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Version 10.5.0 - August 4, 2026
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- 5 New Pre-made Demo Sites: Media Scope, Home Magazine, News Echo, Flash Focus, Tech Trends.
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- WordPress 7.0+ compatibility improvements.
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- Backend system refactor (Big updates are coming in next few months).
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- Added: 2 New preset Header Styles.
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- Added: Options to control off-canvas menu headings.
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- Added: Native web share option for the show more link on social sharing.
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- Added: WYSIWYG formatting support for reviews summary.
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- Added: Autoload next post ability to use YARPP plugin.
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- Added: Option to disable sidebar for single on mobile devices.
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- Added: Social follow now has add preferred on google option.
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- Added: 5 New importable homepages to Smart Studio.
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- Improved: Added options to control heading tag for widgets.
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- Improved: Better matching of editor styling to front-end.
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- Improved: Visual styling overhaul for Customizer to match new admin styles.
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- Improved: Input filtering on review metabox options.
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- Improved: 145+ New Google Fonts options in Customizer options.
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- Improved: Review schema to add @id in the markup.
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- Improved: Alternate Endpoint for Sphere Post Views on most webhosts now.
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- Improved: Compatibility with latest upcoming WordPress 7.1 Beta.
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- Improved: Compatibility with latest Elementor.
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- Fixed: Custom fonts not loading in post editor.
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- Fixed: Agentic Browsing passes in Core Web Vitals failed in some settings.
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- Fixed: Visual styling for metaboxes for new admin.
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- Fixed: Lightbox close button hidden behind admin bar for logged in.
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- Fixed: Demo importer layout and Elementor cache clear on import.
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- Fixed: Classic Editor CSS load error in console.
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- Fixed: AMP plugin PHP warning on PHP8.2+.
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- Compatibility with the latest WooCommerce 10.9.x.
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Version 10.3.0 - April 17, 2025
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- 4 New Pre-made Demo Sites: Tribune Post, GadgetsMe, NewsVerified, CuratedMag.
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- WordPress 6.8+ compatibility improvements.
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- Added: 4 New preset Header Styles.
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- Added: Co-Authors Plus plugin support to show multiple authors.
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- Added: Social Profiles and Social Follow support for Bluesky.
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- Added: Support for post editor experimental spacing controls.
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- Added: Threads and Bluesky for all social sharing locations.
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- Added: Mobile browser color option to add a UI color for phone browsers.
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- Improved: 200+ New Google Fonts options in Customizer options.
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- Improved: Customizer option to adjust related post heading tags.
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- Improved: Schema data can now be filtered programmatically.
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- Improved: Avif images now work with lightbox and galleries.
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- Improved: Added an option to disable featured image per page.
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- Improved: Option to enable an author box per page for pages.
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- Fixed: A PHP warning when Autoptimize plugin is used.
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- Fixed: Links in image captions going to new line after WP 6.7+.
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- Fixed: Copy Link in floating share bar not working in Auto Loaded post.
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- Fixed: Comments link in meta when comments button is enabled.
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- Fixed: Bunyad Instagram Widget using a new method and latest API.
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- Compatibility with the latest WooCommerce 9.7.
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Version 10.2.0 - September 16, 2024
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- 4 New Pre-made Demo Sites: Political, NationalPress, NewsOne24, TheVoiceDaily.
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- Improved compatibility with WordPress 6.6.2+ and Elementor 3.24+.
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- Added: 4 New importable homepages to Smart Studio.
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- Added: 3 New preset Header Styles.
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- Added: Option to adjust category size in post meta separately for single posts.
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- Added: New main layout style Boxed B with Inner Content boxed.
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- Added: Sticky Social Share alternate location option - in the post container.
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- Added: Related Posts option for blocks/widgets for single page use - YARPP plugin also supported.
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- Improved: Threads support is complete now with Social Follow & counters widget.
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- Improved: Added option to hide top social follow buttons of single posts on phones.
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- Improved: Options for Header social icons to be toggled on some small laptops.
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- Improved: Set custom colors for single top social share icons.
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- Improved: More device controls for margins and paddings of main layouts.
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- Improved: Added option for max header inner width, for cases of very large resolutions.
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- Improved: Image hover effects selection options from none, fade, or saturate.
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- Improved: Numbered lists styling in small mobile phones.
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- Improved: Image margin options for grid blocks in Elementor.
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- Improved: Mobile editor blocks: group block pad, pullquotes align wide, and more.
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- Improved: Logo padding adjustment option for mobile / tablet and alignment.
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- Improved: Color transparency options added to several header elements.
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- Improved: Further link underline options for single post page.
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- Improved: Remove Elementor’s Swiper CSS unless required, when debloat plugin active.
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- Improved: Category overlays focus disabled for accessibility noise reduction.
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- Fixed: Large Centered post style social icons position.
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- Fixed: Custom main layout padding for mobile devices.
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- Fixed: Lazy load for image widget in Elementor.
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- Fixed: Priority of assets from 10 to 21 for low specificity overrides of Elementor.
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- Fixed: Logo size for mobile 2x larger enlarges when logo height less than header.
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- Fixed: Snapchat social icon in all social areas.
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- Compatibility with the latest WooCommerce 9.3.
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- 8+ smaller fixes related to editor mobile responsiveness.
