Contributors: aristath, fovoc, igmoweb
Tags: customizer,options framework, theme, mods, toolkit
Donate link: https://aristath.github.io/donate
Requires at least: 4.8.2
Tested up to: 4.9
Stable tag: 3.0.16
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

The ultimate toolkit for theme developers using the WordPress Customizer

Using Kirki theme developers can create rich experiences for the WordPress Customizer using best coding practices.

Included are 30 custom control types ranging from simple sliders to complex typography controls with Google-Fonts integration, automatic CSS generation, postMessage scripts automatically generated, tooltips and a lot of extras that make developing themes a lot faster for developers and meaningful for users.

We advise you to familiarize yourself with the Customizer API before you start writing your theme using Kirki. An excellent handbook for the WordPress Customizer can be found on the developer.wordpress.org website.

You can find detailed documentation on how to use Kirki on https://aristath.github.io/kirki/

Development and issues on github.

Simply install as a normal WordPress plugin and activate.

If you want to integrate Kirki in your theme or plugin, please read the instructions on our documentation site.

• Fix: In some cases options were not saved when using option instead of the default theme_mod #1665
• Fix: link control-type (alias of url) was not working #1660
• Fix: Allow using tabs & linebreaks when defining elements in the output argument #1659
• Fix: PHP Warning when using code controls without a label defined #1658
• Fix: Buttons inside number controls were not increasing/decreasing the values #1648
• Fix: JS error - only on Safari - for Select controls #1662
• Fix: Unable to deselect all options from multiselect controls #1670
• Fix: multicolor controls missing the alpha channel #1657
• Fix: Unable to manually edit value in multicolor controls #1666
• New: Transitioned to a JS-based webfont loader method to load google-fonts instead of using a link.
• New: Moved select controls to new JS implementation.
• New: Moved text and textarea controls (generic controls) to new JS implementation.
• Tweak: Validation & Sanitization for dimension and dimensions controls.
• Tweak: Refactored multicolor controls a bit

November 19 2017, dev time: 8 hours

• Fix: typography controls not working when they are the only fields used #1627
• Fix: slider controls were not updating the numeric value visually in their textfield when the control was not using postMessage #1633
• Fix: Deprecated call to non-existing Kirki_Styles_Frontend, props @FrankM1 #1644
• Fix: Updated the customizer-styling module for compatibility with WP 4.9 #1639
• Fix: code controls were not using the corect priority #1622
• Fix: Multiple reports of errors in the console.
• New: Refactored the number controls #1631
• New: Refactored the color controls. #1646

November 12 2017, dev time: 5 minutes.

• Fix: PHP Warning in the Kirki_Modules_Webfonts_Link class #1626

November 11 2017, dev time: 4 hours.

• Fix: Duplicate subsets output in the Google Fonts URLs #1618
• Fix: Theme Check Warnings #1613
• Fix: Add Kirki version number when enqueueing scripts & styles (cache-busting) #1623
• Fix: JS conflict and PHP warning in typography fields when they are not properly defined #1621

November 9 2017, dev time: 3 hours.

• Fix: textdomain typo in a string.
• Fix: radio-image styling.
• Fix: JS error (underscore's _.isUndefined for some reason doesn't always work as expected).
• Tweak: Added reset back to sliders.
• Tweak: CSS improvements.

November 7 2017, dev time: 42 hours.

This update significantly reduces the plugin size by removing 3rd-party libraries (particularly CodeMirror) and uses the new controls and scripts that become available in WordPress 4.9. It also changes the file structure and paves the way for a 3.1 rewrite which will be a significant improvement, making Kirki a mostly JS-based app fully integrated in WordPress's JS API and moving away from the PHP API.

• Fix: WordPress 4.9 compatibility for colorpickers.
• Fix: WordPress 4.9 compatibility for typography controls.
• Fix: WordPress 4.9 compatibility for multicolor contols.
• Fix: WordPress 4.9 compatibility for background contols.
• Fix: Refactored editor controls to make them compatible with WP 4.9
• Fix: Remove CodeMirror and use the code control from WordPress Core. Code controls will be displayed as textareas in WP older than 4.9.
• Fix: Use new DateTimeControl if in WP 4.9+ for date control.
• Fix: Text field styling.
• Fix: Switch controls labels.
• Fix: 'choices' arguments were not getting passed-on due to is_customize_preview checks in latest WP Versions.
• Fix: Overriding Kirki translations from a theme when Kirki is embedded.
• New: Replaced select2 with selectWoo.
• New: Added a Kirki_Control_Base class and abstracted controls.
• New: Better file structure.
• New: Compiled JS & CSS files.
• New: Added ability to manually enter numeric values in slider controls.
• Tweak: Improved styling of color-palette controls.
• Tweak: Radio-Image controls now display images inline (using flexbox).
• Tweak: Removed the reset switch from slider controls & improved their styling.
• Tweak: Improved typography controls styling for text-align.
• Removed: Reset module.

October 12 2017, dev time: 3 hours.

• Fix: Typography controls were not properly saving some sub-values #1521, #1560
• Fix: Undefined index in the code control #1567
• Fix: CSS Output for multicolor fields #1564
• Fix: JS instantiation of controls in expanded sections #1559
• Fix: LTR for code controls #1558
• Fix: Remove Reset in default sections #1580
• Fix: Uncaught TypeError: data.value[choiceKey].replace is not a function #1578
• Fix: Other code cleanup.
• Fix: Updated google-fonts.

