CHANGELOG.md

4.5.1

Enhancements

• Add Greek and Danish localized UI text strings. #1159 #1188
• Remove blank YAML Front Matter from JavaScript banner. #1158
• Improve page and archive layouts to visually center main content and harmonize sidebar widths and placement. #1166
• Increase font-size of code blocks.
• Reduce indent of nested "table of contents" links.
• Extend archive grid view to the right to better fill the page.
• URL encode title and page URL in social share links. #1177
• Replace old Disqus script with new Universal Embed Code. #1179

Bug Fixes

• Fix positioning of sidebar table of contents when using layout: splash. #1169
• Fix "follow" links z-index order to avoid overlapping issues. #1167

Maintenance

• Fix typo words_per_minute typo in documentation. #1164
• Remove outside and right borders in tables.
• Adjust width of .sidebar to match .sidebar__right.
• Add sample documents to "portfolio" collection for testing grid view.
• Fix typo in stylesheets documentation. #1170
• Add note about setting Discourse server as a scheme-less URL (eg. meta.discourse.com and not http://meta.discourse.com) in _config.yml. #1182

4.5.0

Enhancements

• Add scrollbar to sidebars with overflowing content that extends outside the viewport's height. #706
• Add missing Spanish UI text strings. #1118
• Update Susy to version 3 and rewrite grid CSS to be more readable.
• Refactor intro animations into a separate Sass variable $intro-transition to allow for customizing. #1147
• Add jekyll-data as a dependency to read data files from theme-gem. #1131
• Add support for customizing header image alternative text through YAML Front Matter. #1138

Bug Fixes

• Fix Sass DEPRECATION WARNING: Passing a string to call() by upgrading Susy to version 3. #1114
• Fix disappearing author profile links due to tapping the "Follow" button and changing a browser's viewport width to > $lg. #1136

Maintenance

• Replace reference to "Basically Basic theme" with Minimal Mistakes. #1149
• Add documentation for disabling CSS3 animations. #1150
• Update quickstart, installation, and overriding defaults documentation. #1151

4.4.2

Enhancements

• Add Swedish, Dutch, and Indonesian localized UI text strings. #996 #1081 #1101
• Add Bitbucket social icon color. #1009
• Add GitLab to author sidebar. #1050
• Add Sass variable for navicon link hover color. #1089 #1088

Bug Fixes

• Toggle close button on mouseleave. #975
• Remove extraneous </a> and </li> tags from paginator.html include. #1038
• Fix Google+ comments provider includes. #1092
• Replace category variable used in _includes/breadcrumbs.html to site.category_archive to avoid conflicts with site.categories. #1063 #329

Maintenance

• Add mention of Greek localized UI text strings to theme documentation. #972
• Update Greek localized UI text strings. #1054
• Add documentation for adding teaser images in grid view using header.teaser.

4.4.1

Enhancements

• Add Greek localized UI text strings. #958

Bug Fixes

• Fix video helper to load Vimeo videos over https. #945
• Fix close menu button that was removed when updating Greedy navigation script. #969

4.4.0

Enhancements

• Move SCSS partials to /_sass/minimal-mistakes for easier CSS customization.
• Replace modified with last_modified_at to leverage various Jekyll plugins that utilize this variable. #930
• Add Lithuanian localized UI text. #924
• Improve print stylesheet by increasing text contrast, removing elements that don't need to be printed, expanding URLs, and reducing amount of blank pages. #909

Maintenance

• Remove extra word in comment. #911
• Fix typo in Utility Class docs. #915

4.3.1

Bug Fixes

• Fix .masthead and .page__footer overlapping full screen video elements. #933
• Correctly show Related Posts heading when UI Text data file is omitted and related: true in YAML Front Matter. #901

4.3.0

Enhancements

• Add workaround to allow theme gem's /assets/js/main.min.js file to be overridden by a local version. Simply add the following YAML Front Matter to the file:

  ---
  layout: 
  ---
  

  Any local customizations you make to /assets/js/main.min.js should now replace the theme gem's version.

