Empire Theme Changelog

Empire Theme changelog for developers working with Site Builder themes.

Version 1.30.8 (2025-01-16)

Bug fixes

• community_footer_scripts.liquid: add community footer scripts file

Version 1.30.7 (2023-11-01)

Bug fixes

• theme.scss: remove non-existing student certificate import
  imports.scss: add missing semi-colon to $icon__font-family

Version 1.30.6 (2022-11-07)

Refactors:

• replace’with the standard apostrophe character
• thinkific_branding: make ids unique

Version 1.30.4 (2022-09-26)

Features

• banner_community, call_to_action_community, community_overview: add new sections for community pages
• community: add new page

Refactors

• header: update user dropdown behaviour
• header, footer: update default link to "All Products"
• remote_sign_in: update aria-label
• card, featured_card: add product type and optional product metadata
• cards: add support for community products
• dashboard_community_card: add new buttons
• checkout_thankyou: update to accept multi products

Bug fixes

• form_validation_script: update password validation
• dashboard_course_card: fix truncation of card name
• script: fix long reviews and instructor carousel loop
• mixins, _page_checkout: fix form alignments

Version 1.29.1 (2022-04-18)

Features

• banner_course: Update "Picture-in-Picture" section to "Image or Video"
• banner, banner_bundle, banner_course: Add background color option and make it default, harmonize banner settings
• call_to_action_course: Add new section
• card, featured_card: Add new snippets to replace old cards
• course: Add call_to_action_course section by default 
• course_curriculum: Add ability to hide lessons
• course_curriculum, course_curriculum_card: Add new course details card to Curriculum section
• manifest: Add new typography settings, update preset styles, add Page (secondary) background colour setting and new button styles
• backgrounds: All sections with styled background option will have new background color option set to default

Refactors

• _base_products: Update style of product cards
• _base_typography: Update default font sizing, remove text transforms
• backgrounds: All sections with default background images will have new background color option set to default, text color override settings moved to background
• banner_course: update default buttons for pre-order courses
• banners: Change text color override and image overlay to only work with image backgrounds
• countdown_timer: Adjusted breakpoints
• course_curriculum: Do not expand the first chapter if collapse_by_default is true
   
• course_cards, course_cards_all: update background default
   
• imports: add new variables, adjust default input borders
• lead_capture: Make disabled button more accessible
• manifest: Update Parker style
• page_header: harmonized site name link behaviour and my dashboard link behaviour, , move skip link
• reviews: Change all review stars to yellow, adjust focus state
• script: Remove scroll of single item in sections using owl carousel
• section__headings: Update padding

Bug fixes

• banners: Fix broken image focal point with 0 overlay opacity, logo overlap with transparent headers, and button alignments
• _base_products: Fixed stretched images (will always maintain 16:9) and dashboard card alignment issues
• call_to_action: Fix extra large size alignment
• card: Fix bundle card "Courses" translation always being plural
• checkout: remove autofocus
• faq: Fixed alignment and mobile padding issues
• footer: fixed alignment issues and ARIA attributes
• icon_and_text: Fix overlapping of multiple sections
• instructor: fixed overlapping of email with longer bios
• meta_tags: remove extra descriptions
• my_account: Fixed ARIA attributes
• page_header: fix sticky header scroll issues
• testimonials: remove empty image
• video: adjust mobile button icon alignment

Version 1.21.16 (2021-11-03)

Performance Improvements

• font_loader: Change CDN used for loading font-awesome

Version 1.21.14 (2021-10-13)

Bug Fixes

• _mixins: remove ordering from button mixin

Version 1.21.13 (2021-09-13)

Features

• footer: add social link alternative text for better accessibility
• meta_tags: make default page titles more unique
• lead_capture: add a success message announcement for screenreaders

Bug Fixes

• gallery:fix image heights of image gallery section
• my_account_certificates_page: change a certificate date format in my account
• course_curriculum: fix aria-expanded attributes for better accessibility
• page_header, header_user_menu: accessibility fix for the mobile menu and header menu
• _mixins: add prefers-reduced-motion check
• my_account_menu: use aria-current for active menu links for better accessibility
• dashboard_course_card: accessibility improvements on progress bar
• course_action_buttons: remove enroll free button if user can resume 

