# OceanWP Changelog

### _2026.08.18_ - 4.2.3
- **Added**:: Compatibility: WordPress 7.1.
- **Added**:: Compatibility: WooCommerce 11.
- **Added**:: Compatibility: PHP: Warning: Undefined variable $form_placeholder_attr in ...partials/header/style/vertical-header-search.php on line 36.
- **Improved**:: Customizer: Panels and options rendering logic for improved Customizer speed.
- **Improved**:: Minified CSS files: Encoding changed from 'UTF-8 with BOM' to 'UTF-8' to avoid issues with CSS file combination features delivered by optimization plugins: edd.min.css, gutenberg-editor.min.css, learndash.min.css, llms.min.css, style.min.css, woo-quick-view.min.css, woocommerce.min.css.
- **Updated**:: Template: ...woocommerce/cart/mini-cart.php (compatibility with WooCommerce 11)
- **Updated**:: Template: ...partials/header/style/vertical-header-search.php

### _2026.07.28_ - 4.2.2
- **Added**:: Customizer: Accessibility - A11Y: Enable Keyboard Focus Outline: Option to display inline style for keyboard navigation when all other accessibility options are disabled.
- **Added**:: OceanWP Theme Panel: Admin Settings: Display Front-End Style Inside the Block Editor option. Minimum requirements: WordPress version 7, and Ocean Extra 2.5.8.
- **Tweak**:: Accessibility: Headers: Vertical Header: Search Form: Don't display placeholder text if visible label present.
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/header/style/vertical-header-search.php
- **Fixed**:: CSS Output: An additional comma ',' in the Header CSS output causing Header SVG backgrounds to inherit header menu styling, such as stroke and color.
- **Fixed**:: Header: Mobile: Sidebar type: Menu doesn't close when an anchor link is selected.

### _2026.07.01_ - 4.2.1
- **Improved**:: Accessibility: Focus outline colors logic and fallbacks for keyboard navigation.
- **Fixed**:: Accessibility: Focus outline color not visible on existing websites that upgraded from previous OceanWP versions to 4.2.0 and enabled the new Accessibility Mode option via Customize > Accessibility - A11Y.

### _2026.06.29_ - 4.2.0
- **NEW**:: Customizer: Panel: Accessibility - A11Y
- **NEW**:: Customizer: Accessibility - A11: Accessibility Mode: Global switch. Accessibility improvements are enabled by default for new installations and disabled by default for existing installations.
- **NEW**:: Customizer: Accessibility - A11: Semantic Main Header Tags option: Improved header, navigation and menu markup.
- **NEW**:: Customizer: Accessibility - A11: Semantic Mobile Header Tags option: Improved header, navigation and menu markup.
- **NEW**:: Customizer: Accessibility - A11: Search Forms: Improved all theme search forms markup, with additional options.
- **NEW**:: Customizer: Accessibility - A11: Comment Form: Display visible labels above comment form fields.
- **NEW**:: Customizer: Accessibility - A11: Header Media: Options for accessible header media video output.
- **NEW**:: Customizer: Accessibility - A11: Main Header Social Menu: Add optional visual indicators on social links that open in a new tab.
- **NEW**:: Customizer: Accessibility - A11: Top Bar Social Menu: Add optional visual indicators on social links that open in a new tab.
- **Added**:: Accessibility Statement: accessibility.txt in the main theme folder.
- **Added**:: Accessibility: 'focus-visible' support for modern browsers for improved keyboard navigation.
- **Improved**:: Accessibility: Menu Walker: Added context-aware submenu toggle support with aria-expanded, aria-controls, generated submenu IDs and support for parent-link or icon-based submenu triggers.
- **Improved**:: Accessibility: Keyboard support for menu and submenu toggles, including Enter, Space and Escape key handling where applicable.
- **Improved**:: Accessibility: Focus trapping behavior for Dropdown search, Overlay search, Header Replace search, Mobile Dropdown menu and Full Screen Mobile menu.
- **Improved**:: Accessibility: 'focus' support for older browsers without interferring with keyboard or click navigation.
- **Improved**:: Accessibility: Included Aria labels for relevant 'section' markups.
- **Updated**:: Template: .../comments.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../searchform.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/single/author-bio.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/single/related-posts.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/footer/copyright.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/search/readmore.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/header/layout.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/header/logo.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/header/nav.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/header/search-dropdown.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/header/search-overlay.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/header/search-replace.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/header/social.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/header/style/center-header.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/header/style/full-screen-header.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/header/style/medium-header.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/header/style/vertical-header-search.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/header/style/vertical-header-toggle.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/mobile/mobile-dropdown.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/mobile/mobile-fullscreen-search.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/mobile/mobile-fullscreen.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/mobile/mobile-nav.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/mobile/mobile-search.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/mobile/mobile-sidr-close.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/mobile/mobile-icon.php
- **Updated**:: Template: .../partials/topbar/social.php
- **Fixed**:: Accessibility: Theme: Colors: Default colors failed the contrast test in some areas.
- **Fixed**:: Accessibility: Theme: Some elements did not communicate the open/close state via 'aria-expanded'.
- **Fixed**:: Accessibility: Footer: Duplicate 'contentinfo' landmark.
- **Fixed**:: Accessibility: Focus: Insufficient focus outline styling.
- **Fixed**:: Accessibility: Focus: Some elements missing focus outline on keyboard navigation.
- **Fixed**:: Customizer: Header: Social Menu: Border radius CSS output missing unit.
- **Fixed**:: Theme Panel: Missing plugin file check before reading plugin data.

### _2026.05.20_ - 4.1.6
- All previous changelogs available at: https://docs.oceanwp.org/article/653-oceanwp-theme-changelog
