NC State Theme Development Plan
Last Updated 6/25/26
Upcoming Product Features
- Automatic External Link Icon Appending in Menus. Expected in 4.17.0
- Support for Smart Search in Unbranded. Expected in 4.17.0
- Adding the ability to choose the heading tag level for accordions to improve accessibility. (Styles will stay the same) Expected 4.17.0
- Add the ability to turn off Issues functionality within the theme. Likely in 4.17.0
- Adding a transform to allow users to swap paragraphs to Fancy Paragraphs. Expected 4.17.0
- Adding the ability to add Custom SVG Icon on a site basis (Custom SVG icons will require UCOMM review and will require UCOMM to add them to the site’s library) Likely 4.17.0
- Added categories to the SVG Icon Selector Likely 4.17.0
- Block Feature Packs. Likely in 4.18.0
- Block to countdown from a date or display a date based on a lead time. Expected 4.18.0
- Calendar+ Support. Likely 4.18.0
Upcoming QoL Enhancements
- Updating the Heading blocks from H2 through H4 to be black in order to use red more strategically. Likely 4.17.0
- Rewriting the SVG library intake process. Likely in 4.17.0
- Updating Smart Search to work with Unbranded theme variants. Likely 4.17.0
- Adding a Faux Utility Bar to Smart Search Results pages to keep consistency. Likely 4.17.0
- Design System Cleanup – Several minor tweaks to style to match the design system. Likely in 4.17.0 and 4.17.1
- Updated News Masthead from 1500px max width to 1440px max width. Expected in 4.17.0
- Updated Thumbnail Gallery to use Blade templates. Expected in 4.17.0
Upcoming Bug Fixes
- Compact Masthead Dropdown menu is creating a scrolling issue. Expected in 4.17.0
- Icon link arrow color is backwards in relation to normal vs hover states. Expected in 4.17.0
- Schemas were showing up on Category/Archive pages when they were not supposed to be, we have stopped that. Expected in 4.17.0
- Utility Bar Brick showing when it should not. Expected in 4.17.1
- Newswire Import of posts not working correctly. Expected in 4.17.1
- Post Title Stoplight not working. Expected in 4.17.1
- Table Headers Center align on creation but saves as left aligned. Likely 4.17.0 or 4.17.1
Known Bugs
Tentative Release Plan
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Feature Release (4.17.0)
Early-Mid July
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Planned Patch Release (4.17.x)
August
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Feature Release (4.18.0)
September
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Planned Patch Release (4.18.1)
October