Refactors

• frequently_asked_questions: replace hidden checkbox with html5 details
• reviews: add aria-label to "Read More/Less" links for better accessibility

Version 1.20.0 (2021-03-30)

Features

• sections: add previewImageUrl and previewDescription fields to section schemas

Performance improvements

• image-optimization: bump image logo width attribute to max possible value
• image-optimization: limit image dimensions to avoid images bigger than expected
• image-optimization: use srcset attribute to render images according to pixel density of screens
• remove old html5shiv

Version 1.19.1 (2021-02-19)

Bug Fixes

• signin_form: add honeypot field for invisible recaptcha and to stop spam bots

Version 1.19.0 (2021-02-17)

Bug Fixes

• instructor, testimonials: center instructor profile, center testimonials header 
• script: move instructor & reviews scripts, scope them to their sections
• script: move logo & testimonials scripts, scope to their sections

Features

• checkout_signin: add honeypot field to student checkout/sign up
• signup: if recaptcha enabled, stop form submission if honeypot field filled 
• signup_form: add honeypot field to signup form 

Refactors

• script: replace Smooth Scrolling script with scroll-behavior CSS feature 

Version 1.18.4 (2021-01-26)

Bug Fixes

• Video: fix Picture in Picture videos not playing, move banner_course script to script.js

Refactors

• script: remove deprecated document.ready wrapper

Version 1.18.3 (2021-01-21)

Bug Fixes

• banner: hide free preview/trial button if there are custom buttons
• banner_course: fix Picture in Picture being misplaced when course is private
• countdown: move countdown script to script.js
• course_cards: remove underline on featured product in Additional Products
• course_curriculum: move JS to script.js to allow multiple curriculum sections to open/close 
• pages/bundle, pages/course: add back banner to schema
• reviews: fix duplicate reviews when 3 instructors are set
• video: move video script to script.js

Refactors

• countdown: remove aria-atomic="true" to have aria-live="off" by default
• jQuery: update deprecated events to use .on(), remove FastClick

Version 1.18.2 (2020-10-26)

Refactors

• banner_course: move video outside of article

Refactors

Version 1.18.1 (2020-10-22)

• banner_course: add video
• banner_course: put video alongside text 

Version 1.18.0 (2020-09-28)

Feature:
 

• my_account_notifications_page: add new community notification

Bug fixes:
 

• page-header: Prevent headerHeight not found error 

Version 1.17.2 (2020-08-26)

 Bug fixes:

• student certificate: allow students to download

 Features:

• Add private bundle feature 

 Refactors:

• labels: use explicit labels only where possible 

Version 1.16.5 (2020-06-04)

 Bug fixes:
 

• student_certificate: makes download button and copy url link available for everyone in the certificates page

Version 1.16.4 (2020-05-28)

 Bug fixes:
 

• page_header: check if logo exists before running bind
• _section_page_header: add floating header padding for new certificates page 
• student_certificate_page: remove wrapper
• meta_tags:  Add Twitter title meta tag

Version 1.16.2 (2020-05-28)

 Bug fixes:
 

• checkout_thankyou: fix wrong closing tag
• course_curriculum: fix overlapping of free preview tag
• form_validation_script: fix select value
• _section_course_categories, _base_products, _section_bundle_include: update card dimensions
• instructor, reviews, showcase, testimonials: remove translations from owl carousel
• _section_course_curriculum: fix collapsed toggle
• page_header, logo: get logo height before determining header height
• _section_page_header: adjust padding for first section under a floating header
• _section_reviews, _section_showcase: add padding 0 to owl nav button
• dashboard_course_card: wrap body and details in div to fix safari overlap issue
• _mixins: adjust placement of arrow in select dropdowns

 Refactors:

• dashboard_course_card: 'resume course' button available when course is complete

 Features:

• add student_certificate_page and student_certificate_section for viewing Thinkific Certificate

Version 1.15.4 (2020-02-13)

 Bug fixes:

• signup_form, signin_form: fix missing translations
• instructor: show instructor email if no bio exists
• section_style_card_alignment: center product cards on mobile and smaller screens
• _base_products: remove title case on course cards
• meta_tags: fix product description not being used as SEO description
• signin_form, signup_form: remove auto-focus on sign in and sign up forms, causing an error to display right away
• section_utility_header_style, _section_page_header: apply transparent and sticky header on Coming Soon, Student Dashboard, and Collection pages
• image_and_text: remove extra left padding
• _section_faq: fix clicking on answer causing the element to collapse, and not allowing links to work
• custom_signup_field: set country custom field dropdown to blank instead of defaulting to first country in the list

Version 1.15.3 (2020-01-16)

Bug fixes:

• _section_pricing_table: hide button text on mobile
• banner_course: remove typo on banner description
• reviews: fix looping of single review
• checkout: update stripe badge image urls

Version 1.15.1 (2020-01-08)

 Bug fixes:

• pricing_table: remove incorrect text of regular price description of the all pricing smart section

Version 1.15.0 (2020-01-07)

Bug fixes:

• coming_soon_page: include proper sections for use on coming soon page in site builder
• gallery: fix image alt text
• image_and_text: fix max width of image on mobile
• instructor, reviews, showcase, testimonials: adjust looping of owl carousel and add aria-labels to buttons
• meta_tags: update the favicons
• _section_testimonials, _section_instructor: fix padding of pagination arrows
• pagination: use proper icon for right pagination

Features:

• forms: add more form validation with new snippet 'form_validation_script'
• page_header, logo: add the ability to include alt text for site logo
• thinkific_branding: add new thinkific branding snippet
• links: add icon to indicate when link opens in new window

Refactors:

• headings: adjust all heading structures and adjust the stylesheets accordingly
• accessibility: add missing translation snippets, necessary screen reader only text, and other small accessibility improvements
• _section_banner, _section_banner_bundle, _section_banner_course: remove auto hyphenation

Version 1.14.0 (2019-12-05)

Features:

• checkout_thankyou_upsells, course_card, course_featured_card, _base_products, _section_checkout_thankyou_upsells: add new banner for presell course cards
• checkout_thankyou: change presell courses to have go to dashboard button
• dashboard_course_card: presell course cards have links to course player removed
• .version: System version number bumped to 2.5.0

Version 1.12.15 (2019-11-01)

Bug Fixes:

• new_course_review_page: fix course review stars to default to 5
• _page_course_review: adjust focus style of star inputs
• pagination: remove aria-label from pagination link destination

Version 1.12.12 (2019-09-20)

Bug Fixes:

• _base_products: adjust sizing of product items to remain 16:9
• _mixins: remove max-height: 100% on make-container to fix chrome77 header and footer issue
• _page_collections: adjust sizing of product items to remain 16:9
• _page_coming_soon: remove unneeded styles causing extra padding
• _section_course_curriculum: fix free preview tag overlap
• _section_gallery: Fix the padding in the image gallery
• countdown: fix accessibility errors
• course_categories: fix category name with correct variable
• section_style_card_image_overlay: properly target course title
• section_style_content_alignment: add banner buttons to justify-content to fix center and right alignment

Refactors:

• _base: fix focus styles for links so they are visible
• _base_forms: fix focus styles on links and forms
• _base_pagination: center pagination
• _base_utility: remove owl dots, adjust owl nav buttons to inherit primary button styles
• _section_faq: add focus styles to the arrows
• _section_student_dashboard_communities: adjust section padding
• all images: use lazy loading for images for better performance
• course_card, bundle_card, bundle_featured_card, course_featured_card, dashboard_community_card, dashboard_card: use empty alt tags to hide from screen readers since an appropriate alt tag cannot be used at this time
• instructor, reviews, showcase, testimonials: remove owl dots, use arrow navigation with loop, and add image widths to prevent image size jumps
• reviews: hide inputs from screen readers since they are not meant to be interacted with here
• star: add aria-label to star for accessibility
• student_dashboard: remove option to hide course title and move communities section below course cards on dashboard

Version 1.12.0 (2019-08-28)

Features:

• dashboard_community_card: add new snippet for community card
   
• student_dashboard: add student_dashboard_communities to default student dashboard section
  student_dashboard_communities: add new section
• theme: import new section styles to theme
• _section_student_dashboard_communities: add new section styles

Refactors:

• _page_dashboard: change h1 styles on dashboard page