This is a user-friendly changelog for the Ignite WordPress theme. It’s written in non-technical language and will let you know what’s new in Ignite.
If you want a detailed technical version of the changelog, you can view the Ignite commit history on Github.
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1.80 – January 21, 2021
- Feature: added 3 custom icons to the bottom of the Social Media Icons section
- Update: added Mastodon and diaspora* to social icons
- Fix: post publish date not always using timezone
1.79 – December 23, 2020
- Update: added new social media icons for Orcid, Strava, and ResearchGate
- Fix: scroll-to-top arrow wasn’t resetting keyboard focus to the top of the page
1.78 – September 3, 2020
- Feature: added support for Elementor Pro’s custom headers & footers
- Update: added Untappd to the social media icons
- Update: removed Google Plus from social icons
- Fix: Ignite Plus ad was showing up in the MailOptin form customizer
- Fix: table captions not styled
- Fix: social links block had black for icon color instead of white
- 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: the “read more” button was being added to excerpts in the RSS fee
1.77 – November 26, 2019
- Feature: added Pocket to social icons
- Feature: added ArtStation to social icons
- Update: improve table styles
- Update: backup font loaded while Google Fonts loads
- Update: removed welcome redirect when activating Ignite
- Update: improvements to Russian translations
- Fix: “last updated” option dropdown menu was too wide
- Fix: removed PHP error notice in the dashboard
- Fix: image caption styles fixes
1.76 – February 26, 2019
- Feature: new option to display the “last updated” date for posts
- Update: shortcodes can now be output in Footer Text section
- Update: added Russian translation
- Fix: posts showing today’s date on non-English sites using WP 5.1
1.75 – December 4, 2018
- Update: Goodreads social icons
- Update: new Dutch translation
- Fix: Gutenberg fixes
1.74 – November 20, 2018
- Update: full Gutenberg compatibility
- Update: styled classic post editor like front-end
1.73 – November 3, 2018
- Feature: added options to reset Customizer settings
- Update: redesigned Ignite Dashboard
- Update: changed Customizer ad
- Update: added Patreon and Medium to social icons
- Update: Image widget colors changed in Widgets menu
1.72 – October 8, 2018
- Fix: social icons missing when Elementor active
1.71 – October 4, 2018
- Feature: added Discord to social icons
- Fix: dropdown indicators showing again
1.70 – October 1, 2018
- Feature: added scroll-to-top arrow to Customizer
- Feature: added Stack Overflow, Mixcloud, Bitbucket, OK.ru, and phone to social icons
- Features: added support for image gallery features in WooCommerce
- Update: reorganized social icons in Customizer
- Update: security enhancements
- Update: made custom post type support easier
- Update: jQuery compatibility updates
- Update: updated to FontAwesome 5.2
- Fix: social site names translatable
1.69 – December 20, 2017
- Update: updated Russian translation
- Fix: marked string for translation in breadcrumbs
1.68 – August 10, 2017
- Feature: added WooCommerce compatibility
- Update: admin prompt asking for a review after 14 days
- Update: PressPad News ad included in Ignite options page
- Update: switched Ignite Plus image in Customizer to a GIF
- Fix: breadcrumb trail no longer includes HTML included in page/post titles
- Fix: Facebook descriptions created by Yoast no longer included “Continue reading…”
1.67 – April 26, 2017
- Feature: added Twitch to social icons
- Update: added Spanish translation
- Fix: no longer adding ellipsis after custom excerpts
- Fix: translation text error in image widget description
- Fix: certain widgets in left-sidebar extending to same height as main content
1.66 – March 13, 2017
- Feature: add three new social icons – Google Wallet, Amazon, Yelp
- Update: added more context to certain phrases to make translation easier
- Update: improved excerpt handling (back-end updates)
- Update: increased resolution and compressed screenshot.png
- Update: updated Fitvids
- Update: update licensing info for included scripts and resources
- Fix: replies to comments by the post author no longer inherit author comment styling
- Fix: site title now shows when logo removed in Customizer
- Fix: resolved potential PHP error in breadcrumb trail
1.65 – December 5, 2016
- Update: tested & updated for WP 4.7
- Update: added Snapchat social media icon
- Update: Ignite dashboard reorganized and improved
- Update: copy and style updates to Ignite Plus customizer ad
- Fix: dropdown arrows in menu widgets no longer showing out of place
1.64 – November 10, 2016
