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Past Releases

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Below you'll find a collection of all the past releases:


Version 3.0.2 - 28.11.2018

  • Fixed Tabele issue #292
  • Integrated Countdown fix #234 – thank you Andreas Neroth and Claudio Kressibucher
  • Fixed SmallGroup issue #300 – thank you Lukas for reporing
  • Updated Wordpress and Plugins and languages

Version 3.0.1 – 01.10.2018

Version 3.0.0 – 01.10.2018

  • PHP 7.2 Compatibility
  • Product Box improvements
  • Removed Layout Slider

Version 2.0.20 – 24.09.2018

  • Prodcast Improved
  • Improved CSS Grid
  • Updated Wordpress and Plugins

Version 2.0.19 – 19.07.2018

  • Improved Celebrations on mobile
  • Celebrations module now shows the whole series and, if less than 4 celebrations are left for the current series the next series up until 8
  • Updated Wordpress and Plugins

Version 2.0.18 – 10.07.2018

  • Further layout optimizations and fixes
  • Added translations to event module
  • Updated Wordpress and Plugins

Version 2.0.17 – 02.07.2018

  • Implemented event calendar improvements of Oliver Weber – Thank you very much!
  • Minor layout fixes

Version 2.0.16 – 27.06.2018

  • Rewrite of grid system – improved stability
  • Design tweaks for rows, forms and videos inside boxes, buttons and menu
  • Updated Wordpress and Plugins

Version 2.0.15 – 04.06.2018

Version 2.0.14 – 31.05.2018

Version 2.0.13 – 30.04.2018

  • Fixed #230 – Event Calendar issues. Thank you @oliverweber

Version 2.0.12 – 05.04.2018

  • Updated Wordpress and Plugins
  • Added Polish translation file for WP and ICF Plugins
  • Add ?fullscreen to your start page to get a fullscreen version of your slider (e.g. https://www.icf.ch/?fullscreen)
  • Fixed #233 - Disable permalink page for images, events, preacher, series, podcasts etc.
  • Fixed #235 - New address for ICF Startup Hamburg
  • Fixed #247, #209, #232 - Listed ICF Startups on movement map/list (Credits: Lukas Ammann)
  • Fixed #215

Version 2.0.11 – 18.12.2017

  • Improved home-page slider image size
  • Fixed #215 – Listed ICF Startups on movement map/list (Credits: Lukas Ammann)
  • Fixed #221 – Listed several new ICF Startups, updated links, addresses etc. (Credits: Lukas Ammann)
  • Fixed #104 – Added footer to startup template

Version 2.0.10 – 08.11.2017

Version 2.0.9 – 20.10.2017

  • Welcome Andreas & Claudio to our developer team! :D
  • Updated Wordpress, Plugins & Languages
  • Added Dutch translation for ICF Church vision template
  • Fixed #117 - Improved textarea height on mobile
  • Fixed #190 - Featured Box image resolution
  • Fixed Error in avia backend editor
  • Fixed Creating of cache directory
  • Fixed Flickr loading issue (array_flip error)
  • Removed Unused facebook js

Version 2.0.8 – 28.08.2017

  • Update ICF Church vision template
  • Added feature #189 – focus in searchfield
  • Fixed: #180 – Celebration title on startpage
  • Updated Wordpress, Plugins & Languages

Version 2.0.7 – 03.07.2017

  • Updated Plugins & Languages
  • New page template for ICF Church vision
  • Improved – Header output
  • Fixed #183 - Header title to small on tablet

Version 2.0.6 – 03.06.2017

Version 2.0.5 – 12.06.2017

  • Improved display of color sections and parralax sections
  • Improved display of error messages
  • Fixed #152 – Improved slider: Added arrow and dotts to mobile
  • Fixed #150 – Select Box Overlay

Version 2.0.4 – 26.04.2017

  • Updated Wordpress and Plugins
  • Fixed #136 - restored german translation from next-step plugin
  • Added new css classes for gravity forms: gf-form---newsletter gf-form---transparent
  • Added new css classes for gravity form elements: gf-element---center
  • Added lightbox feature to slide: use external links with ?lightbox at the end: /yourpage?lightbox
  • Layout fixes

