The MD Changelog
What's new in MD? Browse through the archives to see the full history and changes of each version release. Fun fact: There have been over 91 new releases of Marketers Delight since 2015!
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Marketers Delight 4.7 1 change
Released: March 17, 2018 | read announcement →
- IMPORTANT: READ GUIDE BEFORE UPGRADING
Marketers Delight 4.6.9 1 change
Released: January 10, 2018
- Prevents Main Menu scripts from firing when not loaded on page
Marketers Delight 4.6.8.1 1 change
Released: January 3, 2018
- Added
button_text attribute to the md_email shortcode so you can now set custom button text on shortcode email forms
Marketers Delight 4.6.8 1 change
Released: November 24, 2017
- Updated MailChimp API library to fix PHP7 warnings
Marketers Delight 4.6.7 2 changes
Released: November 20, 2017
- Fixes bug that prevented Page Leads from showing on the Blog page
- Fixes bug that prevented the custom Embed code in Video Leads from showing
Marketers Delight 4.6.6 2 changes
Released: August 11, 2017 | read announcement →
- Adds full PHP7 compatibility
- Fixes acronym style in Chrome
Marketers Delight 4.6.5 3 changes
Released: May 15, 2017 | read announcement →
- New: You can now choose to always show toggled footnotes instead of inline (fixes footnotes stacking)
- New: Manually align footnotes to the left or right with the new
align attribute (example: [fn id="x" align="left"])
- Makes footnotes wider when going into the hundreds
Marketers Delight 4.6.4 15 changes
Released: April 25, 2017 | read announcement →
- NEW: The MD Video Gallery Drop-in is now available!
- New feature: Featured Video meta box
- Security: improved admin options save data validation
- Bug fix: fixed bug on category pages that prevented blog teasers from loading
- Bug fix: fixed textdomain in the Main Menu search bar for translators
- Bug fix: fixed potentially broken
md_filter_has_sidebar filter
- Improvement: removed border from avatars, now shows a subtle drop shadow
- Improvement: Added save/fail messages to all MD admin screens
- Improvement: Admin CSS updates
- Improvement: Each new MD update now flushes your site’s cache to attempt to refresh the MD code base automatically
- New hook:
md_hook_teaser_top
- New filter:
md_filter_loop_type
- Misc.: Internal file reorganization
- Misc.: Various MDAPI upgrades
- Misc.: Removal of previously deprecated functions from MD4.3 and below (
md_html_schema() and md_plugin_tax_data())
Marketers Delight 4.6.3 8 changes
Released: April 3, 2017 | read announcement →
- Main menu now shows when only the social media menu is active and adjusts the layout properly
- Fixed display bug where search bar would overlap main menu links
- Fixed a bug not showing the right custom sidebar on some pages
- Adjusted the line height of lists with
list-check helper class so the text is more evenly spaced out
- Added a new phone font icon
- Internal file reorganization
- New helper class: add a beautiful drop shadow to an image or box with the
shadow class.
- New filter:
md_filter_has_sidebar manually add sidebars to any WordPress page based on conditional. See example.
Marketers Delight 4.6.2 5 changes
Released: March 17, 2017 | read announcement →
- NEW: MD Simple Sidebars is the easiest sidebars manager you'll ever use for WordPress.
- FIXED: Featured Image spacing bug (causes large gap of space between headline + text in some cases)
- MDAPI Improvements (new repeater fields, color picker security update)
- Minor Layout options reorganization
- Internal MD files reorganization
Marketers Delight 4.5.4 16 changes
Released: January 12, 2017 | read announcement →
- New: Integrate your favorite page builder plugin with the new Builder Page Template
- Adds support for the WordPress Custom Logo feature
- Add support for WordPress Site Background Color + Image feature
- Enables live widget editing + better live preview support
- Adds a proper .POT file for language translators
- Adjusted the header menu to show until browser window width is below 900px
- Fixed a bug in the post editor that prevented the Tracking Scripts from saving
- Fixed a bug in the Customizer that may prevent the Featured Image Position from saving
- Adjusted the Video Lead embed code so you can use shortcodes to output videos
- Fixed a missing script on the Emails Forms connection screen
- Updated the MD icon set with a star and new Google+ logo
- Updated the way you use the
md_post_type_meta and md_taxonomy_meta filter
- Internal file reorganization, MDAPI + Customizer API improvements
- Upgraded the MD Updater + License system to meet beta standards for the new EDDSL3.5
- Added a full implementation of the Meta Box API into the MDAPI
- Various template files updated
Marketers Delight 4.6 5 changes
Released: January 3, 2017 | read announcement →
- NEW: MD Pro Share adds share buttons to your site — NO PLUGIN REQUIRED!
