Dirigible Theme changelog

5.31.127 2026-10-10

Changed

• The 404 page icon and the post-card image placeholder now use icon classes instead of image files.

5.31.126 2026-10-10

Changed

• Header, footer, drawer, lightbox, popup, card and sharing icons now use icon classes instead of inline SVG or image addresses, so every page carries about 4–5 KB less HTML. They look the same.
• Icon styles are leaner: each icon names its image once, and the deferred stylesheet is now smaller than before.

Fixed

• The drawer's close icon no longer causes a small layout shift when the page's styles finish loading.
• The utility bar's account link now has its own accessible name.

5.31.125 2026-10-10

Fixed

• Update blocks now repairs WooCommerce's sample "Refund and returns policy" page, whose headings older WooCommerce saved inside Paragraph blocks (shown as invalid in the editor), turning them into Heading blocks instead of flagging the page for manual repair. Every site's background update trial restarts once.

5.31.124 2026-10-10

Added

• Icon classes for Dirigible Blocks' arrows, device toggles, quote marks and the Yearbook placeholder, and the default Quote Blocks background drawn by the theme, so blocks no longer save inline SVG or the theme's image address into the page (needed by Dirigible Blocks 4.10.149).

Changed

• Background block updates no longer set aside pages with a Masked Image as needing manual fixes: a shape reference isn't counted as page content when checking a re-save. Every site's background update trial restarts once.

5.31.123 2026-10-10

Fixed

• On servers without PHP's libsodium extension, editing a post or page no longer fails with a fatal error after an OpenRouter AI key or Instagram connection has been saved.

5.31.122 2026-10-09

Added

• Once a block update setup has passed its trial on enough Dirigible sites, a signed file from Dirigible Studio lets the trial run for every Administrator and Manager on sites no studio account visits. Each site's own 50-page trial and its stops are unchanged, and a missing, expired or invalid file leaves the trial to studio accounts only.
• Flags shows a "Fleet trial" line, and the site report shows the fleet file's state and saves per trial key.

5.31.121 2026-10-09

Changed

• Background block updates now restart their 50-page trial only when Update blocks' own saving changes, a Dirigible Blocks release changes how old blocks are upgraded, or WordPress gets a major update. Other block plugin updates still re-check pages.
• Once a site's trial passes, background block updates also run for its Administrators and Managers, only on pages they can edit; a page the user can't edit is skipped instead of stopping the run.
• The "pages need manual block fixes" notice now shows only to Dirigible Studio accounts.

5.31.120 2026-10-09

Fixed

• Mobile menu links no longer turn white on hover on sites with a reverse (light-on-dark) or seamless-reverse header; they use the drawer's hover color.

5.31.119 2026-10-09

Changed

• jQuery loading moves to Dirigible Optimize (Optimize Settings → jQuery, Optimize 0.0.46), and each site keeps its choice. Deactivating Optimize now turns the jQuery tweaks off (WordPress's own jQuery loading). Customizer → Scripts & Embeds → Performance appears only while the site still runs an older Optimize without the jQuery card.
• Removed WooCommerce cleanup code that no longer did anything with WooCommerce 11. Shop pages load the same files.

5.31.118 2026-10-09

Fixed

• The country and state dropdowns on My Account → Addresses (billing and shipping) are styled again. Since 5.28.37 each showed twice: the plain browser dropdown plus a stray unstyled copy.

5.31.117 2026-10-09

Fixed

• A Wide or Full block inside a Column (often pasted in from the page) no longer adds big gaps above and below it, and Wide Buttons follow the column's content position instead of sitting left.
• Fix image references, image trim and the sample-data generator no longer strip backslashes from image captions and credits.

5.31.116 2026-10-09

Fixed

• Animated Wavy, Thin Waves and Zigzag separators move at their chosen speed again. Since 5.31.96 they had slowed to a near standstill, on the site and in the editor.

5.31.115 2026-10-09

Changed

• Panels on the Dashboard welcome screen and the Dirigible tools pages have a subtle border, so each has a clear edge.

5.31.114 2026-10-09

Changed

• Saves Dirigible Locations' new Carto API Key setting (Locations → Maps). Update the theme before Dirigible Locations so the key saves.

5.31.113 2026-10-09

Added

• Dirigible Booking is listed with the other Dirigible plugins on the Dashboard.

Fixed

• Blog featured posts using the Overlay style show their headline, date and link again; the image was covering them.

5.31.112 2026-10-09

Fixed

• Quick Edit saves in admin lists, and adding a category or tag from its list screen, work again. In 5.31.111 they stopped with an error.

5.31.111 2026-10-08

Added

• Custom order: a # button on each row of a sorted list to type a new position, or move an item straight to the top or bottom. Useful for moving something a long way.

Changed

• Custom order: the grip stays at the left of each row, and the #, down and up buttons sit at the right, at WordPress's normal row height. Focus colours follow the admin colour scheme. On phones the controls appear in a row's expanded details, like the list's other columns.

5.31.110 2026-10-08

Added

• Custom order: drag pages, posts, people, categories and other lists into the order you want, with no plugin. Turn on Sort by dragging at the top of a list (Administrators), then use the grip or the up and down arrows on each row. Editors and above can reorder. Drafts and Pending lists keep WordPress's own order and can't be dragged.

Changed

• Sites using Simple Custom Post Order or Intuitive Custom Post Order switch to the built-in order on their own, keeping every sorted list in the same order. The plugin is deactivated, then deleted about a week later; reactivate it within that week to undo. Category and tag orders are kept either way.

5.31.109 2026-10-08

Fixed

• Update blocks no longer skips older Grid cards as a lossy upgrade because their image link's screen-reader label changes from the card title to the link text (the title is still shown on the card). Every page is checked once more after this update, and the background updates first run their 50-page trial, so these pages go through the trial before full speed.

5.31.108 2026-10-08

Added

• Update blocks can run by itself, a few pages at a time, while a Dirigible Studio Administrator is in wp-admin. It makes safe upgrades only and keeps modified dates. After a block plugin or WordPress update it first updates up to 50 trial pages, waits a day from the first one, then runs at full speed (up to 2,000 pages checked a day). It stops if a trial page loses block settings, and leaves very long pages for you to update from Tools & Maintenance. Turn it off, or open it to every Administrator and Manager, under Dirigible → Flags.

Changed

• Upgrade notice: update Dirigible Optimize to 0.0.41 or later. Adding new image sizes to older images now runs in Optimize, so deactivating Optimize turns it off; its line under Tools & Maintenance → Media shows while Optimize is active.
• Logos use the site title as their alt text. Instagram Feed tiles without a caption get a description ("Instagram post by @account, date") when the image has no alt text in the Media Library, and the "no featured image" placeholder and the Facebook pixel image are marked decorative.
• Images whose block points at an image that was replaced or re-uploaded still get alt text from the Media Library.
• The Dashboard's "Block updates available" panel no longer shows for people the background updates cover.

Fixed

• Image alt text in the Media Library such as "No image available" or "As an AI researcher, …" is no longer mistaken for a failed AI reply, so it shows on the page again.
• Update blocks' hidden editor no longer marks the pages it opens as being edited.
• Small HTML fixes on the Tools & Maintenance page, and the Flags page no longer stops on an unusual stored value.

5.31.107 2026-10-08

Changed

• Tools & Maintenance matches the Dashboard pages: a grouped list of tools on the left (click one to jump to it) and one column of tools on the right, each with a short "when to use this" and a (?) next to options for the details. Tools get coloured icons, section headings match the page title, and Find & replace's fields sit side by side.
• The Dirigible menu opens Tools & Maintenance. The old Theme Tools page is now its Other tools group (plugin tools such as Migrate Yoast Data, LLMs.txt and the reset buttons live there), and the Gravity Forms tools are one Forms card with Settings check and Entry cleanup tabs.
• Find & replace, Audit broken links and the Accessibility audit each choose their own content ("Checks: all content · Change"). Update blocks always covers every kind of content that uses blocks. Restore block settings and Fix image references check every content type.
• One tool runs at a time: the other buttons are greyed out, the browser asks before you leave mid-run, and there are no pauses between items. Restore block settings checks posts in batches.
• Restore block settings appears only while a site has blocks waiting for review.

Fixed

• Tools refresh an expired security token, retry when the server is busy, stop after five failures in a row or with a clear message when your login has expired, show error pages as one line, and keep partial results. A Tools page left open overnight no longer lets Update blocks change pages' last-modified dates.

Removed

• Find duplicate media (uploading the same file twice is still blocked) and the Administrator audit. The site report counts administrator-level accounts unused for 180 days or more, with no names or emails.

5.31.106 2026-10-08

Fixed

• The one-time "last modified" date repair now also looks past image alt text and excerpt changes made by earlier tool runs (Sync alt tags), so more pages get their real last-edit date back. Edits made during a run by the administrator who ran it count as part of that run. Sites that already finished the repair re-check those pages once in the background; a page that fails during the re-check is skipped instead of holding it up.

5.31.105 2026-10-08

Changed

• Upgrade notice: update Dirigible Optimize to 0.0.39 or later. The revision limit and Purge revisions moved there (Optimize Settings → Revisions); with an older Optimize the theme keeps the 10-revision limit and has no purge.
• Tools & Maintenance saves (Update blocks, Restore block settings, Find & replace, fix image references) keep each page's last-modified date, so maintenance no longer makes every page look freshly edited to visitors and search engines.
• Update blocks runs in batches and covers drafts, pending posts and synced patterns. It never overwrites a page someone edits during the run; it lists those as "edited during the run" and checks them again next time.
• Find & replace changes only the matched text instead of rewriting each post, and applies only to the posts you previewed.
• Tools & Maintenance is smaller: 21 rarely used or risky tools are gone, including Sync alt tags, Missing media files, Delete unused image sizes, Auto-draft cleanup, Redirect CSV, Optimize database tables, Flush transients and the email deliverability check (replaced by Send test email, which reports how the message was sent and any error). Site Health links to WordPress's own Site Health.
• Applying Restore block settings is for Administrators only; Managers can still preview it.
• Broken link and accessibility audits check more (links in block settings, old site addresses, insecure scripts and embeds; a 1280×800 frame with an optional phone pass) and show the element at fault.
• Import Settings covers the settings of every active Dirigible plugin and lists anything it skipped and why. Export Settings no longer includes styles; use Export Styles for those.
• Hosted Fonts switch: sites whose Google fonts were too big to switch now usually can. It uses the variable file when it's close to Google's size and single-weight files otherwise (needs Dirigible Fonts 0.1.6 or later).
• Content Width moves in steps of 8 pixels.

Added

• A one-time background repair puts back the last-modified dates that earlier maintenance runs flattened, using each post's revisions. Posts edited since keep their date. It stops if define('DS_MODIFIED_REPAIR', false); is in wp-config.php.
• Images with empty alt text get the media library's alt text when the page is shown, unless that alt text is a failed AI reply.
• The Media section's background jobs get Run now and Retry buttons.
• Related Posts and search housekeeping feature pages in the builder docs.

Fixed

• Alignwide Min and the Tags active color are checked before they reach the page's CSS; a 3-digit hex color is accepted.
• The Styles "Transform" controls are labeled Transform, Label Transform and Sublabel Transform.

5.31.104 2026-10-08

Fixed

• Carousels (Slider, Hero Slider, Logo Carousel and Dirigible Fleet's aircraft galleries) could land one slide off from the dot or thumbnail you clicked when they started inside a grid cell or a scroll-animated section. They now measure correctly while those entrance animations play.

Changed

• The YouTube click-to-load docs point to Dirigible Optimize's new on/off switch (in the next Optimize release).
• Removed a leftover admin tweak for Instagram Feed versions older than 6.3, which no site runs.

5.31.103 2026-10-08

Changed

• On-demand Turnstile loading now comes only from Dirigible Optimize, which every Turnstile site already uses. The theme's fallback for Optimize older than 0.0.26 is gone; a site on an older Optimize loads Turnstile the plugin's usual way until Optimize updates. Spam checks are unchanged.
• The site report no longer lists health.turnstile; Optimize reports it under its own section.

5.31.102 2026-10-08

Added

• Settings for Dirigible SEO's new Home Page Title and Home Page Description (SEO → Options in the Customizer). Update the theme before Dirigible SEO 2.3.57 so those settings save.

Fixed

• On sites hidden from search engines, utility pages (the 404 page, thank-you pages and similar) no longer print a contradictory "noindex, nofollow, follow" robots tag.

5.31.101 2026-10-08

Changed

• Upgrade notice: pages the host has already cached keep their old social links, structured data and robots tags until the site cache is purged or refreshes.
• Utility pages stay out of search results and the sitemap (noindex, follow): the 404 page and custom blog layout page set in the Customizer, WordPress's unedited Sample Page and "Hello world!" post, and Gravity Forms thank-you pages (a page a form confirmation sends visitors to, whose address says thank you or confirmation, that isn't in a menu and has little text). The front page, posts page and Blog Page are never affected, and Yoast's sitemap is covered too. On a site running Yoast, one of these pages set to "allow indexing" in Yoast is still kept out of search; a developer can use the ds_utility_page_reason filter to keep a page indexed. The site report lists which pages were hidden and why.
• The post format archives (such as /type/image/) and their sitemap are hidden when the theme doesn't use post formats.
• The 404 Page and Custom Layout settings no longer ask you to make the page private.
• Structured data: the site's business entry has a stable identifier that blog posts point to as their publisher, and an empty tagline is left out. Each page rebuilds its structured data once after the update.
• Social Media: enter @you@your.server for a Mastodon account on another server.
• Tools & Maintenance: Sync alt tags, Missing media files, Delete unused image sizes and Auto-draft cleanup are turned off while they're fixed or replaced, and Fix broken image references previews but doesn't apply fixes.

Fixed

• Social icons in the header, footer, drawer, utility bar and Socials block link correctly: TikTok and Threads no longer repeat the username, LinkedIn company pages and bare LinkedIn names, pasted profile links (including threads.com, x.com/twitter.com and country LinkedIn sites), @handles, stray spaces and doubled paths all work, and Spotify artist, album and playlist links open the right page.
• Structured data uses the same corrected social links, and site names, post titles, excerpts, breadcrumbs, FAQs, price lists and yearbook names show real characters instead of codes like & or ’. A price range like "$10 - $20" reads as 10.

Removed

• Store → Product Pages: the Description, Show Tags, Show Categories and Show Shipping Dimensions settings, which haven't changed product pages since 5.24.39.

5.31.100 2026-10-08

Fixed

• Forms cleanup no longer deletes uploads that belong to live form entries. Since 5.27.80 its orphan-file step couldn't see Gravity Forms' file-upload fields, so every uploaded file looked unused and a run could delete files attached to real entries. The file check now reads the fields correctly. Deleting orphan files is turned off for now while the remaining cases (files saved under an old site address, post image fields) are fixed; the scan still lists them.
• The Gravity Forms configuration audit no longer reports every form as having no input fields.

5.31.99 2026-10-08

Added

• Related Posts built into the theme: turn on Show Related Posts under Customize → Blog & Posts → Post Pages to list up to four related posts under each blog post, matched by shared wording, categories and tags. The default category doesn't count, and a post with nothing close enough shows no list. Off by default.

Changed

• Upgrade notice: sites that use the YARPP plugin switch over on their own. The theme turns Related Posts on, keeps the YARPP headline, image size and display settings, builds its index in the background, then deactivates YARPP (it never deletes it). Colony blogs switch once Colony Framework 1.3.64 or newer is installed. A site keeps YARPP, with the reason in its site report, if YARPP also shows somewhere the theme's list doesn't cover (other post types, archives, RSS, widgets, shortcodes) or the child theme uses its own post templates or calls YARPP. Pinned sticky posts no longer appear in every list. Pages cached before the switch keep the old list until the site cache is purged. Rolling the theme back after the switch needs YARPP reactivated.
• The Customize → Plugins → YARPP Related Posts panel is gone; its settings are under Blog & Posts → Post Pages.
• The reminder shown while a search-and-replace plugin (such as Better Search Replace) is active is gone. The advice stays in the Tools & Maintenance docs, and broken image files still show in the site report.

5.31.98 2026-10-08

Added

• Structured data on a page now refreshes on its own when content it shows changes elsewhere: a renamed category, tag or author, an edited FAQ answer, a parent page's new title, an event's location or ticket product. Those pages rebuild it on their next uncached view; purge the site cache to see it straight away. Draft saves don't trigger it.
• The site report lists the next update checks scheduled by WordPress and how many scheduled tasks are overdue.

Changed

• While the theme's files are being replaced during an update, visitors get a short "This site is updating" page (which browsers and the cache retry) instead of a half-drawn page or a critical error. A plugin that keeps logs or caches in its own folder doesn't trigger it.
• WooCommerce related and up-sell product cards load a card-sized image on every visit, instead of a different size from one load to the next.
• The footer's search or newsletter column is sized as the page first draws, so the menu columns beside it no longer jump on short pages.
• The Dashboard's documentation pages show one column on phones, and long code names wrap.

Fixed

• Card and event images with no focal point no longer carry a centred position, so a position class added to the image now applies. An invalid saved focal point is ignored instead of printing 0%.
• Backslashes in image captions, titles and alt text survive Image Trim backups and restores, the SVG size repair, generated reverse and colour logos, and video cover images.
• Plugin & Theme Audit no longer fails to look up theme updates.

5.31.97 2026-10-07

Fixed

• Animated separators and animated Section transitions no longer let the page scroll sideways in Safari 15 and older; those browsers show the still line and shape instead.
• Mirrored Section transition shapes no longer show a hairline where the shape meets its mirror on screens with display scaling (for example 150% on Windows).
• The animated separator line is no longer 1rem longer on the left than the still line.

5.31.96 2026-10-07

Added

• Section transitions can animate (with Dirigible Blocks 4.10.136 or newer, which adds the controls): the edge shape slides slowly along the top or bottom of the Section. Shapes whose ends don't line up repeat as a mirrored pair, so all 18 shapes loop seamlessly. Visitors who prefer reduced motion see the shape standing still.

Fixed

• Animated Wavy, Thin Waves and Zigzag separators no longer jump once per cycle, and they now animate without redrawing on every frame, which is lighter on phones.

5.31.95 2026-10-07

Fixed

• The "A Dirigible update failed its signature check" notice goes away once a correctly signed update of the same plugin or theme is installed, instead of staying up for 14 days.

5.31.94 2026-10-06

Added

• Block Tor Submissions, under Customize → Settings → Gravity Forms. Off by default. While on, form submissions sent through the Tor network are discarded (the list of Tor addresses refreshes daily, and the check stands down if it can't be refreshed for three days). Some legitimate visitors use Tor for privacy, so turn it on only while a site is being flooded.

5.31.93 2026-10-06

Added

• Two more spam checks on every Gravity Forms submission, handled like a honeypot catch (discarded, no entry): a submission a bot re-sends unchanged from many addresses is recognised from the third copy within ten minutes, and a bare web address in a Name field (such as example.org/offer) now counts as a link and follows the form's Links/URLs setting.
• For developers, off by default: the ds_gf_tor_guard filter turns away form submissions from Tor exit addresses on a site under attack. The Tor Project's list is fetched daily in the background and the check lets submissions through if the list is missing or out of date. Real privacy-minded visitors also use Tor, so turn it on only where needed.

5.31.92 2026-10-06

Added

• While a database search-and-replace plugin is active (Better Search Replace, Search & Replace, Search Regex, WP Migrate and similar), administrators see a dismissible reminder on the Dashboard and on that plugin's screen: replacing text across the database also changes image file paths, so leave out the postmeta table (or rename the files to match), do a dry run first, and remove the plugin when done.

Changed

• Upgrade notice: the Form Submission Limit (Customize → Settings → Gravity Forms) is active again on every site: by default 5 submissions per visitor IP, per form, per hour. Visitors who share one connection (a campus or office) can reach it on a busy form; they see the "try again in an hour" message above the form.
• Every Gravity Form now gets the Advanced Honeypot and a 2-second Submission Speed Check, and submissions they catch are discarded without creating an entry. This applies to existing, imported and new forms without changing their stored settings, and a form's higher speed threshold is kept. The form's Spam Detection section shows these as set by the theme; Links/URLs and Custom Spam Confirmation remain per form. Submissions made through the Gravity Forms API aren't affected.

Removed

• The "Enable Spam Protection on All Forms" tool, now that every form has this protection automatically.

Fixed

• The Form Submission Limit works again: it hadn't run since 5.27.01. It now checks only when a form is sent, so the form always shows. Before, a visitor over the limit could cause a cached page to hide the form from everyone.

5.31.91 2026-10-06

Added

• Show on Scroll Up, under Customize → Header & Menus → Desktop. With it on, the sticky or floating header slides out of view while visitors scroll down and comes back as soon as they scroll up. It stays put near the top of the page, while the mobile menu or a mega menu panel is open, and while a visitor is using it (an open dropdown, the search field, or keyboard focus). Off by default.

Fixed

• A missing or renamed image that loads lazily no longer leaves a tall empty gap. In a slider it also no longer re-requests the file over and over and jolts the page.

5.31.90 2026-10-06

Fixed

• The header button keeps its label on one line without being held at a fixed width; the rest of the header can still shrink around it.

5.31.89 2026-10-06

Changed

• Quote Group quotes pop in one after another as they scroll into view, like Grid cards, when Scroll Animations is on. Visitors who prefer reduced motion, and sites with Scroll Animations off, see no change.

