This is a user-friendly changelog for the Founder WordPress theme. It’s written in non-technical language and will let you know what’s new in Founder.
If you want a detailed technical version of the changelog, you can view the Founder commit history on Github.
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1.52 – December 23, 2020
- Fix: font line-height fix for block groups
1.51 – December 17, 2020
- Feature: added two new page templates to create landing pages with or without the header displaying. These are made to be used with page builders like Elementor (Elementor tutorial)
- Update: added Strava, Orcid, and ResearchGate to the social media icons
- Fix: using the scroll-to-top arrow now resets the keyboard focus so the site can be navigated from top to bottom again
1.50 – August 18, 2020
- Update: added Untappd to the social media icons
- Fix: unaligned images in editor displaying all the way to the left in WP 5.5
- Fix: code elements inside pre elements had the first line only indented
1.49 – July 30, 2020
- Feature: added option to display Featured Image captions on the post page (Appearance > Customize > Additional Options)
- Feature: added support for Elementor Pro’s custom headers and footers
- Update: added styles for table captions
- Fix: Founder Pro licensing form not showing
- Fix: removed Google Plus from social icons
- Fix: stopped adding “read more” link into RSS feeds
- Fix: icon color fix for social links block
1.48 – January 15, 2020
- Featured: added bbPress support
- Update: improved table styles
- Update: Front Page section in customizer now called “Homepage Settings”
- Update: added Polish translation
- Fix: button block now using correct color for text
- Fix: optin checkbox below comment form now displays on one line
- Fix: logo displaying too large on mobile devices
- Fix: “last updated” option in post editor had a dropdown menu that was too wide
1.47 – November 19, 2019
- Feature: added ArtStation to social icons
- Feature: added Pocket to social icons
- Update: showing backup font while loading Google Fonts
- Update: removed welcome redirect when installing Founder
- Fix: removed PHP error notice in the dashboard
- Fix: image caption style fixes
1.46 – February 24, 2019
- Fix: posts showing today’s date on non-English sites using WP 5.1
1.45 – February 19, 2019
- Feature: posts can now display the last date they were updated
- Update: shortcodes can now be output in Footer Text section added by Founder Pro
- Fix: dropdown icon in mobile menu not displaying
1.44 – December 5, 2018
- Update: added Goodreads icon
- Fix: Gutenberg compatibility fixes
1.43 – November 19, 2018
- Update: full Gutenberg compatibility
- Update: styled classic post editor like front-end
1.42 – November 3, 2018
- Update: redesigned Founder Dashboard
- Update: changed Customizer ad
- Update: added Patreon and Medium to social icons
1.41 – October 8, 2018
- Fix: icons in Founder missing when Elementor active
1.40 – October 5, 2018
- Feature: added scroll-to-top arrow
- Feature: added support for WooCommerce image gallery features
- Feature: added Discord, Stack Overflow, Mixcloud, and phone icons to social icons
- Update: reordered social icons
- Update: made social site names translatable
- Update: security enhancements
- Update: updated to Font Awesome 5.3
- Fix: “Sidebar” text translatable in screen reader text
1.39 – May 30, 2018
- Update: added WooCommerce support
- Update: added social icons for Bitbucket and OK.ru
- Update: security enhancements
1.37-1.38 – November 2, 2017
- Update: Russian translation updates
- Fix: translation fixes
1.36 – October 31, 2017
- Fix: translation fixes
1.35 – August 11, 2017
- Feature: added full-width page template
- Fix: spacing fix for author archive pages with bios
- Fix: no longer displaying sticky status on search results pages
- Fix: review prompt always dismissing properly
- Fix: Yoast SEO meta description no longer including “continue reading” text
1.34 – July 19, 2017
- Update: simplified content routing function to make custom post type support simpler
- Update: added review request for Founder after 14 days of use
- Update: PressPadNews ad in theme options
1.33 – April 18, 2017
- Update: added 4 new social icons: Yelp, Amazon, Google Wallet, and Twitch
- Update: clarified ambiguous translation strings to make translating easier
- Update: updated FitVids for responsive video embeds
- Update: updates to backend for excerpt handling
- Update: added German translation
1.32 – December 29, 2016
- Fix: dropdown menus now working on touch devices
1.31 – December 5, 2016
- Update: tested & updated for WP 4.7
- Update: added 8 new social media icons
- Update: now redirecting to Founder dashboard upon activation
- Update: Founder dashboard reorganized and improved
- Update: sticky status now hidden in search results
- Update: updated style & copy of Founder Pro ad in Customizer
- Fix: fixed syntax error on search results pages
1.30 – September 27, 2016
- Fix: fix for sidebar not opening in v1.29