- Update: new social icons: bandcamp, etsy, quora, ravelry, meetup, telegram, podcast
- Update: activating Ignite now redirects to options page with welcome message
- Update: sticky status no longer shows in search results
1.63 – September 29, 2016
- Update: “Home” text in breadcrumb trail now translatable
- Update: security enhancements
- Fix: comment threading/nesting can now be turned off
1.62 – July 26, 2016
- Fix: fixed misalignment of sidebar when breadcrumbs active
1.61 – July 11, 2016
- Update: updated Font Awesome icon font for social icons (new Instagram logo)
- Fix: added “logo” ID back to logo element
1.60 – 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
- Update: added link to Skype link protocol reference
- Update: added styling for Featured Image Caption plugin
- Fix: pagination links now translatable
- Fix: fixed untranslatable Customizer ad text
1.59 – February 16, 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 Ignite 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
1.58 – January 24, 2016
- Fix: logo size/position tools now work immediately after logo upload
- Fix: Yoast SEO post editor no longer narrow
- Fix: pagination no longer displays when Jetpack infinite scroll is active
- Fix: site title in the footer now updates instantly like in the header
1.57 – December 18, 2015
- Update: more data sanitization/validation for enhanced security
- Update: refactored and reformatted PHP and JS in entire project
- Update: improved search results page styling/spacing
- Fix: added missing i18n for numerous English text strings
- Fix: removed text that doesn’t need i18n from .pot file
- Fix: “Read More” buttons translatable again
- Fix: search bar in search results page now shows when there are no results
1.56 – December 9, 2015
- Feature: option to change the Read More button text added
- Update: Featured Image sizing more reliable across browsers
- Fix: tagline in footer now updates instantly via Customizer like tagline in header
- Fix: additional data sanitization for security
- Fix: Image widget title white again in Widgets screen
1.55 – October 31, 2015
- Update: added “for” attributes to comment form labels
- Update: Featured Image display more reliable now
- Fix: Jetpack infinite scroll load more button now always shows below posts
1.54 – October 22, 2015
- Update: featured images now use default WordPress functions improving integration with image plugins
- Update: font family, font weight, and custom CSS now update instantly in the Customizer
- Update: updated German translation
- Update: search results now use same layout as the rest of the site
- Update: automatic hyphenation turned off
- Update: RSS icon now uses square version
- Update: added PayPal icon
- Fix: font weights no longer using invalid values
- Fix: newest/last post links now lead to blog if static front page is being used
- Fix: added missing internationalization for 404 error message in breadcrumb trail
- Fix: blog now displays breadcrumbs when not set to front page
- Fix: search box now kept at bottom of search results page when using infinite scroll
- Fix: XSS vulnerability on search pages fixed
1.53 – October 7, 2015
- Update: added 9 new social icons
- Update: added support for Jetpack infinite scroll
- Update: layouts, background colors, and footer text now updated instantly in Customizer
- Update: gallery styles improved
- Update: Git icon switched to Github icon
- Update: footer text now reads, “Ignite WordPress Theme by Compete Themes”
- Fix: Jetpack Carousel gallery feature now working properly
- Fix: search results content now always aligned properly with sidebar
1.52 – September 8, 2015
- Update: breadcrumb trail function greatly simplified
- Update: Posts now show their category in the breadcrumb trail
- Update: additional security measures added
- Update: note added to the bottom of the stylesheet directing users to the Custom CSS section
- Fix: Carousel without Jetpack plugin now works with Ignite
- Fix: empty color section no longer showing up in the Customizer
1.51 – August 20, 2015
- Update: social icon arrays are now overridable and filterable
- Update: more video sites embedded responsively in post content
- Update: excerpts are now removed when word count is set to 0
- Fix: iframes no longer overflow post content at mobile screen widths
- Fix: fixed widget error message showing as of WP v4.3
- Fix: image widget upload button working again
1.50 – August 10, 2015
- Update: profile image option now removed
- Update: reduced number of HTTP requests in Customizer to improve performance
- Update: updated Font Awesome to v4.4.0
1.49 – July 2, 2015
- Update: fully integrated with WP User Avatar. Profile images from Ignite set to be removed in version 1.50
- Update: more-tags now used when show full post setting is on
