Backburner 1.8.2 | 3.15.13
- Updated theme to support the new Twitter Widget
- Updated Audio Post for Soundcloud and Spotify
- Instagram Profile link now directs to Instagram profile instead of Gramfeed profile
Backburner 1.8.1 | 2.20.13
- Updated the video embedded address recent Tumblr changes.
Backburner 1.8.0 | 10.2.12
- Instagram - Added the ability to load your recent shots on Instagram, here’s how.
- Fixed the display of the new Tumblr video player so that when you upload videos it is displayed properly.
Backburner 1.7.0 | 4.11.12
- Spotify - Added support for the new Spotify player on audio posts.
- Pinterest - Added Pinterest’s ‘pin it’ button to sharing features.
- Share Buttons - Updated the Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus share buttons for better performance
- HTML5 - Changed method for detecting HTML5 compatibility and support for outdated browsers.
- Minor updates and fixes
Backburner 1.6.2 | 1.30.12
- Updated to latest version of FitVids.js for better video resizing.
Backburner 1.6.1 | 12.20.11
- Optimized theme for the new Customize menu
Backburner 1.6.0 | 12.6.11
- Open Graph - Now when people like or + your posts it will not only share the post but the video and images with that post. Making it easier to share your content all over the different social networks.
- Tumblr - Better support for the new Tumblr customize menu
- Minor updates and fixes
Backburner 1.5.0 | 8.1.11
- Photosets - Updated Backburner to support the new Tumblr photoset grid with support for the layout options.
- Photosets - Added a Lightbox to view images in high resolution.
- Google Plus - Added new Google Plus to the share options
- Social Icons - Added Google Plus, Pinterest and Spotify
- Reordered appearance options to prevent settings from moving while editing the theme HTML
- Compressed javascript files to reduce file size
- Minor updates and fixes
Backburner 1.4.0
- Added support for custom typography using Typekit.
Backburner 1.3.3
- Added option to change the number of tweets displayed in the sidebar.
Backburner 1.3.2
- Added Tumblr support for post sources
Backburner 1.3.1
- Minor updates and fixes
Backburner 1.3.0
- Localization - Now you can select your language in Customize > Advanced to choose between English, German, Japanese, French and Italian. This will change standard buttons, title names, and other text elements throughout the site to your chosen language.
- Video embeds - Improved the way that YouTube, Vimeo and other embeds are resized and rendered on the site.
- iPad Optimization - Tweaked Backburner so that it looks amazing on an iPad for all you early adopters.
- Text posts - Made the titles clickable links
- Pages - Removed the meta data below the pages
- Sidebar - Fixed the bug that prevented users from change the color of the title in the sidebar
- Custom Fonts - Rebuilt the custom fonts to include more punctuation marks - double quotes, single quotes, em dash and en dash.
- Analytics and Tracking - Added Clicky to the analytics options in addition to Google Analytics. Clicky allows you to see in realtime who’s on your site as well as many other features.
- Facebook Like Button - Added additional meta tags so that more information about the post, your site, and link are added to a Facebook feed when a visitor clicks like.
- Facebook ID - Added a field in Appearances where you can add Facebook ID(s) to give you the ability to track who is liking your posts. For more than one admin or user separate them with commas: “username,3889229,admin”
- Bug fixes
- Minor changes
Backburner 1.2.1
- Minor fixes
Backburner 1.2.0
Custom headers and minor fixes
- Appearance - Added option to upload custom header images at 820px by 240px.
- Appearance - Added option to change the header title color.
- Appearance - Added option to hide the header title all together.
- Minor changes
Backburner 1.1.4
Extended latin character support, improved code blocks, and minor changes
- Appearance - Added option to load extended font characters. The new font files are larger in file size, but support extended latin characters
- Appearance - Added option to disable the use of custom fonts. This provides support for sites with Japanese and other Asian languages.
- Text Posts - Improved the styling of and blocks with monospaced font, better wrapping, and hidden overflow for long lines of code.
- Footer - Changed the wording of the credit at the bottom from “Creator” to “designed by” to remove any confusing about who is the creator of the content/site vs. the theme. You can still hide the credit all together in the Appearance options.
- Minor changes
Backburner 1.1.3
- Minor changes
Backburner 1.1.2
Facebook like & retweet buttons and bug fixes
- Share - Replaced Facebook “share” for the new Like button.
- Sidebar - Fixed the profile icon where the float wasn’t cleared properly.
- Sidebar - Addressed “timeago” for Twitter posts problem in Firefox.
- Pagination - Fixed prev/next URLs when going from post to post.
Backburner 1.1.1
- Minor bug fixes
Backburner 1.1.0
New features, improvements, and bug fixes
- Feature - Short URL, retweet with TweetMeme and share on Facebook.
- Feature - Added Flickr module to the sidebar. Add your Flickr user ID to the Appearance module to enable.
- Header - Removed the RSS button from the top right and relocated to the bottom of the sidebar
- Pages - Removed the date from below the page since dates are not supported by Tumblr for pages.
- Text Posts - Added support for tags for code view
- Text Posts - Limited the width of YouTube embeds to 500px to prevent breaking the page.
- Text Posts - Limited image width to 500px.
- Text Posts - Improved styling for various HTML elements.
- Answer Posts - Added additional padding below question
- Sidebar - Added RSS, Follow this Tumblr and Archive to the bottom
- Sidebar - Added option in Appearances for a portrait thumbnail.
- Sidebar - Limited width of images to 200px.
- Sidebar - Fixed buttons for multiple lines
- Sidebar - Fixed sidebar title rollover background
- Sidebar - Improved element styles to help prevent poor rendering
Backburner 1.0.1
- Applied a minor change to the site.css file that fixed image link background colors on Photo posts.
Backburner 1.0.0
- First release of Backburner
