Custom GeneratePress child theme for Maine AA Area 28.
\nThe full changelog lives in CHANGELOG.md at the repo root; the
\nmanifest-updater plugin picks it up from there automatically and
\ndisplays it in the WordPress admin's \"View details\" modal.
All notable changes to the Maine AA Area 28 theme are recorded here.
\nThe format is based on Keep a Changelog.
Safer site setup, provider-neutral online meetings and contribution content, and clearer contact guidance.
\n- Administrators can now review and rerun the theme's site setup under Appearance → Maine AA Setup or with wp maineaa setup. Setup repairs missing defaults, retries failed work, and notices when a required plugin becomes available, while preserving deliberate role changes and later Elementor edits.
\n- Announcements now have their own permissions. Administrators, Editors and Chairs can manage the full announcement lifecycle; Content Editors can work on their own announcements without publishing authority; Authors and Contributors do not gain announcement access.
\n- Committee and district online-meeting fields now support Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and other services. Existing invitation links are preserved. A valid Zoom meeting ID can create a join link when no link was supplied, while the passcode remains visible separately for entry. Private meeting credentials remain hidden from both pages and the public data feed.
\n- Seventh Tradition content is no longer tied to PayPal. Editors can enter linked contribution instructions, an optional QR image and mailing addresses. Existing contribution data migrates automatically without replacing later edits.
\n- The managed contact form now recovers when Contact Form 7 is installed after the theme or reactivated, without creating duplicate forms. Concurrent setup requests fail safely and retry later.
\n- The login screen uses the site's normal logo when no separate login logo is configured.
\n- Editor guidance now says exactly what the site does: supplied phone numbers may be published, while email addresses route through the contact form. Private meetings use the same wording throughout the editor and public pages.
Security hardening, a header menu that stays on one line, and two fixes that keep the site's styling stable.
\n- Security: the site no longer answers XML-RPC, an old remote-publishing interface that nothing here uses but that is a favourite target for automated password guessing. It also no longer discloses user accounts to anonymous visitors: author-archive probes are sent to the home page, and the public users feed is closed to logged-out requests. The theme and plugin file editors built into the dashboard are switched off. Normal editing in wp-admin is unchanged.
\n- The header menu now stays on one line. Any items that do not fit fold into a \"•••\" dropdown at the end of the bar, which appears only when something actually overflows. To turn it off: Customize → Maine AA — Advanced → Header → \"Keep the menu on one line\".
\n- The current and hovered menu items are now marked with a coloured underline rather than a filled grey box, so the label stays readable at every colour setting. High-contrast and forced-colour modes fall back to a plain underline.
\n- Fixed: on a fresh activation, GeneratePress could mistake the theme's own setup for an old installation and write pre-3.0 defaults over the site. That showed up as grey menu boxes, a legacy header layout and a missing header search icon. The theme now registers itself correctly and paints the menu colours from the site palette.
\n- Fixed: stylesheet changes now reach returning visitors' browsers as soon as they ship, instead of waiting for the next version bump. Previously a cached copy could persist on phones after an update.
\n- The changelog moved out of readme.txt into CHANGELOG.md, which is the file the updater's \"View details\" panel displays.
Stability fixes, a full assembly archive, and a cleaner hero for visitors whose browser or OS is set to high-contrast mode.
\n- Fixed two crash bugs: any request to /news/ or /documents/ with a malformed URL parameter (e.g. ?news[]=1) would return a 500 error. Both pages now handle the input gracefully.
\n- Announcements no longer leak through the site's data feed before their show-from date or after their show-until date. On-page display was already correct; the feed now matches.
\n- The Districts index now shows the Area 28 districts map at the top of the page, with the district cards below.
\n- The district card now groups servants by role (all DCMs together, all Alt DCMs together, etc.) and shows the meeting location and format rather than the district number chip (the \"District N\" heading already carries the number).
\n- The Assemblies index now shows every assembly on a single page. Previously the list was capped at ten posts, which could push the sole upcoming assembly (and its featured \"Next Assembly\" card) out of view when past assemblies were back-filled.
\n- Higher-contrast browsers and OS settings (macOS/iOS/Android \"Increase contrast\", Windows High Contrast, Firefox contrast preferences) now get a cleaner hero: the design's subtle opacity dimming is removed and hero photo backgrounds (Home, Documents, hero-image variants) swap to the guaranteed brand gradient. Default experience is unchanged; the site respects the browser/OS signal automatically, no in-page toggle.
\n- The A− / A / A+ text-size stepper in the primary menu is now off by default. Modern browsers and phones/tablets provide native page zoom and system font scaling that reach every site; the in-header control took real estate most visitors did not use. To bring it back: Customize → Maine AA — Advanced → Accessibility → \"Show text-size stepper\".
\n- Defense-in-depth escaping on document library body content.
Contact form UX polish — the routing form is easier to reach and easier to read on both mobile and desktop.
\n- On mobile, the committee detail page shows the committee's own tabs first; the long list of \"Other committees\" is a collapsed disclosure below, so you don't have to scroll past it to see who chairs this one. Desktop is unchanged (the list stays visible on the left, as always).
\n- On mobile, the officers roster on /contact/ shows three tappable group headings (\"Elected Officers\", \"Committee Chairs\", \"Non-voting Positions\") — each collapsed by default so the contact form is on the first screen. Tap a heading to reveal the roster; desktop is unchanged.
