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Version 1.4 (under development)

  • New: Support for custom.css
  • New: Stat Counter Analytics support
  • New: Link to social profiles
  • New: Configure heading of social profile with SOCIAL_PROFILE_LABEL
  • New: article.comments_intro that overrides COMMENTS_INTRO. Now you can define article specific comments introduction
  • New: Support for Latex with the help of latex plugin
  • New: Support for new metadata modified
  • New: Add Disqus comments to Page
  • New: Performance improvement- 4x faster output.
  • New: Use neighbor plugin to show next and previous articles
  • New: Comments section message changes when user toggles it

Visual Style

  • Email newsletter subscriber form style matches rest of the theme
  • Article images have a visible border
  • Block quotes have a quote icon instead of a thick line on left
  • Article's paragraph font size is bigger, for better readability
  • Remove unnecessary padding in sidebar's tag list
  • Change default place holder text of Email form text field
  • Archives page and recent posts on home page have better presentation
  • Line number in code block is hidden on tablets and phones to save space for content
  • Fix: Nested lists have different font sizes
  • Fix: CSS style rules for literal block in reST is missing
  • Fix: Long lines in code block will wrap to next line
  • Fix: Code block will not play nice with line numbers
  • Fix: Subscribe button changes its size on smaller screens
  • Fix: Articles under tag heading on tags page are not sorted
  • Fix: URL scheme for blogs which are not published to the root folder

Optimizations

Following improvements reduce the number of HTTP requests

  • Four CSS style sheets have been merged into to one
  • Elegant uses minified CSS style sheet
  • Favicon is disabled by default. Set USE_FAVICON to true to enable it

Behaviour

  • Search results link open in the same window, which is consistent with search results from internet search engines

Version 1.3

  • Next and previous article navigation is placed below comments section so that article's content and comments appear together
  • Article title and site name in <title> tag is separated by · which is cleaner and more subtle than -
  • Subtitle of articles and pages is added in <title> tag along with main title
  • Description meta tag on Home Page uses SITE_DESCRIPTION
  • Bug fix: Expand comments section if URL points to a comment
  • Bug fix: CSS style of links in an unordered list inside article content is different from article links

Version 1.2

  • RSS and Atom feed links
  • CSS style for permanent links added. It is visible only user hovers over the heading
  • Block quote is indented towards left
  • Bug fix: Hyperlink dashed underline is not visible on Chrome
  • Bug fix: Text in list goes beyond list marker when text is long and overflows to next line
  • Bug fix: Disqus comment count is always 0

Version 1.1

  • Add template for pages. Pages do not have tags, category and Disqus comments
  • Keep style of a hyperlink in modified meta data consisted with the theme
  • Add keywords meta tag that uses keywords, tags and category attribute of articles and pages
  • Validate search form for empty strings
  • If RECENT_ARTICLES_COUNT is undefined, set it to 10. So that Pelican does not throw critical error
  • Bug fix: Path of search.html in search form action should always be absolute
  • Bug fix: Copyright meta tag should be set to the author, instead of the license
  • Bug fix: Close meta tags
  • Bug fix: ID of search form in 404 page should be different from the ID of search form in main navigation
  • Bug fix: Links in ordered list in an article do not conform to the link style in rest of the article

Version 1.0

  • Initial release