Fixed

• The header button stays on one line. In Safari it could break mid-word (for example "Donat / e") even with room to spare in the header.

5.31.88 2026-10-05

Fixed

• Pages with Quote blocks no longer jump as they finish loading: quotes get their final spacing straight away, so the content below them stays put.
• WooCommerce shop, product, cart and account pages no longer jump as they finish loading: WooCommerce's empty notice area is hidden from the first paint.

5.31.87 2026-10-05

Added

• Admin pages can show short confirmation messages that fade away on their own (errors stay until dismissed). Dirigible Optimize 0.0.30 uses them to confirm each setting as you change it.

5.31.86 2026-10-05

Fixed

• Self-hosted YouTube covers (and the editor's stock background photos) no longer load over http on https sites whose WordPress address is stored as http, so those pages keep the browser's padlock.

5.31.85 2026-10-05

Added

• Gravity Forms: ds-list-2col to ds-list-5col (and -vertical versions) lay out a Checkboxes or Radio Buttons field's choices in columns, like the old gf_list_2col Ready Classes. Gravity Forms 4.0 warns about forms that still use Ready Classes; swap them for the ds-list- names to clear the warning. Forms using the old names keep working.

Changed

• When an Instagram account's owner removes access or asks for deletion, the site hides that feed at its next sync and, at the one after, deletes its posts and the images the sync imported for it. Images you uploaded yourself are never touched.
• Settings → Feeds is rewritten in plain language, shows the Instagram account ID and a readable status, and Connect always shows the Instagram login. Visitors see nothing, rather than "No Instagram posts to display.", when a feed has no posts. The table reset tool shows only with WP_DEBUG.
• Product images in the Cart, Checkout and Mini-Cart blocks and on WooCommerce's Review your order page are always square, whatever the image's shape.

Fixed

• An Instagram Feed block left on the default feed keeps showing its saved posts when a sync fails or the account needs reconnecting (it used to go blank).
• Analytics & Tracking fields refuse a sentence or a paste with no ID in it, which used to save as a garbled ID or a blank field, and refuse a pasted snippet with several different IDs (say a Google tag loading both G- and AW-), listing the IDs found so you can pick the one the field is for. Saved values and the site's output are unchanged.

5.31.84 2026-10-05

Changed

• Loading the Cloudflare Turnstile check on demand moved to Dirigible Optimize (0.0.26 or newer), which now also covers comment forms and WooCommerce account login and lost-password forms. Deactivating Optimize switches it off. The theme keeps its own copy only while an older Optimize is active, until Optimize updates. Without Optimize, Turnstile loads as the plugin prints it.

5.31.83 2026-10-02

Fixed

• Code that was commented out in Customizer → Site Fonts (between <!-- and -->) no longer shows the comment markers as text at the top of every page. Commented-out code is left out of the page entirely.

5.31.82 2026-10-02

Added

• The site report says how Turnstile loads on sites with Simple Cloudflare Turnstile: whether loading on demand is on, the last page where it loaded on demand, and, for each reason it left a page as the plugin prints it (another kind of form, another plugin's Turnstile script, an older plugin version, or turned off), the last page and the reason.
• The site report shows the progress of the one-time check of older SVG uploads (checked, cleaned, and any that couldn't be cleaned) and whether the uploads folder's SVG security rule was added.

5.31.81 2026-10-02

Fixed

• Dirigible updates install on the next automatic update run after a release, instead of the one after. WordPress started its twice-daily run before the Dirigible update check had looked for new releases, so each run installed what the check had found 12 hours earlier, and a release took up to a day longer than needed to reach a site.

5.31.80 2026-10-02

Changed

• Dashboard → Home → Plugins: Install, Activate and Add license are quiet text links lined up under each plugin's name, instead of buttons. The card's check mark and colour show which plugins are ready to install.

5.31.79 2026-10-02

Added

• Dashboard → Home → Plugins now lists 15 Dirigible plugins, including Optimize, Manifest and Hours, each with a short description, a Docs link and its status: a green check when active and licensed, a yellow check when licensed but not installed, orange when active without a license (so no updates). Add a license right on the card, then click Install: the plugin downloads from Dirigible and activates, so there's no zip to find and upload. Cards update in place. A line above the grid sums it up, for example "4 active · 1 ready to install · 10 need a license".
• Dirigible → Licenses has a "Plugins to install" section with the same license field and Install button for every Dirigible plugin that isn't active yet.

Changed

• Gravity Forms "Previous" on multi-page forms is now a quiet text button, like "Save and Continue Later", so Next and Submit stay the one filled button.
• SVG uploads can be up to 4 MB, and .svgz is no longer offered (those files never displayed). Existing .svgz files are untouched.

Fixed

• Gravity Forms "Select All" shows a focus ring when you reach it with the keyboard.

Security

• SVGs uploaded before Dirigible cleaned them (for example under the old SVG Support plugin) are checked once in the background. Any that contain script or similar unsafe content are cleaned the same way new uploads are, and a copy of the original is kept in uploads/ds-svg-originals/. SVGs without unsafe content keep their exact bytes.
• Uploaded SVGs opened on their own can no longer run script or load anything from other sites: the theme adds a header rule for SVG files to the uploads folder's .htaccess. Images, logos and inline SVGs look the same.
• A damaged or oversized SVG upload is refused cleanly instead of tying up the server.

5.31.78 2026-10-02

Changed

• Gravity Forms: "Choose File" is now a quiet tinted button instead of a copy of the submit button, and a single file upload sits in a dashed drop zone that matches multi-file uploads, whose "Select files" button gets the same quiet style.
• Gravity Forms: "Save and Continue Later" is now a ghost button, so Next and Submit stay the one filled button.
• Gravity Forms: uploads now show a progress bar while they upload. Finished files show just the name and a delete icon, and upload rows wrap cleanly on phones. The delete icon no longer depends on the Dashicons font.

Fixed

• The background job that adds new image sizes to existing images no longer stops partway through large photos. Each image now gets its own time limit instead of whatever was left of the cron request. Images it gave up on that way are tried once more, and a job that had stopped because of them picks up where it left off. When an image still fails, the site report shows PHP's reason.

5.31.77 2026-10-02

Changed

• Pages with Gravity Forms protected by the Simple Cloudflare Turnstile plugin no longer download Cloudflare's challenge (about 0.6 MB per form) when the page loads. The "verify you're human" check now loads when a visitor scrolls near the form or starts filling it in, and a page with several forms, or a login form in a menu, only runs it for the forms the visitor reaches. Spam and login protection is unchanged. To opt out, set DS_TURNSTILE_LAZY to false or return false from the ds_turnstile_lazy filter.
• Gravity Forms styles for rarely used fields (Consent, Section, page steps, List, date and time, file upload, pricing, Image Choice and others) now load only on pages whose forms use them, and the main form stylesheet is smaller.

Fixed

• Gravity Forms Password fields with "Enable Password Visibility Toggle" show an eye icon inside the right end of the field that shows or hides the password. It used to be an empty grey button under the field.
• Gravity Forms fields that showed unstyled now match the theme's forms: Image Choice cards, the date picker (calendar button inside the field, calendar as a pop-up), enhanced drop downs, List columns with add/remove buttons beside each row, numbered page Steps, the password strength meter, the "sending" spinner on Submit, and the Save and Continue "Send Link" button.
• Gravity Forms settings that had no effect now work: Hidden labels, choice layout Horizontal and Columns, Left/Right label placement, and column widths beyond ½, ⅓ and ¼ (for example a ⅔ + ⅓ row). On phones, fields narrower than half widen to half. Forms that already use Columns or Horizontal choices will now show them that way.
• Gravity Forms errors are easier to see (messages and unchecked choices in the error colour). Drop downs inside Name, Address, date, time and card fields show a chevron, multi-input and choice fields line up with the rest, and reverse-print multi-selects and progress bars are readable.

5.31.76 2026-10-01

Added

• Google Site Verification ID takes more than one code, one per line, and prints one verification tag per code.

Changed

• Analytics & Tracking fields check each ID against the service's format when you publish. A value that doesn't fit shows a message under the field, and Publish waits until it's fixed or cleared. You can paste the whole tracking snippet, meta tag or URL: the field keeps just the ID and shows it after Publish. Old Universal Analytics IDs (UA-) are refused with an explanation, and every field describes what its ID looks like. Existing values keep working unchanged.

Fixed

• A Site Verification value saved as google-site-verification=CODE, or as a whole meta tag, printed that whole text, so Google couldn't verify the site. It now prints just the code.

5.31.75 2026-10-01

Added

• HubSpot and Piwik PRO fields in Customizer → Scripts & Embeds → Analytics & Tracking: HubSpot Portal ID and Region (US or EU), and Piwik PRO Account Address and Container ID. They work like the Google, Facebook and Hotjar fields: they start after page load (or on first interaction), wait for consent when the cookie banner is on, and skip your own admin visits unless Track Admin Sessions is on. When you fill them in, remove the old pasted snippet from Custom Embeds in the same save, or visits are counted twice; the account and its history stay the same.

Changed

• Background and Hero videos show their fallback image underneath the video until it plays, so a video no longer needs a separate poster image. With Dirigible Blocks 4.10.123, phones stop downloading a full-size poster for a video they never show.

Fixed

• Scroll animations no longer make the browser re-lay-out the page once for every element they hide at load.

5.31.74 2026-10-01

Changed

• The site report includes PHP's serialize_precision setting, so Dirigible Studio can see which sites print long decimal numbers when PHP writes block settings. Nothing changes for builders.

5.31.73 2026-10-01

Fixed

• Link URL fields in block sidebars fit the sidebar again. Before, they ran past its edge, and on some blocks the sidebar scrolled sideways when the field came into view.

5.31.72 2026-10-01

Added

• Studio-signed plugin routes: Dirigible plugins can offer maintenance routes that only Dirigible Studio can call, checked with the same signature, time window and one-time code as the site report. Nothing changes for builders.
• A plugin that retires itself (Blocks Extended, after converting its blocks) has its files deleted 30 days later, once nothing on the site uses it any more; until then, reactivating it cancels the deletion. The rollback copies it kept are removed with it. The site report shows each retired plugin's state.

5.31.71 2026-10-01

Fixed

• The Mega Menu dropdown arrow shows again. Since 5.31.55 it could be invisible beside menu items that open a mega menu.

5.31.70 2026-10-01

Changed

• Update blocks (Tools & Maintenance) also swaps retired blocks for their current versions when nothing is lost, starting with a Dirigible Blocks Extended Logo Carousel (needs Dirigible Blocks 4.10.118 or newer). Pages finished in an earlier run are skipped; tick Re-check all pages to convert those.

5.31.69 2026-10-01

Security

• Dirigible updates are checked against Dirigible Studio's release signature before they install. For now the result is only recorded (in the site report, plus an alert in wp-admin if a signature doesn't match); nothing is blocked. Plugins installed by Theme Setup from the Dirigible update server are checked the same way. Zips you upload yourself aren't checked.

Changed

• YouTube thumbnails are served from the site itself. Before a visitor presses play, the page loads only the site's own files and the visitor's browser contacts no YouTube or Google server; after they press play, the video plays in YouTube's privacy-enhanced player. A newly added video shows a dark box with a play button until its thumbnail is copied (when the post is saved, or in the background within a few hours). To load thumbnails from YouTube instead, add define('DS_YOUTUBE_THUMBS_REMOTE', true); to wp-config.php.
• YouTube embed code in plugin text fields (rich text and plain text, such as a dog's or a listing's description) also shows the thumbnail and play button until pressed.
• The site report shows why a background update failed, when WordPress refuses or rolls one back.

Fixed

• Correction to 5.31.66: that release said nothing loads from YouTube before a visitor presses play. Its thumbnails did load from YouTube's image server; from this release they're served by the site itself.

Upgrade notice

• Pages the host already has cached keep their old YouTube thumbnail links until they're saved again or the cache is cleared. Clearing each site's cache once after the update finishes the switch.

5.31.68 2026-10-01

Fixed

• On blog posts, YouTube videos keep their thumbnail and play button on the first view after a post is saved. Before, posts with pasted YouTube code or classic-editor videos could show the thumbnail at full size with the play button below it, and that view was cached for every visitor.
• Deleted or private YouTube videos show a dark box with a play button instead of a stretched grey placeholder.
• A focal point set on an Image block now wins over the image's Media Library focal point on the front end.
• The focal point X and Y boxes accept decimals and typing, and no longer snap to 50 when cleared.
• Setting a featured image's focal point no longer leaves an unsaved change behind (Publish stays Publish).
• Search markup (JSON-LD), pages made by the setup wizard, imported Instagram captions and generated logo alt text keep backslashes, accents and quotes intact.

5.31.67 2026-10-01

Added

• Sites that load Google Fonts switch by themselves to the same fonts served from the site (Dirigible Fonts), in the background, so text loads faster and visitors' browsers no longer contact Google. It only happens when every family, weight and style is available, the text looks the same, and the files aren't bigger than Google's. Font files are downloaded and checked before anything changes. A dashboard notice confirms the switch and offers Undo; after an undo the site stays on Google Fonts. Appearance → Hosted Fonts shows what it's doing, and has a one-click switch and undo for sites that don't switch on their own. To turn the automatic switch off on a site, add define('DS_GOOGLE_FONTS_AUTO', false); to wp-config.php.
• A 1200 px image size. Full-width images on phones download a file about 35–45% smaller.
• When the theme or a plugin adds an image size, existing images get it in the background, a few at a time, starting with images on the front page and in heroes and backgrounds. Existing files are never changed or removed. Progress shows under Dirigible → Flags and next to Media in Tools & Maintenance, and an "Images updated" notice appears when it's done.

Changed

• The Dirigible theme and Dirigible plugins always update automatically: WordPress installs new Dirigible releases in its twice-daily background update, whatever each plugin's auto-update switch says. Other plugins keep their own setting. To keep a site on its current Dirigible versions, add define('DS_AUTO_UPDATES', false); to wp-config.php.

Fixed

• The slider pause button stays visible on dark (reverse print) sections.
• On pages with a seamless header, links and buttons near the top of the first section can be clicked again.

5.31.66 2026-10-01

Added

• YouTube videos (Embed blocks, Video Gallery, Grid YouTube cards and pasted YouTube embed code) show their thumbnail and a play button until a visitor presses play. The player then loads in YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode and starts right away. Pages with videos download far less (a 16-video page on a phone: about 15 MB to 1.2 MB), and nothing from YouTube loads before a visitor presses play.
• To keep the normal YouTube player on one block, add the class no-facade to it (Advanced → Additional CSS class). Autoplaying background videos are left alone.

5.31.65 2026-10-01

Changed

• Keyboard focus on text links is a soft highlight in the site's Primary colour with a brand-coloured underline, instead of an outlined box. Buttons and icons keep a thin rounded ring. Mouse and touch users see no change.

5.31.64 2026-10-01

Changed

• In the mobile menu, a menu item with a submenu now opens its own page when you tap its name; the arrow beside it opens the submenu. An item without a page of its own (a Custom Link to #) still opens its submenu either way.
• The footer's default text size is Small instead of Tiny. Sites that chose a footer Text Size keep it.
• Pages using Adobe Fonts (Typekit) or Google Fonts connect to the font server earlier, and the font stylesheet no longer competes with the main image.
• Images added to an Image block by URL or by pasting now get responsive sizes and lazy loading like other images, so pages with them load much less.
• Sites with a dark (reverse) header no longer download the colour logo, which can't appear on them.

Added

• Keyboard users see a soft focus outline in the site's Primary colour (their text colour on dark areas), plus a "Skip to Content" link on the first Tab, phones included. Mouse and touch users see no change.
• The built-in carousel can show a subtle pause button (bottom right, on hover or keyboard focus). Dirigible Blocks turns it on for autoplaying sliders in its next release.

Fixed

• The mobile menu works with a keyboard: focus moves into it, Tab stays inside, Escape closes it and returns to the menu button, and its hidden links are no longer tab stops when it's closed.
• The header search button, the image lightbox (labelled Previous, Next and Close buttons; Escape closes it), the centred popup, the People, Locations and Portfolio filter tags, and Manifest document toggles work with a keyboard and screen readers.
• For visitors who prefer reduced motion, background videos stay paused on their poster image.
• The 404 page's skip-link target, a heading on search results, breadcrumbs as a labelled navigation landmark, and the cookie banner as a labelled region early on the page.
• Resizing the window a lot no longer moves a looping slider to a different slide.

5.31.63 2026-09-30

Security

• Dirigible theme and plugin updates now download only over a secure connection from the Dirigible update server. A download from anywhere else is stopped before anything is fetched, and the Updates screen (or ManageWP, or the automatic-update email) says "Download blocked". Theme Setup's plugin installs are checked the same way. Zips you upload yourself, through WordPress or ManageWP, are never blocked.
• Pages tell browsers not to guess file types, and live HTTPS sites ask browsers to keep using HTTPS.

Changed

• The built-in carousel's autoplay at short intervals (the Logo Carousel and Slider) moves smoothly instead of stopping and starting every step. Scrolling or clicking a carousel no longer stops autoplay; using the arrows, the dots or a swipe restarts the countdown instead.
• The carousel can now show the Slider block sliding in the editor (Dirigible Blocks uses this from its next release).
• Pages load a little faster: Link in Bio images and the site logos are fetched together, not one at a time.
• The Featured Image focal point preview no longer re-downloads the image each time the sidebar panel reopens.

5.31.62 2026-09-30

Changed

• Lighter admin and page loads: capability checks, the first-block image scan, update-check state and SVG size lookups do less work per request (Customizer about 16% faster, the editor about 12%, and the dashboard runs 17 fewer database queries).

Fixed

• Search results no longer show the text of password-protected posts to logged-in users.
• The built-in carousel's autoplay no longer stops when a visitor scrolls the page with a trackpad over it, and slide backgrounds no longer cover its arrows and dots. Dirigible Blocks only switches its sliders to this carousel from this theme version.

5.31.61 2026-09-30

Added

• A built-in scroll-snap carousel that the Slider, Hero Slider and Logo Carousel blocks will use from the next Dirigible Blocks release. It's lighter than Flickity, keeps hidden slides out of the keyboard tab order, labels each carousel for screen readers, and doesn't autoplay for visitors who prefer reduced motion. Nothing changes on the site until Blocks uses it.

Changed

• The editor stays fast on long pages with Events, People or Instagram Feed blocks: their previews no longer pile up in memory each time you change a setting. The live site is unchanged.

5.31.60 2026-09-30

Changed

• Bulk block upgrade prompts come back automatically once the site runs Dirigible Blocks 4.10.106 or newer; sites on older Blocks keep them paused.

Fixed

• Update blocks no longer stops when the site re-encodes a page's block settings while saving (ACF blocks, number formatting). It only stops when settings are actually dropped; otherwise it lists a changed page for review and carries on.
• Update blocks no longer turns a Blog Post Header into a plain title when that would drop its background image, custom headline or alignment; those pages are listed for a manual rebuild instead. Only inline titles with no image and no custom text are converted.

5.31.59 2026-09-30

Changed

• Bulk block upgrade prompts are paused while a Dirigible Blocks fix rolls out: the Welcome "block updates available" card, the once-per-login "pages need manual block fixes" notice and the one-click run link are off. Tools & Maintenance → Update blocks still runs by hand, with a note saying why.
• Update blocks only saves a page when every block upgrade on it keeps the block's text, images and links. A page with an upgrade that would drop any of them is skipped and listed under "pages need manual block fixes". If the site rewrites a page while the tool saves it, the run stops there and the page stays unmarked.
• The tracking loader printed in the page head is now a built, minified script (5.3 KB instead of 7.5 KB) on sites with tracking IDs. Tracking behaviour, consent handling and the ?ds_tracking_debug=1 console output are unchanged.

Fixed

• Post, search and related-post cards load an image sized for the card instead of a full-width file. On listing pages the first card, which browsers load first, gets a file a few times smaller, and Safari users get smaller files for every card.

5.31.58 2026-09-30

Security

• Managers can no longer make themselves or anyone else an Administrator. All Settings (options.php) is Administrator-only, New User Default Role only accepts roles the person saving can assign, and a default role set above that falls back to Subscriber. A Manager's changes also can't switch on a plugin, switch the theme, or give any role something the Manager can't do.
• WP All Import is Administrator-only on single sites, because it runs custom PHP.
• Sign-ups never get a role that can change settings, manage users or add raw HTML or code (Administrator, Manager, Editor); they get Subscriber instead.
• "Lost your password?" no longer hints whether an account exists when a CAPTCHA or rate limit rejects the request, on the WordPress login screen and WooCommerce My Account.

Changed

• The Dashboard's "huge SEO issue" warning has a one-click "Let search engines index this site" button for Managers and Administrators, replacing the link to All Settings.
• Pages no longer print WordPress's five built-in shadow styles (Natural, Deep, Sharp, Outlined, Crisp) in the page head. They were already hidden from the editor.

Fixed

• Update routines that are new in a release now always run: each theme update runs them a second time 15 minutes later, in case the first run happened while the server was still switching to the new files.
• Blog post lists show their "no posts" message again.
• Card links close their label correctly.

5.31.57 2026-09-30

Fixed

• Accounts with a non-Latin display name (Japanese, Cyrillic, emoji and so on) could no longer save their profile, or check out on WooCommerce while logged in, after 5.31.56 gave them an author page address WordPress couldn't keep. Those addresses are repaired automatically after the update, and old links redirect.
• Logged-out visitors could still list users through the site's API by changing the letter case of the address.
• The login screen still hinted whether a username existed; unknown and known usernames now look identical.

