2026
Version 2.1.0
- Fixed – Some design settings from the block sidebar of the „Section“ block were not applied on the frontend; this has been fixed.
- Fixed – A custom HTML anchor on the „Downloads“ block did not work, so links pointing to it did not jump to the block; this has been fixed.
- Fixed – The color palette blocks (other than the „Primary Color Palette“ block) could appear unstyled, and their click-to-copy did not work, when no „Primary Color Palette“ block was on the same page; this has been fixed.
- Fixed – Some typography blocks could appear unstyled, and the font weight slider in the secondary font specimen did not work, when they were used without the main typography block on the same page; this has been fixed.
- Fixed – The styles set for the „Typography hierarchy“ (subtitle, title, lead, paragraph, button) could affect other elements on the page; they now apply only inside the block.
- Fixed – Icons in the „Accordion“ block did not appear when the site ran in a subfolder, on another domain or with a renamed theme folder; this has been fixed.
- Fixed – Quote approvals made in the „ProSonata Quotations“ block were sometimes not saved; this has been fixed.
- Fixed – After a theme update, blocks could disappear from the site for up to a week; this has been fixed.
- Changed – A quote can now be approved only once, so clicking the approve button again no longer sends a second notification email.
- Changed – On sites linked to a ProSonata customer, only that customer’s quotes can be approved.
- Changed – The „Channel types“ chart title in the analytics area now follows the site’s language, and chart dates use the site’s date format.
- Added – A „Quotation approvals“ widget on the administrator dashboard lists open quote approvals with date, number, project and who approved them. Entries are removed automatically once the quote is confirmed in ProSonata, or by clicking „Done“.
Version 2.0.9
- Fixed – Duplicating an accordion item in the editor (or simply reopening a page) could silently change its internal ID every time, which could mark the page as „changed“ without any real edit and could break a link pointing to that specific item; the ID is now stable and only regenerated when it’s actually missing or duplicated.
- Fixed – The „still awaiting approval“ notice for a quotation could appear in the project overview even for a quotation the rest of the page already treated as no longer pending, due to two different checks disagreeing; this has been fixed.
- Fixed – The login screen and the „site under maintenance“ page could show broken styling if the configured brand colors were invalid; color values are now validated with a safe fallback.
- Fixed – The media-picker button for the admin’s profile-picture field always showed „Apply“ in English regardless of the site’s language; it now follows the site’s language like the rest of the admin area.
- Fixed – On the „Add New Customer“ screen, the „skip confirmation email“ checkbox now starts checked by default, matching that no confirmation email is ever actually sent for these accounts.
Version 2.0.8
- Fixed – Private pages that a specific staff account is excluded from, and private pages a logged-in visitor otherwise can’t read, previously didn’t clearly show that; they now display „No access“ there and in the page-overview cards, instead of behaving as if they were available.
- Fixed – „Previous“/„Next“ page navigation at the bottom of a page could list private pages a visitor wasn’t allowed to read; this has been fixed.
- Fixed – Custom brand fonts (for the typography blocks and the Dashboard’s „Typografie“ card) could silently fail to load whenever the font name or file contained special characters, because that CSS was being HTML-escaped incorrectly; this has been fixed.
- Fixed – The live font-size preview on the Dashboard’s „Typografie“ card could show a fallback system font instead of the actual brand font, since the font file wasn’t guaranteed to be loaded there; this has been fixed.
- Fixed – In the block editor, the „Sekundäre Schriftart“ block’s font-sample preview could appear in the wrong column, stacked under the heading instead of beside it; this has been fixed.
- Changed – The contact block now always shows the configurable list of contact persons; the older single-contact layout (and its underlying fields in the company settings) has been removed, and a contact without a photo now shows their initials instead of a generic placeholder icon.
- Changed – Logo variation blocks (icon, wordmark, vertical) are now hidden completely when no corresponding logo image has been uploaded, instead of showing an empty block; the caption under each now shows the heading text actually entered in the editor instead of a fixed label.
- Changed – The „Sekundäre Schriftart“ block’s heading and intro text can now be edited directly in the editor, and the whole section is hidden automatically when no secondary brand font is configured.
