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Fauna RC2! [Update 2]

It is with great pride that I present to you this _huge_ update. Yes, it’s been a while since RC. Yes, there’s been two Wordpress upgrades, 2.1 and 2.2. Yes, RC actually _broke_ in one of the upgrades. I’m here to tell you that all of that has been fixed in RC2, plus many _great_ new things have happened.

* *Download Fauna RC2 (June 14th, 2007)*

*[Update]*: Just discovered and fixed two tiny tiny fixes. The rc2 zip file above links to the new zip. If you downloaded the zip 2 hours after this was posted, you should be fine. Otherwise, “functions.php” and “header.php” have had tiny fixes.
*[Update]*: Allowed commenting.

Noteworthy Changes

* All-new options page! (See a screenshot)
With the offered help of theme author comet Martin Hipp, Fauna is now equipped with a brand new and much improved options page. All the important options from the last version are still available — the big benefits being a usability and aesthetic overhaul, new features such as the ability to easily upload a custom header. Most importantly however, with the code improvements, we have taken the first steps to making sure a great new version of Fauna gets ported to Wordpress.com.
* Upload your own theme header!
As mentioned above, part of the new options page gives you an ability to easily upload and crop your own pictures for use as image header.
* More easily select between custom Fauna styles
Fauna comes bundled with a light and a dark look, easily selectable from a dropdown box on the options page. Additionally, our Right-To-Left custom style has huge improvements, and should help out Arabic and other RTL language based users.
* Fauna specific widgets!
Fauna RC2 openly embraces Wordpress Widgets, a feature that’s been around for a while but is finally integrated in Wordpress 2.2. When you activate Fauna RC2, you automatically get access to a Fauna Sidenotes widget, that allows you to decide yourself where in your sidebar you want your Sidenotes to show up.

Up Next

According to the roadmap, the next version of Fauna will be the final one. Due to the major changes in RC2, however, I cannot promise there won’t be an RC3 before the final version. That all depends on the bugs that pop up after this release. We’ll see!