FXT Changelog

This release adds two new broker page templates for instruments and features, introduces a second author/fact-checker field on reviews, and improves translation coverage across the theme.

🌟 New Features

• Second Author (Fact-Checker): You can now assign a second author to any broker review to show a fact-checker or co-reviewer. Their name appears in the review header (next to the main author) with a "Fact-checked by" label. A toggle in FXT Options → Broker controls whether their full profile block also appears at the bottom of the review.
• Features Page Template: A new "Features" page template for broker pages displays a header that highlights key broker features: Negative Balance Protection, Swap-Free Accounts, Social Trading, VPS Services, PAMM Accounts, Bonuses & Promotions, Customer Support, and Education resources — demo
• Instruments Page Template: A new "Instruments" page template for broker pages displays a dedicated header showcasing the broker's tradable assets — demo

🔧 Improvements

• Country Support Block Fix: If you use a custom template text for the country support message, the block now correctly shows the visitor's country and broker support status. Previously it could display nothing if the placeholders weren't in the template.
• More Translatable Text: The "Search results for:" heading, the "Choose Another Broker" button, and its helper text in the country support block can now be translated or overridden via FXT string settings.
• Translatable Country Names: Country names are now fully translatable — this covers the supported/restricted country lists on broker pages as well as the visitor's detected country shown in the country support block.

This release adds support for multiple affiliate links per broker with flexible per-listing selection, a new WordPress dashboard widget for at-a-glance broker management, a dedicated theme integrations page, and a refreshed admin options UI.

🌟 New Features

• Multiple Affiliate Links: Define up to 10 named affiliate link groups in a new FXT Options → Affiliate Links sub-page (e.g. "Crypto", "CFD"). Each group gets a URL field on every broker, alongside the existing Real Account Link. Each listing block now has a dropdown to choose which affiliate link to use for that placement — defaulting to the Real Account Link. If a broker has no URL for the chosen group, it falls back to the Real Account Link automatically.
• Dashboard Widget: A new WordPress dashboard widget gives a quick overview of broker stats (total, published, drafts), flags published brokers missing key data (logo, rating, account link), and provides quick links to manage brokers, FXT Options, and Integrations. External links to theme docs, changelog, and support are included. A license expiry notice is shown if the license has lapsed.
• Theme Integrations Page: A new Integrations admin page documents available third-party integrations. The first featured integration is tablrr — a centralized listings management platform that syncs broker data across multiple FXT sites from a single dashboard.

🎨 Design Improvements

• Admin Options Header: Refreshed the FXT Options panel header with updated typography (Outfit font) and a cleaner layout.
• Dashboard Widget Styles: Purpose-built CSS for the dashboard widget with stat counters, quick-action buttons, incomplete-data list, and an expiry warning state.

🔧 Improvements

• Theme options - Updated theme options page layout and design

🛠️ Technical Changes

• Version bump: Updated theme version to 1.4.0.

This release improves page load performance across post listings and JavaScript initialization, adds self-hosted font support, and cleans up a number of browser-width detection issues.

⚡ Performance Improvements

• Broker Logo Preload: Added a fxt_preload_broker_logo filter that adds <link rel="preload" fetchpriority="high"> to header for the broker logo on review pages, protecting LCP on sites where the logo is the largest contentful element.
• Responsive Post Images: Improved all recent post blocks to eliminate Lighthouse "Properly size images" warnings.
• Idle Callback for Non-Critical JS: Improvements to theme's JavaScript bundle to free up the main thread during page load, as well as conditionally load only necessary modules.
• Self-Hosted Fonts: Theme font files are now bundled with the theme. Enable the fxt_font_self_hosted filter to serve them locally instead of the Bunny.net CDN, eliminating the third-party DNS connection for stricter privacy or CSP setups.
• Inline Stylesheet Option: A new fxt_inline_stylesheet filter allows the main stylesheet to be inlined into <head> instead of enqueued as a separate request, useful for critical-CSS delivery setups.