- Update: capitalized and internationalized “edit” link under comments (for logged-in admins)
- Update: Customizer button in Ignite Dashboard now returns to the Ignite Dashboard when closed
- Update: readme.txt file now much more informative
- Update: site title and tagline now update instantly when edited from the Customizer
- Fix: long sentences in preformatted elements no longer breaking out of container in Firefox
1.48 – May 22, 2015
- Update: added locked customizer sections advertising Ignite Plus
- Update: repositioned and restyled Ignite Plus ad in Customizer
- Update: pages now have more CSS classes for styling like Posts
- Fix: post date sometimes showing today’s date instead of post date
1.47 – April 25, 2015
- Update: date formats now more reliable across languages and work with timestamps
- Update: added title attributes to social icons
- Fix: tagline markup added even if tagline not present
1.46 – April 2, 2015
- Fix: no space in title on homepage before pipeline character (|)
- Fix: comment display setting defaults added unnecessarily to database on load
- Fix: removed function setting homepage title tag
- Update: more secure sanitization filter for custom css
- Update: ad text in customizer finalized
- Update: made content and excerpt functions overridable with child themes
1.45 – March 6, 2015
- Fix: featured images now maintaining 2.1 width/height ratio
- Update: search results i18n improved
- Update: comment display option more reliable for new users
1.44 – February 3, 2015
- Fix: invalid tiered comment markup
- Fix: invalid schema markup
1.43 – January 16, 2015
- Fix: widgets poorly styled in Customizer
- Fix: Finnish translations only partially working
1.42 – December 29, 2014
- Update: added Russian translation
- Update: using new WP 4.1 method for adding title tag
- Update: updated Ignite Plus ad in customizer
- Update: updated Ignite Dashboard styling and added WP resources
- Update: updated Ignite Plus ad in customizer
- Fix: footer now stays closer to bottom of screen on pages with little content
- Fix: fixed markup error in comments.php
- Fix: social icons now showing when screen 800-900px wide
- Fix: logo positioning tools now more reliable
1.41 – November 27, 2014
- Feature: hide/show option added to Customizer for prev/next post links
- Update: logo tools in Customizer now update instantly
- Fix: massively enhanced backwards compatibility with WP. Now supporting 3.5 and above
- Fix: Disqus now styled properly
- Fix: mobile menu no longer overlapping logo when opened more than once
- Fix: now compatible with Jetpack gallery functionality
1.40 – November 1, 2014
- Update: added Norwegian translation
- Update: added email obfuscation for email social icon
- Update: changed how <title> is added
- Fix: site description no longer messing up menu alignment
- Fix: dropdown icon no longer breaking menu alignment in Firefox
- Fix: social icons no longer disappear when long menus fit in one line
1.39 – October 15, 2014
- Feature: added Image widget
- Feature: added parent menu icon display option to Additional Options
- Feature: added full-width page template
- Update: updated styles on Theme Options page and renamed Ignite Dashboard
- Update: added small ad for Ignite Plus to customizer
- Update: deprecated social icons function, now using content file instead
- Bug: comment name & email no longer displaying required (*) if not required
1.37 – October 4, 2014
Please read this notice concerning your use of the “advanced” widgets before updating to v1.37
- Update: added Weibo and Tencent Weibo to social icons
- Update: added Dutch translation
- Update: updated Hybrid Core code library
- Update: updated bbPress styles
1.36 – September 18, 2014
- Update: menu auto-closes if open and resized to dropdown menu width
- Update: added Portuguese translation
- Update: added date and author to Post Meta display option
- Update: deprecated a few functions in favor of content template parts
- Fix: read more link restyled to handle non-English languages better
- Fix: mobile menu parent menu items no longer require double-click
- Fix: added check for Panels API so Customizer still supports pre-4.0 installs
1.35 – September 18, 2014
- Update: Customizer now implementing Panels for better organization
- Fix: missing display of Custom Post Types with bbPress active
- Fix: improved logo styling at mobile widths
1.34 – September 13, 2014
- Update: more aggressive sanitization and validation of social icon inputs and profile image
- Update: added graduation cap icon for academia.edu to social icons
- Update: added drop-shadow to submenus
- Fix: another fix for unset menus and social icon display
1.33 – September 9, 2014
