Changelog Details
Important:
We’ve removed the PHP support for the Custom Actions panel for security reasons, this was a crucial edit. If you were previously using PHP code in this section please move your code to a child theme. If you are unsure how to correctly use theme hooks please ask for support.
Developers: Please note that all CSS and JS files are now all neatly organized and located in the new assets folder and there is a new function in the the theme named wpex_asset_url() for loading the scripts. In case you are making advanced mods to these core files please be aware of the change.
Modified the file at partials/topbar/topbar-layout.php to include new wpex_hook_topbar_inner for adding the content to the topbar in order to support Customizer partial refresh and easier child theme mods. If you modified this file please revise it.
Modified the file at partials/footer/footer-callout.php to support and for the new functionality to display a full-width button when the callout text is disabled – if you modified the file please update accordingly ( see parent file ).Added New demo importer – screenshot
Added Selective Refresh support to various parts of the Customizer to speed things up – video example for header aside content
Added Selective Refresh support for Total custom widgets and widget areas
Added Support for the Custom Post Types UI plugin for easier addition of custom types – screenshot
Added Typography options for the Visual Composer text block – screenshot
Added New “Form Shortcode” VC module for adding form shortcodes and selecting from different theme form styles and adding custom font-size, width and CSS – screenshot
Added Improvements to the bbPress design and functionality, new custom bbPress widgets and new bbPress demo
Added New Visual Composer module to display current post terms (categories, tags, custom tax)
Added New Visual Composer module for inserting 3rd party shortcodes which is slimmer then using the textblock for that – screenshot
Added Width option for the Visual Composer text block so you can constrain content without having to use “breaks” which may not look good responsively
AddedNew “width” option to the Total Heading module to constrain text without having to use html breaks which works much better for responsiveness
Added New option to the row to offset the Header Overlay function – screenshot
Added New warning message to the Import/Export theme settings page if the server PHP version is outdated and cannot support a proper import
Added Ubermenu classes to menu search and Woo Cart classes when ubermenu is active so that the search and woo toggles match the menu design
Added Option to enable links for the Testimonials grid titles
Added Check to prevent topbar email link from opening a new tab if it is a mailto: link
Added Filter “wpex_search_has_post_thumbnail” to easily disable thumbnails on search results if wanted
Added New Customizer setting when the Tribe Events plugin is enabled to select a custom page for your events main page to inherit page settings from – the page will onl serve so you can tweak the main title, layout, subheading, etc (page settings metabox) and it will redirect to the main events page (as defined by the slug setting for the tribe events)
Added Border-width option for “Scroll To Top” button in the Customizer
Added Tweak to wpex_remove_class_filter to be ready for WP 4.7
Added Width option to the Icon Box class to limit the width
Added Ability to enable page header background image for shop categories (disabled by default, enable per category item or use the new filter – wpex_term_page_header_image_enabled – to enable globally).
Added Title to the available “blocks” for pages so if you disable the main title globally you can display it still at the top of pages
Added Offset option to the Post Types Archive Total VC module
Added Gap option for Portfolio, Staff, Testimonial and Blog Archive’s options in the Customizer so you can tweak the default grid spacing
Added Gap option for instagram grid and posts grid widgets and minified the widget html output for both
Added Hover events for Total Overlay styles for mobile touch event support – enabled by default but can be disabled via a child theme if wanted
Added Background and padding options for the sidebar and footer widget headings – screenshot
Added Customizer option to define a custom social sharing function by entering your social share shortcode
Added Gallery Slider ability for custom post types if the post type has a gallery (learn how to enable for your custom types)
Added Support for lightbox in the main menu, simply use the wpex-lightbox classname for your menu item
Added Left/Center/Right alignment options to the Social Widgets
Added Inner Woo product entry wrapper “product-details” for aligning shop buttons (adds equal height to the inner content thus pushing all the buttons down)
Added Pagination padding option and active item background color in the customizer under the pagination settings (customize > general > pagination)
Added New custom_output argument to the Total excerpt function for better custom excerpts via child themes – example snippet
Added The Century Gothic font set to the default fonts list due to customer requests
Added Some simple default templates to the Visual Composer exclusive for Total
Added Customizer option to alter page header title default border width
Added Customizer option for default staff social icons style
Added Customizer optiont to alter the default blog author box background, margin, border color, border width and social icon style
Added Customizer option to disable gallery slider output for blog entries
Added New “Users” custom widget for displaying a grid of authors, admins, contributors, subscribers…etc.
