Changelog

Features

• Introduce additional accessibility coloring logic that handles comprehensive outline coloring for all elements.
• Skip link example has been added to Super Preview.
• New options to control where and how featured images display – Super Preview now demonstrates an emblem and a pennant on the Standard and Aside post formats, respectively.
• Banners now support hyperlinking ability – if you use banners through VC and want to update the title or add a URL, you must delete the old banner and re-add this new one.
• Pages now support explicit excerpts.
• The media utility function in Ski.Web that retrieves image sizes now defaults to not include the dimensions for each of the retrieved sizes.
• The meta info retrieved by the Ski.Web media utility function now includes the filenames associated with each image size.
• The BPQ: Social plugin has been extended with shortcodes, widgets, and VC elements; also, if you are using the ‘bpq_filter_social_follow_items’ hook, please look at the changes to the $items array.

Improvements

• The VC separator element now gets explicit and equal vertical spacing.
• The tab index of -1 was removed from the main container as it was improperly selecting it upon initial page load; the skip link still functions without it.
• Condense the style attributes for .screen-reader-text for pieces that felt unnecessary to call out between normal and :focus.
• Dropdown coloring for subtext descriptions now matches main text color.
• Added ‘full’ as a valid element in the set of registered image sizes; it is not actually registered, but is recognized in the Codex.
• Fix issue where the Sidebars per-page override format would sometimes default back to the corresponding theme setting.
• Corrected horizontal alignment on banners.
• Default ‘read more’ text is set back to the ever-popular ‘read more’ – you can still override this value in the Customizer.
• If you want to change the featured image on the fly, you now use ‘filter_bpq_featured_image_id’ instead of ‘filter_bpq_featured_image’ to change the image ID instead of a block of specific markup.
• Fixed a case where the Auxiliary Panel continued to appear when in Super Preview mode.
• Fixed Bootstrap queueing error on login screen.
• Reorganized some of the scripts/styles queueing routines for correctness and remove redundancy.
• Small layout tweaks to the Super Preview Products section.
• Slightly lower font size for 8Bit Type Tone headings.

Features

• Only text appears for cart/login/search buttons when displayed on small devices.
• Slightly lower the font size in the 8bit type tone.
  Added “complementary” to the sidebars for screen readers.
• Explicitly set focusable colors for pagers, buttons, textboxes, etc for screen readers.
• Added skip links for screen readers.
• Search and comment forms now include labels for screen readers.
• Navigation logo and masthead image now support the ‘alt’ attribute for screen readers.
• Grouped customizer sections into new panel groupings – you must ensure that you have upgraded to WordPress 4.0 or above now.
• Tones section is now split out according to color, flair, and type.
• Content section is now split into multiple, smaller sections for panel organization.
• Icons in social follow widget now consider screen readers.
• New hook for changing the placeholder text in the search box – ‘filter_bpq_search_placeholder’.
• Explicitly call out a theme location for the main navbar menu – as such, the menu for your navbar must be re-selected.
• BPQ: Analytics, BPQ: Favicon, and BPQ: Social plugins are updated to v1.2.

Improvements

• Fix up coloring for list group items when in the sidebars.
• Fix up coloring for the trashcan displayed in the WooCommerce cart widget.
• Social share widget no longer produces an error when displayed without a link filled in.
• No longer pad the inside of the slider.
• Main navigation bar will now respond better on larger tablets.
• Stop the vertical jump that sometimes appears when loading a page.
• Added vertical space to the postmeta bar to separate from the article content.
• Prevent textboxes from exceeding their container.
  The media library customizer control now saves IDs instead of relative paths – as such, the navigation logo and masthead must be re-selected.
• No longer display a broken image in the masthead when there is no image, but the purpose is set to ‘image’.
• Ski.Web’s media::get_meta_info function now returns null if no attachment was found.
• Unused sections are now shown in the customizer, but are visually altered; this is in response to the most recent WP versions refreshing the customizer section visibilities.
• The Ski.Web customizer control tests moved to the new Auxiliary panel.
• Ski.Web and WP Customizer control descriptions are better style-aligned.
• Default navbar menu markup has been corrected – if you want to use a blank menu, explicitly create an empty menu.
• Font size in the 8bit type tone has been made a bit smaller to better fit within the navbar.
• The Ski.Web media utility function ‘get_meta_info’ now only returns info if the ID truly represents an attachment (i.e. improperly-formed data about a post will no longer be returned).

