Child Theme Configurator

2.6.6

• Fixed bug in DE translation module

2.6.5

• Fixed deprecation notice for utf8_encode

2.6.4

• Fixed deprecation notices in Packer.php and CSS.php

2.6.2/2.6.3

• Version updates only.

2.6.1

• Fixed ui-active-state selector where select menu was not being highlighted

2.5.8

• Fixed some stylesheet issues

2.5.7

• Updated for WP 5.6

2.5.6

• WP 5.5 update removed commonL10n – causing scripts to break – replaced with CTC getxt value.

2.5.5

• Removed curly brace syntax from substring argument in Packer class.

2.5.4

• Fixed case where registered styles not showing in queue during analysis.

2.5.3

• Fixes to stylesheet. Updates to help tabs.

2.5.2

• Logic to prevent malformed style properties
• Minor cosmetic changes

2.5.0

• Preview class now evaluates stylesheet hooks as they fire instead of calling them again to prevent function exists errors.
• Tested for PHP version 7.1
• Modified input parser to allow multi-stop background gradients.

2.4.x

• Analyzer now saves all signals on successful child theme regardless of analysis results.
• This fixes a bug in some themes where the enqueue hooks were being rewitten incorrectly after adding web fonts.
• Fixed a serious regression bug created by version 2.4.2.
• Added call to customizer.php to initialize theme mods prior to analyzing child theme
• Deferred copy_theme_mods until after child theme analysis. This allows hooks in Preview to initialize custom theme mods
• Added mpriority (max priority) to CSS object to accommodate multiple irregular stylesheet hooks
• Restored original (pre 2.4.1) version filter hook style_loader_src to child theme stylesheets to prevent caching
• Strip closing php tag from functions.php to prevent premature response header
• Fixed localization issues (thanks @alexclassroom for identifying these)
• Modified style_loader_src hook to only add timestamp under certain conditions to prevent loading delay for most requests. (thanks @anthony750)
• Automatically add action parent RTL stylesheet when child theme does not have one.
• Handle case where parent theme changes queue action incorrectly points to non-existent child theme stylesheet.
• Correctly copies customizer css to child theme.
• Fixed PHP 7.3 compatability issue (thanks @forest-skills for identifying this)

2.3.x

• strip scripts during template scan to prevent false positives
• check file size during template scan to prevent timeout
• changed syntax of statement that was being flagged by WP Defender
• Fixed bug in screenshot copy.
• Fixed incorrect reference to errors array in UI.
• Added ability to rename @media query
• Added height/Width for theme images on Files Tab
• Added test for RTL in Analyzer
• Added test cases for WP Rocket and AutOptimize plugins in Analyzer
• Added redirect for error condition after configurator POST
• Clarified descriptions for certain Analyzer signal conditions
• Set priority of child theme css hook to force load after parent
• Remove pruned selectors from menu

2.2.x

• Modified preview to include all registered stylesheets in queue
• Disable Autoptimize in preview
• Added support for General Sibling Selector (~)
• Fixed CSS class loading FALSE for dictionaries on fresh install
• Fixed using wrong nonce for plugin mode preview (Pro)
• Fixed error thrown when packing negative integers (Pro)
• Disable Pagespeed in preview
• Fixed Preview and Analyzer for some child theme configurations by removing nonce requirement
• Fixed header not being repaired on first pass with “Repair Header” selected
• Fixed styles being pruned before new “Raw CSS” styles are added
• Fix bug in parent dependencies
• Fix bug where stylesheet dependency arrays are not being initialized
• Add action hook to extend copy theme settings feature
• Display non active tabs, enable upgrade/register before config data is created
• Show raw results after Analysis to help debugging
• Fix javascript not escaping quotes in input fields
• Restored original ajax preview and added fallback method for cross-domain preview
• Fix in javascript affecting Pro users
• Cross domain Parse error
• Showing “reconfigure” message on new install
• Manual upgrade Pro from plugin
• Add pre_option stylesheet and template filters to Preview class
• Use child theme name on duplicate
• Ability to force/unforce dependency
• Identify and handle imported stylesheets, convert to links
• Fixes related to testing if CTC Pro is installed

