Thesis 2.0 – What I Expect

While playing around with the brandnew (and totally awsome) Thesis 1.7 Beta I’m already pretty much excited about the next “big” version: Thesis 2.0 Final. I know that of most problems we experience and share in the DIYthemes forums is taken care of. Every now and then you can catch a tweet by Chris Pearson in which he states which huge changes & improvements Thesis 2.0 will contain…

My Personal Thesis 2.0 Theme Wishlist

Well, it’s not really a wishlist, it’s more like I’m expecting the following features to be part of any future release. If they are not going to be implemented I will of course patiently wait for the next version, but still drop a tear or two.

  1. Inserting a header (image) from the options menu – Digging into the hooks is not very difficult, yet it’s annoying and just doesn’t fit Thesis’ style of making blogging easier!

  2. More hooks, so I can access every single layout element – I’m currently thinking about implementing a cool feature like we can see it on Chris’ personal blog right within this post

  3. Enhanced drag and drop functionality – In my post rant about Thesis versus Headway I said that Headway is somewhat ahead concerning usability (may only be true for absolute newbies)

  4. Experimental (and totally optional) HTML5 features like magizine-styled columned posts – Combined with the full-width framework this should be a killer feature

  5. Integrated XHTML compability mode for the multimedia hooks – Videos from Youtube and other platforms just won’t validate automatically! Chris, please help!

  6. Dynamically created hooks for the “killer entries feature” – I want to access some categories in a different way though and NOT only through digging into the CSS of every single li element

As Thesis 1.6 (or 1.7 beta) is already pretty much what I expect a Premium WordPress Theme to be I’m of course very interested in the new features.

More features mean more bucks to pay

I mentioned it elsewhere: Thesis 2.0 might be more expensive than the previous versions. That is, of course, because the next big release will be stunning. Whether or not my wishlist is went through and brought to WordPress reality – I’m still expecting Thesis 2.0 to be a big winner in 2010!

What do you expect from the next Thesis Theme release?

Your turn!


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