Features

• The login icon in the navbar will now go to the WC “my-account” page if the WC plugin is activated.
• Benefits, team, and testimonials are now only accessible by the Administrator
• Use Bootstrap and FontAwesome CDNs with a fallbacks to local versions, if the CDNs are not available – this makes for quicker access to websites because there is potentially less to download and can be done so in parallel.
• Upgrade to Bootstrap v3.3.4.

Improvements

• Fix display of the “remember me” checkbox on the WC “my-account” page.
• Removed the checkout URL filter – was unused.
• Rename the ‘filter_cart_url’ filter to ‘filter_bpq_cart_url’ to keep aligned with other filters – same with the login URL hook.
• Optimization pass on all color tones for size requirements.
• Added-in version numbers to the BPQ plugins and incremented across the board to at least v1.1.
• Remove horizontal padding from the page header slider.
• No longer displaying words like ‘search’ and ‘cart’ when in tablet mode – just using icons.

Features

• Add a Contact section to Super Preview
• New Whacky Shack Flair Tone – includes angled stripes.
• New Liberation Color Tone – palette inspired from the Librato website.
• Additional classes for removing dimensions from an element: .no-height and .no-width
• Increased the default font-size of several Type Tones to make it easier for reading.
• The Showstopper Type Tone now uses the heading font as the navigation bar brand text.
• Remove the explicit border styling from tables not defined with the ‘table-bordered’ class.
• Generally increased font sizes across the board for all Tone Types; Super Preview layout has changed a bit to help compensate.
• Introduce a ‘selfish’ CSS class that makes it so an element has no horizontal neighbors.
• New filter for changing the items displayed with the Social Follow widget: bpq_filter_social_follow_items
• Removed horizontal padding from the main content area so there is better alignment with stripes.
• Apply colors to badges that are within panels based on Color Tones.

Improvements

• Fix the colors for the Contact Form 7 success/failed messages.
• Ensure that all .stripe selectors are consistent across the whole project.
• No more vertical padding on the #main-content element so that it gets closer to the sections above and below – helps make striped pages look better.
• Got rid of the negative margins from the article – appears to no longer be necessary for stripes.
• Selecting ‘none’ as the main navigation now truly displays nothing instead of the default menu typically shown when initially installed.
• Fix vertical alignment of embedded form control icons for any kind of font.
• Super Preview is no longer concerned on the reading setting when displaying the post format headers.
• Better meld the internal panel corners with the external panel corners.
• The ‘no variant’ stripe is now identified with a class of ‘stripe-0’ to help make CSS selectors a bit more straightforward – note, if you want to use this new class, you must recreate the desired rows in VC.
• Made a general fix pass on color overrides for stripes.
• Apply colors to icons within headings.
• Internal headings are colored properly within tabs and pills.
• Change name of filter hook from ‘filter_bpq_change_main_menu’ to ‘filter_bpq_main_menu’ to help keep consistency.
• Clean up the bottom/top menu filters since they were replaced by widgets a while ago.
• Default adjustment made to the navbar buttons due to the recent font size increase.
• Widget titles will always appear on top of content.
• Fix the button colors as driven through Color Tones.
• Regular buttons in the navbar now take up full height without margin.
• Correct which sidebar is displayed on archive pages; specifically, stop letting the last post on an archive page from influencing this decision.
• Underlines work again for links within stripes.

