Changelog

Since it's first release the dkret theme has gone a long way.

Please read the documentation (readme) and this changelog prior asking for help at the forums.

Version 3.7 - Requires WordPress 3.0

• BUG: voarious bug fixes for WordPress Themes

Version 3.6.1 - Requires WordPress 3.0

• BUG: removed some undefined index errors
• BUG: properly register custom WordPress navigation menu
• BUG: never show excerpts on the site home page

Version 3.6 - Requires WordPress 3.0

• CHANGED: added language attributes to html element
• CHANGED: dkret uses add_theme_support to add rss feed links
• CHANGED: Short, HTML5 charset declaration
• CHANGED: meta widget uses new loginform function to display
• CHANGED: dkret uses new 'comment_form()' function of WordPress 3.0 to display the comment form (so plugins can style the output)
• CHANGED: removed support for Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin (better use WP Spamfree plugin)
• CHANGED: removed support for the Now Reading Plugin
• CHANGED: removed support for the Simple Tags Plugin
• CHANGED: removed the guestbook template
• CHANGED: added a lot of inline php documentation (thanks to the Twenty Ten theme)
• CHANGED: templates that depend on "the loop" use the new "loop" template (child themes can use their own loop-templates)
• CHANGED: always show all AdSense Blocks inside the dkret3 settings page
• CHANGED: removed the image.php template since it isn't required anymore
• CHANGED: copying header images to uploads/headers automatically activates random headers
• CHANGED: removed option to hide the blog title - use the Custom Header Menu instead
• CHANGED: child themes have to register their own header images in order to display them
• CHANGED: settings page reorganized to reflect changes from WordPress 3.0 (new navigation menu ...)
• CHANGED: my-dkret3 child theme updated to reflect changes to the base dkret3 theme
• CHANGED: changed all php code to reflect best coding practises used in WordPress
• CHANGED: added some more WAI-ARIA landmark roles
• CHANGED: site-title is h1 element on blog_home and front_page (better SEO)
• CHANGED: removed priority from most action hooks
• CHANGED: display featured images as header images (like in the default Twenty Ten theme)
• CHANGED: load comment-reply javascript only if threaded comments are used
• CHANGED: header image is always displayed with the header image api (child themes need to register their header image)
• CHANGED: new default width of 960px (you have to upload new header images or change the width inside your child theme)
• CHANGED: styled the WordPress Calendar widget
• CHANGED: renamed widgets (removed the dkret information)
• CHANGED: properly deregister styles added by wp_page_navi and wp_gtcn plugin (dkret adds styling)
• CHANGED: entry-meta information for posts as summary
• CHANGED: replaced dotted lines (entry-meta ...) with solid ones
• CHANGED: reduced number of javascript files
• CHANGED: subsidebars collapse in default view (add widgets to display them)
• CHANGED: left aligned text for posts (change it inside your child themes if you prefer justified align)
• BUG: dkret now properly adds browser classes to the body_class() function
• BUG: corrected the dimension for the header width if templates are used
• BUG: access menu (rss-link, gallery link) validates if not used
• BUG: option to show rss feeds inside the meta widget fixed
• BUG/CHANGED: options are never deleted without user interaction
• NEW: button to revert to default settings added to the settings menu
• BUG: dkret works without errors if WP_DEBUG is set
• NEW: added "skip to content" link to the header (better accessibility)
• NEW: added tons of action hooks
• NEW: most dkret functions are pluggable (wrapped in function_exist() calls). Child themes can overwrite those functions in their functions.php file
• NEW: navigation menu supports the new wp_nav_menu() functions
• NEW: support for editor-style added
• NEW: added a nice little jQuery hover effect for images (they become a bit lighter when hovered - credit to http://bavotasan.com/)
• NEW: shortcode ready entry title, entry meta information and comment meta information (child themes overwrite them through filters)
• NEW: renamed 'styles' folder to 'css' and added a bunch of layout-files for use in child themes
• NEW: Advanced Nav-Menu-Widget (hide subpages)

