Verbosa WordPress Theme

v1.2.3.1

• Fixed XSS vulnerability allowing the output of unsanitized user names set by rogue editors/contributors

v1.2.3

• Added generated ‘verbosa-accent-1/2‘ and ‘verbosa-accent-1/2-bg‘ classnames and ‘–verbosa-accent-1/2‘ CSS variables for easy access to the main accent colors
• Added new social icons: AliPay, Apple, Behance, Bootstrap, Git, Gitlab, Google, Mastodon, Messenger, Microsoft Teams, Person (simple, circle, square), QR Code, Rumble, Signal, Snapchat, Sourceforge, Substack, Telegram, Threads, Trello, Unity, Whatsapp, Xbox, and one that shall not be named
• Updated social icons: Twitter (X), Facebook, Github, Google Play, PayPal, Skype, Stripe, Steam, Spotify, Linkedin, Reddit, YouTube, WordPress. Old icons are still available by adding the ‘-old‘ suffix to the classnames.
• Improved socials animation to use the corresponding icon for the hover state
• Improved accessibility by fixing tab navigation in main menu
• Improved sidebar spacing after title/tagline when not all elements are used
• Improved theme defaults to make all default configurable texts translatable
• Fixed breadcrumbs appearance on RTL scripts
• Fixed mobile menu toggle/close buttons using the wrong color on iOS 15+
• Fixed comments markup displaying erroneous ‘itemprop‘ due to functionality change in WordPress 6.3
• Fixed local fonts still being enqueued as Google Fonts
• Tested with PHP 8.3
• Updated to Cryout Framework 0.8.6.5:
  • Updated rich text schema support for comments
  • Fixed whitespaces in font control title hint due to spaces in markup
  • Precognitively fixed erroneous white square in customize screen panels with Zynith SEO plugin

v1.2.1.1

• Fixed a typo in frontend.js causing the mobile menu and other JS-dependent features to fail
• Fixed social icons intro animation on Chrome/Edge
• Improved dropdown toggle arrow positioning for long menu items in menu navigation and mobile menu
• Improved line wrapping for long menu items

v1.2.1

• Fixed image pages broken since 1.2.0
• Fixed plural forms in comments count for more complex languages – https://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers#Plurals
• Fixed gallery block layout issue with Chrome/Edge
• Added verbosa_logo_width and verbosa_logo_height filters for logo image size
• Optimized JavaScript to clean jQuery deprecation notices since WordPress 5.6
• Updated to Cryout Framework 0.8.5.6:
  • Added echo parameters to cryout_schema_microdata() and cryout_font_select() functions
  • Changed custom post type label in breadcrumbs from singular_name to name
  • Improved JS code to remove jQuery deprecation notices since WordPress 5.6
  • Fixed issues with font families that contain multiple words
  • Fixed Select2 selectors no longer working with WordPress 5.6 on Firefox

v1.2.0.1

• Improved list bullets/numbers alignment in content and on landing page text areas
• Improved translations format for archive and search titles in breadcrumbs
• Fixed meta icons missing since 1.2.0 due to styling overlap
• Updated Cryout Framework to 0.8.5.3:
  • Improved breadcrumbs compatibility with plugins that filter section titles and add HTML markup
  • Better cleaning of weights in font enqueues
  • Removed PHP and WP versions checks as these are now handled by WordPress

v1.2.0

• Added meta options for layout control – page templates for controlling layout will be deprecated and removed in a future update
• Added verbosa_js_options filter for JavaScript options
• Added WordPress 5.2 wp_body_open action call
• Added option to disable default pages navigation and improved mobile menu functionality to hide toggler when main navigation is empty
• Added support for both text domains used when translating with Loco Translate
• Added support for custom/local fonts
• Added outer #site-wrapper markup container
• Fixed incorrect layout being used when unsupported meta layout saved by other theme is found
• Fixed comments and page/category titles hiding options not working
• Fixed breadcrumbs partially hidden when hiding page/category titles
• Fixed plural forms in comments count for more complex languages – https://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers#Plurals
• Fixed erroneous breadcrumbs in bbPress forums/topics
• Fixed non-prefixed global variable in content.php
• Updated readme.txt and style.css headers for the current themes repository requirements
• Improved main navigation usability on tablets by adding the option to force the mobile menu activation
• Improved dark color schemes support for HTML select elements
• Improved handling of font weights
• Renamed content/author-bio.php file to content/user-bio.php to avoid name collision with WordPress’ templating system
• Cleaned up and optimized frontend scripts
• Moved theme’s styling enqueues from wp_head to wp_enqueue_scripts hook to improve child themes compatibility *** this will require updating the child theme if it uses the old hook – if you use the  NoLink child theme, log into your account and download the latest version
• Limited excerpt and more filtering to frontend only
• Limited post meta display to default ‘post’ type only
• Removed Custom CSS option as requested by the WordPress TRT team – https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/78556#comment:11
• Removed options save/load functionality to comply with repository guidelines – https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/39841#comment:27
• Turned off ‘not found’ block on landing page when no content is available
• Code cleanup and sanitization improvements according to the theme sniffer rules
• Improved keyboard navigation accessibility:
  • Added focus support for post featured images
  • Improved mobile menu to add accessibility support
  • Improved keyboard navigation support
  • Moved screen readers skip link from menu to wp_body_open hook (before all content)
• Gutenberg editor tweaks and improvements:
  • Added styles for the new block horizontal separators
  • Added editor styles for the Gutenberg editor
  • Added support for theme colors and font sizes in the Gutenberg editor
  • Added wide image support
  • Fixed block embeds responsiveness conflict with Fitvids script
  • Fixed list margins improved general list appearance in blocks
  • Fixed margins on gallery blocks
  • Fixed caption alignment in blocks
  • Fixed cover block text styling
• Updated to Cryout Framework v0.8.5.2:
  • Added the ability to inherit the general font on all other font control options
  • Activated searchable select functionality using Select2 library on font selector controls
  • Switched enable/disable options to use the new toggle control
  • Switched number options to use the new number slider control
  • Fixed RTL issues with color controls, toggle controls, number slider
  • Fixed home icon missing link on WooCommerce sections
  • Fixed ‘too few arguments’ warning in breadcrumbs on some Polylang multi-lingual sites
  • Fixed color selector malfunction since WordPress 5.3
  • Additional sanitization and even more sanitization changes to comply with wp.org requirements
  • Removed theme news from the theme’s management page

• Added styling to indicate current menu item
• Improved responsiveness of static slider caption on screens under 480px width
• Improved page SEO by making author bio tags H4 on posts and H1 on author sections
• Fixed featured images overflowing on WooCommerce single product pages
• Fixed site logo horizontal alignment
• Fixed typo in Google fonts processing breaking the use of manual fonts
• Updated to Cryout Framework 0.7.8.4
  • Added required PHP version check
  • Improved required WordPress version check