- Changed – The Downloads block’s compact („Box“) style has a reworked, more streamlined layout with the title, file info and download button in a single row.
- Changed – The compact card layout for Prosonata projects now also applies on medium-sized screens, not only on phones.
- Changed – The „Overview“ and „Personas in detail“ intro headings above the target-audience section have been removed, and the „primary“ badge on target-audience cards now uses an outlined style instead of a solid colored background.
- Changed – Multi-column content now stacks more reliably on tablet-sized screens instead of staying squeezed side by side.
- Changed – The „Soon“ label on upcoming (unpublished) menu items has been replaced with a small icon badge.
- Changed – In the profile menu, „Manage Website“ has been renamed to „Manage Guideline“.
- Changed – The „Recommended services“ list now lists every individual service directly instead of grouping them under status headers.
- Changed – Several logo upload fields in the company settings now only accept the correct file type (SVG or PNG) instead of any image format.
- Added – A new „Logo – Spezialvariante“ block lets you add an extra logo variant with its own image upload, usable multiple times on a page with a different image each time.
- Added – The black and white logo color-variant blocks can now use a different, overriding logo image instead of always using the main company logo.
- Added – A demo mode: on the public demo site, actions that would normally send data (requesting a service, approving a quotation, toggling a favorite) now show a „not available in the demo“ message instead, and dashboard sections that normally require a login are shown unlocked there.
- Added – A new „Mitarbeitende“ (staff) user role has been introduced; a new checkbox on any page lets you hide that specific private page from staff accounts, who otherwise keep the same access as Customer accounts.
- Added – A new „Recent Logins“ dashboard widget shows the last 5 client logins, and the office is now automatically notified by email if no client has logged in for 3 months.
- Added – A new „Tools → Login Reminders“ admin page lets staff select clients and send them a reminder email to log back in, with a live preview (including a light/dark mode toggle) before sending.
- Added – Login reminder emails automatically list what’s new for that client since their last visit, taken from the Change Log, and include a button to request a forgotten password.
- Added – Clients can opt out of login reminders; once reminders go unanswered too often, the office is notified to follow up instead of continuing to send them, and new customers are automatically preselected for the next round.
- Added – Site administrators now get a „Go to the Customer Website“ link in the profile menu, opening the client’s own website in a new tab when one is configured.
Version 2.06
- Fixed – Marketing projects were being shown for a page even when no customer was actually linked to it; this has been fixed.
- Fixed – Invoice and budget figures were missing for customers whose ID is „0″, because that ID was mistakenly treated the same as no customer being set at all.
- Fixed – Broken icons in the marketing capacity overview’s „no data“ messages have been fixed.
- Changed – When no customer is linked, the marketing budget & capacity overview now shows a clear message instead of disappearing completely.
- Changed – On mobile, the search panel now opens as a rounded panel anchored to the bottom of the screen instead of sliding in as before, with the footer bar’s corners squaring off to match while it’s open.
- Changed – The spacing between the previous/next post navigation links has been increased.
- Added – A dedicated message now appears when a customer’s marketing projects exist but no hours have been recorded for them yet.
- Added – The mobile search toggle button now exposes its open/closed state to screen readers.
Version 2.0.5
- Fixed – Text throughout several blocks (including „Corporate Contact“ and „Corporate Grid“) used the wrong translation domain and was never translated, even when a German translation existed; this has been corrected.
- Fixed – The icon next to the „No marketing project available“ message in the „Marketing Budget & Capacity“ block was broken because it pointed to the wrong theme folder; it now displays correctly.
- Fixed – Locked cards in the „Corporate Grid“ block still showed a pointer cursor and reacted to hover and clicks even though they weren’t accessible yet, because the styling for a locked card never matched the class actually applied; this has been corrected.
- Fixed – In the „Farben“ card of the „Corporate Grid“ block, more or fewer than four brand colors didn’t display correctly, due to a hardcoded four-swatch mapping; every configured color now shows correctly, in the right order.
- Fixed – Several decorative diagrams and charts on the „Corporate Grid“ dashboard cards were being read aloud by screen readers as unlabeled graphics; they’re now correctly hidden from assistive technology.