September 21 2017, dev time: 74 hours.

• Fix: Allow HTML tags in tooltips #1536
• Fix: Default System Font Stack for Sans Serif Fonts in Typography Fields #1530
• Fix: HTML entities in repeater text field being encoded on each save? #1523
• Fix: Some resetting issues #1474
• Fix: Allow saving image fields as arrays (url,id,width,height) #1529
• Fix: Allow saving image fields as ID #1498
• Fix: Inline docs improvements.
• Fix: $subsets not defined in the Kirki_Modules_Webfonts_Link class.
• Fix: Coding improvements in the Kirki_Field class.
• Fix: Performance Improvements in the autoloader see commit
• Fix: Undefined index notice in the Kirki_Output class.
• Fix: Sanitization for checkbox, switch and toggle controls.
• Fix: select2 CSS fix for z-index #1459
• Fix: Remove button in image controls when there's no image #1469
• Fix: Background control styling issue when no other color control exists #1472
• Fix: Checkbox and Toggle don't respect "value_pattern" #1467
• Fix: Array to string conversion when clicking reset button #1477
• Fix: Input Field Validation Issue #1486
• Fix: Typography: output property not working #1484
• Fix: postMessage does not work properly when using prefix #1479
• Fix: Use wp_json_encode instead of json_encode.
• Fix: Use rawurlencode instead of urlencode.
• New: Added warnings for deprecated functions/methods.
• New: code control now loads dynamically (performance improvement).
• New: color-palette control now loads dynamically (performance improvement).
• New: color control now loads dynamically (performance improvement).
• New: dashicons control now loads dynamically (performance improvement).
• New: date control now loads dynamically (performance improvement).
• New: dimension control now loads dynamically (performance improvement).
• New: dimensions control now loads dynamically (performance improvement).
• New: editor control now loads dynamically (performance improvement).
• New: fontawesome control now loads dynamically (performance improvement).
• New: generic control now loads dynamically (performance improvement).
• New: multicheck control now loads dynamically (performance improvement).
• New: number control now loads dynamically (performance improvement).
• New: palette control now loads dynamically (performance improvement).
• New: preset control now loads dynamically (performance improvement).
• New: radio-buttonset control now loads dynamically (performance improvement).
• New: radio-image control now loads dynamically (performance improvement).
• New: radio control now loads dynamically (performance improvement).
• New: select control now loads dynamically (performance improvement).
• New: slider control now loads dynamically (performance improvement).
• New: switch control now loads dynamically (performance improvement).
• New: toggle control now loads dynamically (performance improvement).

July 8 2017, dev time: 7 hours.

• Fix: Add alpha option to multicolor control. Props @danielortiz #1321, #1449
• Fix: Googlefonts output when default argument contains font-weight instead of variant #1443
• Fix: Removed the Kirki_Custom_Build class.
• Fix: Plugin does not exist error when Kirki is embedded in a theme #1448
• Fix: Code simplifications and optimizations.

June 27 2017, dev time: 4 hours.

• Fix: Typography controls without a variant defined were adding font-weight in the customizer #1436
• Fix: Set default webfonts loading method to link #1438
• Fix: Bug that prevents custom args from being passed to custom controls #1425. Props @danielortiz
• Fix: exclude argument in output when combined with choice #1416
• Fix: active_callback operators for greater/smaller etc #1427

June 26 2017, dev time: 1 hour.

• Fix: GoogleFonts links were not getting properly created #1430
• Fix: Incorrect logic when Kirki::add_field() only has 1 argument defined #1429

June 25, 2017, dev time: 5 minutes.

• Fix: Typo, PHP 5.2 compatibility.

June 25, 2017, dev time: 5 hours.

• Fix: Conflict with the MaxStore Pro theme #1405
• Fix: CSS Output for Typography controls #1423
• Fix: PHP Warning in Repeater control. #1417
• Fix: CSS conflict with the Shortcake plugin #1418
• Fix: Kirki_Fonts_Google::$force_load_all_variants was not working in version 3.0
• Fix: PHP Warning in typography control when the value was corrupted #1426
• Fix: Notice about incorrect wp_add_inline_style when googlefont URL was throwing error #1410
• Fix: Unable to delete the plugin when it's also embedded in the active theme and plugin version is deactivated #1421
• Fix: PHP 5.2 compatibility.

June 23, 2017, dev time: 2 hours.

• Fix: Added extra checks to avoid PHP Warning in the Kirki_Fonts_Google class #1402.
• Fix: fontawesome control was throwing a warning in the theme-check plugin.
• Fix: Added the "Default" button back in image controls #1401
• Fix: Number controls sanitization memory issue #1404
• Fix: Typography controls font-weight output #1370
• Fix: The icon argument was not working for Panels.

June 22, 2017, dev time: 10 minutes/

• Fix: Error when color is not properly formatted.

June 22, 2017, dev time: 15 minutes.

• Fix: CSS bugfixes in the editor control.
• Fix: Improvements when embedding Kirki in a theme.

June 22, 2017, dev time: 5 minutes.

• Fix: Undefined index PHP Notice.

