FCDM-website-new/wp-content/themes/genesis/CHANGELOG.md

Genesis Framework Change Log

https://my.studiopress.com/themes/genesis/

This project does not follow semantic versioning. It follows the WordPress policy where updates of x and y in an x.y.z version number means a major release, and updates to z means a patch release.

2.6.1 - 2018-03-14

Fixed

• Fix compatibility issue with breadcrumbs in Yoast SEO.
• Fix issue with extra slashes in settings when using Customizer.
• Fix PHP 7 issue with non-static methods being used statically.
• Fix empty string warning in skip-links.js.

2.6.0 - 2018-03-05

Added

• Add option to sort Featured Posts by date modified.
• Add contextual filter for content passed through the Markup API.
• Add Genesis_Customizer class.
• Add Genesis_SEO_Document_Title_Parts class.
• Add title-tag theme support by default.
• Add class autoloader.
• Add support for AdSense Auto Ads.
• Add aria-label attribute to secondary nav element.
• Add allowance for extra attributes on script tags for registered scripts.

Changed

• Change URLs to https wherever possible.
• Update normalize.css to 7.0.0.
• Duplicate all theme and SEO settings in the Customizer.
• Move all classes to their own files in lib/classes.
• Use Markup API for entry-title-link.
• Use Markup API for 404 page title.
• Change description for headings on archive pages to account for accessibility.
• Improve color scheme retrieval function.

Fixed

• More compliance with WordPress coding standards.
• Set ID of entry-pings to comments if only pings exist.
• Ensure default settings get saved to database in new installs.
• Change h3 to h2 for titles in admin metaboxes.
• Ensure theme support for Genesis import / export menu before outputting.
• Check for post parents before outputting parent in breadcrumbs.
• Ensure [post_tags] and [post_categories] are valid for post type before outputting.
• Update aria-label attributes for nav elements to remove redundant "navigation" word.

Removed

• Remove duplicate genesis_load_favicon from being hooked to wp_head.
• Remove screen reader h2 from inside Header Right widget area.
• Remove screen reader h2 from inside primary nav element.
• Remove feed settings if Genesis 2.6 is your first version.

2.5.3 - 2017-09-27

Fixed

• Prevent global scripts being slashed if they are unchanged.

2.5.2 - 2017-06-09

Fixed

• Alternate method for preventing attribute filter on closing tags.

2.5.1 - 2017-06-08

Added

• Add logic to detect post-upgrade redirect type.

Changed

• Updated docblock for genesis_post_meta().

Fixed

• Fix issue with script loading logic.
• Fix issue with Layout API fallback logic.
• Fix issue with Layout API type priority determination.
• Fix issue with posts not being excluded in Featured Posts widget.
• Fix issue with entry attribute filter being applied to closing tag.
• Fix issue with use of require by switching back to require_once.

2.5.0 - 2017-04-20

Requires WordPress 4.7.0._

Added

• Add instances of markup API use in several locations where it was previously not used.
• Add any missed XHTML markup to the XHTML markup filter.
• Add Genesis_Contributors and Genesis_Contributor classes.
• Add views directory and extracted output to organized view files.
• Add full support for WordPress's new title tag.
• Add slashing for user script input fields.
• Add primary category support when Yoast SEO is on, but breadcrumb feature is off.
• Add support for multiple layout types depending on context.
• Add script loader class.
• Add ability to specify location of entry scripts via a second option.
• Add filter for capability required to use CPT archive settings.
• Add filter to disable layout settings on CPT archive settings page.
• Add sanitizer for layout settings on CPT archive settings page.
• Add a posts page check to genesis_do_blog_template_heading().
• Add filter for entry content display options in the customizer.
• Add terms back to terms array in our terms filter.
• Add genesis_strip_p_tags() function.
• Add center alignment option to featured image alignment setting.
• Add more filters to breadcrumb class.

Changed

• Split featured post and page widget entry header markup, gave markup API context for each.
• Restored adding tabindex via JavaScript when genesis-accessibility is supported.
• Prevent smushed offscreen accessible text.
• Reorganized init.php.
• Strip paragraph tags from filtered credits text to avoid paragraph nesting.
• Standardize the context naming in widget markup.
• Flag entry markup as is_widget via the params array so it can be modified without affecting other entries.
• Restored new line between admin screen buttons.
• Improvements to composer, PHPCS, and unit tests.
• Switch all schema.org URLs to https.
• Formally deprecate genesis_get_additional_image_sizes().
• Formally deprecate genesis_contributors().
• Formally deprecate genesis_register_scripts().
• Formally deprecate genesis_load_scripts().
• Formally deprecate genesis_load_admin_scripts().
• Formally deprecate genesis_load_admin_js().
• CSS improvements.
• Code optimization and documentation improvements.
• Ensure skip links filter returns an array.
• Improve randomness of search form ID.
• Fix potential issue with footer scripts filter.
• Move aria-label to the anchor element so screen readers will announce it.
• Add capability check to CPT archive settings link in the toolbar.
• Refactor and improve archive headings.
• Fix typo in comments feed setting.

Removed

• Remove semantic headings SEO option, with fallback for backward compatibility.
• Disable backtotop output if HTML5 is on.
• Remove output buffering on search form.
• Remove unnecessary heading on skip links.

2.4.2 - 2016-10-04

Fixed

• Fix issue with featured post/page widget outputting entry-content div when XHTML is active.

2.4.1 - 2016-09-30

Fixed

• Fix issue with filters on featured post and page widget content output.
• Fix some typos in the What's New page, as well as the CHANGELOG.md file.