- Fixed – Any logged-in user with a valid form token could update the annual budget figure in the „Marketing Budget & Capacity“ block; this is now restricted to users with the appropriate permissions.
- Fixed – Searching by name in the „Network Partners“ block didn’t work correctly for names containing umlauts (e.g. ä, ö, ü); search now handles these correctly.
- Fixed – Setting a custom anchor (HTML ID) on the „Network Partners“ block had no effect, because the block’s own generated ID always overrode it; custom anchors now work as expected.
- Fixed – In the „Target audiences“ block, clicking a persona in the overview jumped to the wrong persona whenever the block appeared more than once on a page, because every instance reused the same anchor IDs; each instance now uses unique IDs.
- Fixed – Reveal animations in the „Leistungen – Kreisdiagramm“, „Leistungen – Liste“, and „Leistungen – Balkendiagramm“ blocks could repeatedly restart whenever any unrelated part of the page changed, instead of playing once when scrolled into view; they now animate correctly only once.
- Fixed – If JavaScript failed to load, the charts in the „Leistungen – Kreisdiagramm“ block stayed invisible; they now display correctly even without the reveal animation.
- Fixed – In the block editor, items in the „Leistungen – Balkendiagramm“ block were shown as links to page anchors that don’t exist there, which did nothing when clicked; the editor preview now shows them as plain, non-linked items.
- Fixed – The font-weight slider in the „Schriftarten“ and „Sekundäre Schriftart“ blocks always started at 400, regardless of the font’s actual configured weight; it now starts at the correct weight.
- Fixed – A milestone with an unrecognized or missing status on the marketing roadmap showed no status badge or styling; it now falls back to „Planned“.
- Changed – The „Anwendungen“ card in the „Corporate Grid“ block now caches its unlock status for up to an hour, so publishing or unpublishing that page may take a little longer to be reflected there.
- Changed – Budget figures in the „Marketing Budget & Capacity“ block are now cached for 15 minutes, so very recent invoice changes may take a few minutes to appear.
- Changed – The „Leistungen – Kreisdiagramm“ block is now shown to all visitors, not just logged-in users.
- Changed – In the „Logo – Download“ block, clicking anywhere on a logo’s card now starts the download, instead of only the small download icon being clickable.
- Changed – The individual logo variant blocks („Logo – Icon“, „Logo – Vertikal“, „Logo – Wordmarke“) and color blocks („Logo – Black“, „Logo – White“) can now only be inserted inside their matching „Logo – Variationen“ or „Logo – Farbvarianten“ block, instead of anywhere in the editor.
- Added – The „Marketing Roadmap“ milestone block now lets you assign team members to a milestone; their avatar appears next to it, with their name shown as a tooltip on hover.
- Added – Removing an entry in the „Network Partners“ or „Target audiences“ block editor now asks for confirmation before deleting it.
- Added – A placeholder icon is now shown in the „Corporate Contact“ block when a contact person has no photo.
- Added – Category filter buttons in the „Network Partners“ block now announce whether they’re the active filter to screen readers.
- Added – Animations across the „Corporate Grid“, „Leistungen“ charts, and „Marketing Roadmap“ blocks now respect the visitor’s „Reduce motion“ system setting, showing their final state immediately instead of animating.
- Added – The „Logo – Download“ and „Logo – Variationen“ blocks now support a custom HTML anchor, so editors can link directly to them.
- Removed – Background and text color settings were removed from the „Stylescape“ block’s editor controls.
Version 2.0.4
- Fixed – On the project overview, the „pending approvals“ notice could occasionally flag a quotation that had already been cleared for approval, because that check used slightly different logic than the „Approval Required“ list right next to it. Both now use the same check, so they always agree.
- Changed – The „Contact Persons“ and „Corporate Contact“ blocks now use the redesigned card style (rounded corners, border, and shadow), bringing them in line with the rest of the refreshed theme.
- Changed – The „Potential Growth“ audit tool has been updated: four categories (Brand Strategy, Design & Branding, Digital Presence, Marketing) with around 80 checkpoints, a five-step status rating with justification per item, a live summary, and a „request this service“ button that notifies the team and creates a manageable request in the WP admin.
