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Marketers Delight Changelog

Release notes for every version of the Marketers Delight Theme and Drop-ins. Scan what's new by bug fixes, new features, enhancements, integrations, and other criteria.

Marketers Delight 6.0

Marketers Delight 6.0 is a ground-up rewrite, and the full theme is now free. The highlights:

  1. EnhancementRebuilt from the ground up for WordPress 6.2+ and PHP 7.4+, with Block and Classic editor support.
  2. EnhancementThe full theme is now free to download, with no feature limits. Pro adds every Drop-in and one license key for updates.
  3. New featureDesign Options put your colors, fonts, widths, and Box, Border, or plain content style in one place.
  4. New featureHeader Builder lets you build your header from link, search, and menu elements, and set your logo, without editing templates.
  5. New featureLayout Options show or hide the header, sidebar, panel, and footer by post type, category, or page.
  6. New featureSidebars & Panels let you create named sidebars and sliding panels, and choose where each one shows.
  7. New featurePage Covers add Headline, Header, and Full Header covers with automatic light or dark text.
  8. New featureFeatured Media places an image, video URL, or custom HTML in one of eight positions.
  9. New featureMagic Loops set how posts are listed once, and every archive inherits it.
  10. New featureSettings for each post type, archive, and author page, with category and tag settings that inherit.
  11. IntegrationA Library of more than 20 Drop-ins, with update notifications for the theme and Drop-ins in the WordPress dashboard on Pro and Lifetime licenses.
  12. DeveloperA refreshed developer toolkit. More options to extend WordPress with unique custom fields. Collections API, smarter admin page detection, CSS variables, dynamic CSS templates, post type inheritance, and much more

Share 2.1

  1. New featureImproved interface inside the byline builder where you can now customize each share icon to show inline, remain in the dropdown, or remove from the entire page type
  2. EnhancementRe-organize share bylline admin fields so they make more logical sense while editing
  3. EnhancementEnsure share buttons move to the right side of a a byline group

Marketers Delight 5.5.7

  1. EnhancementApplies background colors to note and alert classes in Blocks Editor
  2. EnhancementAdds placeholder parameter to textarea fields created with the MDAPI
  3. EnhancementAdds title attribute to md_icon( $args )
  4. EnhancementNow allows the secondary logo to be forcefully turned off by setting the md_filter_logo_alt filter to false
  5. EnhancementNow allows the comment form to be moved before/after comments list. See thread
  6. EnhancementOptins 1.0.9: Pass the echo => true argument to md_email_form( $args ) to echo the email form HTML instead of include

Marketers Delight 5.5.6

  1. EnhancementAdds media queries for Body typography on mobile (see reference thread for future CSS enhancements)
  2. Bug fixEnsures Typekit files always load before printed inline CSS, if enabled in MD > Settings > Site Tools
  3. DeveloperDevelopers: Adds new enqueue_priority hook to load priority assets before MD files
  4. IntegrationWordPress 6.1 compatbility
  5. IntegrationDrop-in updates: Stream 1.0.6, Docs 1.1.3, Glossary 1.3.4

Marketers Delight 5.5.5

  1. DeveloperApplies more consistent class names/markup strcture when cycling between main/secondary logo color schemes in the header
  2. DeveloperSImplifies the localization of admin data passed to the Block Editor and other parts of the WP admin (deprecates md_localize_scripts())
  3. DeveloperUpdates all md_has( 'popups' ) drop-in checks to now search for optins
  4. DeveloperDevelopers: Adds $post_width dynamic CSS helpe variable to return the exact width of the post content in px
  5. DeveloperDevelopers: Show the md_api->fields->terms field as select box with the select_type parameter
  6. DeveloperDevelopers: Reorder terms in custom fields with the md_api->fields->terms order parameter
  7. DeveloperDevelopers: md_api class extensions will now detect new method names post_type_meta and taxonomy_meta to filter your custom post type and custom taxonomy names into the MD settings API. See more about this filter
  8. DeveloperDevelopers: Adds unit parmeter to md_api->fields->field to add custom value labels outside of text fields.
  9. IntegrationDrop-in updates: Optins 1.0.8, Share 1.0.4, Glossary 1.3.3, Drop-ins Generator 1.2.1

Glossary 1.3.3

  1. IntegrationAdds proper Comment Block to main drop-in file so it can be included in MD's auto-updater. To enroll the Glossary in updates for the next version, download and manually install this update and you will be able to use the one-click updater for future releases.