EXPRESSION THEME CHANGELOG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VERSION 1.4.7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Preparation for WordPress 5.5, including: * Portfolio gallery not working * Full-width/full-height sliders not working * Nivo slider not working * Error when adding new sidebars/header social icons in options panel * Editing nivo slider slides does not load the saved description * Other smaller JavaScript errors caused - Implemented support for the WordPress 5.5 sitemaps feature, including: * Made the nivo slider post types non-public so they are not added to the sitemap * Added a section under Expression Options -> General -> SEO -> WordPress 5.5+ sitemaps allowing you to customize the portfolio items added to the sitemaps. In this section you can exclude items from sitemaps based on their type and also disable the portfilio category taxonomy sitemap. - General code improvements ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VERSION 1.4.6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Fixed some compatibility issues with the upcoming WordPress 5.3: * Fullscreen slider and portfolio slider images squished/mispositioned * Nivo slider animations not working properly * Options panel select elements broken styles ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VERSION 1.4.5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - WordPress 5.0 Preparation: Make the Classic Editor plugin required by default. This theme supports the classic editor only and a major part of its elements rely on the classic editor. You can learn more in this article: https://pexetothemes.com/support/knowledgebase/gutenberg-and-pexeto-themes/ - Load the gallery YouTube and Vimeo lightbox video players over https - Minor bug fixes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VERSION 1.4.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Added support for the WordPress 4.9.6 comment form cookie checkbox. The commenter cookie is used to pre-fill the name, email and URL fields of the comment form when the commenter intends to post another comment. It also allows the commenter to preview and delete any comments awaiting moderation. WordPress 4.9.6 automatically includes the cookie checkbox in the comments form, however you need to update the theme to version 1.4.4 in order for the checkbox to be displayed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VERSION 1.4.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Major change affecting the automatic updates from the dashboard: removed the Envato Toolkit Library that handles automatic updates due to the retirement of the old Envato API (that Envato Toolkit uses). Implemented a script to install the Envato Market Plugin, which is the new tool to install automatic updates from the dashboard. For more information please refer to the Updates section of the documentation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VERSION 1.4.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Fixed: Tabs and Accordion elements not working properly with WordPress 4.5 - Code improvements ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VERSION 1.4.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Security fix: Updated the PrettyPhoto lightbox plugin to version 3.1.6 to fix a recently found XSS vulnerability - Made the custom theme editor buttons always visible regardless of the Toggle Toolbar button state ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VERSION 1.4.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Improved: Replaced Timthumb image resizing script with the Aqua Resizer script - Improved: Replaced the image upload functionality with a Media Library image select - Improved: The performance of the update notifier functionality in the admin in case it fails to load the updates data - Improved: Contact form - added a sender email option to avoid messages failing to be sent due to the Yahoo DMARC reject policy. For more information, please refer to the Contact Form Page section. - Other general improvements and minor bug fixes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VERSION 1.3.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Fixed: Blog page not loading the posts correctly when a Nivo slider is set as a header of the page ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VERSION 1.3.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Improved: the additional styles are now printed into the head of the document, instead of loading them as a separate file - this will improve the performance of the page load - Improved: blog posts query code - Improved: the code of the main.js file to prevent an error with Firebug (add-on for Firefox) to load the scripts when it is active - Improved: the format of the documentation - now it is easier to navigate with the table of contents always displayed on the left of the page - Updated the Envato WordPress Toolkit Library for the automatic theme updates - Fixed: a warning message on the Nivo slider sometimes displayed under some circumstances ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VERSION 1.3.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Fixed some compatibility issues with the upcoming WordPress 3.9: - Full-width slideshow page fix: after clicking the fullscreen button, the first image of the slideshow always displayed instead of the current image - Improved the appearance of the theme's dialogs in the admin panel on WordPress 3.9 - Other minor fixes - Added a Custom Order functionality to the Portfolio section ( Portfolio ยป Custom Order section) that allows reordering the portfolio items by dragging and dropping them. Please note that the "By Custom Order" option should be selected in the "Portfolio item order" field of the gallery page in order the custom order to be applied to the gallery items. - Fixed: a horizontal scrollbar displayed in the gallery slider preview on Firefox - Improved the way YouTube and Vimeo videos are added with the content editor buttons - now they are added via shortcodes that use the default WordPress embed functionality - Fixed: fullscreen slideshows caption displayed over the mobile drop-down menu - Fixed: a bug with the colorpicker display in the editor dialogs - Other various code/style improvements and minor bug fixes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VERSION 1.2.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Fixed the rotation of the gallery slider arrows for the next/previous project - Fixed some minor style issues in the admin with the upcoming WordPress 3.8 - WooCommerce improvements - added a woocommerce.php template to fix some layout and style issues - Updated Timthumb to the latest version - Fixed a style issue with the Nivo slider when it is added into the content of a full-width page - Other minor bug fixes and code improvements ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VERSION 1.2.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - WordPress 3.6 compatibility modifications: fixed an issue with the dialogs in the admin panel - on WordPress 3.6 the dialogs sometimes appear behind some of the elements - Added an Instagram icon to the header social icons set - Updated the Menu instructions - included instructions for WordPress 3.6 - Portfolio Posts Loader widget - set the thumbnail image to be automatically generated from the gallery images of the portfolio item when a featured image is not set to the item - Other minor bug fixes and code improvements ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VERSION 1.2.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Fixed an issue about the number of the images that is displayed on the item in the gallery not being correct when the images are not attachments of the portfolio item. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VERSION 1.2.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Changed the way the images are added in Grid Gallery portfolio items and fullscreen slideshows to work best with the new WordPress 3.5 Media screen. Now they require to insert a WordPress gallery into the content of the page/item and the images that the gallery contains will be used. This allows using images from other posts and pages which already exist in the Media library. Updating from older version to version 1.2.0 will automatically insert the gallery into the content of the fullscreen slideshow pages, slider and lightbox portfolio items. For more information about how to manage your items, please refer to the: - Full-width and full-height slideshow pages - Portfolio Grid Gallery page - Also, you can read this article about the new changes. - Added an option to load a Nivo slider from the existing sliders in Expression Options -> Nivo Slider section into the content of a post/page with a shortcode and also in Gallery post types. For more information about using the shortcode please refer to the Nivo slider in the content of a page/post section. - Social sharing in gallery sliders - when sharing an item, by default the featured image of the item is shared. In this update we have included the functionality to share the first image in the item image set when a featured image is not set to the item. - Updated Timthumb to the latest version - Code improvements and small issue fixes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VERSION 1.1.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Implemented descriptions for images in the fullscreen slideshow pages (use the "Description" field of the image) - Child theme support: the initial release of the theme included child theme support for all the main styles and all the page templates. In this update we have also included child theme support for all the functions used in the theme. - Implemented improvements into the PrettyPhoto lightbox plugin for mobile devices - now images are displayed to the full size of the screen on mobile devices. - Added a 500px icon to the default icons set - Added options to change the default texts in the contact form message (in Expression Options -> Page Setting -> Contact) - Added featured image and description to pages when they are shared/liked on Facebook (before only posts and portfolio items had this functionality included) - Code improvements and small issues fixes