Version 5.9 Changelog

Version released on Jul 3, 2023

New Video Element

New exclusive "Video" element which allows you to display an embedded or self-hosted video from a URL, media library or custom field and includes an image overlay setting for lazy loading. If you have WPBakery Slim Mode enabled the "Video Player" element will be placed in the "Deprecated" tab when selecting elements to insert.

Added 12

  • Added: New Demos: Finance
  • Added: New video element.
  • Added: New “Aspect Ratio” and “Object Fit” options added to the Post Cards, Image, Image Swap, Image Grid and Image Carousel elements so you can easily control the image sizes without having to crop them.
  • Added: New “WooCommerce Best Selling” Query type added to the Post Cards element.
  • Added: Star Background and Dimensions options added to the Star Rating element.
  • Added: “Child Pages” option added to the Navigation Bar Menu setting and the Post Cards Element Query Type setting.
  • Added: option to the Search Bar element to enter a custom action URL and custom input name.
  • Added: New dynamic variables: {{current_url}}, {{post_content}}, {{post_excerpt}} and {{card_icon}}.
  • Added: Options added to the Social Share element so you can change the background and icon colors.
  • Added: Option to disable the Video Background loop.
  • Added: “Icon Alternative Character” option added to the Divider element.
  • Added: “Lazy Load” option added to the Facebook Page widget.

Updated 16

  • Updated: Bundled plugins Total Theme Core, Templatera & Slider Revolution.
  • Updated: The Self hosted video setting for WPBakery rows has been updated to include a select button to make it easier to locate and insert your videp from your media library.
  • Updated: When using the Star Rating element in a Dynamic Template or Custom card if the rating is empty it will use 4.5 as a default rating instead of displaying a blank area so it’s easier to work with using the Front-End editor or Elementor.
  • Updated: The Star Rating element can now be inserted inside the Flex Container.
  • Updated: Changed the default Page Header Title for 404 pages to “Error 404” instead of “404: Page Not Found” because the page content had the words “this page could not be found.” so it read as duplicate content.
  • Updated: Optimized the CSS used to apply typography styles to headings and buttons and the inline CSS added to the page when choosing custom typography options for these elements in the Customizer. This allows utility classes to override user defined settings and prevents conflicts with Gutenberg and other builders.
  • Updated: Self-hosted videos used for video post format posts no longer uses the “wp_video_shortcode” function and self-hosted audio files used for audio post format posts no longer use the “wp_audio_shortcode” – both which are core WordPress functions that load extra scripts on the site that override the default browser players and slows things down.
  • Updated: The Template Widget now allows you to select both from Dynamic Template parts and Templatera Templates.
  • Updated: Icon, List Item and Image Swap elements have been updated to use the same Onclick settings as other elements such as the Icon Box for consistency.
  • Updated: The You can now use the Icon Box element when creating custom cards (you can see an example on the landing page here).
  • Updated: Moved the width setting in the Text Block element to it’s own Style tab.
  • Updated: Various theme elements that have an alignment option now allow you to choose “None” to remove the default alignment.
  • Updated: If you disable Dynamic Templates in the Theme Panel the theme will display Templatera templates as options in the various Dynamic Template fields as an alternative to using this snippet.
  • Updated: Previously the theme would automatically remove the function in WordPress that converts smileys into emojis, the theme no longer does this.
  • Updated: The Image Swap Element and WooCommerce image swap entry style have been updated to work with transparent images and to prevent the secondary image from showing during page load.
  • Updated: The archives widget has been updated to display the counters to the far side to match the categories widget.

Fixed 22

  • Fixed: When setting a custom heading color in the Customizer Typography tab it was affecting the new Overlay style cards causing issues.
  • Fixed: Icon Boxes were not rendering at their correct widths when used inside the Grid/Flex containers (delete and re-install the Total Theme Core plugin for the fix)
  • Fixed: Heading (h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6) margins were not properly being set when using Gutenberg and were not respecting the defined custom margins from Customize > Typography.
  • Fixed: When using the “Term Based Dynamic Post Templates for Total” plugin if you had previously selected a Templatera template and you edit the term the dropdown would be empty.
  • Fixed: Custom typography settings applied to buttons in the Customizer will now properly apply to Gutenberg buttons.
  • Fixed: The Image Banner was not properly displaying images when set to a custom field.
  • Fixed: When disabling the title, price, star rating or button from WooCommerce product entries the elements weren’t being removed from the WooCommerce card when using the Post Cards element.
  • Fixed: Centered card styles have been updated to work properly with the “Media Max Width” Post Cards setting.
  • Fixed: The Teaser element was not properly adding the link to the image.
  • Fixed: When using UberMenu and the Mobile Menu alternative menu location the theme was still showing the UberMenu mobile menu instead of the theme’s alternative menu location.
  • Fixed: The Search Bar Input font size field was not working.
  • Fixed: When using the Easy Notification Bar plugin with sticky enabled along with the theme’s “Site Frame Border” the notification bar was being covered over by the site frame.
  • Fixed: The menu cart icon was not correctly linking to the cart page while on the checkout page.
  • Fixed: Custom cards were not working correctly when used with the Next/Previous Post Links element.
  • Fixed: There was a bug when disabling the theme’s built-in post types (portfolio, staff, testimonials) if you were re-adding them via the Post Types Unlimited plugin you couldn’t remove the theme’s Page Settings metabox or Card settings.
  • Fixed: Mobile Menu missing indentations for dropdowns when using the Mobile Menu Alternative menu location.
  • Fixed: When using an “Internal Link” with a theme element and custom URL parameters the parameters were being stripped out.
  • Fixed: There was an issue with the Post Cards “Posts by Author or Current Staff Member” Query Type not working with the Assign Staff as Author plugin.
  • Fixed: Videos inserted via the classic editor (via oEmbed) were not getting wrapped in a <p> tag thus causing spacing issues.
  • Fixed: The posts page was missing the bottom padding added to the #primary element.
  • Fixed: The Image Grid element could cause an infinite loop when used inside a custom card and the Post Cards element.
  • Fixed: Using 0 for a carousel “Margin Between Items” setting was not working.

New Hooks

totaltheme/inline_csstotaltheme/header/menu/multisite_checktotaltheme/header/menu/theme_locationtotaltheme/header/menu/wp_menutotaltheme/header/overlay/template_idtotaltheme/conditional_logic/conditional_tagsvcex_video_iframe_url_parametersvcex_video_overlay_play_icon
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