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24 Sep 13:41
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modules/wowchemy/v5.7.0

A BIG shoutout to all the sponsors and contributors who supported this release 🙌🏻

Help us improve. As privacy-focused software, we don't know what features are important to you. Take the feedback survey if you haven't already: https://forms.gle/bVyDCjSpYDPPqYJH9

Have an improvement for the docs? We've started migrated docs into this repo. Edit docs pages here https://github.com/wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-themes/tree/main/docs or open an issue with your improved text for a page.

What's Changed (highlights)

Check out the demos of the updated starter templates or Discord Announcement channel for more visual examples of these incredible improvements 🦄

The Second Brain and Markdown Slides starter templates have so far been updated for this shiny new release of the Wowchemy website building framework for Hugo: https://github.com/wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-themes/tree/main/starters

feat: add support for mindmaps

https://discord.com/channels/722225264733716590/738922126966521907/1015587595838836758

feat: add support for more complex filters in Portfolio widget

See https://isotope.metafizzy.co/filtering.html

E.g. filter on multiple tags:

  filter_button:
    - name: All
      tag: '*'
    - name: Machine Learning
      tag: ML
    - name: Computer Vision
      tag: CV
    - name: NLP
      tag: NLP
    - name: CV or NLP
      filter: '.js-id-cv, .js-id-nlp'
    - name: ML and NLP
      filter: '.js-id-ml.js-id-nlp'

feat: add page feedback widget

See https://discord.com/channels/722225264733716590/738922126966521907/1015585595843674223

Requires Google Analytics and production env. New front-matter param for Book layout: feedback: true

feat: load featured image from media library (#2799)

Adds support for loading featured image from media library via image.filename param as an alternative to placing a featured.* image in the page folder.

Supports setting a default feature image for all pages via Hugo Cascade in Hugo Config.

Supports featured image reuse without duplicating the image within each page folder.

feat: add support for Algolia Docsearch

In params.yaml:

  search:
    provider: docsearch
    docsearch:
      app_id: ''
      api_key: ''
      index_name: ''

feat: add Announcement Bar feature

In front matter:

announcement:
  text: 'Hello World!️'

feat: add support for different Footer Widgets

For example, params.yaml:

footer:
  widget: mega

loads layouts/partials/components/footers/mega.html

feat: add GitHub Discussions as a comment provider via Giscus

See #2830

Templates:

  • Renamed the Notes template to Second Brain

Hugo Compatibility

  • Tested with Hugo Extended 0.101.0 (recommended)

Breaking Changes

Join us on Discord for help upgrading a site.

  • Rename .Params.cover to .Params.image and .Params.cover.image to .Params.image.filename (mainly if you are using the Notes template)
  • The Slides plugin (aka Reveal.JS plugin) now lives in its own module so it can be used without the Wowchemy Bootstrap UI module

If your site uses the slides plugin to create Markdown slide decks, install the plugin in your config.yaml:

module:
  imports:
    - path: github.com/wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-themes/modules/wowchemy-plugin-reveal

Want to join these contributors and add open source to your CV? Contribute an improvement: https://github.com/wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-themes/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

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Improvements by the community include:

  • fix: Mermaid diagram rendering in Reveal slides by @malmarz in #2765
  • Flexible featured image name by @Agos95 in #2799
  • Implemented Giscus commenting module and modified params.yaml for all starters by @wehs7661 in #2830
  • Migration from PyYAML to Ruamel by @Agos95 in #2831
  • fix: encoding of quotes in Page Sharer URL See #2726

New Contributors

Full Changelog: modules/wowchemy/v5.6.0...modules/wowchemy/v5.7.0

Contributors

anirbanbasu, StefanoCecere, and 5 other contributors
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modules/wowchemy/v5.6.0

13 Aug 14:15
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A BIG shoutout to all the sponsors and contributors who supported this release 🙌🏻

What's Changed (highlights)

Check out the demos of the updated starter templates or Discord Announcement channel for more visual examples of these incredible improvements 🦄

The starter templates have all been updated for this shiny new release of the Wowchemy website building framework for Hugo: https://github.com/wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-themes/tree/modules/wowchemy/v5.6.0/starters

Templates:

Help us improve. Take the feedback survey if you haven't already: https://forms.gle/bVyDCjSpYDPPqYJH9

