Changelog

Version 5.0.4 9th September 2025

New
  • Added comprehensive deprecation notice system and backwards compatibility framework
Tweak
  • Enhanced deprecation notice with 24-hour dismissal option
Fix
  • Set default avatar to 'mystery' in get_avatar calls across theme
  • Improved global options initialization timing using 'init' hook
  • Corrected admin notice stylesheet path in premium version
  • Add grid layout to large custom posts widget on desktop
  • Fix stylesheet paths in admin and customizer classes
  • Resolved naming issue for logo in Customizer
  • Resolved pathing issue for customizer.css
  • Resolved styling issues with custom pages widget
  • Resolved styling issues with posts horizontal widget
  • Updated code style to WordPress standards and function_exists in Custom-Functions.php
  • Resolved issues with images not displaying proper srcsets for mobile devices
Info
  • Updated Freemius SDK (v2.12.1)

Version 5.0.3 4th July 2025

Fix
  • Resolved issue with migration not allowing the removal of widgets

Version 5.0.2 2nd July 2025

Fix
  • Resolved issue with customizer not showing theme options, colors and typography

Version 5.0.1 2nd July 2025

Tweak
  • Refactored custom functions from a class to global functions
  • Only load plugin install script on the theme page
  • Added check for existence of premium widget before rendering
  • Improved mobile responsiveness for horizontal widget (Flexbox)
  • Increased custom post title size on mobile
  • Reverted legacy customizer option keys to mh_magazine_options
Fix
  • Resolved undefined method for mh_sort_id_list and mh_sanitize_id_list
  • Resolved constant JS null error
  • Subheading toggle not applying correctly
  • Image path issues in Freemius integration, Flexslider, and WooCommerce stylesheets
  • Removed accidental inclusion of demo importer files
  • Homepage functionality issues and removed unused create_homepage_template function
Info
  • Added missing child theme and shortcodes plugin

Version 5.0.0 16th June 2025

Tweak
  • Removed "premium only features" advertisement from the customizer [//]: # fs_premium_only_end
  • Optimized theme info admin page [//]: # fs_premium_only_begin
Fix
  • Errors related to theme-updater-class.php [//]: # fs_premium_only_end
  • Deprecated notices related to Freemius SDK and PHP v8.4
  • For users without an administrator role, an error was displayed in the admin area
  • PHP Warning: Undefined array key "toggle_post_subheading"
Info
  • Rebuilt and restructured the codebase
  • Updated Freemius SDK (v2.12.0)
  • WordPress v6.8.1 compatibility

Version 4.1.2 26th April 2024

New
  • Added MH Themes affiliate program menu item
Info
  • Updated Freemius SDK (v2.7.2)
  • WordPress v6.5.2 compatibility

Version 4.1.1 18th March 2024

Fix
  • Added missing FontAwesome icons after latest library update

Version 4.1.0 10th March 2024

New
  • Added TikTok to social profile icons
  • Added Mastodon & WhatsApp to share buttons
Tweak
  • Replaced X/Twitter icon for social profiles and share buttons
  • Accessibility improvements for mobile navigation
Fix
  • "More" link/text of MH Spotlight widget wasn't clickable
  • Text floating around images on mobile devices
Info
  • Updated FontAwesome icon library (v6.5.1)
  • WordPress v6.4.3 compatibility

Version 4.0.0 15th January 2024

Info
  • Added Freemius License & Updater Integration
  • WordPress v6.4.2 compatibility

Version 3.10.0 12th April 2023

New
  • Added year shortcode "[year]"
Fix
  • Updated FlexSlider to 2.7.2 to fix "href" warnings
  • Added block style to sub headings
  • Added title tags for icons in MH Tabbed widget
  • "Trying to access array offset on value of type bool" error
  • WooCommerce product images did not appear in RTL languages
  • Updated protocols for schema.org URLs
Info
  • WordPress v6.2.0 compatibility

Version 3.9.13 19th January 2022

Info
  • Minor improvements for footer copyright url
  • WordPress v5.8.3 compatibility

Version 3.9.12 20th December 2021

Info
  • Updated the Theme updater class to v1.2.0

Version 3.9.11 18th November 2021

New
  • Added Whatsapp icon support in social menu
Tweak
  • Switched from widgets block editor to classic widgets
Fix
  • Fixed subheading issue in widgets
Info
  • WordPress v5.8.2 compatibility

Version 3.9.10 23rd July 2021

Tweak
  • Added subheading for archives
  • Enhanced subheading for custom post headers and widgets
  • Updated responsive mobile menu library version
Info
  • Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation – thanks to Luis Antonio Paludetti
  • WordPress v5.7.2 compatibility

Version 3.9.9 20th February 2021

Fix
  • Left/right navigation arrows in the carousel widget didn't work properly in certain cases
Info
  • WordPress v5.6.1 compatibility

Version 3.9.8 14th December 2020

Fix
  • "jQuery.fn.load() is deprecated" error latest WordPress jQuery migrate changes
Info
  • WordPress v5.6 compatibility

Version 3.9.7 9th September 2020

Fix
  • Reverted latest change regarding the mobile navigation which lead to some issues

Version 3.9.6 4th September 2020

Tweak
  • The currently viewed post will no longer show up in posts widgets
  • Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation
Fix
  • Page template "Full-Width" didn't work correctly in combination with WooCommerce
  • Mobile navigation link opened when clicking on the arrow icon
Info
  • WordPress v5.5.1 compatibility

Version 3.9.5 4th May 2020

Fix
  • WP Block Gallery Layout
Info
  • WordPress v5.4.1 compatibility

Version 3.9.4 20th March 2020

Tweak
  • Removed Google+ from author profile on frontend and backend
  • Moved breadcrumb itemprop position outside of the link HTML tag
Fix
  • Widget Custom Excerpt Length in Words didn't work if the Post/Page "Excerpt" textarea is filled

Version 3.9.3 10th February 2020

Tweak
  • Optimize theme license page for better license activation handling
Fix
  • Breadcrumb schema.org markup was missing the "position" meta property
  • Widget category filters weren't applied properly