4.2.2

Enhancements

• Update Greedy Navigation to flexbox version to make it more flexible when dealing with long site titles (site.title). #836
• Adjust box-shadow in navigation and author sidebar. #576
• Add Russian, Korean, and zh-TW localized UI text. #815 #834 #838

Bug Fixes

• Fix Discourse embedded comments bug. #823
• Fix seo_author default value in seo.html and add author meta. #858

Maintenance

• Add theme meta info to _layouts/default.html and main.css.
• Update README.
• Improve the pagination and taxonomy archive documentation. #826
• Add comments to /docs/_config.yml to clarify use of YAML references. #847

4.2.1

Enhancements

• Improve paginator.html to support paginated pages that live inside of a subfolder. See documentation for more details. #764

Maintenance

• Add https protocol to Google Universal Analytics embed. #772

4.2.0

Enhancements

• Add video helper (for YouTube/Vimeo) and video headers to single, archive, and splash layouts. #788
• Add missing simplified Chinese localized UI text strings. #747
• Add Nepali (Nepalese) localized UI text strings. #785
• Remove borders from table elements found in Google Custom Search Engine widget. #759

Bug Fixes

• Remove position: sticky JavaScript polyfill and fallback to default positioning for browsers that don't support it. #752

Maintenance

• Fix invalid Google Universal Analytics example in documentation. #783
• Bump jekyll-sitemap gem dependency to (1.0).

4.1.1

Enhancements

• Remove hardcoded words_per_minute "less than" and "minute read" values and make dynamic. #703
• Update Font Awesome to v4.7.0. #723, #722
• Add support for YouTube channel URLs in author profile. #716

Bug Fixes

• Add Jekyll as spec.add_runtime_dependency in .gemspec.

4.1.0

Enhancements

• Add Jekyll include for adding custom author profile links to sidebar

Bug Fixes

• Fix link to Discourse.org homepage in noscript section #699
• Fix padding issue with pagination buttons #694

4.0.10

Bug Fixes

• Add Staticman default path. #683

Maintenance

• Slight correction/improvements to French UI text. #685

4.0.9

Bug Fixes

• Fix overlapping sidebar navigation lists due to max-height: 100vh. #668

4.0.8

Bug Fixes

• Set default value for words_per_minute. #657
• Adjust sidebar navigation list CSS so it collapses at the correct width.

Maintenance

• Add Google AdSense banner to /docs/_layouts/default.html for demo site.

4.0.7

Enhancements

• Add !default values to _sass/_variables.scss.
• Collapse sidebar navigation lists on smaller screens. #607

Bug Fixes

• Rename #comments to something more unique to avoid clashes with Kramdown generated headline IDs. #582

Maintenance

• Reorganize SCSS partials in assets/css/main.scss

4.0.6

Enhancements

• Add figure helper to make generating a <figure> element with a single image and caption easier. #572
• Add structured data markup for itemprop="person" in author profile sidebar. #647

Bug Fixes

• Fix improper YAML formatting of some locales. #651

Maintenance

• Clarify "migrating to gem-theme" instructions in Quick Start Guide.
• Add rake preview task for testing /test during theme development.

4.0.5

Enhancements

• Update gems: jekyll-sitemap (0.12), jekyll-feed (0.8).
• Improve next/previous pager links visibility by changing gray color to blue ($link-color).

Bug Fixes

• Fix .sidebar flicker/jump when hovered. #583

Maintenance

• Move contents of gh-pages branch to master inside of the /docs folder.

4.0.4

Enhancements

• "Gemify" theme ~> gem "minimal-mistakes-jekyll"
• Replace base_path include with absolute_url filter where possible.
• Allow images to be placed in other folders. Remove /images/ only restriction and encourage placement in /assets/images/ instead. Full paths are now required. If upgrading from MM 3.4 add /images/ before filenames in Front Matter and _config.yml variables.
• Add home layout
• Added missing Turkish translations for UI text. #621
• Make author avatar optional in sidebar.
• Update /_includes/seo.html for meta description. #558

Bug Fixes

• Fix navigation bar animation "flicker" in Safari #568
• Fix author.avatar paths for externally hosted images.

Maintenance

• Add documentation around gem "minimal-mistakes-jekyll" installation and use.
• Add note about using full image paths for eg. assets/images/filename.jpg (header images, overlays, galleries, feature rows, etc.) instead of assuming they will always be in /images/.
• Add "Overriding Theme Defaults" page to documentation.

3.4.8

Enhancements

• Improve type readability for larger viewports by bumping up base font-size. #533
• Update Portuguese localized UI text. #541
• Add page.title and via parameter to Twitter share link. #538

Bug Fixes

• Fix Last.fm author profile URL. #540

Maintenance

• Move Brazilian Portuguese localized text under pt-BR key.

