Changelog

#0.6.5 – 10/27/2025

• 🔧 Fixed Cleaned up Theme Updater EDD Code. Theme License Checks now work properly

#0.6.4 – 10/16/2025

• 🔧 Fixed Remove extraneous stroke in the admin plugin list when a plugin has an update
• 🛠️ Dev Remove “accent cool” and “accent warm” USWDS colors from the editor, but still support them in any legacy content that may have already used them (treat them the same as other USWDS state colors like info, error, warning, etc)
• ⚡️ Improved Add “darkest” and “lightest” color to all the extended color palettes for consistency of use in content
• ⚡️ Improved Update layout of color palette in editor
• ⚡️ Improved Consistent use of “gray” or “gray-cool” in base colors
• ⚡️ Improved Remove extraneous dashboard widgets
• ✨ New New dashboard widgets that show total post count of all published content, all pending content, and all draft content
• ✨ New Theme License Checking

#0.6.3 – 8/21/2025

• 🔧 Fixed Decouple theme.json colors from specific USWDS tokens that cannot accept custom colors
• 🛠️ Dev Update USWDS to 3.0.13

#0.6.2 – 7/24/2025

• ⚠️ Breaking Consistency in naming and labeling all patterns for easier extensibility (Note: child themes must be updated to filter the new pattern names)
• ⚠️ Breaking Convert social icons to pattern instead of template part so it is available in the editor (Note: any installs using the social icons template part will need to update to using the pattern)
• 🛠️ Dev Abstract post templates out of query patterns into their own patterns for developer reuse
• ⚡️ Improved Proper heading levels in archives vs. on-page queries
• ⚡️ Improved Remove author block from Query Collection List
• ⚡️ Improved Remove page layouts from site editor
• ⚡️ Improved Add archive patterns to the site editor
• ✨ New Two new site-editor-only patterns for laying out post content (constrained, and constrained with side navigation)

#0.6.1 – 6/27/20205

• 🔧 Fixed Gravity Forms Template modal now contains a scrollbar for easier browsing
• 🔧 Fixed Contrast and color in admin areas
• ⚡️ Improved Corrected header size in the Team Member Directory block Pattern
• ⚡️ Improved Convert existing templates to template patterns
• ⚡️ Improved Make more patterns available in the site editor
• ⚡️ Improved Better naming conventions for patterns
• ⚡️ Improved Display of cards when the content is shorter than the card width
• ✨ New Empty template with no header/footer for use on pages
• ✨ New Home template
• ✨ New Author template
• ✨ New Privacy Policy template
• ✨ New Add Query Total block to archive templates
• 🛠️ Dev Better naming convention of single query items

#0.6.0 – 6/13/2025

• ✨ New CivicPress dashboard top-level menu item with quick links to references and site editor interfaces
• ✨ New General Settings page with tabbed interface for all CivicPress global settings
• ✨ New Settings for a Default featured image with the ability to turn off/on by Post Type
• ✨ New New “recent posts” section pattern
• ✨ New Report a Pothole form template and preview screenshot
• ✨ New Infrastructure for creating and displaying form templates
• ⚡️ Improved Admin color theme now matches site color theme
• ⚡️ Improved Tracking & Analytics section now includes Google Analytics field
• ⚡️ Improved Additional color settings in theme.json
• ⚡️ Improved Added default background color to cards
• 🛠️ Dev New add_civicpress_tab function to register settings pages or sections as tabs on the general settings page
• 🛠️ Dev Can integrate other CivicPress plugins into the CivicPress top-level menu or General Settings tabs
• 🛠️ Dev Separate custom plugin styles from custom WP styles for ease of editing
• 🛠️ Dev Rename tagline section to match other sections
• 🛠️ Dev Abstract the card and list post templates for reusability in other query patterns

#0.5.9 – 6/02/2025

• ✨ New Print styles for typography and spacing
• ✨ New Report a Pothole Form
• ✨ New Report a Code Violation Form
• 🛠️ Dev Implemented the GravityForms Template Builder Infrastructure
• 🛠️ Dev Improve semantics of full-width patterns
• ⚡️ Improved Support for custom text alignment in tables on a per-column basis
• 🔧 Fixed Alignment of submenu icon

#0.5.8 – 5/22/2025

• ✨ New Explicit theme.json setting for Lightbox support
• ✨ New content_layouts and alert_info categories for patterns
• ✨ New Term chips to single post template
• ⚡️ Improved Consistently constrain the width of posts
• ⚡️ Improved Better support for floated elements within post content
• ⚡️ Improved Template names to be consistent with core themes
• ⚡️ Improved Restrict patterns to the appropriate post type
• 🛠️ Dev Updated template and pattern names to match core naming conventions
• 🔧 Fixed Pattern categories to remove uncategorized items