Version 3.9.2 31st January 2020

Tweak
  • Breadcrumb now uses "schema.org" instead of the deprecated "data-vocabulary.org"
Fix
  • Widget Posts Grid category filter wasn't applied properly
Info
  • WordPress v5.3.2 compatibility

Version 3.9.1 10th December 2019

Tweak
  • Removed Google+ from social sharing buttons
  • Updated protocol for schema.org URLs
  • Customizer theme color #2 now also changes the tagline font color
Info
  • Minor improvements and fixes
  • WordPress v5.3 compatibility

Version 3.9.0 22nd May 2019

Info
  • Added theme updater

Version 3.8.7 12th December 2018

Info
  • Fixed minor alignment issue with paginated posts

Version 3.8.6 11th October 2018

Info
  • Added support for Gutenberg editor
  • Added CSS to style core Gutenberg blocks

Version 3.8.5 18th May 2018

Info
  • Added support for GDPR features in WP 4.9.6
  • Updated translation files

Version 3.8.4 15th March 2018

Info
  • Added LinkedIn to collection of built-in share buttons
  • Added Frijole font to Google Webfonts collection
  • Added print button to easily print post content
  • Added CSS styles to hide inappropriate elements for print layout
  • Added Apple / iTunes, Viadeo and WhatsApp icon support to social icons menu
  • Updated brazilian portuguese translation – thanks to Luis Antonio Paludetti
  • Updated german translation
  • Updated translation files

Version 3.8.3 26th November 2017

Info
  • Added support for Instagram in author box
  • Added Instagram URL input field for user profile in WordPress dashboard
  • Added Fira Sans font to Google Webfonts collection
  • Removed code to support shortcodes in widgets due to support by default in WP 4.9
  • Renamed .mh-ad-spot CSS class to .mh-info-spot to prevent blocking by ad blockers
  • Added greek translation files – thanks to Kostas Arvanitidis
  • Updated swedish translation – thanks to Torbjörn Palmberg
  • Updated german translation
  • Updated translation files

Version 3.8.2 16th August 2017

Info
  • Added Medium icon support to social icons menu
  • Updated Facebook JavaScript-SDK to v2.9
  • Updated Modernizr script to v3.5.0
  • Fixed typo in polish translation
  • Updated romanian translation – thanks to Celeste K. Godwin

Version 3.8.1 4th June 2017

Info
  • Added CSS to support new core widgets in WordPress 4.8
  • Updated bulgarian translation – thanks to Petar Dimitrov
  • Updated ukrainian translation – thanks to Yuriy Kaminskiy
  • Updated translation files

Version 3.8.0 8th May 2017

Info
  • Several minor CSS fixes, adjustments and improvements
  • Improved compatibility with Disqus plugin
  • Several modifications and improvements in comments.php
  • Comment section now loads WordPress core markup instead of custom callback
  • Added function for additional CSS classes in comment section
  • Removed comment smooth scroll animation for improved plugin compatibility
  • Added support for new product gallery feature in WooCommerce
  • Fixed issue with archive ads displaying on WooCommerce shop page
  • Combined functions for post meta data into mh_post_meta()
  • Moved deprecated function mh_loop_meta() to mh-compatibility.php
  • Moved deprecated function mh_comments() to mh-compatibility.php
  • Highlighted dates with posts in WordPress Calendar widget
  • Added norwegian (nynorsk) translation – thanks to Audun Skjervøy
  • Updated polish translation – thanks to Andrzej Warzecha
  • Updated german translation
  • Updated translation files

Version 3.7.0 5th March 2017

Info
  • Added full-width template support for posts
  • Added Email & Spotify icons to social icons menu
  • Improved encoding for built-in share buttons
  • Improved styling for multisite registration form
  • Fixed alignment of images in navigation menu (e.g. flags from multilingual plugins)
  • Updated Font Awesome Icon Fonts to v4.7.0
  • Added turkish translation files – thanks to Türker Yildirim
  • Updated brazilian portuguese translation – thanks to Luis Antonio Paludetti
  • Updated russian translation – thanks to Vitaly
  • Updated italian translation – thanks to Filippo Rizzi
  • Updated german translation
  • Updated translation files

Version 3.6.1 3rd January 2017

Info
  • Several minor CSS fixes, adjustments and improvements
  • Replaced pagination on archives with WordPress core function the_posts_pagination()
  • Removed redundant option to scale background image (core functionality in WP 4.7)
  • Improved footer to display columns based on active number of footer widget areas
  • Changed theme related links in WordPress dashboard to HTTPS
  • Added backwards compatibility for custom CSS field in mh-compatibility.php
  • Added custom CSS field only if it contains data (core functionality in WP 4.7)
  • Added option to hide image caption with category name for posts on archives
  • Improved included child theme to load RTL stylesheet of parent theme if enabled
  • Added lithuanian translation files – thanks to Juras Rabačauskas
  • Updated dutch translation
  • Updated german translation
  • Updated translation files

Version 3.6.0 30th October 2016

Info
  • Several minor design fixes, adjustments and improvements
  • Added new function mh_loop_layout() to handle archive layouts
  • Added new archive layout to display large post and then list of posts (Layout 3)
  • Added new archive layout to display grid of posts (Layout 4)
  • Added new archive layout to display dynamic variation of posts (Layout 5)
  • Added 4 new layouts for widget titles
  • Added option to disable / hide tags on posts
  • Added Quicksand font to Google Webfonts collection
  • Added new function mh_copyright_notice() to handle footer copyright notice
  • Added dismiss button to welcome notice in WordPress dashboard
  • Added new theme support section within theme options panel in customizer
  • Added excerpts to posts in MH Posts Grid widget
  • Added options to display post meta and excerpts to MH Posts Grid widget
  • Added has_category() check in template parts where appropriate
  • Added Jetpack Infinite Scroll support for new archive layouts
  • Improved function mh_infinite_scroll_render() to support archive layouts
  • Improved handling of content on archives by reusing existing template parts
  • Improved handling of advertisements on archives (including new archive layouts)
  • Fixed rare syntax error message with older PHP versions before PHP 5.3
  • Removed role attribute for nav and aside elements to fix warnings in W3C validation
  • Removed redundant files content-loop-layout1.php and content-loop-layout2.php
  • Removed redundant file mh-customizer.js
  • Improved handling of ads on archives / within loop to avoid inclusion in feeds
  • Improved structured data for custom logo to fix error in rich snippet testing tool
  • Improved way of loading stylesheet for included child theme
  • Updated theme screenshot of included child theme
  • Updated content on theme info page in WordPress dashboard
  • Updated brazilian portuguese translation – thanks to Luis Antonio Paludetti
  • Updated german translation
  • Updated translation files

