Upcoming Changelog: 6.9

WPBakery Columns Bug: This update includes a hotfix for a WPBakery 9.0 bug where if you edit a column it changes it's default stacking breakpoint from sm to md. The fix is in the theme itself and will be removed once it's patched upstream. We will release this update ASAP, for the meantime if you edit any columns make sure to check the Responsive tab as you may want to move the width back to the sm breakpoint.

Added 22

  • Added: 65+ new theme icons.
  • Added: Goodreads, Mastodon, Substack, Trustpilot and Google Maps social profile options.
  • Added: Automatic export so that your Customizer settings and Additional CSS carry over when you switch to a child theme for the first time.
  • Added: Customizer section under Global Styles for editing the Dark Surface colors used by the Footer Widgets, Footer Bottom and Mobile Sidebar Menu, and by any element with the wpex-surface-dark class.
  • Added: The ability to import a preset color palette and optionally assign it to the site colors.
  • Added: Shade and opacity controls for global colors. Click the color swatch after selecting a palette or theme color to lighten, darken or add transparency while keeping it linked to the global color. Shaded colors automatically adjust in dark mode.
  • Added: Recently Used section to the icon library popup showing the last 8 icons selected during the current browser session.
  • Added: Icon name display under the selected icon preview in icon select fields, click the name to copy it.
  • Added: Patch for a WPBakery bug that causes columns to swap their stacking breakpoint when they are edited.
  • Added: More styling options for the Heading element icon (width, height, border, background).
  • Added: “Bottom Border” and “Bottom Border Color” options under Customize > Header > General.
  • Added: “Contained” option for the Site Header menu when using header styles 2, 3 or 4.
  • Added: “Top Border”, “Border Contained” and “Border Color” options under Customize > Footer Bottom. The top border is enabled by default on new installs.
  • Added: Top and bottom border width and color options for the Site Header menu when using header styles 2, 3 or 4.
  • Added: An “Installed” font type to the Font Manager for fonts installed via the WordPress Font Library (Appearance > Fonts). Registering an installed font lets you give it an alias, so you can swap the font family later without searching and replacing it across your site.
  • Added: Total Theme section to Site Health > Info showing license status, API connectivity, update settings, bundled plugin versions and download diagnostics, so support can see the full picture from one copied report. Plugin update errors in the Theme Panel now link to it.
  • Added: New staging patterns: dev-*.domain.com, dev*.domain.com and stage[0-9].*
  • Added: Option to the Next/Prev Post Links element to set the Infinite Loop order (date or custom).
  • Added: HTML Tag option to the Button element so you can choose between link or button.
  • Added: Ability to enable Automatic Updates for WPBakery when they are being served by the theme.
  • Added:: Support for wpb-animate-at-{number} classes to control how far an element needs to scroll into view (as a percentage) before its WPBakery CSS animation starts. Example: wpb-animate-at-100 starts the animation as soon as the element comes into view.
  • Added:: Support for wpb-animate-stagger-{number} classes to set the delay in milliseconds between items on elements with sequential CSS animations enabled. Example: wpb-animate-stagger-150.

