Version 7 changelog

Updated 3 weeks 2 days ago

Version 7.5 — May 1, 2020 #

• ADDED Auto Optimization of JS and CSS files, which automatically finds only used website components and reduces the size of the final files. Also, some JS and CSS files have been split for better optimization. In addition, components checkboxes are now sorted alphabetically regardless of language for better UX.
• IMPROVED Image Sizes management:
  • now all thumbnails are automatically generated, when adding or changing Image Sizes. Now you don't need to use specific plugins to regenerate your thumbnails.
  • added information popup with list of registered image sizes
  • added "Big Image Size Threshold" option. This is built-in WordPress feature, read more about it.
  • disabled WordPress built-in uneditable "1536x1536" and "2048x2048" image sizes to improve user control of image sizes
• IMPROVED Interactive Text element:
  • added ability to disable non-breaking spaces
  • now "Typing" animation has only one cursor and works more smoothly
• IMPROVED Button element – added ability to display custom field value in a button label via using {{field_name}}. This also works in Text element and Tabs, Vertical Tabs, Accordion elements (in titles)
• IMPROVED Search element – now it's available in Backend Editor with flexible settings. Check the example
• IMPROVED Video element – added ability to set Overlay Image with "Play" icon. Check the example
• UPDATED Font Awesome PRO icons to version 5.13 – added many new icons
• UPDATED built-in WordPress importer to version 0.7
• UPDATED Google Fonts list
• UPDATED languages files
• FIXED bug when "Load More" pagination didn't work on custom Search Results Page with Content Template
• FIXED bug when builder admin page title doesn't show post type of Header and Grid Layout
• FIXED bug when Aspect Ratio was incorrectly applied to Post Image with specified width
• FIXED RTL appearance of Tabs, when they transform into Accordion on small screens
• FIXED bug when Design settings didn't work on pages with non-standard permalinks
• FIXED bug when images added into Page Block didn't appear in Yoast SEO sitemaps
• FIXED bug when Cookie Notice can't be closed with active WP Super Cache plugin
• FIXED bug when Media Library date sorting didn't work with Media Categories
• FIXED bug when "Recent Posts" widget shows pages on search results page
• FIXED bug when WooCommerce order search in admin causes PHP error
• FIXED bug when Breadcrumbs show wrong content order on child pages
• FIXED bug when Design settings didn't work in Page Blocks as Sidebars
• FIXED bug when Ultimate Addons causes PHP error on "404 error" page
• FIXED bug when Custom Post Type archive has no link in Breadcrumbs
• FIXED bug when the click "Show More" link moves the Carousel items
• FIXED visual bug of Tabs with "Modern" layout after window resize
• FIXED bug when "Show More" feature ignores not "px" height units
• FIXED issue when border-radius didn't work on Interactive Banner
• FIXED visual appearance of WooCommerce checkout dropdown
• FIXED Counter bug with counting down to decimal numbers
• FIXED bug when Accordion didn't scroll content properly
• FIXED visual appearance of input fields on Safari iOS
• FIXED visual appearance of checkboxes in all cases
• FIXED bug when Sticky Row breaks Page Scroller
• FIXED visual bug of bbPress tickets and replies
• FIXED some minor bugs

Version 7.4.2 — April 5, 2020 #

• FIXED display of "Country / Region" dropdown on Checkout page, when default customer location is not set
• FIXED bug when "Optimize JS and CSS size" option didn't work for subdomains created via WPML
• FIXED issue when Post Title is not showing on pages with Grid after update to 7.4
• FIXED centering of icon with "Simple" style and "Center" alignment in IconBox
• FIXED display of spin arrows on "numeric" input fields
• FIXED default gaps between fields of Contact Form 7

Version 7.4.1 — April 2, 2020 #

• FIXED work of "Uploaded Fonts" and "Additional Google Fonts" in Typography settings after update to 7.4
• FIXED issue when Grid filter didn't work, if the relevant post type is excluded from Search Results
• FIXED bug when new "Show More" feature is applied to all Grids or Carousels at one page
• FIXED bug when Grid with posts shows extra titles of categories in their Post Content
• FIXED issue when CSS added via Page Settings of Backend Editor shows PHP error
• FIXED work of Social Links and Dropdown elements in header after update to 7.4