- NEW:
md_header_wrap_classes filter
- NEW: Hide Featured image from posts with new Featured Image position control
- NEW: MD is now the only theme in the world to have a Speakerdeck font icon! See MD font icons list →
- FIX: Fixed possible spacing issue when default featured image set
Marketers Delight 4.5.3 2 changes
Released: December 6, 2016 | read announcement →
- Fixes critical popup bug that prevents saving and sometimes crashes the editor
- NEW: Add a popup text link or button to the end of the header menu with this new Popup Hotspot
Marketers Delight 4.5.2 11 changes
Released: November 14, 2016 | read announcement →
- MD4.5.2 makes MD ready for Drop-Ins
- New feature: Enable Teasers on single category page archives
- You can now hide the After Post CTA box on custom post type single pages
- Featured Image Header Cover will now show even when you remove Content Box from page layout
- Fixed potential HTTPS break when submitting certain MailChimp forms over SSL
- Fixed Gravity Forms display bug
- Fixed Action Lead + Archives Title display bug
- Fixed excerpt length filter bug that prevented other Excerpt lengths from being adjusted
- MDAPI + Popups API improvements
- New MD Helper classes!
- Periscope font icon added to MD icon set
Marketers Delight 4.5.1 6 changes
Released: October 14, 2016 | read announcement →
- Fixes bug where Popups manager crashes while editing Custom CSS
- Re-added missing ‘Play button’ control to Video Lead
- Fixes Video Lead display glitch on mobile
- Add a RSS icon anywhere with the
rss class, and add class to your Social Media menu item
- You can now make button colors red with the
red button classes
- Fixed occasional warning messages when no popups are created
Marketers Delight 4.5 26 changes
Released: September 23, 2016 | read announcement →
- The entire Marketers Delight suite has been merged into a single theme
- New Admin Dashboard with License Status Indicator
- Disable unwanted MD features with the new MD Features Manager
- Set default featured image position in all posts in the Customize section
- New featured image position: "Center, no text wrap"
- Header menu now supports dropdown menus
- New Quotes/Testimonials Widget
- Popup Hotspots: set 2-step popups to the Main Menu, post byline, and other locations around your site
- The new blog teaser layout let's you rearrange your blog posts into a beautiful grid
- You can now close popups by clicking outside the box, press the ESC key, or click the scrolling "close" button
- Opening a popup no longer jumps you to the top of the page on mobile
- Easily jump back and forth between footnotes with new controls
- Main Menu + search now show on every page by default
- New MD helper classes: badges, intro text, drop caps, more button sizes + colors
- All CSS files have been merged into the main style.css, reducing upto 5 extra HTTP requests per page
- Sidebar now shows on search results page when enabled in Customizer
- Add author box to the end of posts with new Customizer setting
- Bug fix: Fixed missing font files from post editor
- Bug fix: fixed duplicate output of email title/footer text in Popups
- Removed Main Menu Customizer settings panel
- Category/taxonomy meta boxes reordered to make more sense
- Removed HTML5 shiv script from website header
- MDAPI structural improvements
- Massive file reorganization in /marketers-delight/ theme folder
- New featured image size:
md-thumbnail
- Developers: 16+ new hooks and filters
Marketers Delight 4.4.2 3 changes
Released: June 17, 2016 | read announcement →
- New and improved Schema Markup
- Add tagline to header
- New Site Tools panel with Header + Tracking scripts