This is a user-friendly changelog for the Apex WordPress theme. It’s written in non-technical language and will let you know what’s new in Apex.
If you want a detailed technical version of the changelog, you can view the Apex commit history on Github.
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1.39 – April 30, 2021
- Feature: added two new page templates for building landing pages with page builders like Elementor. Find them in the Page Attributes section in the page editor.
- Feature: added 3 custom social icons to the bottom of the Social Media Icons section in the Customizer
- Feature: added new social icons for IMDB, Mastodon, and diaspora*
- Fix: date sometimes incorrect for posts published close to midnight
- Fix: embeds misaligned in the post editor
1.38 – December 23, 2020
- Update: added new social media icons for Orcid, Strava, and ResearchGate
1.37 – 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
1.36 – August 5, 2020
- Feature: added option to display captions below Featured Images (Appearance > Customize > Additional Options)
- Feature: added support for bbPress
- Fix: the “read more” button was being added to excerpts in the RSS feed
- Fix: scroll-to-top arrow didn’t return keyboard navigation to the top of the site
1.35 – April 3, 2020
- Feature: added Pocket to social icons
- Feature: added support for Elementor Pro’s customer headers & footers
- Update: improved table styles
- Update: backup font can display now instead of no text at all while Google Fonts loads
- Update: removed Google Plus from social icons
- Update: email and phone icons now display contact info when hovered over
- Fix: removed PHP error notice in the dashboard
- Fix: image caption style fixes
- Fix: removed underline from Gutenberg buttons
- Fix: optin checkbox under comment form displays in one line now
- Fix: color fix for new social links block
- Fix: dropdown menu for “last updated” option in post editor was too wide
1.34 – October 2, 2019
- Feature: added ArtStation to social icons
- Update: removed welcome redirect when activating Apex
- Update: renamed Front Page customizer section to “Homepage Settings”
- Fix: current menu item wasn’t bold when using default menu
1.33 – February 24, 2019
- Feature: added option to display the “last updated” date for posts
- Update: Footer Text feature added by Apex Pro now supports shortcodes
- Fix: posts showing today’s date on non-English sites using WP 5.1
1.32 – December 4, 2018
- Update: added Goodreads social icon
- Fix: Gutenberg fixes
1.31 – November 19, 2018
- Update: full Gutenberg compatibility
- Update: styled classic post editor like front-end
1.30 – November, 5 2018
- Update: redesigned Apex Dashboard
- Update: changed Customizer ad
1.29 – October, 29 2018
- Feature: added scroll-to-top arrow option in Customizer
- Feature: added Mixcloud, Discord, Stack Overflow, Medium, Patreon, and phone icon to social icons
- Update: WooCommerce image gallery features now supported
- Update: upgrade Font Awesome icon font to 5.4.2
- Update: minor security enhancements
- Update: reordered social icons in Customizer
1.28 – September, 13 2018
- Feature: added Bitbucket and OK.ru to social icons
- Update: added Russian translation
- Update: minor jQuery compatibility fixes
- Update: hardened security by adding escaping to all translation strings
- Fix: shortcodes and formatting now working properly in full-width pages
- Fix: dropdown menus working correctly when menu items display on two lines
1.27 – January, 20 2018
- Fix: Sub-menus working when long menus break into two lines
1.26 – August 16, 2017
- Update: switched Apex Pro image in Customizer to a GIF
- Update: Added Brazilian Portugeuse translation
- Fix: styling for author bios on author post archives
- Fix: sticky post status no longer shows in search results
- Fix: Yoast SEO no longer includes “Continue ReadingPost Title” in Facebook description
1.25 – August 1, 2017
- Feature: added WooCommerce support
- Feature: added Full-width page template
- Update: added review request notice after ussing Apex for 14 days
- Update: updated tags and description for wordpress.org
1.24 – May 25, 2017
- Feature: added Twitch to social icons
- Update: simplified content routing function – custom post type support now simpler
- Update: added recommendation for making Apex a mobile app in Apex Dashboard page
- Fix: custom excerpts no longer output ellipsis after text
1.23 – February 23, 2017
- Feature: new option added to Customizer to hide comments link after posts (Additional Options section)
- Update: add three new social icons – Google Wallet, Amazon, Yelp
- Update: added “aria-hidden” role to ornamental icons
- Update: added more context to certain phrases to make translation easier
- Update: improved excerpt handling (back-end updates)