2.4.0 - 2016-09-28

Requires WordPress 4.4.0._

Added

• Add unfiltered_or_safe_html sanitizer.
• Add or correct lots of inline documentation.
• Add phpcs.xml file for code standards testing.
• Add identifying classes to featured posts' "More Posts" section title and list.
• Add $wrap and $title to the passed arguments of the genesis_post_title_output filter.
• Add new features to the Markup API, allowing for open and close arguments, passing content, and new filters.
• Add js-superfish class to all menus that support it.
• Add missing "to" in genesis_prev_next_post_nav()'s comment header.
• Add new functions that handle the logic for meta and favicon markup, and amended existing output functions to use them.
• Add release notes going back to 1.6.0 to CHANGELOG.md.

Changed

• Extract XHTML from Genesis output, and added it back in with new Markup API filters if HTML5 is not supported.
• Move genesis_create_initial_layouts() to the genesis_setup hook. Possible breaking change, in order to ensure compatibility with WordPress 4.7+.
• Move h1 elements outside the form on admin settings pages.
• Move SEO tooltips to Help tab on post editor screen.
• Change URLs for gravatars on the "What's New" page to use HTTPS.
• Change Featured Post widget to use placeholder instead of default value for number of posts to show.
• Change CPT archive intro setting to use unfiltered_or_safe_html sanitizer.
• Change some code and most documentation to better match WordPress coding standards.
• Change to use of time constants in update check transients.
• Change sitemap to hide Posts-related sections if the site has no Posts.
• Change genesis_user_meta_default_on() and Genesis_Admin::create() to do return checks earlier.

Removed

• Remove colons from labels on settings screens.
• Remove errant $ in the URL used in the "parent theme active" admin notice.
• Remove unused global for Admin Readme class.
• Remove dead code in two post shortcode callback functions.
• Remove unused parameters in genesis_nav_menu_link_attributes().

Fixed

• Fix heading on the import/export admin page to be <h1>.
• Fix Featured Post entry header to display <header> wrapper even when only byline is showing.
• Fix typo on SEO settings screen.

2.3.1 - 2016-08-02

Changed

• Optimize genesis_truncate_phrase() by returning early if $max_characters is falsy.

Removed

• Remove type hinting in Genesis_Admin_CPT_Archive_Settings constructor to prevent fatal error in WordPress 4.6.

2.3.0 - 2016-06-15

Added

• Apply identifying class to entry image link.
• Add a toolbar link to edit custom post type archive settings.
• Add filter for the viewport meta tag value.
• Add shortcodes for site title and home link.
• Add filters for Genesis default theme support items.
• Add ability to specify post ID when using genesis_custom_field().
• Add admin notice when Genesis is activated directly.
• Add a11y to the paginaged post navigation.
• Add relative_depth parameter to date shortcodes.

Changed

• Allow custom post classes on Ajax requests to account for endless scroll.
• Change "Save Settings" to "Save Changes", as WordPress core does.
• Use version constant rather than database setting for reporting theme version in Settings.
• Use sfHover for superfish hover state.
• Prevent empty footer widgets markup.
• Prevent empty spaces in entry footer of custom post types.
• Trim filtered value of entry meta.
• Update and simplify favicon markup for the modern web.
• Prevent author shortcode from outputting empty markup when no author is assigned.
• Disable author box on entries where post type doesn't support author.
• Change the label on the update setting to reflect what it actually does, check for updates.
• Update theme tags.
• Enable after entry widget area for all post types via post type support.
• Hide layout selector when only one layout is supported.
• Disable author shortcode output if author is not supported by post type.
• Improve image size retrieval function and usage.
• Update to normalize.css 4.1.1.
• Use TinyMCE for archive intro text input.
• Allow foreign language characters in content limit functions.
• Pass entry image link through markup API.
• Allow adjacent single entry navigation via post type support.
• Exclude posts page from page selection dropdown in Featured Page widget.

Removed

• Remove the top buttons (save and reset) from Genesis admin classes.
• Remove right float on admin buttons.
• Remove unnecessary warning from theme description in style.css.

Fixed

• Fix issue with no sitemap when running html5 and no a11y support for 404 page.

2.2.7 - 2016-03-04

Changed

• Limit entry class filters to the front end.

Removed

• Remove Scribe nag.

Fixed

• Fix issue with multisite installs where Genesis could technically upgrade before WordPress.
• Fix issue with Genesis using old style term meta method in some places.

2.2.6 - 2016-01-05

Added

• Include and use local html5shiv file, rather than the one hosted at Google Code.

Changed

• Use CreativeWork as default content type.
• Update Term Meta for WordPress 4.4.

2.2.5 - 2015-12-17

Requires WordPress 4.3.0.

Fixed

• Fix issue with entries not honoring selected layout.

2.2.4 - 2015-12-16

Changed

• Use form-table style on all Genesis admin areas.
• Make posts page (when static homepage selected) honor selected page layout.
• Make a11y features available only to HTML5 themes.
• Limit markup API filter for nav links to HTML5.
• Allow archive layout selector to be disabled by removing theme support.
• Relative timestamp enhancement.
• Later priority for Genesis entry redirect.

Removed

• Remove unintended rel="next" code output on archive pages.

Fixed

• Fix Genesis settings screen styling for WordPress 4.4.

2.2.3 - 2015-10-12

Added

• Add screen reader text to read more link in Featured Page Widget.

Changed

• Prevent automatic support of all a11y features if no argument is supplied.
• Require explicit 404-page a11y feature.
• Turn on screen-reader-text a11y support if any a11y support is enabled.

Fixed

• Fix uneven spacing in numeric pagination.
• Fix Featured Post Widget double outputs screen reader text on read more link.
• Fix Read More link not outputting screen reader text when "more" tag is used.
• Fix potential for 2 H1 titles on author archives.
• Fix a11y heading output for primary nav, even if no menu is assigned.
• Fix potential for multiple H1 titles on homepage.
• Fix small bug with screen-reader-text and RTL support.
• Fix double separator character in feed title.

2.2.2 - 2015-09-08

Fixed

• Released to correct corrupted zip from 2.2.1 release.

