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title: "Supernova Changelog"
source: https://4property.com/4sites/supernova/supernova-changelog/
updated: 2025-12-08T16:03:58+00:00
---

# Supernova Changelog

Table of Contents

- Changelog
  - 6.5.0
  - 6.4.9
  - 6.4.8
  - 6.4.7
  - 6.4.6
  - 6.4.5
  - 6.4.4
  - 6.4.3
  - 6.4.2
  - 6.4.1
  - 6.3.7
  - 6.3.6
  - 6.3.4
  - 6.3.3
  - 6.3.2
  - 6.3.1
  - 6.3.0
  - 6.2.9 (cumulative)
  - 6.2.6 (cumulative)
  - 6.2.3
  - 6.2.2 (cumulative)
  - 6.1.4
  - 6.1.3
  - 6.1.2 (cumulative)
  - 6.0.9
  - 6.0.8
  - 6.0.7
  - 6.0.6
  - 6.0.5
  - 6.0.4
  - 6.0.3
  - 6.0.2
  - 6.0.1
  - 6.0.0
  - 5.9.9
  - 5.9.8
  - 5.9.7
  - 5.9.6
  - 5.9.5 (cumulative)
  - 5.9.2
  - 5.9.1
  - 5.9.0
  - 5.8.3
  - 5.8.2
  - 5.8.1
  - 5.8.0
  - 5.7.16
  - 5.7.15 (cumulative)
  - 5.7.13
  - 5.7.12 (cumulative)
  - 5.7.10
  - 5.7.9
  - 5.7.8
  - 5.7.7
  - 5.7.6
  - 5.7.5
  - 5.7.4 (cumulative)
  - 5.7.3
  - 5.7.2 (cumulative)
  - 5.7.1
  - 5.7
  - 5.6.3
  - 5.5
  - 5.4
  - 5.3.5
  - 5.3.4
  - 5.3.3
  - 5.3.2
  - 5.3

## Changelog

### 6.5.0

- Version bump
- Remove old setup functionality
- Replace Patterns with Template Parts in the new FAQ module
- Add nonce verification to the new settings forms
- Merge the Acquaint FAQ into Supernova as a module
- Allow mobile menu closing when clicking outside (and fix the stuck overlay element)
- Add new content width size
- Disable post tags
- Use a toggle to include all post types in the search functionality

### 6.4.9

- Version bump
- Rearrange Settings tab for better developer access
- Removed unused file
- Move .md documentation to /docs folder
- Code update (WPCS)
- Remove unused Help tab
- Remove old, unused shortcodes
- Move Template Parts CPT higher
- Remove Supernova post views (reduces database overhead)
- Fix stars alignment in the Google reviews badge

### 6.4.8

- Version bump
- Remove unused editor dependencies

### 6.4.7

- Version bump
- Fix issue with multiple Google Fonts not being loaded properly (again)

### 6.4.6

- Version bump
- Add Pattern to Template Part migrator
- Fix issue with multiple Google Fonts not being loaded properly

### 6.4.5

- Fix undefined updater variable

### 6.4.4

- Version bump
- Remove empty single product template
- Update block template schema
- Add more plugins to the blacklist
- Add empty single-product.html template file for WooCommerce (alpha)
- Move all files from the templates/ directory to prepare the theme for FSE
- Include WooCommerce “product” in search results
- Add search form to the main navigation menu

### 6.4.3

- Version bump
- Make WooCommerce integration based on plugin existence, not an option
- Add extended support for WooCommerce
- Prevent conflicting plugins from being activated
- Respect user’s prefers-reduced-motion OS settings
- Add native scroll-margin-block-start for anchor spacing

### 6.4.2

- Version bump
- Add styling for `<hr>` inside the main navigation

### 6.4.1

- Version bump
- Remove unused actions and obsolete database queries
- Add plugin restrictions for security and performance reasons
- Disallow heavy or problematic plugins from being activated
- Add a default featured image option
- Add styling for WooCommerce variation text inputs
- Remove opinionated styles from the search box
- Tweak the Supernova-style Details block
- Fix extraneous paragraphs and line breaks in the footer
- Fix missing admin head script

