Changelog

Contents

• Version 2.1
• Version 2.0.5
• Version 2.0.4
• Version 2.0.3
• Version 2.0.2
• Version 2.0.1
• Version 2.0
• Version 1.7.3
• Version 1.7.2
• Version 1.7.1
• Version 1.7
• Version 1.6.2
• Version 1.6.1
• Version 1.6
• Version 1.5
• Version 1.4
• Version 1.3
• Version 1.2.5
• Version 1.2.4
• Version 1.2.3
• Version 1.2.2
• Version 1.2.1
• Version 1.2
• Version 1.1.3
• Version 1.1.2
• Version 1.1.1
• Version 1.1
• Version 1.0.1
• Version 1.0

Version 2.1 §

New features

• New icon designs (r567)
• New options page design (r508, r539, r540)
• Added avatar support (r500)
• Added action hook th_posts_nav (r493)
• Asset class now handles wp_head assets (r471)
• Type checking on filter returns disabled when WP_DEBUG is true (r470)
• All custom content areas are now widgets (various)
• Showing authors is now pluggable (r466)
• New links widget which overrides default one (r449)
• Main footer area is now a widget field (r439)
• Feed link for comments on search results (r427)
• Search query now displays in search page title (r425)
• ‘Description’ meta element now uses excerpts where available (r421)

Tweaks

• Default avatar filter for tarski_avatar (r564)
• Added filter to tarski_date (r515)
• New style for tag cloud widget (r551)
• New style for links list widgets (r550)
• New style for calendar widget (r549)
• Slightly darkened text colours (r546)
• Now requires WordPress 2.5 (r545)
• Added XFN profile attribute to head (r525)
• Use native WP language_attributes function (r518)
• Tarski search form used for widgets (r505)
• Changes to Tarski are now tracked in the CHANGELOG file (r502)
• Search form JavaScript substantially improved (r495, r501)
• Mobile stylesheet replaced by unified base stylesheet (r494)
• Removed feed type selection in favour of get_default_feed (r492)
• Removed Tarski class (r491)
• Only update needed messages now appear on the Dashboard (r486)
• Tarski’s various notices now added via the admin_notices hook (r486)
• Moved head theme data to Asset class (r475)
• Removed ‘generator’ meta element as WP now provides it (r474)
• Options page scripts now added via WP script loader (r460)
• Edit links have been removed from footer blurb (r447, r450)
• Navbar is now added via th_header hook (r435)
• Content of code elements now resizes in IE (r423)
• Default feed type now used in preference to choosing a feed type (r420, r427)
• get_author_feed_link deprecated (r418)
• get_category_feed_link deprecated (r417)
• Removed Feedparser library (r416)
• Upgrade script moved to function tarski_upgrade (r415)

Bug fixes

• Changed erroneous padding properties in the main stylesheet (r528)
• Navbar link text is now properly escaped (r520)

Version 2.0.5 §

New features

• New footer theme hook, th_fmain (r413)
• Numeric version checking implemented (r405, r408)
• Development version notice now appears on Dashboard (r405)

Tweaks

• Footer blurb and recent articles now added via th_fmain hook (r413)
• Helper files are now required, not included (r409)
• flush_tarski_options function can no longer delete (r408)
• add_tarski_option function deprecated (r408)
• drop_tarski_option function deprecated (r408)
• Version and Options classes now extend Tarski class (r405)
• Cache helper functions moved to admin helper file (r405)
• tarski_option function deprecated (r405)
• Excerpt filters now applied to tarski_excerpt (r396)
• tarski_comment_author_link uses get_comment_author_link filters (r394)
• Navbar order no longer needs to re-save on page changes (r390)

Bug fixes

• Delete and restore options now works correctly (r408)
• Updating a particular option never uses the defaults (r408)
• Saving options overwrites deleted options correctly (r408)
• $noSidebarInclude now renders (r405)
• Sidebar constants no longer appear on archive templates (r405)
• Tarski now states languages correctly (r396)
• Blank blurb no longer generates surrounding markup (r392)
• Navbar now follows page order correctly (r390)