June 22, 2017, dev time: 243 hours.

This is a major release. Many things have been refactored and optimized. Please keep a backup before updating.

• Fix: Refactored the reset module. #1334
• Fix: Refactored the postMessage module #1333
• Fix: PHP mode on CodeMirror. #1003
• Fix: Dynamic repeater labels now use the label instead of value when picking up label from select field. #1230
• Fix: Sanitization for number fields. #1240
• Fix: Checkboxes sanitization. #1195
• Fix: Link functionality in editor field. #968, #1159
• Fix: Issues in Field Type editor #1260
• Fix: Problems with sortable control #1253, #1197, #1198
• Fix: inaccessibility of options panel #1194
• Fix: Fields "checkbox", "toggle" and "switch" don't save as boolean in PHP, instead integer 0/1 #1195
• Fix: Tooltip not working for switch #1225
• Fix: Tooltip height fix in #1228
• Fix: Tooltip not closing when clicking outside of icon #1226
• Fix: Issue with visual representation of color picker (alpha iris) #1218
• Fix: Reset is "undefined" #1210
• Fix: Controls that save arrays cause PHP Notices #1199
• Fix: Disabled the "loading" module by default. Use the kirki/modules filter to enable.
• Fix: Refactored saving user-meta ('option_type' => 'user_meta'). #1325
• Fix: Code fields reset #1122
• Fix: Typography fields reset #1193, #1219
• Fix: Multicolor fields reset #916
• Fix: Custom fonts not displayed as active in the font list after saving #1110
• Fix: Support for media_query when using 'transport' => 'auto'. #1184, #1127
• Fix: Typography field bug when switching Google Fonts with different weights #1180
• Fix: Font Variant outputs invalid property value (typography field) #1058
• Fix: Updated webfonts. #1303
• Fix: required argument not work with postMessage type. #1031
• Fix: Notice: Undefined index, repeater field. #1291
• Fix: 403 errors for CSS and JS files on localhost. #1309
• Fix: Customizer doesn't load if ACF PRO is active. #1302
• Fix: Enqueued google font even if not in use. #1297
• Fix: Default dimension value does not process well percent units #1254, #497
• Fix: Editor field issue with RTL languages #340
• Fix: Windows Server Issues #1318
• New: Added code to automatically handle translations when Kirki is embedded in a theme #1381
• New: Automating postMessage for composite fields. #694
• New: OR logic in field dependencies. #839
• New: Radio-image labels. #1090, #1220
• New: Typography fields support for prefix, suffix, value_pattern in output argument. #1183
• New: Multi-selects in repeater fields. #780, #1261
• New: Typography fields now support live-updating using 'transport' => 'auto'. #1184, #528, #1186
• New: Typography fields now support filtering the available fonts. #1202
• New: Typography fields now support loading multiple variants. #992, #1082, #1114
• New: Select fields now support optgroups. #1120
• New: Added new background control-type. #741, #1283, #952
• New: Replaced selectize with select2. #1177
• New: Notifications for number fields when value is invalid depending on min/max/step values.
• New: Rebuilt typography control using select2. cafb89b
• New: Allow modifying values instead of replacing them when using js_vars with function set to html by using the value_pattern parameter and the $ placeholder. #1137
• New: Updated CodeMirror. fff6df0
• New: Added word-spacing to the typography control. #1163
• New: Refactored file structure to make fields self-contained entities, easier to decouple & debug.
• New: Introducing "modules".
• New: Refactored the tooltips feature (now a module).
• New: Selective refreshes are now a module.
• New: postMessage is now a module.
• New: Refactored section & panel icons (now a module).
• New: Customizer-Styling is now a module.
• New: Customizer-Branding is now a module.
• New: CSS-Output is now a module.
• New: Abstracted the "spacing" control and created a new "dimensions" control from it.
• New: Allow saving site-options('option_type' => 'site_option') #1326
• New: Added 2 new methods for enqueueing google fonts. See the kirki/googlefonts_load_method filter.
• New: Googlefonts now by default added inline in the stylesheet to avoid an extra call to the GoogleFonts API. (SEO & performance improvement).

May 28, 2017, dev time: 15 minutes.

This is a maintenance release that prepares for 3.0.0 coming soon.

• Fix: Updating webfonts.
• New: Added ability to use upgrade notices. Needed for v3.0 in a few days.

October 22, 2016, dev time: 12 hours.

• Fix: spacing controls were not updating after save
• New: Now using the WP Notifications API in the customizer for spacing & dimension controls (requires WP 4.6).
• Fix: Allow overriding option_type with theme_mod when global config uses option by using the option_type argument in the fields.
• Fix: Disabled the custom kirki-preview loader. This will have to be built more modular in future versions.
• Fix: Refactored panel & section icons.
• Fix: postMessage now works better with slider controls.
• Fix: Reset button not working unless tooltips are loaded.
• Fix: Properly sanitize link and url fields.
• Fix: Automate sanitization for repeater fields.

August 28, 2016, dev time: 3 hours.

• Fix: CSS prefixes order fixes (#1042).
• Fix: suffix output argument support in Multicolor control (#1042).
• Fix: Kirki::get_variables() method should be static (#1050).
• Fix: Add line wrapping to CodeMirror (#1079).
• Fix: container_inclusive is disregarded on the selective refresh class (#1089).
• Fix: Support input_attrs parameter for controls (#1074).
• Fix: Outdated Google-Fonts list (#1091).