Features

• Ski.js must now be queued manually – saves on overhead.
• Offer an option to choose the redirect behavior after a login.
• Update to the default options that affect sidebar and navbar content.
• Optimization function added to Ski.Web that gets all page options in one go.
• Introduce the .one-liner style that keeps content on a single line without overflow.
• New .transform LESS mixin that covers all browsers.
• Add explicit sizing to the popover elements of the 8bit type tone.
• New utility function in Ski.Web for sanitizing a checkbox.
• Add back in the bottom-border underlines only to the paragraph elements for the Architect flair tone.
• Add a plugin for managing team members.
• Extend the social widget by including Instagram and Tumblr.
• Majorly extended integration of WooCommerce; from hooks to templates and most everything inbetween – especially take advantage of the Tones that drive the shop pages; also includes a shiny new products section in Super Preview.
• Tones now drive the display of the <hr> element.
• Now tested with WP 4.1.1.
• Updated to Font Awesome 4.3 – includes approximately 80 more icons.
• Prevent breadcrumbs/pagers from wrapping; instead, truncate and replace with an ellipsis if too long.
• Additional arguments supported in the breadcrumbs tag that allows for displaying the current page and/or displaying a prefix label.
• The top pagination section and the breadcrumbs section are now displayed in reverse, by default.
• All post/page templates now look for {content-posttype} in addition to {content-postformat} and generally display the featured image similarly.
• Featured images have generally been moved to the left or right of the content based on flair tones and use the thumbnail size defined in WordPress.
• The chat format has been added to the post formats section of Super Preview.
• New hook introduced for changing the ‘read more’ text.
• New hook introduced for changing the featured image markup.
• New hook introduced for testing whether to display full content or an excerpt.
• There are now potentially two locations for article icons that flairs can toggle on/off; one above the article title and the other as a prefix typically to the left of the article title – both have filter hooks that can be used to override what is displayed.
• Added the ‘Content Aware Sidebars’ plugin to the recommended list – this one beat out a couple other offerings from WPMU and Woo.
• Default styling rework on the Bootstrap list group element; also now supports nested list groups.
• Taxonomy descriptions now appear in the page header underneath the archive title.

Improvements

• Fixed up the comments in Ski.Web – some were copy/paste errors.
• Several Customizer text changes – “Tone” section changed to “Tones”, upsell is not specific on number of tones since that can likely change, and widget section notes.
  Introduce an alternate way to show/hide elements in the Customizer due to WP 4.x no longer supporting the ‘hidden’ class.
• Give the metabox textarea and textbox controls a bit more width so that content is not cut off when metaboxes are placed in the ‘side’ context.
• Fixed an issue where non-existant date_picker metabox controls were being saved.
• Lower the z-index on the main navigation menu so that it does not cover potential modals.
• Removed the analytics filter in favor of the reusable wp_head action.
• Additional sanitizations for the Customizer.
• The stripe loading is now instantaneous with the rest of the content due to getting rid of the JS component and using purely CSS.
• Make the BPQ plugins fall along vertical features instead of horizontal tech. For example, there is now a “BPQ Types: Testimonial” plugin that supplies the posttype, WP shortcode, VC element, and output. If you have been using any of the old BPQ plugins (BPQ.Posttypes, BPQ.Shortcodes, BPQ.VC), you must remove them and activate these new ones instead.
• Moved the “Profile” section of the Customizer into a number of Widgets that are included through a couple of the new plugins. This was done to help align with the new plugin philosophy and to prevent additional SDK includes from social sites where not needed.
• Correct the VC plugin-check in the WP hooks.
• Fixed an issue where the pagination was showing up in the wrong location when no arguments were passed to the corresponding tag.
• The default masthead image has been replaced with the current site’s title/tagline combo.
• “Super Preview” is now labeled as such.
• Removed the unnecessary Bootstrap scaffolding around an assortment of pagination elements.
• Correct vertical margins for the Bootstrap pager/pagination elements.
• Condensed some style files and ensured most, if not all, now reside in the same folder.
• References to ‘base’ have been renamed to ‘core’.
• Templates now reside in subfolders for Visual Composer, WooCommerce, and the core BluePrint-Q.
• All content templates have been moved from the templates folder to the main theme folder.
• The content-chat template maintains formatting when viewing as an excerpt; this is an override from the default WordPress behavior that strips out formatting.
• Fix centering on entry/post-title elements when viewed on smaller devices.
• Featured image links to the corresponding article just like the title.
• Minor work on the layout of Super Preview to help ensure elements fit even in cases where some Tones exaggerate styles or use unusually large fonts.
• Try a fix for button coloring within a sidebar widget; including a new body mixin that handles paragraph elements.
• Remove the hover effect from disabled navbar items.
• Fix the active coloring on submenus of the navbar.
• Ensured that the colors are correct for the Jumbotron element for all color Tones.
• Slight sizing change to the 8bit type Tone.
• Fix up padding on the stripes so that the content height still drives the stripe height.

