2.4

“Buttons, Buttons, Buttons” — This update focuses on giving you more control over your theme and a smoother overall experience. A handful of cosmetic upgrades are also included.

• New dropdown menu in Customizer -> Theme Setup: Show sidebar on ‘Front Page’ or ‘Articles & Pages’ or ‘Both’ or ‘Always Inside Dropdown Menu’.
• New checkbox in the Customizer -> Theme Setup: “Bypass Front Page Text Truncation.” Show all texts with their full content on the front page. This option also exist within every single post.
• Made sure the defaults in the Customizer work as intended when Theme is freshly installed.
• New checkbox in the Customizer -> Post Setup: “Constrain Featured Image Width.” Constrains the width of all featured images to the article width.
• Featured images now stretch by default to a maximum of their own pixel width, instead of being forced to stretch to full width.
• Many radio buttons in the Customizer have been changed into dropdowns for a cleaner overview.
• Added a “Load Earlier Posts” button, for users who land at another page than the first of the infinite scroll, arriving by link.
• Categories and Tags pages now list the same way as front page, with a title above the listing. Search pages remains the same to get a clear overview.
• Top Menu is now visible on mobile as a vertical scrollbar instead of being tucked inside of dropdown, allowing you to keep those top picks right there in the users face (which is the idea behind this menu).
• New dynamic commenting system.
• Related posts now display in a slider on mobile.
• ‘Lead’ and ‘Note’ shortcodes are now available as Gutenberg blocks through a free plugin. (Shortcodes still works.)
• Custom names for post formats no longer work, so now “Breaking News” is just “Aside”, and “Notice” is just “Status.”
• Design Change: Buttons are redesigned to stand out better.
• Design Change: Tags and Categories’ section got a facelift.
• Design Change: The ‘Note’ Gutenberg Block is more subtle.
• Design Change: Updated the main serif typeface, mainly because of kerning issues with the old one, but also because (we think) the new one has more personality. With this change, the image captions were also changed to this typeface.
• Design Change: Gutenberg buttons are styled to fit the theme.
• Design Change: Read more buttons on front page are now only links, and the featured images are clickable.
• Design Change: Many minor adjustments.
• Bug Fix: Excerpts now show on the front page if they exist.
• Bug Fix: All sub menus now stay closed when you open the parent sub menu.
• Documentation: Added a “Menus” page to the documentation, and updated the old pages.