Title: MagazineBasic 3.0.3 – Breaking Changes
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# MagazineBasic 3.0.3 – Breaking Changes

 *  [srikkanthan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/srikkanthan/)
 * (@srikkanthan)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/magazinebasic-303-breaking-changes/)
 * Hi,
 * I have been using Magazine Basic theme for quite a while. Recently I updated 
   to the latest version 3.0.3. I found several changes that took away a host of
   features out… Some of them are:
 * 1. No loop.php ??!!
    2. All the css elements are silently renamed. I had spent
   several days carefully customizing the CSS and all of those are to be trashed
   now. 3. There is no way to control the number of words (as it was in previous
   versions of MB) in excerpts in home page. 4. MB-FeaturedPost – The widget used
   to exclude categories from the main page. Now posts are appearing in main page
   as well as on the MB-Featured Post widget… Then what is the point in featuring
   a post in two places? 5. No way to discard the fluid design and go back to fixed
   layout 6. The new theme options and previewing the changes does not work quite
   well. After applying the change I anyway have to click close and then again visit
   the site to see the changes.
 * I can go on further… This makes me think, this theme has taken a different approach
   altogether and the name Magazine Basic is just a name alone.
 * Atleast the author could have written a blog post about these changes but to 
   my dismay there is none at all.
 * I wonder if these missed out features are now only available in premium version
   of MB? If yes, i will lift both my hands up, You Win, I will buy it. Pray let
   me know.
 * Thanks,
    Srikanth.

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 *  [breakingranks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/breakingranks/)
 * (@breakingranks)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/magazinebasic-303-breaking-changes/#post-4028992)
 * The Magazine Basic update was a disaster for me. I was doing the WordPress security
   update for an old client for free, and I unwittingly updated the Magazine Basic
   theme at the same time.
 * This destroyed my client’s web site, and now I have to restore it for free.
 * I have spent hours twiddling with settings. None of the layout sizes matches 
   the old one, so the client’s static front page (created outside wordpress, no
   longer works. The CSS is different: in order to make the look and feel match 
   the old web site, I will have to customize the CSS pages – which will just break
   again on the next update! The old navigation menu no longer fits.
 * The maker of this theme was really cavalier about the time people would have 
   to spend rebuilding sites out after this update. I will never use Magazine Basic
   for a client again.
 *  [breakingranks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/breakingranks/)
 * (@breakingranks)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/magazinebasic-303-breaking-changes/#post-4028993)
 * You can get the same look and feel with Atahualpa without the fear that you will
   have to rebuild your web sites every time you upgrade.

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