### 6.3.7

- Version bump
- Remove suppress_filters from the article grid
- Force sidebar to be always open on post edit screen, disable fullscreen Editor, disable welcome messages and tips
- Add native page templates to FAQ CPT

### 6.3.6

- Version bump
- Improve group switch button positioning
- Increase mobile menu font size
- Add version number to the admin style
- Improve side panel by adding advanced positioning and mouse events
- Add “busy” button styles for all native button blocks and the search form button
- Load Akar icons locally (unpkg is too slow)
- Fix block styles being overridden by theme styles for link elements
- Make sure the Supernova fullwidth class is not overridden by block styles
- Clean up Aside back-end styles
- Fix undefined option array
- Fix broken Aside block and add expand/collapse option
- Fix WooCommerce template
- Add notice to avoid using FSE Patterns and Styles
- Fix the osm-map shortcode
- Remove property card classes from the article grid

### 6.3.4

- Fix encoded custom CSS string in header breaking custom fonts
- Make the side padding global (instead of based on media query)
- Remove custom image size filter (not working)

### 6.3.3

- Fix open side drawer position/translation of the handle
- Fix PHP 8+ warnings for empty menu location/name
- Fix a few WPCS warnings
- Add security checks to the Custom HTML and CSS sections
- Allow text decoration to be set for non-button links
- Update WooCommerce compatibility
- Remove deprecated Jetpack sharing filter

### 6.3.2

- Fix/tweak floating padded navigation
- Add more font weights to Google Fonts
- Allow short array syntax in WPCS
- Make the Supernova style Details block more flexible and style-aware

### 6.3.1

- Fix wrong contextual help string
- Add half-screen option to side panel
- Changed transparent (forced) header to “sticky” on the single property template
- Replace native PHP `strip_tags()` with WordPress’ `wp_strip_all_tags()`
- Remove obsolete embedded patterns

### 6.3.0

- Remove empty selector conflicting with block styles
- Add ID parameter to the logo carousel

### 6.2.9 (cumulative)

- Fix non-floated header width
- Add a new template part for below-the-menu navigation
- Add Akaricons
- Add new button variants/extends
- Update sticky header to actually use the CSS sticky property
- Change the way the floated header is displayed to fix issues with sticky navigation
- Replace more sticky headers with the actual sticky CSS property
- Only remove list styles for the side panel for child lists
- Remove extra Thin UI dependencies in favour of native HTML elements
- Remove the shortcode lister metabox and add it to Supernova’s Help tab
- Remove unused logo carousel styles

### 6.2.6 (cumulative)

- Fix more underlined links and `<nav>` element height
- Experiment with decreasing the specificity of global styles
- Further harden CSS selectors to be immune to any **Core** specificity updates
- Add new logo carousel module
- Allow logo to be cleared in the **Design** panel
- Remove extra footer padding (left and right)
- Remove extra gap from post and page templates

### 6.2.3

- Add workaround for WordPress 6.6 forced link underline
- Remove unused Jetpack function
- Remove several unused options

### 6.2.2 (cumulative)

- Fix issue with classic themes not receiving constrained layout styles
- Fix `editor.css` fonts
- Fix theme URL
- Revert `editor.css` loading on back-end to fix missing fonts
- Only enable HTML5 theme support when not using **ClassicPress**
- Move Supernova custom CSS after the WordPress generated ones for higher priority
- **Gravity Forms**: Swap thousand and decimal separators
- Changed the property title font size from 32px to 30px
- Add double off-canvas menus/drawers
- Add new Classic Details block variation
- Add ARIA labels to menu items, if a title attribute is present
- Add editor styles for padding and line height
- Add filetype to site icons and add a 48×48 icon size
- Add 2 new navigation font sizes (XL and XXL)
- Load Gravity Forms integration automatically, only if the `GFForms()` class exists
- Switch **Patterns** to **Template Parts**
- [EXPERIMENTAL] Introduce content size at `theme.json` level
- Update theme description

### 6.1.4

- Add a blank page template
- Add custom CSS per post/page
- Do not display the custom CSS panel for anything other than posts, pages, properties and FAQs
- Only load CodeMirror styles on the Supernova settings page

