Version 6.4 Changelog

Version released on Aug 18, 2025
  • Upon updating, your site will automatically be opted into the new "Classic Footer Layout" option in the Theme Panel (disabled on new installs). With this option enabled, the callout and footer bottom remain outside the <footer> element, keeping the classic design. If you want to switch to the new, more accessible layout where both elements are wrapped inside <footer>, simply disable the “Classic Footer Layout” option in the Theme Panel after updating.
  • The Font Manager has been optimized and now requires the latest version of the Total Theme Core plugin. Please ensure the plugin is updated to prevent any potential issues.
  • The Top Bar menu is now wrapped inside a Nav element for accessibility reasons.

Added 46

  • Added: “Classic Footer Layout” theme panel setting (see notice at top for more details).
  • Added: An updates widget to the Theme Panel sidebar with a button that can be used to force check for theme updates (when license is active). This will send a new request to check for updates and clear the WordPress theme updates transient if an update is available. This new widget will also display any errors if there are problems fetching updates.
  • Added: Alias option to the Font Manager, allowing you to assign a custom name (like ‘primary’) to your font family. This alias will be used across theme settings and elements, making it easy to switch fonts later without manually updating each instance or performing a database search and replace.
  • Added: A checkbox, when using ACF Pro, under any custom field setting named “Get from Options Page” this will allow you to retrieve ACF field from custom option pages. This new ability will be very handy for creating an easy to use panel for your client so they can edit certain site details without them messing with the page builder (for example the header builder logo image or footer builder copyright text).
  • Added: New {{acf_option_KEY}} dynamic variable for retrieving ACF option page values.
  • Added: “Bleed Media” option to the Feature Box element, when enabled, it will stretch to the edge of the screen (view example).
  • Added: Options to theme elements when set to open an image gallery in lightbox so you can can control the title and caption display.
  • Added: Event query types to the Post Cards element for use with the Events Events Calendar Plugin.
  • Added: Option to the Post Cards element to select a specific “Series” to display events from when using Events Calendar Pro.
  • Added: Option to the Post Cards element when Events Calendar Pro is installed and using one of the dedicated Event Calendar query types named “Single Recurring Events”. The setting is enabled by default so only the next instance of each recurring event will display.
  • Added: Option to the Post Cards element to display only featured events from the Events Calendar Plugin.
  • Added: Event card styles for use with the Events Calendar Plugin.
  • Added: Event date image overlays for use with the Events Calendar Plugin.
  • Added: Option to the Total Taxonomy Terms widget that can be used to exclude terms.
  • Added: Option to the Navigation Bar element so you can stack the links at set breakpoint.
  • Added: Option to the Navigation Bar element to control the mobile select breakpoint.
  • Added: Options to the Icon Box to choose the button style, preset color and icon when displaying a button for the link.
  • Added: Option to the Icon Box to define the transition duration for hover animations.
  • Added: Options to the Icon Box to define custom hover colors for the heading, icon and content.
  • Added: New “Bottom Icon (Below Button) style for the Icon box.
  • Added: A few more icon choices for the numbered pagination arrows (Customize > General > Numbered Pagination).
