Arcanumesotera Child Theme

• 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’re using a child theme to apply complex overrides, these may need adjusting to factor in the new order of action hooks
• 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
• Added landing page banner/slider background color option
• Moved the landing page “Featured Content” option into the main Landing Page customizer panel
• Rearranged WordPress’ built-in site identity options for better consistency
• Changed “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
• Changed failover featured boxes ‘camera’ icon to only be visible when no featured image is used and avoid interference with transparent images
• Fixed ‘View all posts by’ translation inconsistency in user-bio.php
• Fixed support for landing page text areas background images (broken since 1.3.0)
• Fixed side socials alignment with the Mystic personality
• Removed backwards support for pre-WordPress 4.5 logo functionality
• Bumped required PHP version to 7.0
• Updated to Cryout Framework 0.8.7.1:
  • 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

• 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

v1.3.0:

• Added ‘cryout_preslider_hook’ hook to landing page slider section
• Added additional ‘limited’ selection for table appearance option for improved compatibility with content plugins
• Added ‘esotera_navigation_compat’ filter to allow overriding the “access” id on menu container and improve uber/mega menu compatibility
• Added generated ‘esotera-accent-1/2‘ and ‘esotera-accent-1/2-bg‘ classnames and ‘esotera-accent-1/2‘ CSS variables for the main accent colors
• Added interactive hint to WordPress’ Homepage Settings panel while using the landing page with a static homepage
• 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 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
• Renamed ‘striped‘ tables option and CSS classname
• Improved theme defaults to make all default configurable texts translatable
• Improved support for bare homepage content by removing the minimum height
• Improved styling to support more than two banner/slider caption buttons
• Improved compatibility with ShiftNav plugin by removing focus interception from buttons
• Fixed theme reset styling overriding block file buttons
• Fixed PHP 8.2+ deprecation warning in presentation page boxes filter
• Updated Cryout Framework to 0.8.6.6:
  • Fixed deprecated ${var} usage with PHP 8.2+
  • Updated rich text schema support for comments
  • Precognitively fixed erroneous white square in customize screen panels with Zynith SEO plugin
  • Fixed whitespaces in font control title hint due to spaces in markup

v1.2.6:

• Fixed XSS vulnerability allowing the output of unsanitized user names set by rogue editors/contributors – reported by stealthcopter on patchstack.com
• Fixed erroneous itemprop=’discussionURL’ output in comments markup
• Improved accessibility:
  • Side menu / mobile menu toggler
  • Main menu
  • Back to top button
  • Loading of the built-in icon font
  • Width and height attributes for portfolio images, featured images and testimonials

• Added body class identifier for currently selected personality
• Added order and orderby control options for the landing page featured boxes
• Added links functionality on phones/email in contact template and widget
• Added meta option to remove main content background color on individual posts and pages
• Added search functionality in the icons shortcode editor UI
• Added separate control option for Featured Image in Header for custom post types (Jetpack portfolios, WooCommerce products)
• Added separate section layout option for 404 page
• Improved shortcodes styling compatibility with WordPress blocks using the same .row classname
• Improved video header centered alignment
• Fixed Plus specific translations not loaded correctly
• Fixed responsiveness trigger limit not applying to top navigation between 640 and (configurable) 800px
• Fixed lefover left/right padding on full width page template
• Fixed overlay placement with Serious Slider plugin
• Fixed erroneous update availability message on unexpected reply from Plus backend API
• Bumped bundled Featured Content plugin to version 1.2.3
• Synchronized with Esoteras 1.2.6 and 1.3.0

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