Version 3.5.0 17th September 2016

Info
  • Improved HTML semantics for several elements
  • Improved header.php to load pingback URL only on posts
  • Improved structured data in header to ensure W3C validation for custom logo
  • Implemented additional structured data for better SEO
  • Fixed 1px resizing issue of medium sized thumbnails in Home 3 / Home 4
  • Fixed W3C validation for custom widgets in case of duplicate posts (post IDs)
  • Fixed minor alignment issue with icons for menu items in navigation
  • Added minor CSS tweaks to support WP User Avatar plugin (Gravatar alternative)
  • Improved readability of list items in content area on posts and pages
  • Added support for image, gallery, video and audio post formats
  • Added support for icons on thumbnails based on post formats
  • Added function to remove hentry CSS class from pages and custom widgets
  • Added function to handle conditional CSS classes for grid of posts
  • Removed redundant conditional tag in mh_scripts()
  • Replaced random with latest posts on 404 page to avoid performance issues
  • Improved archive.php to avoid duplicate author bio on author archives in WP 4.7
  • Updated content on theme info page in WordPress dashboard
  • Updated WordPress theme tags
  • Added russian translation files – thanks to Denis
  • Added arabic translation files – thanks to Salam Waddah
  • Updated japanese translation – thanks to Noriko Oseko
  • Updated brazilian portuguese translation – thanks to Luis Antonio Paludetti
  • Updated french translation – thanks to Didier Demory
  • Updated german translation
  • Updated translation files

Version 3.4.0 23rd July 2016

Info
  • Several design adjustments and improvements
  • Updated WordPress theme tags
  • Added theme support for custom logo (introduced in WP 4.5)
  • Changed position of custom header image to support additional custom logo feature
  • Improved handling of Header 2 widget area for more flexibility
  • Improved header navigation to display menu on mobile as well
  • Added option to enable/disable transparent header
  • Added notices to widget areas on Homepage template if no widgets have been placed
  • Added notices to widget areas on WooCommerce pages if no widgets have been placed
  • Added function to change default prefix of titles on archives
  • Added new file mh-compatibility.php to handle backwards compatibility
  • Added new file image.php to handle / display image attachments
  • Added new files archive.php and search.php
  • Added .mh-navigation class to optimize and improve CSS for navigation menus
  • Added icons for menu items to indicate if menu items have sub-menus
  • Added fields for LinkedIn and Xing to user profile in WordPress dashboard
  • Added support for LinkedIn and Xing icons in author box
  • Added email to friend button to share buttons on posts
  • Added several fixes and improvements to comments.php
  • Added thumbnails and post titles to post / attachment navigation
  • Restyled author box, comment section and share buttons
  • Improved markup and semantics for image attachments
  • Improved JS performance of back to top button – thanks to Bernhard Kau
  • Moved deprecated function mh_page_title() to mh-compatibility.php
  • Removed deprecated file content-attachment.php (replaced by image.php)
  • Updated SlickNav Mobile Menu to v1.0.7
  • Updated Font Awesome Icon Fonts to v4.6.3
  • Updated Modernizr script to v3.3.1
  • Added portuguese translation files – thanks to José Ribeiro
  • Added norwegian (bokmål) translation files – thanks to Jan Sandtrø & Ben Ormstad
  • Updated german translation
  • Updated translation files

Version 3.3.1 31st May 2016

Info
  • Several minor design adjustments and improvements
  • Added notice to sidebars and Home 12 widget area if no widgets have been placed
  • Added Play and Quantico to collection of Google Webfonts
  • Removed hentry class from custom widgets to prevent notices in GWT
  • Changed links for social share buttons on posts to HTTPS
  • Fixed user selection in MH Author Bio widget to display applicable users only
  • Improved escaping of data in breadcrumbs
  • Updated Facebook JavaScript-SDK to v2.6
  • Added czech translation files – thanks to Aleš Bažout
  • Added finnish translation files – thanks to Ville Polvela
  • Updated polish translation – thanks to Andrzej Warzecha
  • Updated french translation – thanks to Benjamin Bonhore
  • Updated brazilian portuguese translation – thanks to Luis Antonio Paludetti
  • Updated german translation
  • Updated translation files

Version 3.3.0 9th April 2016

Info
  • Minor CSS adjustments
  • Fixed issue with date in header displaying in english language only
  • Added workaround to fix 1px offset FlexSlider issue
  • Added author name to posts on archives for better structured data
  • Added selective refresh support for widgets (introduced in WP 4.5)
  • Updated translation files
  • Updated brazilian portuguese translation – thanks to Luis Antonio Paludetti
  • Updated german translation

Version 3.2.1 9th March 2016

Info
  • Minor CSS adjustments
  • Fixed displaying issues with MH Posts Stacked widget in Chrome browser
  • Updated theme screenshot