July 2, 2016. dev time: 6 hours.

• FIX: Missing button labels in repeater fields.
• FIX: Missing button label in code fields (#1017).
• FIX: Better implementation when embedding Kirki in a theme (#1025).
• FIX: Updated google-fonts (#1041).
• NEW: Allow simpler format for variables argument (#1020).

June 1, 2016, dev time: 30 minutes.

• FIX: Repeater JS issues due to error in translation strings.

May 31, 2016, dev time: 17 hours.

• FIX: Editor field covering the content (#955).
• FIX: Smoother transition for editor switching.
• FIX: Code field JS error when using "php" mode (#958).
• FIX: postMessage for typography fields (#528).
• FIX: translation strings (#960).
• FIX: postMessage for background-image properties (#963).
• FIX: Reset Typography Control without font-family default value (#951).
• FIX: Typography field: font-style missing in CSS output if variant is regular/400 (#977).
• FIX: Placing two editor controls in the customizer leads to odd behavior (#140).
• FIX: Typography field: letter-spacing missing in CSS output if its value is 0 (#978).
• FIX: Allow using HTML in section descriptions (#976).
• FIX: Bug preventing partial refreshes from working properly (#991).
• FIX: Better internationalization handling.
• FIX: Output errors on typography settings (#975).
• NEW: Added a new attr argument to js_vars (#957).
• NEW: Implemented both AND and OR conditionals in active_callback arrays (#839).
• NEW: Allow defining an array of dashicons to use.
• NEW: Added a link control type.

May 2, 2016, dev time: 52 hours.

• NEW: Completely refactored editor controls.
• NEW: Completely re-styled code controls.
• NEW: Added a new kirki/{$config_id}/styles filter (#908).
• NEW: Added a customize-control-kirki class to all Kirki controls.
• FIX: Field type number : Cannot read property 'min' of undefined (#911).
• FIX: All controls are now prefixed (#918)
• FIX: alpha argument in color-alpha controls (#932).
• FIX: Name attribute in repeaters (props @guillaumemolter).
• FIX: Missing label for checkbox controls inside repeaters (props @guillaumemolter).
• FIX: Placing 2 editor controls in the customizer leads to odd behaviour (#140).
• FIX: active_callback conbined with the old required argument. (#906).
• FIX: Double prefix and suffix in js_vars (#943).
• FIX: Typography control returns both 'subset' and 'subsets' indexes with the same value (#948).
• FIX: Use strict JS mode in all controls.

April 19, 2016, dev time: 30 hours.

• FIX: Spacing control JS dependencies.
• FIX: Output property ignored in multicolor field.
• FIX: Image sub-controls in repeaters were causing a JS error.
• FIX: Text Domain Compliance with Themecheck.
• FIX: PostMessage scripts when using more than 1 elements for the output.
• FIX: Default values for swithes, toggles & checkboxes.
• FIX: Conflict with WP Core's dropdown-pages control.
• FIX: Auto-transport not working when using serialized options instead of theme_mods.
• FIX: value_pattern was not working properly when used in js_vars.
• FIX: Repeater control bugfixes (props @guillaumemolter).
• FIX: multi-selects saving single value.
• NEW: Added support for upload controls in repeaters (props @guillaumemolter).
• NEW: Adding mime_type parameter for image, cropped_image, upload controls in repeaters (props @guillaumemolter).
• NEW: Added color-picker support in repeater fields (props @guillaumemolter).

April 10, 2016, dev time: 21 hours.

Kirki is now 100% WordPress Coding Standards compliant.

• FIX: Escaping google-font URLs when possible.
• FIX: Only enqueue the tooltips script if needed.
• FIX: WordPress Coding Standards.
• FIX: undefined sub-controls were still being saved in typography fields
• FIX: Javascript Console Errors: "wp.customize" object undefined when Kirki fields were added in customize_register
• FIX: markup in editor fields - props @manuelmoreale.
• FIX: multiple styles in head when using js_vars
• FIX: Sanitization for rem units
• FIX: CSS output for multicolor controls
• NEW: Repeater labels are now dynamic - props @guillaumemolter.
• NEW: The entire header on repeaters is now draggable - props @guillaumemolter.
• TWEAK: More efficient JS code for the typography control

• FIX: Issue with URLs when using Kirki embedded in a theme and not installed as a plugin.

• FIX: Repeater controls were not working on 2.2.8 due to a typo - props @guillaumemolter
• NEW: Repeater fields now allow more control types (email/tel/url/hidden) - props @guillaumemolter

April 6, 2016, dev time: 5 hours.

• FIX: Enqueued assets missing when useg WP_DEBUG & WP_DEBUG_SCRIPT
• FIX: Checkboxes were not properly displaying their values
• FIX: Javascript errors when number controls were used without min, max or step.
• FIX: Multiselect controls issue with the sanitize_callback used.
• NEW: Make attributes in cropped_image sub-controls inside repeaters dynamic (props @guillaumemolter).

April 5, 2016, dev time: 23 hours.