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Version 10.1.0 - August 20, 2024
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- Enhanced compatibility with WordPress v6.6.1+ and upcoming betas.
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- Added: A programmatic filter for breadcrumbs labels.
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- Added: Pagination support for pages when using default editor.
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- Added: New social profiles Mastodon and Spotify and social follow widget.
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- Improved: Blockquotes styling in the backend for latest Gutenberg.
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- Improved: Table block styling in the backend for latest editor.
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- Improved: Allow sponsors without a URL.
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- Improved: Featured audio/video code width matches content size.
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- Fixed: List styling after latest block editor updates.
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- Fixed: Wide Line variation of the Separator block.
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- Fixed: Schema currency when a price and currency is specified.
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- Fixed: A deprecated error on PHP 8.3.
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Version 10.0.0 - March 2, 2024
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- 9 New Pre-made Demo Sites: Total over 50+ now.
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- Added: Post Sponsor feature to add a sponsor info in single and listings post meta.
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- Added: Mobile Scrolling Menu feature to have always visible links in menu.
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- Added: 4 New preset Header Styles.
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- Added: 9 New importable homepages to Smart Studio.
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- Improved: LCP is improved with an improved images lazyload system.
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- Improved: Ability to select no category for schema of application category.
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- Improved: Added an option for default currency schema for Reviews, in customizer.
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- Improved: Author profile URL is now added to review and article schemas.
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- Improved: worstRating added to the review schema.
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- Improved: Review schema for products now includes image field.
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- Improved: Comment form reply title no longer using a h3 tag.
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- Improved: Compatibility with Elementor’s new background image lazyload.
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- Improved: Further improved PHP 8.3 compatibility in plugins.
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- Improved: Hide any sticky header on opening of a lightbox.
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- Improved: Added text color hover options for header buttons.
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- Improved: Tumblr to social follow and counters widget.
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- Improved: Last updated shown only if edited after a minute+ after publish.
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- Improved: Gallery post format lightbox is now scrollable as well.
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- Fixed: Some of review schema fields showing on form when they’re not applicable.
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- Fixed: “Hide On Phones” setting for single top share text.
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- Fixed: Profile page for authors with 0 posts.
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- Fixed: A low severity security issue in Bunyad AMP.
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- Updated Bunyad AMP with latest AMP specs and over 20 improvements.
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Version 9.5.0 - November 22, 2023
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- 4 New Pre-made Demo Sites: EverydayNews, CityToday, DigitalHub, WorldMag
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- Added: Pros and Cons for Post Reviews with the relevant schema.
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- Added: 2 New Header preset styles.
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- Added: “Copy Link” feature option for the social sharing locations.
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- Added: Post bottom social follow with Google News, Flipboard as new services.
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- Added: Small follow bar option next to single post meta, best for Google News.
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- Improved: Added additional review schema categories such as SoftwareApplication.
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- Improved: Auto-excerpt function to many blocks such as embeds links.
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- Improved: Review box responsiveness for some devices.
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- Improved: UI of the backend for metaboxes, reviews boxes and responsiveness.
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- Improved: Added an option to enable or disable review schemas.
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- Improved: WPML configuration file compatibility with additional configs.
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- Improved: All the new Google Fonts releases added with total 1580+.
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- Improved: Added more post style customization options.
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- Improved: Extra settings for containers in Elementor (beta) for dark mode and more.
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- Improved: Main Layout Padding with a large number behavior on large tablet portraits.
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- Improved: WordPress 6.4+ compatibility.
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- Fixed: Preload for icons font may load incorrectly.
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- Fixed: Sphere Core PHP notice related to version updater.
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- Fixed: Accessibility issue in the off-canvas close button.
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- Fixed: Lightbox gallery on Gutenberg galleries.
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- Fixed: Theme preview not working for other themes with SmartMag Core.
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- Fixed: Elementor Pro Compatibility - Template widget causing editor failure.
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- Fixed: Dark mode border setting not applying in Elementor sporadically.
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- Fixed: Post share top circles style expanding on some mobile devices.
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- 40+ minor changes and improvements to styles and customizer options.
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Version 9.3.0 - September 20, 2023
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- Added: New X (Twitter) branding with the new X logo.
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- Added: Performance option to auto skip lazyload for first N images.
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- Added: Threads and Snapchat social profiles options.
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- Added: Option in Elementor blocks to skip lazyload for N images for LCP.
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- Added: Option to enable or disable context such as Category: in breadcrumbs.
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- Added: Change headings tag for single sections like related posts, comments.
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- Improved: Compatibility with Elementor v3.16.
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- Improved: Removed deprecated methods and hooks for Elementor.
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- Improved: LCP improvements for single post page.
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- Fixed: Respect no-lazy and skip-lazy classes on images if set by 3rd party.
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- Fixed: Packaged plugins updates
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- Fixed: A few deprecated notices on PHP 8.2.
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Version 9.2.0 - July 5, 2023
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- 2 New Pre-made Demo Sites: SmartLife, MagazineCo.
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- Smart Ad Blocker Detection system.
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- Added: 3 New importable homepages to Smart Studio.
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- Added: 12+ New importable sections/blocks to Smart Studio.
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- Added: Tertiary font option for consistent settings.
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- Added: New Post style variation Modern Featured Top.
