Changelog

v1.11.0 — June 4, 2026

New Features

• ✨ Promote anything with a sidebar house ad — create a page, drop in a linked banner (stack images, a product card, a button — whatever you like), and it appears automatically below the Newsletter widget. Hidden until you set one up. Learn more
• ✨ Showcase your sponsors as a tidy logo wall in the right sidebar, each logo linking to their site — crisp in light and dark mode. Adjust the tile shape and columns from Code injection. Learn more

v1.10.4 — June 3, 2026

New Features

• ✨ Resize your logo, restyle sections, or hide elements with a few lines of code injection — no theme files to edit. Learn more
• ✨ Every section, card, and widget now has a stable, named handle for custom styling, so your tweaks keep working after theme updates.

v1.10.3 — May 29, 2026

Polish & Refinements

• 🎨 Page feature images now have a cleaner, more refined look, with softer rounded corners and a lighter treatment.
• 🎨 Image captions on pages are more compact and easier to read.

Performance & Accessibility

• ⚡ Leaner font loading: a redundant font download was removed, so pages start up a touch faster.
• ⚡ Screen readers now announce newsletter signup confirmations and errors out loud.
• ⚡ Pagination controls read more clearly for screen reader and voice-control users.
• ⚡ Improved contrast on secondary links for easier reading in light and dark mode.

Bug Fixes

• 🐛 Your logo now stays crisp and sharp on high-resolution (Retina) screens.
• 🐛 Breadcrumb data now follows your publication language instead of always showing English.

v1.10.2 — May 22, 2026

New Features

• ✨ Code blocks now display with full syntax highlighting. Keywords, strings, numbers and more are colour-coded, making code far easier to read in technical and developer-focused posts.
• ✨ Every code block gets a one-tap copy button, so readers can grab a snippet cleanly without selecting text by hand.

Polish & Refinements

• 🎨 Refreshed how code looks across your posts: tidier code blocks, plus a clear, readable style for inline code mentions in both light and dark mode.

Performance & Accessibility

• ⚡ The highlighting engine is bundled with the theme (no third-party CDN) and loads only on pages that actually contain code, and only as a reader scrolls near it, so pages without code stay just as fast.

Bug Fixes

• 🐛 Button and badge labels now stay readable even when your accent colour is very light or very dark, so text never disappears against it.
• 🐛 Links and other accent-coloured text stay legible too, adjusting automatically when your accent sits close to the page background.

v1.10.1 — May 21, 2026

New Features

• ✨ Add them in Ghost's new Settings → Social accounts panel (added in Ghost 6.37) and they show up automatically — no code or theme edits needed.

Polish & Refinements

• 🧹 Prefer Code Injection, or still on a Ghost version before 6.37? Your custom social links keep working, and they never appear twice next to the built-in ones.

v1.10.0 — May 17, 2026

New Features

• ✨ Video posts — tag any post #video and the first uploaded video, YouTube, or Vimeo embed in the body becomes a click-to-play hero above the headline. Keep scrolling and it docks into a small mini-player at the corner of the screen so readers can watch while they read. Learn more
• ✨ Three supported sources out of the box: uploaded Ghost videos (.mp4, .webm, .ogg), YouTube, and Vimeo (including channel and group URLs).
• ✨ Feed cards on posts tagged #video pick up a small play-icon badge on the thumbnail automatically — readers can spot video stories at a glance.

Polish & Refinements

• 🎨 The mini-player sits on the opposite corner from Ghost's Portal account button, so the two never overlap.
• 🎨 The mini-player steps out of the way the moment the mobile menu opens, then slides back in when the menu closes — audio keeps playing throughout.

Performance & Accessibility

• ⚡ YouTube and Vimeo embeds load instantly even on slow networks — their heavy players only mount when a reader actually clicks play.
• ⚡ Press Escape to dismiss the mini-player without reaching for the mouse.

v1.9.0 — May 12, 2026

New Features

• ✨ Brand new newsletter archive at /newsletters/, designed for premium publications. Learn more
• ✨ Five layouts to choose from: List, Magazine, Compact, Timeline, and Timeline Compact — switch any time without losing content.
• ✨ Editorial cover hero with a ledger card showing total issues, the latest issue, an RSS link, and an inline subscribe form.
• ✨ Year jump-rail on the right edge lets readers leap to any year, including ones not yet on screen.
• ✨ Sticky month chips travel with the reader, showing issue count and total reading time per month.
• ✨ "Load older issues" button reveals older newsletters, then auto-loads more as readers scroll.
• ✨ Bookmark any newsletter issue straight from the archive — every card has a save toggle and your list shows up in the bookmarks menu in the header. Learn more
• ✨ Native RSS feed at /newsletters/rss/ for every newsletter issue.
• ✨ Hide thumbnails across the archive with the new #disable-newsletter-card-images internal tag on your Newsletters page.
• ✨ Footer "Subscribe" panel now shows a "Browse all" link straight to the newsletter archive.