Version 3.5

• CHANGED: doctype changed to html5()works without problems in modern browsers
• NEW: added supersubs jQuery plugin for variable width submenus
• NEW: added support for custom background image (WordPress 3.0)
• BUG: prevent slahses from beeing added to custom html inside the footer
• BUG: prevent slahses from beeing added to customized start link
• CHANGED: [subscribe] shortcode adds a link to the posts rss feed instead of the blogs rss feed
• NEW: [rss] shortcode adds a link to the blogs rss feed

Version 3.4

• CHANGED: added some classes to the input fields of the comment area
• CHANGED: added more filters and reorganzed some of the old ones
• NEW: added support for post thumbnails (requires Wordpress 2.9)
• NEW: added descriptions for every widget area (requires Wordpress 2.9)
• BUG: hide page title for pages based on the no-sidebar-template if it used as static start page
• NEW: support for WordPress post-thumnbail-function added (requires Wordpress 2.9)

Version 3.3

• BUG: no more empty leaderboard division if not used
• NEW: added gravatar to meta widget
• NEW: support for Front-end Editor plugin added
• NEW: new option to link the header to the blog home - was fixed before
• new: added option to change the title of the links widget
• NEW: support for TinyMCEComments plugin added
• CHANGED: right aligned the calendar
• CHANGED: filtered the navigation links (below)

Version 3.2

• NEW: Option to automatically add AdSense ads to the bottom of posts
• NEW: Option to exclude pages from the top navigation

Version 3.1

• NEW: added a basic child theme to the dkret3 folder (ChildThemeSimple). Copy it to the themes folder and use it to customize dkret3
• BUG: Translated 'Sidebar Columns' widget title
• BUG: longer post titles (2 lines) don't float under the calendar date
• BUG: rss feed icon is displayed inline if top navigation extends one line
• BUG: display background bullets of lists in sidebars for Internet Explorer
• NEW: tested under WordpressMu without problems - please report bugs (if any)

Version 3.0.2

• CHANGED: tweaked margins of list-items
• BUG: secondary sidebar is a division now
• BUG: fixed some layout bugs for IE6

Version 3.0.1

• CHANGED: widgetbars are divisions now (used to be lists)
• CHANGED: added some more padding between Widgets
• BUG: fixed some validation errors
• BUG: properly remove css from Lester Chans WP-Page-Navi 2.5 Plugin
• BUG: use display_name instead of user_nicename for users names
• BUG: hide list-style-type (numbers) for commentlist