2.1.x

• change packer class to use standard < 5.4 array syntax
• Loading dictionaries on demand
• Reversed key/value dictionary structure for huge memory improvement
• Added packer class to flatten multidim arrays for huge memory improvement
• Reduced key name lengths throughout
• Improved data validation on inputs
• Require minimum Pro version ( Pro users only )
• Move html output to separate view includes
• Move theme mod routines to own functions

2.0.x

• Fix: preview not parsing parent styles correctly when minimized.
• Fix: cast argument to array in sort functions.
• Updated Child Theme Configurator language template.
• Updated child theme preview class to use is_theme_active and other methods to eliminate conflicts with Jetpack and any other plugin that references the customize manager.
• Updated child theme preview class to send origin headers and run customize_preview_init action along with some other actions.
• Added logic conditions in preview class to help prevent Analyzer from failing in some cases
• Enabled theme zip file export for any selected theme independent of theme currently loaded in Configurator
• Fixed bugs present with servers not running Apache with SuExec
• Fixed issue with Windows servers that do not return C: with filesystem paths
• Automatically set priority of enqueue hook based on value from parent theme
• Made file scan routine more efficient
• Support for background-image as base64 data
• Tweaked analyzer signals
• Updated language template and de_DE files
• Fix: case where child stylesheet link was not being added resulting in “This child theme does not load a Configurator stylesheet” notice
• Fix: fatal error in debug mode
• Minor bug fixes
• New Theme Analyzer automatically checks for issues and determines correct settings
• Step by step setup of Parent/Child settings
• Simplified parent stylesheet handling options
• Option to write new child theme styles to a separate stylesheet
• Uses WordPress style dependencies to ensure correct child theme stylesheet load order
• Automatically repairs themes that use outdated stylesheet handling methods
• Parses parent theme files and only displays templates that can be be overridden by child themes
• Numerous minor bug fixes

1.7.x

• Fix: regression bug in 1.7.9 causing new property menu to fail
• Fix: use nonce when retrieving front-end html to parse default additional stylesheets
• Refactored classes to make Child Theme Configurator more lightweight on front end
• Fix: disable autoload on configuration data options
• Fix: normalize media query and add to menu when added via raw css
• Fix: Margin and Padding shorthand generated incorrectly.
• Addressed case where parent or child theme is in subdirectory.
• Minimized admin CSS.
• Sanitize child theme slug
• Remove cascade load order comments from generated CSS
• Set admin background to prevent theme override
• Refactored background normalization function to better follow CSS specification.
• Check child theme exists function case-insensitive.
• Changed chldthmcfg.init() call to fire on load instead of .ready() to prevent JS conflicts
• Uses spectrum color picker to support transparency and named colors.
• Refactored entire system to support fallback values for any property.
• Fix path when duplicating child theme on first run
• New Feature: “delete child values” button – easily revert custom styles in child theme stylesheet
• Will not write child theme stylesheet if error detected in functions.php
• Fixed minified JS
• Restored multisite admin menu link under Tools by popular demand
• Automatically Network enables new child theme on creation
• Fix for FTP notice – now uses PHP_OS constant to detect win vs nix
• Added duplicate child theme feature
• added dismiss option to warnings by popular demand.
• Changed @import tab to “Web Fonts.” @import statements are automatically converted to enqueued external links.
• Added “Enqueue both parent and child stylesheets” option to enable child theme overrides without using @import.
• Added checks for hard-coded link tags in header template to help resolve incorrect stylesheet load order.
• Fix: “Enqueue child stylesheet” now passes correct value.
• Fix: hide called before iris init
• Fix: @import not being written on rebuild/configure
• Fix: min height on property/value panel
• Only prune child theme selectors on rename
• Removed conflicting wistia javascript link
• New Feature: Enqueue child theme stylesheet option for themes that do not load it.
• New Feature: Child Theme and Author website, description and tag fields.
• Fix: Redesigned UI Javascript using jQuery objects for better browser memory management.
• Fix: Child Theme Stylesheet version is timestamped to force browser reload after changes.