Version 2.0.3 – 10.04.2017

  • Updated Wordpress and Plugins
  • Improved search and 404 template
  • Fixed #131 – Translation for German
  • Fixed #28 – Recover single template:
  • Fixed #90 – width of event images
  • Fixed #137 - Warning is displayed in frontend
  • Updated Czeck Language

Version 2.0.2 – 06.02.2017

  • Fixed #77 – Spelling error in next step module
  • Fixed #70 – Layout issue on givings page

Version 2.0.1 – 31.01.2017

  • Updated: WordPress Core 4.7.1
  • Updated: Languages
  • Updated: Plugins

Version 2.0.0 – 23.01.2017

  • Redesign: Soft redesign touching many details:
    • Centered logo
    • New fonts
    • Black, grey, white color-scheme
    • Removed red color
    • Improved font sizes
    • Closed #42: Improved navigation on mobile and with livestream
    • Closed #59: Improved margin and paddings for sections and columns
  • Fixed #9: Next Step filter broken layout due to wrong HTML width
  • Removed: Overlay for events on startpage, use the slider or the boxes below

Learn more here about how to get the redesign working with your website: https://gitlab.com/icf-website/wordpress/wikis/redesign-2017

Version 1.7.5 – 20.11.2016

Version 1.7.4 – 28.11.2016

  • Fixed: Minor design Issues with forms introduced with a plugin update
  • Fixed: Design issue #53 with long series descriptions
  • Added: Czech language Support for smallgroup program – thank you Lukas Knizek
  • Removed: Plugin seo-data-transporter

Version 1.7.3 – 24.11.2016

  • Added: Facebook Gallery integration, check out the theme settings
  • Added: Gravity Forms Addon for Stripe and Zapier
  • Improved: Backend performance

Version 1.7.2 – 22.11.2016

  • Fixed: Font-CSS not loading with cache
  • Fixed: Issue #32 – Rewritten Flickr implementation: now with vue.js
  • Updated: Added app.js to minification

Version 1.7.1 – 13.11.2016

  • Fixed: Issue #31 – Google maps integration
  • Fixed: Issue #23 – Event Images
  • Fixed: Minor visual interface issue on forms
  • Added: New Chaching with minification and concatenation of css and js as well as html caching, addresses issues #39 and #40
  • Added: Lazy loading
  • Added: Plugin Cloudflare for CDN
  • Removed: WP Total Cache Plugin
  • Removed: WP Retina 2x Plugin
  • Removed: Royal Slider Plugin
  • Updated: Plugins & Languages

Version 1.7.0 – 27.09.2016

  • Feature: Issue #23 for Bern
  • Fixed: Missing welcome message
  • Fixed: Issue #8 – video embed in easy slider, thanks @Semilsky
  • Fixed: Issues: #17 #25 #26 #27 #29
  • Added: Plugin Revisr
  • Updated: Plugin WordPress Core 4.6.1
  • Updated: Plugin W3 Total Cache
  • Updated: Plugin Optimus
  • Updated: Plugin Akismet
  • Updated: Plugin Disable Comments
  • Updated: Plugin Gravity Forms
  • Updated: Plugin Polylang
  • Updated: Plugin ThreeWP Broadcast
  • Updated: Plugin WP-Piwik
  • Updated: Plugin WP Media Category Management
  • Updated: Plugin Yoast SEO

Version 1.6.0 – 23.08.2016

  • Improved: Placement of ICF logo and menu
  • Fixed: Bug that caused IE to not execute JS
  • Fixed: Button margins
  • Updated: WordPress Core 4.6.0
  • Updated: Languages
  • Updated: Plugin wp-retina-2x
  • Updated: Plugins wp-migrate-db
  • Updated: Plugin members
  • Updated: Plugin Kommentare deaktivieren
  • Updated: Plugin Gravity Forms
  • Updated: Plugin Polylang
  • Updated: Plugin ThreeWP Broadcast
  • Updated: Plugin Yoast SEO
  • Updated: Plugin Zalomení
  • Updated: Translations