Version 3.0 - Wordpress 2.8 only

• NEW: dkret3 3.0 requires Wordpress 2.8
• NEW: added custom header api - used to upload and crop header images and change the color of the blog-title
• NEW: complete new settings menu (dkret now shares a lot of code with the fantastic Tarski Theme)
• NEW: settings menu uses Wordpress POST Handler for security reasons
• NEW: dkret should support renamed and moved WP-CONTENT folder now
• NEW: added link to the new dkret3 support forums - please join the community
• NEW: option added to change the name of the 'home' link
• NEW: foldable pages widget for sidebar navigation (credit to ilovecolors.ar)
• NEW: added styling for sticky-post status
• NEW: dkret3 now uses the wonderful superfish jQuery Plugin for the drop-down navigation
• NEW: styled the suckerfish navigation
• CHANGED: refactored code
• CHANGED: dropped support for foldable pages widget plugin
• CHANGED: searchforms use get_search_form() function (plugins can filter this)
• NEW: converted all widget to new WP multiwidget class
• NEW: added a lot of options to dkrets Links Widget
• NEW: dkret_default_settings() filter - Child Themes can set their own default settings (Name of Startlink, Navigation-Levels etc.)
• NEW: dkret_post_header_meta() filter - Child Themes can change/remove .entry-meta-above
• NEW: dkret_post_footer_meta() filter - Child Themes can change/remove .entry-meta
• NEW: dkret_page_footer() filter - Child Themes can change/remove #footer
• BUG: Headings in Archives Page Template styled
• CHANGED: Javascript files are added to the footer - faster page load
• CHANGED: background image 'bg_green.jpg' changed to 'bg_green.png'
• CHANGED: added comments_open() and pings_open() function to comments.php and guestbook.php
• CHENGED: use of the new Wordpress 2.8 escaping functions
• NEW: added WAI-ARIA landmark roles to template files for better accessiblity
• NEW: added browser classes to body_class() function - Child Themes can use it to supply extra or diffrent css for some brosers (like old IE versions).. - Code used from the hybrid theme
• NEW: option to remove some meta info (generator, RSD_Link, Windows Live Writer Link)
• BUG: removed obsolete hidden input from comments.php and guestbook.php
• CHANGED: attribute escaping for security
• NEW: browser is forced to reload style.css if file has changed
• CHANGED: all Dkret Widgets can hide the title completely (if title is blank)
• NEW: added option to show rss links in the meta widget (like the original WP meta widget does)
• CHANGED: justified tag-cloud-widget links
• BUG: post date wasn't shown if multiple posts where published under the SAME DAY
• CHANGED: always use default blog date format
• CHANGED: show posts published time ONLY in single view
• CHANGED: log out link of the meta widget redirects to blog home
• NEW: default sidebar is populated with the new Wordpress 2.8 the_widget() function
• NEW: widgetised 404 page. Create your own 404 page by adding widgets to the 404 sidebar
• CHANGED: exchanged deprecated wp_specialchars() function with new esc_html()
• CHANGED: moved locales (languages) to it's own subdirecty in the library folder
• NEW: Sidebar Columns Widget
• CHANGED: changed some classnames for semantic consistency (update your child theme to reflect those changes)
• CHANGED: optimized default view - Primary Sidebar AND Subsidiaries (bottombars) are shown if no widgets are activated
• NEW: new option to change footer text/links - You can use SHORTCODES for ease of use

Version 2.7.1 - 05.03.2009

• BUG: adding widgets with Internet Explorer doesn't break the widgets panel (sorry for that)

Version 2.7 - 02.03.2009

• BUG: proper redirect link to log-in form
• BUG: readded default list-style-type for ordered lists (1., 2., A. etc.)
• BUG: required INPUT tags for comment forms aren't styled (only the required text)
• NEW: added simple form check for required comment fields (credit to trevordavis.net)

Version 2.6 - 2009

• BUG: entry-date was hidden in single view
• NEW: child themes can change the default header image icon in the admin panel (add changed 'bg_header_standard.jpg' to the images folder of the child theme.)
• CHANGED: refactored all template files for better PHP compatibility (linux line ends, converted tabs to spaces)
• NEW: [subscribe] shortcode (adds a subscribe link to your post/page)
• NEW: [twitter] shortcode (adds a send to twitter link to your post/page)

Version 2.5.2 - 2009-01-31

• BUG: fixed some PHP Errors "headers already send"
• BUG: uploading images fixed

Version 2.5 - 2009-01-31

• BUG: proper display of strong element (HTML)
• BUG: fixed "undefined index" error for all widges
• BUG: removed top guestbook navigation for paged guestbook pages (will be re added if WP bug is fixed)
• CHANGED/BUG: optimized styling for asides (use category 'asides')
• CHANGED/BUG: position of edit button changed/margins fixed (margins the same for loged in users and guests)
• CHANGED: all widgetstitles are filtered
• CHANGED: top-margins for first headings in posts set to zero
• CHANGED: moved subfolders to new "library" folder (change your child themes accordingly!)
• CHANGED: renamed "schemes" to "layout" (rename folder in child themes TOO!)
• CHANGED: a lot of code shrinking/fixing (please report possible bugs)
• CHANGED: font-sizes changed to px (modern browsers support page zoom)
• NEW: HTML style changelog you are just looking at
• NEW: support for automatic_feed_links() added (WP2.7.1)
• NEW: support for WP2.7.1 'body_class()' functions added (some added classes to 'post_class' (.home, .archive, ...) will be removed in the next version)
• NEW: added border-radius for various elements (using CSS3)
• NEW: added new CLASS "icontext" for all icon descriptions
• NEW: prevent google from indexing pages with paged comments twice (SEO)
• NEW: added standard date to index.php (child themes can display standard and/or calendar style dates)
• NEW: dkret3 calendardates are filtered (remove 'dkret_calendardate' to hide calendardates in child themes)
• NEW: access links (rss, gallery, library) are filtered (extend links by altering 'dkret_access_links')
• NEW: Eric Meyers reset.css used for browser reset
• NEW: a minimal stylesheet "basic.css" for child themes (minimal styles for proper display of the top navigation, images etc.)
• NEW: support for Greg's Threaded Comment Numbering Plugin

