This is a user-friendly changelog for the Unlimited WordPress theme. It’s written in non-technical language and will let you know what’s new in Unlimited.
If you want a detailed technical version of the changelog, you can view the Unlimited commit history on Github.
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1.40 – December 23, 2020
Version 1.40 was released immediately after 1.39, so the changelog is combined here.
- Update: added new social media icons for Untappd, Orcid, Strava, and ResearchGate
1.38 – August 12, 2020
- Feature: added bbPress compatibility
- Update: added support for Elementor Pro’s custom headers and footers
- Update: removed Google Plus from social icons
- Fix: images defaulting to full-width display in the editor with WP 5.5
- Fix: “read more” link showing in RSS feed descriptions
- Fix: social links block using black instead of white for icon color
- Fix: code elements inside pre elements have extra left padding on first line
- Fix: scroll-to-top arrow not moving keyboard focus back to the top of the site
- Fix: dropdown menu for “Last updated” option was too wide
- Fix: cookie opt-in box in comment form not displaying on the same line as the label
- Fix: button blocks showed text underline when hovered over
- Fix: Unlimited Pro ad showing up in MailOptin form customizer
1.37 – November 19, 2019
- Feature: added Pocket to social icons
- Feature: added ArtStation to social icons
- Update: removed welcome redirect when activating Unlimited
- Fix: removed PHP error notice
- Fix: image caption styles fixes
- Fix: darkened image caption text for readability
1.36 – February 26, 2019
- Update: shortcodes can now be output in Footer Text section added by Unlimited Pro
- Fix: posts showing today’s date on non-English sites using WP 5.1
- Fix: missing i18n
1.35 – January 9, 2019
- Feature: new option to display the “last updated” date for posts
- Update: updated German translation
- Fix: desktop menu working on iPads in landscape orientation
1.34 – December 5, 2018
- Update: Goodreads social icons
- Fix: Gutenberg fixes
1.33 – November 20, 2018
- Update: full Gutenberg compatibility
- Update: styled classic post editor like front-end
1.32 – November 5, 2018
- Fix: 2nd tier menu dropdown icons sometimes overlap menu text
1.31 – November 3, 2018
- Update: redesigned Unlimited Dashboard
- Update: changed Customizer ad
- Update: added Patreon and Medium to social icons
- Update: updated screenshot to 1200x900px
1.30 – October 8, 2018
- Fix: social icons missing when Elementor active
1.29 – October 4, 2018
- Feature: menu dropdown indicators showing again
1.28 – October 2, 2018
- Feature: WooCommerce support added
- Feature: added Discord, Bitbucket, Stack Overflow, OK.ru, Mixcloud, and phone social icons
- Update: reordered social icons in Customizer
- Update: security enhancements
- Update: jQuery compatibility updates
- Update: upgraded Font Awesome to 5.2
- Fix: social site names translatable
1.27 – February 22, 2018
- Fix: dropdown menu items in primary menu keyboard accesible again
1.26 – August 11, 2017
- Update: switched Unlimited Pro image in Customizer to a GIF
- Update: added review request prompt after 14 days
- Update: included ad for PressPad News in theme options page
- Fix: Facebook descriptions created by Yoast no longer included “Read more…”
- Fix: sticky post status no longer shows in search results
- Fix: styling for author bios on author post archives
1.25 – May 17, 2017
- Feature: added new social icons: Yelp, Amazon, Twitch, Google Wallet
- Update: updated template routing function to make custom post type support simpler
- Fix: added missing editor notes for a few translation strings
- Fix: stopped adding ellipsis to custom excerpts
1.24 – February 8, 2017
- Update: added “aria-hidden” role to ornamental icons
- Update: updated Fitvids
- Update: added more context to certain phrases to make translation easier
- Update: improved excerpt handling (back-end updates)
- Fix: Customizer link in Unlimited Dashboard now works for sites with WP installed in a subdirectory
1.23 – December 5, 2016
- Update: tested & updated for WP 4.7
- Update: added 8 new social media icons
- Update: now redirecting to Unlimited dashboard upon activation
- Update: Unlimited dashboard reorganized and improved
- Update: updated style & copy of Unlimited Pro ad in Customizer
1.22 – October 7, 2016
- Update: comment threading/nesting can now be turned off
- Update: security enhancements
- Update: sticky status no longer displays in search results
- Fix: sticky status text now translatable
1.21 – August 23, 2016
- Update: mobile menu now works on both touchscreen and keyboard/mouse devices
- Update: ARIA roles and updating screen reader text added to dropdown menus
- Update: Whatsapp social icon can now use special Whatsapp links for messaging
1.20 – July 28, 2016
- Update: updated Font Awesome icon font for social icons (new Instagram logo)
- Fix: Featured Images on Pages in Internet Explorer now displaying properly when using “natural dimensions” size (Unlimited Pro feature)