• FIX: Properly parsing postMessage scripts when transport is set to auto.
• FIX: Background image was outputing CSS even if it was empty.
• FIX: Default value for checkboxes.
• FIX: Issue with plugin URLs in the customizer, when the plugin was embedded in a theme.
• FIX: Descriptions were now shown in sortable fields.
• FIX: Reset not working for textarea fields.
• FIX: In some cases only the first element in output arguments was being processed.
• FIX: edge-case bugfix for select controls when data saved if the db was somehow mis-formatted.
• FIX: Repeater controls now use image IDs instead of image URLs. Props @guillaumemolter
• NEW: Added text-align ability in typography fields.
• NEW: Added text-transform ability in typography fields.
• NEW: Introduce value_pattern argument for output & js_vars.
• NEW: Started refactoring the Kirki_Field class. Now each field can have its own sub-class extending the main Kirki_Field object.
• NEW: multicolor control.
• NEW: Added cropped_image support in repeater. Props @guillaumemolter
• TWEAK: Renamed Kirki_Customizer_Scripts_Loading to Kirki_Scripts_Loading.
• TWEAK: Renamed Kirki_Customizer_Scripts_Tooltips to Kirki_Scripts_Tooltips.
• TWEAK: Renamed Kirki_Customizer_Scripts_Icons to Kirki_Scripts_Icons.
• TWEAK: More inline comments, docs & coding-standards improvements.
• DEPRECATED: Removed the Kirki_Colourlovers class.

March 26, 2016, dev time: 10 hours

• FIX: Invalid variants for google fonts were getting enqueued due to a mischeck.
• FIX: Repeater rows are now minimized by default.
• FIX: Styling for the dropdown-pages control.
• FIX: switch controls now properly resize based on the label used in the choices argument.
• FIX: It is now possible to use calc() in CSS value controls.
• FIX: Styles were being applied to the customizer even if they were not defined in the kirki/config filter.
• FIX: Removed unnecessary class inheritances & other code cleanups.
• NEW: Allow resetting options per-section.
• NEW: Added new color-palette control.
• NEW: Added 'transport' => 'auto' to auto-calculate postMessage scripts from the output argument when possible.
• NEW: Added Material design palettes in the Kirki_Helper class.
• NEW: Allow changing the "Add Row" text on repeater fields.
• NEW: Allow setting a limit for repeater rows.

March 23, 2016, dev time: 7 hours

• FIX: Google fonts now loaded via a PHP array instead of a JSON file.
• FIX: CSS issue due to escaped quotes on standard fonts.
• FIX: Issue when using units on js_vars combined with the style method.
• FIX: Missing textdomain on a string.
• NEW: Refactored postMessage scripts.
• NEW: Allow passing options to iris using the choices argument on color controls.
• NEW: Allow disabling the custom loader using the disable_loader argument in the kirki/config filter.

March 20, 2016, dev time: 6 hours

• FIX: Removed unnecessary CSS echoed by the typography control
• FIX: Color Calculation class improvements
• FIX: CSS improvement for toggle controls
• NEW: Added dashicons field
• NEW: Added the ability to limit the number of rows in repeater controls (props @fovoc)

March 19, 2016

• FIX: Selecting a color inside typography controls was throwing a JS error (typo)
• FIX: CSS alignment for descriptions in toggle controls
• FIX: Default value for letter-spacing setting in typography controls (props @andreg)

March 18, 2016, dev time: 5 minutes

• FIX: Backwards-compatibility bugfix

March 17, 2016, dev time: 10 minutes

• FIX: PHP notice for non-standard controls when the element defined in an output argument is of type array.

March 17, 2016, dev time: 3 hours

• FIX: Alpha channel was always enabled for color controls
• FIX: PHP Notices in the class-kirki-output-control-typography.php file
• FIX: PHP Fatal error on PHP 5.2
• FIX: PHP Notice in the class-kirki-field.php file
• FIX: PHP Fatal error when using background-position in the output argument
• TWEAK: Removed unused languages from CodeMirror to reduce the plugin's size

March 16, 2016, dev time: 120 hours

• FIX: Improved & simplified the number control.
• FIX: Improved & simplified the spacing control.
• FIX: Minor bugfix on the select control.
• FIX: WP Coding standards improvements.
• FIX: Bugfix for radio controls.
• FIX: Fixed repeater remove image not triggering save button to activate, and added a placeholder when the image is removed. (props @sayedwp)
• FIX: Fixed bug when using negative numbers as min value in the number field
• FIX: Typo in the textdomain for some strings (some strings were using "Kirki" instead of "kirki").
• FIX: Complete refactor & rewrite of the google-fonts implementation.
• FIX: IE11 bug on radio-image controls.
• FIX: Radio-image bug when used with serialized options.
• NEW: Complete refactor & rewrite of typography control.
• NEW: Refactored the CSS output methods.
• NEW: Added new mothods for detecting dependencies.
• NEW: Added font-subsets in typography controls.
• NEW: Google fonts now only show valid variants & subsets in typography controls.
• NEW: Implemented partial refreshes for WP 4.5 using a "partial_refresh" argument (formatted as an array).
• NEW: Better autoloader & improved file structure.
• NEW: Deprecated the Kirki_Field_Sanitize class in favor of a more simplified & robust implementation.
• NEW: Completely refactored the Kirki_Field class, we're migrating to a more OOP model.
• NEW: Added a new kirki-generic control.
• NEW: Deprecated the custom text control and used the new kirki-generic control instead.
• NEW: Deprecated the custom textarea control and used the new kirki-generic control instead.
• NEW: Renamed the help argument to tooltip. help will continue to work as an alias.
• NEW: Merged the color & color-alphacontrols. We now use thecolor-alphacontrol for all colors, and just modify thedata-alpha` property it has.
• NEW: Started an OOP rewrite of many classes
• NEW: Started rewriting the PHPUNIT tests & tweaked them so they can now run on localhosts (like VVV) and not just on travis-ci.
• NEW: Included the ariColor library for color calculations (https://aristath.github.io/ariColor/)
• TWEAK: Other code refactoring for improved performance
• TWEAK: Updated grunt packages.

