Gantry 4 Framework

Gantry 5 is now available for WordPress! Please visit Gantry 5 plugin page for more informations.

• Please visit http://gantry.org to download a FREE WordPress Gantry 4 default theme which can be used as a base for your own themes!
• For official RocketTheme Gantry forum please visit http://www.rockettheme.com/forum/gantry-framework

• True "Drag and Drop" page builder
• Support for Responsive Layouts
• LESS support
• Syntax highlight support via Google Code Prettify
• 960 Grid System
• Stunning Administrator interface
• XML driven and with overrides for unprecedented levels of customization
• Per override level control over any configuration parameter
• Preset any combination of configuration parameters, and save custom presets
• RTL language support
• Built-in CSS and JS compression and combination
• Flexible grid layout system for unparalleled control over block sizes
• Optimized codebase with speed, size, and reuse core tenets of the framework design
• 65 base widget positions
• 38 possible layout combinations for mainbody and sidebars
• Source-ordered 4 column mainbody
• Many built-in widgets and gizmos such as font-sizer, Google Analytics, to-top smooth slider, IE6 warning message, etc.
• Ability to force 'blank' widget positions for even more advanced layout customization
• Flexible parameter system with ability to set parameters via URL, Cookie, Session, Presets, etc.
• Table-less HTML overrides
• Standard typography and WordPress core element styling
• ini-based configuration storage for easy portability
• Automatic per-browser-level CSS and JS control

1. Go to the Admin Dashboard > Plugins > Add New
2. From the top list select 'Upload'
3. Point the Browse window to the plugin zip package
4. Activate the plugin in Admin Dashboard > Plugins

1. Extract the zip package with the plugin
2. Upload the plugin directory to the wp-content/plugins/
3. Activate the plugin in Admin Dashboard > Plugins

• Various PHP 7.4 fixes

• WordPress 5.3 compatibility fixes

• Menu item dropdown will not open in Android mobile theme (requires theme index-android.php file update).

• Top level navigation item cannot be selected on a mobile device when using Mobile theme
• Fixed issue with adding custom positions using non-unique position names

• Updated MooTools to resolve conflicts with WordPress 5.0
• WordPress 5.0 compatibility fixes

• Fixed YOAST gizmo

• Various PHP 7.2 fixes
• Other minor fixes and improvements

• Fixed JS errors caused by YOAST SEO on Gantry 4 Theme Settings page making it unusable.
• Added an Gizmo option to enable/disable YOAST SEO JS on Widgets page in order to make the Gantry 4 MooTools scripts usable. You need to copy "yoastwidgets" fields from Gantry 4 default themes templateDetails.xml to your own theme to be able to enable and disable this functionality.

• Fix regression in widget rendering on non-existing positions
• PHP 7 compatibility fixes

• PHP 7 compatibility fixes

• PHP 7 compatibility fixes

• WARNING! - PLEASE MAKE A DATABASE BACKUP BEFORE UPDATING
• Auto execute script that will attempt to fix the widgets with wrong IDs in WP 4.4. Some widgets with bad data inside of them might need to be placed again.
• Fix for wrong Widget IDs when placing them in WP 4.4
• Encode the serialized cache data with base64 to avoid errors when unserializing in WP 4.4

• Various style fixes for WordPress 4.4
• Fixed deprecated constructor class in Divider Widget
• Fixed a bug in Taxonomy facttype where it wasn't limited to arrays only
• Fixed StrictStandard notice in loadposition gizmo
• Updated FontAwesome to 4.5.0

• Fixed fallback to en_US language file if the localized .mo file doesn't exist
• Fixed Fatal Error that could occur when WPML ICL_Language_Switcher class is missing
• Changed display of plugin name to Gantry 4 Framework

• Updated FontAwesome to 4.4.0

• Fixed XSS security vulnerability - thanks to Ingo Chao @ingochao for reporting
• Replaced .live deprecated jQuery call in gantry-widgets.js

• Fixed layout issues when using WPML and multilingual widgets
• Fixed strict standards error in invertPositionOrder for RTL languages
• Fixed Warning caused by $gantry being null when using WPTouch
• Fixed RTL notices caused by using deprecated get_bloginfo calls
• Added wp_nonce_field() to the Login Form widget

