This is a user-friendly changelog for the Startup Blog WordPress theme. It’s written in non-technical language and will let you know what’s new in Startup Blog.
If you want a detailed technical version of the changelog, you can view the Startup Blog commit history on Github.
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1.37 – March 24, 2021
- Update: added new social icons for IMDB, Mastodon, and diaspora*
- Fix: post dates sometimes incorrect
- Fix: empty paragraphs added to posts when displayed fully on the homepage
- Fix: embeds not misaligned in the post editor
1.36 – December 23, 2020
- Update: added new social media icons for Orcid, Strava, and ResearchGate
1.35 – August 20, 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
- Fix: keyboard focus stayed in the site footer after using scroll-to-top arrow
1.34 – May 22, 2020
- Feature: Header Image can now be output in three different positions
- Feature: added bbPress support
- Feature: added support for Elementor Pro’s custom headers & footers
- Update: Header Image can skip cropping
- Update: removed Google Plus from social icons
- Fix: color fixed for new Social Links block
- Fix: added styling for table captions
- Fix: Pro ad no longer displays when using MailOptin
- Fix: Media & text block made all text display in one line on top of itself
1.33 – February 17, 2020
- Update: default font displayed while site font is loaded
- Update: Front Page section in Customizer renamed to “Homepage Settings”
- Update: improved table styles
- Fix: “more” tags working now
- Fix: pagination on search results matches pagination everywhere else
1.32 – November 19, 2019
- Feature: added ArtStation to social icons
- Feature: added Pocket to social icons
- Update: removed welcome redirect when activating Startup Blog
- Fix: style fixes for image captions
- Fix: removed PHP error notice in the dashboard
1.31 – February 24, 2019
- Fix: incorrect text domain
1.30 – February 24, 2019
- Feature: added option to display the “last updated” date on posts
- Update: shortcodes can now be used in the Footer Text feature added by Startup Blog Pro
- Fix: posts showing today’s date on non-English sites using WP 5.1
1.29 – December 5, 2018
- Update: added Goodreads social icon
- Fix: Gutenberg fixes
1.28 – November 20, 2018
- Update: full Gutenberg compatibility
- Update: styled classic post editor like front-end
1.27 – November, 5 2018
- Update: redesigned Startup Blog Dashboard
- Update: changed Customizer ad
1.26 – November 1, 2018
- Update: added Patreon to social icons
- Fix: arrows in pagination missing
1.25 – October 29, 2018
- Feature: added scroll-to-top arrow option in Customizer
- Feature: added Mixcloud, Discord, Medium, Stack Overflow, and phone to social icons
- Feature: slider button can now be hidden
- Update: jQuery compatibility updates
- Update: WooCommerce image gallery features enabled
- Update: upgrade Font Awesome icon font to 5.3.1
- Update: security enhancements
- Fix: demo URL in description incorrect
- Fix: slider breaking if navigation used with one slide
1.24 – May 29, 2018
- Update: updated French translation
- Fix: large logos no longer overflow the header at mobile screen widths
1.23 – March 13, 2018
- Update: smaller images used in two column layouts for improved performance (two column layouts available in Startup Blog Pro.
- Update: Events Calendar support added
- Fix: slider no longer flickers when set to auto-rotate without changing slide duration
1.22 – March 13, 2018
- Feature: added footer widget area
- Fix: color gradients reversed for RTL sites
- Fix: “All” text when selected slider category not translatable
1.21 – February 13, 2018
- Feature: Bitbucket added to social media icons
- Fix: custom colors now working with RTL websites
- Fix: corrected admin notice text when Startup Blog activated
1.20 – February 7, 2018
- Fix: slider navigation working properly now for RTL languages
1.19 – February 2, 2018
- Feature: added social icon for OK.ru
- Update: added German translation
- Update: all social icons translatable
- Fix: no longer crashing sites using < PHP 5.3
- Fix: RTL updates
- Fix: Startup Blog dashboard layout displays correctly when Startup Blog Pro is active
1.18 – January 24, 2018
- Fix: removed unused option in Site Identity section in Customizer for hiding the site title and tagline
- Fix: post templates no longer overlap dropdown menus
1.17 – January 8, 2018
- Feature: added option to hide the comments link
1.16 – December 11, 2017
- Update: updated French translation
- Fix: layouts displaying correctly in Customizer again
1.15 – November 22, 2017
- Update: added French translation
1.14 – October 21, 2017
- Update: removed Freemius
- Fix: some languages displayed today’s date instead of post’s date
1.13 – October 7, 2017
- Feature: added support for custom page titles in slider
1.12 – September 12, 2017
- Feature: added auto-rotate option to slider
1.10 – August 10, 2017
- Feature: added WooCommerce compatibility
- Feature: added header image
- Feature: added a full-width page template
- Update: admin prompt asking for a review after 14 days
- Update: PressPad News ad included in Startup Blog options page
- Update: included Freemius for user analytics
- Fix: spacing fix for comment avatars when using WP User Avatar
- Fix: styling for Disqus