Version 3.2.0 4th March 2016

Info
  • Several minor design adjustments and improvements
  • Fixed issue where font size of tag cloud could not be modified in child themes
  • Fixed issue with alt tag of image placeholders not being translatable
  • Fixed minor alignment issues in RTL (Right-to-Left) layout
  • Fixed incorrect padding for copyright notice when wide layout is enabled
  • Several improvements for color options
  • Renamed mh-options.php file to mh-customizer.php
  • Decreased speed of MH Slider and MH Carousel widgets to 7000ms
  • Reorganized layout options into separate sections
  • Removed redundant options to enable/disable ticker and header search field
  • Added 26 new fonts to Google Webfonts collection
  • Added 2 new additional layouts for MH Slider widget
  • Added support for new slider layouts to MH Custom Slider widget
  • Added new additional layout for widget titles
  • Added helpful links to theme options panel in customizer
  • Added formatting support for descriptions on archives
  • Added styling for WordPress RSS feed widget
  • Added options to display content in header bars (top/bottom)
  • Added optional date to header bar (top/bottom)
  • Added optional news ticker to header bar (top/bottom)
  • Added optional search to header bar (top/bottom)
  • Added optional navigation to header bar (top/bottom)
  • Added optional social icons to header bar (top/bottom)
  • Added option to enable/disable caption with category name to several widgets
  • Added MH Posts Stacked widget to display block with stacked posts
  • Added MH Posts Horizontal widget to display small posts as horizontal grid
  • Added MH Posts Digest widget to display an overview of posts
  • Added MH Posts Focus widget to display 5 posts with focus on large post
  • Added MH Posts Lineup widget to display featured post and list with additional posts
  • Added MH Category Columns widget to display posts from specific categories
  • Removed redundant HTML markup for stacked social icons
  • Updated theme screenshot
  • Fixed error in italian translation file (Cerca instead of Serca)
  • Updated dutch translation – thanks to Jos van Oyen
  • Updated brazilian portuguese translation – thanks to Luis Antonio Paludetti
  • Updated romanian translation
  • Updated german translation
  • Updated translation files

Version 3.1.0 16th December 2015

Info
  • Overall code maintenance
  • Fixed issue with WordPress comments appearing on BuddyPress pages
  • Fixed issue with unapproved comments displaying in MH Tabbed widget
  • Fixed incorrect placeholder image for MH Spotlight widget
  • Fixed minor inconsistencies with changes through color options
  • Fixed issue with pagination of paginated posts displaying in excerpts of widgets
  • Fixed issue with max-width of main container in wide layout when two sidebars enabled
  • Fixed issue with links in comments that were not highlighted anymore
  • Fixed HTML5 validation notices for Google Webfonts
  • Minor CSS fixes for right-to-left layout (rtl.css)
  • Adjusted margins in comment form to support new layout in WordPress 4.4
  • Improved handling of excerpts when more-tag is present
  • Added missing structured data (hentry) on archives
  • Added options to MH Tabbed widget to set number of posts, tags and comments
  • Added option to MH YouTube Video widget to enable autoplay
  • Added option to MH YouTube Video widget to display video title / information
  • Added option to MH YouTube Video widget to display player controls
  • Added option to MH YouTube Video widget to enable recommended videos
  • Modified iframe of MH YouTube Video widget to allow fullscreen mode
  • Escaped all translation strings in theme customizer
  • Removed duplicate IDs for MH Slider and MH Carousel widgets (fixed W3C warning)
  • Updated brazilian portuguese translation – thanks to Luis Antonio Paludetti
  • Updated italian translation – thanks to Vakhtang Naskidashvili
  • Updated german translation
  • Updated translation files

Version 3.0.0 21st October 2015

Info
  • Recoded and optimized codebase for widgets, functions and template files
  • Increased site width from 980px/1300px to 1080px/1431px
  • Improved responsive layout on mobile devices
  • Improved styling and added several CSS adjustments
  • Improved markup and semantics on posts/pages
  • Reorganized custom hooks in functions.php
  • Renamed page template files to improve consistency
  • Renamed image placeholder files to improve consistency
  • Changed theme folder name to mh-magazine
  • Changed text domain to mh-magazine
  • Optimized functions to easily unhook in child themes
  • Replaced and restyled social buttons on posts
  • Fixed incorrect string for post count in author box
  • Redesigned author box on posts
  • Redesigned related content to display grid of posts
  • Prefixed grid to improve plugin compatibility
  • Improved handling of site title and tagline for better SEO
  • Improved function for Google Webfonts to load fonts via HTTPS
  • Improved and reorganized options panel in customizer
  • Improved handling of slider and carousel widgets
  • Improved and redesigned MH Social widget to support Font Awesome icons
  • Improved options to enable/disable post meta data
  • Improved names of widget areas for better usability
  • Improved breadcrumb navigation to display parents of parent pages
  • Improved existing color options and added new color options for more flexibility
  • Moved color options to separate file/functions for better handling in child themes
  • Moved typography options from file mh-options.php to mh-google-webfonts.php
  • Added HTML5 markup support for search form, comments, gallery and image captions
  • Added Google Webfonts character subsets for arabic, hebrew and vietnamese language
  • Added several new Google Webfonts to fonts collection in customizer
  • Added search box to header right next to news ticker
  • Added option to hide search box in header
  • Added back to top button to easily scroll back to top of the site
  • Added option to enable/disable back to top button
  • Added link to comment count to refer to comment section
  • Added date to small posts in MH Custom Posts widget
  • Added MH Author Bio widget to display user information in sidebar
  • Added MH Posts Grid widget to display a grid of posts including thumbnails
  • Added MH Posts Large widget to display a list of large sized posts
  • Added MH Posts List widget to display a list of posts including thumbnails
  • Added MH Tabbed widget to display latest posts, tags and comments
  • Added category name to MH Slider (Layout 2) widget
  • Added new additional style (Layout 3) for MH Slider widget
  • Added widget area for advertisements in header next to logo
  • Added hooks to header/footer for flexible layouts within child themes
  • Added custom menu slot for social icons in header
  • Added custom menu slot for social icons of MH Social widget
  • Added option to MH YouTube Video widget to link title to custom URL
  • Added support for Font Awesome icons v4.4.0
  • Added CSS classes based on widgets to widget areas for flexible styling
  • Added header navigation and social icons above header
  • Added separate panel for theme options in customizer (introduced in WP 4.0.0)
  • Changed excerpt length from characters to words for better support of exotic languages
  • Removed modified wp_trim_excerpt(); function to improve support for 3rd party plugins
  • Removed redundant social icons / image files
  • Removed redundant layout options (due to improvements or new functionality in WP 4.3)
  • Removed redundant files comments-pages.php, author.php and searchform.php
  • Removed redundant custom controls for WP customizer
  • Removed redundant MH Advertising widget (text widget can be used instead)
  • Removed redundant MH Affiliate widget (text widget can be used instead)
  • Removed option to add favicon in favor of Site Icon feature in WP 4.3
  • Removed optional teaser text on posts
  • Removed backwards compatibility of title tag (introduced in WP 4.1)
  • Updated image dimensions to support increased site width
  • Updated jQuery FlexSlider to v2.5.0
  • Updated SlickNav Mobile Menu to v1.0.3
  • Updated child theme files to support renamed template
  • Updated grid in MH Magazine Shortcodes plugin
  • Updated theme screenshot with new version
  • Added romanian translation – thanks to Alice Calin
  • Added indonesian translation files – thanks to Widiyanto Saputro
  • Updated brazilian portuguese translation – thanks to Luis Antonio Paludetti
  • Updated german translation
  • Updated translation files