2.2.1 - 2015-09-08

Added

• Add boolean attribute option to markup API.
• Add H1 to posts page when using static front page and theme supports a11y.
• Add helper function to filter markup to add .screen-reader-text class to markup.

Changed

• Better logic for generating H1 on front page.
• Prevent duplicate H1 elements on author archives.
• Only output http://schema.org/WebSite on front page.
• Disable http://schema.org/WebSite if SEO plugin is active, to prevent conflicts.
• Pass archive title / description wrappers through markup API.

Removed

• Remove incorrect usage of mainContentOfPage.
• Remove a11y checks for titles that were previously output by default.

Fixed

• Fix issue with Schema.org microdata when using Blog template.
• Fix breadcrumb Schema.org microdata for breadcrumb items.

2.2.0 - 2015-09-01

Changed

• Allow child themes to enable accessibility features for web users with disabilities.
• Improvements to the Schema.org microdata Genesis outputs.
• Compatibility with WordPress's generated Title Tag output.
• Compatibility with WordPress's new Site Icon feature.
• Allow entry meta to be turned off on a per post type level.
• Many other improvements and bug fixes.

2.1.3 - 2015-08-12

Requires WordPress 3.8.0.

Changed

• Prepare taxonomy term meta for mandatory split in WordPress 4.3.

2.1.2 - 2014-07-15

Changed

• Updated the .pot file with the new strings.

Fixed

• Fix untranslatable strings in the Customizer.
• Fix comment author link bug.

2.1.1 - 2014-07-01

Fixed

• Fix secondary navigation ID on XHTML child themes.
• Fix After Entry widget area not checking for theme support.
• Fix Archive Settings menu item not showing for custom post types.
• Fix sprintf() warnings in post info and post meta.

2.1.0 - 2014-06-30

Added

• Add Customizer settings.
• Add content archives image alignment option.
• Add centre alignment option to featured widgets.
• Add gallery and caption styles.
• Add Google Web Font Lato weight 400.
• Add admin RTL style sheet.
• Add genesis_before_while action hook.
• Add genesis_user_meta_defaults filter hook.
• Add $args argument to genesis_get_image_default_args filter hook.
• Add genesis_register_widget_area_defaults filter hook.
• Add context to post info and post meta areas to allow filtering.
• Add genesis_get_nav_menu and genesis_nav_menu() functions.
• Add post_modified_date and post_modified_time shortcodes.
• Add echo methods to admin class for field name, id and value.
• Add genesis-form class to main wrap on Genesis_Admin_Form pages.
• Add gallery and caption HTML5 support.
• Add support for DISALLOW_FILE_MODS when displaying update notifications.
• Add genesis_regster_widget_area() function.
• Add new widget area with genesis-after-entry-widget-area theme support.
• Add Feedblitz support.
• Add compatibility for WordPress SEO 1.5+ breadcrumb changes.
• Add email address sanitization filter.
• Add more of comment markup through Markup API.
• Add check for HTTP_USER_AGENT for feed redirection.
• Add genesis_is_blog_template() function.
• Add fresh install detection.
• Add grunt tasks.
• Add some unit tests.
• Add some new hooks documentation.

Changed

• Improve SEO section title on user settings page.
• Improve term meta fields to only show for public taxonomy.
• Improve header widget area description to list appropriate widgets.
• Improve layout names.
• Improve appearance of inputs on settings pages.
• Improve style header tag fixed-width to responsive-layout.
• Improve (updated) normalize.css from 2.1.2 to 3.0.1.
• Improve design for wider screens, largest breakpoint now 1139px to 1200px.
• Improve favicon.
• Improve general design.
• Improve optimisation of images.
• Improve screenshot.
• Improve when genesis_pre_get_option_- filter hook fires.
• Improve SEO disabling by amending hooks.
• Improve hook names to use interpolation not concatenation.
• Improve author box to obey semantic headings setting.
• Improve how admin classes autoload scripts, styles and help content.
• Improve genesis_get_image() to accept $post_id.
• Improve genesis_save_custom_field() to formally deprecate $post_id argument.
• Improve _genesis_update_settings() to make it a public function.
• Improve nav menu registration.
• Improve term-meta callbacks to move them into a more suitable file.
• Improve variables in genesis_custom_header().
• Improve style sheet documentation to use Markdown.
• Improve documentation for globals.

Removed

• Remove filter for layout columns.
• Remove Primary Nav Extras (for fresh installs).
• Remove unnecessary title attributes.
• Remove Roboto Google Web Font.
• Remove styles for Gravity Forms.
• Remove styles for Genesis Latest Tweets.
• Remove rem units.
• Remove references to admin screen icons.
• Remove (deprecated) genesis_doctitle_wrap().
• Remove genesis_add_user_profile_fields() function.
• Remove all uses of extract() function.
• Remove global $post in favour of functions where possible.
• Remove last var keyword.
• Remove dead code.

Fixed

• Fix layout not selectable with IE11.
• Fix empty post titles in featured widgets.
• Fix location of Semantic Headings description.
• Fix SEO user option showing when SEO is disabled.
• Fix default layout for RTL.
• Fix formatting of CSS.
• Fix JavaScript code practices.
• Fix duplicate .pot file headers.
• Fix Language Team .pot value.
• Fix POEdit keyword list.
• Fix missing text domains.
• Fix genesis_structural_wrap filter hook.
• Fix title tags being added to all instances of wp_title().
• Fix more tag on home page loop with Featured Page.
• Fix array to string conversion error from taxonomy meta data.
• Fix multiple calls to update API server.

2.0.2 - 2014-01-09

Added

• Add Lauren Mancke to Contributor List.
• Add Google+ Publisher URL field.

Changed

• Improve import button user interface consistency.
• Improve copyright shortcode by using non-breaking space between symbol and year.
• Improve pagination setting by using numeric as default.
• Improve search field to use value instead of placeholder when query is present.
• Improve SEO Settings user interface.
• Improve rel=author output to only target posts.
• Improve screenshot.
• Improve menu icon.

