This is a user-friendly changelog for the Modern Store WordPress theme. It’s written in non-technical language and will let you know what’s new in Modern Store.
If you want a detailed technical version of the changelog, you can view the Moden Store commit history on Github.
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1.19 – May 12, 2021
- Feature: added an option to display a button linked to more products for the On Sale, Top Rated, and Latest Products sections in the homepage builder
- Feature: the “Sale!” text for products on sale can now be customized from the Additional Options section in the Customizer
- Feature: subcategories can now be excluded from the product search bar in the header
- Feature: added IMDB, Mastodon, and diaspora* to the social media icons
- Fix: date sometimes incorrect on posts
1.18 – December 23, 2020
- Update: added new social media icons for Orcid, Strava, and ResearchGate
- Fix: font line-height fix for block groups
1.17 – August 24, 2020
- Update: added Untappd to the social media icons
- Fix: “read more” link was showing up in RSS feed post descriptions
- Fix: code elements inside pre elements had the first line only indented
- Fix: mobile menu not scrolling down when social media icons are cut off at the bottom
- Fix: scroll-to-top arrow leaving keyboard focus in footer after use
1.16 – April 1, 2020
- Feature: added support for Elementor Pro’s custom headers & footers
- Update: removed Google Plus from social icons
- Update: email and phone social icons now display contact info when hovered over
- Fix: color fix for new social links block
- Fix: styling added for table captions
1.15 – January 20, 2020
- Feature: added option to replace the user icon in the menu with a Gravatar
- Feature: added Pocket to social icons
- Update: improve table styles
- Update: added support for extra-wide image blocks
- Fix: removed PHP error notices in the dashboard
- Fix: H1 tag missing on Homepage BuIlder page
- Fix: image caption style fixes
- Fix: dropdown menu item in “last updated” post option was too wide
- Fix: button blocks show white text properly
1.14 – November 12, 2019
- Update: added more spacing around the pagination
- Fix: Product Categories section in Homepage Builder showed as active when inactive
- Fix: display errors affecting right-to-left language websites
1.13 – November 1, 2019
- Update: global search bar updates to match current category
- Fix: store sidebar output on product tag archives too now
- Fix: display errors affecting right-to-left language websites
1.12 – October 22, 2019
- Feature: added Shortcode section to the Homepage Builder
- Update: added review request after Modern Store is installed for 2 weeks
- Update: Front Page section is now named “Homepage Settings”
- Fix: dropdown arrows for parent menu items sometimes displayed below them
- Fix: Android phones no longer auto-closing the search bar before typing
1.11 – September 17, 2019
- Feature: added support for random header images
- Fix: full-width template wasn’t expanding to the full width of the screen.
- Fix: resolved WooCommerce error messages
- Fix: icon missing in Customizer ad
1.10 – August 5, 2019
- Fix: search bar categories hard to see on Windows PCs
- Fix: footer overlapping sidebar on mobile devices
1.09 – August 1, 2019
- Fix: social icons not loading when Elementor plugin is active
Version 1.08 was the first publicly available version of Modern Store.