Changelog

Popcorn2 is regularly updated with changes. you can see all the changes below:

Popcorn v2 Changelog

v2.3.12 (January 8, 2025)

• CHG: WooCommerce patterns refactored to be more efficient
• CHG: Removed WooCommerce block templates when WooCommerce is not active
• FIX: Localized images in block patterns

v2.3.11 (December 30, 2024)

• CHG: Added theme version detection from style.css
• CHG: Implemented theme constant POPCORN2_THEME_VERSION
• CHG: Migrated Alert Block patterns to preferred location
• CHG: Migrated CTA Block patterns to preferred location
• CHG: Migrated Conclusion Block patterns to preferred location
• CHG: Migrated Recommended Reading Block patterns to preferred location
• CHG: Migrated Product Highlight Block patterns to preferred location
• CHG: Migrated Product Box Block patterns to preferred location
• CHG: Migrated Info Box Block patterns to preferred location
• CHG: Migrated Product Tech Specs Block patterns to preferred location
• CHG: Migrated Pros and Cons Block patterns to preferred location
• CHG: Corrected categorization of Author Bios
• CHG: Corrected categorization of Full Page Sitemap
• CHG: Clean up of categories
• ADD: Addition of variations of patterns

v2.3.10 (December 28, 2024)

• FIX: Changed licensing and update method – requires manual install.

v2.3.9 (October 24, 2024)

• TST: WordPress 6.6/6.7 testing
• CHG: Updates for WooCommerce
• CHG: New Popcorn Options panel
• CHG: theme.json clean up
• CHG: CSS clean up
• CHG: Changed front-page background to use CSS gradient

v2.3.8 (March 18, 2024)

• ADD: Addition of SaaS Template

v2.3.7 (March 5, 2024)

• ADD: Addition of Product Review Template

v2.3.6 (February 22, 2024)

• CHG: Fixed issue where post featured image was cropped.

v2.3.5 (February 22, 2024)

• CHG: Replaced background image for very slight gradient on all templates

v2.3.4 (February 22, 2024)

• FIX: Fixed an issue where some CSS wasnt loading correctly resulting in groups not applying backgrounds
• FIX: Fixed an issue where some CSS wasnt loading correctly resulting in groups not applying borders

v2.3.3 (February 20, 2024)

• FIX: Fixed issue where margin in footer was rendering incorrectly
• ADD: Styling added for Contact Form 7
• ADD: Addition of Merriweather, Open Sans and Roboto fonts
• ADD: Addition of Poppins Font and set default to Poppins
• ADD: Added background Image container to all templates
• ADD: Added Glass style option to Group / Row / Stack blocks
• CHG: Set default font to Poppins
• CHG: Change of Primary color to make accessibility / contrast better
• CHG: Assets changed to reflect color change
• CHG: Headers rebuilt
• CHG: Hero rebuilt
• CHG: All templates now contained within a parent container for improved flexibity
• CHG: All tempolate parts rebuilt more efficiently
• CHG: Moved front page category links to a template part
• CHG: Added Featured Posts 2 col part and embedded into default front page
• CHG: Taxonomy template design changed.
• CHG: Templates have been redesigned for improved efficiency with a reduced depth in the Document Object Model (DOM).

v2.3.2 (February 6, 2024)

• ADD: Addition of Travel Template

v2.3.1 (January 30, 2024)

• FIX: Fixed an issue where Excerpt font size could not be set as it was inheriting from paragraph block settings.
• CHG: Changed footer year to 2024
• ADD: Addition of Pro Blogger Template

v2.3.0 (January 9, 2024)

• FIX: Fixed an issue where css for license wasn’t loading.
• CHG: Removed Hero from Blog Roll
• CHG: Template part categorisation to avoid errors.
• ADD: Addition of default layouts added for Site Editor.
• ADD: Addition of site parts added for Site Editor and Post/Page Editor.
• ADD: Added library for recommended plugins.
• ADD: Added Demo importer functionality

v2.2.3 (September 11, 2023)

• ADD: Add empty index.php for backwards compatibility
• ADD: Addition of Header and Footer only template (Thanks Josh)
• FIX: In some conditions, licensing wasn’t being correctly applied. Added some extra conditional logic to fix.

v2.2.2 (August 19, 2023)

• ADD: New Primary Alert patterns
• ADD: New Featured In Patterns
• ADD: New YouTube and description Patterns
• ADD: New Call to Action Patterns
• ADD: New Info Box patterns
• ADD: New collapsable Table of Contents block patterns (Requires Gutenberg)
• ADD: Public block patterns are now disabled by default, can be re-enabled in the options panel
• ADD: Added count for Scheduled posts on Popcorn Dashboard (Thanks Josh)
• ADD: Added Gradient style variation to featured image (Thanks Josh)
• CHG: Changed pattern category structure
• CHG: Block Pattern category efficiencies
• CHG: More efficient update checks
• CHG: Block patterns moved to preffered WP location
• CHG: Block Styles PHP efficiencies
• FIX: Fixed issue with blank html (Thanks Josh)
• FIX: Some hosting providers caused an issue where ThemeUpdates caused a fatal error
• FIX: Fixed an issue where fontface wasn’t applying globally (Thanks Mohammed)

v2.2.1 (August 11, 2023)