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- Added: Typography options for block filters.
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- Added: Support for RankMath breadcrumbs in addition to Yoast and our own.
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- Added: Adblocker message delay for X hours, dismissible and more.
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- Added: An option to exclude current post on widgets and blocks.
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- Added: Option to disable archive titles and set the title format.
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- Added: More dynamic translation strings for WPML.
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- Added: New importable newsletter section in Smart Studio.
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- Added: Options to display single top social sharing on certain devices only.
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- Improved: Added nofollow noopener to floating share and header/footer icons.
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- Improved: LCP for first image is further optimized with priority now.
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- Improved: Added a dev filter to replace subtitles.
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- Improved: Breadcrumbs block in Elementor supports plugins now.
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- Improved: Mobile view for post lists block when top meta category enabled.
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- Improved: Custom breakpoints support in Elementor.
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- Improved: Option to add media shadows per block.
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- Fixed: Backend editor colors not applying to list block.
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- Fixed: Rare case in auto-load post where first post has no sidebar.
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- Fixed: Elementor Pro double footer issue when using a custom footer.
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- Fixed: Column order setting in Elementor hidden after reload.
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- Over 15 minor fixes and improvements.
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Version 9.1.0 - April 1, 2023
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- WordPress 6.2 compatibility and improvements.
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- 3 New Pre-made Demo Sites: FridayMag, Discover, SmartPost.
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- Added: 3 New importable homepages to SmartStudio.
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- Added: Auto Dark Mode setting to auto-set dark mode by user preference.
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- Added: 2 New Header preset styles.
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- Added: Enhancements for Elementor’s new Containers beta feature.
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- Added: Carousels navigation distance option.
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- Added: Scroll support to tables set as non-fixed in post editor.
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- Added: 6 columns support for blocks in Elementor.
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- Added: Option to adjust elements and paragraph gaps in single.
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- Added: Plain quote styling and re-added large quote style for latest WP.
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- Added: Another 135+ of the latest Google Fonts options.
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- Added: Action hooks for social media rendering.
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- Improved: Better PHP 8.1/8.2 compatibility (still beta in WordPress core).
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- Improved: Search Icon size setting added for top bar.
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- Improved: Custom Max Width setting compatibility with ads.
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- Improved: Backend post editor styling of several blocks.
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- Improved: Custom width support for top boxed sections in Elementor.
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- Improved: New AMP features support such as redirect to mobile, and native img.
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- Improved: Filters to override social share templates via child themes.
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- Fixed: Conflict with ElementsKit plugin and search popup.
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- Fixed: Spacing different for carousel nav dots when using Debloat plugin.
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- Fixed: Post body links underline for Safari.
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- Fixed: Social icon meta-right can cause errors in rare cases such as outdated overrides.
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- Fixed: Demo Importer deprecated warning in WP 6.2.
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- Updated Bunyad AMP with the latest specs and hundreds of fixes.
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Version 9.0.0 - November 24, 2022
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- 2 New Pre-made Demo Sites: Tech Blog, RTL / Arabic
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- Added: New Post Style: Modern Large Bold variation.
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- Added: New block heading styles.
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- Added: 2 New social follow counter styles.
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- Added: Card style for list posts in Elementor and list block/listing settings.
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- Added: 30+ new customization options. Notable: Images shadows.
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- Added: 2 importable homepages to SmartStudio.
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- Added: 2 New single top social share styles and a new location option.
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- Added: Gradient border options for header.
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- Added: More options for grid posts in Customizer, such as column gap.
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- Added: Share text label option for top social share on single.
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- Added: Another 30+ of the latest Google Fonts options.
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- Added: A new importable header preset.
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- Added: Media Vertical centering to list posts.
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- Added: Separate main colors options for dark mode.
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- Added: Cards and stylish style options to grid block/listing settings.
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- Added: Other 8+ Global block/listing options to set defaults such as different category overlay label per block/listing type.
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- Added: Option to underline links in posts.
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- Added: Customization options for reviews box.
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- Added: Arabic translation for frontend with most of the important strings.
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- Improved: More options for view more link in block headings.
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- Improved: Select primary/secondary font for any typography setting in customizer.
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- Improved: 14+ new customization features for headers, including gradient border.
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- Improved: Default Large post style fluid font sizes on mobile.
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- Improved: Text labels options for single post meta.
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- Improved: Breadcrumbs customization options such as colors.
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- Improved: Author box typography customization options.
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- Improved: Customizer UI for RTL languages.
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- Improved: Removed some unnecessary strings from translations.
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- Fixed: Load more missing post format icons when using Debloat plugin.
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- Fixed: Images roundness issue on old Safari browsers.
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- Fixed: Top social icons width if set lower than 100px.
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- Fixed: Translations for social follow intermittently not working.
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- Fixed: Font weight 800+ not working in some customizations.
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- Over 32 smaller fixes and improvements.
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Version 8.5.0 - November 3, 2022
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- 3 New Pre-made Demo Sites: TechDrop, Blogger, DigiTech.
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- WordPress 6.1 compatibility and improvements.
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- 200% Faster Customizer load on slow devices.
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- Added: Support for pagination in News Focus, Focus Grid & Highlights blocks.
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- Added: Padding dimension controls to many Post Editor blocks.
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- Added: Dark mode background option to all Elementor widgets and columns.
