Sundownbravada Child Theme

Sundown

 WordPress Theme

Sundown is a fast, lightweight and fully customizable WordPress theme that can also regularly brush your hair. It boosts a responsive fullscreen design while also taking full advantage of the block editor (Gutenberg) and can set up a warm bath for you after a hard day’s work. Sundown uses the latest (and valid) HTML and CSS code, is translation and RTL ready, highly SEO optimized with integrated Schema.org code, supports WooCommerce and will ask you how you like your eggs in the morning.

With over 100 Customizer options, Sundown will help you create your ideal blog, ecommerce website or business site in minutes. And if you ask nicely, she might do the dishes as well. But only at sundown!

Free WordPress Theme

Free WordPress Theme

A WordPress theme that includes all the features and functionality out of the box, for free. We don't hide half the theme behind a paywall.

Highly Customizable

Highly Customizable

With well over one hundred theme customization options it will be a piece of cake* to make it your own.

Up To Date

Up To Date

Constantly updated and upgraded to the latest design trends, web standards and WordPress versions.

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Sundown News

Bravada 1.2.0 is just in time

Changelog:

  • Major rewrite of all critical action and filter hooks to resolve the ‘_load_textdomain_just_in_time() was called incorrectly’ notice introduced by WordPress 6.7. If you are using a child theme to apply complex overrides, these may need adjusting to account for the new order of things
  • Added Bluesky social icon
  • Added hint about header video limitations to WordPress’ Header Media customizer panel
  • Added hint (and link) about the landing page functionality in WordPress’ Homepage Settings customizer panel
  • Moved the landing page “Featured Content” option into the main Landing Page customizer panel
  • Rearranged WordPress’ built-in site identity options for better consistency
  • Renamed “Fixed Menu” option to “Sticky Menu” for clarity
  • Changed all outgoing frontend links to be protocol agnostic and avoid warnings from automated quality check tools
  • Fixed ‘View all posts by’ translation inconsistency in user-bio.php
  • Bumped required PHP version to 7.0
  • Updated to Cryout Framework 0.8.7:
    • Added support to change built-in customizer panel priorities
    • Added support to customize priority for theme customizer panels
    • Added the Button customizer control (used for the personalities apply button)
    • Added the Personality customizer control (for personalities selection)
    • Merged ‘hint’ control as subtype of ‘notice’ control
    • Fixed “About theme” customizer panel layout issues due to WordPress 6.7 accessibility changes
    • Fixed theme indicator misplaced with WordPress 6.7 accessibility changes

Plus changelog:

  • Moved personalities panel to the main customizer options list and revamped the personality choice and activation process
  • Improved handling of auto-update checks when server returns unexpected data
  • Fixed deprecated creation of dynamic property in plus/plus-extras/autoupdate.php with PHP 8.2
  • (Hopefully) fixed warning about reading unavailable Jetpack related property “name” / “slug” in plus/plus-functions.php in some odd cases
  • To reduce nagging in the dashboard, the theme no longer suggests installing Jetpack and Yoast SEO

Ripley – A brand new face for Bravada

Ripley is a brand new child theme for Bravada. It’s our biggest and most complex child theme yet, adding quite a bit of personality to an already charming theme.

We changed the parent theme’s design and animations quite a bit, giving it a more organic look while keeping the essence of Bravada intact.

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Bravada 1.1.4 makes waves

Changelog:

  • Added presentation page banner/slider section background color option (for Ripley child theme)

Plus changelog:

  • Integrated the Ripley personality
  • Fixed PHP 8.2+ deprecation warning in presentation page boxes filter
  • Fixed duplicate content showing when landing page slider was set to header image due to duplicate ‘cryout_headerimage_hook‘ (since 1.1.3)
  • Updated Cryout Framework to 0.8.6.6:
    • Fixed deprecated ${var} use with PHP 8.2+

Bravada 1.1.3(.1)