• Fixed potential security risk

• Updated FontAwesome to 4.3.0
• Updated compatibility for the bbPress
• Fix for the Warning in GantryGZipper
• Fixed issue that could prevent LESS from compiling on Windows machines when site directory had spaces in the name
• Improved WPML compatibility ie. assigning overrides per language, translatable Gantry Widget input fields, Widget Variations for WPML Language Switcher widget etc.
• Reverted language strings in Gantry Default Theme to WP core native approach with hardcoded text domains for WPML compatibility (some themes will require update) - please check Gantry Framework documentation for more info

• Fixed FontAwesome font files paths in the WordPress Multisite
• Modified get_content_template to support only current page context, leaving the post formats to the template
• Modified the Gantry Breadcrumbs widget to support more formats and support filters
• Fixed issue when wp_enqueue_scripts hook was fired too late
• It is now possible to load scripts in the footer using addScript(s), addInlineScript, addDomReadyScript and addLoadScript
• Revamped the Widget Variation Chooser to be much more flexible and usable (requires minor theme changes)
• Widget input fields should now properly use data allowed in wp_filter_post_kses ie. some HTML code
• Fixed assigning taxonomy archives to overrides
• $gantry->displayBodyTag() allows now to use the same parameters as body_class()
• Added widget_title filter to the Gantry Framework core widgets
• Added compatibility for the WP Menu Cart plugin
• Added missing BuddyPress Notifications Component to the possible Assignments list
• Moved Analytics to Universal Analytics
• Possible fix for some minor Font Awesome 3.0 issues
• Fixed compatibility for NextGen Gallery
• Minor UI improvements

• Fix for the JS error when editing Widgets in the overrides which could cause widgets to disappear
• Fix for the gantryUrl that could prevent some scripts from using SSL
• Changed CSS margins for the Gantry Widget forms to fix spacing
• Fixed loading font variants for Google Fonts
• Updated Google Fonts catalogue to support all currently available fonts and variants
• Fixes for the Strict Standard notices in PHP 5.4 when debug mode enabled

• Compatibility fix in the MooRainbow for the Visual Composer plugin
• RokBox 2 support in the Login Button widget
• Fix for the multiple body classes in Page Suffix gizmo
• Updated IE11 detection
• Updated Pretty Print JS files
• Fixed font style issues caused by FontAwesome 3.2.1 icons
• Added Font Awesome 4 assets for future use
• Fixed missing special characters with Google fonts ie. Polish characters
• Removed RocketTheme references in Copyright widget
• Fixed the display of overrided options in the theme settings
• Gantry admin UI fixes for the WordPress 3.8

• Added core support for the BuddyPress 1.8+ - Gantry BuddyPress plugin is no longer required and has been deprecated
• Fix for the Gizmo options not being saved/loaded in the Presets of the theme
• Compatibility fix for the NextGen Gallery plugin
• Fixed rendering of the dollar sign ($) in the site title
• You can now use the %YEAR% and %year% in the Gantry Copyright widget to display the current year
• Fix for the bad path to the font files of the FontAwesome 3.2.1

• Added support for Font Awesome 3.2.1
• Added in performance improvement for Menus in the Rules Engine (thanks David Fritsch)
• Added Gantry Mobile Dectect core utility (required by some premium templates ie. Lumiere)
• Added two new admin form fields - filelist and imagelist

• Cart66 support added to compatibility gizmo
• Shopp plugin compatibility fix
• Fixed parseQueryString method on override widgets that wasn't allowing the "+" caracther in text
• Google Web Fonts should now use proper protocol when SSL detected
• Filter in Title gizmo should now have all required parameters
• Changed the way how Gantry outputs header and footer which can solve potential issues with scripts and regular expressions
• Gantry Menu cache should now respect the get_locale();
• Other minor improvements

• Fixed Google WebFonts and breaking fonts caused by s: and g: added to font body class
• You can now keep your Gantry Framework translation files (.mo) in the WordPress languages directory ie. wp-content/languages/gantry/
• Gantry is now going to automatically add the templateName-custom.css file if found under css/ directory
• Added fix for the WP SEO when "Force Rewrite Titles" enabled
• Title gizmo should now respect the wp_title filter

