TrendNews 2.0 WordPress Theme

Version History

# TrendNews 2.0 WordPress Theme  Changelog

### 2.1.88

- Added Customizer controls for a virtual `/ads.txt` publisher file with sanitized text output.

### 2.1.87

- Added a `TrendNews: Sidebar Trending` widget with hero image, compact post list, and glass-card styling for the single-post sidebar.

### 2.1.86

- Added a privacy/cookie consent banner with Customizer controls, Google Consent Mode defaults, and optional consent-gating for theme ad/tracking code.

### 2.1.87

- Added a `TrendNews: Sidebar Trending` widget with hero image, compact post list, and glass-card styling for the single-post sidebar.

### 2.1.86

- Added a privacy/cookie consent banner with Customizer controls, Google Consent Mode defaults, and optional consent-gating for theme ad/tracking code.

### 2.1.84

- Fixed remaining hard-coded More button, archive category, author label, single label, comment submit, and pagination colors so Theme Colors controls apply consistently.

### 2.1.83

- Added Customizer color controls for section label rings/lines, card category text, and More button backgrounds, borders, text, and hover states in light and dark mode.

### 2.1.82

- Added LinkedIn and Pinterest to the single-post share panel with lightweight inline SVG icons.

### 2.1.81

- Disabled WordPress core sitemaps when the TrendNews SEO sitemap is active and cleaned robots.txt sitemap output so it advertises only the TrendNews sitemap URLs.

### 2.1.80

- Marked sitemap XML/XSL requests as non-cacheable so page-cache plugins do not serve the styled sitemap index with stale HTML headers.

### 2.1.79

- Changed the sitemap XSL stylesheet reference to a same-host relative URL so styled sitemaps work across www and non-www access.

### 2.1.78

- Hardened the styled sitemap XSL response for browser XML parsers and added Google News title display support in the sitemap table.

### 2.1.77

- Added a Google News sitemap at `sitemap-news.xml`, robots.txt discovery for it, publication name/language controls, and a `max-image-preview:large` SEO option for larger post image previews in Google surfaces.

### 2.1.76

- Added an SEO/Performance option to include each post featured image in RSS feeds, and removed product-facing legacy reference names from changelog copy.

### 2.1.75

- Strengthened homepage SEO schema with publisher logo data, primary navigation schema, and a latest-post ItemList to help Google understand sitelinks and latest-news cards.

### 2.1.74

- Normalized homepage widget feature heights across standard, headlines, center-feature, magazine, and sports layouts while preserving each layout style and mobile responsiveness.

### 2.1.73

- Matched the Center Feature with Side Lists widget height and mini-card category labels to the Headlines widget style.

### 2.1.72

- Added dedicated Homepage SEO Title and Homepage SEO Description controls for the theme SEO fallback, separate from homepage widget section titles.

### 2.1.71

- Prevented oversized inline single-post images, captions, figures, and alignwide/alignfull blocks from overflowing beyond the article column.

### 2.1.70

- Added a global SEO title separator selector and wired it to WordPress document titles plus the category SEO `%%sep%%` token.

### 2.1.68

- Fixed category SEO title token saving so percent tokens are preserved, and kept date tokens for SEO/search titles while hiding them from visible category archive headings.

### 2.1.67

- Updated the styled sitemap heading/title to use the current site URL instead of the TrendNews product name.

### 2.1.66

- Styled the theme sitemap XML, added automatic post/page sitemap pagination beyond 500 URLs, and gated per-category TrendNews Search Titles behind active theme SEO output.

### 2.1.65

- Added per-category TrendNews Search Title fields for category archive H1/search titles, with token and symbol support, without changing homepage category labels.

### 2.1.64

- Added optional clean category URLs, category search-title formatting, category SEO title reuse for document titles, first-paragraph SEO descriptions, and a Customizer word limit for automatic descriptions.

### 2.1.63

- Added grouped theme sitemap child files, category/tag noindex controls, sitemap group toggles, and automatic focus keyphrase fallback metadata.

- Added SVG dimensions to default WordPress custom-logo output and darkened the comments toggle for stronger PageSpeed contrast compliance.

### 2.1.61

- Added SVG logo width/height fallback parsing and strengthened dark-mode comment toggle contrast for PageSpeed accessibility checks.

### 2.1.60

- Fixed PageSpeed accessibility findings for sidebar ARIA semantics, comment toggle contrast, related heading order, and redundant related-card image alt text

### 2.1.59

- Added smaller dedicated archive and related-post image sizes to reduce oversized image downloads flagged by PageSpeed image delivery.

### 2.1.58

- Added `fetchpriority=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"high\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"` to the featured image preload link so PageSpeed can detect the LCP request priority correctly.

### 2.1.57

- Fixed a dark-mode top background flash/line by applying dark background color to the root element and critical CSS before the full stylesheet loads.

### 2.1.56

- Added LCP image preload, optional system font mode, and safe below-fold homepage rendering hints for better PageSpeed without hiding SEO content.

### 2.1.55

- Added a safe PageSpeed optimization pass with inline critical CSS, homepage LCP image priority, optional delayed ad loading, optional block CSS removal, and lighter 404 media handling.

### 2.1.54

- Added a safe theme fragment/query cache for homepage widgets, related posts, and sitemap fragments, with Customizer controls and automatic refresh when posts or terms change.

