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NC State Theme Development Plan

Last Updated 1/6/26

Upcoming Product Features

  • Megamenu option for Premium tier sites. Beta version in 4.15.0
  • Automatic appending of an External Link Icon on links that leave the site. Expected in 4.15.0
  • Add a Large Text paragraph style variation. Expected in 4.15.0
  • Allow more than Three Items to be displayed in the Events Block. Expected in 4.15.0
  • Adding an In the News CPT for Pro/Premium. Expected in 4.15.0
  • LaTeX Support for equations and related content. Expected in 4.15.0
  • Adding the ability to add anchors to Accordion Item sub-block in addition to the parent Accordion block.
  • Implementation of Outline Versions of the Icon set. Likely in 4.15.0
  • Investigating support for multiple Resource CPTs on a site. Potentially in 4.15.0
  • Adding Tints and Shades to existing designs. Likely 4.16.0

Upcoming QoL Enhancements

  • Update Back to top button to prevent covering footer content. Expected in 4.12.2
  • Cleanup of Partials Directory. Expected in 4.12.2
  • Cleanup Navigation Code. Expected in 4.12.2
  • Adjust VPN Banner to only occur on the Web Publishing environment. Expected in 4.12.2
  • Update to the Smart Search Back end language. Expected in 4.12.2
  • Audit of Alt Text Alerts and make more consistently used on blocks. Expected in 4.12.2
  • Cleanup External Connection Timeouts to be consistently timing out in 15s. Expected in 4.12.2
  • Switch WolfAlert Bar over to a JS based implementation. Expected in 4.15.0

Upcoming Bug Fixes

  • The Vertical Video Focal Point is not correctly setting on the front end. Expected in 4.14.2
  • The headers in the magazine preview are always red, which is causing accessibility issues when using certain background colors. Expected in 4.12.2
  • Some visual bugs appear to be occurring on the split content block. Expected 4.12.2

Known Bugs

  • When a Gravity Forms validation / error message is triggered (by leaving email address blank for example) it shows up as white text on a white background in the footer.

Tentative Release Plan

  • Early October

  • November

  • Early December

  • Mid-Late January