Features

• Force the BPQ purchase URL to reuse the URL already defined in the welcome class.
• Add a mixin to handle the CSS3 flex display across browsers.
• Add a function to Ski.Web that knows how to get a post option given an explicit post.

Improvements

• Update heading elements to use flex to avoid cases where bottom borders run into wrapped text.
• Default the ‘require_once’ parameter in Ski.Web’s locate_template utility function to ‘false’ so that archives have a better chance to display if the parameter is not provided.
• Update the content templates to get rid of the format span containers; those are unnecessary due to the recent layout changes.
• Use the “data-toggle” attribute instead of the “rel” attribute to display tooltips; this was done to avoid a markup error in the HTML.
• Put Ski.Web back into the theme as a package instead of a separated plugin; requirement from theme review.

Features

• Support ‘spread’ in the .shadow mixin.
• Introduce a new ‘banner’ shortcode/element.
• WP loop get_template_part logic has fallback support for post types and formats.
• The date picker metabox control now accepts no date as a valid value.
• New utility function in Ski.Web that can replace get_template_part, but returns the path that was used if found.
• Support custom highlight titles on taxonomy archive pages.
• Single pages always show full text, but blogs respect the option on
• the reading settings screen.
• Force WP tables to use Bootstrap classes for nicer display.
• ‘Read more’ links show up on all kinds of excerpts and teasers.
• Use regular underlines for the links instead of bottom borders in the architect flair tone
• Introduce a chat post format.
• Update the message on the front page with a link that indicates Ski.Web must be installed if not already done so.
• Update the shadow on the architect flair so that it does not overlap the alert bar.
• Scaffolding services and tags have been split so they can be manipulated separately through the use of hooks.
• Stripes now stretch to the edges and sidebars can overlap them
• Increase the border width on stripes for the Architect flair tone.
• Put the borders on the pedestal widgets instead of the pedestal for the Gridiron flair tone.
• Update the Movie Strip flair tone so that the stripes have borders for the bleed-xxx format spans.
• Introduce a difference between no stripe variant and no stripe completely.
• Create .no-padding styles that force-remove paddings.
• Change the anchor element wrapper from <span> to <div> so it uses the box model.

Improvements

• Fix duplicated read-more link text and unnecessary ellipses on posts.
• Images no longer exceed the bounds of the container (e.g. 1200 pixel wide unit test now passes).
• Alignments and spacing work better for image and caption cases.
• Admin bar displays when in debug mode only.
• Corrections to the image and caption formatting per WP unit testing.
• Remove ‘bpq.’ from the start of all content templates so that potential child template overrides are recognized with names that make more sense.
• Shrink the tooltip text size for the 8bit type tone since it looks especially large.
• Pagination control ellipses no longer stick out like a sore thumb.
• Ensure that the text color on the Iceberg color tone is contrasting.
• Ensure that the Jumbotron button text takes the intended button color.
• Have the ‘newer comments’ button respect the format span.
• Make videos responsive per WP unit testing.
• Correct the text coloring on the wells for the Iceberg color tone.
• Rename some tones to better match the internal and external names.
• Sidebars move into the 1170 container for the bleed-narrow format span instead of hanging out on the wings sometimes emulating the bleed-wide format instead.
• Shortcode anchors now take up 0 vertical space.
• Work with the Blockhead flair tone a bit to ensure it looks good on all format spans.
• Do not allow both parts of the pedestal to be transparent in the Glowstick flair tone.
• Improve the text color overrides for stripes – currently cover headings, paragraphs, benefits, testimonials, and CF7 CAPTCHA tests.
• Remove Visual Composer’s 1px minimum height on column classes.
  Add vertical spacing between the headings and paragraph text to avoid them smashing together.
• Fix the color mixin that covers panels – the text was being overridden by the global version.
• Ensure that the page navigation elements respect the default customizer values.

Initial release.  See the framework page for more details on the features.