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Marketers Delight 5.2.0.x 13 changes
Released: December 31, 2020
- Use
ul class="list-check style-bullets"...
for a new list check style - Added
.button.yellow
helper class. - New filter:
md_filter_logo_alt
to enable the secondary logo on any given page - Adds nofollow attribute to relevant share icons
- Prevents button in header menu from changing to active color if on linked to page
- Fixes potential warning message on the Bookshelf
- You can now use HTML in the
md_popup text=""
shortcode - Applies equal shadow to
.quote-box
class - Fixed issue when multiple clone fields in meta box inserts content to wrong group
- Glossary 1.2.1: Removes byline and pagination, ensures all glossary terms appear on archive page
- Fixed error with category featured image in certain positions
- Makes sure "before headline" category featured image shows in correct position when set
- Removes empty inline style from single and category pages when header cover featured image not set
Marketers Delight 5.2 27 changes
Released: October 24, 2020
- Stream: Comments now enabled on stream posts! You can also keep comments disabled entirely from the settings panel. Edit existing posts to enable comments from the "Discussion" meta box
- Stream: Embed your stream feed with customizable settings with the new Stream Widget
- Stream: Add Sticky Posts to the top of your Stream feed in the post editor
- Stream: Simplified date and embeds system
- Stream: Multi-author Stream threads. Different users can contribute to a Thread attached to any Stream post for a multi-user status/update.
- Stream: New layout and sidebars controls on the Stream settings page
- Stream Article markup improvements
- Share: Add comments icon with counter to share bar
- Share: Nofollows all social media links
- Share: Like buttons and share icons template more easy to reuse around site
- Optins: Show or hide hide CTA's, floating bars, and popups whether users are logged in or not.
- Optins: New CTA box location "After Sidebar"
- WooCommerce: Removes shadows and blocky elements from shop archive when Minimal design mode enabled.
- New: New font icons for Telegram, Slack, TikTok and other icons. See the font icons library for a full list
- New: Organized widget names by new label "MD → Widget Name"
- New: Adds hidden "comments" label text to comments count byline. Unhide with CSS.
- Fixed: Updated color scripts for WordPress version 5.5
- Fixed: Bug with excerpt filter that hid excerpt text on custom post types
- Fixed: Adjusted CSS so header submenu links colors apply
- Fixed: Removed sidebar gap and turned layout back to full page when sidebar widget area has no widgets
- Developer: More flexible parent theme to child theme template finder with new
md_template()
function - Developer: More flexible parent theme to child theme CSS files finder with new
md_css()
function - Developer: You can now set default values with
md_setting()
,md_post_meta()
,md_term_meta()
, andmd_meta()
functions return empty values - Developer: You can now register widgets with the
widgets
method when extending themd_api
class - Developer: Simplified comments template loading, removes
templates/comments/comments-list.php
template withtemplates/comments/comment.php
- Developer: Moved all templates and CSS files from the
lib
folder into their respective folder in thedropins
directory. Child theme overrides still work thanks tomd_template()
enhanced template finder - Developer: New filter to remove aggressive MD formatting margin
add_filter( 'md_filter_disable_format_fix', '__return_true' );
Marketers Delight 5.1.2 6 changes
Released: June 22, 2020
- Fixes a few minor glitches on the Popups live preview designer
- Fixes a WordPress glitch where a custom blog homepage uses the first published post ID instead of its own page
- Added MailerLite pixel tracking code
- Fixes image uploader on AJAX actionw when widgets added/updated
- Removes image file references for the deprecated
add-image.jpg
file - MD5.1.2 fixes the embarrassing double byline bug on the teasers loop template
Marketers Delight 5.1.1 21 changes
Released: May 31, 2020
- Block editor CSS has been rewritten and optimized to support the latest version of Gutenberg. Adds support for many of the same helper classes to the Blocks Editor (
.mb-double
,.block-double
, .text-center
, and others). (see forum thread - Adds new Tertiary and Action colors to your Brand Colors design settings in MD > Site Design
- Re-adds foundational markeup schema to
body
,header
,article
,sidebar
,footer
,menu
(see forum thread) - Adds full Custom Template support to all built-in popups templates
- Change the
h1
-h4
tag on all CTA boxes in MD > Optins > Call to Actions - Headline text color now applies to all title tags in MD > Site Design > Colors
- Adds new user-friendly labels to help you find the proper connection details from a supported 3rd party service in MD > Integrations
- Removes shadow from WooCommerce template (see forum thread)
- Deprecates
.has-text-color
class as it conflicts with other text colors. Default text always inherit from thebody
tag - Fixes share text encoding (see forum thread)
- Massive admin template and settings reorganization, far more logical file structure
- MD
/dropins/
folder moves tolib/dropins
- You can now use shortcodes in the Popups Custom Template builder field.
