Suffusion Version 3.8.1

Version 3.8.1 went live today. This version addresses the issues reported with Version 3.8.0.

Truth be told I was a bit nervous about 3.8.0 because the change log for that version was almost 40 items long and since the development took over 4 months, I was concerned that what I had started developing in February might have been forgotten by June. Luckily nothing of that sort happened, and though there were bugs, they were nowhere as bad as 3.7.5/3.7.7.

So here is the list of changes:

1. Bug Fixes
   1. In IE9, there was a stray closing comment tag (-->) appearing near the top of the page. This was due to the incorrect inclusion of a conditional script in IE for rounded corners.
   2. I had upgraded the JQuery Cycle scripts for featured content in the theme. This didn’t pose any problems in most cases, however some users reported that when the Featured Content Widget was being used with the “lite” version of the script, the script stopped cycling through images. I have rolled back the JQuery Cycle script, so hopefully there will be no issues.
   3. There was an undetected bug which would have caused JS errors in IE6 because I had forgotten to include a particular script. I have addressed this.
   4. Another “Featured Posts Widget” bug was causing the images to get squished when the widget was in the “Widget Area Below Header” or in the “Widget Area Above Footer”. I have addressed this. Props to “Kapusjon” on the support forum for helping me track this down!
2. New Features
   1. I have enhanced the post_class() functionality in the theme. It now includes some classes for posts, such as category-xx-id (the id for the category), post-seq-x (the number of the post on a page), post-parity-odd (whether the post is in an odd location or even). You can take advantages of these classes for adding extra styles to your site.
3. Code Changes
   1. I have removed output buffering where possible. This shouldn’t impact you as a user.
   2. I have replaced a query parameter in the Featured Content to ignore sticky posts – this is because the previous query parameter was deprecated.
   3. I have added a wp_reset_query() call to the Category Posts widget to account for any query changes to it.

I would also like to get your inputs on features that you liked or would like to see improved in the previous release. I added a lot of them, like column control for individual posts and the magazine layout, enhancements to the Twitter and Category Posts widgets and byline information handling for the magazine template, the tile layout and post formats.