Releases: greenelab/lab-website-template
Releases · greenelab/lab-website-template
v1.1.0
Add alert component, Docker support, accessibility fixes.
Changed
- Fix Lighthouse accessibility issues.
- De-href components when link isn't provided (no hand cursor icon on hover or nav on click).
- In search script, limit highlights by total count instead of char length.
- Grid and link style tweaks.
- Take ORCID icon from Font Awesome.
- Misc bug fixes in tags script, float component.
Added
- Add Docker configuration and scripts for local previewing.
- Add alert component and types.
- Role icon in portrait component hoisted to top left.
v1.0.0
First official release.
High-level comparison with pre-releases:
- Simpler configuration.
- More automation, less setup.
- More customization and flexibility.
- Redesigned components.
- New docs.
- Complete rewrite.
- Culmination of years of feedback.
Changed
- Template is no longer limited to GitHub Pages white-listed Jekyll plugins. Any plugins possible.
- Pull request previews happen right within GitHub instead of needing Netlify.
- Better versioning.
CITATION.cff
file now source of truth for version, and tags/releases enforced. - Citation-related files in
/_data
must now be named prefixed with the cite plugin they are to be run with, e.g.sources-2020.yaml
ororcid-students.yaml
. - Folder renames for clarity and for better separation of template and user content:
/auto-cite
→/_cite
,/css
→/_styles
,/js
→/_scripts
. - Rename "Tools" page to "Projects" to be more clear and general purpose.
- Rename
extra-links
tobuttons
insources.yaml
files. - Rename
theme.scss
to-theme.scss
. - Rename/repurpose components: link → button, two-col → cols, gallery → grid.
- Combine "link" and "role" data lists into single
types.yaml
map. - Redesign components, change parameters and behavior.
- Update Font Awesome icon names from v5 to v6.
- Change placeholder text, images, and other images.
- Use CSS variables instead of Sass variables.
- Simplify caching method in cite process.
- Simplify Liquid code by including custom Ruby plugins.
- Simplify styles and scripts.
Added
- New docs at greene-lab.gitbook.io/lab-website-template-docs.
- Add automations for first time setup and URL change.
- Write PubMed and Google Scholar automatic citation plugins.
- Automatic citations through GitHub Actions should now work from (most) forks.
- Add optional description and type params for citations.
- Add periodic cite process run that opens a pull request.
- List component filters can now accept arbitrary regex.
- Add light/dark mode toggle.
- Pre-install selection of useful Jekyll plugins, namely Jekyll Spaceship.
- Add author portrait and updated date for blog posts.
- Add richer metadata for SEO.
- Google Fonts link determined automatically from theme file.
Removed
- Remove options from
_config.yaml
to simplify configuration:baseurl
,auto-cite
,logo
. - Remove
/favicons
folder, hardcode files for logo, icon, and share in/images
. - Remove
palettes.scss
andmixins.scss
. - Remove banner component (same thing can be achieved with full width section and figure components).
- Remove role component. Combine with portrait component.