- All email forms will always fallback and use default email form set in MD > Call to Actions until you set it to a custom email list anywhere else
- Email form widget settings cleaned up and simplified, adds notice if no email data found
- Adds loading status and success message to MailerLite forms. Thank you page URL setting also available
- Fixes issue where media uploader didn't show after widgets are first created (now loads media script on widget AJAX save refresh)
- Ensures links in featured image header are always proper contrast colors
- Renames generated admin
blocks-editor.css
toblock-editor.css
- Adds proper font weight settings to Header in MD > Site Design > Fonts & Typography
- Adds new
md_css()
function to include CSS templates from parent theme or child theme override
Marketers Delight 5.1 16 changes
Released: May 3, 2020 | read announcement →
- NEW: Powerful new blog and category loop settings in MD > Site Design > Content
- NEW: Blog Blocks loop template is now built-in with precise customization settings
- NEW: Take full control of your post bylines with new toggle options, post avatar, and last updated date
- NEW: Add call to actions after the X post in any loop
- NEW: Set your own custom 404 page template in MD > Settings > Site Tools
- Add sidebar to posts and categories have been split into their own respective options
- New excerpt length and read more text settings
- The Image control in the Call to Action builder has been moved to its own "Image" tab with new left/right/center alignment controls
- You can now use shortcodes in the custom HTML embed for Floating Bars, Popups, and CTAs
- Template file updates:
loop-teasers.php
,byline.php
,loop.php
,text.php
- New
byline
template folder with itemized template files for each byline item - New byline hooks, filters, and templates for powerful customization methods
- Deprecated
md_has_teasers
function - Deprecated and removed
loop-search.php
template - Adds
tabs
andaccordion
scripts toMDJS
file - Adds new
md-icon-tags
font icon
Marketers Delight 5.0.9 11 changes
Released: April 13, 2020 | read announcement →
- Cleaned up post box markup and radically simplified CSS and hook order for post styles
- Updates Page Leads, Gallery Blocks, Testimonials, Video Gallery, Glossary, and Related Posts Dropins
- Connects a few missing Floating Bar fields when created from post editor
- Deprecated markup schema (use SEO plugin as better alternative)
- Updated
md_integrations
filter to make adding new integrations easiere - Updated comments templates to support tabbed comments and other template changes
- Adds new
.md-icon-book
font icon - Apply the new
.spin
class to make any elements spin infinitely! - Prevents header dropdown menus from hiding beneath buttons
- Moves sidebar CSS to new
css/sidebar.php
file - Fixes like button counts on categories
Marketers Delight 5.0.8 2 changes
Released: April 2, 2020
- Updates ActiveCampaign API (deleted old library)
- Fixed Like increment issue when total equals 0
Marketers Delight 5.0.7 4 changes
Released: March 30, 2020
- Adjusts featured image cover left/right spacing on has sidebar layouts.
- Moves popups closer to top of window
- Adds color class to popup trigger on main menu
- Updates WooCommerce hooks
Marketers Delight 5.0.6 11 changes
Released: March 25, 2020
- New "Minimal Design" mode removes all "blocky" elements from your site's design including borders, shadow, and uses only your site's background color for the content box.
- New option to remove sidebar from showing on blog homepage
- Adds Header Top/Bottom spacing controls back to MD > Site Design > Header
- Smoother typography and layout spacing adjustments
- Moved share icons to show after featured image if image is set to "Before Headline"
- Made Twitter icon blue again
- Fixed order of pagination load
- Allows imags to be saved to custom MD widgets again
- Fixes warning message after saving Floating Bars
- Ensures buttons always inherits body font
- Randomize order of books loading in bookshelf
Marketers Delight 5.0.x 7 changes
Released: March 18, 2020
- Note: These are rapid releases to fix bugs from the major MD5.0 update
- All Site Design settings now save your custom values
- Added the post nav back to the end of all blog posts
- Fixed bug where author box was always showing. Go to MD > Site Design > Content > Author Box to enable sitewide
- Updated Builder template with
.format
class and MD hooks - Fixed clearfix bug in WooCommerce styles
- Fixed misaligned arrow button styles
Marketers Delight 5.0 1 change
Released: March 16, 2020 | read announcement →
- The biggest update ever. Read announcement for more information.
Marketers Delight 4.9.6.3 1 change
Released: January 27, 2020
- Adds support for ConvertKit API 5.0