• Fixed a bug introduced in 4.0.3 where CSS files could load with double slashes

• Fixed compatibility with WordPress Multi Site installations
• Fixed a notice where siteurl option didn't had path set

• Reverted some CSS changes in gantry.css which could cause some bad color appearance in couple themes

• Next Gantry Framework Major Release. Please always do a full backup (files + database) of your site before upgrading!
• Fixed incompatibility with PHP 5.2

• Next Gantry Framework Major Release. Please always do a full backup (files + database) of your site before upgrading!
• LESS support
• Responsive layouts are fully supported
• Brand new Admin UI
• Caching improvements
• Filtering in the Assignments tab
• Ability to choose a chrome per widget
• Support for the new Dropdown menu
• New Search Highlight gizmo to allow to highlight search query without losing page content formatting
• Added back the gantryjson.class.php file for backwards compatibility with Crystalline
• Many more!

• Fix for the caching issue which caused the "Fatal error: Call to a member function getGridcss()"
• Please clean your site/browser cache after updating Gantry to 1.31

• Fix for the "Fatal error: Call to a member function isEnabled()" in some rare cases
• Fixed Notices appearing after enabling Debug mode
• Fix to keep accessibility mode disabled
• Fixed overrides behavior involving presets
• Fixed overrides badges opacity
• Removed some unnecessary CSS for the future theme compatibility
• Framework modifications to allow usage of responsive layouts in the future

• BBPress is now fully supported
• Added Maintenance Mode gizmo
• Jigoshop compatibility fix
• Fixed JS issue with gantry-layer that could block admin in certain themes (ie. Panacea)
• Compatibility fixes for WordPress 3.5

• Much improved 3rd party plugin compatibility - please note that you need to update your theme for this to work
• WooCommerce gizmo is now Compatibility gizmo which will be used to add support to various 3rd party plugins and keep them in one place
• Add to Cart should now work fine with the WooCommerce product variants

• Small CSS fix for the RTL featured image
• Updated the version of MooTools to 1.4.5 with compatibility layer

• Gantry now properly loads the widget_admin.css file
• Added missing CSS and JS code for the "selectedset" field type
• Added missing charset tag in the displayHead function
• Proper fix for the Children items in the Mobile Menu
• Display Single Post Category in Breadcrumbs widget is on by default

• Fix for custom post types and loop hierarchy not properly supported
• Fix for missing $this in the gantrybodylayout.class.php
• Custom Post Type archive theme files should be now loading properly
• Fix a bug when certain options wouldn't be activated after reloading override settings
• Fix for the overflow in the admin area
• Fix for CSS overflow in the Mobile Menu
• Added WooCommerce support

• Fix for the Warning:preg_match() on the Widgets page when The Events Calendar plugin was activated (possible solution for similar issues with other plugins)
• Added some small CSS fixes for font-size of the meta elements
• Gantry iPhone Menu is now a Gantry Mobile Menu as it works both on iPhone and Android platforms
• Fix for the same domain check which could cause issues ie. with Wordpress MU Domain Mapping
• Fixed some Ajax behavior on the widget overrides page

• Fixed the z-index of WordPress screen meta tabs on the widgets page
• Added CSS code used for multi-column blog view

• Added support for the custom variations in widgets (custom CSS classes)
• Fixed the count widgets in WP 3.3 theme settings page
• Fixed the z-index value of the WP 3.3 flyout menus on admin pages with Gantry Overrides bar
• Fixed Clear Cache button and Presets switcher

• Fixed the incrementation bug in the bugfix.php script which could cause a widgets id conflict

• Added a fix to prevent frozen widgets and widgets appearing in wrong overrides
• Added a script that should automatically fix all existing frozen widgets and overrides
• Added support for WordPress Multi Site installations
• Added check for instance settings of WordPress widget classes
• The $ signs in page titles should be now displayed properly
• Added require_once parameter to the locate_type function
• Updated the SmartLoad gizmo JS file to fix XPath Ignores
• Fixed the situation when the MooTools would only get loaded when the Build Spans gizmo is enabled
• Fixed the situation when front-page.php file wouldn't get loaded from the proper location
• Modified the MU Register gizmo to add very basic width settings to the activate and signup pages