5.31.56 2026-09-30

Security

• Logged-out visitors can no longer list users through the site's API, find author addresses with ?author=, or see an authors sitemap. Login and lost-password messages no longer reveal whether an account exists (WordPress login and WooCommerce My Account). Author pages still work.
• Upgrade notice: author page addresses no longer contain usernames. They use the author's display name (/author/jane-smith/), or author-<number> when the display name is the username or an email. Old addresses redirect, and the change runs in the background shortly after the update. Usernames, emails and display names don't change.
• Updates come only from Dirigible: WordPress no longer matches the theme to a WordPress.org listing with the same name.

Added

• A quiet "Check for updates" link on the Dashboard Welcome card (administrators only) that checks the theme and every Dirigible plugin at once, plus ds_check_dirigible_updates_now() for checking many sites from ManageWP Code Snippets or WP-CLI. It installs nothing.
• A reminder for anyone whose public display name is still their username, linking to their profile.
• An icon-chevron-right mask icon class (used by Dirigible Blocks' Landing Page Link), visible in browser auto-dark modes.

Changed

• WordPress automatic updates now see and install Dirigible theme and plugin releases. Update checks run in the background twice a day instead of on admin page loads, so the Plugins screen no longer pauses for several seconds, and ManageWP syncs are fast again while still seeing new releases within an hour.
• Dirigible products with no license key are not checked or offered updates; with a key, the licensing server decides, as before.
• Pages that need manual block fixes are now an administrator notice once per login, linking to the list in Tools & Maintenance, instead of a line on the Welcome screen. Managers and clients don't see it.
• Groundwork for two-step login is included but switched off; nothing changes on sites until it's enabled in a later release.

Fixed

• The theme itself can now be updated by WordPress's automatic updates (its update entry named the wrong folder).
• The ~20 per-product update-check jobs on each site are replaced by WordPress's own twice-daily update run and removed automatically.
• Find & replace no longer changes http://www.w3.org/… namespace addresses inside inline SVG during an http→https replace, which made blocks with inline icons show as invalid.
• On phone-width screens, Welcome panel links now sit under their heading instead of overlapping it.
• On sites using the Two Factor plugin, the "Having problems?" links on the login code screen sit below the form.

5.31.55 2026-09-30

Fixed

• Icons no longer disappear or turn dark in Samsung Internet's dark mode and Chrome's Auto Dark Mode: header and footer social icons, search and login icons, menu and drawer carets, form select arrows, list bullet icons, wavy and zigzag separators, the footer "by Dirigible" mark, share buttons, pinned-post badges, and Dirigible Blocks icon-list, grid and counter icons now recolor with the text beside them. Normal browsers look the same.
• Theme update tasks (style refresh, one-time data upgrades) run on the first visit after an update instead of waiting for someone to open wp-admin. The "SVG Support was deactivated" notice now shows on the next admin visit within a week.

5.31.54 2026-09-30

Changed

• The theme download is about 200 KB smaller: unused admin fonts and a few never-used files are gone, and the theme screenshot is now WebP (new child themes from the setup wizard get it too).

5.31.53 2026-09-30

Changed

• The dashboard's Changelog panel shows the theme changelog from Dirigible Support: full history, always current, with this site's release marked. If it can't load, the panel links to the changelog instead.
• The theme no longer ships readme.html.

5.31.52 2026-09-30

Security

• Error replies to REST and ajax requests never include server file paths or error details, whatever the site's WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY setting (WordPress includes them by default).

Changed

• A plugin error that happens while that plugin is being updated shows "This site is updating, please refresh in a minute" (HTTP 503) instead of the critical-error page, as the theme already does for itself.
• The Tools & Maintenance accessibility audit loads its checker (axe-core 4.12.0) from jsDelivr when you run it instead of shipping it in the theme. If your network blocks jsDelivr, the audit says so and stops.
• The Welcome page's changelog shows the 50 most recent releases (link renamed "Recent releases"), and the theme zip is smaller again (unused files removed).

Fixed

• The Tools & Maintenance accessibility audit works again in current Chrome; since 5.28.54 it had been failing to read pages (or reporting no issues).

5.31.51 2026-09-30

Security

• Managers no longer see the Tools & Maintenance tools that make sitewide or permanent changes: Find & replace, Delete unused image sizes, Missing media files, Purge revisions, Optimize database tables, Autoloaded options, Orphaned metadata cleanup, Spam & trashed comment purge, and deleting entries in Forms cleanup. Administrators see everything.
• "Block updates available" shows the Run button only to administrators; Editors see a note to ask one and can still dismiss it.

Changed

• If a visitor loads a page while the theme is mid-update, they get a short "This site is updating, please refresh in a minute" page (HTTP 503) instead of WordPress's critical-error page, so browsers and the edge retry instead of holding onto the error.
• The installable theme zip leaves out Sass/JS sources, release scripts, translation sources and Markdown files: 924 files instead of 1,459, about a quarter smaller, so bulk updates finish copying sooner.
• The site report says why the update server last refused each Dirigible product, so a site stuck on an old version shows the reason.
• Tools & Maintenance loads its script with a content-based version, so updates show up without a hard refresh.
• Starting templates docs: only Editors and up can set a page's starting template (with Dirigible Blocks 4.10.102).

Fixed

• The background "Generate missing image sizes" job uses a fraction of the database queries it did.
• Audit broken links no longer hangs on pages that link to slow or unresponsive sites; long checks continue in the next request.

5.31.50 2026-09-29

Fixed

• Mobile drawer menus with a dark background and Reverse Print on show white links again. Since 5.30.83 the drawer Link Color defaulted to the Text color, which left the links unreadable. A Link Color other than Text still applies.

5.31.49 2026-09-29

Fixed

• Unused image sizes no longer deletes files that are still in use. It now keeps Site Icon sizes (favicons and app icons), SVG originals and any file shared with a size that's still registered, and files whose URL appears in content, custom fields or settings. The scan lists what it keeps and why. Before this, running the tool could delete a site's favicon sizes or the original file of an SVG.

5.31.48 2026-09-29

Security

• Staff accounts (anyone who can edit content, plus Managers and Shop Managers) must choose a strong password whenever they set a new one: at least 12 characters, not a common password, and not based on their name, email or the site name. This applies on the profile, Add User, password-reset and WooCommerce account pages. Existing passwords keep working; customers and subscribers are unaffected.
• The Maintenance deep link can only auto-run Update blocks, and only from a link the theme created. Destructive maintenance actions are confirmed on the server as well as in the page.
• Forms cleanup only deletes orphaned files from the chosen form's own upload folder.
• The duplicate-upload notice no longer names media the uploader can't see.
• The Site Health summary only sends admin cookies to the site itself.
• Theme Setup's live-site colour fetch re-checks redirects, and the page generator only loads page templates.

Fixed

• Apostrophes in addresses (footer, People, Locations) show as curly quotes again inside page content.
• A background job (integrity scan, block usage, restoring block settings) that crashes on one post or folder now skips it after 3 tries instead of retrying forever.
• Saving the Customizer no longer fails on sites without ACF.
• The Bookings admin pages no longer fail when a booked product was deleted.

5.31.47 2026-09-29

Security

• Managers can no longer create Administrators or edit, promote or delete Administrator accounts. They still manage all other roles.
• Authors and Contributors can no longer save raw iframe, style or link tags, or edit protected custom fields directly through the Custom Fields panel. Existing content and what visitors see are unchanged.
• Block class names and anchors can't contain quote or angle-bracket characters.
• Structured data (JSON-LD) output escapes HTML tags.

Added

• Builder docs: User Roles and Security (Site Care) explains what each role can do.

5.31.46 2026-09-29

Fixed

• The mobile menu (hamburger) and drawer close icons no longer turn dark and disappear when visitors use Samsung Internet's or Chrome for Android's automatic dark mode. They're now drawn as inline SVG in the same colours as before.

5.31.45 2026-09-29

Added

• The studio's signed site report includes a file and administrator inventory (health.integrity) so studio tooling can spot plugins and code hidden from wp-admin, PHP files in uploads, and plugins changed without an update. It runs in the background; nothing on the site is changed.

5.31.44 2026-09-29

Security

• Instagram: the Social Relay can now confirm that a connect really started on this site, so no one can connect Instagram under this site's address.
• Instagram: only administrators can complete an Instagram connection; other logged-in users are refused.

5.31.43 2026-09-29

Fixed

• Actions on the Dirigible → Tools page show an error instead of nothing when they fail, for example after the page has been open too long ("This page has expired. Reload it and try again.").

5.31.42 2026-09-29

Changed

• jQuery Safe Defer now also defers jQuery on pages with a Gravity Form. Gravity Forms already deferred its own scripts, but WordPress couldn't see that, so jQuery stayed render-blocking (150–300 ms in Lighthouse). jQuery still loads normally when another plugin needs it right away, and on sites running GP Easy Passthrough, whose add-on runs jQuery code the moment the page loads.

Fixed

• When a Background, Hero or slider opens the page, its background photo now loads first (fetchpriority="high") instead of a logo or image placed inside it, so the page's main image appears sooner.

5.31.41 2026-09-29

Changed

• Update blocks records pages it skips because their blocks can't be saved reliably (Gravity Forms and other API v2 blocks) separately: they're still skipped on later runs, but no longer counted as updated.

Added

• The studio's signed site report shows, per Dirigible block, how many posts Update blocks has re-saved and at which upgrade version, so old block deprecations can be retired safely. After updating, each site re-runs its block usage scan once in the background.

5.31.40 2026-09-29

Changed

• The studio's signed site report now includes the block-settings repair status and the Update blocks manual-fix count, so fleet tooling can confirm repairs without opening each site. No builder-visible change.

5.31.39 2026-09-28

Changed

• The Dirigible → Flags page loads faster on sites with many videos: the video cover check loads videos and their covers in batches instead of several queries per video.

5.31.38 2026-09-28

Fixed

• With the GDPR banner on, cached pages no longer carry one visitor's consent choice to everyone else. Consent is checked in each visitor's browser, so visitors who accepted get their UTM parameters captured in Gravity Forms even on cached pages, and visitors who haven't never do.

Changed

• With the GDPR banner on, the no-JavaScript Tag Manager and Facebook Pixel fallbacks are no longer printed, since a visitor without JavaScript can't accept the banner.
• WooCommerce Enhanced Ecommerce product-view and Ajax add-to-cart events are queued on every page and sent once the visitor has accepted. Purchase tracking is unchanged.

5.31.37 2026-09-28

Added

• When Update blocks has left pages that need manual block fixes, the dashboard shows a small line with the count just above the changelog, linking to the tool. Nothing shows when there are none. Admins only.

5.31.36 2026-09-28

Added

• Update blocks (Tools & Maintenance) remembers each page it finished and skips it next run, so a stopped run picks up where it left off. Edited pages, and every page after a Dirigible Blocks markup update, are checked again; tick Re-check all pages to check everything.
• Pages that Update blocks skipped because of invalid blocks stay listed on its card with edit links, and Re-run skipped works from that list after a reload. Dirigible → Flags shows the count.
• A signed, read-only site report endpoint for the studio's fleet tooling. No builder-visible change; turn it off with DS_SITE_REPORT_DISABLED in wp-config.php.

Changed

• Block Usage on Dirigible → Flags refreshes weekly in the background and records posts per block and block style counts.

5.31.35 2026-09-28

Changed

• The theme no longer bundles its six stock photos, so the download is about 1.4 MB smaller. Sites download them once into uploads/dirigible/stock/ the first time the block editor opens, and Theme Setup downloads them itself. Pages that still show a default placeholder background now show a flat colour of the same size instead of the photo — pick a real image for any block still using the placeholder.
• The dashboard Welcome → Fonts panel reads font details through Dirigible Fonts, so it keeps working once the fonts plugin reads its catalog from the font host.

5.31.34 2026-09-28

Changed

• Theme Setup reuses the theme's default background photos instead of shipping a second identical copy, cutting the theme download by about 1.4 MB. Theme Setup uploads the same photos with the same names as before.

5.31.33 2026-09-28

Changed

• Images further down a page load lazily and at the size they're shown, instead of downloading a full-screen-width file up front (Lighthouse flagged 150–280 KB of oversized images on client homepages). Whatever opens the page — a hero, a background, a Media Callout, an image pair or a gallery — still loads right away, and if the first block has no large image, the next image loads right away too.

5.31.32 2026-09-28

Fixed

• Blocks with the fade-in, pop-in or slide-down animation classes no longer collapse for a moment as the page loads, which made the content below them jump (for example, a logo image with fade-in above a page's heading). The animations look the same, and popups still fade in when opened.

5.31.31 2026-09-28

Changed

• The main stylesheet is about 1.9 KB smaller (gzipped). Styles that are rarely on the first screen — grids, galleries, comments, tables, sticky columns, text and icon size utilities, separator lines and animation, and slider button and dot styling — load with the secondary stylesheet again. Separators and sliders keep their size and layout in the main stylesheet, so pages still don't jump when they load.

Removed

• The unused Flex Grid layout styles (flex-grid), which no Dirigible markup uses.

5.31.30 2026-09-28

Changed

• Every theme stylesheet — wp-admin, the login screen, the admin bar, the block editor, Dirigible dashboard and Tools pages, maintenance tools, the setup wizard and the Bookings admin pages — is now versioned by its contents instead of the theme version, so logged-in users only re-download a stylesheet when it actually changes.
• The block editor loads the front-end stylesheets at the same address as the front end, so editors no longer cache a second copy after each release.

5.31.29 2026-09-28

Fixed

• Plain links and text in Reverse Print sections now turn white instead of keeping the page's dark text color, so they stay legible on dark backgrounds. This covers links outside paragraphs and lists, such as links in Custom HTML and plugin blocks. Text inside cards and groups set to Dark Text in those sections stays dark. Color settings, buttons and headings keep their own colors.

5.31.28 2026-09-28

Changed

• Theme stylesheets and scripts are now versioned by their contents, so visitors only re-download them when they actually change instead of after every theme update. The first page view after a theme update is faster on sites whose CSS didn't change in that release.

Fixed

• Theme changes to the Events Calendar and Gravity Forms styles now reach visitors right away. Before, those files kept a fixed or Gravity Forms version number, so browsers could keep an old copy for up to a year.

5.31.27 2026-09-28

Fixed

• Links inside grid cards set to Dark Text now stay dark when the grid sits in a Reverse Print section. Before, paragraph links turned white on the light card, and their hover and underline colors were white too.

5.31.26 2026-09-28

Added

• Restore block settings from revisions (Dirigible → Tools & Maintenance) repairs pages where a save between theme 5.28.60 and 5.31.22 wiped every block's settings (image choices, colors, layout, hero options) while the text stayed — often shown as "This block contains unexpected or invalid content." It copies the settings back from the newest revision or autosave with identical content. Preview first, then apply; each repaired post gets a revision you can revert.
• The repair runs once in the background after this update, a few posts at a time, and applies only the matches it is sure of — including synced patterns, ACF blocks and other dynamic blocks when the rest of the page was repaired from the same revision. Nothing to run after updating. Progress and any posts left for review show on the tool card and under Dirigible → Flags.

Changed

• Run Restore block settings from revisions before Update blocks or Purge revisions: it needs the revisions and autosaves those tools remove. Until sites are repaired, opening a post in the editor no longer deletes autosaves from the affected period.
• With Attempt to recover invalid blocks on, Update blocks only rebuilds a Dirigible block when every word, image and link in it survives. Otherwise the block is left alone and the page is skipped for review.
• Hero gradient overlays, Fixed Background images, right-aligned text, button-styled header menu items, Page Blocks cells, People grids and aspect-ratio frames no longer shift when the secondary stylesheet finishes loading. The main stylesheet grows by under 0.3 KB gzipped.

Fixed

• Removing empty trailing paragraphs on save now cuts only those paragraphs and leaves every other block in the post exactly as saved. Paragraphs that hold only an inline image or icon are no longer removed.

5.31.25 2026-09-28

Changed

• The main stylesheet now includes every style that sizes or positions content (sliders, separators, spacing, icon and text sizes, sticky columns, the seamless header's menu), so pages no longer jump when the secondary stylesheet finishes loading. This fixes layout shift that 5.31.22–5.31.24 could cause on hero sliders, separators and grid-card gaps. The main stylesheet grows by about 2.6 KB gzipped; the secondary one shrinks by about 2.4 KB.

Added

• npm run check:critical-css (also a CI job) fails if the deferred stylesheet sets a layout value again.

5.31.24 2026-09-28

Fixed

• SVGs uploaded before 5.27.68 (or while the old SVG Support plugin was active) no longer render as 1×1 images. Each one picks up its real width and height the first time it's shown, so it holds the right space while the page loads and shows its true shape in the editor and media library. There's nothing to run after updating.
• SVG sizes now return correct image URLs to code that asks WordPress for a specific size, and SVG uploads keep their file size in the media library.

5.31.23 2026-09-28

Fixed

• Saving a page that contains an empty paragraph no longer wipes the settings of every block on the page (image choices, heading levels, styles and so on), and special characters like "&" in block settings no longer turn into "u0026" and trigger block validation errors. This had been happening since 5.28.73.
• Links inside Reverse Print sections turn white again instead of staying dark on dark backgrounds: grid card Tab, Minimal and Bold link styles, and other rs-link links across Dirigible blocks and plugins. Regression from 5.30.85.

5.31.22 2026-09-28

Changed

• The deferred stylesheet and the scroll-animation styles now download at low priority, so on slow connections they no longer compete with the main stylesheet, fonts, and hero image. In Lighthouse mobile tests, the first content appeared about 150 ms sooner.

Fixed

• Single posts no longer jump down 16 px when the deferred stylesheet finishes loading. The post's top padding now lives in the main stylesheet.

5.31.21 2026-09-28

Fixed

• Update checks for unlicensed or invalid Dirigible products no longer raise the "plugin metadata file does not contain the required 'name' and/or 'version' keys" notice on Dashboard → Updates. The licensing server's license errors are now caught before the update checker tries to read them as update info, for the theme and every Dirigible plugin.

Changed

• Dirigible → Licenses shows the licensing server's message on a product's card when its key is rejected during an update check (for example an invalid or expired key), so site owners can see why updates stopped. The message clears once a check succeeds or the license is re-activated or removed.

5.31.20 2026-09-28

Changed

• The block editor loads the theme's front-end stylesheets as cached files inside the editor canvas, instead of inlining about 190 KB of CSS into every editor page. Requires WordPress 7.1 or later; earlier versions keep the previous behavior.
• wp-admin screens load the theme's maintenance and video-cover flags in the same query as other settings. Plugins can add theirs with the new ds_prime_options filter.
• Update-check cron jobs left behind by deactivated or deleted plugins are removed automatically, checked at most once a day from wp-admin.

5.31.19 2026-09-28

Added

• Trim Blank Edges on JPEG, PNG, WebP, and AVIF images (Media Library, Select Media, and the attachment edit screen): crops transparent or near-white margins after you preview the result, and Restore original brings back the untrimmed file. Nothing runs on upload.

Changed

• Header logos no longer claim the page's one fetchpriority="high" slot, so the hero or featured image, usually the page's largest paint, loads first.
• Changing a permalink slug in the Customizer (Events, People, Cards, Portfolio, and other Dirigible plugins) now refreshes permalinks once on the next page load, so new URLs work without re-saving Settings → Permalinks.
• Images in a post load their attachment details in one database query before blocks render, instead of one query per image, on pages served without the edge cache.
• Plugin settings groups and the small theme options read on every page now load in one query instead of about 19.
• Instagram feed sync schedules are re-checked at most every 12 hours instead of on every page load.
• The analytics loader no longer writes to the browser console. Add ?ds_tracking_debug=1 to a page address to see the consent check and script loading.
• Cards settings no longer include Category Slug: card categories have no pages of their own.
• The installable theme zip now unpacks to dirigible/, the installed theme folder, and leaves out development files.

5.31.18 2026-09-23

Fixed

• Theme Setup OpenRouter step now points to Dirigible → AI / OpenRouter, not Tools →.
• Dashboard → Magic Classes: large-screen example uses lg:mt-0; shadows are shadow-1–shadow-3; hidden vs hide when pairing with lg:block.

Changed

• Magic Classes feature docs use Dashboard → Magic Classes (the page is under Dashboard, not Dirigible).

5.31.17 2026-09-23

Changed

• Video cover backfill toast now shows how many covers are left (for example, “Generating video covers… 12 left”).

5.31.16 2026-09-23

Changed

• Feature gallery screenshots now show real site pages (Gravity Forms, WooCommerce, structured data, Tools & Maintenance, and the themed block editor canvas) instead of leftover Customizer crops.

Added

• The GitHub Release zip is built with git archive so builder docs/ (screenshot assets) are not shipped to sites. Use that attached zip; GitHub’s automatic Source code (zip) still includes docs/.

5.31.15 2026-09-23

Fixed

• Dashboard → Documentation embed handshake: WordPress wp_localize_script stringifies protocolVersion as "1", while JavaScript used a strict !== 1 check, so parent context never applied and admin links stayed on the spinner. Version checks now accept string or number so inline admin links and Open chips resolve.