- Update: increased resolution of screenshot.png
- Update: updated Fitvids
- Fix: Customizer link in Apex Dashboard now works for sites with WP installed in a subdirectory
1.22 – December 5, 2016
- Update: tested & updated for WP 4.7
- Update: added Snapchat social media icon
- Update: Apex dashboard reorganized and improved
1.21 – November 15, 2016
- Update: added seven new social icons
- Update: no longer displaying sticky status in search results
- Update: activating Apex now redirects to Apex Options page with welcome message
1.20 – September 23, 2016
- Update: security enhancements
- Fix: Featured Images on pages now displaying properly in Internet Explorer
- Fix: comment threading/nesting can now be turned off
1.19 – July 26, 2016
- Update: updated Font Awesome icon font for social icons (new Instagram logo)
- Fix: dropdown menus now work on iPads with landscape orientation
1.18.1 – April 7, 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
- Update: updated French translation
- Update: changed Customizer ad text
- Fix: pagination links now translatable
1.17 – March 14, 2016
- Update: added reference to Skype link protocol in social icons section
- Update: added styling for Featured Image Captions plugin
1.16 – February 13, 2016
- Update: added support for Skype’s special URL protocol in social icons
- Update: added new social icon for contact form URL
- Update: added box to Apex Dashboard page for leaving a review
- Update: removed locked Customizer sections
- Fix: theme info no longer included in .pot file to avoid translation errors
- Fix: “comments closed” message now always contained in comments section
1.15 – January 27, 2016
- Update: added Finnish translation
- Fix: pagination no longer shows when Jetpack infinite scroll active
1.14
- Feature: option added to change the Read More button’s text
- Feature: option to add post author name to byline
- Feature: new search bar option added
- 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
- 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 Apex’s options
- Fix: comment pagination older/newer links now sit in one line
- Fix: Disqus spacing on mobile devices improved
- Fix: fixed layout issues with content at end of posts when full posts shown on the blog
- Fix: 3rd tier menu items no longer overlapping 2nd tier menu items
1.13 – November 17, 2015
- Update: compatibility update for upcoming featured image size option in Apex Pro
- Update: added French translation
- Update: featured images now displaying more reliably across browsers
- Update: additional data sanitization added for security
- Fix: infinite scroll “load more” button now clears posts in all layouts
1.12 – October 31, 2015
- Update: added Hebrew translations
- Update: added “for” attribute to comment form labels
- Fix: featured images now displaying properly across browsers
- Fix: search box now stays at bottom of search results page with Jetpack infinite scroll active
- Fix: Jetpack infinite scroll load more button now shows again
1.11 – October 19, 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: featured images now use get_the_post_thumbnail() and include an img element instead of using background images
- Update: added PayPal icon
- Update: turned off automatic hyphenation
- Update: RSS icon now uses square version
- Fix: removed and stopped loading unnecessary Javascript file on user profile menu
- Fix: post layout no longer breaks if last element is “floated”
- 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
- Fix: fatal error on WordPress versions 4.1 and older prevented
1.10.2 – October 12, 2015
- Fix: XSS vulnerability patched
1.10.1 – October 4, 2015
- Feature: added support for Jetpack infinite scroll
- Update: underline added to links in post content to make them easier to see
- Update: added more data sanitization for improved security
- Update: improved gallery styles
- Update: added 9 new social icons
- Update: switched “git” icon to “github”
- Update: post author now highlighted in post comments
- Fix: empty Color section no longer showing up in Customizer
- Fix: Jetpack Carousel no longer scrolls to the top of the page when clicked
1.09 – August 20, 2015
- Update: updated Font Awesome to v4.4.0
- Update: social icon arrays are now overridable and filterable
- Update: excerpts are now removed when word count is set to 0
- Fix: iframes no longer overflow post content at mobile screen widths
- Fix: error messages in Customizer as of WP v4.3 fixed
1.08 – August 8, 2015
- Update: the third tier in the primary menu now supports right-to-left languages
- Update: “read more” tags now used even if “show full post” option is on
- Update: “Logo Upload” section renamed to “Logo”
- Update: Soundcloud embeds in posts now responsive
- Fix: comment author avatar images now showing