Version 2.0.4 §

Tweaks

• Additional robustness added to navbar functions (r383, r384, r385)
• Navbar SQL code replaced with get_posts function call (r380, r383)
• Navbar spacing tweaked (r383)
• tarski_get_pages function deprecated (r380, r382)

Bug fixes

• No navbar pages breaking post saving fixed (r381)

Version 2.0.3 §

New features

• Update notifier support for file_get_contents added (r367)
• Added class imagelink2 for borderless image links (r363, r364)

Tweaks

• Greater robustness added to update functions (r374, r375)
• Home link title text tweaked (r373)
• Update notifier error message added (r372)
• Older and newer entries links now point in more intuitive directions (r371)
• Next and previous article links now wrapped in span elements (r368)
• Version check output now buffered (r369)
• Multiple authors check now only performed when admin page accessed (r365)

Bug fixes

• Problematic update notification option import code removed (r370)
• Missing libcurl library no longer breaks the update notifier (r366)
• Categories stay hidden on theme upgrade (r359)

Version 2.0.2 §

Bug fixes

• Update notifier now compatible with PHP safe mode (r357)
• Update notification remains off when theme updated (r357)
• Fixed type attribute for feed links (r356)
• Constants file no longer breaks the navbar (r353, 355)
• meta element ‘wp_theme’ now closes properly (r352)

Version 2.0.1 §

New features

• JavaScript output is now filtered (r346)
• Stylesheet output is now filtered (r343)

Tweaks

• meta element ‘wp_theme’ added to head (r346)
• Tarski comment removed from footer (r346)
• Theme version appended to stylesheet links (r343, r346)
• Version is only checked when update notification is enabled (r341)
• page_template_helper.php removed (r337)
• tarski_navbar filter now returns an array (r336)
• RTL rules moved to main stylesheet and rtl.css removed (r336)

Bug fixes

• Memory-hogging feed parsing removed (r345)
• Added robustness to the Options updater (r344)
• XSS vulnerability in search.php fixed (r342)
• gettext omissions fixed (r342)
• Next/previous article navigation fixed in Internet Explorer (r340)
• Disappearing navbar bug fixed (r333)
• Update notifier displaying when Tarski up to date bug fixed (r333)

Version 2.0 §

New features

• Single posts and pages can now have a different widget sidebar (r311)
• Tag intersections and unions now generate accurate content (r305)
• Massively improved documentation in the phpDoc format (r275)
• Option to link to either RSS or Atom feeds (r255)
• Options can now be deleted and restored (r247)
• Option to reverse document title order (r246)
• Option to show tags everywhere, not just on single posts (r208)
• Archive and search feeds added to head (r195)
• Blogroll category can be added as external navbar links (r179, r180)
• hCard support added to posts and comments (r175)
• hAtom support added to posts (r173, r174)