Hugo Compatibility

  • Tested with Hugo Extended 0.101.0 (recommended)

Breaking Changes

Join us on Discord for help upgrading a site.

i18n

New Contributors

Want to join these contributors and add open source to your CV? Contribute an improvement: https://github.com/wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-themes/blob/main/.github/contributing.md

Full Changelog: v5.5.0...modules/wowchemy/v5.6.0

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StefanoCecere, zyrikby, and 5 other contributors
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v5.5.0

22 Mar 22:14
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v5.5.0

A BIG shoutout to all the sponsors and contributors who supported this release 🙌🏻

What's Changed

Check out the demos of the updated starter templates or Discord Announcement channel for more visual examples of these incredible improvements 🦄

The starter templates have all been updated for this shiny new release of the Wowchemy website building framework for Hugo: https://github.com/wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-themes/tree/v5.5.0/starters

  • New Slider widget can be used for full screen image swiping (similar to popular apps)
  • Ability to choose both day and night themes, and to be able to choose them from different theme packs
    • Note: Bootstrap currently has a limitation on primary color, discussed here
  • Ability to create and share your own personalized listing views
    • Third party, community views can be added to the new community folder, such as by creating a file at layouts/partials/views/community/MY_VIEW.html and referencing it in a page's front matter as view: community/MY_VIEW where MY_VIEW is a unique name for your view
  • Add math shortcode - no longer any need to escape Markdown symbols that occur within math in the body of pages
  • Apply custom sorting to items in the Pages and Portfolio widgets
    • with content.sort_by (e.g. Date or Title) and content.sort_ascending (e.g. true or false)
  • Add content to the Pages widget based on folders (rather than page type)
  • Add content to the Portfolio widget based on folders (rather than page type) or tags
  • Faster page loading by reducing image sizes via WEBP conversion
    • Can reduce image sizes by > 5x on a typical site that previously output JPGs and PNGs
  • The popular showcase view (large images) that was exclusive to the Portfolio widget can now be used universally, such as in the Pages widget
  • Show name pronunciation in the About widgets (see #2489)
    • Example: add name_pronunciation: Zhang San to content/authors/admin/_index.md
  • Breadcrumb navigation supported on all pages (not just book/docs pages)
    • With show_breadcrumb: true in front matter
  • Set the navbar to disappear on scroll (to provide more vertical screen space for reading)
    • in page front matter or via Hugo cascades, set header.on_scroll to disappear or fixed
  • Simpler, more intuitive site configuration in params.yaml
  • Ability to hide the navbar (and just use breadcrumb navigation, for example)
  • Migrate to Hugo's v0.86 cascade system for setting page collection options
  • Automatic detection of Mermaid diagrams in pages (no longer need to set diagram: true to front matter)
  • Ability to have multiple contact widgets
    • Move contact params from params.yaml to contact widget
    • SEO contact details (phone, address, coords) now under params.yaml > marketing > seo
    • Example
  • To make contribution even easier, all the starter templates have moved to https://github.com/wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-themes/tree/main/starters
    • any changes will continue to be copied to their dedicated repositories

Help us improve. Take the feedback survey if you haven't already: https://forms.gle/bVyDCjSpYDPPqYJH9

Hugo Compatibility

  • Hugo Extended 0.95 Required
  • Tested with Hugo Extended 0.95.0 (recommended)

Breaking changes

Join the community on Discord for help upgrading.

Community contributions

New Contributors

Full Changelog: v5.4.0...v5.5.0

Contributors

zakkak, Aelphy, and 7 other contributors
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v5.4.0

28 Nov 21:23
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A BIG shoutout to all the sponsors and contributors who supported this release 🙌🏻

What's Changed

  • a simpler variation of the About widget (widget: about.avatar)
    • even add your status/mood as an emoji on your avatar ☕️
    • example in the Blog template
  • new shortcode to display a CSV file as a table (docs)
    • now you can render CSV files (e.g. MS Excel, Pandas) as tables in your pages in addition to rendering tables from Markdown or Google Sheets
  • (finally!) localized dates (e.g. Chinese sites now also display dates in Chinese), facilitated by Hugo 0.87+
  • video backgrounds in widgets (example in the Fitness Coach template)
    • simply upload an (optimized) video, such as intro.mp4, to your assets/media/ folder and then add it as a background in a content/home/ widget: 
      design:
  background:
    video:
      path: intro.mp4
      flip: false
  • support for rCAPTCHA in Formspree forms (#2377)
  • don't index private pages (where front matter private: true)
  • migrate from CDNJS to JSDelivr due to CDNJS issues in China
  • a Booking widget to enable visitors to book appointments with you (for sponsors)
    • great for coaching or appointment based services, such as a professor enabling students to easily schedule appointments with them, for example 👩🏻‍🎓

