[1.3.7] – 2026-02-01

Fixed

• Fix profile reply/topic counts using raw database queries

[1.3.6] – 2026-01-31

Changed

• Add edge-to-edge forum cards on small screens (≤400px)

Fixed

• Fix user profile reply count and add pagination to user content pages

[1.3.5] – 2026-01-30

Fixed

• Fix revision log spacing override from content list rules

[1.3.4] – 2026-01-30

Fixed

• Fix revision log showing unlogged edits, refine styling

[1.3.3] – 2026-01-28

Changed

• Standardize forum cross-site links with centralized renderer

[1.3.2] – 2026-01-28

Fixed

• Fix printf argument count mismatch in forum location links

[1.3.1] – 2026-01-28

Changed

• Remove redundant label from forum location cross-site links

[1.3.0] – 2026-01-28

Changed

• Remove hardcoded URL fallback in schema breadcrumbs
• Add location taxonomy support for bbPress forums

[1.2.5] – 2026-01-27

Changed

• Remove redundant link styling that blocked theme hover states

[1.2.4] – 2026-01-27

Added

• Enhanced reply card UI with footer actions

Changed

• Version 1.2.3: Add schema breadcrumbs for community pages
• Version 1.2.2: Modularize TinyMCE CSS and update documentation
• Version 1.2.1
• Version 1.2.0: Inline reply system and TinyMCE refactoring
• Version 1.1.4: Subforum activity improvements and settings UI refinement
• Version 1.1.3: Artist access request API modernization
• Version 1.1.2: Filter bar integration and UI refactoring
• Version 1.1.1: Gutenberg block addition and JavaScript modernization
• Version 1.1.0: bbPress drafts and UTF-8 hotfix
• Version 1.0.17: Activation setup, homepage modal, editor compatibility
• Merge branch ‘experimental/blocks-everywhere’
• Update AGENTS.md: Add branch strategy and document new topic modal
• Add Blocks Everywhere integration (experimental)
• Add new topic modal for homepage topic creation
• Version 1.0.16: Forum freshness improvements and cache invalidation enhancements
• Version 1.0.15: UI improvements and form layout enhancements
• Version 1.0.14: CSS standardization and template fixes
• Version 1.0.13: CSS standardization, responsive design improvements, and JavaScript enhancements
• Version 1.0.12: JavaScript architecture refactoring and bbPress UI consolidation
• Version 1.0.11: Dynamic blog ID resolution and multisite configuration improvements
• Version 1.0.10: Dynamic blog ID resolution and multisite configuration improvements
• Version bump to 1.0.9
• Version 1.0.8: Cache invalidation system, asset refactoring, and performance improvements
• Version 1.0.7: JavaScript refactoring and script dependency fixes
• Version 1.0.6: REST API integration for media uploads and avatar upload UI
• Version 1.0.5: Artist platform access integration and JavaScript improvements
• Version bump to 1.0.4
• Version 1.0.3: Navigation integration and recent feed refactoring
• Version 1.0.2: Enhanced reply card UI with footer actions
• Version 1.0.1: JavaScript migration, UI improvements, and feature enhancements
• jquery -> vanilla javascript migration in the system
• breadcrumbs update
• back to home link update
• many updates
• documentation alignment
• aligned button classes with theme styles
• Refactor user profile features, remove custom avatar functionality, and enhance bbpress integration
• replaced standard logged out reply form with login-register block
• working on splittling out artist platform from community for cleaner separation of concerns
• finishing the migration from theme to plugin. just sent it live. final bugfixes underway
• continued cleanup of community plugin.
• more cleanup and removal of unneccesary functionality. not quite done yet, but getting closer.
• removed settings page template, converted to use hook based system
• pulled out login register and other elements into components
• Comprehensive code updates and documentation alignment
• continued cleanup of theme functions and templates, transforming into plugin. still much to do.
• started migrating this theme to plugin. removed header and footer. that is the point of no return.
• Remove QR code dependency from composer.json
• modified recent feed to fix topic starter not showing
• Reducing bbPress dependency, fixing some bugs and adjusting styles
• removed most active users. removed hardcoded menu from notification avatar menu in favor of filter system for the artist platform to use
• Complete artist platform migration: Remove all band/link page functionality
• total theme reorganization
• Major wp_surgeon cleanup: Phase 1 – Function prefixes and file organization
• Update repository for migration 🤖 Generated with Claude Code
• Priority 1 cleanup: Remove dead code and misleading comments
• Comprehensive documentation alignment and architectural improvements
• Update documentation and fix theme architecture references
• Pre-migration backup: Add CLAUDE.md project documentation
• added subscribers featture, featured link, and social icon position option
• refactored live preview, stablized logic, cleaned up and optimized for future expansion. this version is stable as far as i’m aware, just has lots of debug logs
• working version
• launched extrachill.link
• band platform & link page functional
• added bank link page and more
• lots of changes, more to come
• added some css modularity
• footer matches blog
• paginated search… more
• customized search template to mimic bbpress format
• moved custom forum descriptions to their own file
• test
• implemented cross site upvote sync
• removed topic form from 1494
• no changes realy
• cross site login should work seamlessly now
• quick post feature added
• notifications to editng
• made user id available to upvote script
• bolded username for logged out users
• made work better on phones
• deleted – typo file name
• maxes out at 5 retries now
• moved to new js file
• hide if user is not logged in
• created for non technologically inclined
• added quick post
• duplicated, mistake, was messing me up
• made deshboard more engaging with stats and more detailed content, removed back to previous page link
• commented out posting tips
• added more links to welcome email
• this is my custom generatepress child theme for bbpress.