Version 7.4 — April 1, 2020 #

• ADDED Fields Style editor – now it's possible to customize appearance of form input fields. The style will be applied globally to all input fields on your website. Check example 1, example 2, example 3, example 4, example 5, example 6.
• ADDED ability to set Content template to posts based on taxonomy
  
• ADDED ability to exclude post types from Search Results
  
• IMPROVED Contact Form element:
  • added "Move title on focus" option, check example 1, example 2
  • now checkboxes and radio buttons are standardized with other fields
• IMPROVED Backend Editor – added ability to copy a Row and paste it into any other page via "Paste Row/Section" button. This button still allows to paste sections copied from Impreza demos, check video tutorial.
• IMPROVED Archive Content template for taxonomies – now it's available for all public (which have frontend archive page) taxonomies. Before it was available for Product categories only.
• IMPROVED Post Content & Text Block elements – added ability to hide part of content with "Show More" link. Check examples: product description, about text, carousel with testimonials, grid with testimonials
• IMPROVED Post Image element – added ability to set custom Aspect Ratio regardless of Image Size. This won't work in Internet Explorer.
• UPDATED Google Fonts list
• UPDATED languages files
• FIXED Grid settings bug when manually selected Items aren't working, when post title contains double quotes
• FIXED bug when CSS added via Page Settings of Backend Editor is loaded twice on the frontend
• FIXED work of Ultimate Addons elements and Revolution Sliders displayed via Page Blocks
• FIXED bug when Shop page shows no products, if custom database prefix is used
• FIXED bug when Header Scroll Breakpoint isn't respected on scroll up
• FIXED bug when Lazy Load isn't showing images in mobile menu
• FIXED incorrect position of smooth scroll with Fullscreen Rows
• FIXED bug when Page Scroller prevents scrolling within Popup
• FIXED bug when Post Title isn't working on single Event page
• FIXED work of ACF "Link" custom field on taxonomies
• FIXED several appearance issues on RTL websites
• FIXED several issues with WPML support
• FIXED some minor bugs

Version 7.3.1 — March 4, 2020 #

• UPDATED Spanish, Portuguese (BR) and French translations
• FIXED issue when Video Player shows default video, if related ACF field is empty. Now it shows nothing
• FIXED bug when font isn't selectable in Theme Options > Typography after update to 7.3
• FIXED bug when "Map Style" option in Map element didn't work after update to 7.3
• FIXED bug when Design options don't work in Titlebars after update to 7.3
• FIXED Grid bug with ordering items by "Date of update" after update to 7.3

Version 7.3 — March 3, 2020 #

• ADDED Consulting Agency demo
  
• ADDED Fashion Shop demo
• ADDED option to set an icon to any post/page and output it via Post Custom Field. Now you can create Grids with items with icons instead of images. Check example 1, example 2
• IMPROVED Column element – added "Stretched Column" option, which allows to stretch the single column to the screen edge. Check example 1, example 2, example 3
• IMPROVED Grid Layout builder:
  
  • added ability to set background image for the whole layout, it's possible to use Featured image or image from ACF fields. This feature helps to create responsive sliders via Carousel element. Check the example
  • added ability to duplicate Wrappers with all elements inside
• IMPROVED Grid / Carousel element:
  • added "Show past events" option when showing Events with The Events Calendar plugin enabled
  • now all popups are closed via the "Escape" key
• IMPROVED Design options:
  