Version 1.5.4 – 07.07.2016

  • Added: Ability to integrate churchonline.org and podcasts as well as embeds on frontpage
  • Added: htaccess code to rewrite urls of non existing local files (in _.htaccess)
  • Improved: Some hundred lines of old CSS and JS code removed
  • Improved: Renamed "Start-Page" menu to "Frontpage" and added descriptions and images
  • Improved: Slide navigation-buttons and links
  • Improved: Frontpage overlay close behaviour and styling
  • Improved: Mobile layout
  • Fixed: Slide publishing
  • Fixed: Flicker integration
  • Fixed: Location dropdown on mobile with no locations
  • Fixed: Multiple configurations of language navigation conflicting
  • Updated: JW Player implementation for podcasts

Version 1.5.3 – 15.06.2016

  • Fixed: Forms frontend has been rewritten from the ground up (https://trello.com/c/F1htxKU5):
    • Conditions working – Multistep forms working – Many layout improvements
  • Fixed: Missing languages, now all languages are possible. Use 2 letter language code for language (f.e. "en"): https://trello.com/c/nXPkfNRi
  • Fixed: Improved implementation of hoffline icon-font in backend and frontend: https://trello.com/c/lQhmq3zf
  • Fixed: Dropdown select button in firefox (how is using FF anyway?? ;-)) is working now: https://trello.com/c/ED20pU88
  • Fixed: Event calendar - Only auto archive single events due to problem with recurring events
  • Improved: Slideshow Caption
  • Improved: New page template without menu added
  • Updated: Plugin wp-piwik
  • Updated: Plugin wordpress-seo
  • Updated: Plugin threewp-broadcast
  • Updated: Plugin polylang
  • Updated: Plugin optimus
  • Updated: Plugin multisite-enhancements
  • Updated: Plugin gravityforms
  • Updated: Plugin akismet

Version 1.5.2 – 08.06.2016

  • Fixed: Text prefix for celebrations more than 7 days away
  • Fixed: event calendar external link
  • Fixed: Important wp core fix for months genitive case (Credits: Jan Semilsky - Thanks!)
  • Fixed: 404 header
  • Fixed: podcast plugin / feed url
  • Fixed: podcast / celebration table (remove clickable)
  • Fixed: usernoise plugin - make url protocol neutral
  • Fixed: podcast archive pdf download link
  • Fixed: header image not visible on phone
  • Fixed: mailchimp archive shortcode - ssl problem
  • Fixed: Restore missing js for gallery shortcode
  • Updated: Czech translation (Credits: Jan Semilsky - Thanks!)
  • Updated: backend options and made Movement link static
  • Updated: French translation
  • Updated: Merge podcast plugin with latest official version

Version 1.5.1 – 16.05.2016

  • Improved: Slider design & functionality on mobile
  • Improved: Location selecort (not yet working on Firefox)
  • Fixed: First slide not visible on first load of previous slides are not in daterange

Version 1.5.0 – 12.05.2016

  • Improved: Picly is now labeled "Startpage" and was moved to the top in the WP Backend
  • Feature: ICF Conference Livestream
  • Feature: Major rewrite of Homepage:
    • All new Slider, much cleaner, larger, less code, based on CSS 3 Transitions
    • Link to Online Church with new Button – Default Celebration Background (Ste in Startpage Module) – Ability to use celebration without title, speaker or series: – Celebrations without title display the Speaker – Celebration pictures are displayed in the following order:
      1. Post image
      2. Speaker image
      3. Series image
      4. Default celebration image
  • Feature: Adding Youtube & Vimeo links for video podcast; Add 3 resources:
    1. Link –Video Hosted (first entry displayed on the page)
    2. Video resource on your server (needed for the RSS feed)
    3. Audio resource ob your server
  • Hotfix: RSS Feed
  • Improved: Page titles
  • Improved: Menu on Android
  • Improved: Font Handling. Include https://www.icf.ch/wp-content/themes/avantgarde3-cooperate/terrific/fonts.js?min to load ICF fonts
  • Improved: More Menu & Feature Box on Mobile
  • Updated: Czech Translation (thank you Jan Semilsky)
  • Fixed: Event Icon
  • WordPress Update 4.5.2
  • Updated: Plugin Akismet
  • Updated: Plugin Dicentis Podcast
  • Updated: Plugin Kommentare deaktivieren
  • Updated: Plugin Gravity Forms
  • Updated: Plugin Polylang
  • Updated: Plugin Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin
  • Updated: Plugin ThreeWP Broadcast
  • Updated: Plugin WP-Piwik
  • Updated: Plugin WP Media Category Management
  • Updated: Plugin Yoast SEO
  • Updated: Plugin WP Migrate DB Pro
  • Updated: Plugin WP Migrate DB Pro CLI
  • Updated: Plugin WP Migrate DB Pro Media Files
  • Updated: Plugin WP Migrate DB Pro Multisite Tools
  • Updated: Plugin Polylang
  • Updated: Plugin Wordpress SEO

