Updates to the UCSC WordPress theme for the week of December 5, 2022: v. 1.8.0
- The theme is still in development and some changes may be removed from future releases. Changes that may be removed are marked
[Experimental]
below.
Changes
- ✨ New Sammy the Slug image above the global footer (see image below).
- 🎨 “Last modified” date added to the global footer (see image below).

- ✨ [Experimental] Color/gradient picker is now available for some blocks.
- 🎨 New color preset ‘darkest-gray’ used for site title.
- 🎨 Slightly reduce space between global header and site title.
- 🎨 Button block:
- Small tweak to hover animation timing
- Remove red and white styles
- Add gold style
- Reduce vertical padding
- [Experimental] Enable border-radius control in settings panel
- Provide “default” option for buttons to reset settings that may not have UI controls (this usually happens with patterns copied from the WordPress pattern library)
- ✨ Group block:
- [Experimental] A new group block style with full waveform background image