🛠️ Technical Changes

• Version bump: Updated theme version to 1.4.0.
• Translation updates: Regenerated translation catalogs for fxt and fxt-admin text domains.
• Admin Image Regeneration Tool: An admin notice offers a one-click option to generate any missing post image sizes for existing uploads. Processes images in batches, shows live progress, and dismisses permanently once complete.

This release adds comprehensive demo import functionality and enhances author pages with more content types and privacy controls.

🌟 New Features

• One Click Demo Import Support: Integrated OCDI plugin support with NYC and DXB demo configurations. Users can now import complete demo content, widgets, customizer settings, and theme options with a single click.
• Theme Options Export/Import: Added dedicated export functionality in FXT Options panel to download theme settings as JSON for backup or demo preparation purposes.
• Author Email Privacy Control: Authors can now choose whether to display their email address on author pages and author blocks through a new field on profile pages.
• Enhanced Author Archives: Author pages now display all content types (posts, pages, and brokers) instead of just posts, providing better content discovery.

🎨 Design Improvements

• OCDI Interface Styling: Custom-designed demo import page with clean card-based layout, hover effects, and professional presentation of demo options.
• Admin Options Panel: Added collapsible export section with JSON preview in the FXT Options page.
• Admin Styles: Adjust styles for profile and OCDI admin pages

🔧 Improvements

• Author Display Consistency: Switched from using 'nicename' to 'display_name' for author attribution across all templates.
• Demo Import Automation: Automatic configuration of front page, blog page, and navigation menus after demo import.

🛠️ Technical Changes

• ACF Plugin: Updated to latest version with improved block editing and site health checks
• Translation Updates: Regenerated translation catalogs for both fxt and fxt-admin text domains

This release improves page loading performance and adds flexible display options for recent posts blocks.

🌟 New Features

• Recent Posts Layout Options: Choose from five different layouts when displaying recent posts - Default, Default with Excerpts, Grid, Grid with Larger Items, or Horizontal. This gives you more control over how your content is presented to visitors.

🔧 Improvements

• Hero Template Performance: Hero page templates now preload background images and videos, ensuring faster page loads and smoother visual experiences for your visitors.

🛠️ Technical Changes

• Version update: Updated theme version to 1.3.6.
• Translation updates: Regenerated translation files to include new layout option strings.

This release focuses on accessibility polish and minor visual tuning for navigation and call-to-action components.

♿ Accessibility

• Table of Contents toggle: Added a dedicated string and screen reader label so the collapse control announces its purpose.
• Author block icons: Added sr-only labels for email and social links and increased text contrast for supporting copy.
• Comparison cards: Surface the "vs" label to assistive technology while keeping the decorative treatment for visual users.
• Primary CTA contrast: Swapped default and hover teal values on real-account buttons to meet contrast targets.

🔧 Improvements

• Hero media loading: Marked hero background media as a high-priority resource to protect Largest Contentful Paint.

🛠️ Technical Changes

• Translation catalog: Regenerated POT files and string catalogs to capture the new accessibility labels.

🌟 New Features

• Sticky Header Option: Added sticky header functionality with admin controls
• Header Search Integration: Implemented header search functionality
• Comments System: Enabled comments support across all post types for enhanced user engagement
• Layout Options Panel: New admin interface for managing header and layout preferences

🎨 UI/UX Updates

• Enhanced Site Header: Improved header navigation with search integration
• Header Components: Updated header elements for better mobile experience
• SVG Icon Updates: Refreshed search, hamburger and close menu icons
• Comments Styling: Added comprehensive CSS styling for the comments system

🔧 Improvements

• Admin Interface: Enhanced admin options panel with new layout configuration section
• Template Integration: Updated all page templates to support new header features
• Component Architecture: Improved header search component
• Internationalization: Updated translation files for new admin options

🛠️ Technical Changes

• ACF Plugin Upgrade: Upgraded Advanced Custom Fields plugin to version 6.6

🌟 New Features

• External Link Options: Implemented new section on theme options page to customize rel and target attributes for external affiliate links.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed small issue with schema markups on FAQ blocks.