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- Added: 2 new header presets.
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- Added: Media image ratio adjustment per device for Elementor blocks.
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- Added: 3 importable homepages to SmartStudio.
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- Added: 9 new importable home sections and blocks in SmartStudio.
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- Improved: All Post Editor blocks for WordPress 6.1 compatibility esp. buttons, lists, columns.
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- Improved: Message on review posts with missing criteria or invalid overall number.
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- Improved: Ability to skip lazyload with skip-lazy and no-lazy classes.
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- Improved: Compatibility with custom permalinks on custom archives pagination.
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- Improved: Added alpha/opacity control to several color options.
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- Improved: Post Editor buttons block gap.
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- Improved: List block in Post Editor now supports visual indentation.
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- Fixed: Review schema summary snippet text issues with some languages.
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- Fixed: RTL languages issues with block editor.
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- Fixed: Pagination issue on blocks with heading filters enabled.
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- Fixed: Section hide on mobile not working on latest elementor.
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- Fixed: Social Icons block in Elementor alignment resets and may cause error.
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- Compatibility testing/updates for WooCommerce 7.0.
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Version 8.0.6 - May 26, 2022
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- Tested and Ready for WordPress 6.0.
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- Added: Query ID field in blocks for devs to programmatically filter query.
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- Fixed: WordPress 6.0 Notice when WP_DEBUG is enabled.
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- Fixed: Elementor error when using unsupported Containers experiment.
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- Fixed: Sphere Post Views original post view count combined on WPML posts.
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Version 8.0.0 - March 21, 2022
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- Footer Builder: Build fully custom footers using Elementor globally or for locations such as home, archives, posts, pages.
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- One-click and Auto-Updates: Easily one-click update the theme via WordPress backend, or even auto-update with WP core.
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- Post Views Plugin: Our premium most optimized post views counter with vast performance features.
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- Added: Native one-click updates for theme, auto-updates also supported.
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- Added: 3 new importable Header presets.
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- Added: 3 importable homepages in smart studio.
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- Added: Options to hide any Elementor area in dark or light mode.
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- Added: Native updates for ThemeSphere plugins with auto-updates support.
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- Added: Posts Views Premium Plugin with many performance features.
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- Added: Overall post views, 7 days and any custom days sort for all blocks.
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- Added: Post meta display of post views, with optional ranks for different colors.
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- Added: Set custom post views for posts, when plugin is enabled.
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- Added: ‘Fixed’ sticky header option alongside the existing ‘Smart’, for mobile.
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- Added: List & Links block in Elementor.
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- Added: Several new styling options to SmartMag Elementor blocks.
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- Added: Dark mode color options for several core Elementor blocks.
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- Added: More dynamic tags in Elementor, such as Footer Copyright.
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- Added: Several options in Customizer for single post comments.
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- Added: SmartMag Social Icons block for Elementor.
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- Added: More customization options for header ticker.
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- Improved: Added column separator option for grid and list blocks.
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- Improved: Autoload next post updated to track for new post views plugin.
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- Improved: Dark mode color for native divider widget in Elementor.
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- Improved: Header sticky row can be forced full width now.
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- Improved: Control post meta icons size.
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- Improved: Pause header news ticker on mouse hover.
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- Improved: Solid background variation for WP 5.9+ pullquotes.
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- Improved: Get rid of icon font text visible warning in PageSpeed Insights.
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- Fixed: Social Icon colors for colored icons style for discord, twitch, flickr.
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- Fixed: Archive builder changes sometimes not reflecting on first load after save.
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- Fixed: Floating social share in tablets devices.
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- Fixed: Custom archives pagination affecting blocks with pagination disabled.
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- Fixed: Gallery post format slider not working with the new Gutenberg markup.
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- Fixed: Bunyad AMP double logo when dark mode logo is set on a dark header.
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- Many new customization options in Customizer and Elementor.
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- Compatibility testing/updates for plugins such as WooCommerce 6.3.
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Version 7.1.1 - January 28, 2022
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- Improved: UX of Sidebar Width option and applying correct when both px and % set.
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- Fixed: Sidebar Gap setting not working properly.
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- Fixed: WordPress 5.9 Yoast SEO conflict & metaboxes not saving.
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Version 7.1.0 - January 26, 2022
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- WordPress 5.9 compatibility and improvements.
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- Fixed: "By" string for post meta now can be searched in Loco Translate.
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- Fixed: Post Editor issues on WordPress 5.9.
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- Fixed: Sort Days for Jetpack Views sort.
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- Improved: Debloat plugin rules for dark mode if all scripts delayed.
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- Improved: Exclude dark switcher from Debloat delay load.
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- Improved: Usage of bunyad_meta_boxes filter in SmartMag core & example for CPTs.
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Version 7.0.0 - November 22, 2021
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- 6 New Designs/Demos: Health, MagStudio, NewsBulletin, GossipMag, Fitness, GameZone
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- Archive Builder/Custom Layout for power users. Build your custom category, tags and archive pages.
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- Added: 5 new importable Header presets.
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- Added: 6 New importable Homepage in Smart Studio.
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- Added: 10 importable sections/blocks in Smart Studio.
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- Added: New Post Style: Modern Large Image.
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- Added: 2 New Grid Block style variations: Cards, Stylish.