Tweaks

• WordPress 2.1 and 2.2 support dropped (various)
• New screenshot (r326)
• Removed body classes left and single (r324)
• tarski_doctitle now returns an array to filter (r322)
• Footer widgets now display iff widgets have been added there (r316)
• Sidebar content moved to separate display files (r311)
• Improved error handling for missing custom sidebar file (r311)
• Header status check deprecated and replaced by pure CSS rules (r304, r311)
• The external navbar links category will not be shown in the sidebar (r303)
• Added ‘edit’ link to footer blurb (r292)
• Filter added to tarski_sidebar_links (r291)
• Next and previous index page link function refactored (r284)
• Deprecated functions moved to deprecated.php (r278, r283)
• Next and previous post link styling tweaked (r282)
• Post page links tweaked to mirror tag styling (r282)
• Reduced duplication of feed link code (r280, r281)
• Search form now always wrapped in tarski_searchform function (r276)
• Stylesheet file names that are invalid CSS identifiers excluded (r266)
• Stylesheet file names matching Tarski’s body classes excluded (r265, r266)
• Bottom margin of primary column reduced on index pages (r263)
• gettext with included code now uses printf for easier localisation (r250)
• tarski_doctitle, tarski_bodyclass and tarski_bodyid filters added (r246)
• tarski_bodyclass and tarski_bodyid functions no longer re-definable (r246)
• WPMU site admins now see update notifications (r245)
• Default options updated (r210, r244)
• All actions and filters moved to library/launcher.php (r234)
• Nonce field added to Options page for increased security (r230)
• Removed 1.4 upgrade script (r227)
• functions.php massively cleaned up (r225)
• Options code moved to own class (r225)
• Moved upgrade code to helper file (r223)
• Moved display files to library/display (r220)
• Moved helper functions to library/helpers (r219)
• Tarski now respects WP’s robots option (r217)
• th_postend now executes after asides as well as normal posts (r213)
• Hide categories option replaced with show categories option (r209)
• Feedparser library moved into library/includes (r206)
• JavaScript and stylesheets moved to their own directories (r202)
• Page navigation and tags now added via th_postend (r201)
• ‘Required’ notices added to comment form (r198)
• Feed links now added via wp_head action (r195)
• Contextual notification about blank taglines added to Options page (r194)
• Comments and feed links code replaced with proper API functions (r193)
• Replaced deprecated get_bloginfo and get_settings calls (r177, r188)
• Footer blurb code executes even when there is no blurb (r172)
• Navbar and feed link now added via th_navbar action (r171)
• Loop file split into several more specialised files (r170)

Bug fixes

• Custom styles no longer corrupt CSS namespace (r265, r266)
• Special characters now escaped for blurb and sidebar text fields (r241)

Version 1.7.3

Bug fixes

• Empty categories now display as intended on Options page (r300)
• Update notifier fix for servers where allow_url_fopen is disabled (r299)

Version 1.7.2 §

Bug fixes

• Blank category description overriding default text bug fixed (r200)
• Update notifier text on Options page added to gettext framework (r186)
• Nav output code spacing issue fixed (r185)

Version 1.7.1 §

Bug fixes

• References to WP 2.3-only function get_search_query removed
• Asides category selection made compatible with WP 2.3 database schema

Version 1.7 §

New features

• id attributes added to the document body (r137, r140, r141)
• Various classes added to post metadata to allow styling thereof (r136)
• Author descriptions now display on author archive pages (r133)
• Header image becomes home link when title is not displayed (r132)
• Category descriptions now displayed on category archive pages (r129)
• Version checking is now cached where possible (r121, r122, r123)
• Editable ‘Home’ link (r120)
• New tags template (r113, r114)
• Support for WordPress’ new tagging functionality (r110, r114, r115)
• Navbar links automatically reorder when page order changes (r107)

Tweaks

• Footer blurb output now filtered (r163)
• Theme hook th_404 now filter th_404_content (r137, r155)
• Navbar output now filtered (r145, r151, r152)
• $navbarInclude ported to new hooks system (r145)
• Redundant hook th_commentform removed (r143)
• tarski_bodyclass and tarski_bodyid now conditionally defined (r138)
• Removed Live Comments Preview integration (r137)
• Links template brought up to date (r131)
• Removed Clean Archives integration (r124)
• Navigation Display options link display tweaked (r120)
• Removed Gravatar integration (r116)
• Removed Subscribe to Comments integration (r116)
• Removed Brian’s Latest Comments integration (r116)
• Removed Ultimate Tag Warrior integration (r110, r111, r112, r114)
• loop.php moved back to main directory (r109)
• Update notification is now on by default (r108)

Bug fixes

• Options page jQuery noConflict() issue resolved (r166)

Version 1.6.2 §

Bug fixes

• Default 404 content now appears when there is no constants.php file (r144)
• Draft pages no longer appear in navigation display options (r144)
• Trailing slashes added to ‘Home’ links for fussy servers (r127)
• Theme version function bug (causing options to not be saved) fixed (r98, r99)

Version 1.6.1 §

Bug fixes

• Incorrect function references on search pages fixed (r92)
• Search field output bug fixed (r92)
• Update notifier issue with some PHP versions fixed (r88)