Updated 16

  • Updated: The Color Palette admin panel.
  • Updated: Theme icon font and Elementor Theme Icons library now include every theme icon.
  • Updated: Customize > Global Styles > Preset Font Sizes now supports responsive values, so each size can be set differently for tablet and phone breakpoints.
  • Updated: Select dropdowns in the Customizer, admin pages and WPBakery editor now show more options before scrolling (up to 400px, previously 200px).
  • Updated: Customizer fields now show and hide instantly based on related settings, including whole sections such as Related Posts.
  • Updated: The Contact Form reCAPTCHA notice to remove the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service links. See the reCAPTCHA FAQ.
  • Updated: The “Fixed Footer” setting has been renamed to “Sticky Footer” which is how it’s more commonly referred to and is now enabled by default on new sites.
  • Updated: The “Fixed Footer” setting now uses CSS instead of JavaScript. Sites that already had the setting enabled are switched to a new “Legacy (JavaScript)” option on update so nothing changes and can switch to the CSS method via the Customizer.
  • Updated: Various WooCommerce Customizer settings now update in the live preview.
  • Updated: Customizer preview so adding and removing items from the WooCommerce cart won’t trigger a preview refresh.
  • Updated: The default alert text color to use the Text 1 color scheme setting.
  • Updated: the Icon Box  to allow selecting Card Thumbnail for the image source.
  • Updated: WPBakery element definitions to support the upcoming WPBakery 9.1 update.
  • Updated: The “Lightbox Titles” option under Customize > WooCommerce > Single Product Gallery is now a “Lightbox Title” dropdown with Alt Text, Caption and Image Title choices. Sites using the old option are switched to a Legacy choice that works exactly as before.
  • Updated: WPBakery Row, Column, Section and Text Block elements now show the Element ID field before Extra Class Name to match the theme elements.
  • Updated: WPML theme settings strings now register via the wpml_register_single_string action and only when their values change, instead of on every admin page load.

Fixed 23

  • Fixed: The staging.domain.com and example.ngrok.io patterns were not recognized as staging sites.
  • Fixed: License activation failing with “Error 403: Your server has been blocked by our firewall” on some hosts.
  • Fixed: Failed plugin installs and updates showing a generic “Download failed” message.
  • Fixed: Post Cards gallery queries not working when the Render with AJAX option is enabled.
  • Fixed: Bundled plugin updates from Theme Panel > Plugins failing with “Download failed” when another plugin hooks into the WordPress download step incorrectly.
  • Fixed: The font family customizer control was showing the raw saved font family not the label in the select field.
  • Fixed: Footer widgets did not show in the Customizer after enabling the “Footer Widgets” option if it was disabled when the Customizer loaded.
  • Fixed: Custom sidebars added as an array through the ‘wpex_register_sidebars_array’ filter were not registered with their own settings.
  • Fixed: The Dark Mode Sticky Logo did not display unless a Dark Mode Image Logo was also set.
  • Fixed: Image Overlays not opening the Modal (Browser) Card Link type and instead going to the post.
  • Fixed: Some image overlays displayed with zero opacity in the Customizer preview when the Overlay Opacity was set to Default.
  • Fixed: Page jumping to the top when opening modals in the WPBakery backend editor. The WP core full-height editor is now disabled on posts using WPBakery.
  • Fixed: Un-styled Templatera notice on the Dynamic Templates page.
  • Fixed: The footer widgets HTML was being added to page when no footer widgets were registered causing an empty space.
  • Fixed: WPBakery select fields showing the default value instead of “Default” when an empty value was saved.
  • Fixed: Typography fonts loading on pages where the element they target isn’t displayed (logo with an image logo, sidebar, top bar, etc.).
  • Fixed: Icon picker could show an outdated icon list after a theme update.
  • Fixed: WooCommerce product gallery lightbox images had an empty alt attribute.
  • Fixed: Missing gap between the product image and product details on the WooCommerce block cart page.
  • Fixed: Missing space on the classic WooCommerce checkout page before the Shipping & Order Notes when it’s displayed in the left column or the Single Column checkout layout is enabled.
  • Fixed: Icons missing from a custom child theme icons JSON file now fall back to the theme’s icons, so a custom file only needs the icons you want to add or change.
  • Fixed: Entering “0” in a post type slug field now removes the slug as documented. If you set this previously and the slug was still showing, your single post URLs will change and the old URLs will redirect.
  • Fixed: Icons and symbols rendering incorrectly on hosts whose CSS optimizers strip the UTF-8 marker. Built stylesheets are now pure ASCII.

New Hooks

totaltheme/header/has_bottom_bordertotaltheme/responsive/breakpoints
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