  • Added: Options to the Image Grid to control the CSS animation speed and to enable Sequential Animation (animate each image one after another).
  • Added: The “WooCommerce Template” & “WooCommerce Notices” elements are now available in Elementor.
  • Added: Menu setting “Menu Icon Placement” for choosing if you want the icon before or after the text.
  • Added: Option to the Accessibility Panel to define the Top Bar menu aria label.
  • Added: “Lightbox Gallery” option to the Post Cards Link Type setting.
  • Added: “Include Featured Image” option to image elements (Grid, Carousel, Slider, Post Cards). When enabled, the featured image will be automatically inserted at the beginning of the gallery, so you no longer need to add it manually. If the featured image is already present in the gallery, it won’t be duplicated — allowing you to enable this option without needing to update existing posts.
  • Added: New has_page_header conditional tag for use with the theme’s Conditional Logic fields, such as the one for the Transparent Header. So if you wanted to enable the transparent header on all pages that have the page header disabled you can simply add !has_page_header into the conditional logic field.
  • Added: A validation check in the Font Manager to verify Google and Adobe fonts upon editing or saving. If a font fails to load correctly, an error message is now displayed at the top of the interface.
  • Added: An option to enable AJAX-based rendering for Post Cards. When activated, Post Cards will fetch content from the server via AJAX after the page has loaded. This feature helps bypass caching mechanisms, allowing dynamic content like time-sensitive events or random posts to be displayed.
  • Added: “Limit Heading Width to Text” on/off toggles for the sidebar and footer widget headings so you can add backgrounds like the Poppy demo without custom CSS.
  • Added: Border Radius options for the sidebar and footer widget headings.
  • Added: Meetup to the list of social profile options.
  • Added: Customizer option under General Theme Options > Page Animations (Side Loader) to disable the loading icon or text. Added Customize option under General Theme Options > Page Animations to view the loading screen, this on/off switch allows you to see the loading screen so when you change the text, colors and size you can easily preview them.
  • Added: Customizer option under General Theme Options > Lightbox tab: “Always Show Controls” By default, the script hides controls (arrows, thumbnails, close button, etc.) after 3 seconds of inactivity. Enabling this option will keep all controls visible at all times.
  • Added: Code to prevent the Page Optimize plugin (which get’s installed automatically by WordPress.com) from combining theme CSS and JS because it incorrectly combines files ignoring important attributes and breaks the site.
  • Added: Shortcode attributes to the header search and header cart icon shortcodes: label_hide_breakpoint, label_class, button_class and icon_class.
  • Added: A loading icon next to the button text in the modal search form (when AJAX is disabled) to provide users with visual feedback while the site redirects to the search results page upon clicking the button.
  • Added: Option to the ACF repeater field for adding classes to each entry.
  • Added: Theme Panel setting to disable the “Connect to Staff Member” functionality.
  • Added: “Post Views” to the Order By option in theme elements (like the Post Cards) when the Post Views Counter plugin is enabled.
  • Added: “None” Icon style to the Toggle (FAQ) element.
  • Added: Option to the Toggle Group element to disable the Accordion effect.
  • Added: More styles and styling options to the Toggle Group element.
  • Added: Customizer option to disable the Accordion effect when using toggles instead of WooCommerce product tabs.
  • Added: Buttons to the Custom CSS panel to increase/decrease the editor font size.