Version 1.6 §

New features

• New update notification system (r79, r82)
• XOXO added to navbar and other links lists (r80)
• rel="home" added to home links (r80)

Tweaks

• Options page header selection code now degrades gracefully (r59, r78, r81)
• constants-default.php file removed (r78)
• Options page code switched to jQuery (r60, r74)
• comments.php file refactored (r62)
• Courier New replaced by Courier for code and pre element display (r54, r55)

Bug fixes

• Potential XSS vulnerability closed (r73)
• Footer floats now clear properly (r63, r65, r66)
• Search results title added to gettext (r64)
• Comment author form field bug fixed (r58)
• Comments work properly when Recent Articles widget in use (r56, r57)

Version 1.5 §

New features

• New theme hooks system (r34, r40)
• Handheld stylesheet for mobile devices added (r33)
• OpenID comments support (r36)
• Improved support for static front pages (r25)
• Default search text hidden by JS when search field selected (r27)
• Tarski Options page is now displayed in RTL format when appropriate (r32)

Tweaks

• Navbar tweaked to work with static front page (r25)
• Site title tweaked to work with static front page (r25)
• searchform.php moved out of library/ into root (r20)
• ‘Site Admin’ link in navbar id of nav-admin added (r16)
• functions.php cleaned up (r34)
• code element display in Safari improved (r39)
• Header detection code tightened up (r40)
• Most constants variables calls replaced with hook function calls (r34, r40)

Bug fixes

• Tarski Options page link in Dashboard now refers correctly (r30)
• “Older entries” link now only appears when there really are older entries (r29)
• Trackback link text unobscured when columns swapped (r22)
• Pagination links text made translatable (r18)
• Various gettext omissions corrected (r17, r19)
• imagecenter image class CSS fix (r23)
• Potential XSS issue in searchform.php fixed (r23)
• Footer widgets now correctly obey sidebar options (r37)
• Tarski Options page now correctly links to core widget controls (r38)

Version 1.4 §

New features

• Display of recent articles in footer now optional
• The Custom Header API is now supported - WordPress will now let you upload and crop your own images in addition to uploading manually and the stock headers.
• Theme is now WordPress MU compatible out-of-the-box.

Tweaks

• The various Tarski options have been collected into one option, tarski_options, to make things neater. As a result, this version will require an update of all .php files in your Tarski install to work properly.
• Automatic ‘About’ title removed from footer blurb
• Footer blurb moved above recent articles listing
• Footer options copy tweaked
• Comment markup tweaked
• New installations now default to having the theme be centred in the browser window.
• Certain configuration options are now hidden from WPMU end-users, such as upgrade notification and upload locations for styles, images, and custom sidebars.
• Footer displays hosting site link alongside the Tarski and WordPress credit links for WPMU users.

Bug fixes

• Various swapped columns styling issues fixed
• Missing tarski attribute added to Options page _e function

Version 1.3 §

New features

• Third sidebar option: a custom sidebar file so users can write their own PHP and HTML

Tweaks

• Legacy WP 2.0.x branch-compatible code removed
• Tarski now employs WordPress’ included JavaScript libraries
• Additional scripts and styles now only injected on the Tarski Options page
• Current page highlighting markup tweaked
• Page ids added to navbar
• functions.php cleaned up and functions commenting improved
• tarski_title function tweaked
• Options page help text and captions revised
• Options page layout adjusted
• Options page markup and styling adjusted
• Options page sidebar selection clarified
• Sidebar can be hidden on non-index pages regardless of sidebar type
• Edit page link moved below page title

Version 1.2.5 §

Tweaks

• Translations added back in

Bug fixes

• Recent articles issue with some tag fixed

Version 1.2.4 §

New features

• New header image, Orbits
• Stylesheet for RTL languages

Tweaks

• Some improvements to the print stylesheet
• Options page is now accessed via a cleaner URL
• Feed icons replaced with new ones closer to the agreed standard
• ‘Site Admin’ link in the top navigation no longer allows registration
• Translations removed from the download
• Page creation options removed
• html element now states the language set in the wp-config.php file
• No image now displays when the ‘Blank Header’ option is set
• Header image code cleaned up and moved to functions.php
• print.css, loop.php and searchform.php moved into /library/
• links.php template header tweaked

