Paradigm 2.0

Changelog for v2.0

• Code clean-up (continued).
• Support for Comment and Contact forms changes introduced in Zenphoto 1.6.3.
• Support for Featured Images plugin changes, introduced in Zenphoto 1.6.3.
• Support for Multiple Layouts plugin changes (1 alternative layout for Albums, more to come).
• Support for FlickrFeed plugin (please, update it to the latest version!).
• Changed placement for Custom logo files to ‘uploaded/design’.
• Changed logic for support of custom user CSS files (they need to be placed in ‘uploaded/design’ and selected via Options).
• Added option to choose Preview image for OpenGraph/Twitter Cards (images need to be placed in ‘uploaded/design’ and selected via Options).
• Enabled support for full Theme localisation.
• Added Russian localisation

Paradigm 1.6

Changelog for 1.6 – by kuzzzma (May 2024)

• MAJOR CODE CLEAN-UP.

  • Fixed Responsive Behaviour throughout for both Fluid and Fixed layout.
  • Added rules for Extra-Large screens (>1900px) for both Fluid and Fixed layout.
  • Reworked all H1-H6 Headers for clean outlines throughout.
  • Removed all BR and HR tags from pages, now all of that is done via CSS.
  • Removed all style=height parameters from Image/Albums Thumbs, now all of that is done via CSS.
  • Added flexible styling to Images on Homepage and in Albums
  • Reworked Images/Albums/News/Pages Details Sections for consistency.
  • All content-zones now have corresponding #ID for ease of CSS styling.
  • Some fixes in Breadcrumbs section (typos, leftover code).
  • All code was cleaned-up, W3.org-validated, checked for typos, stray tags and other inconsistencies.

• MAJOR WORK on Theme Options: Paradigm now has more than 100 options, so it had to be done!

  • You have to BACKUP all TEXT FIELDS and setup Paradigm from scratch!
  • Options were all renamed to ensure consistency in future according to naming rules for Zenphoto themes and plugins.
  • Reworked all Options groupings and settings, to make it easier to set up your website and add new options.
  • Reworked descriptions for Options.

• Support for Related Items plugin:

  • Options to control behaviour for Related Items in Images/Albums/News/Pages separately.
  • Enabled support of Featured Images as thumbs for News and Pages for Related Items.

• Extended Featured Images plugin support:

  • Option to display Featured Image on a Page
  • Option to choose size of Featured Image displayed on Page or News Article separately (Full or Thumb)

• Support for User Login-Out and Register User plugins.

  • Login and Register pages clean-up.
  • Options to show User Menu in Footer and Sidebar separately.

• (?) Added support for Default Codeblocks plugin [work in progress]

  • Three zones for codeblocks setup in Sidebar, 1 in Footer
  • Three zones for codeblocks are setup in details zones for Images/Albums/News/Pages
  • Codeblock zones can be seen on my Demo-site

• Cleaned up Contact Form, fixed errors/warnings

• Cleaned up Comment Form, fixed errors/warnings

• Fixed missing Page indicator for H1 Headers/Head Title tags

• Added options to display Custom Data for Images/Albums/News/Pages separately

• Added options to display Rating for News/Pages

• Added options to display Hitcounter for News/Pages

• Added option to display Download button for fullsize Images

• Added Links to more RSS feeds in Footer/Head [work in progress]

Paradigm 1.5

Changelog for 1.5 – by kuzzzma (April 2024)

