Supernova 6

Supernova is a fast, lightweight theme, fully enhanced for the native block editor and fully compatible with thousands of plugins.

The lightweight, multipurpose, Google-friendly
WordPress theme that helps you build
ANY type of website in a few hours

Adapts to every website. For every client. Every time.

Supernova Core Features

We take good care of your business the same way you do.

Lifetime Updates

Receive notifications and update theme automatically. Supernova is always up to date. We constantly listen to our customers and we add new features every week. We take good care of your business the same way you do.

Supernova Core Modules

Developer Documentation

• Developer Shortcodes

Table of Contents

• Supernova 6
  • Fully Enhanced for the Native Block Editor
    • Adapts to every website. For every client. Every time.
  • A WordPress Theme for the Long-Standing Business
    • Supernova Core Features
    • Responsive, Retina Ready and Cross-browser Compatible
    • Advanced Typography and Unlimited Colours
    • Optimised For Speed
    • SEO Ready
    • We take good care of your business the same way you do.
    • Lifetime Updates
    • Supernova Core Modules
    • WP Property Drive
    • ⭐ WP Superstar
  • Developer Documentation
  • Changelog
    • 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

6.0.7

• 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 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
• Use event delegation instead of event listening
• Pass data 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. 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