The MD Changelog

What's new in MD? Browse the archives to see the full history of each release. Fun fact: There have been over 108 releases of Marketers Delight since 2015!

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Marketers Delight 4.6.4.1 1 change

Released: May 12, 2017

  • Adds new checkbox option to Popup Custom Template that let's you add/remove WordPress auto formatting (if you want to use shortcodes in popups, enable the new "Automatically add formatting" checkbox option).

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 4.6.3.1 3 changes

Released: April 5, 2017

  • Updated the md_filter_has_sidebar filter so you can now add AND remove sidebar from any given page. Read code snippets page to learn the full behavior.
  • Updated the security checks on the Email Form widget so you can use more advanced HTML tags in the text boxes.
  • Now show proper "Remove Sidebar" control on custom post types

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 4.6.2.2 2 changes

Released: March 21, 2017

  • Fixes a bug that strips the script tag from Tracking Scripts code fields on save.
  • Fixes a bug that may cause JavaScript error in post editor if sidebars are enabled from Customizer.

Marketers Delight 4.6.2.1 2 changes

Released: March 18, 2017

  • Oops! This small update fixes a bug found in MD Simple Sidebars that prevents custom sidebars from showing if the Main Sidebar widget area is empty (thank you Ray!).
  • Also fixes a potential warning message when saving taxonomy options.

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 4.6.1 5 changes

Released: March 9, 2017

  • Main menu unexpectedly move below your Header cover? MD4.6.1 moves it back into place.
  • Centered the background photo position in header/headline covers
  • Fixes spacing issues with Featured Image + headline covers
  • Fixes potential error message when disabling features from the Features Manager
  • New hook: md_hook_byline_top (added to content/byline.php)

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 4.5.3.1 1 change

Released:

  • Another popup big fix: encodes Customizer URLs to safely transport between Popups Manager to Editor without causing a 404 error.

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 4.4.3 3 changes

Released: June 19, 2016

  • Fixed JS errors on Pages post editor
  • Fixed current nav menu indicator status on nav links (broke in MD4.4.2)
  • More control over header classes with the md_filter_header_classes filter

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

Marketers Delight 4.4.1 3 changes

Released: May 30, 2016 | read announcement →

  • Reduced amount of custom font files being loaded to site, saved about 400KB+ per page load.
  • Full compatibility with the upcoming MD Footnotes addon.
  • Various admin UI + MDAPI improvements

Marketers Delight 4.4 3 changes

Released: May 22, 2016

  • New updates + tutorials will come from MarketersDelight.net
  • Fixed Featured Image save bug
  • Fixed Category display template bugs

Marketers Delight 4.3.4 2 changes

Released: May 21, 2016

  • Full compatibility + new styles for MD Popups
  • Improved license key system

Marketers Delight 4.3.8 5 changes

Released: April 20, 2016 | read announcement →

  • Improved query performance, your site should load ever so slightly faster. Still a long way to go here.
  • WordPress 4.5 compatibility
  • Fixed layout option grouping on Taxonomies
  • Fixed bug preventing Page Leads from showing on Taxonomies
  • Fixed bug preventing Main Menu from showing on Taxonomies

Marketers Delight 4.3.7 3 changes

Released: April 17, 2016

  • CSS bug fixes + cleanup
  • Removed potential error notices on save
  • Fixed headline bug on 404 page

Marketers Delight 4.3.6 2 changes

Released: April 5, 2016

  • Fixes Featured Image options from disappearing after setting/removing image.
  • Rewrites password protected posts function to fix form from not showing, removed content/password-form.php from core.

Marketers Delight 4.3.5 10 changes

Released: April 1, 2016

  • NEW: Category pages now have Layout options + Featured Image controls
  • NEW: Category pages will also display "Category description" beneath title
  • NEW: Align the sidebar to either the left or right of the content box. Global + single controls available
  • NEW: Show all MD metaboxes on any Custom Post Type or Taxonomy (read tutorial)
  • NEW: Licensing system API rewrite, now shows activation count + key expiration date
  • FIX: Removed unneeded JavaScript when header menu not displayed
  • FIX: Comment count shows in byline again
  • FIX: Removed potential error from showing on password protected posts/pages
  • IMPROVED: Post listings now use h2 tags on post titles (still h1 on single posts)
  • IMPROVED: Hide unneeded layout options based on settings

Marketers Delight 4.3.4.2 1 change

Released: March 28, 2016

  • New: Add comments to pages with the Discussion meta box in your post editor.