PeepSo Gecko Theme 3.9.1.0

Ever sincePeepSo Gecko Theme was released we’ve always had questions about a theme that works best with PeepSo.

We made it our mission to make sure PeepSo Gecko Theme works with most themes out there and I’m happy to say: Mission Accomplished. Here’s the thing, though.

Since we’re relying on 3rd party themes we could only do so much. No more compromises. PeepSo Gecko Theme is here and it’s here to stay.

The Origin Story

As I mentioned above, we did get asked, still do, about a theme. Our reply was always: that we’re not really a theme company but here are some recommended themes.

relying on third party themes everything was out of our hands. No control over the actual display and, not entirely anyway.

A time finally came and after creating a proof of concept, we got amazing feedback from the community.

We felt like we could actually do this and do it well. The time where we were actually able to create our own theme which could showcase the possibilities of PeepSo Gecko Theme beyond plugins displayed in a 3rd party wrapper is here.

Why is it called Gecko? Because geckos are awesome, that’s why.

2.0.0.0 BETA

Theme was being developed for quite some time now, I’d say about a month or so, and we were doing internal testing on 1.X versions. That’s why it’s released as a 2.0.0.0 BETA.

While we’re in the beta stage we’re extremely open to any and all suggestions when it comes to the features of the theme. What can we add, what can be improved.

I do ask one thing, though. Keep in mind that we’ll be focusing on PeepSo Gecko Theme-First approach.

It’s not advised at the moment to use it for production sites. We do on our demo site, though. Call us crazy, overconfident or enthusiastic, but we’re happy with Gecko already.

With our frequent release cycle we’ll definitely get to a stable version soon. How soon? I’m hoping the beginning of next year we can easily go into a fully stable theme.

PeepSo First

Gecko is a theme designed by PeepSo team for PeepSo Gecko Theme plugins. Period. It doesn’t mean that it can’t be used without PeepSo Gecko Theme in the picture.

With that said, our primary development focus will always be to make your community better in every possible way. If you have any ideas on how to improve Gecko’s compatibility or styling with other plugins, let us know.

Soft Version Lock

Since Gecko is a PeepSo Gecko Theme, we’ve ensured that it fully supports and works perfectly alongside all our PeepSo Gecko Theme plugins; capitalizing and leveraging on each other’s features.

That’s why there’s a soft version lock on the theme. It might sound complicated but really isn’t.

We want to be able to release the theme independently from the plugins and yet make sure everything works perfectly fine.

Pretty much first 3 numbers of the versions should match to be able to fully enjoy the features. Let’s say you have a PeepSo Gecko Theme 2.0.0 installed. You can use Gecko 2.0.0.1 or 2.0.0.89 etc.

That said, if you’re still on PeepSo 1.8.9, or even 1.11.5, some of the functionality won’t be there.

You need at least PeepSo 2.0.0. What a great coincidence that PeepSo 2.0.0 was released 24h ago.

Beautiful Header

A great navigation and site header really does make a difference. Especially with community sites. Being asked a lot about how to add notifications to the menu first we went and created the PeepSo UserBar widget.

People still had problems with it as 3rd party themes not always have the capacity to place widgets in the header area. At least not easily.

With that in mind, Gecko comes with a dedicated Header Widgets position. Place PeepSo UserBar widget there and you’re done.