5.31.14 2026-09-23

Fixed

• Dashboard → Documentation embed handshake: the parent theme now resends ds-docs-context on every ds-docs-ready message from Support, so inline admin links and Open chips stop spinning when the iframe loads before the child is listening.

5.31.13 2026-09-23

Added

• Builder docs: admin: inline links across theme Customizer, Usage, and Features pages (~109 links) so embedded Documentation can jump to the matching screen on the current site.

Changed

• Dashboard → Documentation iframe shows as soon as the Support docs frame loads (no longer waits for the handshake). Local dev defaults to Support on http://localhost:10043.
• Regenerated ds-admin-docs-embed-min.js for the load/show-frame behavior.

5.31.12 2026-09-23

Added

• Dashboard → Documentation is now an in-admin iframe of Dirigible Support docs (?embed=1) instead of an external link. Editors with edit_posts can browse docs beside their work.
• Site-scoped admin shortcuts: Support docs with adminDestination metadata show an Open button that launches this site’s Customizer or admin screen in a new tab after a secure handshake (no credentials sent to Support).
• Builder docs: In-Admin Documentation feature page; Getting Started and overview link to the new screen.

Changed

• Documentation iframe falls back to an external Support link after a 20-second handshake timeout when Support is unreachable.

5.31.11 2026-09-22

Added

• Builder docs: Gravity Forms feature page covering theme-styled fields and buttons, submission limits, pop-up and footer newsletter forms, campaign parameters, and Forms maintenance tools. Building the form, notifications, and entries stay in Gravity Forms.
• Overview “Popular paths” link to the Gravity Forms feature doc.

5.31.10 2026-09-22

Added

• Builder docs: WooCommerce feature page covering theme-styled shop, product, cart, checkout, and account pages, including block cart and block checkout.
• Overview “Popular paths” link to the WooCommerce feature doc.

5.31.08 2026-09-22

Changed

• OpenRouter settings: Save Settings is a page-level primary button on the right, beside the quiet Remove Saved Key link, instead of sitting inside the Tone Tags card.
• Welcome changelog: the readme iframe uses compact monospace type, and the standalone changelog page is a 42rem column. The iframe cache key includes the readme file time so style updates show up.

5.31.07 2026-09-21

Changed

• Recapture Customizer control screenshots and Theme feature shots at 2× (retina), including Tools & Maintenance, Import/Export, Magic Classes, and the block editor canvas feature card.
• Import/Export feature screenshot caption now mentions Import sample data alongside Styles and Settings.

5.31.06 2026-09-21

Changed

• Flags: Tools-shell jump nav and cards for migration groups and Block Usage, with quiet reset/recount actions.
• OpenRouter settings: jump-nav cards for API key, site description, live URL, and tone tags with quiet Save / Remove actions.
• Theme Tools cards (Reset GDPR, Reset Popup, Gravity Forms spam protection): panel markup, stable ids, and quiet action links.
• Admin tools SCSS/CSS: tighter card spacing, full-width fields in tool cards, Flags table styles, and LLMs.txt / quiet-action layout shared with companion plugins.

5.31.05 2026-09-21

Added

• Magic Classes: sm:hide hides an element below 640px, and md:hide hides it below 768px. Both are listed under Mobile on Dirigible → Magic Classes.

5.31.04 2026-09-21

Added

• Import sample data on Dirigible → Import/Export: plugins register fixtures via ds_sample_data_sources; builders can import demo content when WordPress Importer is available.
• Builder docs for Import sample data on the Import and Export Theme Settings feature page.

Changed

• Import/Export (and Theme Tools) admin shell: jump-nav columns, per-tool cards, and quiet actions so sample-data sources list cleanly with the existing export/import tools.
• Retina / refreshed Theme feature screenshots (focal points, video cover, media library, flexible headers, and related feature cards).

5.31.03 2026-09-21

Fixed

• Floating masthead with Reverse Print on a seamless hero page now uses reverse link colors, hover, and the reverse logo before scroll. The seamless pre-scroll normal-print override no longer applies when has-floating-masthead is on the body.

5.31.02 2026-09-21

Changed

• Fonts handshake: Palette and Typography, Styles → Fonts, Embed Fonts, and General docs now link to the Dirigible Fonts collection for catalog and activation instead of duplicating that workflow.

5.31.01 2026-09-20

Changed

• Customizer docs: completed option gloss copy and refreshed signatures for nine controls (header layout/submenu/transparent masthead, pop-up position and headline styles, lightbox theme, site width).
• Embed Fonts docs: fixed Generic Font Embed gloss typo and added Optimized Font URL builder copy.

5.31.00 2026-09-20

Added

• Builder-facing documentation source under docs/: overview, 12 feature guides, 9 usage workflows, and Customizer reference for 48 panels (glosses, screenshots, and entity copy for the Dirigible Support site).
• AGENTS.md guidance to keep theme docs in sync when shipping builder-visible Customizer or feature changes.

Changed

• Dashboard Documentation submenu links to the published Dirigible Theme collection on the support site.
• docs/** is excluded from the distributable theme zip via .gitattributes.

5.30.104 2026-09-18

Changed

• Frontend admin bar hide control: Escape now toggles the toolbar (hide and restore), and a small Esc hint appears beside the eye icon.

5.30.103 2026-09-18

Fixed

• Block editor: .text-*-em size classes no longer set font-size on the wrapper in addition to --paragraph-size, so large quote text (and other blocks using em scale classes) matches the front end instead of compounding in the editor.

5.30.102 2026-09-18

Changed

• Tools & Maintenance → Update blocks: legacy Photo & Text (ds/photo-and-text) blocks convert to Columns (ds/columns) during the parse/serialize pass, matching the editor-side legacy mapper shipped in Dirigible Blocks 4.10.72.

5.30.101 2026-09-18

Fixed

• Video covers: parallel wp-admin backfill no longer creates duplicate -cover-1.jpg attachments. Per-video REST locks, ownership meta (_ds_video_cover_for), and owned-extra cleanup keep one generated still per video.
• Video cover backfill now reaches a terminal completed state: bounded browser-capture failures persist in ds_video_covers_backfill_failures, terminally skipped videos no longer block the queue, and Flags shows remaining/skipped counts.
• One-time legacy duplicate cleanup (ds_video_covers_dedupe_v1) conservatively removes exact race-created siblings (title, filename family, dimensions, and file hash must all match). Flags shows cleanup progress and how many exact duplicates were removed.

Changed

• Backfill uses Web Locks as a best-effort single-tab guard; ds_video_cover_busy responses retry without counting as failures.

5.30.100 2026-09-18

Fixed

• Core block validation for sparse-comment core/columns and core/column blocks: wrapper margin/padding that lived in saved HTML but was missing from comment JSON now validates via ds-core-block-compat deprecations that replay class+style and migrate style.spacing (plus column background color and alignwide) back into the block comment.

5.30.99 2026-09-18

Fixed

• Core block validation for sparse-comment core/accordion-heading blocks: toggle padding that lived in saved HTML but was missing from comment JSON now validates via a ds-core-block-compat deprecation that replays the button style and migrates style.spacing.padding back into the block comment.

5.30.98 2026-09-18

Fixed

• Core block validation for sparse-comment core/embed blocks (YouTube and other providers): empty block comments with the URL still in saved HTML now validate via a ds-core-block-compat deprecation that replays the figure and migrates url, type, providerNameSlug, responsive/aspect classes, and alignment back into comment JSON.

5.30.97 2026-09-17

Added

• Video covers: first-frame JPEG stills for video attachments, captured in the browser (no server-side ffmpeg). Each still is saved as a normal Media Library image and set as the video’s featured image.
• Auto-generate on upload: new videos in the block editor or media modal get a cover automatically after upload.
• One-time backfill: existing videos without a cover are processed once on theme update while wp-admin is open. Flags shows ds_video_covers_backfill (pending → completed); a working admin toast appears until the queue drains.
• Manual control: attachment details include Generate Cover / Regenerate Cover for a single video.
• Block integration: with Dirigible Blocks, Section / Hero / Grid background videos use the generated cover as poster and mobile fallback (no separate poster picker).

Fixed

• Core block validation after sparse-comment damage from older Update Blocks runs: heading, image, column, button, gallery, and spacer blocks regain comment JSON from saved HTML via dedicated ds-core-block-compat editor deprecations.
• Separator controls are scoped to core/separator again; core compat lives in its own editor bundle.

Changed

• Tools & Maintenance → Update blocks no longer saves a post when unresolved invalid core or third-party blocks remain, even with Dirigible block recovery enabled. Prevents re-corrupting partially migrated core markup.

5.30.96 2026-09-17

Fixed

• Masthead logo-variant show/hide rules (.is-color-logo, .is-reverse-logo, .is-scroll-logo) are scoped to .site-logo so they no longer hide Logo Carousel or Logos block cells that reused the same class names.

5.30.93 2026-09-17

Added

• Frontend admin bar: a hide-toolbar icon next to Howdy collapses the bar and top offset for clean screenshots. Press Escape or refresh to bring it back.

Fixed

• Mobile drawer menu links now use Header & Menus → Mobile Link Color and Link Hover Color. The drawer sits outside <header>, so labels previously inherited body text and stayed dark on a dark drawer.

5.30.92 2026-09-17

Added

• Theme Setup Colors step: each palette swatch now has a click-to-edit hex field (#RRGGBB) between the lock and the native color circle. Type a six-digit hex instead of the browser picker; the swatch and preview strip update only after all six digits are entered, and incomplete edits revert on blur or Escape.

Changed

• Hex entry keeps the same inline look while focused—no separate edit box—so clicking the value feels like typing directly into the label.

5.30.91 2026-09-15

Fixed

• Footer logo SVGs with bad attachment metadata (e.g. width="1024" height="1") no longer collapse to a 1px line. Display size comes from Logo Width CSS; the same strip already used for header logos now applies to all setting images.

5.30.89 2026-09-15

Added

• Global wp-admin toast stack on every admin screen: providers contribute descriptors through ds_admin_toasts, REST GET /dirigible/v1/admin-toasts, and deferred ds-admin-toasts-min.js with cross-tab refresh.

5.30.88 2026-09-14

Fixed

• Theme Setup Generate Content: Next shows a Generating… spinner and ignores extra clicks so the same pages are not created twice. Back and step dots stay locked until generation finishes.

5.30.86 2026-09-14

Fixed

• Header logos keep Logo Size after scroll when Change Size on Scroll is off (--logo-height-scroll falls back to the main height). Attachment width/height no longer force SVGs into a square box; CSS height uses the file’s intrinsic ratio. The logo that appears after scroll is no longer loading="lazy".

5.30.85 2026-09-14

Fixed

• Inline link styling (Customizer Styles → Inline Links) no longer applies globally to every anchor via theme.json. Prose links in paragraphs, lists, tables, definitions, and captions get the Customizer tokens; other anchors inherit surrounding color instead of browser default blue. Existing rs-link / rs-links opt-out classes are unchanged.
• Pagination .page-numbers use color: var(--text) so they pick up reverse-print (and other token remaps) instead of inheriting the body’s computed color.

5.30.84 2026-09-14

Fixed

• Seamless overlay on a reverse-print masthead: menu hover now uses Link Hover Color while the overlay forces normal print (before scroll). After scroll, reverse hover returns with the sticky masthead background.

5.30.83 2026-09-14

Fixed

• Utility Nav banner text: plain text (no block HTML) is wrapped in a paragraph at render time so reverse-print --text styling applies on dark backgrounds. Existing headings, links, and other block markup are left unchanged.

5.30.82 2026-09-14

Added

• Header & Menus → Utility Nav: Link Color + Opacity and Link Hover Color + Opacity (ds_utility_nav_color*), following the drawer pattern. Defaults (white / white at 0.75 hover) match existing reverse-print utility links so sites without stored values do not change. Reverse Print still controls banner, socials, and icon treatment.

5.30.81 2026-09-14

Changed

• Customizer optionGroup / isGroupToggle on additional schema candidates: Header button, accent border, and logo size/scroll groups; Footer logo + width; Pop-up Settings Enable group; Blog post styles, return link, social sharing, archive image/link; Scripts ecommerce debug. Removed hardcoded postStylesSwitch JS in favor of the generic group toggle binder. Display-only; setting keys unchanged.

5.30.80 2026-09-14

Changed

• Scripts → GDPR Banner: Enable toggle hides Layout through Decline Text via optionGroup / isGroupToggle (display-only).

5.30.79 2026-09-14

Changed

• Customizer grouping replaces fuse with schema optionGroup + isGroupToggle. Same-slug adjacent controls join via generated CSS (is-group-* classes); group toggles hide sibling controls through one generic JS binder (nav underline, header/utility socials, color + opacity pairs, icon groups, Site Overlay). Display-only; setting keys unchanged.

5.30.78 2026-09-14

Changed

• Header & Menus → Mobile: Menu Icon + Menu Icon Size and Close Icon + Close Icon Color + Close Icon Size are fused into grouped Customizer cards (menu-icon / close-icon fuse slugs). Tag-group controls now accept the schema fuse property.

5.30.77 2026-09-14

Fixed

• Customizer fuse groups (desktop nav color + opacity pairs, nav underline, Site Overlay, etc.) load again: ds-admin-min.js now depends on customize-controls, refreshFuseGroups() groups consecutive same-slug controls only, and palette + slider pairs have a CSS fallback when join classes are not yet applied.

5.30.76 2026-09-14

Changed

• Header & Menus nav/drawer color + opacity controls are grouped in the Customizer: label, opaque palette (no transparent; includes body text), then an opacity slider. Fixes reverse print hover opacity using its own key (ds_header_nav_reverse_color_hover_opacity). Reusable Customizer fuse groups (fuse in schema) join related controls into one card; nav underline, color + opacity pairs, Site Overlay + opacity, and conditional show/hide use it.

5.30.75 2026-09-14

Changed

• Masthead and drawer link colors moved from Styles → Navigation to Header & Menus (Desktop / Mobile). Each supports color + opacity; masthead adds a separate reverse print pair (default white, hover at 85% opacity). Values inject on <body> as CSS variables; frontend.css / frontend-deferred.css map resting and hover states. Existing sites copy legacy Styles nav colors on first load (ds_header_nav_colors_v1).

5.30.74 2026-09-14

Fixed

• Seamless masthead overlay on a non-reverse first block (e.g. light hero with reversePrint: false) no longer inherits site-wide Customizer reverse print before scroll. Color logo, nav links, and social icons use normal print over the hero; scrolled masthead still follows Customizer reverse.

5.30.72 2026-09-13

Changed

• Load Animations and Scroll Animations default on for new sites. Existing installs that never saved those keys are persisted off (ds_animation_defaults_v1) so a theme update does not add motion. Theme Setup writes on only when a key is still unset.

5.30.71 2026-09-13

Fixed

• PHPCS WordPress.Security: sanitize leftover logo url on reverse/color generate AJAX (esc_url_raw). Attachment IDs still go through id.

5.30.70 2026-09-13

Changed

• Header, drawer, and footer logos render through wp_get_attachment_image() with srcset and a sizes hint from the logo height/width options, so the browser can pick an intermediate size instead of the original upload.
• Inactive color, reverse, and scroll logo variants use display: none so they are not fetched on first paint. Seamless reverse and scroll swaps are instant (no opacity crossfade).
• Header, reverse, and footer logos store attachment IDs (type: media). A one-shot migrate converts leftover URLs when the file is in the media library; unresolved URLs still render. Theme Setup and Customizer generate/write IDs.
• Load-animation CSS ships inside frontend.css under .has-load-animations instead of a second blocking animation.css request. Scroll-enter CSS is frontend-deferred-animations.css (same ds-scroll-animations handle).

Fixed

• Color and reverse logos no longer both download at full Customizer URL size when only one is visible.

5.30.69 2026-09-12

Added

• Scripts → Analytics & Tracking: Tracking Load Strategy. After Page Load (default) requests Google/Meta/LinkedIn/StackAdapt/Hotjar SDKs in a new task after window.load. First Interaction also waits for a click, tap, key, or scroll so those scripts stay out of PageSpeed lab runs.

Fixed

• Tracking queues (fbq, dataLayer, gtag, and the other vendor stubs) still install in the head, but third-party SDK requests no longer start during parse. A Safari content blocker that stalls connect.facebook.net (or another tracker host) can no longer hold the tab in a loading state. GDPR Accept counts as the first interaction so that mode does not wait for a second gesture.

5.30.68 2026-09-12

Added

• Flags page can reset Block updater stamps so the Dashboard block-updates prompt re-arms without bumping DS_BLOCKS_UPGRADE_VERSION or rewriting posts.
• Flags page can reset Theme Setup (Merlin) stamps (ds_has_run_onboarder and merlin_*_completed) so the wizard is a first run again.

Changed

• Flags tables no longer give <code> values a gray background.

5.30.67 2026-09-12

Added

• Welcome card shows the parent theme version under the intro copy.

5.30.66 2026-09-12

Removed

• Unused theme block patterns (patterns/*.php). They were inserter-only starters; existing pages keep their copied blocks. Column insert starters and starting templates cover the same layouts.

Fixed

• PHPCS WordPress.Security: unslash and sanitize REQUEST_URI when deciding whether to register theme block patterns.

5.30.65 2026-09-12

Changed

• Theme block patterns (patterns/*.php) register in the editor and REST only. Public requests skip core’s patterns/ scan so expired wp_theme_files_patterns transients are not deleted from wp_options under concurrent traffic.

5.30.64 2026-09-12

Changed

• The + inserter (and Browse all) shows the Dirigible blimp after ds/ / fleet/ / acf/ block titles, matching the slash menu.

5.30.63 2026-09-12

Changed

• Public critical/rest CSS is frontend.css / frontend-deferred.css (was site.css / deferred.css). WordPress handles site and ds-deferred are unchanged.

5.30.62 2026-09-12

Fixed

• Media Library focal point picker shows SVG attachments (width 100% so viewBox-only files do not collapse) and keeps the marker aligned with clicks.

5.30.61 2026-09-12

Changed

• Admin bar CSS compiles with the rest of the theme (styles/css/admin-bar.css). Unused leftover sheets in styles/css/plugins/ are gone.

5.30.60 2026-09-12

Changed

• Theme Setup Welcome gives the heading, copy, and footer more padding, and a slightly wider card.

5.30.59 2026-09-12

Changed

• Theme image URLs in compiled CSS are relative (../../images/...) instead of /wp-content/themes/dirigible/..., so icons follow the actual theme folder. Woo bundle styles now compile to styles/css/woo-*.css and styles/css/woo-extensions-*.css.

5.30.58 2026-09-12

Fixed

• Theme Setup Site Setup no longer restarts the wizard when it activates a child theme. Install creates the child, then installs each core plugin one by one, marks each row Active, and only then advances.

5.30.57 2026-09-12

Changed

• Group blocks no longer force width: 100% on every child. Nested content can size naturally; the group itself still fills its column unless it is wide or full.

5.30.56 2026-09-12

Fixed

• Theme Setup Active-check markup is printed through wp_kses, so PHPCS WordPress.Security stays at 0 errors / 0 warnings.

5.30.55 2026-09-12

Changed

• Theme Setup License step replaces the key field with an animated check and Active once a product is licensed. Submitting a valid key converts that row in place. A non-empty key is also validated when the field loses focus. The “all licenses active” copy only appears when every product is licensed.
• Theme Setup Site Setup shows the same animated check next to Active (and the child theme name when a child is active).
• Theme Setup step dots use the same grayscale as Skip / Next instead of blue.

5.30.53 2026-09-11

Changed

• Theme Setup License and Site Setup include Dirigible AI Alt Text (dirigible-ai-alt-text) with Blocks, Fonts, SEO, and Optimize.

5.30.52 2026-09-11

Fixed

• Theme Setup and theme Plugin Update Checker send licenseKey as nested license / isValid fields, matching installed plugin updates. A scalar licenseKey hung /api/updates/{slug} with 0 bytes.
• Theme Setup Site Setup keeps Install errors visible (red step copy) instead of running Merlin’s vanish animation, and refreshes the plugin status list from the AJAX response.

5.30.51 2026-09-11

Changed

• Combined Theme Setup Install errors are separate sentences.

5.30.50 2026-09-11

Changed

• Theme Setup downloads use each plugin’s own stored key and slug (dirigible-fonts, dirigible-optimize, …), the same product ids live Plugin Update Checker uses.

5.30.49 2026-09-11

Changed

• Theme Setup plugin downloads use Plugin Update Checker query args (checking_for_updates=1), WordPress’s default User-Agent, and a 15s metadata timeout. Failures name the product. A licensing ZIP/metadata error no longer blocks the remaining plugins.

5.30.48 2026-09-11

Changed

• Theme Setup License collects a key per product (Studio, Blocks, Fonts, SEO, Optimize) in a two-column layout. Site Setup downloads use each plugin’s own stored key, not the theme key. Empty keys after Next reveal Continue Anyway and rename Next to Retry.

5.30.47 2026-09-11

Added

• Theme Setup License step before Site Setup. Next activates the theme license (and best-effort the four core plugin slugs with the same key). Skip remains available.

Changed

• Theme Setup Site Setup installs missing Dirigible Blocks, Fonts, SEO, and Optimize from the licensing server (/api/updates/{slug}) instead of GitHub releases.

Fixed

• Theme Setup Site Setup uses each plugin’s stored license instead of the theme key.