### 6.1.3

- Fix missing global border radius for the Media & Text block
- Add dark editor style support (inactive)
- Update Supernova Aside block styles
- Update Gravity Forms currency filter to switch EUR symbol position
- Remove missing color from Thin UI
- Delete legacy `supernova_contact_form` and `supernova_valuation_form` shortcodes

### 6.1.2 (cumulative)

- Fix mobile responsiveness for the testimonials carousel slides
- Fix undefined elements when using the **Aside** feature
- UI fixes for navigation, testimonials and body content
- Remove box sizing property from **Thin UI**
- Only allow administrators to have author pages
- Allow the landing page template to be applied to both posts and pages
- Change **Media & Text** variation to use box-shadow instead of a pseudo-element
- Refactor the testimonial carousel
- Increase footer font size
- Increase mobile breakpoint from 320 to 480 (devices are getting higher resolution)
- Add equal height functionality for buttons, testimonials and more
- Add a **Google Rating** badge shortcode and a new **Google Places API** option
- Add options for setting title (H1) alignment and border style
- Add core block extends
- Add logo options to override the **Customizer**
- Add design presets (alpha)

### 6.0.9

- Fix issue with content width being overridden in WordPress 6.3
- Fix broken WordPress thumbnail image for non-property content
- Add block extends and lay out the foundation for more
- Add missing author box when the post template has a sidebar
- Clean up the **Aside** block and prepare to deprecate and remove
- Improve author box layout
- Improve author template
- Improve category badges on blog layouts
- Update [Thin UI](https://getbutterfly.com/thin-ui/) to latest version (2.1.1)
- Remove old code

### 6.0.8

- Add ARIA label to menus for accessibility
- Add ARIA label to the side panel for accessibility
- Add ARIA label to mobile menus for accessibility
- Remove the “Read more” link from blog articles for a better “best practices” score
- Remove AddThis integration
- Replace all instances of “Reusable Block” with “Pattern” for WordPress 6.3 compatibility
- Remove transient caching from the latest articles block
- Merge side panel JS for better performance
- Tweak regular (not relaxed) navigation layout
- Make sure Yoast’s breadcrumbs are enabled before displaying them
- Improve the Snackbar with layouts and themes
- Update Thin UI to latest version (2.1.0)
- Add theme support for the latest block editor (WordPress 6.3)
- Add native Gravity Forms integration
- Add an available shortcode lister feature for developers

### 6.0.7

- Add a count-up feature for numerical values
- Add slide count for the testimonial carousel

### 6.0.6

- Expand footer colour options (add text, link and hover options)
- Tweak primary navigation to eliminate some gaps
- Make the blog post author box optional
- Remove hardcoded list font size for the Side Panel module

### 6.0.5

- Change Snackbar position to be hidden completely, regardless of the content

### 6.0.4

- Fix colour well field when WP Property Drive is not present
- Add author schema for blog posts
- Add [Thin UI](https://getbutterfly.com/thin-ui/) to Supernova’s back-end
- Make sure the header colour is inherited by the “above-menu” reusable block
- Only remove emojis if not in the Dashboard
- Allow Reusable Blocks menu item to be visible when WP Property Drive is not present
- Check if Supernova Aside exists before attaching an event listener

### 6.0.3

- Add new above-menu block for more menu/navigation customizability
- Add custom theme updater
- Introduce a Masonry layout for testimonials based on Stackgrid JS
- Update Flexbin and LightGalleryJS
- Remove cinematic property hero from Supernova (moved to WP Property Drive)
- Remove old Git Updater functions

### 6.0.2

- Remove the **Secondary Pipes** menu
- Clean up all **Secondary Pipes** setup actions
- Remove the forced testimonials module activation

### 6.0.1

- Fix Flexbin gallery
- Add navigation spacing option (regular or relaxed)
- Add new full width navigation option
- Add 2 new custom fonts
- Suppress notices and messages from WooCommerce and Jetpack