Polish & Refinements

• 🎨 Friendly "The first issue is brewing" empty state with an inline subscribe form for sites that haven't shipped an issue yet.
• 🎨 "Coming soon" hero counter appears in the ledger card until the first issue goes out.
• 🎨 Newsletter timeline cards spread evenly between the left and right columns.
• 🎨 Newsletter timeline displays correctly in right-to-left languages like Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Urdu.
• 🎨 Newsletter posts no longer appear in the homepage feed so the archive stays the home for issues.
• 🎨 Refined hero typography for a more editorial feel on the Newsletters page.

Performance & Accessibility

• ⚡ Smoother scrolling on the newsletter archive page.
• ⚡ Screen readers now hear "All issues loaded" when readers reach the end of the archive.

Translations

• 🌍 New "Browse all" and archive UI strings translated across all 60+ supported languages.

v1.8.1 — May 8, 2026

Bug Fixes

• 🐛 Logo images now scale properly on different screen sizes for better accessibility.

v1.8.0 — May 8, 2026

New Features

• ✨ Add icons next to your navigation items. Pick from 30 built-in icons or paste your own. Learn more
• ✨ Icons work everywhere your menu shows up — left sidebar, top bar, and the mobile drawer — from a single Code Injection snippet.

Security

• 🔒 Custom navigation icon SVGs are now safely cleaned before they appear, so a copy-pasted snippet can't sneak in code.

Performance

• ⚡ Images now load in the best format your browser supports (AVIF or WebP), saving bandwidth and speeding up pages.
• ⚡ Cover and profile images download at the right size for your screen instead of always loading the largest version.
• ⚡ Archive pages (tags, authors) load faster by skipping styles only needed on full articles.
• ⚡ Homepage and article pages only load the scripts they actually need — fewer bytes, quicker paint.
• ⚡ Site logo and hero images now load with maximum priority so they appear instantly.
• ⚡ Sidebars, navigation, and table-of-contents listeners now release cleanly when you leave a page, freeing memory on long browsing sessions.

Bug Fixes

• 🐛 The hero carousel countdown ring no longer resets when you move your cursor off the banner — it picks up right where it left off.
• 🐛 Clicking Next, Previous, or a slide dot now properly restarts the countdown for the new slide.
• 🐛 The hero banner now responds to keyboard arrow keys — Left/Right move between slides and Space pauses or resumes.

Accessibility

• ♿ The "Read more" link in the sidebar now tells screen readers which page it leads to.

v1.7.0 — May 7, 2026

New Features

• ✨ New "Top bar" navigation style puts your menu in the header instead of the sidebar. Learn more
• ✨ When the menu is too long for the header, extra items neatly tuck into a "More" dropdown.
• ✨ Submenus now open as friendly dropdowns from the top bar.
• ✨ Theme and reading preferences move to a quick popover in the header when you're using the top bar.
• ✨ The post grid grows from two to three columns when the sidebar is hidden, giving stories more room to breathe.

UI Improvements

• 🎨 Post card images now use a consistent 16:10 shape across layouts.

Mobile

• 📱 Phones and tablets keep the familiar slide-out menu, even when the top bar is on for desktop.

Performance

• ⚡ Pages load faster — non-essential scripts now ship only on the pages that need them.
• ⚡ Post cards, sidebar widgets, and logos reserve their space so layouts no longer jump as images load.
• ⚡ Featured images on posts and pages start loading sooner for a faster first impression.
• ⚡ Comments load only when you scroll near them, keeping post pages snappy.
• ⚡ Gallery zoom only loads when a post actually has a gallery.
• ⚡ Fonts now show your text immediately using a fallback while the custom font loads.

