This is a major update that impacts oEmbed, Home Page widgets and Featured Images. Please backup your site before applying this update.

If you have a modified theme, go here to view a list of files changed in this update.

Actions You Must Take:

Home Page Widgets: This version updates how sidebars are called in the theme. If any widgets are missing on your homepage after installing this update, visit Appearance > Widgets and drag them back into the appropriate panels from the “Inactive Sidebar Widgets” section at the bottom of the page(all settings should still be set as you had them). This is an unfortunate requirement to keep up to date with WordPress standards – we apologize for any inconvenience.

oEmbed: If video meta or thumbnails are missing from any oEmbed video post, edit the post and click Update to force a recheck of the oEmbed URL to pull down new data. This should only be required if you are running  a caching plugin.

Featured Images: This update completes our gradual removal of timthumb dependency, which began last year. If you are updating the theme from a very old version, or have old posts that do not have a WordPress featured image set (and only have an image in the Options panel) you will need to edit the post, click Set Featured Image, and select the image from your media library.

General Enhancements:

  • Updated depreciated functions
  • Updates to oEmbed – will now suppress front-end errors. Please note that it is normal for YouTube videos to not show Likes currently.
  • Video URL will now accept youtu.be short-links and translate them to the appropriate youtube oEmbed URL
  • Custom Link added to Content Widget – you can now set a page or category link for the widget title
  • Updated OpenGraph for Facebook sharing – new theme option allows you to disable it if using a conflicting plugin, or add a custom site image
  • Updated Obox SEO Options
  • Ajax Comments updated to use WordPress Comments
  • Improved gettext support
  • Added WP post class
  • Added support for paged posts
  • Archives and 404 layout improved
  • Timthumb removed

General Fixes

  • Backend debug error cleanup
  • Video meta will now appear on HD video single posts
  • Reduced number of image crops created by the theme

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