Removed

• Remove Homepage Author field.

Fixed

• Fix incorrect Genesis and child themes updates from WordPress.org.
• Fix radio button appearance in WordPress 3.8 admin.
• Fix metabox textarea widths.
• Fix hidden text box handles.
• Fix admin style references to MP6 plugin.
• Fix genesis_human_time_diff().
• Fix assign by reference Strict Standards warning.
• Fix order of Contributors.

2.0.1 - 2013-08-21

Requires WordPress 3.5.0.

Changed

• Improve genesis_get_cpt_archive_types_names() to always return an array.
• Improve external resources by using relative protocol.
• Improve term meta field names.
• Improve files to consistently use Unix line-endings.

Removed

• Remove type hint from sanitization filter.

Fixed

• Fix post_author_link shortcode for XHTML themes.
• Fix empty document title for custom post type archive settings usage.
• Fix more tag on home page loop with Featured Post.
• Fix Leave a Comment link when no comments are present.

2.0.0 - 2013-08-07

Added

• Add semantic HTML5 elements across all output.
• Add attributes markup functions genesis_attr() and genesis_parse_attr(), allowing key elements to have their attributes filtered in.
• Add default microdata that covers itemtypes of WebPage, Blog, SearchResultsPage, WPHeader, WPSideBar, WPFooter, SiteNavigationElement, CreativeWork, BlogPosting, UserComments, and Person, and their corresponding properties.
• Add role attributes to assist with accessibility.
• Add more classes for pagination elements.
• Add HTML5-specific hooks that better match the new semantic structure and be post type agnostic.
• Add HTML5 shiv for Internet Explorer 8 and below.
• Add archive settings for custom post types that are (filterable conditions) public, show a UI, show a menu, have an archive, and support genesis-cpt-archives-settings.
• Add contextual help to settings pages, allowing better explanation of settings, and potentially reducing some visual distractions amongst the settings.
• Add distinct admin menu icon, instead of using default favicon.
• Add an unsaved settings alert, when the user is about to navigate away from a settings page after changing a value but not yet saved.
• Add semantic headings setting for using multiple h1 elements on a page.
• Add permalink on posts with no title.
• Add recognition of SEO Ultimate plugin, to enable Genesis SEO to automatically disable.
• Add iframe to CSS to cover responsive video.
• Add new clearfix method for block elements.
• Add rtl.css file to automatically display sites set-up as right-to-left language better, and gives theme authors a good starting point.
• Add updated screenshot.
• Add JSLint Closure Compiler instructions to Superfish args non-minified file.
• Add minified JavaScript (-.min.js) files that are used by default, unless SCRIPT_DEBUG is true.
• Add minified admin style sheet (-.min.css) files that are used by default, unless SCRIPT_DEBUG is true.
• Add early registration of Superfish files.
• Add header logo files.
• Add absint and safe_html new settings sanitization types.
• Add sanitization for custom body and post classes.
• Add filter to disable loading of deprecated functions file.
• Add filter to Superfish args URL.
• Add filter to initial layouts.
• Add filters to structural wraps – attributes and output.
• Add ability to wrap markup around output of genesis_custom_field().
• Add two new breadcrumb-related filters, genesis_build_crumbs and genesis_breadcrumb_link.
• Add $args to sidebar defaults filter.
• Add $footer_widgets to genesis_footer_widget_areas filter.
• Add context arg in genesis_get_image() to allow for more control when filtering output.
• Add fallback arg in genesis_get_image() to decide what thumbnail to show if a featured image is not set.
• Add array type hints where possible. Methods with the same name in classes extended from WP can't have them, not can methods which accept array or strings arguments.
• Add global displayed IDs variable to track which posts are being shown across any loop.
• Add setting to Featured Post widget to exclude already displayed posts.
• Add third parameter to shortcode_atts() to utilize new WordPress 3.6 filter.
• Add network-wide update, to eliminate the need to visit each site to trigger database changes.
• Add blank line at the end of each file for cleaner files and diffs.
• Add some preparatory functions for Theme Customizer (full support not until at least Genesis 2.1)
• Add archive description box markup around search result page heading for consistency.
• Add common class for all archive description boxes.
• Add common class for both Featured widgets.
• Add widget-title class next to widgettitle.
• Add lib/functions/breadcrumb.php for breadcrumb-related functions.

Changed

• Improve in-post scripts box by moving it to its own box, that won't be hidden when an SEO plugin is active.
• Improve feedback for navigation settings.
• Improve What's New page with new content, and random order of contributors.
• Improve admin styles to work better with MP6 plugin.
• Improve wording for email notification setting.
• Improve labels containing URI to use URL instead.
• Improve widget areas by only showing default content to those who can edit widgets.
• Improve organization of style sheet into a more logical grouping.
• Improve reset styles by switching to normalize.css.
• Improve selectors by removing all use of ID selectors in style.css, down from 107 in Genesis Framework 1.9.2.
• Improve development speed, by switching to 62.5% (10px) default font-size.
• Improve Google Web Fonts usage by using a protocol-less URL.
• Improve Featured Page and Featured Post widgets to utilize the global $wp_query so that is_main_query() works correctly against it.
• Improve code that toggles display of extra settings, to allow extra settings to be shown when checkbox is not checked.
• Improve inline settings for Closure Compiler so it uses the latest jQuery externs file (1.8).
• Improve Superfish by updating to the latest version (1.7.4) that supports the version of jQuery that ships with WP 3.6, and has touch event support. Includes back-compat file for arrows support.
• Improve support for languages with multibyte characters by replacing both instances of substr() with mb_substr().
• Improve widgets by calling parent::__construct() directly when registering widgets.
• Improve output from get_terms() by making Genesis term metadata available.
• Improve genesis_do_noposts() to be post type agnostic.
• Improve genesis_do_noposts() to use consistent entry markup.
• Improve admin metabox abstraction so that it hooks in the previously hard-coded metabox container markup.
• Improve import feature to only import Genesis-related settings.
• Improve multi-page navigation code, by moving it out of post content function into its own hooked in function.
• Improve menus by not showing empty markup if there are no menu items.
• Improve unpaged comment navigation by not showing empty markup.
• Improve filtering of terms, by doing nothing if term variable is not an object.
• Improve genesis_get_custom_field() by allowing custom fields to return as arrays.
• Improve checkbox inputs to utilize WP admin styling, by wrapping label element around them.
• Improve the organization of the lib/structure/header.php file.
• Improve JavaScript classes, by adding js- prefix to them.
• Improve breadcrumbs class to refactor large methods into several smaller ones.
• Improve default sidebar contents by refactoring it into a single re-usable function.
• Improve genesis_search_form() escaping and logic.
• Improve check for presence of Header Right sidebar before displaying markup.
• Improve internationalization so that menu location names are translatable, by moving loading of text domain earlier.
• Improve internationalization by simplifying strings.
• Improve README file by changing it from a .txt to .md file.
• Improve single line comment format to be consistent, allowing easier block-commenting around and from the single line comment.
• Improve overall code by using identity comparisons wherever suitable.
• Improve inline documentation throughout.