Changelog:

v1.1.3.1

  • Fixed duplicate content showing when landing page slider was set to header image due to extra ‘cryout_headerimage_hook’ hook (added in 1.1.3)
  • Fixed deprecated ${var} usage with PHP 8.2+

v1.1.3

  • Added cryout_headerimage_hook hook to landing page slider section
  • Added additional limited selection for table appearance option to improve compatibility with content plugins
  • Enabled more content arrow on mobile devices
  • Disabled more content arrow when not needed (like when banner/header image is not fullscreen)
  • Fixed XSS vulnerability allowing the output of unsanitized user names set by rogue editors/contributors – reported by stealthcopter on patchstack.com
  • Fixed the broken again previously fixed landing page banner image horizontal centering when not fullscreen (since 1.1.0)

Plus changelog:

  • Added body class identifier for currently selected personality
  • Added order and orderby control options for the landing page featured boxes
  • Bumped bundled Featured Content plugin to version 1.2.3

Bravada 1.1.2

Changelog:

  • Added ‘bravada_navigation_compat‘ filter to allow overriding the “access” id on menu container and improve uber/mega menu compatibility
  • Improved behaviour of site title and logo with custom height sticky menu bar
  • Rewrote and fixed the content headings accent effect and also added option to control the effect with the previous homepage-only setting being the default by (un)popular demand.
  • Fixed missing YouTube icon in v1.1.1
  • Updated Cryout Framework to v0.8.6.5:
    • Updated rich text schema support for comments
    • Precognitively fixed erroneous white square in customize screen panels with Zynith SEO plugin

Plus changelog:

  • Added links functionality on phones/email in contact template and widget
  • Fixed Plus specific translations not loaded correctly
  • Fixed collapsible panel shortcode being broken due to the content headings accent effect changes in v1.1.1

Bravada 1.1.1 extends her social skills

Changelog:

  • Improved main menu accessibility (tab navigation)
  • Fixed theme reset styling overriding block file buttons
  • Added new social icons: AliPay, Apple, Behance, Bootstrap, Git, Gitlab, Google, Mastodon, Messenger, Microsoft, Teams, Person (simple, circle, square), QR Code, Rumble, Signal, Snapchat, Sourceforge, Substack, Telegram, Threads, Trello, Unity, WhatsApp, Xbox, and one that shall not be named
  • Updated existing social icons: Twitter (X), Facebook, GitHub, Google Play, PayPal, Skype, Stripe, Steam, Spotify, Linkedin, Reddit, YouTube*, WordPress (old icons are still available by adding the -old suffix to the classnames)
  • Changed default social icon for tel: links
  • Improved theme defaults to make all default configurable texts translatable

Plus changelog:

  • Added meta option to remove main content background color on individual posts and pages
  • Added search functionality in the icons shortcode editor UI

Bravada 1.1.0 was sculpted

Changelog:

  • Added interactive hint to WordPress’ Homepage Settings panel while using the landing page with a static homepage
  • Added support for displaying descriptions as an intro to category sections
  • Improved support for bare homepage content by removing the minimum height
  • Renamed ‘striped‘ tables option and CSS classname
  • Fixed previous/next post navigation images linking to incorrect posts due to discrepancy in same_term parameters
  • Fixed empty space after slider image when header image / slider is not set to be displayed full-screen
  • Fixed edit button missing on (static) pages
  • Fixed support for longer titles in the title accent position option
  • (Hopefully) fixed comments markup inconsistency on WordPress themes demo
  • Improved accessibility:
    • Hamburger menu / mobile menu toggler
    • Main menu search
    • Back to top button
    • Loading of the built-in icon font
    • Width and height attributes for portfolio images, featured images and testimonials
  • Updated to Cryout Framework 0.8.6.4:
    • Fixed whitespaces in font control title hint due to spaces in markup

Plus changelog:

  • Integrated the Sculpt personality
  • Added separate control option for Featured Image in Header for custom post types (like Jetpack portfolios, WooCommerce products)
  • Added separate section layout option for the 404 page
  • Improved shortcodes styling compatibility with WordPress blocks using the same .row classname
  • Fixed ‘hide title‘ meta option applying too broadly on categories/search results
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Sundown Stats

  • Current Version: 1.0.1
  • Last Updated: 8 Feb 2022
  • Rating: 
  • Downloads: 3 378
  • Active installs: 70+

Sundown Support

  • Support Status: Child theme
  • This is a child theme which receives most updates through the parent theme and inherits its support cycle. Child themes can also receive individual updates when necessary.