X - The Ultimate WordPress Theme v2.0.0
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X Theme
v2.0.0 – May 28, 2014
- ADD: New Stack: Ethos.
- ADD: Megamenu functionality.
- OPT: Minified and concatenated all scripts into a couple files.
- OPT: Minified all styles output by the theme.
- MOD: Updated Revolution Slider plugin to v4.3.8.
- MOD: Numerous improvements and updates throughout the theme.
X Shortcodes Plugin
v2.3.0 – May 28, 2014
- BUG: Fixed bug for [responsive_text] output by shortcode generator.
- MOD: Improvements and updates throughout the plugin.
X v2.0.0 Information
This release of X sees the addition of our first new Stack since launching at the beginning of the year:
Ethos! Ethos is a content-driven, information oriented design that works great for websites where news is the central focus. We’ve included many exciting and beautiful features in this Stack that are unique to this design only, so make sure that you take some time to go through the new Ethos Customizer article in the Knowledge Base as it will walk through these in detail for you.
We’ve made
countless performance enhancements, theme improvements, updates, and bug fixes with this release. They’re too numerous to list here (over
2800 commits in our version control log), but we wanted to take some time to outline the biggest ones.
Script loading is one area that we have done a lot of testing with to see which ways of handling all that data work best. With v1.0.0 of X we would do some querying of the content for pages and posts and dynamically load scripts when needed (i.e. if the [lightbox] shortcode was present, load the lightbox script). While on this surface this method appears to be better by only loading what you need when you need it, the fact of the matter was there were still many other scripts (mostly very small) that needed to be used all of the time. All of these scripts ultimately add up to more HTTP requests from the server, which is best to reduce as much as possible. With v2.0.0, we’ve made the move to minify and concatenate all theme scripts into two main files, one that enqueues all scripts that need to be in the
<head> element and another that enqueues all scripts that can be loaded near the closing
</body> tag. A couple other libraries have been left separate and are loaded dynamically when needed as mentioned earlier, but ultimately we reduced over 20 files down to 2, greatly improving response times in this area. Also, this means that all of your scripts are minified right out of the gate, so there’s no need to worry about altering this via a plugin like W3 Total Cache, which can typically lead to issues if you’re not familiar with how to utilize these features.
Similarly, we decided to make the move to minify all styles output by the theme as well and doing so saw as much as a 25% reduction in overall CSS size with certain files. Similarly to the scripts mentioned above, this also means that all CSS files for X are minified for you without any need to worry about this with an extra plugin on your site that can create issues when running these commands on your files. As always, any changes that you would like to make to the theme can easily be made in one of our provided child themes and you can now be assured that your CSS is being loaded as efficiently as possible on your website.
Another big feature of this release is the addition of
megamenus! We know that many of our users have been asking for this feature for quite some time, and we’re very excited to finally be able to bring it to you all with v2.0.0. If you haven’t had a chance to do so yet, definitely take some time to run through the new megamenu article in the Knowledge Base as it goes into great detail on how to setup your menus and how you can expect this functionality to operate. Megamenus work across all Stacks and each one features their own unique set of styling.
As mentioned before, we’ve included countless additional updates and bug fixes that have greatly streamlined the way many processes are handled with the theme. Many of these have more to do with the backend, but they’ve gone a long way to improve upon the foundation we’ve already put forth with X.