1.19 – April 25, 2016
- Update: added German translation
- Update: changed customizer ad style and text
1.18 – 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: styling added for Featured Image Caption plugin
- Fix: pagination links now translatable
1.17 – March 4, 2016
- Update: added Leave a Review box to Unlimited Dashboard
- Update: added link to Skype link protocol in Social Media Icons section
- Fix: Unlimited Pro ad in Layouts section now translatable
1.16 – February 12, 2016
- Update: removed all “locked” sections from Customizer
- Update: Skype social icon input now accepts special Skype link protocol
- Update: contact form URL added to social icons
- Update: theme info removed from .pot file to avoid translation errors
- Fix: “Comments closed.” message no longer appearing out of place
- Fix: author social icon URLs now working again
1.15 – January 24, 2015
- Fix: “X” button in search bar overlapping magnifying glass icon in IE11 removed
- Fix: Yoast SEO post editor no longer narrow
- Fix: pagination no longer shows when Jetpack infinite scroll is active
1.14 – December 18, 2015
- Feature: option added to change the Read More button’s text
- Feature: added support for Yoast SEO breadcrumbs
- Update: additional data sanitization/validation for enhanced security
- Update: featured image display now more reliable across browsers
- Update: keyboard focus on 2nd and 3rd tier menu items mimics hovering
- Update: refactored, cleaned up, and reformatted code across entire project
- Update: added hover colors for newest social icons that were missing colors
- Fix: error message no longer displays in Customizer if site has no pages
- Fix: marked numerous English strings for translation that had been missed
- Fix: option to reset Customizer options now only resets Unlimited’s options
- Fix: social media icons working instantly in Customizer again
1.13 – October 31, 2015
- Update: Featured Images now compatible with more plugins that interact with them
- Update: turned off automatic hyphenation
- Update: RSS icon now uses square version
- Update: Javascript refactoring and performance improvements
- Update: added “for” attribute to comment form labels
- Fix: Jetpack infinite scroll “load more” button now longer disappearing
- Fix: PayPal icon label now capitalized correctly in Customizer
- Fix: fixed errors in Internet Explorer between layout transitions at different screen sizes
1.12.1 – October 12, 2015
- Feature: added Jetpack infinite scroll support
- Update: added 10 new social icons
- Update: category, tag, and author descriptions now show on archive pages
- Update: custom CSS now updates instantly
- Fix: fixed fatal error on pre 4.2 versions of WordPress
- Fix: fixed XSS vulnerability
1.11 – September 21, 2015
- Update: more noticeable keyboard focus added to featured images
- Update: added more data sanitization for security
- Update: gallery styles improved
- Update: added styling for post author comments
- Fix: empty Color section no longer showing up in Customizer
1.10 – August 20, 2015
- Update: updated Font Awesome to v4.4.0
- Update: social icon array 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
1.09 – August 6, 2015
- Update: profile image option now removed
- Update: recent posts widget looks better with dates showing
- Update: “Logo Upload” section in Customizer renamed to “Logo”
- Update: added responsive embeds for many more sites
1.08 – July 17, 2015
- Update: profile image uploader set for removal
- Update: more tags now used even if show full post setting is on
- Fix: comment date now using global date format
- Fix: Customizer button in Unlimited Dashboard now returns to dashboard when closed
- Fix: tagline now updating instantly in Customizer even if not originally present
1.07 – May 19, 2015
- Update: added Russian translation
- Update: date format now more reliable across languages and accepts timestamps
- Update: no longer setting default format for dates
- Update: social icons now using title attributes instead of hidden screen reader text
- Update: featured images now using title attributes instead of hidden screen reader text
- Update: featured images now filterable
- Update: comment gravatars and author profile images now use author’s name as alt text.
- Update: mobile menu button now updates screen reader text and aria roles when opened/closed
- Update: added ads for Unlimited Pro in Customizer
- Update: moved and restyled Unlimited Pro ad in Customizer
- Fix: Sticky/Featured post status covering dropdown menus
1.06 – April 14, 2015
- Fix: freezing on tablets when loaded in landscape mode
1.05 – April 4, 2015
- Update: more secure sanitization filter for custom css
- Update: ad text in customizer finalized
- Update: improved i18n for search results pages
- Update: post dates now work with timestamp included
- Fix: no space in title on homepage before pipeline character (|)
- Fix: incorrect defaults set for comment display