Version 2.4

• CHANGED/BUG: reordered guestbook (commentform on top now)
• CHANGED: icons have greyscale represantion (for hover effect in schemes or child themes)
• NEW: scheme file "Hoverama" to illustrate the greyscaled icons
• CHANGED: restructured css (icons have own section)
• BUG: icon for trackbacks is shown again
• BUG: some spelling errors fixed in guestbook template
• BUG: forms don't change size in google chrome when having focus
• CHANGED: further optimized display of images (tweaked margins, reduced code, better display with customized galleries ...)
• CHANGED: styled forms which have focus (in modern browsers - sorry all IE users)
• CHANGED: comments and trackbacks aren't separated anymore (ugly if paged comments are being used)
• CHANGED: dropped support for sandbox_body_class()
• NEW: added some classes to post_class() for various templates
• CHANGED: styled the dkret settings page
• BUG: drop down navigation is working in IE6 again
• CHANGED: top navigation has variable height
• BUG: added some classes to standard sidebar (the standard view if no widgets are added by user)
• BUG: properly unregister original "Now Reading" Widget (only show the dkret3 version)
• CHANGED: Further styled the "Now Reading" Widget
• CHANGED: optimized bottombar columns (better margins - even in IE6)
• NEW: new theme guide (readme.html)
• BUG: fixed some display problems for comment navigation
• CHANGED: removed support for pagebar2 (missing WP2.7 compatibility)
• NEW: added support for WP-PageNavi (full WP2.7 support)
• CHANGED: removed support for Our-Todo-List Plugin (missing WP2.7 compatibility)

Version 2.3

• CHANGED: removed WP2.6 support
• CHANGED: changed required-string for comments
• CHANGED: dkret3 link in footer links to the Wordpress Theme Directory instead of the german homepage of dkret
• CHANGED: refactored CSS
• NEW: added some css classes for better theme preview at the Wordpress Theme Directory (fieldset, legend, h1, h5, h6)
• NEW: added *.pot file for translations
• NEW: added a second comment navigation before the comments
• NEW: guestbook-template uses new WP2.7 threaded comments now
• BUG: changed devision #menu to class for WP2.7 compatibility
• BUG: fixed validation error for navigation links
• BUG: "Missing argument" Warning for Pingpacks fixed

Version 2.2.1

• BUG: a small bug prevented the theme to work in WP < 2.7

Version 2.2

• CHANGED: use filter for legacy comments template
• BUG: strings for navigation in archive view corrected (older/newer galleries -> older/... posts)
• BUG: comment time wasn't properly translated (standard translation of wordpress was used)
• CHANGED: comments and trackbacks are counted seperately
• NEW: number of trackbacks is shown
• BUG: callback for trackback is used (same style as comments -> no says, reply link in the head of each trackback)
• BUG: correctly display dates in WP2.7