5.30.45 2026-09-11

Added

• Theme Setup plugins can insert wizard steps with ds_theme_setup_steps and add prompt facts with ds_merlin_ai_extra_facts (palette, typography, social, copy, and logo generate).
• Theme Setup OpenRouter step and Tools → AI / OpenRouter note that later AI generation is billed to the OpenRouter account, and that Theme Setup can still be completed by hand.
• Theme Setup Generate Content fills {ds_copy:id:N} tokens on Home, About, and Contact with OpenRouter copy from the site description and tone tags when a key is present, or N-word lorem if not. Gutenberg markup and media-library image tokens are unchanged.
• Theme Setup logo generate has Raster / Vector format chips. Raster (default) uses Recraft V4.1 Pro with a transparent PNG; Vector stays Recraft V4.1 Pro Vector SVG.

Changed

• Theme Setup Site details now comes right after OpenRouter, so later AI steps can use the saved site title.
• Theme Setup footer is one flex row (Back, step dots, Next) flush to the panel with a top hairline, 14px dots, and a light gray Next button instead of the colorchange pulse.
• Site Details field rows shrink inside the card so the three-column Title / Tagline / Copyright line no longer overflows horizontally.
• Theme Setup card outline is a real border instead of an inset box-shadow, so the footer can sit flush to the panel edge.
• Theme Setup footer no longer uses negative side margins, so Next is not clipped by the card overflow.
• Theme Setup Site Setup (child) card is 480px wide instead of shrinking to the status list.
• Theme Setup OpenRouter puts Live URL and Tone tags on one row, and makes field helper text smaller and lighter.
• Theme Setup drops the decorative step icons and uses 33px padding on all sides of the step content.
• Theme Setup sequential image tokens ({SEQUENTIAL_IMG_N} / _ID / _SRC) are filled with preg_replace_callback instead of explode/ltrim. Token shapes and media-library stamping are unchanged.
• Theme Setup stock photos load from the theme filesystem onboarder/images/ directory instead of the theme URI.

Fixed

• Raster logo drafts punch Recraft’s white canvas to transparency and crop tight to the mark, matching the checkerboard preview.

5.30.44 2026-09-11

Fixed

• Generate from Color Logo knocks out Recraft’s white-filled letter counters and icon holes instead of painting them as solid white ink.

Changed

• Logo generate/refine prompts require true transparent cutouts (compound paths / even-odd fill) instead of white fills for counters and negative space.

Removed

• Customizer “Remember Me” Length (ds_auth_cookie_weeks). Login cookies now use WordPress defaults: 14 days with Remember Me checked, 2 days without. Existing cookies keep their original expiry until they lapse or the user logs out.

5.30.43 2026-09-11

Added

• Theme Setup Logos can Generate Logo / Refine Logo from the site profile, palette, and an optional prompt (OpenRouter Recraft V4.1 Pro Vector SVG). The result stays a draft until Use this logo, which writes the color slot only. Reverse print stays the existing Generate from Color Logo button. Without an OpenRouter key, generate controls stay hidden.

Changed

• Logo and Typography generate wells start collapsed behind a quiet Generate a logo / Generate typography control. Expanding shows chips, prompt, Generate, and Refine. A logo draft is a single color checkerboard preview. Color Generate Palette stays always visible.
• Logo generation now uses a tighter production brief built around one memorable idea, exact wording, optical balance, header-size legibility, clean paths, and restrained solid fills. Refinement preserves unspecified source artwork, avoids palette re-steering, and turns common wording instructions such as “add ‘Studio’ after Dirigible” into exact required final text for Recraft.

5.30.42 2026-09-11

Added

• Theme Setup Logos and Customizer Logos can Generate from Color Logo (white-ink reverse print) and Generate from Reverse Logo (site text color). If that slot already has a file, the button becomes Regenerate from … and is visually quieter. SVG or transparent PNG/WebP/GIF; JPEG / opaque raster is rejected. Recolors the uploaded file — does not invent a mark.

5.30.41 2026-09-11

Changed

• Theme Setup Typography is capped at 90vh and scrolls as a card, so both columns can grow without clipping the specimen.
• Active fonts sit under the preview instead of the left-column controls.
• After Generate Typography, the button becomes Regenerate Typography. Refine Typography is available from the start so a Quick Typography pairing can be honed in place. The Feel field is labeled Feel & Prompt.
• Generate and Refine Typography can set button border radius (0–100px) and button color as a palette role (primary, secondary, …), matching Quick Typography and Customizer.

5.30.40 2026-09-11

Changed

• Theme Setup Quick Typography chips lazy-inject each pairing’s @font-face when the chip is on screen, so woff2 files are not all fetched on first paint.
• Theme Setup Typography preview sits on the page (no gray well) and can be scrolled to read the full specimen.
• Theme Setup Generate Typography includes a 1 / 2 / 3 font-count switch (default 2) and enforces that many families.
• Headline and body style controls default to “Any.” Generation chooses from compact, curated one-, two-, and three-family systems and follows stricter role, readability, and type-scale guidance for consistently cohesive results.
• Theme Setup Quick Typography is a two-column grid; Keep current sits in the footer to the left of Next and leaves existing fonts unchanged.

Fixed

• Typography specimens apply heading font properties independently, so an invalid family token can no longer discard the generated size, weight, and line height. Numeric family names are escaped in generated stacks.
• Sparse-comment core blocks (image, button, column, gallery, spacer) no longer hit Recover when ids, colors, dimensions, spacing, and gallery crop state live only in HTML. These compatibility migrations decline HTML they cannot represent without loss. Update blocks no longer saves a mixed page when recovery is off; recovery-on is limited to ds/* blocks and leaves core and other plugin markup untouched.

5.30.39 2026-09-11

Changed

• Theme Setup Typography uses bundled Dirigible Fonts instead of Google Fonts CSS. Controls sit on the left (Generate, Quick Typography, active fonts) with a height-capped specimen on the right. Next activates those families, writes the type scale, and clears ds_google_fonts_url. Generate Typography (OpenRouter) picks families and scale from headline/body chips, an optional feel field, and the site profile.

5.30.38 2026-09-11

Added

• Theme Setup Site Setup installs and activates Dirigible Blocks, Fonts, SEO, and Optimize (GitHub latest release when missing) and shows a child-theme / plugin status checklist on revisit.

Changed

• Theme Setup Color Palette is 900px wide. Quick Colors Default shows the site’s current palette (click restores it). A live swatch strip sits under the color cards.
• Theme Setup browser tabs include the current step (Theme Setup: Typography ‹ …).
• Theme Setup Generate Palette (Live site on) follows homepage CSS, ranks brand vs neutral colors, and snaps model hexes onto that list instead of inventing nearby values.

5.30.37 2026-09-11

Changed

• Theme Setup runs Color Palette before Typography.

5.30.36 2026-09-11

Changed

• Theme Setup Color Palette: Live site is a reusable switch beside Generate Palette. On uses scraped live-site colors only (locks still apply); off uses the site description and tone tags. Well copy and the step intro follow that mode.

5.30.35 2026-09-11

Changed

• Theme Setup AI wells (Social and Color Palette) share .ds-merlin-ai-fill with the 1px border. Wand actions use a 14px SVG mask. Generate Palette treats locked colors as anchors, uses the site description and emotional tags for mood, and offers a session Use live site colors toggle when a Live URL is stored.

5.30.34 2026-09-11

Added

• Theme Setup Color Palette: lock individual colors, then Generate Palette (OpenRouter key required) fills the rest from the site profile and live URL. Locked colors are also skipped when picking a Quick Color. Next still saves as usual.

5.30.33 2026-09-11

Added

• OpenRouter profile stores an optional Live URL (ds_openrouter_live_url, autoload off) on the Theme Setup OpenRouter step and Tools → AI / OpenRouter, for reading the production site from staging or local.
• Theme Setup Social shows Attempt Fill when an OpenRouter key is present. It fetches the Live URL when set, asks OpenRouter (with web search) for matching profiles, and fills empty fields only; Next still saves as usual. A Remove all control clears the form without saving.

5.30.32 2026-09-11

Added

• Theme Setup OpenRouter step and Tools → AI / OpenRouter store a site description and comma-separated tone tags (ds_openrouter_site_description, ds_openrouter_site_tags) for later AI-assisted onboarder fields.

5.30.31 2026-09-11

Added

• Skippable OpenRouter API key step in Theme Setup (after Site Setup). Saves into the existing encrypted site-wide key store; skip or empty Next leaves the key unchanged.

Changed

• Theme Setup writes are allowlisted through ds_settings_lookup() instead of instantiating Customizer schema objects. Content/logo helpers use setting names (setSetting, data-setting) and still accept the old setThemeMod / data-mod keys.
• Theme Setup Social lists every network from the Customizer ds_social JSON group in a scrollable field grid, so new socials do not need a second hardcoded list.

5.30.29 2026-09-10

Fixed

• Customizer preview no longer fatals when sanitizing grouped option settings (ds_settings_site[key]): number/choices/options sanitizers look up the control by namespace.

5.30.28 2026-09-10

Added

• Media Focal Points picker on the classic attachment Edit screen (Media Library list → Edit, or Edit more details): click the preview or enter X/Y values; saves via AJAX like the media modal.

5.30.27 2026-09-10

Added

• Media Focal Points picker in the Select Media / Edit Gallery attachment sidebar: click the preview (or enter X/Y values) to set the attachment focal point.

5.30.26 2026-09-10

Fixed

• Hero Slider (ds/slider-hero) uses media-library focal points: attachment focal_point is exposed to the media modal, and frontend markup is rewritten from that meta at render.

5.30.25 2026-09-10

Removed

• Customizer “Media Focal Points” toggle (ds_media_focal_points). The media focal points extension always loads.

5.30.24 2026-09-10

Changed

• Welcome Changelog is a lazy-loaded, fixed-height iframe of parent readme.html instead of a cached HTML excerpt.

5.30.23 2026-09-09

Added

• Flags page shows an on-demand sitewide block usage count. Recount walks posts, templates, and reusable blocks and stores the snapshot; it does not run on theme upgrade or save.

5.30.22 2026-09-09

Changed

• Posts whose first block is core Post Title skip the auto-inserted title section (same as the old Blog Post Header).
• Update blocks converts leftover Blog Post Header (ds/post-title) to core Post Title plus an optional Heading.

5.30.21 2026-09-09

Changed

• Update blocks converts leftover Icon / Numbered / Runner structured-list children to the catch-all List Card.

5.30.20 2026-09-09

Changed

• Update blocks converts leftover Text / Icon / Video / YouTube grid cards to the catch-all Card block.

5.30.19 2026-09-09

Fixed

• Update blocks uses the Quote block’s own large/small → Quote mapper when Gutenberg switchToBlockType does not convert.

5.30.18 2026-09-09

Changed

• Update blocks converts deprecated Large Quote and Small Quote (ds/large-quote, ds/small-quote) to the catch-all Quote block. Testimonials page pattern uses ds/quote.

5.30.17 2026-09-09

Removed

• Customizer “Section Transitions” toggle and background SVG grow-on-scroll behavior (ds_scroll_section_transitions). Background shapes stay at full height.

Fixed

• Safari Dashboard paint loss while scrolling: Welcome jump-nav is not sticky when ACF adds acf-browser-safari. Other browsers and docs pages keep sticky nav.

5.30.16 2026-09-09

Changed

• Load and scroll animation CSS share one source tree. animation.css stays a small blocking sheet for page-load (ds_animations); scroll enter + section transitions ship as deferred animation-deferred.css (ds_scroll_animations / ds_scroll_section_transitions). Scroll JS waits for that sheet and skips hiding content if it is missing, errors, or times out.

5.30.13 2026-09-09

Changed

• Block-updates prompt is a Welcome jump-nav tab when pending, not a Dashboard admin notice. Run block updater still opens Tools & Maintenance.

5.30.11 2026-09-09

Fixed

• Restore license activation against the deployed API's query-parameter contract until it supports POST bodies. Activation and removal now show busy states and readable success or error messages.

5.30.10 2026-09-09

Fixed

• PHPCS WordPress.Security: ignore the welcome Fonts panel @font-face CSS echo (ds_font_face) so CI stays at 0/0.

5.30.08 2026-09-09

Changed

• Form Parameters is a welcome jump-nav panel (before Changelog) when Gravity Forms is active, instead of its own Dashboard submenu page. Old page=ds-gform-parameters URLs redirect to the Dashboard. Appearance is no longer in the Dashboard dropdown.
• Welcome description, intro panel copy, greeting icon, and jump-nav sections are filterable (ds_dashboard_welcome_description, ds_dashboard_welcome_intro, ds_dashboard_welcome_icon, ds_dashboard_welcome_sections). Plugins can add panels with a callback. The greeting row shows the site icon when one is set.

5.30.06 2026-09-08

Changed

• Welcome widget CSS loads only on the Dashboard (admin-welcome.css). Magic Classes and Form Parameters are their own .wrap pages; each category is its own inset panel (admin-docs.css). Global admin.css still has the tools menu icon. The Dashboard welcome page uses the same jump nav as docs (Welcome, Palette, Plugins, Logos, Fonts, Typography, Changelog). Sections live in functions/dashboard/pages/welcome/ and are ordered from ds_dashboard_welcome_sections(). The typography specimen is an iframe that injects Dirigible Fonts @font-face plus theme type variables, matching the block editor canvas. The Plugins panel is a fixed core catalog (Blocks, People, Locations, Events, Portfolio, Mega Menu, Fonts, SEO, Cards, Footer, Documentation, AI Alt Text) with active plugins highlighted. The Fonts panel lists active Dirigible Fonts families with a live preview. Welcome intro copy is corrected (typos, spacing) and still mentions the plugin suite; Fonts vs Typography subcopy distinguishes loaded families from the applied type scale.

5.30.04 2026-09-08

Changed

• Therma Customizer keys are a global plugin option (ds_settings_thermastor), loaded when thermastor-plugin is active. They are no longer child-scoped to the therma-theme stylesheet.

5.30.02 2026-09-08

Fixed

• Settings migrate turns old type: image attachment IDs into URLs (WP_Customize_Image_Control). Existing URL strings and type: media IDs are left alone. Alias cb_catalog_request__image → cb_catalog_request_image.

5.30.00 2026-09-08

Changed

• Lean canonical settings cutover. Runtime reads use compact generated PHP maps and grouped options only. The theme_mod compatibility bridge, request-time promotion, group priming, persisted registry, and migration backup are gone after a verified v2 migrate.
• Ship companion plugins and child themes first (they fall back to get_theme_mod() only when ds_get_setting() is missing). This parent theme last. After migrate, Dirigible keys are removed from theme_mods_* rows except WordPress-owned values.

Added

• Generated runtime/provider maps (bin/ds-settings-generate-maps.py) and a historical migration route map for aliases, dead keys, and inactive providers.
• Autoloaded completion marker ds_settings_ready. Ordinary requests return immediately without reading migration state.
• Never-read ds_settings_quarantine for unclassified leftover keys, shown only on Flags.
• Guarded v2 selftest, theme-mod call check, and updated Flags/benchmark docs.

Notes

• Publish or discard draft Customizer changesets before upgrading.
• CPT slug registration in companion plugins must run on init so the canonical store exists.

5.29.04 2026-09-08

Changed

• After settings migrate completes, ds_settings_registry is deleted and no longer autoloaded. Schema keys are rebuilt from JSON each request; unschematized keys hydrate from ds_settings_legacy and the active child group.

5.29.03 2026-09-08

Added

• Canonical Customizer storage: Dirigible settings now live in parent-owned grouped options (ds_settings_*) so child themes keep global values. A bidirectional theme_mod bridge remains for old readers, writers, and downgrades. The first front or admin request after upgrade copies theme_mods_* into those options (locked, idempotent); later requests are a no-op.
• Settings import/export v2 envelope { "format":"ds-settings", "version":2, "groups": { … } }. v1 [value,key] files still import. Unknown uploaded groups are reported and not created.
• Guarded WP-CLI selftest: wp eval-file bin/ds-settings-storage-selftest.php (local/development, or DS_SETTINGS_ALLOW_SELFTEST). Benchmark notes: reports/settings-storage-benchmark.md.
• Flags under Dirigible (manage_options): read-only table of stored migrations and version stamps (settings storage, theme, blocks, and active companion plugins).

Changed

• Customizer controls keep logical IDs; settings register as multidimensional options (ds_settings_header[ds_header_logo]). Preview JS binds through wp.customize.control(logicalId).setting.
• Compiled CSS cache is only ds_head_css. Palette/type/width style keys live in ds_settings_styles but are not autoloaded or primed: the front end prints the cached CSS, and the group loads only on Customizer preview, cache miss, or save. The duplicated theme-styles theme mod is no longer written.
• Tools, Merlin, restore-defaults, and plugin activation writers use batched store APIs and do not overwrite explicit falsy values.

Notes

• Publish or discard draft Customizer changesets before upgrading. Old theme_mod changeset keys will not match the new option IDs.
• Direct get_theme_mod() / set_theme_mod() calls still work through the compatibility bridge. Do not remove that bridge in this release.

5.29.02 2026-09-08

Changed

• Magic Classes and Form Parameters: jump menu on the left; titles and descriptions sit with the class lists on the right.

5.29.00 2026-09-08

Security

• Tools & Maintenance REST now matches the admin screen: manage_options on comment purge (also moderate_comments), admin audit, stale/mixed/no-featured/missing-alt scans, media read routes, and plugin/theme audit. Forms cleanup scan/recount is manage_options; act routes still need gravityforms_delete_entries.
• Destructive REST requires confirm: true (orphaned-meta clean, comment purge, auto-draft purge, unused-image-sizes delete, missing-media delete, flush-transients mode=all).
• Redirect CSV prefixes a ' on fields that start with =+-@ tab/CR. Link audit caps 30 unique URLs per post and returns truncated. Email deliverability analyze caps 8 domains and times DNS lookups (2s each, 8s budget).

Fixed

• Orphaned-meta clean on MySQL 8: SELECT ids LIMIT 500, then DELETE … WHERE id IN (…) (tuple IN for term_relationships). Scan still listed orphans; clean had been a no-op (DELETE … JOIN … LIMIT → 1064).
• Missing-media delete and fix-image-refs apply return 400 ds_maintenance_offload_blocked when uploads are offloaded. term_relationships stays default-off and needs an extra confirm before clean.

Changed

• Flush transients all/expired in chunks of 500 with remaining so the UI can loop. Shared rest runner lives in javascript/src/maintenance/core/rest-runner.js. Removed unused javascript/src/ds-maintenance.legacy.js.

5.28.99 2026-09-04

Changed

• Revision limit default is now live: sites with no saved override keep 10 revisions per post (was unlimited until you clicked Save). Numeric or disabled WP_POST_REVISIONS in wp-config is unchanged. Excess revisions still trim on the next save of that post, not in a bulk purge.

5.28.98 2026-09-04

Added

• Last active column on the Users screen (sortable), stamped when someone saves posts, pages, CPTs, media, Customizer, menus, or terms. Helps when Rocket.net SSO skips wp_login so last login stays empty. Administrator audit lists last active next to last login (dormant flags still use last login).

5.28.96 2026-09-03

Added

• More background-block transition shapes (clouds, layers, slants, waves, triangles, and related masks).

5.28.91 2026-09-03

Added

• Speed slider (slow to fast) on animated Wavy, Thin Waves, and Zigzag separators.

5.28.90 2026-09-03

Added

• Animate and Reverse toggles on Wavy, Thin Waves, and Zigzag separators.

5.28.89 2026-09-02

Fixed

• Cache-bust admin-dashboard.css with THEME_VERSION on the colors handle so Dashboard CSS updates are not stuck on the WordPress version query arg.

5.28.88 2026-09-02

Fixed

• PHPCS WordPress.Security: put the Tools-screen $_GET['page'] read on the phpcs:ignore line so CI stays at 0/0.

5.28.87 2026-09-02

Changed

• Preview Plus Jakarta Sans as the wp-admin UI font via --font. Self-hosted latin variable woff2; Albert Sans and earlier preview files kept for revert.

5.28.86 2026-09-02

Changed

• Preview Albert Sans as the wp-admin UI font via --font. Self-hosted latin variable woff2; Figtree and earlier preview files kept for revert.

5.28.85 2026-09-02

Changed

• Preview Figtree as the wp-admin UI font via --font. Self-hosted latin variable woff2; Urbanist, Outfit, and Poppins files kept for revert.

5.28.84 2026-09-02

Changed

• Preview Urbanist as the wp-admin UI font via --font. Self-hosted latin variable woff2; Outfit and Poppins files kept for revert.

5.28.83 2026-09-02

Changed

• Preview Outfit as the wp-admin UI font via --font. Self-hosted latin variable woff2; Poppins latin files kept for revert.

5.28.82 2026-09-02

Performance

• Admin Poppins is one @font-face in admin.css (latin 400 + 600, ~16 KB) instead of a 106 KB variable file declared in CSS and again as inline admin-bar CSS. Unused Poppins cuts removed.

5.28.81 2026-09-02

Performance

• Load tools/import-export JS (and jQuery) only on those Dirigible screens, and login CSS/JS only on wp-login.php. Dashboard and other wp-admin pages no longer download ds-tools, ds-admin, or login styles.

5.28.80 2026-09-02

Fixed

• Customizer fields marked HTML Allowed render as HTML (including inline SVG): footer contact / additional info / newsletter / search descriptions, utility banner, GDPR and popup bodies, search-results lead, and archive default description. Echo with wp_kses_post in a div, not esc_html inside a p.