  • added ability to set custom values for Background Size option
  • added ability to select "Fixed" and "Sticky" values for Position option
• IMPROVED Tabs, Vertical Tabs, Accordion elements – now they are ready for Accessibility and can be switched via keyboard
• IMPROVED Video Player element – added ability to show video from ACF field with "oEmbed" type
• IMPROVED Social Links element – added "Hide tooltip on hover" option
• UPDATED Social Links brand colors
• UPDATED Google Fonts list
• UPDATED languages files
• FIXED bug when products on Shop page with custom ordering are duplicated with "Load More" pagination
• FIXED bug with The Events Calendar when upcoming events aren't ordering properly on single event page
• FIXED work of font selection in Theme Options > Typography after deleting uploaded font
• FIXED bug when categories with the same names aren't shown in Grid/Carousel settings
• FIXED bug when Image Slider thumbnails are not displaying with enabled Lazy Load
• FIXED bug when Revolution Slider isn't showing on 404 and Search Results pages
• FIXED bug when page shows "hamburger" menu although the header is not set
• FIXED work of "Center the middle cell" in header, when left or right cell is empty
• FIXED bug when Row Shape Divider disappears while editing Row Settings
• FIXED bug when links with hashes don't close vertical header on mobiles
• FIXED incorrect position of smooth scroll with Auto-hide sticky header
• FIXED incorrect Sticky Row beahavior with Auto-hide sticky header
• FIXED incorrect height of the first Full-height Row in some cases
• FIXED some minor bugs

Version 7.2 — February 11, 2020 #

• ADDED ability to use Page Blocks for Sidebars
• ADDED option to Auto-hide header on scroll down, it will become visible on scroll up. Check the example.
• ADDED ability to view (and go to edit) all page related things: Header, Content Template, Page Blocks, Footer. This improves user experience.
• IMPROVED Grid / Carousel element:
  • added ability to show child pages of current page, this also works with custom post types, if they have hierarchy enabled
  • added ability to show Cross-sells, when WooCommerce plugin is active
  • added ability to order items by views for last month/week/day, if "Post Views Counter" plugin is active
• IMPROVED Vertical Wrapper element:
  • now it is also available in Page Builder, this can be useful for some extra customziations
  • added "Gap between Items" option, which adds default gap for elements inside wrapper
• IMPROVED IconBox element – now manually added SVG icon respects "Icon Color" option. This useful when you use a few Font Awesome icons and don't need to load the whole icon font file.
• IMPROVED Horizontal Wrapper element – added "Gap between Items" option, which adds default gap for elements inside wrapper
• IMPROVED Menu and Simple Menu in header – added "Spread menu items evenly over the available width" option
• IMPROVED Post Prev/Next Navigation element – added options to change "Previous/Next Post" subtitles
• IMPROVED Post Image element – added ability to "Open original image in a popup"
• IMPROVED Post Custom Field element – added "Text after value" option
• IMPROVED Cart element – added "Hide if cart is empty" option
• IMPROVED appearance of header – now empty header cells are automatically hidden to avoid extra spacing
• IMPROVED "Link" option in many elements – added ability to set ACF "Email" custom field as link
• UPDATED Font Awesome PRO icons to version 5.12.1 – added 6 new icons
• UPDATED languages files
• FIXED support of The Events Calendar plugin: removed overriding styles. To display calendar and events pages correctly, you need to enable "Full Styles"
• FIXED issue when Dropdown in Sticky Header Initial Position to "At the Bottom of the first content row" drops to the top on mobiles
• FIXED bug when "Hide this element if its value is empty" option in Post Custom Field element isn't working for "Image" fields
• FIXED bug when Cart page "Apply Coupon" and "Update" buttons don't take button settings from Theme Options > Shop
• FIXED alignment of Sharing Buttons element with "Fixed" style, turned back separated "Alignment" option
• FIXED bug when Grid with "Terms of selected taxonomy" and "Random" ordering shows incorrect terms
• FIXED bug when "Font Size" on mobiles didn't work for Custom Heading element
• FIXED bug when Mobile Menu shows blue border around the dropdown arrow
• FIXED bug in Carousel when auto rotation was forced after closing a popup
• FIXED bug when Carousel Autoheight isn't working on mobiles
• FIXED extra top offset on the first Sticky Row
• FIXED some minor bugs

Version 7.1 — January 22, 2020 #

• ADDED support of "Post Views Counter" plugin:
  