Version 1.4.4 – 06.04.2016

  • Fixed: Home page slider click
  • Fixed: Mobile improvements Home-Page
  • Fixed: Menu on Android

Version 1.4.3 – 10.03.2016

  • New: Simon Egli, our new web-boss in ICF Zurich simon.egli@icf.ch
  • Updated: WordPress to 4.4.2
  • Improved: Menu, location & podcast dropdowns, social-icons, mobile
  • New: Timed Publising of Home-Page Elements – Thanx @Daniel Ammann
  • New: Install WP Mail SMTP Plugin
  • Fixed: jQuery version missmatch causing form-errors
  • Fixed: Celebrations going missing
  • Fixed: Protocol missmatch for podcast player resulting in download of video rather than play
  • Fixed: SSL Bug Online Church
  • Updated: Location URLs & Movement Map – Thanx @Lukas Ammann
  • Updated: Plugin akismet
  • Updated: Plugin business-directory-plugin
  • Updated: Plugin polylang
  • Updated: Plugin wordpress-seo
  • Updated: Plugin wp-migrate-db
  • Updated: Plugin wp-retina-2x
  • Updated: Plugin wp-migrate-db
  • Updated: Plugin wp-media-category-management
  • Updated: Plugin threewp-broadcast
  • Updated: Plugin quick-pagepost-redirect-plugin
  • Updated: Plugin polylang
  • Updated: Plugin optimus
  • Updated: Plugin multisite-enhancements
  • Updated: Plugin hide-youtube-related-videos
  • Updated: Plugin gravityforms
  • Updated: Plugin disable-comments
  • Updated: Plugin business-directory-plugin
  • Updated: Plugin wp-retina-2x
  • Updated: Plugin disable-comments
  • Updated: Plugin email-address-encoder

Version 1.4.2 – 12.01.2016

Happy New Year!

  • BREAKING CHANGE: Removed .htaccess from git (for individual server config) – on local installations, rename _.htaccess to .htaccess to make it work again
  • Updated: WordPress to 4.4.1
  • Updated: Plugin WP Retina 2x
  • Updated: Plugin Yoast SEO
  • Updated: Plugin Enable Media Replace
  • Updated: Plugin Members
  • Updated: Plugin WP-Piwik
  • Updated: Plugin Akismet
  • Updated: Languages

Version 1.4.1 – 21.12.2015

  • Removed: Plugins: Regenerate Thumbnails, BackWPup Pro, Hammy, TinyMCE Advanced, Visualizer: Charts and Graphs
  • Fixed: podcast feed problem with multiple speakers and series

Version 1.4.0 – 17.12.2015

  • New: Podcast – You can use podcast feeds with all video and audio files like so: https://your.icf.ch/podcast/show/my-audio-show/feed/audio or: https://your.icf.ch/podcast/show/my-video-show/feed/video Create two shows to have different Icons in iTunes and assign each Podcast to both shows.
  • New: Podcast – Option to add series and speaker in feed-titles
  • Fixed: Backend editing with Picly
  • Fixed: PHP Error in child Theme
  • Fixed: Load fonts from current domain
  • Updated: htaccess (reverse proxy for icf.ch/party and icf.church/teachings)
  • Updated: Podcast & Merged changes
  • Updated: Plugin akismet
  • Updated: Plugin business-directory-plugin
  • Updated: Plugin regenerate-thumbnails
  • Updated: Plugin threewp-broadcast
  • Updated: Plugin optimus
  • Updated: Plugin wp-migrate-db-pro
  • Updated: Plugin wp-migrate-db-pro-media-files
  • Updated: Plugin wp-retina-2x
  • Various improvements
  • Language updates