\n- Every \"contact this chair / DCM / officer / assembly coordinator\" link now scrolls straight to the form (via a #send-message anchor) instead of dropping you at the top of /contact/.
\n- Contact links pasted into the footer's Contact column now pre-select the right recipient in the form's dropdown when the address matches an officer, chair, or DCM on file — so a footer link to the Area Chair opens the form with \"Chair\" already selected. Unknown addresses still fall back to the form with the dropdown blank; no address is ever exposed.
\n- The dropdown option labels now include the seat holder's name (e.g. \"Website — Chair — Marissa May C.\", \"Delegate — Willy K.\") when a name is on file, so you can pick the right person by name rather than by role alone. The confirmation banner on assembly deep-links reads the same way.
Servant anonymity: emails are no longer on the site or in its data feed; a new role-mapped contact form on /contact/ routes members to the right chair, DCM, officer, or assembly coordinator without ever showing the address.
\n- Every rendered servant email is gone from every page and from the site's data feed. Committee, district, officers-roster and assembly pages show role and name; where a contact avenue makes sense, the name is a link that opens the new contact form pre-configured to reach that seat. The addresses stay in the admin so the form can deliver, but they never appear in a page, a link, or the site's data feed.
\n- The new form on /contact/ carries a \"who would you like to reach?\" dropdown built live from the current officer, committee and district data — a chair change or a new committee shows up automatically, with no editing.
\n- Assembly coordinators are reachable through a per-contact link on the assembly page — the coordinator's name links into the form in \"Contacting {name}\" mode, so a member can write to the right person without their address ever being published.
\n- Free-form \"mailto:\" links pasted into the footer's Contact column are automatically rerouted to /contact/ so no address ships in the page source. The crisis hotline (1-800-737-6237) is unchanged.
\n- The one personal phone number the content model carried — the assembly coordinator phone — has been removed entirely: from the editor form, from the page, and from the stored data. Institutional phones (crisis hotline, venue phones, other-org public numbers) are unchanged.
\n- Contact Form 7 is now a required plugin (like Secure Custom Fields). If it is missing, an admin notice explains what to install; the officers roster on /contact/ still renders, only the form is absent.
Print-friendly pages, closed-meeting privacy, a scannable document library, and editor dashboard help.
\n- Every page now prints cleanly. When you print (Ctrl+P), the menus, floating buttons and other on-screen chrome drop away, colours flatten to black-on-white, collapsed sections and tabs open so nothing is hidden, web links show their address, and a \"Printed [date] — check the site for the latest version\" line is added at the foot. Made for the rosters, schedules and packets handed out at assemblies and district meetings.
\n- Closed meetings no longer publish their join details. When a committee or district meeting is marked \"closed,\" its Zoom link, meeting ID and passcode are hidden everywhere — on every page and in the site's data feed — and replaced with a \"contact the chair for access\" note.
\n- The Documents library now opens as a set of clearly labelled categories you expand, with a row of category filters across the top, so you can jump straight to the one you need instead of scrolling one long open list. A document can also record the earlier one it replaces.
\n- District pages now carry a \"Service resources\" panel linking the guidelines, assemblies, and the For-GSRs / For-DCMs pages, so a DCM landing on their own district has the service documents one click away.
\n- A committee's Files can now link a document straight from the library rather than re-typing its web address, so the link keeps working when the document is updated.
\n- Two new dashboard helpers for the volunteers who edit the site: a \"Before You Publish\" checklist (anonymity and accessibility reminders, each linked to the relevant guidance) and a \"Writing Style\" reference card; committee chairs see a tidy dashboard with only what they need.
\n- Cards keep a clear outline even at the flattest \"elevation\" setting, so groupings never visually collapse.
A \"page not found\" page that helps, plus site-wide search.
\n- Mistyped or out-of-date links now land on a friendly \"page not found\" page that offers a search box, the main sections to browse, and — when the web address makes it clear — a direct suggestion of the page you were probably after (for example a link to /contact-us/ points you to Contact). When the address is too broad to guess from, it simply fills the search box with those words so you can press Search.
\n- A search magnifier in the site header, and a matching search results page that finds committees, districts, documents, newsletters, and assemblies, with the option to narrow results to one type.
\n- The \"Find a Meeting\" pill now uses the correct brand colour and is properly legible; the header search link is aligned with the text-size controls beside it.
\n- Announcement-band text is now guaranteed readable on whatever band colour is chosen.
Visual polish wave + a floating Find-a-Meeting pill.
\n- Larger hero pathway pills on small screens.
\n- A minimal floating navbar that appears on scroll (mobile), with the hamburger opening the menu as an on-screen overlay.
\n- The A-/A/A+ text-size control moved off the mobile header into the slide-out menu.
\n- A persistent help bar (mobile bottom bar / desktop pill) showing the AA hotline, driven by the existing footer setting.
\n- A new floating \"Find a Meeting\" pill linking the Meeting Guide app and the Maine meeting list; adds one owner-editable \"Find a Meeting URL\" setting in the Footer options.
\n- Body/editorial link underlines, an H6 minimum size so no heading matches body text, and brand-hue-aware shadows.
\n- Accessibility and mobile-breakpoint refinements throughout.