Added Post meta option to “contain” the slider when adding a slider shortcode via the Page/Post Settings metabox. This is to center the slider on the page with the rest of the content automatically
Added Customizer setting for adding padding under the header when the main page header title is set to hidden
Added Order and orderby to the Categories Grid Total VC module
Added New configuration class and optimizations to conditionally load the contact form 7 javascript as needed rather then on every page of the site
Added Option to enable a video icon overlay on the VC single image when adding a video lightbox URL
Added Options to disable the borders on header style two menu in the customizer under the Menu tab
Added New partials/post-series.php file to allow for easier adding of post series to custom types
Added Post series support for custom types enabled by default
Added Meta option to be able to enable/disable the sticky header on a per page/post basis
Added New Customizer panel with some general bbPress settings
Added New empty item to the breadcrumbs array with a key of “pre_trail_end” to easily add new a new item to the theme breadcrumbs before the title
Added Media/video output functionality for custom post types by default for entries and posts (like standard blog posts)
Added Ability to exclude terms in the Post Grid and Post with Thumbnails widgets
Added Option for Navbar style mobile menu to change the position from under the header to the top of the site
Addedd Option for breadcrumbs to display first category only when displaying categories in the breadcrumbs
Added Support for shortcodes in WordPress menus for easier/cleaner addition of icons in your menus
Added Excerpt length setting to the Recent Posts with thumbnail widget (default 0) so you can enable excerpts for this module
Added Tweaks, Fixes and CSS for the Events Calendar Community Events addon
Added New Customizer setting to display event details in the page header (enabled by default) see Customizer > Tribe Events > Display Event Details in Page Header
Removed Contact Form 7 stylesheet to prevent extra request and added some new styles in main style.css
Removed PHP support for the Custom Actions panel for security reasons. If you were previously using PHP code in this section please move your code to a child theme – http://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/child-theme/
Updated Visual Composer & Slider Revolution
Updated Optimized the javascript used in the front-end VC builder for Total modules
Updated Complete restructure of theme assets (css/js) moved all assets into a new assets folder and added new wpex_asset_url() function for easy loading of theme scripts
Updated Footer Callout so if the content field is empty but the callout is enabled and there is a button link and text defined it will display a full-width callout button instead – screenshot
Updated Page Animations to display a loading icon by default (2 styles to choose from) and custom text if the field is not empty and added an option to change the out speed separate from the default in speed
Updated Total Portfolio, Staff and Testimonial post types and their corresponding taxonomies to use ‘with_front’ false by default so if you want to append /blog/ to your permalink structure for your standard posts, categories and tags you can without it being added to the portfolio, staff and testimonials
Updated The way default sidebars are added and included new ‘wpex_register_sidebars_array’ filter to easily add new sidebar areas via a child theme
Updated The way scripts are loaded for the Gallery Metabox function (there wasn’t any issues, just made it better)
Updated Header logo image to include new class name “logo-img” for advanced edits and retina logo img
Updated WPEX_WooCommerce_Config class to use static functions and to use class name for filters/hooks instead of $this variable for easier tweaking
Updated Increased z-index on search “header replace” style
Updated Sanitized Footer callout output
Updated Customizer settings for the callout so they always display – since callouts can be enabled on a per-post basis
Updated Total VC grid entries to include classes for the parent category even when only added to the subcategory and not in the parent (since this is what most people do)
Updated Optimized some CSS to prevent duplicate code where not needed
Updated Slimmer HTML output for various Total custom widgets
Updated CSS of the Total image hover styles so they don’t have to stretch images to 100%
Updated Contact Form 7 preloader to use a font awesome icon instead for easier modification, retina support and ability to display in different colors
Updated Moved fontawesome to the main style.css since it’s loaded globally anyway for theme functions this prevents an extra server request
Updated Re-arranged some core theme files in the framework folder to tidy things up a bit and moved some functions into their own files
Updated Slimmed down hover CSS for Total Overlays
Updated Total breadcrumbs class to have static functions that can be used in extension plugins or child theme’s for easily adding new items to the trail and to slim down the code a bit