Fixed

• fixed templating and styles to properly align with our new system
• fixed recent feed template to properly show replies and topic openers
• fixed homepage bug with collapsable forum
• fixing all errors related to migrating the artist platform into a plugin. some reorganization, lots more to be done
• fixed some errors and optimized some queries
• fixed broken link saves
• fixed the save once and for all
• fixed custom avatar uploads
• fixed instagram oEmbeds
• fixed follows . unfollows
• fixed registration to properly log in and set 6 month session token like all logins
• fixed comment count display for both dashboard and profile

[1.2.3] – 2026-01-06

Added

• Added extrachill_seo_breadcrumb_items handler for community pages to align schema breadcrumbs with the theme breadcrumb UI, including bbPress forum/topic/reply/user contexts.

[1.2.2] – 2026-01-02

Added

• New tinymce-page.css file for TinyMCE toolbar and UI styling, ensuring dark mode consistency when Blocks Everywhere is inactive.

Changed

• Improved asset loading logic in inc/core/assets.php to conditionally enqueue tinymce-page.css only when Blocks Everywhere is inactive.
• Refactored inc/assets/css/bbpress.css by moving TinyMCE-specific toolbar and UI styles to the new tinymce-page.css for better modularity.
• Updated documentation (README.md, CLAUDE.md, docs/core-features.md) to reflect the latest file structure, JavaScript architecture, and integration patterns.
• Synchronized documentation regarding cross-site data aggregation and homepage content injection hooks.

Fixed

• Corrected various documentation inaccuracies regarding script loading counts and integration methods.

[1.2.1] – 2025-12-22

Changed

• Updated CLAUDE.md documentation to clarify build system creates only ZIP file, not directory
• Changed artist access tab button classes from button to button-1 button-medium for theme consistency

[1.2.0] – 2025-12-20

Added

• Inline reply form system for bbPress topics with smart context-aware form repositioning
• Reply depth tracking with CSS custom properties for visual indentation of threaded replies
• New reply shim template (bbpress/loop-single-reply.php) for seamless threaded reply support
• New dedicated TinyMCE functionality file (inc/assets/js/bbpress-tinymce.js) consolidating mentions and autosave
• User @mention display in reply form legend when replying to specific users
• Cancel button for inline reply form to restore bottom form position
• Responsive mobile styles for nested replies and inline reply forms

Changed

• Major refactoring of inc/assets/js/bbpress-ui.js: removed TinyMCE autosave logic, added inline reply system with form repositioning
• Enhanced bbpress/form-reply.php with dynamic reply legend showing @username context and reply action wrapper
• Improved bbpress/loop-single-reply-card.php with depth tracking via data-depth attribute and CSS custom properties
• Updated CSS styling in inc/assets/css/replies-loop.css with nested reply compression and mobile responsiveness
• Consolidated reply author display in bbpress/topic-sidebar.php (removed explicit avatar size)
• Enhanced inc/assets/css/home.css to include .bbp-forum-activity-location selector
• TinyMCE mentions functionality now in separate bbpress-tinymce.js file for better organization