### 2.1.53

- Added safe theme asset cache controls for CSS/JS versioning, optional stylesheet preload, and optional deferred theme JavaScript.

### 2.1.52

- Added a plugin-friendly theme sitemap fallback at `/sitemap.xml`, with `/sitemap.xlm` redirecting to the correct URL and robots.txt advertising the sitemap only when enabled.

### 2.1.51

- Added plugin-friendly SEO fallbacks with Auto/On/Off controls for meta description, Open Graph, Twitter cards, and schema JSON-LD.
- Added lightweight performance controls for emoji assets, embeds, font preload, and image loading attributes.

### 2.1.50

- Added product packaging basics: WordPress theme screenshot, GPL license file, and starter translation template.

### 2.1.49

- Added a `Sidebar Section` widget area for single-post sidebar widgets.
- Added a Customizer toggle to enable or disable TrendNews Advertisement widget output.

### 2.1.48

- Standardized the recommended WordPress theme folder/package slug to `trendnews-2-0` for reliable updates and deletion.
- Added an admin warning when TrendNews is installed from an old folder name such as `TrendNews 2.0`.

### 2.1.47

- Added a single-page sidebar guard so sidebars hide when the single post layout is set to Middle and on mobile screens.

### 2.1.46

- Removed the single-post sidebar ad layout that could flash during page load.
- Added a proper `TrendNews: Advertisement` widget with title, style, and code fields for widget areas.

### 2.1.45

- Refreshes the licensed package URL immediately before WordPress installs a theme update, avoiding stale secure-download links.
- Increased secure download usage allowance for WordPress update packages on the SDKPage license server.

### 2.1.44

- Hardened licensed update package validation so WordPress does not store an invalid package URL.
- Updated the SDKPage license server to stream local uploaded ZIP packages directly for WordPress theme updates.

### 2.1.43

- Added a Sidebar Advertisement widget area and matching Customizer code fallback for single posts.
- Added before-paragraph inline ad placement while keeping the existing after-paragraph placement.
- Updated ad, header, and footer Customizer code fields with code-friendly formatting attributes.

### 2.1.41

- Added a glass-style back-to-top button that appears after scrolling and returns visitors smoothly to the page top.

### 2.1.39

- Added an optional premium-feature license gate: inactive licenses now lock the premium front page, TrendNews homepage widgets, and Customizer editing while keeping the theme from fatal-breaking the WordPress site.

### 2.1.38

- Added SDKPage license activation, status checks, deactivation, admin notices, encrypted license-key storage, and secure theme update/download integration.

### 2.1.23

- Added Customizer uploaders for main-header dark logo and mobile flyout light/dark logos, with fallback to the main logo, and restyled the flyout navigation with the header glass treatment.

### 2.1.22

- Added Theme Colors controls to the Customizer for primary, accent, background, text, border, footer, label, and dark mode colors.

### 2.1.21

- Applied the single-post footer style globally and reduced unnecessary frontend script data by loading comment AJAX settings only where comments can be posted.

### 2.1.20

- Updated the comment cookie consent label to mention saving only the commenter name.

### 2.1.19

- Added a Customizer toggle for the single-post comment section, submitted comments through AJAX without page reloads, and enabled excerpts on category archive cards.

### 2.1.18

- Matched comment actions to the More Posts button style, made comment textareas mobile-safe, modernized comment threads, and allowed anonymous/name-only commenting.

### 2.1.17

- Made More Posts the default archive navigation, added a Customizer switch for More Posts or pagination, and restyled both navigation styles.

### 2.1.16

- Restyled the comment section with the theme glass panel treatment and added a click-to-open comments toggle.

### 2.1.15

- Matched the homepage header gap to Naija News by removing the extra top margin from the first homepage section heading.

### 2.1.14

- Matched the mobile headline first-column cards to the third-column list format and restored mobile logo tap-through to the homepage link.

### 2.1.13

- Matched news-card image heights and ratios more closely to the Naija News CSS across archive, homepage, magazine, metro, and mobile row cards.

### 2.1.12

- Matched mobile homepage headline and widget news-card image framing to the Naija News mobile feature/card CSS.

### 2.1.11

- Removed visible archive descriptions from tag and other archive pages while keeping SEO metadata available to plugins/search engines.

### 2.1.10

- Category archive headings now use configured SEO plugin term-title formats when available, with a default category-title fallback.
- Removed category descriptions from category archive pages.

### 2.1.09

- Matched category/archive heading alignment, archive description typography, and mobile archive card image sizing to the Naija News CSS.

### 2.1.08

- Normalized top spacing across homepage, archive, search, single, and static pages to match the Naija News container padding pattern.

### 2.1.07

- Matched the author archive mobile news-card image column and crop to the Naija News mobile feed style.

### 2.1.06

- Matched the search page top spacing to the Naija News archive CSS pattern.

### 2.1.05

- Matched the search results page heading and result-card excerpts to the Naija News search reference.

### 2.1.04

- Matched the header dark-mode crescent icon and reduced the search icon sizing to the Naija News reference.

### 2.1.03

- Matched the author archive top spacing to the Naija News reference by removing the extra author-page top padding.

### 2.1.02

- Matched the author archive bio text color to the Naija News author page reference in light and dark mode.

### 2.1.01

- Matched the author archive story heading and news-card width to the Naija News author page reference.
- Bumped the theme asset version so WordPress loads the updated stylesheet.