Minor improvements to "Country support with buttons" and "Properties" bocks.

This release is all about internationalization achieving full readiness for FXT theme to be translated into any language using modern WP translation tools.

🌟 New Features

• Dual Domain Internationalization: Added support for both fxt and fxt-admin text domains for complete translation coverage.
• WPML Configuration: Added comprehensive WPML configuration file for multilingual site support.
• Translation Catalog: Generated comprehensive gettext catalog to assist with string translation.
• Admin Translation Support: All admin interface strings now support internationalization.

🔧 Improvements

• Block Internationalization: Added textdomain support to all custom blocks for proper translation handling.
• String Management: Enhanced FxtString class with improved metadata handling and context support.

🛠️ Technical Changes

• Dual POT Files: Generated separate POT files for frontend (fxt.pot) and admin (fxt-admin.pot) translations.
• Block Configuration: Updated all block.json files with proper textdomain attributes.
• Admin Options: Converted all admin option pages to use fxt-admin text domain.
• Translation Context: Added proper translation contexts for better translator experience.
• Catalog Generation: Added automated script for generating translation catalogs.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Translation Coverage: Fixed missing translation support in admin interface strings.
• Block Localization: Resolved textdomain issues in custom block configurations.

🌟 New Features

• RTL support across the theme: navigation, listings, rating stars, hero, pagination, search, and comparison tables now mirror correctly in RTL.
• Hero template: added video background support (new custom fields).

🔧 Improvements

• Header/menu caret and mobile panel made RTL-aware; pagination grouping and corners made direction-safe.
• Refined author block, TOC, and component positioning/alignment for better RTL UX.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed link target issue in Listing Item #8.
• Clarified admin license field label.

🔧 Improvements

• Enhances localization by adding new labels for pros/cons, search functionality, pagination, and other strings in the theme

🌟 New Features:

Added a new full-width page template with corresponding content file

🐛 Bug Fixes:

Fixed issue with customizer colors not applying

🌟 New Features

• Added Page Settings and Post Settings to the theme's main options page to adjust globally author block, table of contents visibitily
• Added Page Options and Review Options fields to pages and broker pages to adjust settings such as table of contents, author blocks, H1, sidebar buttons visibility per page

🔧 Improvements

• Improved Customizer color previews
• Added Table of Contents label to Fxt Strings for easy editing

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with review snippet showing on posts and pages

🛠️ Technical Changes

• Tagged version 1.0.0
• Updated to ACF 6.4.3

🎨 UI/UX Updates

• Added new layout for the comparison table block
• Updated theme block icons

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed first post layout issue on posts block

🌟 New Features

• Added new hero page template (templates/page-hero.php)
• Added new listing type 8 with corresponding components
• Added coming soon component
• Added new default thumbnail image

🎨 UI/UX Updates

• Updated 404 page design and assets
• Enhanced page templates (default, simple, top-listing)
• Improved broker show page layout
• Updated post components and listings

🔧 Improvements

• Refactored front page handling
• Enhanced ACF fields configuration
• Updated package dependencies

🛠️ Technical Changes

• Modified core functions in functions.php
• Updated post handling in FxtPost.php
• Enhanced UI functions
• Updated configuration settings

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed post listing display issues
• Resolved front page template conflicts

📝 Other Changes

• Updated style.css version and dependencies
• Cleaned up temporary files and assets
• Improved code organization and structure

This release introduces a new hero page template and enhanced listing capabilities, significantly improving the theme's flexibility for content presentation. It includes a comprehensive update to the page template system, with new components for listings and improved UI elements. The release also streamlines the front page handling architecture and enhances the overall user experience with updated 404 pages and improved post displays. These changes maintain backward compatibility while providing more options for content organization and presentation.

🌟 FXT Beta Release