Version 6.0 Changelog

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• Updated: 🌶️ SVG Theme Icons – The theme will no longer load a theme icons font family. Instead all theme icons will render using SVG html code. Previously a fairly large theme icon font was loaded which contained all icons and CSS to render them which created unnecessary bloat. Now only the code needed for the icons used on a given page will be added to the site keeping your site as fast as possible. This was a crucial update in modernizing and optimizing the theme. If you were previously customizing any icons via CSS or inserting icons using HTML (you should have used the theme functions or shortcodes) you may need to revise your edits.
• Updated: The WPBakery Page Builder and added fixes/enhancements for their latest version.
• Updated: The Header Style 5 (centered logo inside menu) now uses PHP instead of Javascript so it will display instantly.
• Updated: Sticky topbar, header and menu javascript has been moved into their own files and loaded only if needed.
• Updated: Header search javascript has been moved to their own files (dropdown, overlay, header replace) so only the code for the selected style is added to the site.
• Updated: Theme Panel icons.
• Updated: Theme icons have been updated to use newer/modern designs (based on the latest FontAwesome v6) and more icon options have been added.
• Updated: Optimized how theme SVG icons are used so instead of having hundreds of SVG’s inside the theme the theme now uses a single JSON file with all icon definitions.
• Updated: Mobile menus are now rendered only when the user first opens them to optimize page loading. A new event wpex:mobileMenuRendered is fired if you need to inject content with JS.
• Updated: The Image Sizes panel now has a “Crop?” setting added for each image size to hide the crop settings by default.
• Updated: The theme now uses modern logical properties and values for left/right margins, paddings and borders to provide automatic RTL support.
• Updated: The default font size and layout width has changed to 1rem and 1280px respectfully to bring the theme into modern standards. If you are updating these changes won’t affect the site. A new “Classic Styles” theme panel setting will be automatically enabled for anyone updating so you don’t have to make any manual adjustments to existing sites.
• Updated: The Blockquote design has been updated to use an SVG icon via modern CSS instead of an image. This way the icon will automatically change color based on the text color.
• Updated: The Mobile Menu Style choices now includes “Dropdown, Dropdown (Inline) and Dropdown (Full Height).
• Updated: The mega menu heading default font size now uses the “Large” preset font size so it stands out (was too small before).
• Updated: The Header menu dropdowns now inherit their font size instead of being slightly smaller. The menu dropdown font size was previously set to 0.923em, so while most won’t tell the difference of this change, it will keep things consistent and prevents issues when using em values for your custom font sizes.
• Updated: The searchform.php file has been updated to include new checks for easily modifying the style, placeholder, input_id, input_class, submit_class, submit_icon and submit_text via the core ‘search_form_args’ filter.
• Updated: BBPress styles to clean a few things up and remove forum title icons.
• Updated: The theme button “Active Toggle Text” field now allows for shortcodes and dynamic variables.
• Updated: If you want to link to a section on your site using an element ID instead of the theme’s local scroll ID you can now do so using the format site.com/#_section-id – by using an underscore after the hashtag it prevents the browser’s initial jump to the section so that the theme can scroll to it smoothly and properly offset sticky elements. If your site doesn’t have any sticky elements you don’t need to worry and you should disable the option under Customize > General > Local Scroll Links > Scroll to URL hash.
• Updated: The default block quote design uses the new CSS image-mask property for the quote icon for retina-ready icons that support custom coloring.
• Updated: The Image Grid element now supports Custom Links when used in Elementor.
• Updated: WooCommerce product tabs default design.
• Updated: The WooCommerce notices to use the newer block based notices by default (disabled when updating – can be enabled via Customize > WooCommerce (Total) > General > Block Notices).
• Updated: The options to enable the search & cart icons in the header menu now work with the Flex Header styles (when updating those settings will be automatically disabled if you are using a flex header so you don’t have to manually update your site).
• Updated: The WooCommerce Template part element now displays only the specific part name in the WPBakery backend editor so it’s easier to see the various parts on the page.
• Updated: The WooCommerce cart page will now display vertically on small screens so it’s easier to use and so it can display product thumbnails.
• Updated: The Customize > WooCommerce > Shop & Archives > Category Description Position setting now allows you to select “Hidden” as an option.
• Updated: The WooCommerce plus/minus quantity buttons are now added with PHP instead of javascript so they render instantly. If you are using a plugin that also inserts plus and minus buttons this change could cause a conflict and you may need to go to Appearance > Customize > WooCommerce (Total) > General and change the “Quantity Buttons Style” to “Browser Default”.
• Updated: The WooCommerce “Menu Cart: Display” setting in the Customizer now has a new option “Icon with Dot” which will display the icon and if any items are in the cart it will show a small dot on the top right over the icon.