Version 2.4.3 29th July 2015

Info
  • Several minor design improvements
  • Updated constructor method for WP_Widget to fully support WordPress 4.3.0

Version 2.4.2 27th June 2015

Info
  • Added missing escaping where necessary
  • Added CSS class to image placeholders
  • Added CSS class to body tag to replace redundant functions for sidebar position
  • Added theme support for title tags (introduced in WP 4.1)
  • Improved homepage template (Home 6 changes position like regular sidebar)
  • Improved author box to allow HTML in author bio

Version 2.4.1 27th May 2015

Info
  • Overall improved markup and code structure
  • Improved sanitization of options in customizer
  • Moved post titles on archives (layout 1) next to thumbnails
  • Moved built-in shortcodes to MH Magazine Shortcodes plugin
  • Added MH Magazine Shortcodes plugin to /add-ons folder
  • Replaced default logo with new version
  • Updated MH Affiliate widget with new banner
  • Removed redundant banners of MH Affiliate widget
  • Updated theme screenshot
  • Updated child theme with new theme screenshot
  • Added croatian translation files – thanks to Emir Kurtovic
  • Updated brazilian portuguese translation with some corrections
  • Updated french translation – thanks to Florent Guignard
  • Updated german translation
  • Updated translation files

Version 2.4.0 20th April 2015

Info
  • Minor CSS adjustments
  • Improved handling of responsive embeds
  • Added proper copyright attribution to readme.txt
  • Added MH Facebook page widget (replaced MH Facebook likebox widget)
  • Removed MH Facebook likebox widget (deprecated from June 23rd 2015)
  • Updated Facebook SDK
  • Updated child theme to load stylesheet with wp_enqueue_scripts() instead of @import
  • Updated translation files
  • Updated german translation

Version 2.3.1 31st March 2015

Info
  • Fixed small CSS issue with copyright notice on some mobile devices

Version 2.3.0 20th March 2015

Info
  • Several minor CSS adjustments
  • Fixed issue with footer navigation if no footer content exists
  • Fixed issue where category filter for news ticker did only accept one category ID
  • Fixed small syntax error in mh_head_misc();
  • Replaced theme screenshot
  • Removed theme dashboard widget (replaced by theme info page)
  • Added licensing information for images on theme screenshot
  • Added theme info page to WordPress dashboard
  • Added conditional for caption in MH Spotlight widget to check if title exists
  • Added option to MH Spotlight widget to filter multiple categories by ID
  • Added wpml-config.xml for future WPML compatibility
  • Added MH YouTube widget to easily display responsive YouTube videos
  • Added minor improvements to responsive layout
  • Improved sanitization of data in custom widgets
  • Improved handling of options in MH Facebook Likebox widget
  • Improved function for prev/next post links to prevent unnecessary markup
  • Improved function for breadcrumb navigation
  • Included css3-mediaqueries.js because Google Code will cease operations
  • Updated theme description
  • Updated strings in translation files
  • Updated german translation
  • Updated brazilian portuguese translation – thanks to Luis Antonio Paludetti
  • Added bulgarian translation files – thanks to Red Line Group ltd.

Version 2.2.1 20th December 2014

Info
  • Improved handling of options for customizer in WP 4.1
  • Fixed issue with audio attachments on attachment page
  • Moved child theme to add-ons folder
  • Added ukrainian translation files – thanks to Nestor

Version 2.2.0 2nd December 2014

Info
  • Minor CSS adjustments
  • Fixed issue with colors of caption text in galleries
  • Fixed another issue with content width on full-width page template
  • Improved responsive layout for smartphones in landscape mode
  • Improved validation for custom excerpt length
  • Improved validation for custom font size (added fallback)
  • Improved handling of FlexSlider
  • Improved function for titles to support custom post types
  • Simplified function for post / image navigation
  • Added conditional for pagination markup
  • Added support for Jetpack Infinite Scroll
  • Added brazilian portuguese translation – thanks to Luis Antonio Paludetti
  • Added dutch translation – thanks to Yves Wens
  • Updated spanish translation – thanks to Xavier Lopez
  • Updated italian translation – thanks to Vakhtang Naskidashvili