Version 1.2.3 §

New features

• French translation by Matthieu Mauduit
• Danish translation by Henrik Buchwald

Tweaks

• Removed the redundant readme.txt file

Bug fixes

• Page creation database queries made compatible with WP 2.1
• Comments number and edit links added to gettext framework
• include paths changed to work round a problem on some servers
• blockquote, ol and ul margins changed to solve IE list display issue

Version 1.2.2 §

New features

• 404 error messages can be set via the $errorPageInclude theme hook
• New theme hook $postEndInclude added
• New theme hook $pageEndInclude added

Tweaks

• Dutch translation updated
• Swedish translation updated
• German translation updated
• Links listing made compatible with WP 2.1
• Top navigation made compatible with WP 2.1
• Top navigation turned into a function and placed in functions.php
• Date formatting turned into a function and placed in functions.php
• Body class generation turned into a function and placed in functions.php
• Instances of $table_prefix replaced with wpdb->$prefix
• h2 link display adjusted
• pre element display improved
• Tarski now uses the prototype.js and scriptaculous.js files bundled with WP 2.1 when available

Bug fixes

• Erroneous query_posts argument cat=-3 removed from pagination query
• Functions page text conversion to gettext framework completed
• loop.php now @includes the constants file so $frontPageInclude displays
• Link category titles only display when that category contains visible links
• Sidebar conditionals in tags.php and links.php removed

Version 1.2.1 §

New Features

• Dutch translation by Gerard Konning
• Swedish translation by Mikael Jorhult
• German translation by Andreas Beer
• If the current page is in the navbar, it’s denoted by an id, nav-current
• The current page is highlighted by the included stylesheets
• Added new theme hook, $frontPageInclude
• A link to our Styling Content help page now appears on the ‘Write Post’ page in the admin panel

Tweaks

• Trackback info only displays if trackbacks are being accepted
• Next/previous article wrapper only displays if other entries exist
• Options page text is now outputted by _e() function
• Excerpts in ‘Recent Entries’ are shorter and filtered

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug where post dates did not display under some circumstances
• Floated elements no longer overrun the entries underneath

Version 1.2 §

New Features

• New theme hook, $noSidebarInclude, for displaying alternate content in the non-home pages when you’ve selected to keep sidebars off there
• New theme hook, $navbarInclude, for additional links in the top navigation
• Trackback RDF added to posts and pages for easier trackback discovery
• Trackback URL added to pages with open comments
• Added $comment_count to make it easier for people editing the theme to add numeric values to each comment
• insert, insertleft and insertright classes added to allow for easy insertion of menus etc. into pages and entries
• imagecentre and imagecenter classes added to let you centre images easily, whichever variation of English you use
• abbr, pre, sub, sup, hr, h5 and h6 are now styled
• Entry pages now have next/previous article navigation
• Multiple-page entries and pages are now supported
• Added option to paginate index pages (home page, search results, category and date archives)
• Display of blog title is now optional like the subtitle

Tweaks

• Links now point to tarskitheme.com
• Text is now outputted by the _e function to allow for localisation
• Sidebar links categories are now sorted by cat_name rather than cat_id
• Date formatting is now set by users’ preference rather than overriding it
• Author names are now set by users’ preference rather than overriding it
• Comment moderation display improved
• Comment feed links now work correctly for sites not using .htaccess permalinks
• Search results moved into loop.php
• loop.php file cleaned up
• Comment links for normal entries only display if comments are open or the post has comments
• Comment links for asides display as ‘Permalink’ if comments are closed and the entry has no comments
• Major rewrite of Tarski’s CSS
• Next/previous post and page navigation should now only display page nav if there is more than one post or page

Bug fixes

• Floated elements no longer overrun Asides’ meta section or an entry’s tags
• Additional li element doesn’t appear in the nav bar when a visitor is not logged in