Updated 40

  • Updated: WPBakery to version 8.6.1
  • Updated: Templatera to version 2.4.0
  • Updated: Outdated WooCommerce template parts: tabs.php
  • Updated: The Font Manager to cache the list of fonts and improved the loading and registration.
  • Updated: The Horizontal & Off-Canvas Menu elements to support the menu-button class.
  • Updated: The Centered Logo mobile menu toggle styles can now be selected for all theme header styles.
  • Updated: The Navigation Bar when the style is set to “Expanded” to use the gap property for the spacing instead of side margin to prevent unwanted space on the side when items stack on smaller screens.
  • Updated: When setting a theme element’s “Link Type” to “Current Post” the theme now checks to ensure the single post is viewable, this way if you create a card for use on multiple post types with a button that goes to the post, the button will only show when applicable.
  • Updated: When creating an AJAXED filter using the Navigation Bar, links will no longer link to the taxonomy term archives to prevent issues with speculative loading.
  • Updated: The Video element’s “iFrame Title” field has been renamed to “Video Description”. This field is now used for the title attribute of embedded video iframes and the aria-label of self-hosted videos.
  • Updated: The Video element will use the video’s description as the aria-label for self hosted videos in your media library.
  • Updated: When displaying events from the Events Calendar plugin (Tribe Events) with the “Posts With Thumbnails” widget, the theme now uses the tribe_get_events() function to retrieve the events so they display in proper order.
  • Updated: Better accessibility and focus styles for the Fancybox lightbox popups.
  • Updated: Better accessibility for the Navigation Bar element when used as a filter.
  • Updated: The Icon Box Element so the border settings in the Style tab are available for all styles.
  • Updated: Navigation Bar links when used as a filter will now have a rel nofollow attribute to prevent unnecessary bot crawling of the filter links.
  • Updated: The Navigation Bar element will use a flex container for new installations. For old installs you can opt-in to this update using the vcex_navbar_use_flex_layout hook or use the new “Stack Items Breakpoint” setting.
  • Updated: Total widgets that have exclude and include terms fields to support a list of term id’s or slugs.
  • Updated: You can now disable the Mega Menu Columns menu setting via the “Screen Options” tab in the menu dashboard.
  • Updated: The Font Manager to use a single metabox for all settings.
  • Updated: The Contact Form spinner now displays inside the button next to the text.
  • Updated: The Page Animations custom loading text now supports dynamic variables and shortcodes.
  • Updated: Theme elements where you can select a custom field as a link to display ACF text and email fields for creating clickable phone/email links.
  • Updated: The Theme Settings metabox with conditional logic to dynamically hide fields based on the values of other fields. For example, when the “Disable Footer” setting is enabled, all related footer settings that become irrelevant are now automatically hidden. To prevent any potential conflicts, this feature is only enabled for new installations (aka where the totaltheme_initial_version database option is >= 6.4).
  • Updated: The Meta class to include a new render_callback parameter, allowing the definition of a custom function for rendering the value of a custom field on the frontend.
  • Updated: The Newest Products section displayed on the empty cart page when using the WooCommerce Gutenberg cart block, so that it better matches the theme’s default product entry layout. This update is specifically for users who utilize the newer WooCommerce cart blocks instead of the classic cart shortcode.
  • Updated: The Dynamic Templates dashboard to always show the shortcode column, making it easier to find without needing to filter by part.
  • Updated: Conditional Logic fields to support negation by adding an exclamation ! mark before the tag, such as !is_single.
  • Updated: ACF Fields now display at the top of the list when selecting a custom field from within a theme element.
  • Updated: Font weight options in theme elements to be normalized and added ability to choose the newer Lighter and Bolder relative font weights.
  • Updated: The Contact Form element to display the specific error message when a submission fails. If you’re using a custom error message, you can include {{error}} wherever you want the error to display.
  • Updated: The Toggle Bar so if you have the “Remember State” option enabled and the content changes, visitors will see the updated notice even if it had previously been closed.
  • Updated: The ACF Repeater element to display the template name and add a quick link to edit the template while working in the WPBakery backend editor.
  • Updated: When using the WPBakery “Hide if Empty” row setting, the row will now always be visible in the front-end editor to allow for editing.
  • Updated: When setting a carousel to display 1 item on desktop it will now automatically display 1 item at all screen sizes so you don’t have to manually change the items shown at each breakpoint to 1. When choosing 2 items on desktop it will automatically display 2 items until small screens where it will swap to a single item.
  • Updated: The Custom CSS panel so the design matches the Custom Actions panel where the save button is sticky on the right side so you can save without having to scroll up or down when making edits.
  • Updated: The Theme Panel save notice so it displays at the top in a fixed position.
  • Updated: Vimeo video lightbox now uses the “dnt” parameter automatically, which tells Vimeo to only use essential cookies.
  • Updated: The Toggle Group element will now scroll to the top of the active toggle if it’s no longer in view when opened.
  • Updated: Various important notices for WPBakery element settings to display inline so they aren’t hidden behind the info toggle.