3.4.7

Enhancements

• Add layout based and user-defined class names to <body> element for added CSS hooks. #526
• Add simplified Chinese localized UI text. #532

Bug Fixes

• Remove duplicate include of base_path in category-list.html #522

3.4.6

Enhancements

• Add Italian "comments" related localized UI text. #514

Bug Fixes

• Disable compress HTML layout by default. To enable add layout: compress to _layouts/default.html.

3.4.5

Enhancements

• Improve line numbered code block styling when using {% highlight linenos %} tag. #513
• Add English fallback to "Follow" button label. #496

Bug Fixes

• Fix Firefox alignment issues with code blocks generated with the {% highlight %} tag. #512

Maintenance

• Clarified comment for author.stackoverflow value used in author sidebar links. #487
• Add list of localized text strings. #488
• Add {% highlight %} code block examples to demo site.
• Add documentation for using custom sidebar navigation menus. #476

3.4.4

Enhancements

• Add French "comments" related localized UI text. #472

Bug Fixes

• Exclude vendor in Jekyll config file.
• Fix Liquid syntax error for offending parenthesis. #479

Maintenance

• Update gems: colorator (1.1.0), forwardable-extended (2.6.0), github-pages (93), jekyll (= 3.2.1), minima (= 1.0.1).

3.4.3

Enhancements

• Make "honeypot" input in Staticman comment form less obvious to spam bots
• Add padding to .highlight code blocks to better align overflow scrollbar to the bottom.
• Add additional image options for Twitter card social sharing meta tags. #466
• Add structured data markup for Staticman comments. #458

Bug Fixes

• Format og:locale tag with _ instead of -. #462

Maintenance

• Add note to docs about using url: http://localhost:4000 when working locally.

3.4.2

Enhancements

• Improve UX of static comment forms. #448

3.4.1

Enhancements

• Add staticman.filename configuration with UNIX timestamp for sorting data files. example ~> comment-1470943149.

Bug Fixes

• Don't add <a> to author name if URL is blank.

3.4.0

Enhancements

• Support static-based commenting via Staticman for sites hosted with GitHub Pages. #424

3.3.7

Bug Fixes

• Re-enabled Jekyll plugins in _config.yml in case they aren't autoloaded in Gemfile. #417

Enhancements

• Fallback to site.github.url for use in {{ base_path }} when site.url is nil.
• Replace Sass and Autoprefixer npm build scripts with Jekyll's built-in asset support. #333

Maintenance

• Document site.repository and its role with github-metadata gem.
• Add sample archive page with content for testing styles on demo site.

3.3.6

Bug Fixes

• Fix blank site.teaser bug. #412

3.3.5

Enhancements

• Add English default text site.locale strings. #407
• Add Portuguese localized UI text. #411
• Add Italian localized UI text. #409

Maintenance

• Remove unused Google AdSense variables in _config.yml. #404
• Update Gemfile instructions for using github-pages vs. native jekyll gems.
• Disable gems: in _config.yml and enable plugins with Bundler instead.
• Add repository to _config.yml to suppress GitHub Pages error Liquid Exception: No repo name found.

3.3.4

Enhancements

• Add support for configurable feed URL to use a service like FeedBurner instead of linking directly to feed.xml in <head> and the site footer. #378, #379, #406
• Add Turkish localized UI text. #403

Maintenance

• Update gems: activesupport (4.2.7), ffi (1.9.14), github-pages (88), jekyll-redirect-from (0.11.0), jekyll-watch (1.5.0).

3.3.3

Enhancements

• Make footer stick to the bottom of the page.

Bug Fixes

• Fix gallery size bug #402

Maintenance

• Set default lang to en.

3.3.2

Bug Fixes

• Fix JavaScript that triggers "sticky" sidebar to avoid layout issues on screen sizes < 1024px. #396

3.3.1

Enhancements

• Enable image popup on < 500px wide screens. #385
• Indicate the relationship between component URLs in a paginated series by applying rel="prev" and rel="next" to pages that use site.paginator. #253
• Improve link posts in archive listings. #276

Maintenance

• Update gems: github-pages (86), ffi 1.9.13, jekyll-mentions 1.1.3, and rouge 1.11.1
• Fix note about custom sidebar content appearing below author profile. #388

3.2.13

Enhancements

• Add English default UI text for Canada, Great Britain, and Australia. #377
• Switch default locale from en-US to en.