1.6.x

• Fix: Empty functions file created causing inserted markers to be output to browser.
• Fix: check for closed PHP tag in functions file prior to inserting markers
• Fix: undefined constant LILAEAMEDIA_URL
• Fix: logic to determine whether to display config notice
• Fix: incorrect path generation and validation on Windows servers
• Added error handling and notification to prevent jQuery conflicts and out of memory conditions
• Fix: removed max-height on property/value overlay
• Added debug option
• New Feature: Copy selector button for Raw CSS textarea on Query/Selector tab.
• Fix: Menus rendering incorrectly for RTL locales
• Fix: Border-top etc. not being written correctly to stylesheet
• Fix: Refactored ajax semaphore logic and flow
• New Feature: Better child theme handling for multisite. Moved interface to Themes menu and check for network enabled.
• Fix: Restrict child theme configurator access to install_themes capability
• Fix: Preview links to Themes admin if not network enabled to prevent ‘Cheatin, uh?’ error.
• Fix: only users with “install_themes” capability have access to Child Theme Configurator. This resolves permission issues with both multisite and single site installs. MULTISITE USERS: The Admin HAS MOVED to Network Admin > Themes > Child Themes for better handling for multisite (network) installs.
• Fix: Regular expression introduced in version 1.6.2 parses selectors incorrectly.
• Fix: replaced wp_normalize_path with class method to support legacy WP versions
• Fix: support for multiple layered background images
• Fix: background:none being parsed into gradient origin parameter
• Fix: support for data URIs
• Fix: support for *= and ^= notation in selectors
• Fix: add check if theme uses hard-wired stylesheet link and alert to use @import instead of link option
• Fix: conflicts with using jQuery UI from CDN – using local version of 1.11.2 Widget/Menu/Selectmenu instead
• Fix: using wp-color-picker handle instead of iris as dependency to make sure wpColorPicker() methods are loaded
• Fix: copy parent theme widgets logic is different when child theme is active
• New Feature: option to load parent stylesheet using wp_enqueue_style (link), @import or none.
• Thanks to cmwwebfx and Shapeshifter3 for pushing me on this
• New Feature: automatically-generated slug and name
• New Feature: restore from backup and reset options
• New Feature: backup files to “Child Theme Files” on Files Tab so they can be deleted
• New Feature: Added new theme chooser select menu with screenshot, theme info and link to live preview.
• Fix: Admin scripts now only load when CTC page is being viewed.
• Fix: parent CSS preview to correctly display all parsed parent stylesheets in sequence
• Fix: Refactored throughout for maintainability

1.5.x

• New Feature: Load imported stylesheets into the CTC admin so web fonts can be previewed.
• Set preview swatch to z-index -1 to prevent it from covering up the controls
• Spread config data across multiple option records to prevent out of memory errors with large stylesheets.
• Do not automatically select Bootstrap CSS files as additional stylesheets to (greatly) reduce overhead.
• Add jQuery UI styles that are no longer being loaded by default in the WP admin (autoselect menus).
• Fixed a bug in the way zero values are handled that was breaking css output in certain situations
• Added regex filter for non-printable (e.g., null) characters in input strings
• Fixed a bug introduced in v1.5.2(.1) that copied all of the parent styles to the child theme stylesheet. This should only be an issue for ‘background-image’ styles that reference images in the parent theme and do not have child theme overrides.
• Rolled back changes to the javascript controller that introduced a number of type errors.
• Tweaked preview ajax call to handle ssl.
• Automatically set additional stylesheets to parse based on parent theme links in head.
• Render parent CSS including additional stylesheets
• Added copy option to Parent/Child tab to assign menu locations, sidebars/widgets, custom header, background, and other options to new Child Themes.
• Refactored CTC to use the WP_Filesystem API.
• Non suExec configurations will now require user credentials to add, remove or update Child Theme files.
• Added the ability for you to make the files writable while editing and then make them read-only when you are done.
• You can also set your credentials in wp-config.php: https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#WordPress_Upgrade_Constants