Fixed 44

  • Fixed: Issue with modal search not working correctly for non-Latin characters when displaying live results.
  • Fixed: The horizontal menu extra icons (search/cart/dark mode) were not vertically aligned in Safari.
  • Fixed: When setting a theme element’s “Link Type” to “Current Post” it now correctly returns the redirection URL if that post is using the “Redirect” field in the Theme Settings metabox.
  • Fixed: Tables missing top margin in the Gutenberg editor.
  • Fixed: The Multicolor Divider element was not using the theme’s color picker.
  • Fixed: Tables having extra bottom margin when added via Gutenberg.
  • Fixed: Modal Search (non ajaxed) design on small devices – the input and the buttons will now stack.
  • Fixed: When in dark mode the theme will automatically disable the fancybox light skin css file (when in use) so it can use the default dark skin.
  • Fixed: Debug warning related to total theme localization when saving the theme’s portfolio, staff or testimonials admin settings pages.
  • Fixed: When defining custom labels in the Contact Form element and using placeholders instead of labels the custom labels were not being used in the body of the received email.
  • Fixed: An issue where WPBakery failed to load in the backend when a Pricing element was added.
  • Fixed: Issue where the header menu button’s horizontal padding was removed when using header style one, deprecated styles (theme panel option) and enabling the menu item underline on hover.
  • Fixed: When enabling the hover and active underline for the main menu it was being added to the dark mode toggle icon.
  • Fixed: The Users Grid widget was not displaying editors.
  • Fixed: Issues with the Video element not working with unlisted Vimeo URL’s containing a privacy hash.
  • Fixed: The Button color settings in the Post Terms element were affecting the “Before Text” – new options added to control the before text color and font weight.
  • Fixed: You couldn’t select a custom card style for related posts when using the Post Types Unlimited plugin.
  • Fixed: The Just Events “Today’s Events” query was only displaying events that start and end today – rather than events that either start or end today.
  • Fixed: Cart icon was not working in the Cart Link Elementor widget.
  • Fixed: Display issues with the WooCommerce products Gutenberg block.
  • Fixed: Shortcodes not working when used inside the Toggle element heading text.
  • Fixed: The Mobile Menu Icons menu location was not updating live in the Customizer.
  • Fixed: When Vertical Align Center was enabled in the Feature Box and using a custom breakpoint, the content was being horizontally centered when stacked.
  • Fixed: The header search and cart icons work correctly when set to the “Dropdown” style and used inside the Mobile Menu Icons menu for header styles two, three, four, five and six.
  • Fixed: When adding a search icon to the Mobile Menu Icons menu location it would not work with the new Modal style search.
  • Fixed:  An issue where the Post Cards element did not display all available query options for certain query types that support them.
  • Fixed: Issue with the crop checkbox not being checked in the Image Sizes panel when only a width or a height was defined.
  • Fixed: An issue where specific CSS files were not automatically excluded from the W3 Total Cache plugin’s minification process, as required due to a known bug in the plugin.
  • Fixed: The header search and cart dropdowns will now hide when resizing the browser if the toggle used to open them becomes hidden.
  • Fixed: The Toggle Bar’s “Remember State” setting now works properly for logged out users.
  • Fixed: The acf_{key} dynamic variable now works correctly inside ACF repeater templates.
  • Fixed: The Gallery Slider element was not displaying translated images when used with WPML or Polylang.
  • Fixed: Missing spacing between the product quantity and the add to cart button when added via a dynamic template.
  • Fixed: The full-width WooCommerce add to cart button Customizer setting was not working when creating dynamic templates or custom cards.
  • Fixed: Issue with the Next and Previous Post Links not working when used in a custom post type dynamic template when the “In Same Term” setting is disabled.
  • Fixed: Issue where setting a section or row background to “Fixed” would cause the background to look zoomed in and horrible on larger iOS devices, such as newer larger tablets.
  • Fixed: When using the row Equal Height option when creating ACF repeater templates the items were not displaying at the same height when displayed via the ACF Repeater element.
  • Fixed: The Image Slider and Testimonials Slider elements were not displaying on the front-end when using Elementor due to a conflict with the Elementor entrance animation settings.
  • Fixed: Issue where changing the Post Content font size in the Customizer > Typography tab was affecting the Gutenberg title font size when Editor Styles is enabled in the Theme Panel.
  • Fixed: Issue where changing the H1 typography in the Customizer was affecting the Gutenberg post title.
  • Fixed: Issue where SVG images added with the Image element were no longer rendering at 100% width due to changes in WordPress 6.8.2
  • Fixed: Issue where the body font size defined in the Customizer > Typography tab was targeting the Gutenberg legacy widget form.
  • Fixed: Issue where you could not upload font files while using the Font Manager.
  • Fixed: The Image Grid element was not working in a Dynamic Template, assigned to a taxonomy, when choosing an ACF gallery field assigned to the current term.

New Hooks

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