#0.5.7 – 5/13/2025

• ⚡️ Improved Minor stylistic changes
• ⚡️ Improved Tighter navigation spacing
• 🔧 Fixed Addressed semantic issue with heading levels
• 🔧 Fixed Fixed build process so that the Uswds-styles.scss file is included in the release
• 🛠️ Dev Removed extraneous files

#0.5.6 – 4/24/2025

• 🔧 Fixed Remove “page layout” category to use new “starter content” category that shipped in WordPress 6.8
• 🔧 Fixed Remove all references to queryID in query patterns so it can be generated automatically
• ⚡️ Improved Enhanced basic text patterns for better editor UX
• ⚡️ Improved Better semantics and spacing in existing editor patterns
• ⚡️ Improved Custom translucent color to better support dark and light color schemes
• ✨ New Large Page Header Page Pattern
• ✨ New One Column Text block pattern
• ✨ New There’s now a “Sections” pattern category for all full-width page-building sections

#0.5.5 – 4/9/2025

• ✨ New Interactive Tile block pattern
• ✨ New Site Alert modal style support
• 🔧 Fixed No pattern should be wide width by default
• 🔧 Fixed Don’t allow the transform of a button to an accordion button
• 🔧 Fixed Easier editing of details summary text in the Details block
• 🔧 Fixed Tables have a transparent background by default
• 🛠️ Dev Better USWDS integration with default colors in Sass

#0.5.4 – 3/25/2025

• ✨ New Support for “site alert” component
• 🔧 Fixed Custom button color on hover when text color is not explicitly defined
• 🔧 Fixed Update banner markup
• ⚡️ Improved Accordion button code

#0.5.3 – 3/20/2025

• 🔧 Fixed Pagination on search page template
• 🔧 Fixed Nav overflow mobile bug when using buttons
• 🔧 Fixed Post meta pattern alignment
• 🔧 Fixed Force button width update when switching variations
• ⚡️ Improved Use list pattern rather than bespoke code on search page template
• ⚡️ Improved Typography for summary box and alert boxes
• ⚡️ Improved Single post featured image is now constrained
• ⚡️ Improved Indicate external links in lists and navigation, except main header
• ⚡️ Improved Column patterns do not have a preset width by default
• 🛠️ Dev Conditional selection of custom JS style modifications in backend vs frontend

#0.5.2 – 3/5/2025

• 🛠️ Dev All relative links in Sass are now explicitly defined, so assets will not break if CivicPress is used with a child theme that recompiles the Sass from the parent theme
• ⚡️ Improved Adjust typography to more closely mirror size and weight of USWDS Prose
• ⚡️ Improved Adjust typography of citations
• ⚡️ Improved Adjust theme description

#0.5.1 – 2/26/2025

• ⚡️ Improved Streamline and update theme.json to the latest options, bump WP version accordingly
• ⚡️ Improved Tweak table styles
• ⚡️ Improved Tweak typography spacing
• ⚡️ Improved Better comments and doc headers in theme files
• 🔧 Fixed Fixed block pattern category display on Fast Facts pattern

#0.5.0 – 2/21/2025

• 🔧 Fixed Include border effect on hover of primary navigation items with submenus
• 🔧 Fixed Increase column spacing on the documentation page pattern
• 🔧 Fixed Update patterns with correct categories and bump WP version required number to 6.2 for new pattern categories
• 🔧 Fixed Adjust purple theme colors and fix theme color versions to be consistent with the primary theme
• 🔧 Fixed Correct labels for color themes
• 🔧 Fixed Added block-pattern-categories.php to handle custom registered block patterns
• 🔧 Fixed Removed legacy menu support
• 🛠️ Dev Added a new command that combines the build and compile commands into one
• 🛠️ Dev Added a shim that flushes the block pattern cache for local development when the WP_DEVELOPMENT_MODE ‘theme’ constant is defined in wp-config.php
• ✨ New A new block pattern called Fast Facts. This block pattern allows you to quickly display key facts about an organization in a structured and visually appealing manner.
• ✨ New Added documentation for using the Fast Facts block pattern

#0.4.6 – 2/11/2025

• ⚡️ Improved More granular control of navigation spacing in theme.json
• ⚡️ Improved Adjust the specificity of default sizing
• ⚡️ Improved Honor editor styling with accordion buttons
• ⚡️ Improved Remove additional absolute values
• 🔧 Fixed Fixed core search button animation
• 🛠️ Dev Remove console log