February 17, 2016, dev time: 5 minutes

• FIX: PHP Notices (undefined index)

February 17, 2016, dev time: 4 hours

• FIX: Image field issues inside the Repeater field (props @sayedwp)
• NEW: Allow disabling output per-config
• NEW: Introduce 'postMessage' => 'auto' option in config (will auto-create js_vars using the output argument)
• NEW: New color control using a js-based template
• TWEAK: Branding script rewrite
• TWEAK: Color controls styling
• TWEAK: Coding improvements & cleanups

February 13, 2016, dev time: 1 hour.

• FIX: Google fonts bug (use double quotes when font name contains a space character)
• FIX: Checkbox control bug (checkboxes were always displayed as checked, regardless of their actual value)
• NEW: Intruducing KIRKI_NO_OUTPUT constant that disables CSS output completely when set to true.

February 10, 2016, dev time: 2 hours

• FIX: Only load Kirki styles when in the customizer
• FIX: Performance issue with Google Fonts
• NEW: Added radio-image controls to repeaters
• TWEAK: Better color handling in the Kirki_Color class

January 19, 2016, dev time: 1 hour

• FIX: Narrow the scope of "multicheck" modification checker (props @chetzof)
• FIX: PHP warnings due to invalid callback method
• FIX: postMessage bug introduced in 2.0.6 (2 lines commented-out)

January 18, 2016, dev time: 7 hours

• FIX: Fix active callback for multidimensional arrays. (props @andrezrv)
• FIX: Correctly check current value of checkbox control. (props @andrezrv)
• FIX: Bug in the sortable field (props @daviedR)
• FIX: Fixed some bugs that occured when using serialized options instead of theme_mods
• NEW: Added an image sub-field to repeater fields (props @sayedwp)
• NEW: Added a JS callback to js_vars (props @pingram3541)
• TWEAK: Settings sanitization
• TWEAK: Removed demo theme from the plugin. This is now provided separately on https://github.com/aristath/kirki-demo

December 23, 2015, dev time: 2.5 hours

• FIX: Disabled the ajax-loading method for stylesheets. All styles are now added inline. Will be re-examined for a future release.
• FIX: Number controls were not properly triggering changes
• FIX: Styling for number controls
• FIX: In some cases the dynamic CSS was added before the main stylesheet. We now add them using a priority of 999 to ensure they are enqueued afterwards.

December 19, 2015, dev time: 3 hours

• NEW: Added units support to the Typography field
• NEW: Default methods of enqueuing styles in now inline.
• NEW: Added 'inline_css' argument to config. set to false to add styles using AJAX.
• FIX: HTML mode for CodeMirror now functional
• FIX: PHP Notices when the config filter is used wrong
• FIX: Monor bugfix for text inputs
• FIX: Indentation & coding standards
• FIX: failing PHPUNIT test.
• TWEAK: Remove passing click event object

December 6, 2015, dev time: 45 minutes

• Bugfix for updates

December 6, 2015, dev time: 30 minutes

• FIX: Fatal error on update (not on new installations)
• FIX: Typo

December 6, 2015, dev time: 10 minutes

• FIX: Some configurations were failing with the new autoloader. Reverted to a simpler file structure.

December 6, 2015, dev time > 140 hours

• NEW: Added support for sanitize_callback arguments on each item in the CSS output.
• NEW: Added the ability to define an array as element in the output.
• NEW: Auto-prefixing CSS output for cross-browser compatibilities.
• NEW: Allow using arrays in settings.
• NEW: Dimension Field.
• NEW: Repeater Field.
• NEW: Code Field using the ACE editor.
• NEW: Typography Control.
• NEW: Preset Field.
• NEW: Demo theme.
• NEW: Spacing Control.
• REMOVED: Redux Framework compatibility.
• FIX: Minor bugfixes to the Kirki_Color class.
• FIX: kirki_get_option now uses Kirki::get_option().
• FIX: Various bugfixes.
• TWEAK: Converted the checkbox control to use the JS templating system.
• TWEAK: Converted the custom control to use the JS templating system.
• TWEAK: Converted the multicheck control to use the JS templating system.
• TWEAK: Converted the number control to use the JS templating system.
• TWEAK: Converted the palette control to use the JS templating system.
• TWEAK: Converted the radio-buttonset control to use the JS templating system.
• TWEAK: Converted the radio-image control to use the JS templating system.
• TWEAK: Converted the radio control to use the JS templating system.
• TWEAK: Converted the select control to use the JS templating system.
• TWEAK: Converted the slider control to use the JS templating system.
• TWEAK: Converted the switch control to use the JS templating system.
• TWEAK: Converted the textarea control to use the JS templating system.
• TWEAK: Converted the toggle control to use the JS templating system.
• TWEAK: radio-buttonset controls are now CSS-only.
• TWEAK: radio-image controls are now CSS-only.
• TWEAK: select controls nopw use selectize instead of Select2.
• TWEAK: Deprecated select2 and select2-multiple controls. We now have a global select control. Previous implementations gracefully fallback to the current one.
• TWEAK: switch controls are now CSS-only.
• TWEAK: toggle controls are now CSS-only.
• TWEAK: Sliders now use an HTML5 "range" input instead of jQuery-UI.
• TWEAK: Better coding standards.
• TWEAK: Descriptions styling.
• TWEAK: Improved controls styling.
• TWEAK: Compiled CSS & JS for improved performance.
• TWEAK: Added prefix to the sanitized output array.
• TWEAK: Updated google-fonts.
• TWEAK: Grunt integration.
• TWEAK: Some Code refactoring.

