NC State Theme Development Plan
Last Updated 2/20/26
Upcoming Product Features
- Megamenu option for Premium tier sites. Beta version 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
- Adding the ability to add anchors to Accordion Item sub-block in addition to the parent Accordion block. Expected in 4.15.0
- Investigating support for multiple Resource CPTs on a site. Expected in 4.15.0
- Automatic appending of an External Link Icon on links that leave the site. Likely in 4.16.0
- Implementation of Outline Versions of the Icon set. Likely in 4.16.0
- Adding Tints and Shades to existing designs. Likely 4.16.0
- Switch WolfAlert Bar over to a JS based implementation. Expected in 4.15.0
Upcoming QoL Enhancements
- Updating Button text warning length, to encourage more diversity in button text. Expected in 4.15.0
- Updates for several Accessibility issues. Expected in 4.15.0
- Update to the Thumbnail Gallery to add a close button. Expected in 4.15.0
- Updating the Sandwich Narrative to use a media upload that is more consistent with other blocks. Expected in 4.15.0
- Updating Category Callout to use the CSS grid properly and make it more consistent from front end to back end. Expected in 4.15.0
- Updated the Contact Us block to use Red as a background by default. Expected in 4.15.0
- Updating Back-end Editor Interface to be more consistently matching the Front-end. Expected in several future patches
- Adding Schema Information for Pages/Posts. Expected in 4.15.1
- Exploring Changing Form Block name. Expected in 4.15.1
Upcoming Bug Fixes
- Remove the padding that is added when the Featured People block is selected on the editor. Expected in 4.15.0
- Thumbnail Gallery Captions are cut off if the image is too tall. Expected in 4.15.0
Known Bugs
Tentative Release Plan
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Planned Feature Release (4.15.0)
Early March
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Planned Patch Release (4.15.1)
Late March or Early April
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Planned Feature Release (4.16.0)
Likely May
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Planned Patch Release (4.16.1)
Likely June