v1.6.6 — May 6, 2026

Accessibility

• ♿ Every page now has a proper top-level heading, so screen readers can announce the page title correctly.
• ♿ Sidebar menu groups can now be expanded and collapsed with the keyboard, not just mouse clicks.
• ♿ Post thumbnails in the sidebar and post cards no longer repeat the title to screen readers.
• ♿ The left sidebar is no longer incorrectly announced as a nested landmark by screen readers.
• ♿ Ghost's announcement bar is now recognised as a distinct section by screen readers.
• ♿ The bookmarks dropdown can now be closed by pressing the Escape key.
• ♿ Home page category tabs now announce their selected state and support proper keyboard navigation.
• ♿ Post navigation and membership call-to-action sections are now labelled for screen reader users.
• ♿ Info tooltips in the sidebar Preferences panel can now be reached and read via keyboard.
• ♿ Loading spinners no longer confuse screen readers — they are hidden and replaced with spoken status text.
• ♿ Decorative bullet separators in post metadata are now hidden from screen readers.

UI Improvements

• 🎨 Improved text contrast across metadata, labels, and captions for easier reading in light mode.
• 🎨 Tab buttons on the home page now show a visible outline when focused via keyboard.
• 🎨 Sidebar backdrop overlays are now properly hidden from assistive technology.
• 🎨 Recommendations widget now shows a small right arrow icon to view all recommendations.

Performance

• ⚡ Hover animations (float and scale effects) are now suppressed for users who prefer reduced motion.

Internationalization

• 🌍 Footer social media labels are now translatable alongside the rest of the theme.

v1.6.5 — May 4, 2026

UI Improvements

• 🎨 Improved spacing after headings for a cleaner, more consistent layout.

v1.6.4 — May 3, 2026

Hero

• ✨ A countdown ring around the pause button shows when the next slide is coming.
• ✨ Swipe left or right on mobile to change slides — smooth and responsive.
• ✨ Tap the left or right edge of the hero to jump between slides.
• ✨ Subtle vibrations confirm slide changes on supported devices.

Performance

• ⚡ Next and previous slides load in the background, so they appear instantly when you swipe.
• ⚡ Sharper hero images on large monitors and high-density phone screens.

UI Improvements

• 🎨 Cleaner spacing in the post footer.
• 🎨 Empty tag and author pages now show a friendly "No posts found." message.
• 🎨 Sleek new sidebar scrollbar that fades in only when you need it.
• 🎨 The bookmarks menu now uses the same elegant scrollbar.

Bug Fixes

• 🐛 Tag tabs on the home page now work for tag names with special characters like apostrophes or symbols.

v1.6.3 — April 30, 2026

Tooling

• 🧹 Trimmed 127 lines of unused JavaScript from the runtime bundle.

Bug Fixes

• 🐛 Fixed a flash of black borders that appeared on first page load before styles fully applied — caused by Tailwind v4's new default border-color behavior.
• 🐛 Tab buttons on the home feed no longer briefly underline in black before the active tab is highlighted.

Reading Experience

• 🎨 Pagination now cleanly hides the "Newer" and "Older" controls when there is no previous or next page, instead of showing greyed-out placeholders.
• 🎨 Tightened post-card layout alignment.
• 🎨 Reduced spacing between footer social icons for a tidier row.

v1.6.2 — April 27, 2026

Bug Fixes

• 🐛 Fixed an issue from v1.6.1 where Recommendation links incorrectly pointed to the current page instead of the recommended external website.
• 🐛 Fixed heading and body fonts not loading when no custom font is selected in Ghost Admin.
• 🐛 Cleaned up the page navigation by hiding "Newer" and "Older" buttons when they aren't needed.

v1.6.1 — April 27, 2026

Hero

• ✨ The hero headline now uses a subtle fade between slides instead of a sliding swap, and includes a pause button so readers can stop the auto-rotation whenever they like
• ⚡ Hero carousel now pauses when scrolled off screen — saves battery and data on long pages

Reading Experience

• 🎨 Heading hierarchy fixed — H5 and H6 are now correctly sized below H4, with consistent spacing across all heading levels
• 🎨 Save and Share buttons under each post are now neatly center-aligned
• 🎨 Anchor links — like clicking a Table of Contents heading — now land just below the sticky header instead of slipping behind it

Widgets & Footer

• 🎨 Widget typography is now consistent across the sidebar widgets (Recommendations, Popular Tags, Top Authors, etc.)
• 🎨 Fixed a spacing issue on the Recommendations widget
• 🎨 Footer text is now center-aligned so the Ghost Portal button no longer overlaps it — works correctly in right-to-left languages too