Removed

• TinyMCE autosave handler from bbpress-ui.js (moved to bbpress-tinymce.js)
• inc/assets/js/extrachill-mentions.js (consolidated into bbpress-tinymce.js)
• .bbp-submit-button margin style (inline form actions handle spacing)

Fixed

• Better visual hierarchy for nested replies using CSS custom property-based depth tracking
• Improved responsive design for reply cards on mobile devices
• Cleaner reply form context with @mention legend for targeted replies

[1.1.4] – 2025-12-20

Changed

• Improved subforum ordering to display most recently active subforums first using _bbp_last_active_time meta
• Enhanced forum activity display to show which subforum contains recent activity when nested

Fixed

• Removed duplicate "Settings" page heading in user settings page

[1.1.3] – 2025-12-18

Changed

• Improved artist access request approval system to use REST API endpoint instead of admin-ajax.php for better security and modern API patterns
• Enhanced artist access request authentication with token-based system replacing nonce-based approach

[1.1.2] – 2025-12-17

Added

• New filter bar integration (inc/core/filter-bar.php) that provides sorting (Recent, Upvotes, Popular) and search functionality for bbPress topics using the theme’s universal filter bar system
• Integration with theme’s extrachill_filter_bar_items filter for consistent UI across the platform

Changed

• Major refactoring of bbPress topics loop: removed hardcoded sorting/search UI from bbpress/loop-topics.php and replaced with theme filter bar integration
• Removed sorting/search CSS (~140 lines) from inc/assets/css/topics-loop.css as functionality moved to theme’s filter bar
• Removed sort select JavaScript handler from inc/assets/js/bbpress-ui.js (handled by theme filter bar)
• Updated artist management URLs from /manage-artist-profiles/ to /manage-artist/ in bbpress/form-user-edit.php and bbpress/user-profile.php
• Updated button text from "Manage Artist Profiles" to "Manage Artist" for consistency
• Updated CLAUDE.md to reflect Blocks Everywhere as production-ready integration (removed experimental branch documentation)
• Enhanced docs/content-editor.md with comprehensive dual editor system documentation (Blocks Everywhere + TinyMCE fallback)

Fixed

• Improved consistency between artist platform URLs and button text across user profile interfaces

[1.1.1] – 2025-12-15

Added

• New leaderboard Gutenberg block for enhanced WordPress editor integration
• Block-based leaderboard page content with configurable per-page settings

Changed

• Complete JavaScript modernization to ES6+ standards across all frontend components
• Enhanced TinyMCE autosave functionality with improved draft handling and error management
• Standardized WordPress coding standards throughout codebase (spacing, formatting)
• Improved avatar upload UI with better error handling and user feedback
• Updated build system to include Gutenberg block compilation

Fixed

• Better error handling in JavaScript components with async/await patterns
• Improved CSS styling for TinyMCE editor and user profile components

[1.1.0] – 2025-12-14

Added

• bbPress draft functionality with server-backed autosave for topics and replies
• UTF-8 display name hotfix for WordPress 6.9+ compatibility
• Enhanced TinyMCE autosave with improved draft handling and reduced save delay

Changed

• Improved user profile author URL generation using centralized functions
• Updated plugin file loading counts (39 total files)
• Enhanced JavaScript initialization for better draft management

[1.0.17] – 2025-12-11

Added

• Plugin activation handler that auto-creates the core community pages and starter forums
• New Topic modal on the homepage (CSS + JS + template component) for creating bbPress topics without leaving the forum archive
• Blocks Everywhere compatibility layer to enable Gutenberg for bbPress when the Blocks Everywhere plugin is active

Changed

• Homepage now enqueues modal assets on the front page and treats the editor as active for modal usage
• Avatar upload UI now displays the current avatar using get_avatar()
• User profile templates now link to the artist platform "create artist" flow when eligible
• Image inline-style stripping now removes DOMDocument XML preamble output

[1.0.16] – 2025-12-10

Changed

• Improved forum freshness display with direct timestamp resolution and proper author link handling
• Refactored forum freshness calculation to use recursive timestamp checking across subforum hierarchies
• Enhanced cache invalidation to update parent forum last active times when subforum activity occurs
• Separated artist access request processing from general settings form handling
• Removed unused CSS for community latest post lists and jump-to-latest button