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- Added: Native browser sticky sidebar option.
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- Added: A sample importable custom archive layout in Smart Studio.
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- Added: New number/counter styles for Grid blocks.
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- Added: Margins, padding, and more options for Blocks box/content in Elementor.
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- Added: Option to add a class to first / featured image for lazyload plugins exclude.
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- Added: Option to enable breadcrumbs for pagebuilder templates as well.
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- Added: Box border and shadow options in Elementor blocks.
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- Added: Category label styling options in Elementor blocks.
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- Added: Sticky column option for any Elementor column.
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- Added: Option to disable load more pagination links in blocks, for SEO.
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- Added: Blocks option to exclude categories.
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- Added: New light social sharing buttons style for top social share.
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- Added: Several customization options related to excerpts in blocks.
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- Added: More post meta customization options in Customizer.
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- Improved: More color options like hover color for post titles in Elementor blocks.
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- Improved: Grid blocks number counters line limit now supported.
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- Improved: Legacy shortcodes plugin update prompt for v3 upgrades.
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- Improved: Scheduled posts publish date checks, when forced last updated.
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- Improved: Gutenberg button styles with rare very long text.
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- Improved: Post meta tap targets for mobile UX.
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- Improved: Mobile logo rendering when incorrect size is used on iOS 15.
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- Improved: Latest Google fonts added to the typography selection.
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- Improved: Author box on smaller mobiles.
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- Improved: Newsletter button text can be customized now.
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- Improved: Add logo width and height dimensions for no CLS.
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- Improved: New button 3 added for headers, with support for mobile.
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- Fixed: PHP8 missing columns option in Elementor blocks.
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- Fixed: Debloat JS delay breaking post card embeds.
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- Fixed: Button 2 not rendering in header in certain cases.
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- Fixed: Ads/Custom Codes glitching when using "Hide On" setting.
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- Fixed: Review criteria sometimes does not delete.
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- Fixed: Skip lazyload images in embeds.
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- Fixed: Sup tag rendering support.
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- Fixed: Elementor titles color not working in some blocks.
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- Many other customization options added to Elementor blocks.
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- Compatibility testing/updates for plugins such as WooCommerce 5.9.
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Version 6.0.0 - August 23, 2021
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- Massive Speed Improvements on mobile for Core Web Vitals using our updated performance guide and Debloat plugin integration with Remove Unused CSS, Delay Load and so on.
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- Smarter task scheduling in the theme JS for performance.
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- Preload icon fonts for further CLS improvements.
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- Added: 3 New importable Homepage in Smart Studio.
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- Added: 3 new importable Header presets.
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- Added: Image roundness feature for all blocks.
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- Added: Small titles typography options for News Focus / Focus Grid block.
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- Added: Several dev filters/hooks for theme templates.
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- Added: Vertical centered content option to List blocks.
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- Added: Option to specify minimum comments before shown in meta.
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- Added: Search modal overlay color customization.
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- Added: Force disable all Google fonts option for theme and Elementor.
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- Added: 5 new importable blocks/sections in Smart Studio.
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- Improved: Gutenberg Separator block colors support.
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- Improved: Custom sidebar width support in px.
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- Improved: Review box verdict design with longer text support.
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- Improved: Featured grids image selection for grid-b on 1x devices.
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- Improved: Post Cover layout support for post formats.
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- Improved: WPML string definitions for 2 missing customizer texts.
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- Improved: Compatibility with custom Elementor Pro layouts.
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- Improved: Points can now be used in overall rating of review posts.
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- Fixed: Featured grids meta removal via Elementor when also set via customizer.
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- Fixed: Custom code feature for footer.
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- Fixed: Offset incorrectly applied in heading filters.
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- Fixed: Non-breaking JS error on a few elementor widgets.
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- Fixed: Taxonomies with CPT and custom IDs in Elementor widgets.
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- Fixed: WhatsApp icon in header social icons.
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- Fixed: Small Title typography settings Featured grid block.
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- Several new Customizer and Elementor options.
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- Compatibility testing/updates for plugins such as WooCommerce 5.6.
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Version 5.5.0 - July 20, 2021
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- WordPress 5.8+ compatibility improvements.
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- Added: Option to add AMP only head codes in Custom Codes.
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- Improved: Backend editor styling for latest Gutenberg.
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- Improved: Mobile logo height consistency on AMP and responsive.
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- Improved: AMP ad code without accompanying normal code is allowed now.
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- Fixed: Lazyload compatibility with 3rd party plugins like MetaSlider.
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- Fixed: Classic Editor JS issue when using WP older than v5.6.
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- Bunyad AMP: Path suffix /amp/ support option for URLs.
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- Bunyad AMP: Now includes hero image CLS optimizations.
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- Bunyad AMP: Updated to latest official specs.
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Version 5.4.0 - July 12, 2021
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- New Design/Demo: Social Life.
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- Added: Option to exclude tags in blocks and widgets.
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- Added: New importable Homepage in Smart Studio.
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- Added: Option for default WooCommerce page layouts.
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- Added: Feature to select text or badge style for categories in single meta.
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- Added: Hide or Show last item / title in breadcrumbs on single pages.
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- Added: WPRocket plugin delay JS compatibility with Autoload next post.
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- Added: 2 new importable sections in Smart Studio.
