Updates to the UCSC WordPress theme for the week of March 22, 2023: v. 2.1.4
Overview
Here is a quick video highlighting some of the new features in this release. All of the changes in this release are explained below.
New features
Paragraph block ✨
A new style for the paragraph block makes a nice, eye-catching first paragraph on your pages. Use this style to add a summary paragraph to the top of your pages.
List block ✨
Two new styles for the list block let you set alphabetical list item markers.
A side navigation style lets you urn a list of links into a side bar menu.
Two-column layout pattern ✨
Two new styles for the list block let you set alphabetical list item markers.
Start a new page with a two-column layout by dropping the ‘content with sidebar navigation‘ pattern onto a blank page,
Other changes
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- Block(all): introduced pre-configured spacing options (introduced in WordPress 6.1), which improves the draggable control slider in the settings area for every block.
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- Patterns: ✨ Add new content with sidebar navigation pattern
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- Typography: ✨ updated
font-sizeoptions that follow a “major-second” type scale, with a 16px base font-size. Added two additional font size options, and renamed the options to a numeric naming convention.
- Typography: ✨ updated
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- Layout: content area width increased from 72rem (1152px) to 80rem (1280px) per request from Barretto
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- Layout: we now use the
useRootPaddingAwareAlignmentssetting (introduced in WordPress 6.1) to manage padding on the body tag and edge-to-edge blocks.
- Layout: we now use the
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- Typography: headings are now uniformly styled at
font-weight500
- Typography: headings are now uniformly styled at
Bug Fixes
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- ⚡️ Add flex to body tag and grid to the blocks container to stick both footers to the page bottom
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- ⚡️ Typography: site title is larger than page title
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- The theme is still in development and some changes may be removed from future releases.