- Added – A new „Modal – Content“ block has been added, letting editors create button-triggered popups with freely editable content, adjustable size, colors, corner radius and shadow, optional auto-open (after a delay or on scroll into view), and accessible keyboard/focus handling (Tab-trapping, ESC to close, focus returns to the trigger button on close).
Version 2.0.3
- Added – A new „Network partners“ block has been added, including a status badge to highlight partners with no active status.
- Fixed – Translations across the theme were not appearing in the block editor, even though they already worked correctly on the frontend; this has been fixed.
- Fixed – Several places in the theme were showing the wrong (fallback) language instead of the site’s actual language; this has been fixed.
Version 2.0.2
- Fixed – Translations for custom content blocks (including „Latest News“ and „Target audiences“) were not appearing in the block editor, even though they already worked correctly on the frontend; this has been fixed.
- Fixed – Several icons (e.g. in the corporate grid section) were being read aloud incorrectly by screen readers, announcing the wrong icon name; these purely decorative icons are now correctly hidden from screen readers.
- Fixed – The image and name fields in the „Target audiences“ block editor were missing proper labels for screen reader users; this has been fixed.
- Changed – The „Target audiences“ block has been renamed to „Personas“ internally; existing content across all affected sites in the network was updated automatically, so nothing changes for editors or visitors.
- Changed – The „Release date“ label is now always shown in English, regardless of the site’s language.
- Changed – The „Span“ field label in the grid column settings is now always shown in English, regardless of the site’s language.
- Added – A visual style has been added to the „Latest News“ block’s editor preview, making it easier to recognize while editing.
Version 2.0.1
- Added– Posts from master.brand-guideline.de are now automatically displayed across every subdomain in the network.
- Added – A new „Latest News“ block has been added that automatically shows the newest post from a chosen category, but only for a limited number of days.
- Added – A dismiss button has been added to the „Latest News“ block, allowing visitors to hide the current post until a newer one is published.
- Added – A „jump to year“ navigation list has been added to the Change Log page, letting visitors quickly jump to a specific year’s entries.
- Changed – The blog posts page has been updated to only show posts from the „Change Log“ category.
- Changed – The „Latest News“ block now displays the full post content instead of a short excerpt.
- Changed – The post date label has been updated to read „Release date“, and the date format has been changed to the English style, with the month name always shown in English regardless of the site’s language.
- Fixed – A bug has been fixed where the „Latest News“ block did not display anything on the frontend, caused by a rendering issue in the block’s PHP template.
Version 2.0.0
- Added – A „Dashboard“ section has been added as a dedicated top-level navigation item, with introductory messaging framing the guideline as the foundation of collaboration.
- Added – A „Zusammenarbeit“ (Collaboration) section has been added, including a „Kontaktpersonen“ (Contact Persons) page listing the internal brand team and agency contact.
- Added – A „Strategie“ (CORE) section has been added, grouping positioning, brand foundation, target audience, tonality, and touchpoints under one top-level menu item.
- Added – A comprehensive FAQ page has been added, covering six categories: Getting Started, Collaboration, Strategy (CORE), Design, Applications, and Analytics.
- Added – A dedicated „Layoutprinzipien“ (Layout Principles / Stylescape) page has been added under the Design section.
- Added – A „Color Gradients“ section has been added to the Colors page, with two new gradient presets.
- Added – Two new downloads („theme.json“ and „shades.css“) have been added to the Colors page.
- Changed – The navigation has been reorganized: the previously flat top-level items (Corporate Identity, Corporate Design, Logo, Colors, Typography, Visuals) have been grouped into new „Strategie“ (Strategy) and „Gestaltung“ (Design) sections.
- Removed – The standalone „Corporate Identity“ and „Corporate Design“ landing pages are no longer linked in the main navigation — their content now appears to live under the new „Strategie“ section instead.
- Removed – The „Brand Performance“ maturity-assessment page is no longer linked in the main navigation.
2025
Version 1.5.0
- Added – A new „Analytics“ page has been added.
- Changed – The brand performance years have been adjusted.
- Changed – The Quicksheet download has been adjusted.