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- Added: New preset header option: Colored Mix.
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- Improved: Further optimized images lazyloading performance.
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- Improved: Widget About social icons drag/drop reorder.
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- Improved: Sticky sidebar subpixel rendering on 1x screens.
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- Improved: Preset headers settings apply consistency.
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- Fixed: Autoload next post JS conditional load.
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- Fixed: Tabbed Recent widget for more than 4 posts.
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- Fixed: Pagination for blocks in Elementor Plugin page templates.
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- Fixed: sub/sup HTML element positioning and font sizes.
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- Fixed: Multiple "Hide On" settings for Custom Codes / Ads.
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- 8 other minor CSS and design improvements.
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Version 5.3.0 - June 20, 2021
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- 2 New Designs: PrimeMag and Financial.
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- Added: Border weight option for heading style C and variants.
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- Added: Options to adjust sidebar gap/spacing.
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- Added: Custom sidebar width options in percent or pixels.
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- Added: Telegram to Social Sharing services.
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- Added: 2 new Header presets in Customizer.
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- Added: 2 new importable Homepages in Smart Studio.
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- Added: TikTok, Twitch, Telegram, Discord to social links.
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- Added: 6+ social networks to Social Follow widget.
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- Added: Option to enable Yoast Primary Category support (in Misc).
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- Added: Several customization options for single social top.
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- Improved: 1x image quality for Featured Grid A style.
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- Improved: Script enqueue order for some performance plugins.
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- Improved: SmartMag About widget has all social icons now.
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- Improved: Customization options for header trending ticker.
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- Fixed: Reset options not clearing cache.
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- Fixed: Recent tabs number of posts option.
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- Fixed: Classic footer long links list not wrapping on mobile.
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- Updated: Google fonts options with latest fonts.
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Version 5.2.0 - May 6, 2021
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- Improved: Blocking time on mobile.
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- Improved: CLS and blocking on desktops.
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- Improved: Autoload next post load Google Adsense ads.
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- Improved: Site Width header styling.
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- Improved: Redundant date links removed in post meta.
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- Improved: Title tags on image links for accessibility.
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- Improved: Added many new dev hooks such as for meta.
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- Added: Custom width option for hamburger icon.
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- Added: Exclude post by IDs in blocks.
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- Fixed: Custom Date format option on header.
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- Fixed: Text element on mobile header.
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- Fixed: Hamburger icon stretch in "site-width" header rows.
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- Fixed: Vimeo in social follow widget.
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- Fixed: Pagination in authors page template.
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Version 5.1.2 - April 2, 2021
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- Improved: PHP8 compatibility.
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- Improved: Navigation touch actions on laptops with touchscreen.
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- Improved: Adsense responsive auto units dimensions adapt better.
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- Improved: Changed heading tag in auth modal.
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- Fixed: Unnecessary mobile logo tag.
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- Fixed: Settings only import in Demo Importer.
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Version 5.1.0 - March 22, 2021
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- New Designs: GeeksEmpire / Entertainment and Informed News.
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- Added: 2 new importable homepages in Smart Studio.
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- Added: 5 new importable sections in Smart Studio.
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- Added: Load More styling customization options.
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- Added: New light style E for Sticky Social Share.
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- Added: Design customization options for sticky social share.
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- Added: Top center and Bot center align for category overlay labels.
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- Added: Option to center content in global and Elementor.
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- Added: Blocks/listings content padding options.
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- Added: 2 new Load More button styles.
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- Added: Simple hamburger icon option.
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- Added: More options to customize hamburger icon height, width etc.
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- Added: System font stack options.
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- Added: Reddit in social sharing buttons.
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- Added: Option to disable single featured image lightbox/link.
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- Added: Reddit option in social links such as header, footer etc.
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- Added: Elementor column separator option.
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- Added: Responsive columns order in Elementor.
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- Added: Heading html tag option for SEO for blocks.
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- Improved: Hamburger icon rendering on Chrome on Windows.
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- Improved: Elementor performance with thousands of tags or categories.
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- Improved: Widgets performance with too many categories.
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- Improved: Some header options migration from v3.
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- Improved: SEO: Title Tag option now available on featured grid block.
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- Improved: Pagination of blocks with section query.
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- Improved: Image selection on devices for featured grids B, C, and EQ1.
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- Fixed: Heading filters with limit by tag.
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- Fixed: Related posts YARPP option and numbers.
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- Fixed: Featured grids inclusion in no duplicates on home feature.
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- Fixed: Custom added font names become invisible in Customizer.
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- Fixed: New Ads/Code widget HTML and AMP code sanitization.
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- Several other smaller fixes and improvements.
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Version 5.0.3 - March 4, 2021
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- Improved: Sticky Social behavior with some cache plugins.
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- Added: Simple Dark 2 (News) Header Preset.
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- Added: News Spotlight in Smart Studio.
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- Added: News Homepage in Smart Studio.
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- Fixed: Errors on a few Smart Studio imports.
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- Fixed: Disable BG images.
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- Fixed: Re-added compatibility for old WP galleries.
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- Fixed: Comments hidden on AMP too when setting enabled.
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- Fixed: Users with non-admin capabilities login issue.
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- Fixed: PHP Notice on some block configs with WP_DEBUG.