Version 1.1.3 §

New Features

• New header image, Spots
• Added option to display site tagline below title

Tweaks

• Asides display revised
• Footer content is now columnated
• Widget styling now more closely resembles the normal Tarski sidebar
• Middle dot in title no longer shows up when the site has no tagline
• Gravatars have returned to their previous borderless state
• .png icons replaced with .gif ones which will look better on sites which change the background colour, and in Internet Explorer 6 and below

Version 1.1.2 §

Plugin support

• WordPress Widget support, including an improved links widget

New features

• New links page template for those with longer blogrolls
• imagelink, imageleft, imageright and imageblock CSS classes added
• Comments can now be enabled for pages, not just posts
• Print stylesheet added

Tweaks

• Image link styling adjusted
• style.css now encourages one not to edit it directly

Bug Fixes

• Archives and 404 page titles now switch sides to correspond with the column display order
• Options page will no longer display an error when there are no pages in the WordPress install

Version 1.1.1 §

New features

• Navigation links are now selected from the list of top-level pages
• New variant style, ‘Skyline’
• New header by Martin Koza, Thoughtwind
• Column swap option added
• Comment editing links added

Plugin Support

• UTW live tag search added to tags page - requires UTW 3.1 and can be activated in the Tarski Options panel

Tweaks

• Revised float clearing method so the layout works in IE7 Beta 2
• Blog title line-height increased
• Entry header line-heights increased and padding tweaked so as to make post titles of that are more than one line less clunky
• ‘Asides’ comment number link changed from comments_link to the_permalink
• Convoluted ABSPATH . '/wp-content/themes/' . get_template() replaced by the cleaner TEMPLATEPATH
• Stray clearer div removed from footer.php
• Loop for pages moved into loop.php
• h2 elements for single entry pages changed to h1s
• Post and page edit function formatting revised
• Placement of the comments form include from constants.php adjusted slightly
• Link border removed from h3 and h4 elements within the post content div
• Comments title and feed link margins and padding adjusted
• Site and comments feed links should now use the correct permalinks intead of hard coded ones.
• “Tarski Options have been updated” notice now fades like other WP admin notices
• Custom sidebar content is now styled like posts (link underlining, increased line-height for paragraphs)

Version 1.1 §

Bug Fixes

• Theme info vanishing in IE fixed
• Fixed IE CSS bug (list bullets showing up when they weren’t meant to)
• Incorrectly referring .blurb code was changed to refer instead to #blurb
• Fixed missing closing div tag in comments.php
• Fixed tiny bug for non-logged-in users when ‘Subscribe To Comments’ is not installed
• Fixed issue with pingbacks versus trackbacks

Tweaks

• Pingback URL added to head
• Added wp_head(), wp_footer() and wp_meta() plugin hooks.
• Incorporated the code in single.php into index.php
• Added borders to header thumbnails
• Tweaked header selection colour
• Moved positioning CSS to style.css
• Tarski updates now display in the WordPress dashboard as well as in the theme options page
• line-height for the tag cloud tweaked a little

Plugin Support

• Live Comment Preview (version 1.7)
• Asides - our own implementation, comes built into Tarski 1.1. Just pick a category to display as asides in the Tarski Options pane…

New Features

• Style switcher allows additional .css files to be uploaded to wp-content/themes/tarski/styles/ and selected via the Tarski Options pane.
• Added ‘Classic’ and ‘Polar’ styles
• New header image, Coffee Rings
• Blank header option
• Added constants.php file to allow for persistent includes across Tarski upgrades. See the documentation for more info.
• Added option to only display sidebar on the front page

Version 1.0.1 §

Bug Fixes

• Default header image will now be displayed if tarski_header hasn’t been set via the options pane
• Archives pages now displays correctly for installations without Ultimate Tag Warrior
• Fixed IE PNG issues
• Removed extraneous markup

Plugin Support

• Skippy’s Gravatars (version 2.6)
• Subscribe to Comments (version 2.0.2)
• Brian’s Latest Comments (version 1.5.9)

New Features

• Option to centre the theme in the browser window

Version 1.0 §

Initial release.