On September 1st, 2015, ClassiPress 3.5.1 was released. This is a major release with significant changes, performance improvements, and bug fixes.

If you’re using a child theme purchased from our Marketplace, we strongly recommend you contact the seller to make sure it’s been updated to work with versions 3.5.x before upgrading your website.

It you’re using your own customized child theme you’ll need to update your template files to mirror the new changes in 3.5.x. A breakdown of tickets can be found below.

More Modern

This major release bring a much needed design overhaul throughout the whole theme. On the backend we’ve re-organized the settings in a more logic way,  added richer descriptions, new tooltips and replaced all icon sprites with font icons. We’ve also made all the table listings responsive, so that most of columns are hidden on small screens, mirroring the default WP behavior.

We’ve moved all ClassiPress appearance settings to the WordPress Customizer and added new color options to allow easy tweaking of the theme, with live preview. It’s now easier to have a unique theme customized by yourself.

On the front end we’ve made ClassiPress look more modern by switching to a flatter and cleaner design. All images were also replaced with font icons and all javascript files are now minimized. These changes don’t only make ClassiPress look better, but they should also help your site load a little faster.

Besides the visual changes, there’s now an ‘Orders’ page on the users dashboard where they can monitor all their spendings.

There are many other changes so we suggest you go through the changelog to check them all. Again, please remember, before upgrading, make sure your child theme is ready for 3.5.x!

Upgrade Information

Now you can automatically upgrade directly from your WordPress admin. Under “Appearance” => “Themes”, you’ll see an upgrade link next to ClassiPress. If you don’t, check back later. The AppThemes upgrade check API runs twice a day. It’s important to note that using this auto updater will overwrite any custom coding done to the theme. Customers who have made theme code changes will need to manually upgrade instead.

If you prefer the old fashion way or have made core theme modifications (which is not recommended), visit AppThemes to download the full version.

Fixes

• Double password fields showing on registration page/reset password/edit profile pages (after WP 4.3 update)
• Missing minus/plus images in users dashboard (only used on small screens)
• Content advertising not showing on search results and category/taxonomy pages
• Some transient notices not being deleted from the DB
• Fatal error updating comments on the backend
• Expired ads showing on ‘Popular Ads Today’ and ‘Popular Ads Overall’ widgets
• Listings thumbnails extra padding making descriptions collapse
• Registration link visible in the top navigation menu even when registration was disabled
• Delete all Ads related meta and attachments when Ad is deleted or expires
• Empty price on ‘Membership Packs’ price modifier column
• General responsive related issues
• CSS stylings for AppThemes payment gateways
• Fatal error when saving comments on the backend

Changes

• There’s now only one password field in registration, profile and reset password pages (WP 4.3 or later)
• Replaced link for choosing categories with a dropdown on ‘Post Ad’ form (reverted to v.3.3 behavior)
• Added the category to single posts breadcrumb
• Updated Facebook widget to latest version
• Front page ‘Most Popular’ and ‘Random’ Ads are now loaded on demand (better performance on front page)
• Moved appearance related settings to the WordPress customizer page
• Removed obsolete ‘Table Width’ option previously located under ClassiPress > Settings > (tab) Advanced
• Moved ‘Custom Urls’ option previously located under ‘ClassiPress > Settings > (tab) Advanced’ to the permalinks section
• Moved ‘Importer’ sub-menu item from ClassiPress menu to ‘Ads’ menu
• Moved ‘Forms’ and ‘Custom Fields’ sub-menu items from ClassiPress menu to ‘Ads’ menu
• Replaced all image icons with font icons (better performance overall)
• Removed shadows and borders for a more modern flatter look
• Sub-category list is no longer “fixed” to sidebar and it’s now a widget (provides option to display sub-categories using a dropdown)
• Updated calendar CSS styling used in Ads meta boxes (also replaced calendar image based icon with WordPress dashicon)
• Replaced backend images with WordPress dashicons where used
• All backend pages are now fully responsive
• Replaced backend attachments metabox with WordPress builtin media browser (attachments meta box is now responsive)
• Replaced the ads excerpt breakpoint ‘…’ with a ‘[..]’ link, that links to the ad page
• Ad excerpts now default to ’25’ words limit instead of previous ‘160’ characters limit
• Replaced forms step images with vectors
• New Orders will now display more detailed descriptions
• Use minified versions of main CSS and Javascript files when available
• Use the minified version of the ‘easing’ Javascript library
• Deprecated ‘black’ versions of color schemes (use the new background color options on WP Customizer for the same effect)
• Deleted obsolete images from images folder
• Removed legacy css from stylesheets
• Replaced old placeholder images with new version
• Increased container page width from 940px to 960px
• Performance enhancements, clean up, and responsive added to the featured images slider
• Memberships whose Orders are deleted from the database are now automatically canceled (not recommended)
• Deprecated Cufón fonts option
• Deleting an ad will now delete all related meta and attachments
• Better checkout experience with checkout steps visible on every step of the ad posting process

New

• Added options to change footer and columns width in WP Customizer
• Added options to change site header and background color in WP Customizer
• Added new ‘Orders’ page to the user dashboard (displays all the orders for the dashboard user and these can be filtered by status)
• Added CSS stylings for ‘Critic’ plugin (https://marketplace.appthemes.com/plugins/critic/)
• Added ‘https’ support for Google ‘re-Recaptcha’
• Added support for the ‘<!–more–>’ link in blog posts ( displays ‘Continue Reading…’ )
• Added ‘Add-ons’ sub-menu (browse our marketplace add-ons directly from the backend)
• Added support for retina/hdpi images where applicable

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