• ADD: Addition of blank.html for landing pages (Thanks Josh)
• ADD: Addition of padding for templates and parts
• FIX: Resolved indent issue with new unordered list
• FIX: Removal of Emojis from block patterns to be compatible with A2 Hosting’s database servers.

v2.2.0 (June 14, 2023)

• FIX: Fixed issue with unordered list style not showing same in editor and front end
• FIX: Fixed issue where there are no posts in dashboard causing fatal error
• FIX: Fixed issue where Wordcount was including HTML tags
• CHG: Migrated author bios template part to patterns folder
• CHG: Site editor is out of Beta. Removed need for gutenberg. Gutenberg still required for Table of contents
• ADD: Added icon block styles for unordered lists
• ADD: New template part (Header Container) change your header globally here.
• ADD: Additional notification patterns
• ADD: Heading block style variations
• ADD: Blockquote block style variation
• ADD: Added icons for buttons
• ADD: Added Clean table block style
• BTA: Added Paragraph block variations to potentially replace alert block patterns
• BTA: Automatically ID headings in your posts and pages. (thanks Josh!)
• TST: WordPress 6.2.x testing
• TST: Gutenberg testing
• TST: Tested Search Icon for Gutenberg 16.0.0

v2.1.5 (March 6, 2023)

• Fixed padding issue on product choice block patterns.

v2.1.4 (March 6, 2023)

• Addition of vertical Dos and Dont’s
• Fixed background in Dos and Don’ts pattern
• Product choice boxes refactored to help with inconsistent sitestripe images
• Sitestripe images can now be centered using a group that uses the class ‘popcorn-sitestripe-center’. Sitestripe dedicated block is ion the works.

v2.1.3 (February 13, 2023)

• Added ability to show featured image to Admin Post Table (Suggestion by Josh, Thanks!)
• Added ability to show approx reading time to Admin Post Table (Suggestion by Josh, Thanks!)
• Addition of Popcorn post stats widget for dashboard
• Theme files clean up

v2.1.2 (February 9, 2023)

• Added author bio to author template (Thanks Vlad)
• Steps block was causing an error after gutenberg update. Resolved with a replacement block pattern.

v2.1.1 (February 8, 2023)

• Gutenberg 14.9.x testing
• Addition of Call to Action block pattern
• Refactor author part as template part
• Set background color on authors template part
• Ability to change paragraphs into some blocks
• Gutenberg 15.x testing
• Added ability to enable Last Updated field To Admin Post Table (Suggestion by Josh, Thanks!)
• Added ability to enable Word Count field To Admin Post Table (Suggestion by Josh, Thanks!)
• Placeholder images should now load properly if theme dir is not Popcorn2
• Fixed an issue where some template parts were not loading
• Initial WordPress 6.2 beta testing successful

v2.1.0 (December 29, 2022)

• Added licensing – license keys available from popcorntheme.com
• Added license missing notification
• Block pattern now have searchable keywords within Gutenberg
• Added ability to enable / disable featured image eager loading
• Added ability to enable / disable legacy customizer
• Added ability to enable / disable Classic menu support
• Added ability to change excerpt length
• Added ability to disable WordPress emojis
• Added colored post status for admins

v2.0.6 (December 23, 2022)

• Gutenberg 14.7.x testing
• Addition of Micro header template part
• Gutenberg 14.8 testing
• Set search to 100% width in Sidebar
• Addition of Block Patterns – Dos and Don’ts
• Addition of Block Patterns – Pricing
• Addition of Authors template part
• Gutenberg automatically activates after installation
• Added ability to remove taxonomy prefixes
• Added ability to enable Reusable blocks menu item
• Added popcorn links and theme information in options page
• Credits added to options page

v2.0.5 (December 05, 2022)

• Addition of pattern category ‘Popcorn utility’
• Addition of pattern ‘Sitemap’
• Addition of 2 table of contents containing icons
• Addition of 404 template

v2.0.4 (November 30, 2022)

• Cleanup of textdomain for theme updates
• Addition of copyright
• Gutenberg 14.6.0 testing
• Gutenberg 14.6.1 testing
• Start building out of Popcorn2 options panel
• Added override for responsive width in options panel
• Image caption font size set to small
• Addition of more block patterns
• Better icons & styling added to other block patterns
• Added popcorn-full-height CSS class to groups within columns in footer

v2.0.3 (November 17, 2022)

• Add classic menu support

v2.0.2 (November 16, 2022)

• Removal of unused CSS classes from template parts
• Realignment of some html5 elements in template parts
• Removal of unused CSS classes from templates
• Realignment of some html5 elements in templates
• Removal of some CSS into theme.json
• Migration of box shadow to theme.json
• Migration of popcorn full height theme.json
• Typo fix in product highlight pattern

v2.0.1 (November 09, 2022)

• Version bump to v2.0.1
• Clean up of files
• Fix hero image url

v2.0.0 (November 08, 2022)

• Initial release