Removed

• Remove display of entry-footer for everything except posts.
• Remove loading of Superfish script by default. Can be added back by filtering genesis_superfish_enabled to be true, or use Genesis Fancy Dropdowns.
• Remove Microformat classes such as hentry.
• Remove global $loop_counter since $wp_query->current_post does the same job.
• Remove back to top text.
• Remove custom comment form arguments, resulting in default "Leave your Reply" and "You may use these HTML tags and attributes…" showing.
• Remove Fancy Dropdown settings for each menu in favour of more explicit Load Superfish Script setting.
• Remove the now empty Secondary Navigation settings, and which just leaves Primary Navigation Extras.
• Remove Theme Information setting, since parent and child theme information is publicly available in the style sheets.
• Remove child theme README admin menu item.
• Remove RSS and Twitter images.
• Remove device-specific subheadings.
• Remove support for five-column layout.
• Remove previously deprecated eNews widget. Use Genesis eNews Extended plugin as an enhanced replacement.
• Remove previously deprecated Latest Tweets widget. Use Genesis Latest Tweets plugin, or official Twitter widget.
• Remove ternary part of genesis.confirm() JavaScript function.
• Remove (deprecated) genesis_show_theme_info_in_head().
• Remove (deprecated) genesis_theme_files_to_edit().
• Remove (deprecated) g_ent().
• Remove (deprecated) genesis_tweet_linkify().
• Remove (deprecated) genesis_custom_header_admin_style().
• Remove (deprecated) genesis_older_newer_posts_nav().
• Remove GENESIS_LANGUAGES_URL constant.
• Remove redundant calls and globals from various functions.
• Remove redundant escaping on in-post meta boxes save.
• Remove post templates functionality. Use Single Post Template plugin as a replacement.
• Remove all remaining style attributes.
• Remove all but two of the remaining inline event handlers (on- attributes). Only onfocus and onblur remain on the XHTML search form in lieu of no placeholder attribute support.
• Remove closing element HTML comments.
• Remove empty files and a directory.
• Remove the Older Posts / Newer Posts archive pagination format in favour of existing Next Page / Previous Page.

Fixed

• Fix mis-alignment of settings page boxes.
• Fix inconsistent term meta user interface.
• Fix Closure Compiler output file name for admin.js.
• Fix wp_footer() so it fires right before </body>, now after genesis_after hook.
• Fix duplicate IDs on top and bottom submit and reset admin buttons.
• Fix invalid HTML output in user profile widget.
• Fix duplicate calls to genesis_no_comments_text filter.
• Fix structural wrap function so support for them can be removed completely.
• Fix incorrectly linked label on noarchive post setting.
• Fix out-of-date Theme and SEO Settings defaults and sanitising.
• Fix redundant parameter in genesis_save_custom_fields().
• Fix breadcrumb issue for date archives.

1.9.2 - 2013-04-10

Fixed

• Fix potential notice when saving post custom fields.
• Fix potential security issue in the search form (props Sucuri Security team and Alun Jones).
• Fix duplicate ID attributes on admin save and reset buttons.
• Fix notice when trying to filter a term that is not an object.
• Fix missing class on layout selector default radio input.
• Fix distorted images in IE8.

1.9.1 - 2013-01-08

Fixed

• Fix loading of child theme main style sheet, so it is referenced before any other extra child theme style sheets.

1.9.0 - 2013-01-07

Added

• Add .entry class to all content, in preparation for the potential absence of .hentry in a HTML5-flavoured Genesis that prefers Microdata over Microformats.
• Add filter for term meta defaults.
• Add comment header wrapping div.
• Add ability to disable the loading of all breadcrumb features.
• Add archive-title class to archive titles.
• Add fallback parameter to genesis_get_image().
• Add a What's New page.
• Add front page and posts page breadcrumb settings.
• Add search result page title.
• Add menu highlight class.
• Add link to download Genesis for Beginners to readme.
• Add support for rel="author" link tag, allowing author highlighting on Google result pages.

Changed

• Improve genesis_site_layout() by allowing cache to be bypassed.
• Improve custom field saving function.
• Improve how Genesis / child theme style sheet is referenced, by enqueueing it.
• Improve post title output, adding a filter to decide if it should be linked to the single post on archive pages (default is true, as currently).
• Improve user meta fields integration by limiting to admin back-end only.
• Improve method to check to see if Scribe is installed.
• Improve breadcrumb class for PHP 5.
• Improve comment template by only loading it when needed.
• Improve wording on SEO Settings page, including Scribe marketing notice.
• Improve theme settings page by hiding update options when automatic updates are programatically disabled.
• Improve organization of CSS.
• Improve overall base design:
  • Increased maximum width, 1152px.
  • Different font.
  • Default styles for HTML5 elements.
  • Fluid-width columns.
  • Use of rem units with pixel fallback.
• Improve usage of proper defaults in eNews widget.
• Improve License description by changing from "GPL v2.0 (or later)" to "GPL-2.0+" as per SPDX open source license registry.
• Improve default document title separator from being a hyphen-minus character to an em-dash.
• Improve .pot file.