5.28.79 2026-09-02

Added

• First-party Theme Setup screen under Appearance (themes.php?page=onboarder; page=merlin redirects). Same wizard steps and onboarder data (typography, palettes, logos, site info, social, DirigibleGenerator content, child-theme Site Setup) on a normal wp-admin page: no custom HTML document, no ob_end_clean, no jQuery/Spectrum/MerlinWP importer stack. Auto-opens on first activation of Dirigible or a Dirigible child until setup is completed.

Security

• F-035 closed. Deleted the vendored MerlinWP importer path (WXR / widgets / Customizer.dat / Redux, Merlin_Downloader, Monolog). Remote merlin_import_files can no longer be enabled.

Changed

• Admin stylesheets: merlin.css → admin-onboarder.css, dashboard.css → admin-dashboard.css, maintenance-admin.css → admin-maintenance.css. Onboarder Sass partials live in styles/scss/admin/onboarder/.

5.28.78 2026-09-02

Performance

• Stop wrapping already-filtered WordPress HTML in wp_kses_post: excerpts, term_description, pagination, prev/next helpers, Woo short description, Instagram wp_get_attachment_image, hardcoded maintenance SVGs, and generated head CSS. PHPCS ignores those echoes. Keep kses on pasted Customizer HTML (dsfooter_socials_html, GDPR/fonts) and Woo wc_price() / gift-card copy.

5.28.77 2026-09-02

Performance

• Instagram schema: skip SHOW TABLES / DESCRIBE / read_key encrypt when ds_ig_db_version already matches; memoize those probes for the upgrade request
• Use has_nav_menu() to decide whether a location is assigned, then wp_nav_menu() in the template (no echo => false + wp_kses_post on walker HTML). Footer submenu vs flat uses menu item parents, not strpos on rendered markup

5.28.76 2026-09-02

Security

• EscapeOutput leftover pass: wp_kses_post on nav/footer menus, Customizer social HTML, Instagram attachment images, Woo short descriptions/gift-card pending copy/login messages; esc_js on the Analytics property ID; wp_json_encode for JSON-LD (ds_jsonld_output now filters the data array); esc_url/esc_attr on product placeholder thumbs; wp_kses on hardcoded maintenance SVGs. phpcs:ignore only for the_content, Woo mini-cart/Comments do_blocks, Customizer head/footer embeds, Customizer partial callbacks, and _doing_it_wrong. PHPCS WordPress.Security baseline 37 → 0.

5.28.75 2026-09-02

Security

• EscapeOutput templates pass (excerpts and HTML helpers): wp_kses_post on card excerpts, search-card copy, pagination, term descriptions, search-lead interpolations, and prev/next/return link HTML; inline tag/category comma spans; phpcs:ignore on core password forms (wp_kses_post would strip <form>). Left nav/footer menus, do_blocks, Customizer social HTML, Instagram avatars, JSON-LD/analytics/embeds, and Woo leftovers. PHPCS WordPress.Security baseline 59 → 37.

5.28.74 2026-09-02

Security

• EscapeOutput templates pass (class tokens + simple attributes): esc_attr at echo on layout/class strings, is-style-*, spacing, data-delay/data-expiry/data-context/data-version, logo width/height/alt, overlay CSS tokens, and share colors; esc_url on leftover drawer/footer logo src, search-card permalinks, share icon masks, and card image placeholders. Left nav HTML, do_blocks, excerpts, avatars, Customizer dsfooter_socials_html, and HTML delimiters. PHPCS WordPress.Security baseline 197 → 59.

5.28.73 2026-09-02

Security

• EscapeOutput templates pass (URLs + text): esc_url on permalinks, home, privacy policy, term links, theme-directory masks, logo src, header buttons, and share links; esc_html on address, banner, dates, and term names; tel:/mailto: hrefs. Left class tokens, nav HTML, do_blocks, excerpts, and avatars. PHPCS WordPress.Security baseline 298 → 197.

5.28.72 2026-09-02

Changed

• Header and footer accent borders are a solid palette color only. Removed the gradient “Palette” mode and its blend, points, and per-swatch toggles (14 theme mods). Existing palette values map to primary on upgrade.

Security

• EscapeOutput Woo Bookings admin pass: escape Today/Weekly cards (order edit URL via get_edit_order_url(), status classes, names, counts), add-on meta with wp_kses, dates, dashboard links, and date-nav example URLs via admin_url(). PHPCS WordPress.Security baseline 319 → 298.

5.28.71 2026-09-02

Security

• EscapeOutput Customizer pass: print preview theme-mod JSON with wp_json_encode (JSON_HEX_TAG | JSON_HEX_AMP), esc_html page-select labels, $this->link() instead of echoing get_link(), and esc_attr on control <li> id/class (shared opener). PHPCS WordPress.Security baseline 340 → 319.

5.28.70 2026-09-02

Security

• EscapeOutput easy pass (no templates/ mass-escape): esc_html / esc_attr / sanitize_html_class / esc_url / checked() / wp_kses_post on page/search/landing body class, header --nav-offset, dashboard greeting and readme snippet, licensing UI, GDPR version, YARPP classes and dates, post Display defaults, maintenance checkboxes, Gravity Forms spam-settings wp_die, Woo placeholder image URL, status chip, and notice page. PHPCS WordPress.Security baseline 371 → 340.

5.28.69 2026-09-02

Security

• F-034: encrypt Instagram feed read_key at rest (sodium secretbox / AES-GCM, same pattern as OpenRouter, distinct HMAC context). Widen the column to text, migrate existing plaintext rows, decrypt only in memory for sync/disconnect. Rotating WordPress salts invalidates keys; reconnect the feed.
• Remove committed leftover schema/exports/*.json (pre-F-002 files were still publicly fetchable) and gitignore that path.

5.28.68 2026-09-02

Security

• F-016: remove dead Dirigible Tools JS (ds_restore_default_styles, ds_restore_default_settings, ds_test_styles_class) that posted without a nonce and had no PHP handlers
• F-017: cap find-replace regex at 500 characters, reject nested quantifiers such as (a+)+, and return an error when PCRE hits a backtrack/recursion limit instead of silently skipping the replace

5.28.67 2026-09-02

Security

• F-014: patch vulnerable dev npm packages. Replace unmaintained npm-run-all with npm-run-all2 (drops critical shell-quote). Bump postcss, esbuild, cssnano, and autoprefixer. Override nested lodash, yaml, fast-uri, and follow-redirects. Production npm audit --omit=dev stays 0; full audit critical is 0. Remaining highs are nested under browser-sync@3.0.4 (latest).

Changed

• Require Node >=24.15.0 (.nvmrc 24 + CI). npm-run-all2 v9 needs ^22.22.2 or ^24.15.0; we use current LTS.

5.28.66 2026-09-02

Fixed

• Wistia oEmbed no longer trips _doing_it_wrong on WordPress 7.1. Register via wp_oembed_add_provider() ([endpoint, true]) instead of a bare URL string on oembed_providers.

5.28.65 2026-09-02

Fixed

• Merlin wizard loads jQuery again. 5.28.58 removed the admin_init renderer, so the submenu callback ran after the admin header, ob_end_clean() discarded jQuery, and merlin.js ran without it. Render on load-{hook} (before admin-header.php) and enqueue jquery before Merlin scripts. Capability gate unchanged.

5.28.64 2026-09-02

Security

• Escape Merlin wizard output with the right helper per context: esc_attr on attributes/JSON/IDs/input values, esc_url on href/src, esc_html on visible labels (replacing htmlspecialchars on JSON)
• Escape titles and visible copy site-wide (get_the_title, site name, heading/theme-mod text, GDPR/popup/footer copy)

Process

• PHPCS WordPress.Security baseline is 371 errors / 0 warnings. Leftover EscapeOutput is URLs, classes/styles, HTML helpers, and Customizer walkers

5.28.63 2026-09-02

Security

• Unslash and sanitize request input after existing nonce/capability guards: tools AJAX, style import uploads, Instagram admin, Merlin AJAX/wizard, licensing, GDPR cookies, focal points, Woo thank-you order key, bookings calendar GET, post options, maintenance embed, OpenRouter notices
• Instagram OAuth connect-return still verifies signed state/sig (no WordPress nonce on that GET). Merlin vendor forms keep their own nonce protocol

Process

• PHPCS WordPress.Security baseline is 496 errors / 0 warnings. Remaining findings are template EscapeOutput only (opportunistic, not a mass-escape pass)

5.28.62 2026-09-02

Process

• GitHub Actions CI on master: production npm audit --omit=dev, and PHPCS WordPress.Security on first-party PHP. Existing tree is 574 errors / 33 warnings (mostly template EscapeOutput); CI fails if either total rises. Working that baseline down is on the roadmap.
• Park F-019 (always-on CSS split). Coverage-based unused-CSS purge cannot work across the fleet; site.css vs deferred.css stays the critical-vs-rest split.

Changed

• Read shared masthead/nav appearance from ds_get_appearance_flags() (floating, sticky, reverse, utility, button color). Theme mods were already one option per request; this is template clarity and a single sticky default (true, matching the masthead).

5.28.61 2026-09-02

Performance

• Cache editor embed font CSS (ds_editor_embed_font_css) by URL hash; invalidate on Customizer save so editor loads do not wp_remote_get Google Fonts / Typekit on every open
• Uninstall unused simple-parallax-js (parallax is custom ds-parallax.js)
• Load Poppins only in wp-admin; frontend admin bar keeps layout CSS without the variable font
• On theme upgrade, regenerate ds_head_css and write only if the output changed; stop deleting the option so a public pageview is not the first writer. Fill-on-miss remains as a backstop

5.28.60 2026-09-02

Performance

• Strip empty top-level core/paragraph blocks on save (wp_insert_post_data) instead of parsing every the_content render; skip revisions/autosaves and skip serialize when nothing was removed

Changed

• Point npm run serve at http://localhost:10003 (local WordPress)

5.28.59 2026-09-02

Security

• Allowlist Instagram media sideloads (instagram.com, cdninstagram.com, fbcdn.net) and editor font stylesheet fetches (fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com, Typekit); reject private/loopback URLs
• Require manage_options for maintenance writes that mutate files or post content (fix-image-refs, unused-image-size delete, missing-size generate, media-hash index)
• Cap “Remember me” at 8 weeks (default 2); existing 12-week mods are clamped at login
• Move Merlin logs out of uploads to wp-content/merlin-wp/ with rotation, 0600 files, directory deny rules, and redacted query strings
• Cap Instagram relay JSON (1 MB, depth 8, posts must be an array); do not deactivate a feed on an invalid payload; sync at most 24 posts
• Load Action Scheduler only when already present, from the theme vendor copy, or from an active WooCommerce / Social Relay plugin

5.28.58 2026-09-02

Security

• Restrict style/settings JSON import to schema-known keys and Customizer sanitizers; cap uploads, require a real uploaded file, and limit JSON depth
• Escape searchform attributes and font <link> / embed markup
• Allowlist Merlin updateOption / theme-mod keys, author generated pages as the current user, and honor DISALLOW_FILE_MODS for child-theme writes
• Document Manager as a site operator (manage_options); stop hiding Dirigible Tools behind menu removal

Performance

• Stop committing source maps; ignore *.map
• Load Tribe Events CSS only on event views
• Load Gravity Forms CSS via async ds_load_defer_style when Gravity Forms enqueues a form (native block/shortcode in head, ACF/PHP/footer at render)
• Split Gravity Forms UTM helper into ds-gforms-min.js and enqueue it only when Gravity Forms is active

5.28.57 2026-09-01

Security

• Gate the Merlin wizard: no unauthenticated admin_init renderer; require a logged-in user with manage_options; disable dev_mode
• Remove script and iframe srcdoc from post KSES; narrow iframe attributes; restrict SVG <use> hrefs to fragment identifiers
• Stream style/settings JSON exports as a download instead of writing 0777 files under the theme
• Remove the public Instagram connect-return REST route; verify OAuth state before any relay HTTP
• Require licensing HTTP 2xx and valid === true; send the key in the POST body; show API errors as text

5.28.16 2026-07-02

• Surface specific relay OAuth error codes on connect return
• Use admin-post connect return with relay handoff for local dev
• Fix Instagram connect redirecting to dashboard instead of OAuth

5.28.12 2026-07-02

• Use Instagram app ID for OAuth, not Facebook App ID

5.28.11 2026-07-02

• Set relay signing public key for Instagram connect-return verification

5.27.96 2026-06-08

• Enhanced ecommerce events: view_item, add_to_cart, and related GA4 debugging

5.27.73 2026-06-02

• Tools & Maintenance page, including: - Content gardening (sync alt tags, update blocks) - Link audit - Object cache flush - Purge revisions - Accessibility audit
• Scroll-animation CSS rules

5.27.42 2026-05-21

• Say hello to the 'Pills' block, a block that allows you to put little customizable pills anywhere on your site!

5.27.06

• Less jittery block editor. Made all block appenders floating so that they don't interrupt and re-layout the block flow when blocks become active, so you should find stuff moving around less in the editor. Overall, just a better experience for you. Also made columns have a slight highlight when hovered over, so you can see where the column is.
• Social brand color option. You can now choose to use social brand colors for social icons instead of your own brand
• ds_nav_links action hook. You can now add custom links to the navigation menu by using the ds_nav_links action hook.

5.26.70 2026-02-25

• Blur option to hero and background blocks. You can now add a blur effect to the hero and background blocks.

5.26.55 2026-02-19

• Social Sharing Buttons. Added new social sharing buttons toggle for blog posts. You no longer need to rely on a third party plugin for this, so say goodbye to the AddToAny bloat.
• Authorship support added to Dirigible People. You can now use our Dirigible People plugin to display and manage authorship for pages and posts on your site. You can add people as contributers to pages and posts, display them on the post pages, and display their posts on their author pages.
• Tracking parameters added to Gravity Forms. We now include common tracking parameters for you to use in Gravity Forms to capture first-touch attribution data from your marketing campaigns. This respects GDPR settings.
• Added new debug mode to the theme. This allows you to see hidden fields in Gravity Forms for debugging purposes. This is only visible to admins.
• Add more tracking scripts to GDPR script loading including Hotjar, Google Tag Manager, and Google Analytics.
• Added more aria labels to the theme for better accessibility.
• Hardened licensing to prevent exposure of keys to unauthorized users.

5.26.12 2025-12-05

• GDPR Banner. Added new GDPR banner to the theme. This allows you to add a GDPR banner settings from the theme settings, which works automatically with our analytics system. As long as you enter your analytics IDs in the analytics settings, banner will block these tracking scripts until the user accepts the cookie notice.
• Media Library Search. Added improved media library search to the theme. This allows you to search for media in the media library by title, description, caption, alt text, and filename.
• Move site schema json+ld to a function so we can override it with Dirigible SEO if it is active.
• Prevent is_seamless and is_seamless_reverse from being exposed to REST API. These generated on save_post in masthead.php and were causing conflicts with cloned posts.

5.26.11 2025-12-04

• Separator styles. Added new separator styles: Wavy, Zigzag, and Thin Waves. You can now choose from these styles when adding a separator to your posts and pages.
• Media focal points. Added new media focal points extension. This allows you to set focal points on media items in the media library and post editor. We will use this automatically when displaying the featured images, such as in the block archives. Should open up some new possibilities for image cropping and positioning! There is also an option to disable this by going to Customizer > Site Settings > Media Focal Points. We will remove this option if at some point wordpress adds this functionality to the core.
• Underline option for header nav link active and hover states. You can change this by going to Customizer > Header > Desktop > Underline Links.
• Custom Blog Layout. You can now create a custom blog layout by going to Customizer > Site Settings > Blog > Custom Layout. This will allow you to create a custom layout for your blog posts.
• added option to change the submenu background when the masthead is transparent.
• added option to control how long the "Remember Me" cookie lasts when users check the "Remember Me" checkbox on the login page.
• added new alignwide block style for paragraphs. This allows you to make any paragraph wide by adding the "Wide" style to the block. A bit of a workaround.
• added new mobile width magic classes. This allows you to set the width of an element on mobile screens.
• an edge case with seamless nav, reverse print headers, and submenu backgrounds.

5.25.52 2025-10-22

• Added gradent option to background/section blocks. This means you can create a gradient from any brand color and control it's depth. Much more useful than the old two-color split.
• New blog post style: Cards. This makes the blog posts look like grid cards with darkened backgrounds.
• UPDATED: Added new button hover background color calculation - now using hsl instead of rgba. This means buttons can get darker instead of lighter on hover, which is better for ADA accessibility.
• FEATURE: Added rest API endpoints for D5 metafields and Page Settings.

5.25.38 2025-10-14

• add hide post meta support to blog post aside

5.25.35 2025-10-09

• Added new prev/next posts layout to the theme, opting for 'older' and 'newer' language to make it more clear.
• Added new 'canvas' color that will paint the html for wide sites.
• Added new 'body background' setting for users to adjust the default body background color.
• ADA issues for seamless, reverse print nav and skip link not reading as accessible for automated tools.
• Fixes
• some minor layout issues for single posts without a post background.

5.25.15 2025-09-16

• Added new mobile image size. (480px)
• Added new tiny image size. (96px)
• Added new mini image size. (160px)
• Added new hubspot form shortcode option as plugin.
• Added new debug mode option to the theme.
• SPEED
• Massive page speed insights improvements across the board.
• Moved more styles out to deferred styles to further improve load times.
• Removed global transitions that were being applied to every element.
• Removed font smoothing that was being applied to every element.
• Consolidated media queries to be more efficient.
• Moved to postcss for css processing from Codekit.
• Refinements
• More DRY CSS.
• More efficient CSS.
• Move block styles to deferred styles.
• Changed font and image URLs to use absolute URLs for sites that have a different domain than the one the theme is installed on.
• Changed login image URL to use absolute URL.
• Changed image placeholder URL to use absolute URL.
• Changed more template svg images to use absolute URLs.

5.24.92 2025-09-03

• NEW
• Added new beta ‘animation’ option to animate the website with new css rules.
• Added new font preload option to the theme that works with Dirigible Fonts plugin.
• Fixes
• Finally, a fix for the longstanding bug where fixed background images looked insane in safari as the user scrolled.
• Optimizations
• Move image sizes to after_setup_theme hook.
• Remove cron job for setting roles, but move it to when plugins are activated, deactivated, and when the theme is switched.
• Less reliance on get_template_part and get_theme_mod within loops.
• Moved schema json to head element.
• Updates
• Update WooCommerce template versions
• Changes
• Move the cart page to default Woo templates, style in woo-deferred
• readme

5.24.82 2025-07-02

• Added new footer layout: ‘Reverse Split’. This is a new footer layout that is a reverse of the ‘Split’ layout with the menu on the left the contact section on the right.
• Added new subtle button style.
• Added new popup image option that will correctly display the alt tag.
• Added new sidebar content widget area. This is a new sidebar area that can be used to display content in the sidebar of the post pages - this is useful for displaying content that is not a widget but still needs to be displayed in the sidebar, especially with the Columns layout.
• Improvements
• and improved the styling of the bookings today and weekly pages.
• Added missing lg:height classes to fix yearbook
• Moved some height and width classes to deferred styles to further improve load times.
• Minified the posts block view script.
• Fixes
• Fixes video background image fallback to correctly take up the full height of the background.
• Alignwide no longer gets gutters when inside of a Columns block.

5.24.66 2025-05-30

• Added new layouts for the post pages, including:
• Hybrid: Like the columns layout, but with the sidebar on the bottom.
• Sidebar Bottom: Like the default layout, but with the sidebar on the bottom.
• Wide Width: Like the default layout, but with content stetched to wide width.
• Added new grid classes to the grid module.
• min-2, min-2-per-row: Minimum 2 columns.
• min-3, min-3-per-row: Minimum 3 columns.
• min-4, min-4-per-row: Minimum 4 columns.
• More icon svgs included in the theme.
• Improvements
• Changed to aria-labels for search and submit buttons, better accessibility.
• Changed to aria-labels for logo, better accessibility.
• Changed to aria-labels for social media icons, better accessibility.
• Changed to aria-labels for login button, better accessibility.
• Changed to aria-labels for drawer login button, better accessibility.
• Changed to aria-labels for breadcrumb in woocommerce login page, better accessibility.
• Fixes
• links in heading with user-selected text color to inherit from the text color.
• inset search button block to no longer have a background color.
• lightbox image scaling.
• Cleaner default 404 page to bypass unnecessary db calls.
• social media links to no longer urlencode the handle.
• sticky header height default value for sticky header option offset.
• sticky offset for search pages

5.24.46 2025-04-15

• We have made some big changes to our posts block!
• Renamed block to ‘Blog Posts’ from ‘Better Posts’. Seems more descriptive.
• Added option to manually select blog posts.
• Added pagination option to the blog posts block! This will load new posts via ajax inline, letting users read your entire blog without leaving the page!
• Changed from inline SVG images to load the empty image placeholder for blog posts from the theme. This way it will get cached instead of ballooning html size.
• And some bug fixes
• regression where font embeds were not included in the editor. We still recommend using Dirigible Fonts wherever possible.
• subscriber permissions from the bad-old-days of multisite everything.
• the welcome so that the warning panel is now a bit more visible if the site is not set to public.
• bug where comments that overflow the viewport broke the sidebar layouts.
• WooCommerce Changes
• Less reliance on template overrides, more reliance on styles
• Less opinionated on WooCommerce styles. Let it do its thing and let the maintainability nightmare end.
• sticky on single product page
• Refined styles for sidebar. Removed legacy option for alignfull shop.
• Moved more styles to load async
• Better review form star ratings
• General Theme Changes
• New footer style ‘truncated menu’, which recreates the old ‘split’ style when the now-deprecated option to restrict the nav depth in the footer was turned on.
• We now use the native WordPress comment system instead of a custom coded Comment Walker. This should make it easier to maintain and update the theme in the future.
• alignwide

5.24.35 2025-03-31

• additional css cache for editor
• footer logo namespacing
• option to hide logo
• aligncenter Image blocks within columns.