Version 2.1

• NEW: new scheme-file top-navigation (secondary sidebar moves to the top)
• NEW: edit link is hidden if edit-ajax-comments-plugin is used
• NEW: seperated gallery navigation and now reading link from top navigation links and added icons
• NEW: captions of images styled
• NEW: full support for wordpress 2.7 threaded comments
• CHANGED: dropped ajax comments (too many bugs, not fully compatible with threaded comments)
• CHANGED: dropped support for quoter plugin (uses wp 2.7 function instead)
• CHANGED: dropped support for paged comments plugin (uses wp 2.7 function instead)
• CHANGED: dropped option text left aligned by default (for better child theme support)
• CHANGED: removed update notification
• CHANGED: deleted some templates (dkret-template-events, dkret-template-guestbook, dkret-template-todo)
• CHANGED: renamed template files (dkret-template-nosidebar.php -> template-nosidebar.php)
  (you have to assign the templates again - if you used them!)
• CHANGED: removed functions-dkret.php file (added functions to functions.php)
• CHANGED: uses standard translating function now (for comaptibility reasons)
  (copy your old locales to the base directory and rename them [dkret-de_DE.mo -> de_DE.mo] )
• CHANGED: support for the wp 2.7 post_class function added (sandbox_post_class function only used for wordpress > 2.7)
• CHANGED: images always styled with border - dropped option (if needed classes are added [wordpress >2.5 does this])
• CHANGED: styled pages navigation in posts
• CHANGED: styled galleryoutput
• BUGFIX: navigation on gallerypages fixed
• CHANGED: seperated javascript for better WP compatibility and renamed 'ajax' folder to 'js'
• CHANGED: live comment preview is disabled by default (you can activate it in the admin panel)
• CHANGED: simplified admin panel
• CHANGED: changed the way dkret adds the admin panel (future proof - hopefully)
• CHANGED: reduced amount of templates
• CHANGED: removed some unused html code in index.php (child themes can add template files in wordpress 2.7)
• CHANGED: removed the rss-comments link in the top navigation (it was ugly use the widget for rss feeds to comments)
• CHANGED: gallery view: thumbnail only shown if images are attached
• CHANGED: blog: post are shown as galleries only if images are attached
• CHANGED: added date to gallery posts

Version 2.0

• NEW: added support for the qtranslate plugin (http://www.qianqin.de/qtranslate/)
• CHANGED: tweaked margins for the headings and paragraphs
• CHANGED: removed support for functions.js (theme templates can have their own function.php file where you can load additional javascript too)
• CHANGED: removed css styles for ajax edit comments plugin (version 2.0 of this plugin doesn't require additional css)
• CHANGED: no page title is shown if static front page is used
• CHANGED: tweaked the title of the page
• BUG: fixed german typo (Gallerie -> Galerie)
• CHANGED: standard avatar can be changed in Wordpress 2.6 (removed filter for dkret_avatar_default)
• CHANGED: screenshot.png changed to match WordPress.org Theme Directory requirements

Version 1.9 - 2008-05-03

• CHANGED: filters added to globalnav (dkret_menu), avatar size (dkret_avatar_size) and avatar default (dkret_avatar_default)
• CHANGED: removed previous/next navigation on top
• CHANGED: changed styling of the previous/next navigation at the bottom
• CHANGED: previous/next post text in single view instead of the title
• CHANGED: added images for previous/next post navigation
• CHANGED: edit link moved outside .entry-meta (to be able to hide .entry-meta without loosing edit link)
• BUG: images are properly centered if center option in the add image dialog is used
• BUG: sidebar properly aligned in the guestbook template
• NEW: option to select the gallery category
• NEW: gallery like display of the gallery category
• NEW: option to add gallery link to the top navigation
• NEW: previos/next gallery links to proper navigate through the gallery

Version 1.8 - 2008-04-20

• CHANGED: dkret is automatically uninstalled if you switch your theme (please add your options again after reinstall/reactivation)
• BUG: proper validation of the options panel if no additional header images are uploaded
• BUG: reverting to the standard theme if blog uses Wordpress < 2.5
• NEW: added options to rss links widget ('Hide Post RSS feed' and 'Hide Comments RSS feed')
• CHANGED: standard width is now 890px (was cruel 891px before)
• BUG: hide start button if static frontpage option of wordpress is used
• BUG: revert to standard header image if folder for header images is empty
• BUG: error message added if folder for header images is not writeable
• CHANGED: removed support for the post avatar plugin
• BUG: Made div.entry-meta conditional in search results as pages are included in results in Wordpress 2.5

Version 1.7

• CHANGED: dynamic functions and markup of sandbox 1.53beta integrated (e.g. new classes for input fields etc.)
• NEW: better display of new wordpress 2.5 galleries (next and previous navigation images added on single view)
• CHANGED: "Tags" changed to "Schlagwort" in german locale
• BUG: reverted to the old