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Version 5.0.0 - February 24, 2021
This a major update, please read before updating: http://theme-sphere.com/forums/topic/version-5-0-migrating-from-v3/
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- Our biggest update yet. Massive number of features, and full rewrite with backward compatibility.
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- 5+ New Demos.
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- New Supercharged Elementor Pagebuilder with our unique magic.
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- 60+ importable blocks/sections via Smart Studio.
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- Live Customizer with thousands of settings. Instantly preview customizations.
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- Unique Dark Mode with header switcher and color customization options for dark mode.
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- Re-designed/polished most elements to be modern.
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- Much of legacy JS rewritten for performance.
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- Added: 3 new single post styles with countless variations.
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- Added: Beautiful Newsletter Subscribe widgets and blocks.
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- Added: 9 Smart Flexible base blocks with ability to create countless variations.
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- Added: Full Gutenberg / new WordPress Editor integration.
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- Added: 7 new Block Heading styles with infinite customization options.
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- Added: Autoload Next Post for single page with Google Ads and Analytics support.
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- Added: One-click demo import for all demos.
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- Added: Smart Studio - Premade homes, sections, and blocks for page builder.
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- Added: Unique variations for Gutenberg blocks such as quotes, pullquotes, separator.
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- Added: Sticky/Floating social share with 4 design styles.
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- Added: Smart Image System that relies on only 3 additional image sizes now.
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- Added: Heading styles for sidebar, footer widgets, and single post sections.
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- Added: Estimate post read time for post meta - usable in all blocks and listings.
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- Added: "Updated Date" in post meta of single posts for SEO benefits.
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- Added: Social sharing buttons above the post and new social networks options.
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- Added: Login / Register Modal with WordPress Social Login plugin support.
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- Added: Flexible Post Meta. Move and enable / disable items as you like.
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- Added: Smart Headers - 10 Presets and 9+ elements to build your own main and mobile header.
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- Added: 2 new Mega Menu styles.
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- Added: Bunyad AMP Plugin. Makes your amp version look the same as non-amp.
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- Added: New page layouts and settings.
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- Added: Off-canvas menu for desktops and mobiles with widgets support.
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- Added: Load more pagination type and updated pagination designs.
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- Added: Built-in Lazyload feature for images and iframes.
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- Added: 9 Featured Area grids that are customizable and also be used as Slider.
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- Added: Image Aspect Ratio selection (or custom) for all blocks and listings.
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- Added: A migrator and converter for conversion from older versions.
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- Added: New Ads widget with AMP code and devices support.
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- Added: Modern Lightbox for galleries and linked images in single posts.
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- Added: Full-page overlay modern search with customization options.
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- Added: Responsiveness and mobile layout has been redone for modern devices.
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- Added: New Bold Footer style.
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- Added: Option to enable/disable FontAwesome (not needed anymore).
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- Added: Enable/disable legacy theme features.
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- Added: Add subtitles to Single Posts.
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- Added: Options to customize Single Post
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- Added: Option to have a Comments show/hide button toggle. Works great with Autoload next post.
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- Added: Customization options for all header elements.
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- Added: Mobile header can be customized separately.
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- Added: More options for Related Post sources.
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- Added: Footer colors and fonts customization options.
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- Added: New breadcrumbs style and customization features.
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- Added: Ability to show/hide breadcrumbs on archives, pages etc.
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- Added: Advertisements and Custom Codes system. Insert ads before/after header, before/after single post content, footer etc.
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- Added: Many more Featured Area styles for categories.
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- Added: Full-width header options and styles.
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- Added: Customizations for main layout such as Site Width.
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- Added: Unique Core performance options such as preload.
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- Added: 4 New Social Follow & Counters Widget Styles. And customization options.
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- Added: Performance & Speed guide in documentation.
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- Added: Unique Section Query feature to use same query for all blocks in a section.
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- Added: Column options for footer widgets and improved custom layout.
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- Added: Category labels customization and position options.
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- Added: Full PHP 7.4+ compatibility.
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- Added: New Powerful Latest Posts widget.
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- Added: Grid, Highlights and Overlay block as widget.
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- Added: Features to select layouts for other archives like author, search.
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- Added: Option to add gradients to header background.
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- Added: Fully tested compatibility with cache plugins.
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- Added: Lightbox compatibility for mobile devices.
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- Added: Customization options for all listing styles.
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- Added: Enable/disable layout element such as read more on listings.
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- Added: Customize text for 404 Pages.
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- Added: New Post Format overlay styles in listings with size customization.
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- Added: 2 columns support for social followers widget.
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- Added: Contrast scheme support for blocks, when using on dark bg.
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- Added: Reviews style in listings radial overlay, bars, or stars in meta.
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- Added: Over 1000 theme settings options.
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- Updated: Reviews schema updated with latest Google specs.
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- Updated: CSS generation system with cache for better performance.
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- Updated: Options system updated for less memory usage.
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- Updated: Infinite scroll rewritten for performance.
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- Updated: Google fonts to include many new fonts.
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- Updated: New social services added and outdated removed in all areas.
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- Updated: Footer copyright is now in Customizer with current year display support.
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- Updated: Easy social settings in Customizer now, previously in header widget areas.
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- Updated: Sticky header updated with smart scroll intent detection and option to select the row to make sticky.