### 6.0.0

- Add option to switch testimonials on/off
- Add `preconnect` rule for Google Fonts
- Remove obsolete block editor button variations
- Code refactoring (WPCS)

### 5.9.9

- **4Leads** Fix missing thumbnails for the category taxonomy and the article grids
- Fix homepage query loop
- Add `:focus-visible` to main menu to complement the `:focus` pseudo-selector
- Add support for Gutenberg’s appearance tools
- Use a variable for the login URL

### 5.9.8

- Fix list items in the property brochure template
- Remove the user restriction module and move to separate client module

### 5.9.7

- Add option to switch to menu click display instead of menu hover display
- Add user restriction module (useful for membership websites)
- Minify main stylesheet

### 5.9.6

- Add author template for SEO purposes (alpha)
- Add author meta details to the `singular.php` post template
- Add column gap for the sidebar post template
- Merge all reusable block (`wp_block`) queries for performance reasons
- Remove linked testimonial property (never used)
- Remove bottom padding from the logo

### 5.9.5 (cumulative)

- Update `property-brochure-template-2.php`
- Add `wrap--content` class to constrain full-width elements to content width
- Add property sidebar block pattern
- Change property sidebar block pattern viewport width
- Fix missing SVG images in the Dashboard

### 5.9.2

- Remove related posts functionality due to PHP issues with `similar_text()`
- Add Font Awesome 5 CSS for non-property websites
- Add optional AddThis sharing buttons integration (for blog posts only)
- Add property brochure template (beta)
- Fix Dashboard menu icon size

### 5.9.1

- Add center alignment for main navigation
- Add configurable highlighted button background colour
- Add presets feature (beta)
- Remove alpha version of colour presets
- Fix Dashboard SVG logo
- Fix Supernova menu item SVG size
- Remove old, unused styles, interfering with some plugins

### 5.9.0

- Add new header navigation options and better Flex CSS UI
- Add new Supernova branding
- Add new “Related Articles” feature
- Tweak z-index for side panel to avoid overlapping issues
- Change footer message to avoid copyright issues

### 5.8.3

- Fix issue with undefined font size and weight
- Add missing text colour for the Enterprise Blue #1 preset

### 5.8.2

- Add custom link and link hover colours
- Refactor header navigation styles

### 5.8.1

- Fix full alignment for Gutenberg 12.8+
- Add color well feature to non-WP Property Drive websites (Supernova only)
- Register Supernova pattern category

### 5.8.0

- Fix typo(s) and improve `readme.txt` description
- Fix WooCommerce templates indentation
- Add **Changelog** and **Shortcodes**buttons to Supernova’s **Welcome** panel
- Add new **Wiki** links to Supernova’s **Help** panel
- Update WPCS ruleset
- Remove unused parameters from several shortcodes
- Remove unused shortcodes
- Remove WordPress ESLint rules

### 5.7.16

- Remove email custom post type

### 5.7.15 (cumulative)

- Fix responsive issue with percentage buttons
- Remove related products from WooCommerce single product template

### 5.7.13

- Fix button wrapping on really small screen sizes

### 5.7.12 (cumulative)

- Add default styling for [[areas]] shortcode
- Add “eye-candy” features (momentum scrolling and follow cursor)
- Add a `wrap` class to the `nav` inside the header reusable block
- Replace `sanitize_uri()` with `trim()` to avoid fatal AJAX errors
- Amend WooCommerce templates to work with no widgets/sidebar
- Close `div` element and re-indent code

### 5.7.10

- Add WPCS (WordPress Coding Standards) ruleset
- Add faceted search
- Add Cascadia Code font for faceted search results
- Add new **Help** tab with a few shortcodes
- Add status parameter to area and county taxonomies
- Remove block patterns (too early and unused)
- Remove unused timeline images
- Remove potential PHP 8+ issue with `vsprintf()`
- Improve Supernova back-end UI
- Code refactoring (WPCS)

### 5.7.9

- Fix undefined variable
- Add WooCommerce template support
- Blog UI tweaks

### 5.7.8

- Add property county taxonomy support for **WP Property Drive**

### 5.7.7

- Add **New Developments** class to body
- Avoid reading theme files to get the version number

