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
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Planned Patch Release (4.13.2)
Early October
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Feature Release (4.14.0)
November
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Planned Patch Release (4.14.x)
Early December
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Feature Release (4.15.0)
Mid-Late January