Changelog

Stay up to date with the latest improvements, bug fixes, and new features in CivicPress. This changelog provides a detailed record of updates. Check back regularly to see what’s new and how we’re enhancing CivicPress to better serve your needs.

#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