July 17, 2014, dev time: 5 minutes

• NEW: Added 'disable_output' and 'disable_google_fonts' arguments to the configuration.

July 17, 2014, dev time: 1 hour

• FIX: Issues when using serialized options instead of theme_mods or individual options.
• FIX: Issues with the output argument on fields.
• FIX: Other minor bugfixes

July 11, 2014, dev time: 177 hours

• NEW: Added PHPUnit tests
• NEW: Use wp_add_inline_style to add customizer styles
• NEW: Rebuilt the background fields calculation
• NEW: Now using Formstone for switches & toggles
• NEW: Added a new API. See https://github.com/aristath/kirki/wiki for documentation.
• NEW: Minimum PHP requirement is now PHP 5.2
• NEW: Added a Select2 field type.
• NEW: Introducing the Kirki::get_option() method to get values.
• NEW: added 'media_query' argument to output.
• NEW: Added ability to get variables for CSS preprocessors from the customizer values. See https://github.com/aristath/kirki/wiki/variables for documentation
• NEW: now supporting 'units' to all outputs to support '!important'
• NEW: Ability to create panels & sections using the new API.
• NEW: added a get_posts method to the Kirki class.
• NEW: Implement width argument in the styling options. See https://github.com/aristath/kirki/wiki/Styling-the-Customizer
• NEW: add 'kirki/control_types' filter
• FIX: Properly saving values in the db when using serialized options
• FIX: Check if classes & functions exist before adding them (allows for better compatibility when embedded in a theme)
• FIX: PHP Warnings & Notices
• FIX: Other minor bugfixes
• FIX: Now using consistently option_type instead of options_type everywhere
• FIX: Kirki::get_option() method now works for all fields, including background fields.
• FIX: avoid errors when Color is undefined in background fields
• FIX: Use WP_Filesystem to get the google fonts array from a json file
• FIX: Radio-Button styling
• FIX: PHP Notices
• FIX: Typos
• FIX: Properly sanitizing rgba colors
• FIX: Properly sanitize numbers
• FIX: Make sure all variables are escaped on output
• TWEAK: Simplify the Colourlovers integration.
• TWEAK: Improve sanitization
• TWEAK: Improve the Kirki_Styles_Customizer class
• TWEAK: Code cleanups
• TWEAK: Added more inline docs (lots of them)
• TWEAK: Use active_callback for required arguments instead of custom JS
• TWEAK: Updated translation files
• TWEAK: Better color manipulation in the Kirki_Color class
• TWEAK: Move secondary classes instantiation to the Kirki() function.
• TWEAK: set a $kirki global
• TWEAK: deprecate getOrThrow method in the Kirki_Config class.
• TWEAK: Move sanitisation functions to a Kirki_Sanitize class.
• TWEAK: Rename Kirki_Framework to Kirki_Toolkit.
• TWEAK: Move variables to the new API
• TWEAK: simplify Kirki_Controls class
• TWEAK: move the kirki/fields & kirki/controls filters to the new API
• REMOVED: remove the 'stylesheet_id' from the configuration.

April 6, 2014, dev time: 0.5 hours

• FIX: Color sanitization was distorting 0 characters in the color hex.
• FIX: Properly sanitizing ColorAlpha controls
• FIX: Sanitizing more properties in the Fields class
• FIX: removing remnant double-sanitization calls from the controls classes

April 5, 2014, dev time: 28 hours

• NEW: Introduce a Field class
• NEW: Introduce a Builder class
• TWEAK: Code Cleanups
• NEW: Added ability to use 'option' as the setting type
• Fix : Bugs in the color calculation class
• TWEAK: Everything gets sanitized in the "Field" class
• FIX: Bugs in sortable field
• FIX: Editor control had no description
• NEW: Added a color-alpha control. To use it just set an rgba color as the default value.
• TWEAK: SCSS & CSS improvements
• FIX: Various PHP notices and warnings when no fields are defined
• TWEAK: More efficient color sanitization method
• TWEAK: Improved number control presentation
• TWEAK: Improved the way background fields are handled
• TWEAK: Checkboxes styling
• NEW: Allow using rgba values for background colors
• FIX: CSS fix - :focus color for active section
• NEW: Add a static 'prepare' method to the ScriptRegistry class
• FIX: Issues with the URL when Kirki is embedded in a theme

March 30, 2015, dev time: 5 minutes

• FIX: Autoloader could not properly include files due to strtolower()

March 30, 2015, dev time: 30 minutes

• FIX: Translation strings now overridable using the config filter.