1.29 – September 27, 2016
- Update: security enhancements
- Fix: Featured Images displaying correctly on pages in Internet Explorer
- Fix: comment threading/nesting can now be turned off
1.28 – July 18, 2016
- Update: updated Font Awesome icon font for social icons (new Instagram icon)
- Fix: no longer center-aligning last paragraph when showing full posts on blog
1.27 – April 11, 2016
- Update: attachment pages now show full size version of images, descriptions, and captions
- Update: improvements to heading structure
- Update: logo now uses image’s alt text if available
- Update: updated Font Awesome to 4.5
- Update: social icons now have text for screen readers
- Update: removed redundant “title” attribute on site title
- Fix: pagination links now translatable
1.26 – March 23, 2016
- Update: changed ad copy in Customizer
- Update: added default styling for Featured Image Caption plugin
- Update: updated Russian translation
- Update: added reference to Skype link protocol in social icons section
1.25 – February 12, 2016
- Update: added new social icon for contact form URL
- Update: removed locked sections in the Customizer
- Update: Skype social icon now accepts special Skype link protocol
- Update: added new box for leaving a review to the Founder Dashboard page
- Fix: theme info no longer included in .pot file to avoid translation errors
- Fix: “comments closed” message now always contained in the comments section
1.24 – January 27, 2016
- Update: Custom CSS now allows direct descendant selectors and quotes
- Fix: IE 11 “x” button in search bar no longer shows under search bar magnifying glass
1.23 – December 31, 2015
- Feature: added support for Yoast SEO breadcrumbs
- Update: additional data sanitization/validation for enhanced security
- Update: refactored, cleaned up, and reformatted code across entire project
- Update: new Russian translation
- Fix: marked numerous English strings for translation that had been missed
- Fix: error message no longer displays in Customizer if site has no pages
- Fix: option to reset Customizer options now only resets Founder’s options
- Fix: comment pagination older/newer links now sit in one line
- Fix: blog pagination now working correctly with Jetpack infinite scroll again
1.22 – December 9, 2015
- Feature: option to add a search bar to the header added to Customizer
- Feature: Read More button text can now be changed via the Customizer
- Update: differentiated focus and open state for submenu toggle buttons
- Fix: error message in Customizer no longer shows if there are no pages
1.21 – November 17, 2015
- Update: compatibility update for featured image size option in newest version of Founder Pro
- Update: featured images now displaying more reliably across browsers
- Update: Social icons only use the name of the social site for their titles now
1.20 – October 31, 2015
- Update: featured images now compatible with more plugins that interact with images
- Update: added ‘for’ attribute to all comment form labels
- Fix: search box stays at bottom of search results page now with Jetpack infinite scroll active
1.19 – October 16, 2015
- Feature: category, tag, and author archives now display descriptions if available
- Update: logo, custom css, and social icons sections in Customizer now update instantly
- Update: added PayPal icon
- Update: RSS icon now uses square version
- Fix: Git icon switched to Github
- Fix: fatal error on WordPress versions 4.1 and older prevented
- Fix: fixed XSS vulnerability in search page
- Fix: “Return to Blog” links for oldest/newest post now lead to blog even if not on homepage
- Fix: search box at bottom of search results now stays at bottom when Jetpack infinite scroll is active
1.18 – September 25, 2015
- Feature: added printer-specific styling
- Feature: Jetpack infinite gallery support added
- Update: post author avatar now highlighted in comments
- Update: nine new social media sites added to available icons
- Update: gallery styles improved
- Update: added more data sanitization for increased security
- Fix: fixed HTML validation error from “#post-meta” element
- Fix: empty “Color” section no longer showing up in Customizer
- Fix: Jetpack carousel gallery images no longer scrolling to top of page when clicked
1.17 – August 20, 2015
- Update: setting the excerpt word count to 0 now removes the excerpts
- Fix: fixed error messages in Customizer from WP v4.3 conflict
1.16 – August 19, 2015
- Update: social icon arrays now overridable and filterable
- Update: updated Font Awesome to v4.4.0
- Update: more video sites embedded responsively in the post content
- Fix: widget title markup fixed that was causing all widgets to be in h2 elements
1.15.1 – August 3, 2015
- Update: “Logo Upload” section in Customizer renamed to “Logo”
- Update: “more tags” now respected even if show full post setting is on
- Fix: tagline is now added immediately when added from Customizer
- Fix: Customizer now auto-updates page when social icons and logo are added