Focus 1.0 Changelog

Release date: January 5, 2021

  • Full-width bleeds: Complete design support for 18 different color schemes in all content presentation modes
    • Includes new Design Option to control bleed padding
  • Focus Content Styles:
    • Added Editor support for easy use of the bar class to display content in a pseudo-sidebar in both Focus and Readability Modes (handy for inline “footnotes”)
    • Added Editor support to turn links into buttons
  • Featured Images: New full-width display option enables edge-to-edge presentation on all devices
  • Front Page Template: New headline area controls enable complete flexibility that was lacking in previous releases
  • Design Options: Added text color option for subscripts and superscripts
  • Comment forms: Added new focus-comment-form-args filter to enable WordPress comment form display modification
  • Focus Mode:
    • New centering options on smaller screens for both layout (header, nav menus, footer) and content (headlines, sub-headlines, captions, etc)
    • Refined combined extend and right/left classes for even more content design flexibility
  • CSS Refinements:
    • Removed bottom margin from extensions (extend)
    • Removed base font size and line height from main GRT declaration
    • Checkbox and radio labels are explicitly not bold now (even if regular labels are bold)
    • Removed :not pseudo-class exception for byline avatars
    • Added intelligent logic to keep certain declarations out of the compiled CSS if they are not called for based on current design settings
    • Completely refactored Skin CSS to rely solely on a collection of SCSS includes that respond to current Design and Display settings
  • Comments: Main comments <div> will no longer appear in the HTML markup if comments are closed and there are no comments on the current Post/Page
  • jQuery Migrate: This has been re-enabled will remain so until at least March 2021