TrendNews Blogger Theme

Version History

Overview
TrendNews 1.00 is a responsive Blogger news template built for dense homepage sections, article reading pages, label archives, ads, SEO metadata, and SDKPage license activation.

Highlights
- Added a complete newspaper-style homepage with headline, category, sports, metro, business, entertainment, and archive layouts.
- Added responsive desktop and mobile navigation with editable Blogger Layout menu widgets.
- Added dark mode with editable color settings in Blogger Layout.
- Added article pages with featured image handling, author area, comments, related posts, post navigation, and share controls.
- Added static page styling for About, Contact, Privacy Policy, Terms, and other Blogger pages.
- Added editable ad slots for top banner, article top content, inline article placement, and article bottom content.

License And Product Protection
- Added SDKPage license activation settings in Blogger Layout.
- Added product slug support for trendnews-blogger-theme.
- Added soft license checking against the SDKPage license API.
- Added body status classes for active, inactive, and missing licenses.
- If a license is missing or inactive and the SDKPage footer credit is removed or hidden, the public template redirects to:
  https://sdkpage.com/trendnews-blogger-theme
- If a license is active, the SDKPage footer credit can be removed.
- The redirect check is disabled inside Blogger Layout editor so customers can configure the theme safely.

SEO Improvements
- Added robots preview controls for large images, snippets, and video previews.
- Added Open Graph and Twitter card metadata.
- Posts now use article Open Graph type, while other pages use website type.
- Added site-level Organization and WebSite JSON-LD.
- Added SearchAction structured data for site search.
- Added BreadcrumbList structured data for posts and pages.
- Added WebPage structured data for static pages.
- Added NewsArticle structured data for article pages.
- Connected article and page schema to the site publisher.
- Added Open Graph image width, height, and secure URL hints.

Customization Improvements
- Removed visitor-facing hardcoded TrendNews text where possible.
- Search placeholder now uses the Blogger blog title.
- Mobile fallback logo now uses the Blogger blog title.
- Page and archive labels now use the Blogger blog title.
- Cookie notice now uses the Blogger blog title.
- SDKPage footer credit now uses the Blogger blog title.
- Default related posts heading changed to \"More From This Site\".
- Footer copyright default no longer hardcodes TrendNews.

Article Readability Fixes
- Improved duplicate featured image cleanup on article pages.
- Improved spacing around article images and embedded media.
- Added cleanup for empty paragraphs, repeated breaks, and Blogger-generated spacing artifacts.
- Improved conversion of break-separated text into proper paragraphs.
- Preserved ad insertion after article cleanup.

Layout Editor Improvements
- Added editable sections for analytics/tracking code.
- Added editable sections for header extra code.
- Added editable sections for footer extra code.
- Added clearer Layout Studio section labels and descriptions.
- Added README guidance for license activation, SEO launch checks, and performance.

Validation
- Blogger XML validation passed after the latest changes.

Upgrade Notes
- Before replacing an existing customer theme, back up the current Blogger theme from Theme > Backup/Restore.
- After upload, open Blogger Layout and configure:
  License Key
  Header logo
  Main menu links
  Homepage blocks
  Footer links
  Footer copyright
  Article ads
  SEO/search descriptions
- Test one homepage URL, one article URL, one page URL, and one label archive URL after publishing.