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What's new in MD? Browse the archives to see the full history of each release. Fun fact: There have been over 97 releases of Marketers Delight since 2015!

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Marketers Delight 4.5.3.1 1 change

Released: December 6, 2016

  • 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.

Marketers Delight 4.3.2 3 changes

Released: September 14, 2015 | read announcement →

  • Full compatibility with the new MD Admin Panel!
  • Updated license system
  • Quick maintenance fix: fixes featured image showing below post when set to "Before headline"

Marketers Delight 4.3.1 1 change

Released: September 5, 2015

  • This update ensures full compatibility with the latest plugin update.

Marketers Delight 4.3 5 changes

Released: August 14, 2015 | read announcement →

  • Adds full compatibility to WordPress 4.3 as well as new Design Options to Page Leads. The [md_email] shortcode has also been added so you can display email forms throughout any post or page.
  • Design: Added spacing between footer columns and footer copy
  • Design: Improved typography on mobile
  • New: use the new frame class to add a gray background to any image
  • New hook: md_hook_after_footer

Marketers Delight 4.2.1 10 changes

Released: August 8, 2015

  • Adds compatibility for Page Leads, which makes adding email signup forms, pricing tables, funnel boxes and more to any post, page, or category easy with Marketers Delight.
  • New layout option: Remove entire content box from page
  • New layout option: Remove headline from page
  • Design change: footer now has a gray background color opposed to dark gray.
  • Design change: Various spacing improvements throughout the design
  • New template: content/content-box.php
  • Bug fix: remove blank space on author page when author bio not filled out in Edit Profile page
  • Bug fix: Logo now centers in the header when no nav menu is present
  • Improvement: cleaned up the MD License page and made better license status indicator
  • Various code cleanups and reorganization

Marketers Delight 4.1.2 6 changes

Released: June 8, 2015

  • Full support for the new MD Main Menu addon.
  • Mobile layout improvements
  • Adds support for the free, upcoming MD Main Menu addon
  • Support for Disqus comments and other alternative comment systems
  • NEW: You may now make any nav menu item a button! Just added 'button' to the 'CSS Classes' field in any menu item. Use 'orange button' to change the button from green to orange. (read instructions)
  • Various CSS improvements

Marketers Delight 4.1.1 6 changes

Released: April 23, 2015 | read announcement →

  • NEW: Turn sidebar on automatically on all posts by going to Appearance > Customizer > Layout Options. You may still remove or create a custom sidebar on a post per post basis.
  • NEW: Support for Subtitles plugin. Install it and add a custom subtitle/opening text after the post/page title.
  • Fixed missing image caption when image position set to Header or Headline Cover.
  • Added language translation files to /languages/
  • New hooks: md_hook_content_item_text_top, md_hook_content_item_headline_bottom
  • Improved layout spacing

Marketers Delight 4.1 3 changes

Released: April 20, 2015

  • Moves actions, filters, and build to parent folder
  • Adds Editor Style to make post screen look like frontend.
  • MD IS READY FOR THE WORLD!

Marketers Delight 4.0.9 1 change

Released: April 1, 2015

  • MD is ready for beta testers!
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