Esotera WordPress Theme

v1.2.5.1:

• Improved Safari mobile browser detection for iPhones and iPads (for better handling of rendering quirks in social apps)
• Updated to Cryout Framework 0.8.6.3:
  • Fixed fatal error on Customize screen due to inconsistent handling of empty categories since WordPress 6.0
  • Fixed ‘Disable’ and ‘All Categories’ options not available in category selector options on sites with no categories defined

v1.2.5:

• Added esotera_box_readmore filter for landing page featured boxes read more texts
• Added support for using the associated featured images as header images on the static home and blog pages
• Improved JS compatibility with ShiftNav plugin
• Improved single posts fixed next/previous navigation by moving it to hookable esotera_fixed_nav_links() function and limiting links to same taxonomy
• Improved compatibility with script name collision in deferring check by increasing specificity
• Improved compatibility with sub-optimal SSI configurations
• Fixed landing page text areas content retaining incorrect narrow width on mobile devices
• Fixed landing page icon blocks using incorrect smaller widths with 2/4 columns settings
• Fixed portfolio type lists displaying slugs instead of properly formatted names
• Fixed featured images using the incorrect width in 3 post columns / left sidebar only configuration
• Updated to Cryout Framework 0.8.6.2:
  • Added static blog page detection function (for featured images in header)
  • Added Polylang support for featured boxes category filtering (thanks to espasso)
  • Improved PHP 8 compatibility

v1.2.4

• Added configuration hint for header image when the theme’s slider / banner image is active on the homepage
• Updated to Cryout Framework 0.8.5.7
  • Expanded hint control styling to apply in the Site Identity panel

v1.2.3.1

• Really fixed mobile menu search creating an extra focusable item

v1.2.3

• Removed lazy loading functionality from featured images as it sometimes interferes with image sizes
• Fixed leftover border on main navigation
• Fixed mobile menu and sticky top bar z-index issues
• Fixed mobile menu search creating an extra focusable item
• Fixed breadcrumbs on one-column layouts on mobile
• Fixed breadcrumbs padding on mobile
• Fixed search widgets in footer
• Fixed author section border on single pages on resolutions between 800px and 1024px
• Fixed multiple RTL issues
• Added click-navigation to target panels in header content and site identity hints
• Changed preloader failsafe auto hide time
• Changed banner caption title animation option to toggle control and renamed/relocated for clarity

• Added lazy loading for featured images and landing page elements
• Optimized frontend.js structure
• Improved preloader handling when JavaScript is broken on the site or disabled in browser
• Fixed social icons in side-menu not being accessible with keyboard navigation
• Fixed header titles animation support for HTML entities and special characters
• Fixed landing page blocks layout with 2/4 columns
• Fixed landing page blocks borders
• Fixed block editor galleries layout
• Fixed back to top button animation styling when using child themes

• Improved comment placeholder/label option functionality
• Renamed landing page ‘static image’ element to ‘banner image’ for clarity
• Removed all padding/margins from before/after content and top/bottom inner widget areas
• Fixed header titles support for HTML entities and special characters
• Fixed header widget area sometimes overlapping interactive content
• Fixed block editor font sizes using the incorrect ‘regular’ slug
• Fixed site title overlapping mobile menu toggler on certain configurations
• Fixed left sidebar navigation not being displayed when there are no widgets assigned
• Fixed incorrect scroll position after closing mobile menu on Firefox since v1.2.0
• Updated to Cryout Framework 0.8.5.6:
  • Fixed issues with font families that contain multiple words

• Added accessibility for mobile menu
• Added Tested up to and Requires PHP header fields in style.css
• Improved handling of font weights
• Improved visibility of featured boxes images when no images are present
• Code cleanup and sanitization improvements according to the theme sniffer rules
  • Fixed empty else statements in core.php, landing-page.php, styles.php
  • Added extra sanitization in includes/landing-page.php, includes/meta.php, includes/core.php, admin/main.php
• Cleaned up and optimized frontend scripts, including for WordPress 5.5/5.6 jQuery updates
• Renamed content/author-bio.php file to content/user-bio.php to avoid name collision with WordPress’ templating system
• Fixed plural forms in comments count for more complex languages – https://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers#Plurals
• Fixed non-prefixed global variables in content.php and comments.php
• Fixed logo using incorrect height after assignment in the customize preview
• Fixed accessibility for side menu
• Fixed malfunctioning preloader, header image and content animations with WordPress 5.6
• Fixed (hopefully) printing on Chrome prints the side menu background over the site content
• Fixed “Inherit General Font” option not working as expected
• Fixed team members photos having a weird aspect ratio after Team Members plugin update
• Updated to Cryout Framework 0.8.5.5:
  • Improved JS code to remove jQuery deprecation notices since WordPress 5.6
  • Changed custom post type label in breadcrumbs from singular_name to name
  • Added echo parameters to cryout_schema_microdata() and cryout_font_select() functions
  • Fixed color selector malfunction since WordPress 5.3
  • Fixed Select2 selectors no longer working with WordPress 5.6 on Firefox
  • Additional sanitization and even more sanitization changes to comply with current wp.org requirements