March 30, 2015, dev time: 32 hours

• Improvement: OOP redesign (props @vpratfr)
• NEW: Added Palette control
• NEW: Added Editor control (WYSIWYG - uses TinyMCE)
• NEW: Added Custom control (free html)
• NEW: Added a Kirki_Colourlovers class to use palettes from the colourlovers API
• NEW: Added a composer file (props @vpratfr)
• FIX: Wrong settings IDs
• FIX: Color calculation on RGBA functions were off
• TWEAK: Restructuring the plugin (props @vpratfr)
• NEW: added a functional kirki_get_option() function
• TWEAK: Simplified configuration options.
• NEW: Turn Kirki into a singleton and a facade (props @vpratfr)
• TWEAK: Completely re-written the customizer styles
• NEW: Using SASS for customizer styles
• TWEAK: Deprecating the group_title control in favor of the new custom control
• TWEAK: Changed the CSS for checkboxes

March 15, 2015, dev time: 2 hours

• REMOVED: Remove the kirki_get_option function that was introduced in 0.7 as it's not working properly yet.
• FIX: Undefined index notice when a default value for the control was not defined
• TWEAK: logo_image now injects an img element instead of a div with custom background
• NEW: Added description argument in the kirki configuration (replaces the theme description)

March 14, 2015, dev time: 10 hours

• FIX: Array to string conversion that happened conditionally when used with googlefonts. (props @groucho75)
• FIX: Background opacity affects background-position of bg image
• FIX: font-weight not being applied on google fonts
• NEW: Added kirki_get_option( $setting ); function that also gets default values
• TWEAK: Singleton for main plugin class
• FIX: Prevent empty help tooltips
• NEW: Added toggle control
• NEW: Added switch control
• FIX: Color controls were not being reset to default:
• TWEAK: Tooltips now loaded via jQuery
• TWEAK: Renamed setting to settings for consistency with WordPress core
• TWEAK: Renamed description to help and subtitle to `description for consistency with WordPress core
• TWEAK: Backwards-compatibility improvements
• NEW: Allow hiding background control elements by not including default values for them
• TWEAK: Performance improvements
• TWEAK: Using WordPress core controls instead of custom ones when those are available
• TWEAK: Separate logic for multiple-type controls that were using the "mode" argument. This has been deprecated in favor of completely separate control types.

March 2, 2015, dev time: 3 hours

• FIX: Frontend styles were not properly enqueued (props @dmgawel)
• NEW: Allow multiple output styles per control defined as an array of arrays.
• FIX: Background control styles
• FIX: Serialise default values for the sortable control. Now you can define default values as an array.
• FIX: Required script
• FIX: '_opacity' was added to a lot of controls by mistake. Removed it and wrote a migration script.

February 25, 2015, dev time: 1 hours

• FIX: Sortables controls had a JS conflict
• FIX: Switches & Toggles were not properly working

February 25, 2015, dev time: 9 hours

• FIX: Tooltips now properly working
• NEW: Added checkbox switches
• NEW: Added checkbox toggles
• FIX: Generated CSS is not properly combined & minified
• FIX: Re-structuring files hierarchy
• FIX: Simplify the way controls are loaded
• NEW: Only load control classes when they are needed
• NEW: Introducing Kirki_Customize_Control class
• FIX: CSS tweaks
• NEW: Sortable control (creating one is identical to a select control, but with \'type\' => \'sortable\')
• FIX: Double output CSS (props @agusmu)
• NEW: Google fonts now parsed from a json file.

January 22, 2015

• FIX: Transport defaults to refresh instead of postMessage
• FIX: undefined index notice.

January 21, 2015

• NEW: Automatic output of styles for generic controls.
• NEW: Automatic output of styles + scripts for fonts (including googlefonts )
• NEW: The 'output' argument on background controls is now an array for consistency with other controls. Older syntax is still compatible though. :)
• NEW: Add the ability to auto-generate styles for colors.
• FIX: Add a blank stylesheet if we need one and no stylesheet_id has been defined in the config options.
• FIX: CSS-only tooltips. Fixes issue with tooltips now showing up on WP >= 4.1
• FIX: Code cleanups
• NEW: Added support for WordPress's transport arguments
• FIX: All controls now have a sanitization callback. Users can override the default sanitizations by adding their own 'sanitize_callback' argument.
• FIX: OOP rewrite
• FIX: Strip protocol from Google API link
• FIX: Loading order for some files
• FIX: Removed deprecated less_var argument

October 25, 2014

• FIX: bugfix for selector
• NEW: Change the Kirki theme based on which admin theme is selected.
• FIX: Tranlsation domain issue
• NEW: Added a "group_title" control
• FIX: Updated the required script
• FIX: Updating CSS
• Other minor improvements and bugfixes

May 26, 2014

• NEW: added background field
• NEW: added 'output' argument to directly output the CSS

May 9, 2014

• Initial version

This is a major update, please keep a backup of your files and database before updating.