Removed

• Remove i18n.php and moved textdomain load to init.php.
• Remove legacy customer header code.
• Remove on / off setting for primary and secondary menus in favour of theme nav menu locations to determine visibility.
• Remove settings for eNews widget (consider it deprecated).
• Remove settings for Latest Tweets widget (consider it deprecated).

Fixed

• Fix call to genesis_site_layout() resetting the query.
• Fix the custom header body class conditional for WP 3.4.
• Fix warnings when saving posts.
• Fix footer scripts setting having incorrect ID.
• Fix extra quote in Author Box setting markup.
• Fix empty post image link, when there is no post image.
• Fix empty featured post / page widget image link, when there is no image to display.
• Fix use of path constants in post-templates to use functions instead.
• Fix comments template loading on custom post type single posts, if it supports comments.
• Fix post class field not saving.
• Fix inconsistency with comments and trackback edit links.
• Fix robots meta tag help links to point to articles by Yoast.
• Fix dropdown size issue in widget forms.
• Fix trackback URL output showing when post type does not support trackbacks.
• Fix post meta section showing for pages in search results page.
• Fix grid loop problems.
• Fix spacing between bottom buttons on settings pages.

Security

• Improve sanitization on some settings inputs.
• Improve search form security by escaping input and button text outside of filter – you should remove any esc_attr() calls in functions that filter these strings and just return plain text.
• Add a new sanitization filter, url.
• Add escaping to names and dimensions of image sizes used in image size dropdowns.

1.8.2 - 2012-06-20

Requires WordPress 3.3.0.

Changed

• Improve user interface by removing Header setting box if WP native custom-header has theme support.

Fixed

• Fix term meta data from being deleted when quick editing a term.
• Fix warning when showing theme info in the head.
• Fix warnings in theme editor by no longer hiding Genesis Framework files.
• Fix warnings related to custom header by supporting native functionality if WordPress ≥ 3.4.

1.8.1 - 2012-04-30

Security

• This was a security release. Details of what was actually fixed will be revealed when users have had chance to update their Genesis installs (recommended immediately).

1.8.0 - 2012-01-20

Added

• Add new color scheme / style metabox on Theme Settings page which child themes can use instead of building their own.
• Add setting to enable / disable breadcrumbs on attachment pages.
• Add Genesis features to post and page editors via post type support, instead of hard-coding – you can now disable the inpost metaboxes by removing post type support with a single line of code.
• Add separate custom title and description on term archives (displayed content defaults to existing title and description if not customized further).
• Add vendor-prefixed border-radius properties.
• Add posts-link class to user profile widget to accompany the now deprecated posts_link class.
• Add extended page link text setting for the user profile widget. No longer hard-coded as [Read more…].
• Add warning to Genesis Page and Category Menu widget descriptions, to gently deprecate them (use WP Custom Menu widget instead).
• Add Genesis_Admin classes – a set of 1+3 abstract classes from which all Genesis admin pages now extend from.
• Add genesis_is_menu_page() helper function to check we're targeting a specific admin page.
• Add new genesis_widget_area() helper function for use in child themes.
• Add author value to rel attribute for author link shortcode functions.
• Add argument to genesis_get_option() and others to not use the Genesis cache.
• Add ability to make nav menu support conditional.
• Add search form label filter, so themes can add a visual label in if they wish.
• Add filter to disable edit post / page link.
• Add filter to Content Archives display types.
• Add filter to the options sent to wp_remote_post() when doing an update check.
• Add filter on custom header defaults.
• Add filters for term meta.
• Add filters for previous and next links text.
• Add genesis_formatting_kses() to be used as a filter function.
• Add crop parameter to return value of genesis_get_image_sizes().
• Add a complete overhaul of DocBlock documentation at the page-, class-, method- and function-level. See an example of the generated documentation for Genesis 1.8.0. Comment lines now make up over 40% of all lines of code in Genesis 1.8.0, up from 30% in Genesis 1.6, with a significant amount of non-comment code having been added in the meantime as well.

