_settings_option(...) returns default option value from the settings options array if no value was found in the database
• Builder: Added delete button to the default item view

Requirements:

• WordPress 4 or higher