Tribune 4.3.0
New
- “Editorial” Color Style in Theme Options > General.
- “Modern” Color Style – a soft, card-based design with rounded corners.
- “Modern” and “Blocks” demos in the Demo Importer, in addition to the Default demo
- Dark Mode for the Editorial and Modern styles, with a switch in the header and a “Default Color Scheme” option (Light / Dark / System)
- “Broadsheet” Color Style in Theme Options > General, a revival of the original Tribune 1.0 design: condensed headlines (Barlow Condensed) over serif copy (PT Serif), charcoal rules, a cream-framed full-width feature, a “Breaking News” flag, a charcoal footer and a homepage built from three-column bands. Supports Dark Mode
- “Featured Wide” (1240×520) image size, used by the Broadsheet feature
- “Buttons” block style for the Categories / Tags block.
- “Thumbnail List” block style for the Latest Posts block.
- “Surface” block style for the Group block.
- “Home template” block pattern for building the homepage in the editor
Improved
- Default style refresh. Flat date labels instead of bordered badges, a neutral white Breaking News bar, quieter slider controls (dots + arrow buttons), sidebar widgets with a single hairline border, uppercase dark widget titles, an outlined “Continue Reading” button, and the drop cap without its offset shadow
- the main navigation now sticks to the top on scroll in the Classic style too (desktop)
- the Breaking News bar is a CSS animation; the carouFredSel jQuery plugin is no longer shipped
- the Carousel and Tabs widget scripts only load when those widgets are in use, and the YouTube API only loads when a slide embeds a video
- the theme icon font and Dashicons are no longer loaded on the front end; icons are inline SVG so the Customizer colors still apply to them
- Customizer color and typography defaults now match the stock design
Fixed
- the “Views:” label on single posts was empty for posts with no views
- the “There are no featured posts” hint in the slider area is now shown to site admins only, not to visitors
- the Customizer “Blog Posts Title” size was also applied to the Carousel widget titles; it now targets the blog posts list only
