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@mattsimpson mattsimpson released this 15 Oct 00:27
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v2.0.0
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HeightWind is a lightweight, free WordPress theme designed to showcase content. It features a clean, responsive design with a strong focus on typography, plus a bunch of presentational options and widgetised regions allowing you to give your site a unique touch. HeightWind is based on Highwind, initially developed by James Koster in 2013.

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Features and Fixes

  • Major - Modernized and rebranded Highwind as HeightWind
  • Update - Upgraded FontAwesome from 4.0.3 to 7.0.0 Free
  • Update - Migrated from LESS to SCSS/Sass
  • Update - Migrated from @import to @use syntax (Sass modules)
  • Update - Added modern npm-based build system
  • Update - Improved list styling for better readability
  • Update - Added Text Domain and WordPress version requirements to stylesheet header (WordPress.org best practices)
  • Update - Updated all @SInCE tags to 2.0.0 (rebrand from HighWind to HeightWind)
  • Fix - Fixed menu item height inconsistency
  • Fix - Fixed third-level submenu positioning to appear to the right of parent items
  • Fix - Improved submenu contrast by darkening background color for better visibility
  • Fix - Removed navigation bottom border and list item padding for cleaner, more compact layout
  • Fix - Fixed WordPress block search widget styles and button visibility
  • Fix - Fixed WordPress block quote styling (removed border, adjusted spacing)
  • Fix - Replaced scroll event listener with Intersection Observer API for better performance
  • Fix - Updated back-to-top button to be square (44x44px) for WCAG compliance
  • Fix - Fixed Sass slash-div deprecation warnings by migrating to math.div()
  • Fix - Added translator comments to all strings with placeholders for better i18n support
  • Fix - Fixed 8 output escaping issues for improved security (esc_url, esc_html, esc_attr, wp_kses_post, absint)
  • Fix - Fixed WooCommerce array offset errors when options don't exist in database
  • Fix - Changed print to echo in heightwind-functions.php (WordPress coding standards)
  • Cleanup - Modernized WooCommerce CSS by removing obsolete legacy code
  • Cleanup - Removed unused FitVids and Modernizr plugin files and references
  • Cleanup - Removed legacy translation files (outdated, broken references to old file paths)
  • Dev - Added build scripts for CSS and JavaScript
  • Dev - Added watch mode for development
  • License - Updated to properly credit original HighWind by James Koster

Contributors

use, SInCE, and import
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