Reco - Minimal Theme for Freebies

WP Themes Reco - Minimal Theme for Freebies v4.5.8

v4.5.5 - 17 August 2020
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- Fixed: Some incorrects colors with the latest version of Redux Panel, all colors must be uppercase.
- Fixed: The search box should always be displayed on main search page.
- Fixed: Search icon on AMP pages not redirecting to the search page.
- Fixed: Social Icons disappears on latest Redux Panel update.
- Fixed: Incorrect design on author input box (from Woocommerce reviews section).
- Improved: Versioning of assets when using Reco Child Theme.
- Improved: Import/Export theme options section renamed to Backup.
- Improved: If no menu is assigned to header, the mobile menu icon will not appear.
- Improved: How SCSS files are generated (developer friendly).
- Improved: Tested Theme compatibility up to WP 5.5
- Improved: WooCommerce compatibility up to 4.3.3
- Improved: How lightbox is applied to Gutenberg Galleries.
- Improved: Now Gutenberg Galleries and Single Gutenberg image will display caption on Lightbox.
- Improved: Latest tweets widget, now the amount of tweets is more accurated.
- Added: Notice notification to ensure Core plugin is up to date.
- Added: New option to exclude replies on Latest Tweets widget.
v4.5.0 - 29 June 2020
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Summary: Core Web Vital (CWB) improvements.
TTI: Time to interactive.
LCP: Largest Contentful Paint
CSL: Cumulative Layout Shift

- Improved: Passive listener warning for CWB.
- Improved: Image size for grid articles.
- Improved: Several changes to improve LCP on Articles list.
- Improved: Several changes to improve LCP on Single Post Content.
- Improved: Now secondary CSS files, will be loaded with Preload to reduce the priority of not critical CSS files.
- Improved: Now fonts icons are loaded in a separated file, to reduce the load of other critical CSS.
- Improved: Now Slider scripts will be loaded only if needed on every page.
- Improved: Now Code Prettify (prism) will be loaded only if needed on every page.
- Improved: Lazy Load function for PHP 7.4
- Improved: Now subscribe background image will use lazy load by default.
- Improved: Renamed functions/reco-functions.php to theme-functions.php
- Improved: Now functions/sidebars.php, post-formats.php and theme-functions.php can be used inside the child theme, to override any function of these files.
- Improved: Now Mobile users can use Zoom (max: 5).
- Improved: Now subscribe form will open a new window, this will reduce bounce rate.
- Added: Rel noopener and nofollow to several external links (social) and main download button.
- Added: New optimization section (advanced settings).
- Added: New option to select theme font icons method (standard, javascript or in footer), this will improve TTI and reduce a little the LCP from CWB.
- Added: New option to add a delay to the font icons load (only available for Javascript method).
- Added: New option on Optimization -> adv settings, now low priority CSS can use Prefetch, Preload or Standard methods.
- Added: * New Speed Option, Async Scripts inside Theme options -> Optimization -> advanced.
- Added: * AMP Compatibility (Transitional mode) for Posts, Home, Pages and Archives (categories, tags and author), except Woocommerce pages or single.
- Added: * AMP Theme Options section.
- Added: New how to enable AMP documentation
- Added: * New Subscribe extra parameters (this will help to avoid the mailchimp redirection and subscribe visitors inmediatly).
v4.0.0 - 16 January 2020
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- Fixed: columns shortcodes not aligned properly when using home text editor module.
- Fixed: embeds/iframes incorrect height on mobile devices.
- Fixed: issue with blurry image on IOS mobile devices (it is recommended to upload larger images as full background to prevent any blur issue on mobile devices).
- Fixed: incorrect pagination button for WooCommerce
- Improved: added a new way to detect the parent theme, this should avoid customers using Child Theme see disappears the Theme Options section after updates.
- Improved: footer copyright now will use wpautop to prevent incorrect behavior on specific plugins (Elementor, Galleries Manager Pro).
- Improved: input and submit buttons appearance on IOS devices.
- Improved: now share buttons will use short url instead, this will improve sharing posts on any language.
- Improved: now whatsapp share button works on Desktop and Mobile.
- Improved: now One Click Demo importer plugin is not needed anymore.
- Improved: All documentation about how to update the theme.
- Speed Improvement: now when selecting Google Fonts from Theme Options it will be displayed with swap attribute.
- Added: new option to enable "filters" on single post content.
- Added: Arabic language, special thanks to "hatpot"
- Added: translation strings for Twitter Widget (days ago, hours ago, etc).
- Added: new welcome page with the minimun system requirements and changelog of the theme.
* New Feature: 1 Click Updates, there is a new License page to download updates directly also the theme will periodically check for new versions.
* New Feature: Theme Wizard, if is your first installation it will appear a new Wizard page to guide new customers accross all required stuff to make the theme working properly.
v3.4.0 - 01 December 2019
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- Fixed: if author bio (below post content) was disabled that option affects Author's main page (archives).
- Fixed: if all sidebars are disabled, that should affect 404 page as well.
- Fixed: minor warning on EP Instagram Widget.
- Fixed: lazy load incorrect syntax on Gutenber Galleries.
- Fixed: EP shortcodes not working on WP 5.3
- Fixed: caption styles on Gutenberg images WP 5.3
- Fixed: galleries incorrect margins on Gutenberg images WP 5.3
- Fixed: special characters when using share buttons (Twitter, VK, Facebook, etc).
- Fixed: titles not disabled properly on pages.
- Fixed: Woocommerce pagination problem when ajax load is selected for Grid posts module.
- Improved: now all site_url() were replaced with home_url() this will improve redirections on logos and other third party plugins.
- Improved: now sticky sidebar will work better with dynamic pages (like ajax load more buttons).
- Improved: How to get Access Token from EP Instagram Widget.
- Improved: added rel="nofollow" to custom banners.
- Improved: now if gallery post types has no images assigned, it will display featured image instead.
- Improved: now paragraphs can be used on Footer Copyright text.
- Improved: now EP Recent Post Widget will exclude the current post (on single post) to avoid duplication (SEO boost).
- Improved: now EP Posts by Category Widget will exclude the current post (on single post) to avoid duplication (SEO boost).
- Improved: now Search page will use H1 instead of H2 (SEO boost).
- Improved: now Author Page will use H1 instead of H4 (SEO boost).
- Added: Facebook comments.
- Added: new filter for all main posts modules (grid and classic), now the posts can be ordered by Date, Views (popular) and Title.
- Added: new filter for all main posts modules (grid and classic), now posts can be ordered ASC or DESC.
- Upgraded: Reco compatibility with Woocommerce v3.7.1
- Upgraded: ACF to version 5.8.7
v3.3.5 - 17 October 2019
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- Fixed: Google Console warning for breadcrumbs (only for Yoast SEO on pages).
- Fixed: hover effect error on Instagram widget, Flickr widget and galleries.
- Improved: increased copyright text to 13px.
- * Improved: delay of lazy load images on single articles, this should improve Google Insights several points.
- * Improved: srcset problem with lazy load images on mobile devices, this should improve between 2 and 10 points on Google Insights.
- Added: Lazy Load on galleries.
- Added: autofocus when search lightbox is opened.