Changed

• Improve admin labels by reducing conspicuousness (basically, removing "Genesis" from several headings also displayed on wordpress.com installs).
• Improve image dimensions dropdown to use correct multiplication character, not the letter x.
• Improve label relationships with the for attribute to make them explicitly linked as per accessibility best practices.
• Improve top buttons to work better with non-English languages.
• Improve metabox order on Theme Settings page.
• Improve specific case CSS for input buttons with more generic selectors.
• Improve styles for new default Genesis appearance, including responsive design.
• Improve classes used for menus to be more consistent with WP, and allow simpler selectors. See Brian's post for more info.
• Improve eNews widget to now pass WP locale to Feedburner, instead of hard-coded en_US.
• Improve "Header Right" widget area to display as "Header Left" if right-to-left language is used.
• Improve the image alignment option "None" by giving it a value of alignnone in featured post and page widgets.
• Improve user profile author dropdown to only show actual authors, not all users.
• Improve admin.js with a complete rewrite to separate functions from events, make functions re-usable under genesis namespace, switch to using on() method for jQuery 1.7.1 and ensure all event bindings are namespaced.
• Improve ability to amend togglable settings by moving the config to PHP where they can be more easily filtered, before sending to JavaScript.
• Improve admin scripts to only appear on the appropriate admin pages.
• Improve submit button markup by using submit_button() instead of hard-coding it.
• Improve structural wrap usage.
• Improve genesis_layout_selector() by allowing layout options to be shown by type.
• Improve code quality by refactoring widget defaults into the constructor to avoid duplication.
• Improve some functions to return earlier if conditions aren't correct.
• Improve genesis_strip_attr() to accept a string for the elements arguments.
• Improve featured post widget performance by sanitizing byline with KSES on save, not output.
• Improve taxonomy term performance by sanitizing description on save, not output.
• Improve comment_form() by passing filterable comment form args.
• Improve genesis_admin_redirect() by eliminating multiple calls to add_query_arg().
• Improve order of the notice checks to avoid the reset notice still showing after saving settings.
• Improve genesis_custom_loop() by refactoring it to use genesis_standard_loop().
• Improve updates procedure by ensuring a fresh request for database options at each incremental stage.
• Improve notice to actually check if settings save was actually sucessfull or not.
• Improve custom post type (custom post type) archive breadcrumb by only linking if custom post type has an archive.
• Improve post date title attribute for hEntry by using HTML5-compatible format.
• Improve _genesis_update_settings() by moving it to the correct file.
• Improve code organization by moving general sanitization functions to the sanitization file from theme settings file.
• Improve code organization by moving per-page sanitization code to the related admin page class.
• Improve theme screenshot.
• Improve favicon.
• Improve default footer wording credits.
• Improve readme content with Header Right info.
• Improve .pot file with additional and corrected headers and updated to 381 strings in total.
• Improve documentation by moving warning message in top-level files to outside of docblocks so they don't count as short descriptions.
• Improve code so it is now written to WordPress Code Standards, programatically testable via WordPress Code Sniffs.
• Improve translation of strings by extracting <code> bits to simplify them and reduce the number of unique strings to translate.

Removed

• Remove settings form from Genesis Page and Category Menu widgets, to further deprecate them.
• Remove now-deprecated functions from lib/functions/admin.php and deprecated file.
• Remove duplicated custom post class handling code.
• Remove (deprecated) genesis_filter_attachment_image_attributes() function as WP has since improved.
• Remove genesis_load_styles() as it was an empty function that was never used.
• Remove remaining PHP4-compatible class constructor names in favour of __construct().
• Remove unnecessary check for WordPress SEO plugin to re-enable title and description output on term archive pages when WordPress SEO is active.
• Remove SEO options that remove some of the relationship link tags from the head. See [18680] for more info.

Fixed

• Fix appearance of layout selector for IE8 users.
• Fix issue with incorrect CSS being output for custom header text color.
• Fix issue with new WP install default widgets appearing in Header Right widget area when switching themes.
• Fix escaping of some values in theme settings.
• Fix rare add_query_arg() bug by not passing it an encoded URL.
• Fix issue with duplicate canonical tags in the head when an SEO plugin is active.
• Fix missing second and third parameters when applying the widget_title filter.
• Fix empty anchor in post_author_posts_link shortcode function.
• Fix clash with grid loop features and features taxonomy (as in AgentPress Listings plugin).
• Fix variable name under which JavaScript strings are localized, from genesis to genesisL10n to be consistent with WordPress practices.
• Fix license compatibility for child themes by changing license from "GPLv2" to "GPLv2 (or later)".
• Fix missing text-domain for footer widget area description, post author link shortcode, and user profile widget.
• Fix the Scribe notice to be translatable.

1.7.1 - 2011-07-18

Requires WordPress 3.2.0.

Added

• Add new conditionals to feed filter to ensure compatibility with other code that amend the feed link.

Changed

• Improve CSS for new default look.

Fixed

• Fix bug with __genesis_return_content_sidebar returning the wrong value.
• Fix tweet text escaping not working as intended, so reverted.

1.7.0 - 2011-07-06

Added

• Add genesis_human_time_diff() to use on relative post dates, as a replacement for poor WP function.
• Add genesis_canonical filter.
• Add version number to admin.js to bust cache when updating Genesis.
• Add database version string to theme info stored in the database.
• Add private function to update database settings more easily.
• Add ability to return array values from database via genesis_get_option().
• Add structural wrap fallback for child themes that do not load init.php.
• Add structural wrap support for sidebars.
• Add new layout images and visual selector feature.
• Add link to support forums on Theme Settings page.
• Add .gallery-caption and .bypostauthor classes (empty) to meet Theme Review guidelines.
• Add updated .pot file, now with 385 strings in total.
• Add class and method-level documentation for widget classes.

Changed

• Improve settings page user interface to match new user interface for WordPress 3.2.
• Improve settings pages to be a single column.
• Improve organization of settings by combining some settings into other meta boxes, removing other meta boxes and conditionally hiding some depending on theme support for features.
• Improve user interface on User Profile page by amending widths of input and textarea fields.
• Improve wording on all admin pages to be clearer.
• Improve wording in notices, and to use WordPress wording where possible.
• Improve naming of layout choices.
• Improve capability check for Genesis pages by changing from manage_options to edit_theme_options.
• Improve old hook functions by formally deprecating them.
• Improve init to use WordPress function require_if_theme_supports() instead of using Genesis conditional.
• Improve widget organization and registration.
• Improve breadcrumbs to remove entry crumbs – allows Home crumb and separator to be remove, for instance.
• Improve README to be formatted for viewing inside WP Dashboard.
• Improve code standards by correcting whitespace and formatting issues in CSS.
• Improve code standards by correcting some whitespace issues in PHP.
• Improve styles for:
  • defaults
  • body
  • header
  • title
  • description
  • menus (including superfish)
  • breadcrumbs
  • headings (all levels)
  • blockquotes
  • inputs
  • ordered lists
  • list items
  • captions
  • taxonomy descriptions
  • images
  • post icons
  • featured images
  • sticky
  • avatars
  • post navigation
  • comments
  • subscribe-to-comments
  • sidebars
  • widgets

Removed

• Remove "NOTE:" prefix for settings descriptions.
• Remove Header Right theme setting – sidebar now always registered but only shown if it contains a widget.
• Remove strip_tags() call on page title in breadcrumbs.
• Remove existing meta box order settings from the database.
• Remove lib/functions/hooks.php file as all contents have been moved to lib/functions/deprecated.php.