Performance

• ⚡ Hero and post images now declare their dimensions, reducing layout shift while pages load

Bug Fixes

• 🐛 Pagination is now hidden when there's only one page (no more empty pager strip)
• 🐛 Resolved a clipped white strip above the paid-post call-to-action
• 🐛 Fixed "Previous post" and "Next post" links pointing the wrong way

v1.6.0 — April 26, 2026

Navigation

• ✨ Nested menu items now light up correctly when you're on that page — the active item stands out, not just its parent group
• 🐛 Fixed a flicker on the left sidebar where every menu group briefly looked expanded before settling into the right state
• 🐛 Fixed the Related Posts widget so it actually shows posts that share a tag with the article you're reading

Subscriber Insights

• ✨ Newsletter signups now record where someone signed up from — footer, sidebar, hero or post call-to-action — so you can see in Ghost Admin which spots are converting

Error Page

• 🎨 Refreshed the 404 page with a friendlier message, a "Back to homepage" button, and a search button so readers can find what they were looking for

Performance & Accessibility

• ⚡ Member profile pictures in the header now load at the right size instead of full-resolution — faster pages, less data
• ⚡ Hero feature image now decodes in the background, improving Largest Contentful Paint on post pages
• ♿ Added screen-reader labels to the right sidebar and footer landmarks
• 🔒 Recommendations widget no longer breaks under strict Content Security Policy when a favicon fails to load

Under the Hood

• 🧹 Replaced ~180 lines of inline <script> blocks with a clean ES module — better caching, faster repeat visits
• 🧹 Magic numbers like the sticky header height now live in one CSS variable, so future tweaks touch one line instead of five files
• 🧹 Theme now ships with desktop and mobile preview screenshots that show up in the Ghost Admin theme picker

v1.5.1 — April 26, 2026

Dark Mode

• 🌗 Dark mode now syncs across open tabs — flip the theme in one tab and every other tab follows instantly
• ✨ Added a smooth fade when switching between light and dark mode, instead of a hard cut

v1.5.0 — April 26, 2026

Table of Contents

• ✨ Introduced an Inline TOC at the top of every post and page — readers get instant article navigation before they even start scrolling
• 🎨 On desktop, the Inline TOC smoothly hands off to the sticky Sidebar TOC widget as the reader scrolls past it
• 📱 On mobile and layouts without a right sidebar (Full Width, Left Sidebar Only), the Inline TOC stays in-content and scrolls naturally with the page
• ⚙️ Added two new per-post controls: #disable-inline-toc hides only the Inline TOC, and #disable-sidebar-toc hides only the Sidebar TOC widget — the existing #disable-toc tag continues to disable both

v1.4.0 — April 25, 2026

Social Links

• ✨ Added support for custom social links beyond Ghost's native Facebook and X — Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, TikTok, Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon, Substack, Patreon, and 10+ other popular platforms can be added to the footer and About widget by pasting a small snippet into Ghost's Code Injection. Niche platforms supported via a custom-icon escape hatch.
• 🎨 Refreshed the social-icon row across the footer, About widget, and author bios — single uniform Font Awesome Brands icon set, chip-style backgrounds, automatic wrapping when many links are added.

Reading Experience

• ✨ Added a reader-controlled text size toggle — visitors can pick Small, Default, or Large from the Preferences panel in the left sidebar. Their choice is saved between visits and stays in sync across open tabs.
• 🎨 The new size scales body text, headings, captions, blockquotes and Ghost card text together — embedded tweets and videos stay at their native size, just like reader modes in Substack and Medium.
• 🐛 Fixed image captions not scaling along with the rest of the article text.

Accessibility

• ♿ The Appearance and the new Reading size buttons now announce their state correctly to screen readers.

v1.3.1 — April 24, 2026

Reading Experience

• 🎉 Reading progress button now plays a subtle bounce animation when you reach 100% of an article
• 🐛 Fixed the reading progress button overlapping the Ghost Portal button — it now repositions itself correctly when the Portal button is enabled

Infrastructure

• ⚙️ Migrated to Tailwind CSS v4 and upgraded the Vite build configuration for a faster, leaner build

v1.3.0 — April 23, 2026

Internationalization

• 🌍 Added translations for 60+ languages — theme text (buttons, labels, navigation, pagination, newsletter, share, reading time, etc.) now displays based on the publication language
• 🌐 Added right-to-left (RTL) support — icons and directional UI now flip correctly for Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu and other RTL languages.