3.2.12

Enhancements

• Remove window width "magic number" from sticky sidebar check in main.js for improved flexibility. #375

Bug Fixes

• Fix author override conditional where a missing authors.yml would show broken sidebar content. Defaults to site.author. #376

3.2.11

Bug Fixes

• Fix disappearing author sidebar links #372

Maintenance

• Update gems: github-pages (84), jekyll-github-metadata 2.0.2, and kramdown 1.11.1
• Update vendor JavaScript: jQuery 1.12.4, Stickyfill.js 1.1.4
• Update Font Awesome 4.6.3

3.2.10

Maintenance

• Add CONTRIBUTING.md

3.2.9

Enhancements

• Add support for header overlay images for Open Graph images. #358

Bug Fixes

• Fix Person typo Schema.org type #358

Maintenance

• Update github-pages gem and dependencies.
• Remove minutes_read to avoid awkward reading time wording #356

3.2.8

Bug Fixes

• Remove cursor: pointer that appears on white-space surrounding author side list items and links. #354

Maintenance

• Add contributing information to README.md. #357

3.2.7

Enhancements

• Add French localized UI text. #346

Bug Fixes

• Fix branch logic for Yandex and Alexa in seo.html. #348

3.2.6

Bug Fixes

• Fix error Liquid Exception: divided by 0 in _includes/archive-single.html, included in _layouts/single.html caused by null words_per_minute in _config.yml. #345

3.2.5

Bug Fixes

• Fix link color in hero overlay to be white.
• Remove underlines from archive item titles.

3.2.4

Enhancements

• Improve text alignment of masthead, hero overlay, page footer to be flush left and remove awkward white-space gaps. #342
• Add Spanish localized UI text. #338

Bug Fixes

• Fix alignment of icons in author sidebar #341

Maintenance

• Add background color to page footer to set it apart from main content. #342
• Add terms and privacy policy to theme's demo site. #343
• Update screenshots found in theme documentation.

3.2.3

Enhancements

• Add Discourse as a commenting provider. #335

3.2.2

Enhancements

• Add support for image captions in Magnific Popup overlays via the gallery helper. #334

3.2.1

Bug Fixes

• Remove need for "double tapping" masthead menu links on iOS devices. #315

Maintenance

• Add ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md for improve issue submission process.

3.2.0

Bug Fixes

• Fix missing category/tag links in post footer due to possible conflict with site.tags and site.categories. #329

3.1.8

Bug Fixes

• Fix Liquid Exception: undefined method 'gsub' for nil:NilClass in _layouts/single.html error when page.title is null. <h1> element is now conditional if title: is not set for a page or collection item. #312

Maintenance

• Remove duplicate fa-twitter and fa-twitter-square classes from _utilities.scss. #302

• Document installing additional Jekyll gem dependencies when using gem "jekyll" instead of gem "github-pages" to avoid any errors on run. #305

3.1.7

Enhancements

• Add translation key for "Recent Posts" used in home page index.html. #316

Maintenance

• Small fix to avoid underlying the whitespace between icons and related text when hovering. #303

3.1.6

Maintenance

• Update gem dependencies. Run bundle to update Gemfile.lock.

3.1.5

Maintenance

• Fix www and https links in author profile include #293

3.1.4

Enhancements

• Add overlay_filter param to hero headers #298

3.1.3

Enhancements

• Improve site.locale documentation #284
• Remove ProTip note about protocol-less site.url as it is an anti-pattern #288

Bug Fixes

• Fix og_image URL in seo.html #277
• Fix author_profile toggle when assigned in a _layout #285
• Fix typo in build:all npm script #283
• Fix URL typo documentation #287
• SEO author bug. If twitter.username is set and author.twitter is nil bad things happen. #289

3.1.2

Enhancements

• Explain how to use nav_list helper in documentation.
• Reduce left/right padding on smaller screens to increase width of main content column.

Bug Fixes

• Fix alignment issues with related posts #273 and "Follow" button in author profile #274.

3.1.1

Bug Fix

• Fixed reading time bug when words_per_minute wasn't set in _config.yml #271

3.1.0

Enhancements

• Updated Font Awesome to version 4.6.1
• Added optional GitHub and Bitbucket links to footer if set on site.author in _config.yml.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Bitbucket URL typo in author sidebar.