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- Updated: WooCommerce integration and styles for the latest version.
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- Updated: bbPress design polished and improved compatibility.
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- Countless bugs fixes and design tweaks. Tested and improved for modern browsers.
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- Over 2000 hours of work done, and thousands of improvements on this release. This isn't a full list.
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Version 3.4.0 - December 10, 2020
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- Fixes for compatibility with WordPress v5.6.
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- Updated: Bunyad Page Builder to fix styling.
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- Fixed: Theme Options typography errors.
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Version 3.3.1 - August 12, 2020
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- Updated Bunyad Page Builder for WordPress v5.5.
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- Added extra fields for review product schema.
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- Fixed: Javascript errors in v5.5.
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Version 3.3.0 - April 2, 2020
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- Added: Feature to enter Schema info for Reviews.
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- Fixed: data-vocabulary.org breadcrumb deprecated by Google.
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- Fixed: Review schema for the latest Schema requirement.
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- Fixed: create_function and other error on PHP 7.2+
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- Fixed: Removed Google+ share link.
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- Fixed: Twitter social share links.
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- Updated: WooCommerce template overrides.
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- Updated: RevSlider (now included in "All Files" zip file in "Extra Plugins")
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- Added: GDPR Privacy page support.
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- Added: Comment consent checkbox for WP v4.9.6+
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- Added: Self-Hosted Google Fonts plugin support for GDPR.
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- Added: WooCommerce 3.4 compatibility.
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- Improved: IP no longer logged for Review Ratings due to GDPR.
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- Updated RevSlider to latest version.
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- Improved: Packaged plugins can be updated without TGMPA.
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- Improved: AMP menus focus effect.
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- Fixed: Automatic amp-ad conversion for Adsense.
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- Fixed: Long AMP menus background cut-off.
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- Fixed: Author page pagination.
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- Fixed: Header social icons missing in importer on v4.8+.
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- Fixed: WooCommerce latest deprecated functions.
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- Fixed: TGMPA update/install warning.
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- Updated Revolution Slider to latest.
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- Updated FontAwesome to latest version.
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- Added: Google AMP Posts support with custom styles.
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- Added: Ads support in AMP.
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- Added: AMP Navigation Menu for AMP posts.
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- Added: WooCommerce 3.0 support.
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- Added: WooCommerce Image Zoom Feature.
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- Added: New Lightbox for Product Images.
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- Updated Revolution Slider.
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- Fixed: Typography settings not applying for some installs.
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- Fixed: Nav full width not applying on some headers.
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- Fixed: Few colors on Dark Skin.
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- New Skin & Demo for Lifestyle magazines - Trendy.
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- New Demo: TheZine for sleek magazines.
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- Upto 200% Faster Retina Images. Great for Mobile and MacBook users.
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- Feature: New Header Styles: Trendy and Dark
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- Feature: New "Highlights B" block.
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- Feature: New Nav Styles: Dark Alt, Light Alt
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- Feature: New Featured Area Grid B.
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- Feature: 2 New Post Styles - Modern and Modern Simple.
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- Feature: Alternate heading styles for home blocks.
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- Feature: Filters for all home blocks (no more on just new focus).
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- Feature: More blocks added to sidebar widget Post Listing Blocks.
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- Feature: Social Widget with social counters.
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- Feature: Support for "WP Instagram Widget".
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- Feature: Bottom Pagination for Multipage Content.
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- Feature: Social Icons in footer about widget.
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- Feature: Easily update Bunyad Plugins - no more delete/reinstall.
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- Feature: Limit by tag for latest posts widget.
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- Feature: JSON+LD Article Schemas with option to disable.
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- Added: New Skins to Importer and "Settings Only" option.
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- Added: Option to disable on-scroll effects for images.
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- Added: Auto-add organization schema with social info from widget.
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- Added: Compatibility with WP User Avatar plugin.
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- Added: Skin post styling to post editor in backend.
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- Improved: On-scroll image effects trigger more smoothly.
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- Improved: RTL and responsive support in all skins.
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- Improved: Use primary category for breadcrumbs.
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- Improved: Article schemas with latest Google guidelines.
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- Improved: Smart Sticky Navigation is more snappy now.
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- Improved: Review schema updated to use JSON-LD.
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- Improved: Editor styling for advanced skins.
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- Improved: Pagination for custom query variables in CPTs.
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- Improved: Breadcrumbs for full-width header layouts.
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- Improved: "Responsive Images" for Retina - deprecated Retina.js. (old users switch)
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- Improved: Featured video custom code markup support.
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- Improved: Color picker in theme settings.
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- Improved: Latest Google Fonts available.
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- Improved: Added sub-menu arrows for dark nav.
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- Fixed: Menu Import on PHP 7.
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- Fixed: WPML using front-page on second language search.
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- Fixed: WooCommerce 2.6+ add to cart.
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- Fixed: Focus grid collapse on varied title lengths.
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- Fixed: Sticky sidebar ads.
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- Fixed: Ad widgets sometimes blocked by AdBlock.
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- Fixed: Custom CSS blocked by AdBlock in some cases.
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- Fixed: WPML search second language result listing.
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- Updated FontAwesome, Revolution Slider, JS libs, TGMPA.
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- Several backend UI improvements such as review box, options.
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- Code refactoring and 50+ minor styling improvements.