Introduction Into A Whole New Level of Website Control:

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Here you will see some of the awesome new features in frugal 3.2.  Just a few include:

• Full Import/Export control over your many frugal settings. Now, creating a complete backup and restoring that backup to your frugal websites is as easy as a few mouse clicks.  Transferring a site is a breeze and implementing custom designs (skins) is now incredibly simple!  (For more info into how this option works you can check out THIS VIDEO)
• Built-In Image Uploader. No longer do you need to use an FTP program to upload custom images to your frugal website.  Just browse and then upload the images directly to a frugal uploads directory on your server.  You then have the ability to rename or delete the image.  It’s super simple and amazingly useful when custom designing your frugal site.
• Full Background Control. Before you just had the ability to change the background colors of most any element on your frugal website.  But now you have FULL control!  Change the type (like horizontal and/or vertical repeating image, static image, color only, transparent, etc..) and, if using an image option, you can specify the image name to be used in that background area.  This, with the new Image Upload option, now gives frugal users a whole new level of design control!
• Thumbnails, Thumbnails, Thumbnails! With the latest Image Thumbnail feature in WordPress 2.9 you can now easily add thumbnails to your post excerpts.  With frugal 3.2 you now have full control over how these thumbnails display.  Change they way they are re-sized and cropped, their alignment, dimensions and even complete border options.  And turn them on or off at will.
• SKINS!! Both free and Premium skins are and will be available to make creating awesome designs with frugal super easy!
• Some Option Refinement. I not only re-organized the frugal options pages to make it easier to maneuver around to the different settings, but I completely re-built the way frugal interacts with the WordPress database.  It’s much more efficient, but it does require that you use a simple plugin (that I created) to upgrade from a previous version of frugal.  No need for new installs, but just a heads up if you are upgrading.  (For more information on how to upgrade to frugal 3.2 check out THIS VIDEO)
• Miscellaneous additions and adjustments. I made a few subtle changes like adding independent H1 and H2 font control for your content headings and providing alignment options for logos (both image and text), where before you just had padding to play with.

Preview of The Premium Skins (Coming Soon!!)

Click the image below to check out a demo of a Premium frugal Skin that will be available soon:

If you have any questions or feedback you’d like to give or if you’re a developer or designer who might be interested in creating skins for frugal and making some extra cash (as well as sharing your design skills with the frugal community) you can contact me any time.

Eric Hamm

Let me just cut to the chase and tell you that I’ve taken all that made frugal Premium awesome and all that made frugal Professional awesome and molded them together to make one AMAZING THEME!  But it’s not just the two themes combined.  It’s SO much more!

So yes, frugal Premium and frugal Professional are no more.  Don’t worry, I’m  still supporting them, but this theme is now just frugal and I think you’ll be happy to call it your own.

Full Blown SEO Action!

Before I get into listing some of the many features of frugal 3.0 I just wanted to let you know that frugal now has full blown SEO built in.  NoIndex, NoFollow options, full meta control, In-Page/In-Post options, full control over your page titles, etc…  So you can get rid of that SEO plugin because frugal’s ready to take on your Search Engine Optimization needs.

CMS Page Template

Per request from a few frugal users I’ve created a page template that enjoys its own set of sidebars and gives you full control over their size, amount and position.  This CMS page also has its own hooks so you go even further to separate your more traditional website content and your blog stuff (only if you want to of course .

Did I Mention frugal Is Fast?

I’ve spent a lot of time reducing the clutter, adding caching features and making frugal one fast and efficient Premium WordPress Theme. I’ve even included an option to activate a simple Database Query speed test in your site’s footer to show you how fast and efficient your theme and plugins really are.

ALL NEW Theme Options Section

I spent the better part of a week completely re-building the frugal Theme Options section.  It’s now much easier to read and navigate.  It also consists of 5 separate pages, not just one long one.

No More Page Or Category ID’s On The Static Homepage

If you already use frugal then you know you can feature pages and posts on your ‘Static Homepage’.  You used to have to specify a Page or Category ID to feature that content.  Now you’ll find easy to use drop-down menus to choose what content to feature.  Just a note: You still have to specify a Post ID if you want to feature your post by that means (ie. Not by category).

Custom Widgets And Hook Options

I’ve dedicated an entire page to giving you the ability to add your own custom functions/widgets and then easily hook them into your frugal WordPress Website with a simple drop down menu.  You not only have the ability to create a custom widget, you have full control over margins, padding, background color, float location, name, etc..

Speaking Of Details…

I can’t say this enough; frugal 3.0 offers the user FULL CONTROL over their WordPress website.  I mean FULL control.  You’ll be hard pressed to find a situation where you actually have to touch a snippet of code.  I’m not saying it won’t happen, but I’ve gone to great lengths to make sure it’s a rarity.

Basically what I did was use the Beta version of frugal 3.0 to update my main websites (frugalTheme.com and MotivateThyself.com) and whenever I came across a situation where I need to touch the frugal Custom Stylesheet I would just add that as a feature.  I kept doing this until I no longer need to even touch that file (which is still a frugal option, though .

Awesome Border Options!!

One of the design features that I’ve added that I think is really cool is full border control.  Now you can add borders to areas like your sidebars, content column, full content/sidebar area, feature and home area and so on.  And not just add a border, but fine tune your borders.  Chose the type, style (eg. solid, dotted, dashed, double) thickness, color and then adjust the MANY margin and padding options to get your layout just PERFECT!

Organization Is Key

All this talk about adding features makes me think about a cluttered mess.  So let me assure you that I spent a lot of time organizing the frugal Theme Options pages to be easy to read, maneuver and use.  My goal was to enhance your user experience, not fill it with bloat.

Some More Details…

The following is a list of just SOME of the features you’ll enjoy with the frugal 3.0 Premium WordPress Theme:

• Full font options for just about every text element.  You can chose things like font…type…color…size…link color…link hover color…weight…line-height…etc…
• Full border options (as mentioned above).
• Full margin and padding options.
• A ROBUST Static Homepage.
• An ALL NEW CMS Page Template that takes frugal that much farther in the pursuit to be more than ‘just a blog theme’.
• Even more ‘Main Layout’ options.
• The ability to easily add footer links.
• CRAZY amounts of control over the look, feel and function of your navbars!
• FULL BLOWN SEO Options!
• And a TON MORE!!

Here’s a video to help you SEE for yourself the robust feature-set of frugal:

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Now that you’ve see what frugal can do, what are you waiting for?!  Get your copy RIGHT NOW!!

Eric Hamm