Updated Default 404 page text to make more sense
Updated The way footer widgets are registered so that they get added after all the sidebar widgets (makes more sense in the admin)
Updated Index.php so that custom post types load using the wpex_get_template_part function so you can easily define a custom file for your custom post type entry output – example snippet
Updated Social Sharing enabled for custom post types by default now
Updated Search results main title to simply say “search results for:” it keeps things much cleaner and easier for translations
Updated WordPress custom gallery output to use non-responsive columns (because of high requests from customers). For example if you insert a 3 column gallery it will remain 3 columns on mobile devices and not switch to a single column
Updated Made improvements to the CSS of the “Posts With Thumbnails” custom widget so no matter how tall or short the images are they will render better and no longer requires a minimum height on the list items
Updated Footer callout to use flex styles so the text and button are centered
Updated CSS used for breadcrumbs positioning to make it easier for child theme modifications and slim down the css a bit
Updated Post meta background styles to reflect same style options used in the Customizer for the site background
Updated Blog, Staff and Portfolio Carousel Total VC modules to use the newer “CSS” field for changing the background, border, margin, padding..etc for the carousel entry details section as requested by many customers
Updated The way IE8 and IE9 scripts load to use correct wp_enqueue_style and wp_style_add_data core WP functions instead of hooking into wp_head
Updated Icon design on the Total Image Grid module for items with videos
Updated Moved the inclusion of actions/hooks from the init hook to the ‘after_setup_theme’ hook making it easier for child theme’s to remove default theme template actions without having to hook into init first
Updated Default theme headings to use ‘div’ tags instead of h2 tags for SEO reasons and added new section in the Customizer at General > Theme Heading to alter the default theme heading style and tag
Updated Made some small design tweaks to the default bbPress styles to clean things up a bit
Updated Total “Bullets” module to include the ability to select a font icon as well as included typography settings
Updated When changing the menu icon for the WooCommerce shop link it will also change the icon for the add to cart and view cart buttons
Fixed WooCommerce account pages design
Fixed Dutch language file extensions
Fixed Issue with hidden post pagination (next/prev) when using full-screen layout
Fixed Post Types Grid filter not working issue with custom post type taxonomies (like product categories)
Fixed Issue with Image Carousel caption font size and color not working
Fixed Small sticky header bug in Safari
Fixed Polylang bugs with certain theme functions (under construction, header builder, footer builder..etc)
Fixed Issue if customer sets their custom header or custom footer builder to the same value as their homepage
Fixed Issue where you could not disable image on staff carousel module
Fixed Missing widget “id” in widgets and “widget” classname
Fixed Issue when choosing 100 font weight in the Customizer it wouldn’t reflect the changes
Fixed Issue with Post Types Archive VC module not displaying blog posts exactly as defined in the Customizer
Fixed Footer reveal css issues when Overlay Header is enabled
Fixed Active category not working on portfolio VC grid when using the ?filter param in the URL
Fixed Bug with gallery slider module and optimized it for better efficiency
Fixed Issue where if you set a specific page for the staff, portfolio, blog to be the “main” page and it is a child page it would not display the parent pages in the crumbs trail
Fixed Bug with custom taxonomy category description not working
Fixed Translation issues with the Customizer strings
Fixed Issue with WPML shortcode not being placed correctly
Fixed Responsive issues with the testimonials slider VC module
Fixed Togglebar not working correctly while viewing bbPress pages
Fixed Some structured data errors
Fixed Bug when using the Total Heading module and selecting the “Post Title” for the display and it would show the incorrect page/post title
Fixed Searchform shortcode positioning
Fixed Retina width issue with the testimonials slider when s custom width is defined
Fixed Footer bottom menu position when footer bottom is set to align center or align right
Fixed Issue with icon box alternative image not cropping
Fixed Page header title for the ‘wp_router_page’ post type
Removed Envato Toolkit from recommended plugins list (added the Envato Market Plugin instead)
REMOVED LayerSlider from recommended plugins list because it’s not used in any live demo and it will greatly slim down the theme size. If you prefer this plugin over slider revolution you can always install it manually.
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