- Fix: fixed missing loop pagination on blog/archives
1.32 – September 9, 2014
- Feature: added Comment display option to Customizer
- Feature: added Footer Text option to Customizer
- Update: added basic bbPress integration
- Update: added email icon to social icons
1.31 – September 3, 2014
- Update: attachment pages now using localized dates
- Update: menu toggle icon styling update
- Fix: dates now internationalized and functioning properly for all languages
- Fix: another update for unset menus not working with social icons
- Fix: post author info box was being hidden by default
1.29 – August 30, 2014
- Update: added VK social icon
- Update: removed all template files besides index.php
- Update: profile image upload now available when editing another user
- Fix: dates localized
- Fix: removed extra “Post” in post navigation
- Fix: removed additional border on avatar of post author comments
1.28 – August 20, 2014
- Update: updated Theme Options page
- Update: Finnish translation updated
- Fix: social icons now showing when menu unset
1.27 – August 19, 2014
- Feature: added Post Meta display option to Customizer
- Feature: added comments count to excerpts (controlled by Post Meta option)
- Feature: added custom excerpt length option to Customizer
- Update: featured images now clickable on blog/archives
- Feature: added Finnish translation
1.26 – August 15, 2014
- Feature: added fonts & font weights option to Customizer
- Feature: added layouts option to Customizer
- Feature: added background color option to Customizer
- Fix: newest post no longer says “oldest” in post navigation
- Fix: navigation bug in Firefox
- Fix: menu toggle button alignment
- Fix: Ignite Plus text domain in profile image upload
1.25 – August 12, 2014
- Feature: added profile image upload
1.24 – August 6, 2014
- Feature: added Show/Hide breadcrumbs option
- Feature: added Custom CSS option
1.23 – August 2, 2014
- Update: added French and German translations
- Fix: unset menu styling issues
1.22 – July 30, 2014
- Fix: added translation-ready tag for wordpress.org
- Fix: fixed improper localization on social media icon names
1.21 – July 30, 2014
- Update: internationalized
- Fix: dropdown menus now working on touch devices
- Fix: social media icon display now accounting for site description
- Fix: input styling fix
- Fix: menu styling more reliable
1.20 – July 19, 2014
- Update: turned off input zoom on iOS
- Update: footer better sticks to bottom of page now
- Update: menu slide out animation altered
- Update: added conditional styling for comments with avatars off
- Update: added comments and prev/next links to attachment pages
- Fix: all JS functionality now working with unset menus
- Fix: fixed 3rd tier menus not working in Firefox
- Fix: added simple fix to allow unlinked images to be centered in post content
1.19 – July 2, 2014
- Update: removed unnecessary code for IE8 compatibility
- Update: improved styling of password-protected pages
- Update: updated Font Awesome to 4.1
- Update: added new social icons
- Update: added conditional logic to search page title for one result and only display bottoms search bar if > 0 results
- Update: now loading production.min.js asynchronously
- Update: stopped using Tappy to eliminate tap delay on some mobile browsers/OSes
- Fix: read more link on longer stretching height
- Fix: styling issue on excerpts between 800-1000px wide
1.18 – July 2, 2014
- Update: simplified Logo Size tool
- Update: featured image size ratio now more consistent
- Update: social icon display more reliable
- Fix: attachment page now works with Gallery images
- Fix: date display issue on attachment pages
- Fix: added missing text domains
1.17 – June 15, 2014
- Feature: added show full post option
1.16 – June 15, 2014
- Fix: HTML validation issues
1.15 – June 15, 2014
- Fix: fixed input styling issues
1.14 – June 15, 2014
- Fix: Added space before php closing tag in functions-admin.php (only affecting older PHP versions)
1.13 – June 13, 2014
- Update: featured images now available on Pages
- Fix: 404 page styling
1.12 – June 13, 2014
- Update: improved styling of submenus
- Update: changed how Logo Size tools works
- Update: new content in Theme Options page
1.11 – May 30, 2014
- Fix: update for incompatibility with < PHP 5.3
1.10 – May 29, 2014
- Feature: added logo positioning and size tools
- Update: removed admin dashboard widget
- Update: updated to newer Hybrid Core code library
- Update: restyled Theme Options page
1.05
- Update: added readme.txt for licensing info
- Update: added better screenshot
- Update: cleaner conditional code for IE in header
- Update: now enqueueing one minified JS file
- Fix: Disqus now working properly
- Fix: switched to better data validation in social icons option