#0.4.5 – 2/7/2025

• ⚡️ Improved Remove all absolute values (pixel sizes) in favor of USWDS and WP tokens
• ⚡️ Improved Improve responsive display of the Big Footer template part
• ⚡️ Improved Clean up the hierarchy of headings in archives and queries
• ⚡️ Improved Improved default spacing and block gaps
• ⚡️ Improved Images should no longer center-align by default
• 🛠️ Dev Removed custom styles that are now set in theme.json
• 🛠️ Dev Make all focus styles honor custom focus color in theme.json
• 🛠️ Dev Theme file organization
• ✨ New Replaced the Cog icon with a custom CivicPress icon in the dashboard menu

#0.4.4 – 1/21/2025

• 🛠️ Dev Update theme.json to version 3 for consistency
• 🔧 Fixed Removes explicit “theme”:”civicpress” declaration in all template parts, because this will break if the theme folder name does not exactly match “civicpress” (i.e. “civicpress-main” or “theme-project-name”)
• 🔧 Fixed Fix error in labeling XX-Small font size
• 🔧 Fixed Pagination no longer overflows its container
• ⚡️ Improved Improved image border consistency in the block editor and frontend
• ⚡️ Improved Typography improvements to line height and spacing defaults
• ✨ New Added term chip style support to term/category lists
• ✨ New Display flag in the header banner
• ✨ New Added the ability to display icons using inline code and via the Code block

#0.4.3 – 1/16/2025

• ✨ New Added Documentation for the Team Member Directory Block Pattern.
• ✨ New Created a new “Invisible” table style with no interior borders. Borders cannot be added in the editor.
• ⚡️ Improved Multiple enhancements to the Table Block Including:
• Standard, Striped, and Borderless tables should match the USWDS Design. Border size and weight can be overridden in the editor.
• ⚡️ Improved Responsive Stacked Table variation stacks tables by row and inserts the headers, similar to USWDS design.
• 🔧 Fixed Multiple fixes to the Accordion Group Block.
• 🔧 Fixed Fixed additional query pattern image display issues that affected border presentation.

#0.4.2 – 12/9/2024

• ✨ New Added a Settings Page. This is where the Headers and Footers Scripts are now located.
• ✨ New Integration with Easy Digital Downloads
• ✨ New Added Documentation For several Block Patterns to the Docs Directory.
• ✨ New Added a New Team Member Directory Block Pattern
• 🔧 Fixed The Borderless Style for the Table Block Is Now Applied Correctly

#0.4.1 – 10/24/2025

• ✨ New Replaced Theme Preview Screenshot With a New One

#0.4.0 – 10/17/2024

*** Breaking Change: New naming conventions for Base Colors to enable support for Dark Mode

• ✨ New Added Dark Theme Style Variation in Site Editor
• ✨ New Added Color Palette Presets in Site Editor
• ✨ New Added Custom build process to integrate color palette selection into USWDS Sass build process
• ⚡️ Improved Replaced Twitter Icon with X Icon
• 🛠️ Dev Updated USWDS version to 3.9.0
• 🛠️ Dev Bumped WordPress tested version to 6.6 and required version to 6.0

#0.3.0

• ✨ New Added icons from the USWDS icon library for the List Block – In an ordered list, you can change the bullet point to one of the supported icons that are included
• 🔧 Fixed Fixed: Fixed styling for the List Block when the default style has not been explicitly applied

#0.2.1

• ✨ New Added block and Gravity Forms filters

#0.2.0

• ✨ New Adds USWDS Variant of the Table Component
• ✨ New Added a USWDS Alert Component
• ✨ New Added a USWDS Summary Box

#0.1.2

• ✨ New Added settings page for Header and Footer scripts
• ✨ New Added Styles to in-page pagination
• 🛠️ Dev Removed unused files from previous versions
• ⚡️ Improved Typography changes to improve the representation of font sizes in the editor
• ⚡️ Improved USWDS integration style fixes

#0.1.1

• ✨ New Adds support for Gravity Forms Orbital Styling

#0.1.0

• 🛠️ Dev Refactored the theme so that it fully supports FSE (Theme JSON Integration)
• ✨ New Added a number of accessibility improvements
• ✨ New Added support for vertical navigation styling
• 🔧 Fixed Fixed custom accordion control so it only appears on accordion buttons
• 🔧 Fixed Admin bar for logged-in users no longer blocks top of content
• 🔧 Fixed Numerous visual bug fixes
• ⚡️ Improved The pagination group and block now appear on the search results page

#0.0.1

• ✨ New Initial release