v1.8

Adds auto-updating, SASS source style files, minified CSS, and compressed images.

This release lays a lot of under-the-hood groundwork for implementing of mobile-friendly CSS grid enhancements and for the transition to a more extensible object-oriented framework architecture.

Maintenance Release 10.23.15

This maintenance release fixes the following issues:

• Restores white background around page content to page entries.
• Fixes styling error on comment number display on traditional tapestry entries (home and archive pages).
• Fixes default tapestry not registering on author pages.

Maintenance Release 3.0.2

Fix missing white background on traditional tapestry on homepage and archive page entries.

Fix for borders on single posts and pages

This is a critical update from 3.0

Rain at Dawn

Arras is a little like your uncle's vintage Ford Mustang. You hang onto it because it's a piece of nostalgia, even though it's dated and not as efficient as just getting a new car.

Later on Friday

Change Log

• Fixes footer columns and sidebars not correctly registering

Beta Release

All features are in for this release cycle.

_Testers Welcome!_

Please Note: Though this looks much like Arras 1.x versions, and shares a lot of its code DNA with Arras 1.x versions, it is not backwards compatible with Arras 1.x in many respects. Arras 3 will import many, but not all, settings from Arras 1.x versions previously installed, but _if you're upgrading from Arras 1.x expect there to be some issues in translation that will need worked out._

Friday Afternoon

All features are in for this release cycle.

_Testers Welcome!_

Please Note: Though this looks much like Arras 1.x versions, and shares a lot of its code DNA with Arras 1.x versions, it is not backwards compatible with Arras 1.x in many respects. Arras 3 will import many, but not all, settings from Arras 1.x versions previously installed, but _if you're upgrading from Arras 1.x expect there to be some issues in translation that will need worked out._

Saturday Morning Coffee

User Notes for this Release:

• Color schemes are now located in the "Colors" section of the Customizer: Appearance > Customize > Colors
• The use of custom thumbnail sizing for various theme locations in a responsive grid system is of no use. Everything resizes dynamically. Setting of custom thumbnail sizes has been discontinued in favor of using the native WP thumbnail sizes, plus a small-square thumbnail, and a wide-screen thumbnail size that sets the thumnail ratio for the slideshow and node tapestry to a 16:9 ratio (the same ratio your wide-screen TV uses).
• The Secondary Sidebar Widget area will appear only on 3-column layouts. Neither sidebar will appear on single-column layouts. Below-content widget areas appear only on the home page.

Power User Notes for this Release:

• Color Schemes: You can add/modify/remove color schemes from a child theme via the new 'arras_color_schemes' filter. See notes in library/styles.php for instructions.

Change Log - Arras 3.0 Alpha-02

• Complete removal of duplicate styles from base.css
• Refactor color schemes
• Add Base Color Schemes to Customizer
• Remove Color Scheme option from Arras Options page Design Tab
• Add new color scheme functions to style.php
• Remove css/styles/$color.css files
• Remove minimum logo height

Roadmap

For updated Roadmap, see README.md

Tuesday at Dusk

Change Log (Arras 1.6.2 -- Arras 3.0 Alpha-01)

_This version is for testing only. Do not install on production websites!_

• Implement WP title-tag support, remove arras_title()
• Remove arras_setup() and relocate various sub-functions:
  • Theme support declarations into new arras_theme_support()
  • Move menu functions into new arras_menu()
  • Move wp_head() actions to new arras_scripts() and arras_styles()
  • Fix incorrect sidebar registration loading sidebars without an id
• Fix deprecated use of caller_get_posts() in sidebar.php
• Remove user.css
• Remove yarpp template
• Remove pagetpl-redirect template
• Rename pagetpl-single.php to no-sidebar-page.php
• Rename pagetpl-archive.php to archive-page.php
• Remove superfish.js menu, implement CSS3-driven menu
• Remove smoothness.js from admin
• Remove tabbed sidebar widget
• Remove tag cloud widget
• Add skip-links and styles for Accessibility
• Add Mobile Friendly capacity:
  • Add Responsive Grid CSS
  • Update all templates for use with Responsive Grid
  • Update tapestry functions for use with Responsive Grid
  • Update homepage slideshow for Responsive Grid
  • Add mobile swipe gestures on slideshow
  • Restructure thumbnail (featured image) support to use native WP sizes plus wide-screen size and small-square size
  • Add mobile main nav CSS for small screens ( < 768px wide )
  • Update dynamic footer widget sizing functions
• Update Options Page Tabs:
  • Refactor for Responsive layout changes
  • Remove "Thumbnails" Tab, move "Auto Thumbs" option to "Layout" Tab.
  • Move Layout selection from "Design" to "Layout" Tab
  • Update Header Background Color option to use WP colorpicker
  • Fix backgrounds not appearing on multi-select dropdowns
• Update arras_styles() to load child theme stylesheet automatically
• Merge default.css into base.css and lint:
  • Remove duplicate style definitions (still in progress)
  • Remove px-based font-sizes, implemente rem-based sizes
  • Remove all instances of !important
• Update Theme Tags

Maintenance Release

This release fixes the following 3 issues:

• Footer Widget areas not sizing correctly
• Blog Description in header not working correctly with Customizer's "Display/Hide Header Text" functionality
• Page title not displaying correctly on some pages/posts