• Updated: When using visibility settings in the WPBakery page builder items will no longer be hidden but rather display with an opacity making it easier to work without having to switch to smaller screen sizes to view them.
• Updated: The comments pagination older/newer comments links have been updated to include arrows and to look like links so they are more accessible. We’ve also added a fix for a WP bug when changing the comment order so it displays the correct text.
• Updated: The Overlay Search style magnifying glass icon is now a button which provides better accessibility.
• Updated: The Image Banner and Teaser elements now have the same link options as other elements.
• Updated: The checklist format has been updated to use an SVG icon.
• Updated: Icons added to the categories, archive, recent comments an recent post widgets now use SVG’s instead of theme icons.
• Updated: Some Card styles where using “Text 3” instead of “Text 2” for the excerpt text color making it too light.
• Updated: The theme icon shortcode margin attributes so they support any unit (not just pixels) and the color attribute supports the accent color as well as css variables. A new attribute has also been added named “bidirectional” which when set to true will flip the icon horizontally in RTL mode.
• Updated: The Recent Posts with Icons widget icons to match the icons added over images when the “Thumbnail Post Format Icons” option is enabled in the Theme Panel.
• Updated: Optimized the CSS for the thumbnail post format icons so they display instantly instead of waiting for the page to load.
• Updated: Gutenberg editor CSS has been updated so form styles are only applied to theme elements to prevent conflicts with 3rd party plugins and editor inputs.
• Updated: When “Editor Styles” is disabled in the Theme Panel the theme will still load the needed styles for theme blocks and cards.
• Updated: When “Editor Styles” is disabled in the Theme Panel the theme will still add a little inline CSS to the Gutenberg editor to increase the default fault size because it’s very small (it’s recommended to leave Editor Styles enabled though so the Editor better matches your live site).
• Updated: The List Item and Icon Box elements now add the new “wpex-icon–w” classname to the icon to ensure all icons are the same width when adding multiple list items with different icons one after another.
• Updated: The “Quote” post format now uses a blockquote element for the design for design consistency.
• Updated: All close icons (mobile menu, header search replace, search overlay and cart overlay) so they now use an SVG icon to slim down the CSS used to target the elements, allow easier modification and consistency.
• Updated: The next and previous links that display by default at the bottom of posts now use a single arrow icon.
• Updated: The overlay search will now close when clicking anywhere outside of the search form.
• Updated: When using the staff user relationship if the user description is empty the theme will automatically display the staff member “excerpt” for the author bio description.
• Updated: The WPBakery Tab and Accordion elements will no longer animate by default. A new setting was added under Customize > WPBakery so you can re-enable the animation if you want, but it’s recommended to keep them disabled.
• Updated: The Image Carousel element will now display the video icon for images with videos when lightbox is enabled to be consistent with the Image Grid element.
• Updated: The Social Links element horizontal and vertical padding options now accept custom values.
• Updated: Better keyboard support and instructions for the carousel element for improved accessibility.
• Updated: When using the dropdown mobile menu style with the “Inline With Content” setting enabled; clicking on a local scroll link inside the mobile menu will instantly scroll to section rather then closing the mobile menu first and waiting.
• Updated: The theme now enables support for the newer WooCommerce block notices design.
• Updated: The main header menu dropdowns now have a max-width of 320px to prevent very long dropdowns (does not apply to mega menus).
• Updated: Closing the mobile menu will no longer close sub menu items that were opened.
• Updated: The Lightbox gallery thumbnails now display on the bottom instead of the right side.
• Updated: The Raw HTML WPBakery element is now available for use inside custom cards.
• Updated: The WPBakery tab, tour and accordion animations will be disabled by default in new installs.
• Updated: The Favicons panel is now disabled by default on new installations. It’s best to use the “new” core function at “Settings > General > Site Icon”.
• Updated: When the “Classic Styles” setting is disabled in the Theme Panel (aka new installations) the WPBakery Row “Inner Column Gap” and “Remove Bottom Margin” options will only apply to that specific row and not it’s inner rows. This edit was done in this way to prevent issues with customers updating their theme.
• Updated: The WPBakery backend view for the Custom Field element so it’s easier to see the selected field.
• Updated: When using the Image Swap element and the source set to “Featured & Secondary Images” if only one of the images is set, the element will still display the one image.
• Updated: The related posts heading for singular custom post types now uses the format “Related {Post Type Name Label}” instead of “Related Items”.
• Updated: The text in the TGMPA activation script used for bundled plugins to use the word “optional” for SliderRevolution, WPBakery and Templatera.
• Updated: The List (bullets) element to add the role=”list” attribute to the UL tag for better accessibility.
• Updated: Optimized WPBakery patterns to work with the new dark mode functionality, use only theme icons, use global font sizes, avoid custom hex colors where possible, use slimmer code and have higher quality screenshots.