3.0.3

Enhancements

• Rebuilt the entire theme: layouts, includes, stylesheets, scripts, you name it.
• Refreshed the look and feel while staying true to the original design of the theme (author sidebar/main content).
• Replaced grid system with Susy.
• Replaced Grunt tasks with npm scripts.
• Removed Google Fonts and replaced with system fonts to improve performance (they can be added back if desired)
• Greatly improved theme documentation.
• Increased the amount of sample posts, sample pages, and sample collections to throughly test the theme and edge-cases.
• Moved all sample content and assets out of master to keep it as clean as possible for forking.
• Added new layouts for splash pages, archives for jekyll-archives if enabled, and compress.html to improve performance.
• Added taxonomy links to posts (tags and categories).
• Added optional "reading time" meta data.
• Improved Liquid used for Twitter Cards and Open Graph data in <head>.
• Improved gallery include helper and added feature_row for use with splash page layout.
• Added Keybase.io, author web URI, and Bitbucket optional links to sidebar.
• Add feed.xml link to footer.
• Added a UI text data file to easily change all text found in the theme.
• Added LinkedIn to optional social share buttons.
• Added Facebook, Google+, and custom commenting options in addition to Disqus.
• Added optional breadcrumb links.

2.2.1

2.2.0

Enhancements

• Add support for Jekyll 3.0
• Minor updates to syntax highlighting CSS and theme documentation

2.1.3

Enhancements

• Cleaner print styles that remove the top navigation, social sharing buttons, and other elements not needed when printed.

2.1.2

Enhancements

• Add optional CodePen icon/url to author side bar #156
• Documented Stackoverflow username explanation in _config.yml #157
• Simplified Liquid in post-index.html to better handle year listings #166

Bug Fixes

• Cleanup Facebook related Open Graph meta tags #149
• Corrected minor typos #158 #175

2.1.1

Enhancements

• Add optional XING profile link to author sidebar
• Include open graph meta tags for feature image (if assigned) #149
• Create an include for feed footer

Bug Fixes

• Remove http protocol from Google search form on sample 404 page
• Only show related posts if there are one or more available
• Fix alignment of email address link in author sidebar

2.1.0

Enhancements

• Add optional social sharing buttons (#42)

• Add Soundcloud, YouTube (#95), Flickr (#119), and Weibo (#116) icons for use in author sidebar.
• Fix typos in posts and documentation and remove references to Less
• Include note about Octopress gem being optional
• Post author override support extended to the Atom feed (#71)
• Only include email address in feed if specified in _config.yml or author _data
• Wrap all page content in #main to harmonize article and post index styles (#86)
• Include new sample feature images for posts and pages
• Table of contents improvements: fix collapse toggle, indent nested elements, show on small screens, and create an _include for reusing in posts and pages.
• Include note about running Jekyll with bundle exec when using Bundler
• Fix home page path in top navigation
• Remove Google Authorship (#120)
• Remove duplicate author content that displayed in div.article-author-bottom
• Removed unused _sass/print.scss styles
• Improve comments in .scss files

2.0.0

1.3.3

Enhancements

• Added new icons and profile links for Stackoverflow, Dribbble, Pinterest, Foursquare, and Steam to the author bio sidebar.
• Cleaned up the Kramdown auto table of contents styling to be more readable
• Removed page width specific .less stylesheets and created mixins for easier updating
• Removed Modernizr since it wasn't being used
• Added pages to sitemap.xml
• Added category: to rake new_post task
• Minor typographic changes

Bug Fixes

• Corrected various broken links in README and Theme Setup.

1.3.1

Enhancements

• Cleaned up table of contents styling
• Reworked top navigation to be a better experience on small screens. Nav items now display vertically when the menu button is tapped, revealing links with larger touch targets.

1.2.0

Bug Fixes

• Table weren't filling the entire width of the content container. They now scale at 100%. Thanks @dhruvbhatia

Enhancements

• Decreased spacing between Markdown footnotes
• Removed dark background on footer
• Removed UPPERCASE styling on post titles in the index listing

1.1.4

Bug Fixes

• Fix top navigation bug issue (#10) for real this time. Remember to clear your floats kids.

1.1.3

Bug Fixes

• Fix top navigation links that weren't click able on small viewports (Issue #10).
• Remove line wrap from top navigation links that may span multiple lines.

1.1.2

Enhancements

• Added Grunt build script for compiling Less/JavaScript and optimizing image assets.
• Added support for large image summary Twitter card.
• Stylesheet adjustments

1.1.1

Bug Fixes

• Removed Typeplate styles. Was causing issues with newer versions of Less and is no longer maintained.

Enhancements

• Added image attribution for post and page feature images.
• Added 404 page.
• Cleaned up various Less variables to better align with naming conventions used in other MM Jekyll themes.
• Removed Chrome Frame references.
• Added global CSS3 transitions to text and block elements.
• Improved typography in a few places.

1.0.2

Enhancements

• Google Analytics, Google Authorship, webmaster verifies, and Twitter card meta are now optional.

1.0.1