  • you can install it on "Zephyr > Addons" admin page
  • added Post Views element (both in Page Builder and Grid Layout builder), so you can display highly customizable amount of views of any page or post type. Check example 1, example 2
  • added ability to order Grid items by views
• IMPROVED Design options – added "Alignment" option, so now it's possible to set different text alignment on tablets and mobiles
• IMPROVED Contact Form element:
  • added ability to display several (2, 3, 4) fields in one row. Check the example
  • added option to display form horizontally. Check the example
  • added option to change gap between fields
  • added option to use the value of Email field as sender' address, so emails from visitors will have their address instead of <wordpress@yoursite.com>
  • added option to use the value of Text field as sender' name, so emails from visitors will have their name instead of WordPress
• IMPROVED Row Shape Divider:
  • added ability to set top and bottom shapes independently for one Row
  • added ability to set your own SVG shape
• IMPROVED Image element:
  • turned back Height settings to a separate tab to improve UX in header
  • now backround and text colors from Design options are also applied to Title and Description
• IMPROVED Grid element – added Items animation on load option, which is available for "Masonry" display and "Load More" pagination
• IMPROVED IconBox element – now "Simple" styled icons also support gradients. Check the example
• IMPROVED Product data element – added ability to display "Stock status" in Grids with products
• IMPROVED loading speed of Theme Options admin page:
  • now "Custom Code" section uses WordPress built-in code editor, which has code errors highlight to Improve UX
  • now "Typography" section uses fonts selecting via ajax
• IMPROVED "Optimize JS and CSS size" option:
  • now generated CSS and JS files have a query "ver" based on their content. It means any changes in CSS or JS automatically purge browser and CDN cache after re-save Theme Options.
  • now generated CSS and JS files have "http/https" regarding the relevant option
• UPDATED Google Fonts list
• UPDATED languages files
• FIXED bug when Design options in Page Block aren't applied, if Page Block is located in Content template
• FIXED issue when "Height", "Max Height", "Min Height" from Design options don't work in Image Slider
• FIXED issue when Design options aren't applied for "Search Results", "404 error" and "Posts" pages
• FIXED issue when Video post has empty space, when it was created via Block Editor (Gutenberg)
• FIXED issue when absolute URL in menu link doesn't open Accordion sections on page itself
• FIXED bug when Grid with Upsells is shown even if there are no Product Upsells
• FIXED bug when "Icons Color" option can't be changed in Social Links element
• FIXED bug when some Backround values from Design options aren't applied
• FIXED marker text in Map element, when it's located in Row with white text
• FIXED bug when Lazy Load isn't working with smooth-scroll
• FIXED cut of horizontal Simple Menu on small screens
• FIXED WPML translation of Interactive Text element
• FIXED WPML translation of Grid Layouts
• FIXED some WooCommerce style issues
• FIXED work of smooth scroll in Popups
• FIXED some minor bugs

Version 7.0.3 — December 25, 2019 #

• IMPROVED Grid Layout CSS output – now all Grids with the same Grid Layout are have only one <style> block. This improves loading speed of pages with many Grids
• FIXED appearance of Text element in header, because "Allow move content to the next line" setting didn't work
• FIXED issue when "background-position" and "background-size" in Design options are override in Columns
• FIXED issue when "padding-left" and "padding-right" in Design options are override in Fullwidth Row
• FIXED extra padding in Vertical Tabs located in Fullwidth Row
• FIXED rare issue with Page Block with sidebars in Menu
• FIXED incorrect work of Demo Import in some cases
• FIXED bug with Page Scroller in Internet Explorer 11

Version 7.0.1 — December 20, 2019 #

• FIXED work of Design options of elements which are located inside Page Block, which is located inside Content Template
• FIXED migration of Custom Heading element – now it doesn't tranforms into Text element to keep work of custom CSS
• FIXED cases when "border" options may not moved from old Design options to new ones
• FIXED bug when sticky header doesn't unstick after scrolling to the top of a page
• FIXED extra space above Row with Revolution Slider, when header is transparent
• FIXED appearance of font weight checkboxes in Theme Options > Typography
• FIXED work of Design options in Custom Heading and Raw HTML elements
• FIXED incorrect appearance of Simple Menu, if it has child menu items
• FIXED bug when values with calc() don't work in new Design options
• FIXED incorrect appliment of old palette values in new color picker