Fixed

• Fix issue with menu separator having a class.
• Fix issues with post info and post meta not showing up on custom pages.
• Fix issue with feed redirection being too inclusive and breaking other plugins.
• Fix breadcrumb issue which stopped breadcrumbs from being turned off on blog pages for sites with a static front page.
• Fix Genesis to use genesis_formatting_allowedtags() instead of the global $_genesis_formatting_allowedtags.
• Fix load superfish script if custom menu widget is active.
• Fix Nav Extra posts feed to use RSS2 instead of RSS.
• Fix issue with toggle checkboxes in page / category widget checklist.
• Fix wording in latest tweets, categories menu, pages menu and user profile widgets to be translatable.
• Fix "Theme URL" to be "Theme URI".

Security

• Security Audit by Mark Jaquith.
• Fix wrong escaping on comment permalink.
• Improve performance and security by sanitizing widget option values on save, instead of on display.
• Add a capability check before displaying Header and Footer scripts meta box.
• Add complete new settings sanitization class and API, aimed at core, extendable to child themes.

1.6.1 - 2011-05-02

Requires WordPress 3.1.0.

Fixed

• Fix robots meta not outputting unless all meta tags were sent.
• Fix minor CSS issues.

1.6.0 - 2011-04-26

Added

• Add select / deselect all checkbox switch to category menu widget.
• Add plugin detection function.
• Add an edit link to breadcrumbs of all term archive pages.
• Add filter for text shown when comment is awaiting moderation.
• Add filter to sidebar registration defaults.
• Add filters to genesis_do_nav() and genesis_do_subnav().
• Add filters for post navigation text.
• Add custom header functionality. Can now be enabled via a single line of code in a child theme.
• Add footer widgets functionality. Can now be enabled via a single line of code in a child theme.
• Add trailing slash to breadcrumb home link.
• Add content width filter for variable layouts.
• Add option to show features on page 2+ with the grid loop.
• Add relative time option to the post date shortcode options – [post_date format="relative"].
• Add inline documentation in multiple files to some locations where it was missing (ongoing – remaining to be done post-1.6 release).
• Add conditional structural wrap system.
• Add sidebar class to primary and secondary sidebar divs.
• Add widget-area class to widget areas in footer widgets.

Changed

• Improve Export to use checkboxes instead of dropdown for export options – now filterable to allow themes and plugins to hook in.
• Improve Theme Settings user interface by decluttering and toggling secondary options via JavaScript.
• Improve breadcrumbs settings – now off by default.
• Improve admin pages document title to ensure default is shown.
• Improve headline and intro text fields (taxonomy and user) by moving to their own function so they do not get unhooked when an SEO plugin is active.
• Improve image size dropdown in Theme Settings by making it use genesis_get_image_sizes().
• Improve footer credit wording.
• Improve code to use available WP functions – is_child_theme(), menu_page_url() and more.
• Improve init.php content by putting into hooked functions.
• Improve theme speed by loading admin files on admin pages only.
• Improve the post format image function to harden it.
• Improve genesis_get_custom_field() to use $id if available.
• Improve data sent when doing an update check.
• Improve check for third party SEO plugins by using plugin detection function.
• Improve admin styles by moving most inline styles from widgets and admin pages to admin.css.
• Improve Genesis style.css to new header standard for giving an explicit license.

Removed

• Remove Genesis Menu options. Existing Genesis menus still supported, but amendments will need to be done by creating and using a WordPress Custom Menu.
• Remove XML demo file from Genesis – kept in with Sample Child Theme.
• Remove (deprecated) genesis_ie8_js().
• Remove (to be formally deprecated next version) the hook functions, in favour of direct do_action() calls.
• Remove rogue li tag from category menu widget.
• Remove WordPress 3.0 compatibility checks in breadcrumb class.
• Remove redundant use of sidebar IDs in style.css.
• Remove admin CSS related to purchase themes menu.

Fixed

• Fix typo on Import / Export page.
• Fix two bugs in genesis_admin_redirect().
• Fix SEO Settings reset action.
• Fix bug with new installs not pushing all the default SEO settings.
• Fix empty site description outputting redudant markup.
• Fix issue with SEO plugin compatibility.
• Fix notice on categories menu widget.
• Fix footer markup typo.
• Fix bug in title output of featured post / page widgets.
• Fix issue with filter in genesis_custom_header() not returning an appropriate value, causing conflicts.
• Fix inline documentation in multiple files – moved docblocks directly above functions so they are correctly associated.
• Fix a lot of code that was inconsistent with coding standards, including whitespace (ongoing).
• Fix list styles on archive pages.
• Fix sub-sub-menu issue on non-superfish dropdowns.
• Fix CSS conflict with admin bar.

1.5.0 - 2011-02-08

• https://www.studiopress.com/genesis-framework-v15/

1.4.1 - 2010-12-10

1.4.0 - 2010-11-17

• https://www.studiopress.com/genesis-framework-v14/

1.3.1 - 2010-09-15

1.3.0 - 2010-08-10

• https://www.studiopress.com/genesis-framework-v13/

1.2.1 - 2010-06-23

1.2.0 - 2010-06-17

• https://www.studiopress.com/genesis-framework-v12/

1.1.3 - 2010-05-04

1.1.2 - 2010-04-26

1.1.1 - 2010-04-09

• https://www.studiopress.com/genesis-framework-v111/

1.1.0 - 2010-03-26

• https://www.studiopress.com/genesis-framework-v11/

1.0.0 - 2010-02-01

• https://www.studiopress.com/genesis-framework-v10/

First public release.