5.24.33 2025-03-31

• split scroll

5.24.30 2025-03-27

• Store logic for post title insertion in post so we are not calculating it every page
• Remove auto insertion of h1 on page. Let’s trust the user a bit more on this one. Screen reader texts for h1 elements are likely to be viewed as a bit hacky by crawlers anyway.
• Remove setting meta updates on auto save or post revisions.
• Ensure post featured image block is width 100%
• Ensure dropdown menus are above mega menus
• Ensure seamless nav with reverse print is legible on hover
• Unify Merlin styles and remove scss imports
• Merlin style regression

5.24.22 2025-03-26

• calculating is seamless and is seamless reverse.

5.24.19 2025-03-26

• dashboard welcome page. Should load more efficiently and no longer loads hidden meta box on every page.

5.24.18 2025-03-26

• More efficient gravity forms loading!

5.24.17 2025-03-26

• Lighter theme update checks

5.24.16 2025-03-26

• Smart button color switching depending on background

5.24.14 2025-03-25

• Slight footer fixes for ‘columns’ layout

5.24.11 2025-03-21

• Defer more styles, and fix flashes of unstyled content on load.

5.24.05 2025-03-18

• admin checkboxes and radio buttons

5.24.04 2025-03-14

• Rewrite all CSS to no longer use imports. Yeesh.

5.24.03 2025-03-14

• woo closer
• functions changes
• clean up head
• tribe
• gforms
• dashboard css
• admin.css
• site.css done
• editor css file
• deferred
• woo
• finished enqueue removal
• mid-css revamp

5.23.89 2025-03-06

• Only load gravity forms when block is present
• Load gravity forms css in footer if its only in the footer
• Load as style sheet instead of inline to avoid html bloat

5.23.84 2025-02-21

• Remove empty svg elements on admin.

5.23.83 2025-02-21

• Remove embedding of support site.
• disable plugin and theme update notifications
• Update README.md

5.23.82

• background seamless reverse print class for default values.

5.23.80 2025-02-18

• background seamless class for background blocks without as their background.
• Less intrusive use role checking!

5.23.77 2025-02-11

• Move the schema for blog posts to the head element

5.23.75 2025-02-07

• Moved posts and map block to use block.json - should fix some of the weirdness.

5.23.74 2025-02-03

• New system for blogs templates!

5.23.71 2025-01-31

• Added magic classes page to the dashboard.

5.23.69 2025-01-21

• icons in the editor

5.23.68 2025-01-15

• Added support for lots of new social media links!

5.23.67 2025-01-14

• Seamless masthead now works for background blocks with images as their background in addition to hero blocks.

5.23.65 2024-12-05

• Added support for the new WooCommerce single product image viewer and EWWW Image Optimizer picture webp rewriting.

5.23.63 2024-12-04

• the manager role capabilities so that they are updated correctly when plugins are activated, deactivated, and when the theme is switched. This should be the final fix for this. Hopefully.

5.23.61 2024-12-04

• readme

5.23.60 2024-12-02

• Updated the onboarder templates to use the new block markup.

5.23.57 2024-11-29

• the bookings product block so that the current day is no longer highlighted on intial load.

5.23.55 2024-11-18

• Updated for compatibility with Wordpress 6.7.

5.23.52 2024-11-15

• Gravity Forms quiz styling and support.

5.23.43 2024-11-07

• We no longer rely on ACF to display the post meta fields. We now use the native meta fields that come with WordPress. This should make it easier to maintain and update the theme in the future.
• ol and ul lists in the editor that were not displaying the list style.
• the order of the metafields in the post edit screen.
• Hid the display of the handle-order-higher and handle-order-lower buttons in the post edit screen.
• a Gravity Forms styling issue where the admin menu was not being styled correctly and appearing white.

5.23.36 2024-11-05

• Added support for preloading the first image in a post or page.

5.23.34 2024-11-04

• the menu name truncation for long menu items in WP Dashboard.

5.23.33 2024-11-04

• Added support for woff and woff2 mime types. You can now upload woff and woff2 files to the media library and use font-face statements to use fonts in your theme locally.

5.23.30 2024-10-30

• Push out the new styles and color scheme for the admin dashboard.

5.23.25 2024-10-10

• Group should be full width of the container if its inside a column.

5.23.24 2024-10-07

• media modal when trying to select media in the frontend. Wordpress is doing this in an absolutely archaic way that just does not jive with css grid.

5.23.23 2024-10-02

• the gallery alignfull margin.

5.23.22 2024-10-02

• the media library so that the attachments are no longer very wide on the modal view.

5.23.21 2024-10-02

• Added new experimental media styles for the media library.

5.23.11 2024-09-27

• Re-ordered the menu items in the admin area. Posts, Pages, and Media are now below the dashboard… ALWAYS

5.23.10 2024-09-27

• some admin styles for pages that only show up every so often, like the admin email checker and the update page.

5.23.08 2024-09-27

• Added new experimental admin styles for multisite.

5.23.07 2024-09-27

• Added new experimental admin styles

5.23.04 2024-09-26

• Added dark mode to the admin multisite menu.
• Better multisite menu styling.

5.23.01

• Scoped the login styles to the login page only.

5.23.00 2024-09-26

• Added new login styles to fix the checkbox

5.22.99 2024-09-25

• Added checks to fix js error that happened on landing pages with no menus.

5.22.98 2024-09-23

• fix 3 week view

5.22.95 2024-09-16

• error in roles.php

5.22.83 2024-09-09

• Added packery gallery style.

5.22.82 2024-09-07

• Different styles for gravity form address fields that have country code vs just United States.

5.22.81 2024-09-05

• Remove unused woo image styles. Fixes for new editor styles.

5.22.68

• Major overhaul to editor styles. Now using the native add_editor_style to enqueue our site.css, isntead of building an editor.css file that tries to wrap everything inside of classes. This should make the editor more accurate to the front end, and keep it more future proof. This will also allow pattern and block previews to work as expected.

5.22.65 2024-08-26

• Use new native pattern loader Remove some legacy cleanup code that was no longer necessary, less code is better code.

5.22.63 2024-08-26

• Kill attachment pages for images.

5.22.57 2024-08-21

• Set navlinks to center. Basically just for the edge case where users try to put way too many things in the menu and they span multiple lines, even on desktop.

5.22.56 2024-08-20

• Add font family name to theme.json

5.22.55 2024-08-13

• More error handling to filter.js

5.22.54 2024-08-13

• subtle border utlity classes. Added loggedin:show class Added socialshtml class.

5.22.51 2024-08-02

• Moved some deferred styles out to the main stylesheet.
• defer no more

5.22.50 2024-07-26

• Add DNS prefetch for cdn images

5.22.48 2024-07-26

• Handling for disabled inputs

5.22.47 2024-07-22

• cart styles for new woocommerce

5.22.46 2024-07-22

• navlinks in WP 6.6

5.22.45 2024-07-19

• link-no-underline class fix header link weight

5.22.44 2024-07-19

• Added support for marquee block FIX: Fix typography for wordpress 6.6

5.22.43 2024-07-10

• Add more embed ratios for wp block embed.

5.22.40 2024-07-02

• Adjusted the css for gravity forms to now use CSS grid so that backend adjustments are more present on the frontend.

5.22.39 2024-06-26

• No longer hide menu when drawer is open
• fix case where not all images have captions.
• image captions working
• begin woo captions

5.22.34 2024-05-29

• columns max width in editor

5.22.33 2024-05-28

• Update gravitfy forms css to have consistent spacing when the sublabel is both above and below the input.

5.22.31 2024-05-20

• the null thing where sometimes it wasn’t saving out right.

5.22.28 2024-04-30

• error where sometime a 0 value did not get saved in the customizer, instead it was seeing it as null and reverting to the default value. Added new editor styles to remove some of the jumpiness of appenders and inserters.

5.22.26 2024-04-25

• Enable different logo on scroll.

5.22.25 2024-04-23

• Compatibility for the WP Query block, and the Woo Product Block Update Templates for WooCommerce 8.8

5.22.22 2024-04-11

• Added giant warning screen when the blog is set to private.

5.22.21 2024-04-09

• Remove leading spaces

5.22.20 2024-04-03

• Wordpress 6.5 Support

5.22.19 2024-04-02

• Added AND and OR to post block query builder.

5.22.18 2024-04-02

• Hide SEO Robots option to prevent people from getting in trouble.

5.22.17 2024-03-28

• video embeds aspect ratio.

5.22.16 2024-03-26

• Added better handling for important css FIX: Fixed the buttons for not ruining page layouts when very long.

5.22.15 2024-03-22

• Changed the logos to be included via actions, so that we can deregister and replace the logo action from plugins.

5.22.12 2024-02-22

• Add some normal-print styles for sections that are within a reverse-print block.

5.22.10 2024-02-20

• Remove py-block from columns layout.

5.22.09 2024-02-19

• Added default support for YARPP with a custom template and options in the customizer if the plugin is enabled. NEW: Added option to display the post meta either above or below the post content on single blog pages.

5.22.08 2024-02-06

• alignwide group blocks within alignwide.

5.22.06 2024-02-05

• grids in the editor that were not in a section block. This was a CSS issue that only affected the editor. FIX: Fixed grids not correctly displaying the grid gap in the editor by moving the default value to the variable declaration, isntead of declaring a default value for the variable itself. UPDATE: New icon background for dirigible UPDATE: Map and Posts block uses the new icon background.

5.22.05 2024-02-01

• Style Update: Made the ‘group’ block always be full width of its parent.

5.22.03 2024-01-31

• JK, now we’ve fixed the lightbox. (Fixed the lightbox for images that are taller than the viewport.)

5.22.02 2024-01-30

• Finally truly maybe almost actually fixed the lightbox?

5.22.01 2024-01-30

• You can now set the maximum amount of form submissions allowed in an hour for Gravity Forms. This is useful for preventing spam. The default is 5, and is calculated by user IP address globally across the site. This means that if a user submits 5 forms in an hour, they will be blocked from submitting any more forms for an hour. This is a global setting, and cannot be set on a per-form basis.

5.22.00 2024-01-29

• Kill logs that were logging the image mime type array every time it was used.

5.21.97 2024-01-22

• Add tag option to block archive.

5.21.96 2024-01-22

• Added some scaffolding to post cards markup.

5.21.93 2024-01-16

• Enable tags on Posts block. This allows users to display their tags anywhere they display posts.

5.21.92 2024-01-16

• Add action to footer so that we can hook into it to add content.

5.21.91 2024-01-09

• desktop popup when the popup is in the right hand corner.

5.21.89 2024-01-02

• Update onboarder with new block markup.

5.21.88 2023-12-15

• embeds aspect ratio

5.21.87 2023-12-12

• login rememberme input.

5.21.86 2023-12-12

• link size inheriting

5.21.84 2023-12-07

• lightbox for safari!

5.21.83 2023-12-06

• Support classes for new grid card

5.21.82 2023-12-05

• woo for new bookings plugin updates!

5.21.79 2023-12-01

• Update image galleries with new lightbox.

5.21.78 2023-12-01

• Add IP rate limiting to gravity forms!

5.21.75 2023-11-28

• Deferring styles test

5.21.74 2023-11-27

• Update bookings-weekly.php
• myOrder

5.21.72 2023-11-27

• Change subtle input css ordering

5.21.71 2023-11-27

• Get attachment url differently for logo

5.21.70 2023-11-27

• Add new deferred style sheet. Explicitely declare logo width and height.

5.21.69 2023-11-27

• the 404 template loader when not selected.

5.21.68 2023-11-22

• Remove some old actions than run when they shouldn’t.

5.21.67 2023-11-22

• Center menus vertically

5.21.66 2023-11-22

• WooCommerce fix for new version.

5.21.65 2023-11-22

• Bump bundled ACF version for PHP 8.1 compatibility.

5.21.64 2023-11-20

• permissions for woocommerce. Again.

5.21.63 2023-11-20

• Edit users

5.21.62 2023-11-20

• Remove support for old google analytics.

5.21.61 2023-11-17

• Add X to socials.

5.21.60 2023-11-16

• New helper class for block API update (p-margin-0)

5.21.58 2023-11-14

• stripe “save info” checkbox.
• T&C checkbox.
• 404 default template.

5.21.56 2023-11-09

• Added weekly stuff for bookings view

5.21.55 2023-11-09

• range control

5.21.53 2023-11-02

• coupon post method

5.21.52 2023-11-02

• Move coupon out of checkout form

5.21.51 2023-10-30

• Revert to stock woocommerce checkout tables

5.21.50 2023-10-24

• Bump woocommerce versions

5.21.49 2023-10-16

• Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/DirigibleStudio/dirigible-studio-5
• remove period from url sanitization for delta linkedin link

5.21.46 2023-10-11

• Add alt to lightbox.

5.21.44 2023-10-11

• Update to product grid styling

5.21.43 2023-10-11

• Update to product grid styling

5.21.42 2023-10-05

• table outline

5.21.41 2023-10-05

• table scroll bars

5.21.39 2023-10-02

• Rewrote our lightbox to be native js!

5.21.38 2023-09-26

• Revert - bookings check IS initialized.

5.21.37 2023-09-26

• Remove bookings check - not sure if its initialized yet.

5.21.36 2023-09-26

• Add bookings post type to cron job.

5.21.35 2023-09-26

• batch limit!

5.21.34 2023-09-26

• Update cron worker to every 5 minutes.

5.21.33 2023-09-26

• Change the auto-delete worker to a cron job instead of on page load.

5.21.32 2023-09-26

• More year options for order auto-delete.

5.21.31 2023-09-26

• Remove trashing, just delete it.

5.21.30 2023-09-26

• Change default batch size to 10.
• Update options.json

5.21.29 2023-09-26

• Add more batch sizes.

5.21.28 2023-09-26

• Add batch size to auto-delete old orders.

5.21.27 2023-09-26

• Added auto-delete old orders functionality. BE CAREFUL!!!

5.21.26 2023-09-25

• Added url arguments to the today’s booking page for the bookings.

5.21.24 2023-09-18

• Add support for woo product bundles extenstion.

5.21.21 2023-08-17

• automate woo unsubscribe form

5.21.20 2023-08-17

• Support for woocommerce plugins: automate woo, square, twilio, subcriptions, and bookings. Adds option to control Related Products text.

5.21.19 2023-08-16

• Support of woocommerce bookings blocks.

5.21.17 2023-07-21

• deprecation errors for php 8.2 for DS Licensing Fix stylesheet for tribe events calendar pro not getting correctly enqueued.

5.21.16 2023-07-13

• Change form acf fields to be registered in the acf/init hook.

5.21.15 2023-07-11

• Added a very strong warning message to people onboarding their sites a second time.

5.21.14 2023-07-10

• Added option to limit the popup to only show on selected pages.

5.21.11 2023-06-13

• Allow admins to embed iframes in multisite installs.

5.21.10 2023-06-12

• Allow managers to edit CSS in customizer for multisite installs.

5.21.09

• Specify border utility classes for desktop.

5.21.08 2023-06-06

• Add darken border color.

5.21.07 2023-06-05

• the uploaded in the Generate Content part of the site.

5.21.06 2023-05-31

• Editors and administrators can now edit privacy policy options and pages.

5.21.04 2023-05-25

• Admins can now edit users on multisite with the user role editor plugin.

5.21.01 2023-05-25

• Recognize update

5.21.00

• Re-add login template.

5.20.99 2023-05-25

• Merge changes

5.20.98 2023-05-25

• Added login template.
• remove space at beginning of images.php

5.20.94 2023-05-12

• Added class aliases for CB.

5.20.93 2023-05-12

• ACF image origin display

5.20.92 2023-05-11

• GF error styling

5.20.91 2023-05-10

• Featured image width

5.20.90 2023-05-09

• onboarder colors

5.20.89 2023-05-09

• Update onboarder with images.

5.20.88 2023-05-04

• Add support for actions, typography themes, and palette selection to onboarder.

5.20.87 2023-05-04

• Add support for alignleft and alignright.

5.20.86 2023-05-02

• is-style-p A fix.

5.20.85 2023-04-27

• Gravity Forms fixes:
• text size for forms when text size increase option is enabled on blog single pages
• description margins when below the input
• product with radio buttons line height issue
• ‘other’ option on radio buttons styling FIX: Reverse print embed input text is now legible in the placeholder block box in the editor

5.20.83

• Change sidebar breakpoint on blog to happen earlier for tablets.

5.20.82 2023-04-25

• custom post single pages for sites that use blog post styles.

5.20.81 2023-04-25

• ENHANCEMENT: Add block styles to post title block.

5.20.80 2023-04-24

• alignwide separator.

5.20.79 2023-04-21

• Style for select all button in gravity forms.

5.20.78 2023-04-21

• Adjust KSES to allow iframes and scripts

5.20.77 2023-04-20

• button transform when hollow button is applied.

5.20.76 2023-04-18

• Re-implement the disabling of legacy markup, but doing with the workaround for gravity forms object casting error.

5.20.75 2023-04-17

• gravity forms lists.

5.20.74 2023-04-13

• Disable post features for blog category archives.

5.20.73 2023-04-13

• for aligncenter images.

5.20.72 2023-04-13

• for new gravity forms version throwing a fatal error. ENHANCEMENT: Added options for single post page including: background, text size, border top, new layouts.

5.20.71 2023-04-10

• ENHANCEMENT: Automatically add an h1 to blog posts that don’t have one.

5.20.70 2023-04-10

• ENHANCEMENT: Add h1 to archive pages that have post features.

5.20.69 2023-04-06

• Re-arrange CSS to be per-block. UPDATE: Block styles are now integrated into the block stylesheet to minimize number of assets loaded.

5.20.68

• Add CSS to wordpress table block.

5.20.67 2023-03-31

• Variable products with more than 5 variations now show as a dropdown select instead of a radio button tag list. FIX: Fixed a bug with variable products that shared a name causing ID’s to collide.

5.20.66 2023-03-29

• Mobile menu options galore. You can now choose:
• Hamburger Icon style, size, and color. Close Menu Icon style, size, and color. Drawer menu width. The overlay color and opacity when the drawer is open.
• Mobile options have been moved to the mobile section of the header. Slight renaming of customizer panels to be more accurate and descriptive.

5.20.65 2023-03-27

• Better compatibility for gravity form stripe fields.

5.20.63 2023-03-27

• Allow scrollable mobile menus in case something goes really, terribly wrong with site hierarchy.

5.20.62 2023-03-27

• mobile menu drawer not appearing for odd breakpoint settings. UPDATE: New layout for better comment readibility and ux on mobile. UPDATE: Post prev/nav will be exactly half width, rather than expanding to fit text length.
• nija update

5.20.61

• Changed some editor css for alignwide.

5.20.60 2023-03-22

• IMPROVEMENT: Moved gravity forms to their own CSS file that only loads if it’s installed.

5.20.58 2023-03-21

• Compatible with new version of gravity forms.

5.20.57 2023-03-21

• dirigible.js no longer uses any jQuery!

5.20.56 2023-03-21

• Changed popup js to native js for speed. NEW: Added option to manually change Popup transient in Dirigible Tools. BACKEND: Moved templating for popups to its own directory. BACKEND: Moved popup js to only load if enabled. BACKEND: Added generalized tool scaffolding to make it easier to add tool modules.

5.20.54

• GDPR now uses native javascript instead of jquery.

5.20.53 2023-03-17

• pop up with a lot of content or very tall forms on mobile. This way users can actually exit out of it.

5.20.52 2023-03-16

• Moved event calendar css to the block itself.

5.20.50

• Added soundcloud to socials

5.20.49 2023-03-13

• GDPR Banners are finally here! UPDATE: Reposition Customizer Header and Footer settings so so there’s less bopping around - Appearance settings are all now consolidated under Appearance.

5.20.48 2023-03-13

• sticky header button text color in circumstances where the hero is seamless and gets reverse print applied, but is not reverse print on scroll.

5.20.47 2023-03-13

• sanitizer errors for popup toggles FIX: Fixed border radius for popup when sites have very large values for button border radius.

5.20.46 2023-03-09

• Support for DS Products plugin.

5.20.45 2023-03-08

• Added aria accessibility tags to search labels.

5.20.44 2023-03-08

• Better checkboxes!

5.20.43 2023-03-08

• New version of woo product add-ons.

5.20.42 2023-03-08

• for WooCommerce product add-ons.

5.20.41 2023-03-08

• sanitizer for popup text fields.

5.20.40 2023-03-07

• Gallery block widths.

5.20.39 2023-03-06

• styles for multisite user registration. Also fixed some of the random WordPress user interaction pages, they should be more consistent now.
• readme

5.20.38 2023-03-02

• sanitizer for blog card Read More link text field.