Version 2.1.0 26th August 2014

Info
  • Several code improvements and CSS adjustments
  • Reorganized file structure
  • Reorganized and improved options panel
  • Added CSS class to teaser text on posts for better styling
  • Fixed issue with repeating teaser text on paginated posts
  • Fixed issue with repeating featured image on paginated posts
  • Fixed issue with $content_width variable when using full page template
  • Fixed issue where image captions were not shown for gallery images
  • Fixed issue where custom admin scripts were loaded on every admin page
  • Improved navigation on mobile devices
  • Improved responsive layout / handling of second sidebar
  • Improved handling of page titles
  • Improved author box function to prevent plugin conflicts
  • Improved readability of footer copyright notice
  • Improved functions/filters to handle ads on posts and archives
  • Improved MH Recent Comments widget to not display trackbacks anymore
  • Improved alignment of images
  • Improved implementation of native WordPress gallery
  • Improved support for WooCommerce 2.1
  • Improved support for Contact Form 7
  • Improved appearance of <input> elements on mobile and desktops
  • Improved styling of news ticker
  • Improved title of news ticker (is now optional and can be disabled)
  • Improved implementation of Google Webfonts
  • Improved color options
  • Removed integration of prettyPhoto lightbox (plugin recommended)
  • Removed optional slider on category archives (will be replaced with better solution)
  • Removed redundant option to set site width to 1300px (depends on sidebars now)
  • Added prefix to important CSS classes to improve plugin compatibility
  • Added option to link featured image to attachment page
  • Added option to MH Custom Slider widget to open links in new browser window / tab
  • Added styling for default WordPress pages widget
  • Added two more fonts to collection of Google Webfonts
  • Added option to disable Google Webfonts
  • Added option to choose character sets (subsets) for Google Webfonts
  • Added option to modify imported font styles of Google Webfonts
  • Added nofollow-tag to footer credit link
  • Replaced the_title() with the_title_attribute() for link title attributes
  • Reduced HTML markup of loop output
  • Updated Modernizr script to latest version (v2.8.3)
  • Updated FlexSlider to latest version (v2.2.2)
  • Changed FlexSlider from fade to slide due to temporary bug in FlexSlider (v2.2.2)
  • Updated readme.txt with licenses of bundled resources
  • Updated stylesheet for RTL languages (rtl.css)
  • i18n improvements for better translations
  • Added japanese translation file
  • Added .pot file for easier translations
  • Updated translation strings
  • Updated german translation
  • Updated spanish translation – thanks to Xavier Lopez

Version 2.0.3 11th June 2014

Info
  • Reduced font size for blockquotes
  • Several small improvements of responsive layout
  • Added 404 template for improved handling of 404 errors
  • Stopped duplicate loading of jQuery migrate
  • Updated text of theme support dashboard widget
  • Theme support dashboard widget will now only be shown for site admins
  • Added danish translation – thanks to Niklas Andersen

Version 2.0.2 29th March 2014

Info
  • Improved plugin compatibility
  • Removed redundant [heading] shortcode
  • Some small CSS adjustments

Version 2.0.1 24th March 2014

Info
  • This is a maintenance update to improve the theme codebase and compatibility
  • Fixed color option to change border-color of MH Carousel widget (Layout 1)
  • Moved SEO options to optional child theme (recommended plugin: WordPress SEO by Yoast)
  • Moved option to enable breadcrumbs from "SEO Options" to "Posts/Pages Options"
  • Redesigned layout for archives (Layout 3)
  • Changed size of small thumbnails back to 70x53px
  • Switched to WordPress internal jQuery version

Version 2.0.0 17th March 2014

Info
  • Several small code improvements and CSS adjustments
  • Added custom excerpt support for pages
  • Added MH Custom Pages widget to display pages based on page IDs
  • Added optional slider for use on category pages
  • Added option to set number of slides for category pages
  • Added new layout option to set layout for category slider
  • Added new layout option to enable sidebars
  • Removed depreciated option to enable second sidebar
  • Added new layout option to select responsive or fixed layout
  • Removed depreciated option to disable responsive layout
  • Added option to several custom widgets to filter posts by multiple categories
  • Added option to link title of MH Custom Posts widget to custom URL
  • Added MH Custom Slider widget to display custom content in slider
  • Added option to ignore sticky posts for news ticker
  • Improved slider widgets can now be used multiple times per page
  • Improved slider shortcode can now be used multiple times per page
  • Improved options for several custom widgets
  • Improved handling of page title layouts
  • Improved loading of stylesheet to prevent caching issues after theme updates
  • Improved implementation of custom header support
  • Custom header can now display a logo and site title / tagline at the same time
  • Added option to change color of site title / tagline for custom header
  • Added new additional layout (grid) for archives
  • Increased size of small thumbnails to 80x60px
  • Combined options to display social buttons on posts to one single option
  • Combined options to display author box to one single option
  • Combined options to display related articles to one single option
  • Removed redundant [quote] shortcode
  • Moved option to scale background from "General Options" to "Background Image Options"
  • Moved option to disable prettyPhoto from "General Options" to "Posts/Pages Options"
  • Updated translation strings
  • Updated german translation

Version 1.9.1 23rd January 2014

Info
  • Several code improvements and CSS adjustments
  • Changed theme tag flexible-width to responsive-layout (new in WP 3.8)
  • Changed theme screenshot size to 880x660px due to new WordPress recommendations
  • Optical improvements for breadcrumb navigation
  • Fixed post title will no longer have border if no subheading is set
  • Fixed color option to change link color now only affects links on posts and pages
  • Fixed MH Slider Widget layout 2 navigation issues in Safari browser
  • Fixed author box will no longer be displayed on attachments
  • Fixed issue where MH Advertising widget did not output JavaScript properly
  • Improved excerpts will now display more-link also for manual excerpts
  • Improved 404 page template (content-none.php)
  • Improved sitemap template (sitemap.php)
  • Improved styling of header image / logo fallback
  • Updated text of theme support dashboard widget
  • Added new file sidebar.php
  • Added new additional layout for archives
  • Properly hooked wp_link_pages() to fix issue with paginated posts
  • Replaced jQuery Migrate v1.2.1 with minified version for better performance
  • Updated translation strings
  • Added polish translation – thanks to Elik Kamedula

Version 1.9.0 12th December 2013

Info
  • Several CSS adjustments
  • Improved responsive layout
  • $content_width variable will now be set properly depending on site width
  • Added featured image size to media gallery selection
  • Added support for WooCommerce plugin
  • Added widgetized sidebar on WooCommerce pages (only when plugin is active)
  • Added option to disable featured image for specific posts
  • Added options to disable date and comments for MH Custom Posts widget
  • Added option to disable comments for MH Spotlight widget
  • Added options to disable date, author, category and comments in post meta
  • Added option to change position of share buttons on posts
  • Added option to change layout of author box
  • Added new additional layout for author box
  • Added authors template to list all authors on a page
  • Added option to change layout of MH Slider & MH Carousel widget
  • Added new additional layout for MH Slider & MH Carousel widget
  • Added option to disable large thumbnails in MH Custom Posts widget
  • Added option to disable small thumbnails in MH Custom Posts widget
  • Added additional navigation below main navigation menu
  • Added Asap font to Google Webfonts collection
  • Added MH Advertising widget to display ads (Square Buttons) very easily
  • Changed color of widgets in admin dashboard to match design of WP 3.8
  • Updated mh_page_title() does now support custom taxonomies
  • Updated MH Affiliate widget to support Creative Market Affiliate Program
  • Updated dashboard theme support widget with Creative Market access
  • Updated markup for Facebook like button
  • Updated translation strings