Version 7.0 — December 18, 2019 #

• ADDED new Design options:
  • now all theme elements have the equal settings allowing to customize main CSS properties without coding
  • now it's possible to set every design setting separately for Tablets and Mobiles (screen sizes for tablets and mobiles are editable on Theme Options > Site Layout)
  • now all Design options are the same for Page Builder, Header Builder and Grid Layout Builder, this improves UX
• ADDED new color picker – now it's possible to set/edit gradients via interface. New color pickers are available in all color settings now.
• ADDED Simple Menu element to WPBakery Page Builder – now it's possible to show a customizable menu in any part of a page. This new element completely replaces "WP Custom Menu" element. Check examples
• ADDED Text element to WPBakery Page Builder to correspond to the Header element. This new element replaces "Custom Heading" element, if no custom Google font needed.
• ADDED ability to set Content template separately for every Product category archive page
• ADDED ability to activate one Impreza license for 2 sites at once: production and development. It's good way to test theme updates on development before updating it on production.
• IMPROVED Row element:
  • added option to disable background video at needed screen width
  • added ability to set ACF image as background
  • improved "Sticky Row" option – now it's provided via CSS only and no JS is applied. This improves stability and decreases possible issues with sticky Rows. Now ".sticky" class is not used.
• IMPROVED Grid element:
  • now when post taxonomies is more than 15, they will be shown via multiselect field with search. This improves UX
  • added ability to change gap between items when METRO type is selected
• IMPROVED Product Gallery:
  
  • added ability to show slider thumbnails at the left side
  • added ability to change thumbnails columns for "Bottom" position or thumbnails width for "Left" position
  • added option to set gap between thumbnails
• IMPROVED Cart & Checkout pages – now main blocks are fixed on the top of the page on scroll, which is better for visitors UX
• IMPROVED Horizontal Wrapper element – added ability to set "With baseline" for Content Vertical Alignment
• IMPROVED appearance of Filter Products by Attribute widget – now it shows values via checkboxes
• IMPROVED Accordion, Tabs, Vertical Tabs elements – added Design Options to their sections
• IMPROVED Header settings – added "Center the middle cell" option for tablets and mobiles
• IMPROVED Theme Options – added option to set custom height globally for all Rows
• IMPROVED Post Content element – turned back ability to add it into Page Block post
• IMPROVED Interactive Text element – added "Typing" animation. Check example
• IMPROVED appearance of admin pages to correspond to WordPress 5.3 styles
  
• IMPROVED Button Styles – added ability to change colors of box shadow
  
• IMPROVED Page Scroler element – added ability to show dots for Footer
  
• UPDATED Font Awesome PRO icons to version 5.12 – added 357 new icons
• UPDATED Google Fonts list
• UPDATED languages files
• FIXED issue when part of the content missing and not formatted if printing site pages via Firefox
• FIXED bug when Grid with On-Sale products is not shown, even if "No results found" is set
• FIXED bug when WooCommerce filter is not working with Grid "load more" pagination
• FIXED bug when Lazy Load decreases Carousel height when "Auto height" is enabled
• FIXED bug when post with "Gallery" format shows extra data of the images in Grid
• FIXED issue when current sub page didn't highlight the parent page menu item
• FIXED incorrect appearance of some background images in iOS 13 Safari
• FIXED work of bbPress search with custom content template on archives
• FIXED Product gallery glitch on hover with transparent images in Grid
• FIXED bug when FullScreen Search in header didn't close via ESC key
• FIXED bug when Vertical Tabs turns into Accordion on wide screens
• FIXED bug when Sticky Row shrinks when scrolling down in Safari
• FIXED incorrect appearance of Cookie Notice long text on mobiles
• FIXED bug when Grid with Upsells doesn't show variable products
• FIXED incorrect appearance of product widgets on RTL sites
• FIXED bug when image in Header jumps on page load
• FIXED work of Page Scroller on pages without header
• FIXED work of border radius in Image element
• FIXED work of Tabs inside Grid items
• FIXED FlipBox flickering in Chrome
• FIXED Image Slider random order
• FIXED some minor bugs