Improvement and maintenance release

What's New:

• New create_thumb($imgFile, $width, $height). Resize the image to desired width and desired height
• Can specify the output image size from get_image($string, $width, $height)
• Improve the recent_type function. Get latest posts by content type, category, author
• New recent_tag. Get recent post by tag
• Improving index page canonical link
• Allow to change the /blog path, example to /articles
• Allow to change the post permalink prefix. Previously only support /year/month/post-slug and /post/post-slug
• Read below for more changes.

What's Changed

• Update it_IT.ini by @eagleman in #778
• Update zh_TW.ini by @XD9527 in #781
• Translation update (German) by @sb0001 in #787
• Add favicon.png to .updateignore by @bttrx in #788
• Add the ability to call the author's avatar using the $next and $prev arrays. by @KuJoe in #799

Full Changelog: v2.9.9...v3.0.0