Help us improve. Take the feedback survey if you haven't already: https://forms.gle/bVyDCjSpYDPPqYJH9

Hugo Compatibility

  • Hugo Extended 0.87.0 - 0.89.4 Required
  • Tested with Hugo Extended 0.89.4 (recommended)

Community contributions

New Contributors

Full Changelog: v5.3.0...v5.4.0

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jtatum, mitchellolsthoorn, and 9 other contributors
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v5.3.0

30 Jun 20:24
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A BIG shoutout to all the sponsors and contributors who supported this release 🙌🏻

Features

  • portable figures - display your figures in Markdown editors like VSCode and Obsidian
    • Figures can now be created by using the standard, portable Markdown syntax: ![screen reader text](image.jpg "caption") where the image is in the page folder, the media library, or is a remote URI.
  • you can now personalize the content listing view on archive pages (_index.md) for courses, projects, taxonomies, and custom sections in the same way that you can already specify a view on the archives of other content types
  • support animated GIF in figures (3ea78d2)
  • add show_date: false page option to hide date from a page
  • load all galleries from the assets/media/albums/ folder & add gallery display options
    • Add gallery order with options "asc" or "desc"
    • Add gallery resize_options which supports Hugo image processing options.
    • Fixes gallery zoom opening image in new tab (#2245)
  • Support custom footer in site folder at layouts/partials/hooks/footer.html (#2335)
    • For example, can be used to add columns of nav links to the footer.

Fixes

fix: editorial_workflow mode for Wowchemy CMS (#2319)

Other

feat: remove deprecated Docs layout - was replaced with Book in v5.0b0

Update

As requested by a large number of users over the years, you can now update Wowchemy directly from Github. See the TLDR section at https://wowchemy.com/docs/guide/update/

BREAKING CHANGES:

  1. The Hugo module names have been renamed as required by Hugo's module versioning system. Learn about the new module names in the TLDR section at https://wowchemy.com/docs/guide/update/
  2. Move gallery album folders to assets/media/albums/. Continue to choose the album name in the Gallery shortcode using the album option. Album names should be lowercase due to a Hugo bug: gohugoio/hugo#7686

Hugo Compatibility:

Tested with Hugo Extended v0.84.1

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v5.2.0

25 May 21:13
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A BIG shoutout to all the sponsors and contributors who supported this release 🙌🏻

What's new? Check out the blog post: https://wowchemy.com/blog/v5.2.0/

Features

  • Add brand logos to Experience widget
  • Add brand logos to Accomplishments widget
  • feat: allow SVG as Hero image
  • feat: support custom experience order (#1761)
  • feat: only show User Group headings in People widget when multiple
  • feat: add new gradient_angle option to page builder
  • feat: support Bing site verification (#2287) via params.yaml > marketing > bing_site_verification

Fixes

  • fix: Language name doesn't appear for sub-codes such as zh-Hant

Other

  • remove deprecated netlify-cms-academic module that was replaced with wowchemy-cms

Upgrade your site

Run the Hugo commands:

hugo mod get github.com/wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-modules/wowchemy@89d079b
hugo mod get github.com/wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-modules/wowchemy-cms@89d079b

Update the Hugo Extended version in netlify.toml with HUGO_VERSION = "0.83.1"

Breaking Changes

  • rename assets/media/icon-pack to assets/media/icons (if the folder exists in your site)
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v5.1.0

24 Mar 19:45
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chore: bump min hugo version

To v0.81 to get Hugo bug fixes and enable multiline Hugo tpl refactoring, see https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/tag/v0.81.0
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v5.0.0-beta.3

11 Feb 19:07
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What's new?

https://wowchemy.com/updates/v5.0.0-beta.3/

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v5.0.0

12 Feb 21:06
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What's new?

https://wowchemy.com/updates/v5.0.0/

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v5.0.0-beta.2

20 Jan 02:53
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