• Code clean-up.
• Updated Theme functions to use correct time from metadata for Photos in Metadata section on Image Pages (without added timezone of server – this was inherited from Zenphoto, reported as bug and fixed for everyone).
• Favorites plugin now works (with Zenphoto 1.6.3), therefore I’ve completely reworked Favorites page.
• Option to display Image Caption above or below Image on Image Page.
• Moved News Archive links before Gallery links in Archive.
• Some fixes in Breadcrumbs section (typos, leftover code).
• Added missing icon for H1 in News/News categories pages
• Options:
  • Reworked all Options groupings and settings, to make it easier to set up your website and add new options.
  • Reworked descriptions for Options (work in progress)
• Lightbox previews:
  • Fixed Lightbox pop-up with image previews in Albums, Archive, Search etc.
  • Links to Lightbox previews were assigned with rel=”nofollow” to exclude generated links to preview images from indexing.
  • Added option to disable usage of Lightbox previews altogether for whole website.
• More settings for the Sidebar:
  • Options to choose when to display Album Menu in Sidebar (multi-choice: Gallery, News, Pages, Archives).
  • Options to choose when to display News Categories Menu in Sidebar (multi-choice: Gallery, News, Pages, Archives).
  • Options to choose when to display Pages Menu in Sidebar (multi-choice: Gallery, News, Pages, Archives).
  • Change of CSS for Albums, News Categories & Pages Menu navigational panels in Sidebar:
  • Previously navigational panels in Sidebar had id=”nav-local” assigned to them.
  • Now there can be multiple panels on each page, so class=”nav-local” is used instead.
  • If you use custom styling – you may need to update your custom.css file by replacing all #nav-local with .nav-local in rules!
  • Option to specify number of levels of Album menu to display in Sidebar (for Gallery; News, Pages, Archives use “Top-level only” setting).
  • Option to specify number of levels of News Categories Menu in Sidebar (used for Gallery, News, Pages, Archives).
  • Option to specify number of levels of Pages Menu in Sidebar (used for Gallery, News, Pages, Archives).
  • Fixed font-size calculation for Popular Tags cloud in Sidebar.
• Customization of Menus:
  • Option to choose custom text for Gallery link in Main Menu (it’s also used in Footer menu and Sidebar panel).
  • Option to choose custom text for News link in Main Menu (it’s also used in Footer menu and Sidebar panel).
  • Option to choose custom text for Pages header in Sidebar navigation panel.
• More settings for Footer:
  • Reworked settings for additional pages in Main Footer menu.
  • Option to display RSS Links in Footer.
  • Option to display Social Media Links in Footer (if linked in “Links and Services” section of Paradigm Options).
• SEO options:
  • Option to remove Tags pages from Search Engines Index by adding “noindex, follow” to Head section.
  • Option to remove Archive pages from Search Engines Index by adding “noindex, follow” to Head section.
  • Enabled automatic generation of Description meta-tags from sanitized Custom Data for Pages.
  • Other clean-up of rules for auto-generating Meta tags: titles, descriptions etc.
  • Reworked auto-generation of Open Graph meta-tags.
  • Reworked auto-generation of Twitter-cards meta-tags.

Paradigm 1.4.1

Changelog for 1.4.1 – by kuzzzma (November 2023)

• Added Image Number (within Album) to image Title and Description meta-tags, to combat identical Title and Description for images.
• Added auto-generated text to Albums (without descriptions) and Tags pages Description meta-tags, to combat identical Title and Description for those pages.
• Some code clean-up for usage with php 8.2 (thanks, @fretzl)

Paradigm 1.4

Changelog for 1.4 – by kuzzzma (November 2023)

• Added option to assign rel=”nofollow” to Tags links (works on every page, where they are displayed).
• Added option to specify length to News Items on Homepage.
• Added option to enable Album Descriptions on Homepage.
• If Album Custom Data is present – it is shown in full, if it is not available, Album Description is used.
• Added option to specify length of Album Descriptions on Homepage.
• Fixed H1 on News Archive pages.
• Added sorting parameters to Archive list.
• Some code clean-up.
• Changed theme preview.

Paradigm 1.3.1

Changelog for 1.3 and 1.3.1 – by kuzzzma (July 2023)

• Cleaned up and structured Theme Options.
• Added options:
• Control how many News Items are shown on Homepage.
• Control if Dropdown Menus are shown, separately for Albums, News, Pages.
• Option to display mix of Albums and various sets of Images on Homepage.
• Optional Sidebar in Archive.
• If Print_album_menu is enabled, Album List it’s shown in Sidebar for Contact, Search and Credits pages.
• Optional Popular Tags in Sidebar.
• Control how Popular Tags are displayed.
• Extended “Copyright Notice” field (HTML allowed), displayed on Image and Credits pages.
• Additional “Homepage Message” field (HTML allowed), to display on Homepage.
• Option to display “Gallery Description” as tagline under Text Logo in Header.
• Fixed noindex/nofollow for Tags pages.
• Favicon in [website root] folder will be linked in the Head section.
• If you use IMG Logo in Header, it will be automatically included as OpenGraph and Twitter Preview Image for Homepage.
• If logo not selected: img.png in [website root]/uploaded folder will used.
• Preview Images for other pages for OpenGraph and Twitter cards either use Default Size for Images in gallery or 800px width.
• Added glyphicons from Bootstap to Headings for more uniform look.
• New optional pages: Explore (lists all used Tags) and Sitemap (lists all News Categories, Pages and all Albums).
• Some code clean-up and updates for mobile presentation.
• Fixed depreciated getMainSiteURL() in Header, Breadcrumbs and Footer.
• Edited Breadcrumbs to use Home Icon in all pages.

Paradigm 1.2

Changes since Paradigm v1.1 by offrench

• Replaced depreciated functions
• Fixed typos
• Fixed pagination on Gallery page
• Meta tags: using Image Title for description tag, if no extended image description is available.
• Removed defunct services from options: Add This, Google+
• Added support for plugins: Featured Images, Image Markup Fields
• Option to use logo or text for site title
• Displaying Popular Tags in sidebar
• Updated to use Google Analytics GA4