Fixed

• Better forum hierarchy freshness detection and display
• Improved settings form processing flow and validation

[1.0.15] – 2025-12-10

Changed

• Improved bbPress form layouts by removing line breaks from form labels for better responsive design
• Enhanced CSS styling for form controls and focus states across bbPress forms
• Simplified content filtering by removing Apple/Word markup cleanup functionality
• Added topic edit breadcrumb support for improved navigation
• Hidden topic and reply counts from subforum listings for cleaner UI

Fixed

• Better responsive design for bbPress form elements

[1.0.14] – 2025-12-09

Changed

• Standardized CSS font sizes using CSS custom properties across all stylesheets for better consistency
• Improved CSS indentation and formatting consistency

Fixed

• Removed unused variables in artist management URL construction in user profile template

[1.0.13] – 2025-12-09

Changed

• Improved forum display layout: converted from ul/li structure to CSS Grid for better responsive design
• Standardized CSS font sizes using CSS custom properties (var(–font-size-base)) across all stylesheets
• Enhanced JavaScript initialization with improved DOM ready state handling for reply functionality
• Consolidated CSS indentation and color variable usage for consistency
• Removed jQuery dependency from mentions script and improved TinyMCE plugin loading

Fixed

• Better responsive design for forum cards on mobile and tablet devices
• Improved CSS Grid layout for homepage forum display

[1.0.12] – 2025-12-08

Added

• New bbpress-ui.js file consolidating bbPress UI handlers (jump-to-latest, sort auto-submit, TinyMCE autosave)
• Enhanced multisite configuration with improved error handling for blog ID resolution
• Consolidated TinyMCE editor setup with better dependency management

Changed

• Major JavaScript architecture refactoring: separated reply handlers, removed jQuery dependencies
• Removed inline JavaScript from bbpress.php template, moved to dedicated bbpress-ui.js
• Updated plugin file counts: 36 total files loaded (core: 8, content: 6, social: 11, user-profiles: 7, home: 4)
• Improved content filtering with Apple/Word markup cleanup
• Enhanced multisite blog switching with null safety checks

Removed

• Deprecated user-mention-api.php file (moved to extrachill-api plugin)
• Admin-ajax upvote handler (consolidated to REST API)
• Duplicate TinyMCE setup functions and jQuery dependency checks

[1.0.11] – 2025-12-08

Changed

• Replaced hardcoded blog IDs with dynamic lookups using ec_get_blog_id() function across all multisite integration points
• Added null safety checks and error handling for blog ID resolution in user profile editing, template routing, breadcrumb navigation, mention notifications, and notification cleanup
• Improved multisite configuration flexibility for artist platform, main site, and community site integrations
• Enhanced error handling in cross-site data aggregation and blog switching operations

Added

• Comprehensive documentation for core plugin features and forum badges system
• Enhanced CSS styling for reply cards and content truncation in recent activity feeds

[1.0.10] – 2025-12-08

Changed

• Replaced hardcoded blog IDs with dynamic lookups using ec_get_blog_id() function across all multisite integration points
• Added null safety checks and error handling for blog ID resolution
• Improved multisite configuration flexibility for artist platform, main site, and community site integrations

[1.0.9] – 2025-12-07

Added

• REST nonce setup in TinyMCE editor for improved security (window.extrachillCommunityEditor object)

Changed

• Consolidated editor script loading in assets.php (removed duplicate enqueues and separate nonce function)
• Added network-dropdown-target CSS class to homepage breadcrumb for enhanced navigation

Fixed

• Optimized TinyMCE editor dependency loading and nonce handling

[1.0.8] – 2025-12-06

Added

• New cache invalidation system (cache-invalidation.php) that automatically clears caches on bbPress events
• Comprehensive transient management for leaderboard, user points, forum stats, and recent feeds
• Edge cache purging support for Breeze/Varnish caching engines
• New extrachill_get_leaderboard_users() function with 5-minute transient caching for performance
• New extrachill_get_leaderboard_total_users() function with built-in caching
• Content cleanup permission check system to allow moderators/keymasters to bypass automatic content cleanup
• Enhanced TinyMCE editor dependency management with explicit script dependencies