5.20.37 2023-03-02

• Add gutter src declaration for rs-gutter class.

5.20.36 2023-03-02

• link underline appearing on search cards for the search page. Fix gallery width in Safari. New Single Post featured post for blog page.

5.20.35 2023-02-27

• Multi page form fix

5.20.33 2023-02-27

• hero and photo feature alignwide display.

5.20.32 2023-02-23

• Slight styling tweaks for posts block.

5.20.31 2023-02-22

• Support for new Events properties

5.20.29 2023-02-17

• Remove h1 styling from page title in editor.

5.20.28 2023-02-17

• New styles to pick from in the onboarder. FIXED: Import/Export styles and settings works better and more reliably.

5.20.27 2023-02-15

• space-x and space-y now respects hidden elements

5.20.25 2023-02-13

• Alignwide thick hr fix.

5.20.24 2023-02-13

• Added a sanitizer to handle military time for Dirigible Hours.

5.20.22 2023-02-10

• sanitizer for social media accounts.

5.20.21 2023-02-10

• DEV UPDATE: We now sanitize every single theme mod option. Vulnerabilities? Gone. UPDATED: New post meta and prev/next options! IMPROVED: Improved post schema implementation is no longer dependent on markup, and provides more information.

5.20.20

• UPDATED: Updated the onboarder templates layouts as well as updated all block markup version so deprecations no longer occur. FIX: Fixed some understated button weirdness in the editor.

5.20.19 2023-02-08

• some separator bugs inside of columns

5.20.18 2023-02-08

• Add CSS var defaults to separators.

5.20.17 2023-02-08

• We’ve cleaned up the existing separators and added the separators that we found ourselves often custom coding into client websites as core options. You can access them through block styles. Options: Default, Wide, Dots, Thick, Accent, Vertical, Mark, Weighted, or Fading. NEW: Added some more utility colors to the default Wordpress color picker.

5.20.16 2023-02-06

• a bug where anchor links in tag lists get the wrong text size.
• post titles

5.20.15 2023-02-06

• background padding for single.php blog posts.

5.20.14 2023-02-02

• Title fix.

5.20.13 2023-02-02

• Added granular options to change the sidebar display on a per-post basis!

5.20.12 2023-02-02

• Reset block widths for single blog posts with a sidebar. IE, make sure all the alignwides and alignfulls all line up nice and neat.

5.20.10

• Single blog posts can sidebars independently of the main blog page.

5.20.09 2023-02-02

• Featured Post styles for the blog, including: Wide, Full, Strips, or Uniform. Each of these styles can use the card styles: Inset, Overlay, Stretch, or Reverse. NEW: Blog styles galore! Rather than just grid or list, you can now use Columns, Adjacent, or Magazine styles on the blog. NEW: Added option to hide sidebar on mobile. PLUS: All these new formats have been added to the Posts block. DEV: Move blog template from index.php to template file to allow overriding in child theme. Break out all blog related files into templated options.

5.20.07 2023-01-25

• Allow buttons to be hidden on the grid.

5.20.06 2023-01-25

• Menu and logo height will now correctly show size change previews in customizer.

5.20.05 2023-01-25

• Added a customizer setting to change the desktop dropdown width.

5.20.03

• backend spacing for how the new version of Wordpress handles it. Remove link underlines on post previous/next buttons.

5.20.02 2023-01-23

• Remove fixed backgrounds on mobile. Add data attribute tags for easy css hooks.

5.20.00

• Add data property css hook for mega menu.

5.19.99 2023-01-17

• a bug where bottom borders on links in the body were not showing up.

5.19.98 2023-01-16

• z-index hover issue when a normal submenu was listed before a mega-menu.

5.19.97 2023-01-16

• Enable block spacing for core blocks.

5.19.96 2023-01-09

• the gravity forms honeypot sometimes causing massive x overflow.

5.19.94 2023-01-06

• nav link reverse print mobile menu colors.
• change phone schema in footer to telephone
• readme

5.19.92 2022-12-19

• Changes to post meta footer to be more consistent.

5.19.91 2022-12-13

• multiple ids for search form submit..

5.19.90 2022-12-13

• multiple form labels for searches. FINALLY!

5.19.89 2022-12-09

• array offset errors for missing images in the blog archives.

5.19.88 2022-12-09

• PHP error in blog post images for edge cases.

5.19.86 2022-12-09

• PHP warnings when there is no menu assigned in the footer.

5.19.85 2022-12-09

• PERFORMANCE UPDATE We now only load IE compatibility scripts if we are on IE. We now only load parallax if its enabled. Total theme scripts on every page load from 50kb to 17kb.

5.19.84 2022-12-09

• menu cart for reverse print headers

5.19.82 2022-12-09

• Remove account and cart buttons from mini cart sidebar widget. Fix header for indicator on reverse and primary bgs.

5.19.81 2022-12-08

• Stop the ajax on page load.

5.19.79 2022-12-07

• WOO: Only do ajax if we need to. If there is no cart icon, don’t bother.

5.19.78 2022-12-07

• sold out items badge not being in teh center FIX: Hollow buttons

5.19.77 2022-12-07

• Lead cart specific things via ajax, which will allow cacheing of non-shop pages!

5.19.76 2022-12-05

• Add and functionality to change the “Required” prompt for form fields that are required. Fix index.php opening php tag when requiring the footer.

5.19.75 2022-12-02

• –card-darken will now respect the gray color chosen on white backgrounds, and changes to white on gray backgrounds. It works the same on any other background color.

5.19.74 2022-12-01

• hotfix for the word break fix!

5.19.73 2022-12-01

• Revamp search result page. Update all woocommerce templates that were out of date.

5.19.72 2022-11-29

• Change empty links from nofollow to spans for better SEO.

5.19.71 2022-11-29

• Add gravity form referrer.

5.19.70 2022-11-28

• Update gravity.php

5.19.68 2022-11-28

• Added text background option to hero.

5.19.67 2022-11-22

• Add nofollow to empty links

5.19.65 2022-11-22

• Support for 6.1.1 Search page input clarity Fixed gravity forms fields, including Date and Products

5.19.63 2022-11-21

• replace only the first instance of ginput_total in gf total fields

5.19.52 2022-11-08

• change role creation to admin init
• 6.1
• filter to action
• confirm that managerRole exists before checking for denied caps
• add shop assistant role

5.19.30 2022-09-15

• Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/DirigibleStudio/dirigible-studio-5
• popup
• added margin left and right auto to handle non full width sites

5.19.18 2022-08-16

• added wistia support to oembeds

5.19.17

• Added support for Wistia in Wordpress oEmbeds.

5.19.13 2022-08-10

• Update kses.php

5.19.12 2022-08-08

• moved after customer details hook to not break flex layouts

5.19.07 2022-07-18

• add 'view_admin_dashboard' cap to manager role

5.18.87 2022-05-24

• add plugin functions
• update role declaration as well
• updating map meta check for manager rules to allow unfiltered html

5.18.77 2022-04-29

• NEW! Change your logo size on mobile or on scroll. We’ve found ourselves adding this with custom css on so many sites we decided to add it into the base theme.
• NEW! Use the utility menu to display straight banner text if you’d like.
• FIX! Utility nav font size is fixed for onboarder themes.

5.18.74

• More scrolling options

5.18.72 2022-04-28

• Better .rs-link class

5.18.71 2022-04-28

• mobile paragraph size getting the ‘small’ size assigned instead of the ‘mobile’ size.

5.18.69 2022-04-22

• Mini cart in sidebar fix.

5.18.66 2022-04-22

• Authorize.net support

5.18.65 2022-04-22

• Local pickup plus edits

5.18.64 2022-04-22

• Remove more stock card darkening, replace with site palette gray darkening.

5.18.63

• Substantial changes to the WooCommerce dashboard, checkout, and cart pages. More consistently use theme colors.

5.18.60 2022-04-14

• for number inputs on gravity forms.

5.18.59 2022-04-13

• UseInnerBlockProps smarter support for appenders. Goodbye extra dom elements!

5.18.58 2022-04-13

• Update permissions for bookings.

5.18.56 2022-04-07

• ADDED: Tailwind gap
• Child card appenders

5.18.55 2022-04-06

• mobile version of utility menu.

5.18.54 2022-04-06

• menu overlay.

5.18.53 2022-04-04

• Support for grid gap.
• throttle

5.18.52 2022-03-31

• Throttle quicklink to 2 concurrent requests.

5.18.49 2022-03-30

• More hover states!

5.18.46 2022-03-25

• NEW! Structured Lists now support both block widths AND an entirely new grid layout! Welcome to the future.
• DEV NOTE: Support block level grids for structured list.

5.18.44 2022-03-25

• Moved structured list css from block instance to themewide css.
• Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/DirigibleStudio/dirigible-studio-5
• reset unfiltered HTML settings
• reset unfiltered HTML settings
• explicitly add unfiltered_html cap to manager role
• try fixing unfiltered_html errors for the manager role

5.18.40 2022-03-25

• Quicklink redux. Better implementation of quicklink that will ignore dashboard links, ajax requests, nonces, etc.
• Removed some of the notifications when our plugins are not licensed.
• dequeue quicklink due to conflicts with woocommerce

5.18.38 2022-03-21

• Add quicklink.js

5.18.37 2022-03-18

• Customizer accessibility and branding updates.

5.18.36 2022-03-17

• Simplify login

5.18.35 2022-03-17

• Internal style fixes for the dashboard.

5.18.34 2022-03-17

• More consistent use of branded colors in dashboard.

5.18.33 2022-03-17

• Light theme now uses blue instead of orange for active states.

5.18.32 2022-03-17

• update icons

5.18.31 2022-03-17

• Mobile dashboard.

5.18.30 2022-03-17

• Better UI for the dashboard.

5.18.29 2022-03-02

• Better layout for image placeholder in Columns.
• Slider support for variable heights.

5.18.27 2022-03-01

• FIX! Blocks with the circle style now have the correct height
• FIX! Image blocks now play nicely with column justification and alignment

5.18.26 2022-02-28

• Added support for the new Socials block!

5.18.24 2022-02-24

• Re-layout a few onboarder pages and add some guiding text to clarify things like what the street address and email entered here is actually used for.

5.18.23 2022-02-24

• a typo in the onboarder.

5.18.22 2022-02-24

• Bump bundled version of ACF to 5.12
• New circle logo for Dirigible admin page! This behaves more in line with other icons in the editor.

5.18.21 2022-02-24

• NEW! Set default settings for new blog posts, including Featured Image, Title, and Meta. This way, if you find yourself changing the same settings every time on blog posts, you can just set it site-wide!
• More internal font weights for Poppins.
• Updated some visual elements and prompts in the Onboarder.
• some customizer styles.
• split scroll paddings. It will now respect sticky and non sticky menus sensibly.

5.18.20 2022-02-23

• Load fonts internally for dashboard.

5.18.18 2022-02-23

• Why should wavy background transitions be confined only to the elite admins and superadmins? We won’t stand for it! Wavy blocks for all.
• We’ve fixed kses killing preserveAspectRatio for svgs.

5.18.17 2022-02-23

• Say goodbye to block deprecations. Fixed some crucial KSES errors that were killing blocks for non superadmins and admins.

5.18.09 2022-02-21

• some blockquote formatting.

5.18.07 2022-02-17

• Better appenders, all around. Should work more like expected.
• Move Columns and Column to apiVersion 2.
• Move Slider to apiVersion 2
• Move Timeline to apiVersion 2
• Move Logos to apiVersion 2, refine funtionality

5.18.06 2022-02-17

• Force use of Dirigible Admin Theme
• inserters when no content is in Inner Blocks

5.18.04 2022-02-15

• New! Backend light and dark mode for Dirigible Styles
• Added quick links in the dashboard to important backend functionality!
• grid-template-columns: repeat(4, 1fr);

5.18.00 2022-02-13

• New backend style

5.17.99 2022-02-11

• More options for the post block.
• Add a new welcome screen.

5.17.95 2022-02-09

• some tribe event settings.

5.17.93 2022-02-07

• Support block icon colors.

5.17.92 2022-02-04

• gallery styles

5.17.91 2022-02-04

• new gallery style
• groups in the editor

5.17.90 2022-02-03

• Add block styles to groups, include WELL and BORDER
• separators

5.17.89 2022-02-03

• Block size and column support

5.17.88 2022-02-03

• Add support for grid inside columns

5.17.87 2022-02-02

• Add support for overlay gray and muted

5.17.86 2022-02-01

• grid appenders.
• 4.17.85
• additional css so its correctly namespaced

5.17.83 2022-01-31

• NEW! Link in Bio pages and the blocks have been added!

5.17.82

• Add support for link in bio pages and blocks.

5.17.81 2022-01-27

• Adds Wordpress 5.9 support. Removes temporary fix for Chrome copying and pasting.

5.17.79 2022-01-24

• Allow tags as a list style.

5.17.78 2022-01-24

• some all caps stored in html on showcase template. Allow google maps to be saved again.

5.17.77 2022-01-19

• Adjustment for layout-blocks not contained in background block.

5.17.76 2022-01-19

• Allow for meta tags that schema needs. Fixed some editor formatting.

5.17.75 2022-01-14

• white src rgb.

5.17.74 2022-01-14

• alignfull footer permuations.

5.17.73 2022-01-13

• alignwide in editor.

5.17.72 2022-01-13

• Hotfix for footer margin permutations
• fix footer

5.17.71 2022-01-13

• Added infrastructure to support DS Footer Plugin theme overriding.
• Footer no longer has special CSS rules.

5.17.70 2022-01-13

• Rename header styles to be more clear.
• Remove beta theme.json file that was causing errors when no child theme was used.

5.17.69 2022-01-12

• Temporary Fix for Google Chrome adding random meta tags and killing post editing. This was a fucking doozey.
• Support for WooCommerce 6.1
• Move licensing init to admin.
• Bump up bundled ACF version to most recent!!

5.17.68 2022-01-11

• readme

5.17.67

• Add CSS support for default select box in customizer.

5.17.66 2022-01-07

• Revamp tools page.

5.17.64 2022-01-06

• Add relative page dots for flickity.

5.17.63

• Sticky split scroll

5.17.62 2022-01-05

• Add classes for body, display, and alt fonts.
• Add styles to headings for body, display, and alt fonts.
• Update booking-addons.php

5.17.61 2022-01-03

• Add product add-ons support for Bookings Today page.

5.17.60 2022-01-03

• woocommerce admin on bookings page.
• Ensure line wrap works on bookings today page.

5.17.59 2022-01-03

• bookings empty posts handler.

5.17.58 2022-01-03

• Add manage_bookings to manager role.

5.17.57 2022-01-03

• Add pseudo styles to headings.

5.17.56

• Move bookings today from page to subpage under ‘Bookings’.

5.17.55 2021-12-30

• Order link on Bookings Today page now goes to correct url.

5.17.54 2021-12-30

• Update bookings format

5.17.53 2021-12-30

• php 7.4 error
• Update bookings format

5.17.51 2021-12-30

• Better display for bookings in customer dashboard
• New ‘Bookings Today’ page for admin users to see all the bookings taking place today.
• Search

5.17.50

• search results pages with less than 3 results

5.17.49 2021-12-20

• Drops support for the old ACF version of the gallery altogether.
• Change ACF blocks to use templates rather than callbacks.

5.17.48 2021-12-17

• Add space-y-block
• readme

5.17.47 2021-12-17

• Adds breadcrumb template support, as well as some fixes for manifest.
• update readme

5.17.46 2021-12-16

• Correctly minify CSS for theme variables. No longer removes spaces inside of quotations.

5.17.45 2021-12-14

• Alignwide in the block editor now 56rem.
• Header Refactor

5.17.44

• Menu buttons! Visit Customizer>Header>Button to set a custom menu button for your header. There’s no longer any need to mess around with arcane classes in the Wordpress menu editor.
• Stacked menu style! This shows the logo on one line and the menu underneath it.
• Nav item spacing is now a setting in Customizer>Header>Appearance and no longer relies on the padding style in Customizer>Styles>Nav.
• All nav and utility nav heights to Header in customizer. These work more reliably and calculate correctly for full-height headers.
• Allow you to choose menu breakpoint in customizer
• Choose footer social icon sizes.
• Woo Product Category widget is now supported.
• Nav Link padding is a new feature in Customizer>Styles>Nav that allows you to adjust the click area for nav links. If a nav link has a background color on hover, this will now also determine the size of that background as it will fill the padded space.
• There are too many fixes to count, but notably:
• Menu item edge cases should be resolved. No longer will there be phantom padding or disappearing padding on the menu edges.
• Styles added in Customizer > Additional CSS will now attempt show in the block editor. Note: the block editor DOM markup can be different from the frontend, in which case the styles will not properly appear. Should mostly work for core blocks.
• Moved cart AJAX to a template, making it much more reliable.
• Menu templating has been overhauled and should be much easier to understand.
• Customizer previews work more reliably! Phantom elements are now inserted when things are disabled in the customizer (like the menu cart), which gives them a DOM hook to pop in again when they are then enabled.
• Menu hooks for customizer are fixed, so multiple copies of the menu don’t get added when you change something. This not only makes customizer faster, but also fixes the stacked accent border problem whenever anything was changed.
• Menu height is no longer tied to nav link height, making it much more flexible.

5.17.35 2021-12-01

• ginput_container_fileupload

5.17.17 2021-11-23

• update roles permissions for platform

5.17.07 2021-11-05

• Update reset.php

5.16.99 2021-10-25

• reenqueue selectWoo for checkout field editor compatibility
• added many tribe events permissions to manager role
• update popup module z-index

5.16.90 2021-10-05

• remove error log
• merge master into local
• add additional privacy capabilities to manager role via map_meta_cap action.

5.16.56 2021-07-12

• Update sidebar.php

5.16.49 2021-06-30

• Add Prettier

5.16.39 2021-06-23

• Update style.css
• fix flash

5.16.33 2021-06-21

• Update fields.php

5.16.20 2021-06-14

• Update enqueue.php

5.16.9 2021-06-09

• Update index.php

5.16.6 2021-06-03

• Update list-card.php

5.16.4 2021-06-02

• Update style.css

5.13.19 2021-03-17

• Update product-thumbnails.php

5.13.8 2021-03-16

• tailwind woo

5.13.6 2021-03-11

• Woo mini nav fix
• Arrange Gutenberg

5.13.1 2021-03-08

• minify

5.13.0 2021-03-08

• tailwind intermediate
• move to tailwind

5.12.18 2021-03-02

• remove some dom stuff

5.12.9 2021-02-25

• Update style.css
• update for woo
• Update page.php

5.12.3 2021-02-25

• compress tribe

5.11.19 2021-02-22

• header fix
• Fix Menu Stuff

5.11.15 2021-02-19

• Detect first block

5.11.0 2021-02-18

• update woo
• move woo inc
• acf update

5.9.35 2021-01-14

• updating licensing for plugin + theme simultaneously
• Fix woocommerce slider breaking previews.
• Fix forms
• Fix Menu
• rows of 5
• fix ids

5.9.28 2021-01-13

• fix password form
• 5.9.265.9.26

5.9.24 2021-01-08

• fix page numbers

5.9.21 2021-01-08

• update cart
• Update reset.php
• Update page-landing.php
• more collection types
• Table update
• change to jawg
• Open Map Support
• Uniform tags and forms on products page
• typo fix in css
• cart margins
• local pickup fix
• fix header cart
• local pickup plus style
• local pickup plus support

5.9.7 2020-12-22

• fix fields
• tel fix
• woo fixes
• fix checkout
• update licensing defaults
• push version
• hotfix
• save save
• fix-split-scroll
• update inc
• version bump
• All blocks converted
• Block overhaul
• Release
• Bookings fix
• Woo Update
• Woo fixes
• fix grid
• Fix buttons and media blocks
• Rem change
• More robust collections
• .DS_Store banished!
• remove config
• update ignore
• Finish Events
• Locations Done
• Removing another sneaky DS_Store in inc
• Change how the licensing package looks for the theme name to better handle child themes, and testing and add DS_store to gitignore
• CSS Fixes
• Rewrite CSS
• Text Align
• Card Blocks
• Add collections support
• single person page
• Finshed Search Page
• passwords
• Footer Finish
• Footer Templates
• remove images
• Cards
• Switch to templates halfway
• Update enqueue.php
• NO MORE FONT AWESOME
• fix people
• add support for bookings
• Fix some woo stuff
• fix lists
• add roles
• Add Manager role
• BG Fixed
• bg theme
• Add support for search block
• better actions for before and after footer specific social media icons
• add actions to footer and footer utility functions
• Plax test
• Add landing page
• Woo fixes
• Woo Fixes
• fix slider
• Fix Buttons again
• Fix for dependency
• Update style.css
• Fix Buttons
• Fix woo login
• fix reset
• fix forms
• Update style.css
• add text color support
• Update \_variables.scss
• update acf blocks for 5.5
• 5.5 Fixes
• fix innerblocks
• 5.5 core blocks fix
• Fix first child editor
• Add gradient easing to backgrounds
• Enable gradients for backgroudns
• Mobile utility menu
• Fix for 5.5
• Fixes for 5.5
• update local
• Fix affiliate theme
• Add all icons
• update latest posts
• add comments
• Add Cover image and embeds
• Cover Block
• Verse and Pre
• updatealignment
• Update gutenberg.php
• Change text align center
• Revert
• sure
• Initial
• Initial commit

0.0.4 2021-03-22

• minify