NC State Theme Release 4.14
A smaller update before the holiday as we prepare for future releases in spring of 2026.
Release Highlights
Fancy Paragraph and Gravity Forms
The Fancy Paragraph now supports the ability to add a Gravity Form as a sub-block. This feature is available under the content card section of the Fancy Paragraph block. This content card affords content maintainers the ability to display a form within a body of text (#486).
Megamenu (Alpha)
An early development version of the Megamenu has is now available as part of this release. This feature is currently in alpha and we do not recommend this for production sites. That said, we welcome users to explore the feature in staging and dev environments (#478, #480, #482, #489, #493, #496, #497, #498).
Other Features
- Added a class to the second line of the site title allowing approved sites to use the second line as a subtitle. (#487)
- The Heading level on the Icon Links block can now be toggled from H3 to H2. Doing so will have no visual effect, this is for accessibility reasons only. (#494)
- Bluesky is now an available option on the social media section in the theme settings, and will populate to the footer and Split Content block. (#491)
Quality of Life Enhancements
- Made several style changes on the news posts, to make their spacing feel more inline with other areas. (#483)
- The internal styling packages needed an updated URL after the switch over to github.com. Updated these packages and the repos have had the correct permissions set. (#484)
- Updated the image dimension instructions in the OpenGraph Image Field. (#488)
- Added some aria-label attributes to the Smart Search overlay to improve accessibility (#492)
Bug Fixes
- Non-Credit Program CPTs were missing from the archive if they did not have an end date. this. This is now fixed (#477)
- The Spotify Embed block had spacing issues following the grid update. It’s styling is now correct. (#485)
- Updated the Events Calendar shortcode embeds to avoid breaking due to the .alignwide styles. (#490)
- The Featured People block’s images did not have a defined image aspect ratio. Updated this feature to be 1:1, ensuring a square image next to each person. (#495)
Full release notes can be found in GitHub. If you do not have but would like access to these technical release notes, please email wordpress@help.ncsu.edu.
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