Changed

• Refactored asset loading in assets.php with improved editor dependency handling
• Extracted TinyMCE editor initialization to use inline scripts instead of wp_localize_script
• Simplified mentions.js reply click handler with cleaner data attribute usage
• Moved leaderboard caching logic from template to point-calculation.php for better code organization
• Improved permission handling for content cleanup with ec_can_bypass_content_cleanup() function

Fixed

• TinyMCE editor now properly enqueues all required WordPress dependencies (editor, utils, underscore, wp-i18n, etc.)
• Editor availability detection now properly checks for function existence before calling bbPress conditionals
• Leaderboard pagination now benefits from proper caching and performance optimization

[1.0.7] – 2025-12-05

Changed

• Refactored TinyMCE image upload JavaScript to remove IIFE wrapper for cleaner initialization
• Added proper script dependencies to extrachill-mentions and custom-tinymce-plugin scripts
• Improved button styling in user settings with button-1 and button-large classes for better theme consistency

Fixed

• Ensured proper script loading order with correct dependency declarations
• Simplified TinyMCE image upload plugin initialization (removed internal retry logic)

[1.0.6] – 2025-12-05

Added

• New avatar upload UI component for bbPress profile editing (avatar-upload.php)
• Avatar upload JavaScript using unified REST API endpoint

Changed

• Refactored TinyMCE image upload to use unified REST endpoint (/wp-json/extrachill/v1/media)
• Removed admin-ajax handlers for image uploads (moved to REST API)
• Updated plugin file count documentation (34 files total: core 7, content 6, social 11, user-profiles 7, home 4)

Fixed

• Better REST API integration for media uploads across all contexts (content embeds, user avatars)

[1.0.5] – 2025-12-05

Added

• New artist platform access tab in user settings with request system
• Admin email notifications for artist access requests
• Artist access request form with artist/professional type selection

Changed

• Improved error handling in TinyMCE image upload JavaScript
• Enhanced error handling and response validation in upvote system
• Refactored settings form handler to use notice system instead of transients

Fixed

• Better error handling for failed AJAX requests in image upload and upvoting

[1.0.4] – 2025-12-04

Added

• Enhanced search button with icon and improved accessibility in topics loop
• Better artist management UI with dynamic labeling based on profile count

Changed

• Simplified artist platform button logic to show consistent CTA for all users
• Improved form styling and search button design in topics loop
• Refactored artist profile management to use centralized function for latest artist retrieval

Removed

• Unused share button CSS loading from theme integration

[1.0.3] – 2025-12-04

Added

• Navigation integration with secondary header links for Recent, Local Scenes, and Music Discussion
• New inc/core/nav.php file for community navigation features

Changed

• Major refactoring of recent feed system to use single-blog queries instead of multisite cross-blog queries
• Improved search button styling in topics loop with theme-consistent button classes
• Updated homepage rendering to use action hooks for better extensibility
• Updated documentation references from CLAUDE.md to CLAUDE.md

Removed

• CLAUDE.md documentation file (superseded by CLAUDE.md)
• Redundant CSS styling for search buttons and sticky topic icons

[1.0.2] – 2025-12-01

Added

• New reply card footer with improved action button layout
• Better separation of admin and user actions in reply cards

Changed

• Major refactoring of reply card UI with action buttons moved to footer
• Removed jQuery dependency from shared-tabs script for better performance
• Updated CSS styling to support new reply card layout

Fixed

• Improved reply link handling in mentions system
• Removed duplicate edit/reply links from admin area

[1.0.1] – 2025-11-30

Added

• Comprehensive feature documentation (content-editor.md, core-features.md, home.md, user-profiles.md)
• Enhanced bbPress template system with improved user forms and reply cards
• New content expansion functionality (renamed from home-collapse.js)

Changed

• Complete migration from jQuery to vanilla JavaScript across all frontend components
• Major CSS optimization and styling improvements across 11 stylesheet files
• Enhanced notification system with improved UI and cleanup mechanisms
• Refactored user profile management with better social link handling
• Improved breadcrumb navigation and forum display logic

Removed

• Deprecated avatar system components (moved to extrachill-users plugin)
• Online users count functionality
• Unused utility functions and legacy code
• QR code dependency from composer.json

Fixed

• Various bbPress template rendering issues
• JavaScript compatibility and performance optimizations
• User profile editing and verification flows
• Content filtering and recent feed display