### 5.7.6

- Add readme.txt for compliance with WP.org
- Remove unused option
- Remove old code and combine all header/footer related actions

### 5.7.5

- Fix testimonials responsiveness

### 5.7.4 (cumulative)

- Remove old SA resource hint
- Add landing page template for posts
- Fix `.alignwide` class
- Add support for block templates (FSE)
- Add better support for Yoast SEO breacrumbs
- Add post views count to pages

### 5.7.3

- Remove agents (CPT) and recommended plugins

### 5.7.2 (cumulative)

- Remove old, unused code
- Remove block support for widgets
- Update `block_categories_all` filter name for WordPress 5.8
- Update testimonial blocks
- Remove extra styling for the Snackbar buttons
- Add Jetpack Offline Mode toggle
- Minimize the Supernova Aside by default
- Update Git Updater override filter
- Preconnect to analytics.designbricks.ie
- Add property area taxonomy title for SEO

### 5.7.1

- Fix missing stylesheet for agent post type

### 5.7

- Fix issue with block dependencies being enqueued on front-end
- Add header template options (alpha)
- Remove FLoC prevention temporarily as it might be enabled natively in WordPress
- Update Supernova description
- Move Agents functionality to the plugin
- Clean up and minify admin styles
- Change Dashboard icon
- Only enqueue scripts and styles when needed

### 5.6.3

- Add new lead-generating pop-up element
- Add button block styles (currently “small” and “fat” buttons)
- Fix Google Fonts being enqueued twice when headings and body text have the same font

### 5.5

- Refactor Google Fonts to not require an API key (?)
- Implement CSS variables in more places (?)
- Move custom CSS to a separate file to remove inline CSS (?)
- Refactor JS to use event delegation instead of event listeners
- Refactor header navigation to use Flexbox CSS
- **CSS:** Remove all vendor prefixes
- **CSS:** Remove all floats

### 5.4

- Remove `page-highlight.php` template
- Move agents to WP Property Drive as it makes more sense to have the CPT there
- Improve mobile responsiveness
- Fix dropdown Unicode arrow issue on MacOS – [example here](https://codepen.io/ciprian/pen/dyGgNwW)
- Use event delegation instead of event listening
- [Pass data to template files in WordPress 5.5](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/07/17/passing-arguments-to-template-files-in-wordpress-5-5/)

### 5.3.5

- Add external stylesheets à la Codepen
- Remove widgets
- Clean up **Settings** page -> **Dashboard**
- Move “Timeline” feature to a custom plugin (Coonan)
- Check for links inside contact message

### 5.3.4

- Remove own GitHub updater code (PDUpdater)
- Remove Google reCAPTCHA (implement SendGrid Email Validation API + Honeypot statistics)
- Remove Supernova referral form (unused)
- Improve mobile responsiveness for homepage

### 5.3.3

- Remove “Inline Search Form” feature (MKProperty) and replace with a reusable block
- Clean up and tweak side panel and side drawer UI
- Refactor more JS to event delegation and ES6
- Move browser detection to PHP from JS to speed up script start-up time

### 5.3.2

- Allow oEmbeds for YouTube videos
- Implement a module loader
- Remove `mobile-widget-below-menu` and replace with a reusable block

### 5.3

- Add notice about the forced white navigation only being applied to landing pages (might break some sites) (requires manual action)
- Add option to remove padding from the floated navigation menu (new padded navigation option on by default) (requires manual action)
- Add option to set a post template (“Has Sidebar”) and a post sidebar reusable block (**Supernova** -> **Design** -> **Post Sidebar Reusable Block**)
- Integrate with GitHub Updater by implementing [this fix](https://github.com/afragen/github-updater/wiki/WordPress.org-Directory#overriding-wporg-directory-updates). GitHub Updater (reportedly) works for the WordPress 5.5 auto-update feature.
- **Performance:** Remove WordPress 5.5 Core Block Patterns
- Change side drawer to use a reusable block (GORHomes) (requires manual action)
- Update side drawer to ES6
- Update side drawer to include a “Close” button
- Update side drawer to be responsive and fill the screen on mobile devices