Version 1.8.6 10th November 2013

Info
  • Fixed issue where disabling the prettyPhoto lightbox produced an error
  • Fixed issue where author name was not displayed properly on author archives
  • Fixed issues with news ticker markup
  • Changed title of spotlight widget from H1 to H2
  • Changed default excerpt length to 175 characters
  • Replaced cp_large thumbnail for Facebook Open Graph with spotlight thumbnail
  • Added option to change layout of archives / loop
  • Added option to change layout of widget titles
  • Added option to change layout of page titles
  • Added option to change layout of related articles
  • Added Tumblr and deviantART icons to social widget
  • Added affiliate widget so users can earn money by promoting MH Themes
  • Updated jQuery to v1.10.2
  • Added italian translation
  • Updated translation strings

Version 1.8.5 28th October 2013

Info
  • Several code improvements
  • Improved readability of typography
  • Reorganized file structure to improve performance
  • Added "Theme Support" dashboard widget to WordPress admin
  • Removed option to change layout – layouts will be available as separate themes
  • Fixed issue where shortcodes for content ad on posts did not work
  • Removed option to change position of share buttons
  • News in Pictures widget now only displays posts which have a featured image
  • Improved [box] shortcode / new attributes "toggle" and "height"
  • Highlighted MH widgets with a darker color in WordPress admin
  • Added multi-purpose [slider] shortcode to insert e.g. custom image sliders
  • Added [testimonial] shortcode to display styled testimonials
  • Added some useful theme action hooks
  • Added breadcrumb rich snippet support
  • Added swedish translation – thanks to Joel Sannemalm
  • Added hebrew translation – thanks to Yosi Avneri

Version 1.8.1 25th September 2013

Info
  • Several CSS adjustments
  • Improved options panel of several widgets for better usability
  • Improved responsive layout for "MH Custom Posts" widget
  • Added option to several widgets to ignore sticky posts
  • Added option to several widgets to select a category
  • Added option to several widgets to set custom excerpt length
  • Added option to "MH Spotlight" widget to change image size
  • Added option to "MH Spotlight" widget to disable excerpt
  • Added option to "MH Spotlight" widget to disable post meta
  • Title of "MH Custom Posts" widget will now link to category archive
  • Improved handling of automatic excerpts
  • Changed option for excerpt lengths from words to characters
  • Removed option to use more-tag for excerpts
  • Added option to enter custom more text for excerpts
  • Moved CSS for RTL support to separate stylesheet rtl.css
  • Changed image size of small thumbnails back to 70x53px
  • Custom CSS won't be included anymore if font size is set to default
  • Updated french translation – thanks to Olivier Copetto
  • Updated translation strings

Version 1.8.0 16th September 2013

Info
  • Several code improvements
  • Several CSS adjustments
  • Improved typography
  • Changed default font from Droid Sans & Droid Serif to Open Sans
  • Converted font-sizes from % to rem
  • Removed Customizer link in appearance menu because it's now default in WP 3.6
  • Renamed responsive shortcode to [flexvid] due to conflicts in WP 3.6
  • Added new file loop.php to handle content output of loop / archives
  • Added new options section for typography settings
  • Added option to choose from a selection of Google Webfonts for headings and body text
  • Added option to change default font size on posts and pages
  • Added new options section for advertising settings
  • Added option to display ads after every x posts on archives
  • Added new options section for layout settings
  • Added option to select a different layout / CSS styling
  • Added option to increase site width to 1300px
  • Added option to enable a second sidebar (will force site width to 1300px)
  • Featured image on posts will be replaced by slider image size if site width is 1300px
  • Slightly changed responsive layout to support new large site width
  • Slightly changed layout of "Homepage" template and added "Home 11" widget area
  • Removed "Homepage 2" template because same can now be done with "Homepage" template
  • Added "Home 12" widget area to "Homepage" template if site width is 1300px
  • Added "Contact 2" widget area for contact template when second sidebar is enabled
  • Position of sidebar on default page template can now be changed
  • Removed "Page – Left Sidebar" template because it does not make sense anymore
  • Breadcrumb navigation does now support custom post types
  • Added "entry-title", "author" and "updated" structured data for Google Rich Snippets
  • Added option to "MH Slider Widget" to change slider image size
  • Removed option of "MH Custom Posts" widget to enable mobile excerpts – it's useless now
  • Increased image size of small images on "MH Custom Posts" widget to 100x75px
  • Increased image size of "MH News in Pictures" widget to 100x75px
  • Removed date in post meta of "MH Custom Posts" widget (small size)
  • Main content now always will be displayed first before sidebars on mobile devices
  • Updated translation strings

Version 1.7.6 23rd July 2013

Info
  • Slightly changed markup of slider to solve issue if caption contains links
  • Fixed issue where widget areas on posts/pages did not work since v1.7.5
  • Added fallback in case that no main navigation/menu is set
  • Improved breadcrumbs by adding parent categories on category archives
  • Fixed content ad now will be displayed properly if paragraphs are HTML formatted
  • Reduced the number of HTTP requests to improve performance
  • Updated translation strings