Reading Experience

• 🎨 Redesigned the reading progress indicator with a modern circular ring style
• 🎨 Added an arrow icon to the "Read more" link in the right sidebar for clearer affordance

v1.2.0 — April 22, 2026

Social Sharing

• ✨ Replaced custom social share implementation with Ghost's native share button, providing a cleaner, platform-native sharing experience

v1.1.5 — April 21, 2026

Rebranding & Identity

• 💡 Rebranded the theme
• 💡 Updated author information and contact details in theme metadata
• 💡 Updated the theme credit link in the footer

Page Layout

• 🐛 Cleaned up the static page template

v1.1.4 — April 17, 2026

Personal Bio Layout

• 👤 Personal Bio homepage layout now displays all available social media handles of the selected author
• 🎨 Fine-tuned social sharing and comment icon sizes for improved visual consistency

Code Quality

• 🧹 Refactored social media links into a reusable component for better maintainability

v1.1.3 — April 17, 2026

Post Layout

• 🐛 Fixed post hero icon sizes in social share and comment sections

v1.1.2 — April 13, 2026

Cards & Editor Blocks

• 🎨 Ghost editor cards (galleries, embeds, toggles, callouts, code blocks) now display with consistent, polished styles
• 🎨 Embedded content (videos, social media posts, iframes) renders centered with rounded corners
• 🎨 Toggle and callout blocks now look correct in both light and dark mode
• 🎨 Blockquotes use a lighter weight for a more refined appearance

Typography & Post Layout

• 🎨 Improved post content spacing, heading sizes, and reading width for better readability
• 🎨 Pull quotes, list markers, and nested lists have a clearer visual hierarchy
• 🎨 Section dividers (horizontal rules) have a more elegant style
• 🎨 Full-width images no longer have rounded corners or drop shadows
• 🐛 Table of contents now correctly picks up headings inside post content

v1.1.1 — April 12, 2026

Accessibility

• ♿ Screen readers now correctly skip decorative icons instead of trying to read them aloud
• ♿ Fixed an issue where having multiple newsletter signup forms on the same page could confuse assistive tools
• ♿ Featured post carousel images now use custom alt text when available, improving the experience for visually impaired readers

Bug Fixes

• 🐛 Fixed sidebars not hiding correctly on the error page

Documentation

• 📝 Improved the README

v1.1.0 — April 11, 2026

Performance

• ⚡ Switched to variable fonts (Inter Variable, Lora Variable), reducing font payload by ~80%
• ⚡ Added preload hints for critical Latin font files to improve LCP
• ⚡ Fixed MutationObserver scope in the left sidebar to prevent unnecessary DOM thrashing
• ⚡ Added prefers-reduced-motion support for motion-sensitive users

Accessibility

• ♿ Added skip-to-content link for keyboard navigation (WCAG 2.1)
• ♿ Improved featured posts carousel with ARIA roles, live region announcements, and keyboard-visible controls
• ♿ Added focus trap for mobile sidebar drawers using the inert attribute
• ♿ Improved bookmark remove button visibility on touch devices
• ♿ Fixed author fallback avatar showing full name instead of initial

SEO

• 🔍 Added BreadcrumbList structured data (JSON-LD) to post, tag, and author pages
• 🔍 Added WebP <picture> element with responsive srcset to page feature images
• 🔍 Fixed sizes attribute on post and page feature images for correct image selection

Footer

• 🎨 Redesigned footer with a responsive three-section grid layout (Brand | Navigation | Subscribe)
• 🎨 Added dynamic navigation column grouping — use # prefixed labels in secondary navigation to create separate footer columns
• 🎨 Navigation columns auto-wrap to multiple rows when there are many groups
• 🎨 Added external link indicators to footer navigation, matching the sidebar
• 🔒 Fixed missing rel="noopener" on footer external links

Error Handling & Code Quality

• 🐛 Added custom branded 404/error page template
• 🐛 Added error handling for tab content fetch on the homepage
• 🧹 Consolidated dark mode CSS into Tailwind dark: variants
• 🧹 Added print stylesheet for clean printed output
• 🧹 Moved footer outside <main> for correct HTML5 semantics

v1.0.1 — April 8, 2026

• 💄 Improved header button styles

v1.0.0 — April 6, 2026

• ✨ Initial release of the theme