Version 1.3.4 – 3.12.2015

  • New: Picly updated to support publishing dates – Thanx @Daniel Ammann
  • Fixed: Readded Categories for events
  • Updated: htaccess for more Pprsisent SSL connection – Thanx @Daniel Freiwald
  • Updated: Plugin WP Retina 2x
  • Updated: Plugin Yoast SEO
  • Updated: Plugin Multisite Enhancements
  • Updated: Plugin Gravity Forms
  • Language updates

Version 1.3.3 – 1.12.2015

  • Fixed: Error where events don't filter without search-field present
  • Updated: Plugin Multisite-Enhancements
  • Updated: Plugin Optimus
  • Updated: Plugin Wordpress-seo
  • Updated: Plugin Wp-retina-2x
  • Removed: Plugins: Debug-bar, Github Updater, Loco Translate, Minqueue, WordPress Importer

Version 1.3.2 – 24.11.2015

  • Updated: Plugin Yoast SEO
  • Updated: Plugin WP Media Category Management
  • Updated: Plugin ThreeWP Broadcast
  • Updated: Plugin Polylang
  • Updated: Plugin Optimus
  • Updated: Plugin Business Directory Plugin
  • Language updates

Version 1.3.1 – 23.11.2015

  • Updated: Busineslogic for nextstep
  • Fixed: Bug on mobile for eventlist
  • Updatedd: czech translations - theme, plugins (event, user noise) – Thanx Jan

Version 1.3.0 – 5.11.2015

  • New: Extended Event Plugin with Next-Step functionality

Version 1.2.6 – 3.11.2015

  • Change: Not moving old events to trash but set to draft status
  • New: Add Podcast from Celebration automatically – By Jan Semilsky
  • Updated: Plugin Visualizer: Charts and Graphs
  • Updated: Plugin ThreeWP Broadcast
  • Language updates

Version 1.2.5 – 27.10.2015

  • Fixed: SSL issue in Hammy Plugin: https://github.com/noeltock/hammy/pull/9
  • Hide meta description if is Seo Yoast active – By Jan Semilsky
  • Added: Podcast single view! – Thanx Jan
  • Added: Zalomení Plugin for Czech
  • Podcast integration improved – Jan
  • Updated: Plugin dicentis-podcast
  • Updated: Plugin threewp-broadcast
  • Updated: Plugin visualizer
  • Language updates

Version 1.2.4 – 17.10.2015

  • Moved shortcodes to child theme
  • Emergency Fix Podcast with https
  • Code cleanup
  • Updated: Plugin polylang
  • Updated: Plugin business-directory-plugin
  • Updated: Plugin akismet
  • Language updates

Version 1.2.3 – 14.10.2015

  • Fixed: vimeo embed code for https for podcasts
  • Fixed: backend for events over https
  • Updated: ignores to ingnore files with versions etc (removing from live server)
  • Improved: Prevent direct access for sensitive files
  • Added: Read Me

Version 1.2.2 – 13.10.2015

  • Fixed: https, no more cross-protocol calls; All websites are now capable of https
  • Improved: Free https certificate included for all domains! Thanks Peter Heusser for the tip.
  • Improved: Force WP backend over https
  • Fixed: CSS bug on donation page, thanks Jan Semilský for collaboration
  • Updated: languages packages and Czech translation, again thanks Jan
  • Fixed: HTML bug on podcast page, thanks Jan
  • Updated: Plugin wp-retina
  • Updated: Plugin wp-piwik
  • Updated: Plugin Broadcast
  • Updated: Plugin Quick-Redirect
  • Updated: Plugin Optimus
  • Updated: Plugin Members
  • Updated: Plugin Gravity Forms