• Adjusted for WordPress plugin directory

• Fixed oddity in PHP 5.2.9 where some settings in the backend wouldn't load
• Added support for additional content type dirs
• Added ability to filter out page title in Title gizmo
• Added support for the 9 grid layout
• Ability to define author name to appear as the page title in the theme settings page

• Added widgets tooltips support
• Fixed styling for the multiple instances of inner-tabs
• Multiple instances of inner-tabs are now having default item selected
• Changed Cache classname to RokCache for better compatibility
• Upgraded mootools version
• Upgraded RokNavMenu version to fix couple issues

• Added WP version check for compatibility with WordPress 3.2
• Added new Google WebFonts
• Added support for All In One SEO home page title in Title gizmo

• Added support for the All In One SEO single post and single page titles
• Added check to see if there's more than 1 widget before any of the dividers in position
• Fix for bad URL generated by the getCurrentUrl

• Fixed support for the ordered body layouts

• Fix for fusion menu dropdowns
• JS Speed Optimization: Toggles, SelectBoxes, Gradients, ColorChooser, use a more smart way to get initialized and on load time nothing is initialized until you interact with a field (backward compatible).
• Admin Tips now allow IDs to better manage the tips XML files (backward compatible).
• Load page size saved by 35-40%
• Ability to display single post category in breadcrumbs
• Added styling for textarea admin field
• Removed Recent Comments default avatar styling in favor of rt-image class
• Fix for widget divider first with nothing above in sidebar
• Added LoadPosition gizmo which lets you to load different widget positions in your content using shortcode and positions ID ie. [loadposition id="showcase"]
• Fix for nested layout object reverts

• Added Categories admin field

• Change to help prevent conflict with template modifiers like wptouch

• Added input and tokens to the title gizmo
• Added accessibility css code
• Fixed bug with currentUrl not being set right
• Moved base init to template redirect
• Added user css code
• Added Category field to the Recent Posts widget

• Added better Cookie Path handling
• Fixed widget override selection bug! Yee Ha!

• Fixed Menu Items Assignments in Overrides
• Fixed Preset Saver in the backend
• Added RokStyle gizmo
• Added AutoParagraph gizmo
• Updated MooTools to 1.3

• Added RTL css file support from gantry
• Added Page Suffix gizmo
• Modified the default comment styling
• Logo points now to the Site URL not WP URL
• Breadcrumbs 'Home' button points now to the Site URL not WP URL
• Added default styling and home image for the breadcrumbs
• Moved the Home button in breadcrumbs to be widget powered
• Fixed pagination position in RTL mode
• Swapped left padding to right one for lists in RTL
• Added get_header, get_footer, and get_sidebar actions to help plugin compatibility
• Fixed Push pull for sidebars in RTL
• Added Overlay field type
• Added spans to links in certain widgets
• Added default styling for Recent Comments widget
• Breadcrumbs pathway will only appear on the single post or custom page

• Fixed swapping widget IDs in overrides

• Added check for empty widget positions in render
• Gantry Logo widget 'Per Style' setting is no longer hidden
• Changed some JS binds to follow the new ES5 specs
• Fixed Colorchooser and Gradient fields
• Added cache removal to default widget and override widget ajax actions
• Gantry Pages widget is adding extra 'active' class for current page
• Gantry Categories widget is adding extra 'active' class for current category
• Changed width and padding for the MU Register form
• Fix for cache clear issues
• Made widget instance overrides available to ajax calls

• Added displayFooter function and supporting renders for themes.
• Add mootools script in jstools gizmo
• Fix for calling wp_head on the admin side.

• Fix for layouts not reversing in RTL mode
• Fix for Duplicating and missing CSS files

• Added Minefield to the list of Browsers
• Add support for Signup page to template page overrides
• Force Widget Accessibility Mode off for Gantry Themes
• Fixed addStyle to better handle -override files and get proper css file overrides from template
• Moved cache to be WP Transients based.
• Added base level diagnostics

• Fixed support for non WP_Widget based classes.

• Changelog Creation