Version 1.7.5 12th July 2013

Info
  • Several small CSS adjustments
  • Several code improvements
  • Changed image ratio of spotlight and carousel widget to 16:9
  • Main color of fonts is now darker
  • Increased size of dropcap a bit
  • Added responsive header and footer navigation menu
  • Added option to custom posts widget to enable responsive excerpts
  • Disabling post meta now affects archives too
  • Fixed some small CSS issues with the RTL layout
  • Improved handling of long titles in navigation
  • Added fallback in case that no header image is set
  • Added shortcode to embed responsive videos
  • Added jQuery migrate plugin to restore deprecated and removed functionality
  • Added function to take care of page title output
  • Added filter to output wp_title()
  • Added missing <li> tags to social widget
  • Added navigation with previous/next links to single post and attachment view
  • Added option to enable navigation links on posts / attachments
  • Combined breadcrumb options to one single option (enable/disable)
  • Improved breadcrumb output
  • Select elements with long texts will no longer be cut off
  • Removed markup of footer when no footer widgets are active
  • Updated translation strings

Version 1.7.1 20th June 2013

Info
  • Switched back to 4:3 image ratio for large images of custom posts widget
  • Changed default excerpt length to 60 words
  • Improved media queries for custom posts widget
  • Code improvements
  • Updated translation strings

Version 1.7.0 18th June 2013

Info
  • Code improvements
  • Improvements in layout, design and font-size
  • Changed order of related posts from date to random
  • Changed file structure to prepare for implementation of post formats
  • Changed layout of custom posts widget
  • Extended options of custom posts widget to display excerpts for every post
  • Extended options of slider and spotlight widget to display random or popular posts
  • Added option to disable post meta
  • Added option to disable post meta of custom posts widget
  • Updated Facebook Likebox code to new version
  • Added options to disable faces, stream, header and border of Facebook Likebox widget
  • Added option to upload a favicon
  • Added option to enable comments on pages (disabled by default)
  • Added feature to display teaser text at the beginning of posts
  • Added option to disable teaser text on posts
  • Added option to use more-tag instead of automatic excerpts
  • Added option to social widget to open links in new window / tab
  • Added option to social widget to set links to nofollow
  • Replaced icons of social widget – thanks to G. Pritiranjan Das
  • Added YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Pinterest, Instagram, Myspace to social widget
  • Removed Xing from social widget
  • Reduced amount of image ratios to two (4:3 and 1:2.35)
  • Fixed rel="prettyPhoto" now will be added automatically
  • Added option to disable prettyPhoto lightbox
  • Comments and pingbacks / trackbacks are now displayed separate
  • Added caption text to featured images on posts
  • Improved output of alt and title of featured images on posts
  • Improved output of image captions
  • Improved support for post attachments
  • Fixed links of carousel widget now work on mobile devices
  • index.php is now more generic and has replaced several archive templates

Version 1.6.0 17th May 2013

Info
  • Some minor code improvements
  • Some minor CSS adjustments
  • Added SEO option to set several archives to noindex to prevent duplicate content
  • Added SEO option to set attachments to noindex
  • Added option to verify site for Google Webmaster Tools
  • Added comments support on static pages
  • Replaced theme logo and theme screenshot in wp dashboard
  • Fixed og:type now gets correct data on archives
  • Fixed og:title now gets correct data on archives
  • Fixed authorbox now gets properly displayed on author archives
  • Moved child theme files to parent folder to prevent upload issues using wp uploader
  • Updated spanish translation – thanks to Samuel Galiano Parras
  • Updated translation strings
  • Replaced changelog.txt with readme.txt

Version 1.5.0 22nd April 2013

Info
  • Removed unused tags for page title on index.php when no static front page is set
  • Enabled threaded comments in functions.php instead of header.php
  • Some minor CSS improvements
  • Several code improvements
  • Fixed CSS after Contact Form 7 plugin update
  • Fixed CSS ordered lists
  • Fixed message box animation
  • Fixed automatic formatting of shortcodes
  • Reorganized theme options
  • Removed option to set social language because theme recognizes automatically now
  • Added posts/pages options section
  • Added SEO options section
  • Added SEO option to set a custom meta description on posts/pages
  • Added SEO option to use post tags as meta tags/keywords
  • Added SEO option to set meta keywords manually for each post/page
  • Added SEO option to set a seo optimized title tag on posts/pages
  • Added SEO option to set Google Publisher Page
  • Added SEO option to clean up head section from "junk"
  • Added Google Authorship support
  • Added Facebook Open Graph support
  • Added option to display content ads on posts
  • Added option to disable featured image on posts
  • Added option to disable images on custom posts widget
  • Added option to recent comments widget to change size of avatars
  • Added widget area/sidebar on contact page template
  • Added new widget to display authors including the number of posts published
  • Added new widget to display linked social media icons
  • Added new fields to user profile (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube)
  • Added contact information of authors to author box
  • Added option to disable author box on posts/archives
  • Added option to hide contact information in author box
  • Added spanish translation – thanks to Samuel Galiano Parras
  • Updated translation strings
  • Added child theme files

Version 1.3.0 27th March 2013

Info
  • Some minor improvements for better SEO
  • Some minor CSS adjustments
  • Added Droid Sans webfont to style headings
  • Improved typography
  • Added option to set position of share buttons
  • Related posts are now displayed as list including title and subheading
  • Removed jQuery PowerTip support because of problems on mobile devices
  • Added option to scale background image to full size of browser window
  • Fixed issue wpSEO plugin regarding remove_action('shutdown', 'wp_ob_end_flush_all', 1);
  • Updated translation strings

Version 1.2.0 17th March 2013

Info
  • Updated translation strings
  • Added dynamic copyright date to footer
  • Added option to set language for social buttons and likebox

Version 1.1.1 20th February 2013

Info
  • Replaced blog template with homepage templates

Version 1.1.0 19th February 2013

Info
  • Minor code improvements
  • Minor CSS fixes
  • Added flex-height and flex-width to custom header support
  • Deleted shortcodes for slider, spotlight and carousel because they will be replaced with custom widgets
  • Replaced homepage templates with fully widgetized homepage templates
  • Added 3 new widgets -> slider, spotlight and carousel to build your custom homepage template with little effort and without coding
  • Updated translation strings
  • Added slider to blog template

Version 1.0.0 15th February 2013

Info
  • Initial release
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