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Marketers Delight 5.4 1 change
Released: December 8, 2021 | read announcement →
- Introduces the brand new upgrades system. Read announcement for details.
Marketers Delight 5.3.2.1 3 changes
Released: November 30, 2021
- Throws less aggressive error if theme updater can't make connection
- Expands Loop and Sidebar settings to Tag and Author pages.
- Adds
userID
parameter to localized JS script
Marketers Delight 5.3.2 28 changes
Released: November 16, 2021
- NEW: Skip the plugin, you can now enable "Classic widgets" by going to MD > Site Tools
- NEW: Adds support for Page Break block and adds pagination when splitting posts into parts
- NEW: Improves font icon performance with preload and font display
- NEW in Stream drop-in: Auto-post to stream when you publish new post or other post type with Stream Activity
- NEW in Docs drop-in: Change singular or plural name of entire "Docs" pages in the settings page.
- NEW in Admin bar drop-in: Now add quick links to admin pages with easy settings in MD > Settings > Admin bar
- NEW in Beacon menu drop-in: Adds user avatar size to MD > Settings > Beacon menu
- Updates Block Editor stylesheets for more consistent post content rendering in admin and frontend.
- Changes the Editor background if body/content box set to dark color
- Updates default typography values for clearer hierarchy in headings
- Ensures inline styles print to frontend and admin if option enabled in MD > Settings > Site Tools
- Fixes warning message on Block Editor page for custom block registration
- Stream: Fixes post cutoff on main Streams page in WP admin (
pre_get_posts
overreach) - Stream: Ensures Thread posts show proper featured image
- Breadcrumbs: If custom blog page set from Settings > Reading, use page title in breadcrumbs
- MD Admin Bar: Now shows/hide based on Edit User > Show Toolbar when viewing site
- Docs: Now shows/hides breadcrumbs based on MD > Site Design > Content
- Related Posts: Minor background style CSS tweak
- Optins: Minor background style CSS tweak
md_icon()
now acceptsstyle
parameter to$args
to add inline styles to icon. Uses fullmd_style()
parameters.- Adds
hide_links
to author byline item to hide social links - Can now save
rel=
attribute to text inputs (adds permission throughmd_sanitize
on save) - Adds
alt
text to secondary logo image (if uploaded via MD Site Design) - Removes support for now defunt "Subtitles" WordPress plugin (use MD "Subtitles" drop-in instead)
- Shows proper shadows on image captions
- Better content / sidebar top alignment when breadcrumbs enabled
- Connects author page loop and sidebar display to global loop settings
- Hides button from Content Spotlight block when button text empty
Marketers Delight 5.3.1 8 changes
Released: August 8, 2021 | read announcement →
- New: Add custom author settings meta to the Edit profile screen
- New: Create Editor and Term select fields from any custom settings screens
- Updates custom MD Walker classes for more versatility with nav menu and category lists output
- Removes featured image caption post meta setting and forces image caption if filled out
- Drop-in updates: MD Optins 1.0.1, MD Glossary 1.3, Drop-ins Generator 1.0.1
- Optins: Adds
post-box
class to Call to action for consistent styling when used in the content area - Glossary: Fixes certain admin settings not ssving, updated to latest MDAPI code standards
- Drop-ins Generator: Fixes issue where selected icon wasn't being included in download
Marketers Delight 5.2.3 19 changes
Released: April 12, 2021 | read announcement →
- NEW: Optimize site font icons with the new MD Icons manager. Add, update, and remove font icons from your site in an easy way.
- NEW: Add a helpful subtitle to any post or page with the now-included MD Subtitles dropin
- NEW: Add custom body classes to any post or page from the Tracking Scripts meta box
- Performance fix: Restricts MD license updater from checking on uneeded admin pages
- Bug fix: Ensure author box only appears on single blog posts when enabled from MD > Site Design > Content
- Bug fix: Shows "Remove byline" Layout meta box controls on all custom post types except Pages
- Bug fix: Removes post ID from showing in admin columns to every usergroup except Administrator and Editor
- Bug fix: Allow full text override of
email_name_label
,email_email_label
, andemail_submit_text
inmd_email
shortcode and PHP. - Bug fix: Returns correct popups data when trying to override category page popups
- Bug fix: Clears error messages on Share settings if no popups are found
- Bug fix: Renders correct markup for the email share icon popup
- Style: Adds yellow alert styling back to MD updates in Appearance > Themes
- Style: Halves the margin bottom after post content headlines (
h2
-h6
) - Style: Hides unused markup in Stream posts if not post title or post content is found,
- Style: Adjust bookshelf shortcode typography in
book
shortcode - Style: Makes any links in the
code
tag match the normal text - API: Set
show_on_block_editor
totrue
inmd_api->register->meta_box
to only register meta box to the WordPress Block Editor - API: A new standard to render font icons in MD has been established using the
md_icon()
function and shortocde. See announcement for more details - Hooks: New content box hooks have been added to
/marketers-delight/templates/content-box.php
Marketers Delight 5.2.2 18 changes
Released: March 3, 2021 | read announcement →
- NEW: Add breadcrumbs to the top of all posts and pages
- Style: Improved spacing for better mobile readability and overall reduces layout CSS weight and complexity
- Dropins: Compatibility updates to Docs (1.0.1) and Glossary (1.2.2)
- Security: Replaces
the_title
andthe_content
filters on various text areas with newmd_text_field
sanitize function. This is for better security and to avoid plugins incompatibility - MD Share and Optins admin panel UI improvements
- You can now add author boxes to posts even if the global author box option is not enabled
- CTA Box title changed from large font size to medium font size on content-sidebar layouts, when used in the content box
- Fixes share icons width if comments button is disabled from any position
- Moves logo image markup above site title in
templates/logo.php
- New
columns-triple
helper class - You can now set email input labels and submit button to empty with
md_email
shortcode and function - Simplified
templates/archive-title.php
template markup - The
md_password_form
function is now pluggable so you can create your own password template - Reduced z-index on
.alignX
CSS classes from 10 to 5 - Render featured video custom markup with
do_shortcode
- Halved the top spacing of
.content-box
on the default style - Prevents top floating bars from covering the MD admin bar on load
- Fixed Edit page URL render on category pages in the MD Admin Bar Dropin
Marketers Delight 5.2.1.x 5 changes
Released: January 29, 2021
- Resolves error messages when all popups are deleted
- Removes z-index on
.button
classes, reduces.image-overlay
z-index to 0 to prevent stacking issues. - Applies menu links color settings to
.header
- Simplifies
.logo
and.site-title
CSS selectors - Fixes Admin bar header submenu CSS glitch