This is just a short announcement. The pre-release of Green Park 2 Beta 6 is available for download, the “final” Beta is due in a few days.

The improvements include built-in Twitter support, seamless integration of Disqus comments, 40% fewer http requests, up to 50% faster page rendering compared to Beta 5 and a total of 16 supported languages.

The current Beta 6 is not supported and not recommended for production use. Please check the complete Changelog of Green Park 2 Beta 6 Pre before you get your copy from the local mirror. Don’t forget to leave your feedback in the comments!

You should as well have a look at the Beta 6 preview.

Update

• 03/10/2010, 15:00 – Small fix for Twitter integration, Download has been updated.
• 03/16/2010, 23:00 – Support for WordPress 3.0 (Alpha)
• 03/31/2010, 18:45 – The release of Beta 6 is delayed to make it fully compatible with WordPress 3 and it’s new functions

It took me a while to get back to work on Green Park after a little break and some vacations. So, this is only a small update to the translations for Green Park 2 Beta 5 but Beta 6 is on the way. Thanks to the following users, the theme now features native support for 12+1 language.

1. Chinese by wxzbb
2. English (default) by me
3. French by Julien
4. German by Andreas Jacob
5. Icelandic by Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
6. Italian by Saverio Tonno
7. Norwegian Bokmål by Bjørn-Arild Eriksen-Woll
8. Polish by Tosiek
9. Romanian by Cristian Boba
10. Russian (formal) by Dr. Dmitry Tarasov
11. Russian (informal) by Perllover
12. Spanish (castellano) by José Manuel Mao
13. Swedish by Jon Klarström

Many thanks for your contributions!

The new release (still Beta 5) is now available for download from the Green Park 2 page and should be available within a few hours from WordPress.org.

Late last month I released Green Park 2 Beta 4 with a small support for i18n — thanks to a lot of people with a lot more eyes than I have, I could fix around 15 smaller issues, two bugs and I got a lot of feedback regarding the i18n of the theme. Thanks to the community, we have support for the following languages:

1. Chinese by wxzbb
2. English (default) by me
3. French by Julien
4. German by Andreas Jacob
5. Polish by Tosiek
6. Spanish (castellano) by José Manuel Mao
7. Swedish by Jon Klarström

I’d love to see your language here as well ;-) Please check this posting: Green Park 2 – for translators

Green Park 2 Beta 5 is available for download

So it’s time to release Green Park 2 Beta 5 into the wild. The download is now available:

Download Green Park 2 Beta 5 | Demo (Changelog)

Like it? Buy me a cup of coffee ;)

As you might know, coders love coffee — and I need a lot. If you like my free themes, feel free to send me 1$ for a coffee.

Comments not related to Beta 5 pre will be removed from this post to keep the focus on translations.

If you want to help translate Green Park 2 (GP2) into your language, download the pre-release theme. The theme contains a folder with default.mo/default.po files (English) and example files de_DE.mo/de_DE.po (German).

Translations for Beta 5 should be zipped and mailed to the e-mail mentioned in the readme.txt file.

Ressources for Translators

Localizing WordPress Themes (English) (German version)
Localizing WordPress Themes and Plugins (English)
WordPress Codex: Translation Tools

Feedback

If you encounter any issues regarding the grammar or syntax in your language, please let me know.
Feedback, bug reports and workarounds in general are highly appreciated.

Download

Not recommended for production use
Green Park Beta 5 – i18n (Updated August 21^st, 2009)

Translations

These translations will be available for Beta 5:

1. Chinese by wxzbb
2. French by Julien
3. German by Andreas Jacob
4. Polish by Tosiek
5. Spanish (castellano) by José Manuel Mao
6. Swedish by Jon Klarström

If you use a WordPress driven blog, get the latest release of Green Park 2 for WordPress here or leave your comment here.

I started porting Cordobo Green Park 2 to Habari. A demo is available here: Cordobo Green Park 2 for Habari Demo.

Please note that GP2 for Habari is in early development and far away from being feature complete. Please report any bugs you encounter.
Download: Green Park 2 for Habari (updated July 18^th, 2009)

Cordobo Green Park 2 (GP2) has reached the Beta status after 8 Alpha revisions. The download is available at my WordPress Themes Page.

Apart from a new header graphic and more appealing forms and buttons, GP2 comes with a lot of code and CSS improvements, to render the website even faster along with typography and SEO optimizations. The Beta needs ~3KB less code on each created page compared to the latest alpha. The new settings page located at the WordPress Admin section, to configure Feedburner, Adsense and Analytics, has been cleaned up although.

Download Green Park 2 Beta 4 | Demo (Changelog)

Like it? Buy me a cup of coffee ;)

As you might know, coders love coffee — and I need a lot. If you like my free themes, feel free to send me 1$ for a coffee.