1.4.x

• Removed backreference in main CSS parser regex due to high memory usage.
• Fixed uninitialized variable in files UI.
• Feature: export child themes as zip archive
• Added transform to list of vendor properties
• Bug fixed: parser not loading multiple instances of same @media rulesets
• Refactored uploader to use wp core functions for compatibility and security
• Increased CHLD_THM_CFG_MAX_RECURSE_LOOPS to 1000 to accommodate complex parent frameworks
• Fix: javascript bug
• Fix: regression bug – sanitizing broke raw input selectors
• Fix: escape quotes in text inputs. This has bugged me for a while now.
• Fix: Escape backslash for octal content values. Thanks Laurent for reporting this.
• Fix: Normalize colors to lowercase and short form when possible to prevent duplicate entries in the data
• Refactored the way CTC caches updates and returns them to the UI controller to reduce memory consumption.
• Prevent out of memory fatals when generating new child themes.
• Changed “Scan Parent for Additional Stylesheets” to individual checkbox options for each file with a toggle to show/hide in the Parent/Child tab.
• Added automatic update of form when Parent Theme is changed.
• Pre-populate Parent/Child form when parent slug is passed to CTC options.
• updated parser to match selectors containing parentheses and empty media rulesets
• Tweaked the Files tab options and added check for DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT
• Removed automatic @import rules for additional stylesheets that are loaded.
• Fixed bug caused by new jQuery .css function handling of empty css values (preview swatch).
• New Feature: Theme Files tab:
• Copy parent templates to child themes to be edited using the Theme Editor.
• Remove child theme templates.
• Upload child theme images.
• Remove child theme images.
• Upload child theme screenshot.

1.3.x

• Fixes a bug with the way the @import data is stored that threw errors on php 5.3 and corrupted v1.3.2 @import data.
• New Feature: option to scan parent theme for additional stylesheets. This allows CTC to be used with themes such as “Responsive” by CyberChimps.
• New Feature: automatically copies parent theme screenshot to child.
• Fixed unquoted regex pattern in file path security check function. Thanks to buzcuz for reporting this.
• Updated help tab content. Added additional sanitization of source and target file paths.
• Changed CSS preview to retrieve directly from WordPress Admin instead of remote http GET to prevent caching issues.
• Added loading icon for CSS preview.
• Fixed JS type error on backup toggle.
• Improved extensibility throughout.

1.2.x

• Replace PHP short tags with standard codes.
• New Features: You can now rename selectors in place from the Query/Selector panel. Made stylesheet backup optional. Bugs fixed: Incorrect parsing of background position when ‘0’, fixed type error when background image url value is removed.
• Bugs fixed: “star hack” properties no longer throwing js error. Important flag now works on borders and gradients.
• New features: Link to Query/Selector tab from specific Property/Value selector, new property focus on adding new property. Bugs fixed: clear Query/Selector inputs when loaded selector is empty, use latest min.js script.

1.1.x

• Added check for writability before attempting to create child theme files to avoid fatal error on servers not running suEXEC. Fixed a bug in the ctc_update_cache function that was throwing a fatal JS error when new media queries were saved via the Raw CSS input. Configurator now adds functions.php file to child theme when it does not exist.
• Added reorder sequence and important flag functionality. Fixed bug where multiple inputs with same selector/property combo were assigned the same id. Fixed bug in the shorthand encoding routine.
• Added tutorial video to help tabs.
• Added call to reset_updates() before update_option() to prevent serialization errors.
• Query/Selector panel now defaults to ‘base’
• Fixed bug causing background-image with full urls (http://) to be parsed as gradients
• Fixed bug causing property menu to throw error when selector has no properties
• Fixed sort bug in shorthand parser that was returning properties in wrong order
• Fixed bug that assumed lowercase only for theme slugs. (Thanks to timk)
• Fixed update redirect to execute on first run
• Small bug fix to javascript (casting number to string)
• Fixed major bug where inputs containing ‘0’ were being ignored
• Removed “no leading digits” requirement for theme slug
• Change query sort function to keep parent order of queries without device width rules
• Fixed gettext calls to use static namespace parameter
• Auto populate child theme inputs when existing theme is selected
• Correctly remove border when values are blanked
• Fixed duplicate “new property” bug on Query/Selector panel
• added timestamp to backup file
• Added encode_shorthand function to recombine margin/padding values when all 4 sides are present
• Corrected parsing for certain backgrounds and gradients (e.g., supports hsla color syntax)
• Handle empty selectors
• Ajax load for menus and updates
• Clean up Parent/Child form UI and validation
• Streamlined UI overall

1.0.0

• Initial release.