Avada - Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme 7.11.7

- NEW PERFORMANCE: Added a performance wizard to easily optimize all site settings, including recommendations for best results
- NEW PERFORMANCE: Added an engine to create critical CSS (CSS only used above the fold) to remove render-blocking CSS
- NEW PERFORMANCE: Added option to skip image lazy loading for specific images, having them preloaded by the browser for faster above the fold rendering
- NEW PERFORMANCE: Added an icon scanner to find FontAwesome icons and allow for easier replacement with a custom icon font
- NEW PERFORMANCE: Added an option to enable Gzip compression (on servers that support it)
- NEW PERFORMANCE: Added an option to load jQuery in the footer
- NEW PERFORMANCE: Added an option for facade/preview image loading in YouTube and Vimeo elements
- NEW PERFORMANCE: Added an option to set device type visibility for the Page Option slider
- NEW PERFORMANCE: Added an option to turn off legacy button presets
- NEW PERFORMANCE: Added assets from several 3rd party plugins, like WooCommerce, The Events Calendar, bbPress to our compilers for better performance
- NEW PERFORMANCE: Added Avada's own device detection library for all kids of internal checks
- PERFORMANCE: Removed the jQuery.waypoint JS library completely
- PERFORMANCE: Removed the jQuery.appear JS library completely
- PERFORMANCE: Removed the jQuery.cycle JS library completely
- PERFORMANCE: Removed the jQuery.hoverIntent JS library completely
- PERFORMANCE: Removed the jQuery.hoverFlow JS library completely
- PERFORMANCE: Removed the jQuery.niceScroll JS library completely to replace smooth scroll with CSS styling
- PERFORMANCE: Removed the responsive Title element script
- PERFORMANCE: Removed the deactivate mobile image hover script, reducing CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)
- PERFORMANCE: Removed empty column height and column background dimension scripts from front-end loading
- PERFORMANCE: Removed IE11 support (in line with the upcoming WordPress 5.8)
- PERFORMANCE: Changed some JavaScript event listeners to passive to improve scrolling performance
- PERFORMANCE: Refactored several JS files for better performance
- PERFORMANCE: Fixed CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift) caused by parallax footer feature
- PERFORMANCE: Removed redundant escape function calls
- PERFORMANCE: Split off lightbox skin styles and only load styles for chosen skin
- PERFORMANCE: Separated out JS code for YouTube and Vimeo from different areas, so that code will only load if YouTube/Vimeo scripts are generally enabled
- PERFORMANCE: Made sure sidebar related JS code is only being loaded when page actually uses sidebars
- PERFORMANCE: Added image lazy loading to mega menu background images
- PERFORMANCE: Change loading procedure of mega menus in the Menu element for better loading performance
- PERFORMANCE: Split off WP admin bar menu creation to avoid other admin related functions loading on front-end
- NEW: 1 professionally designed, performance-optimized prebuilt website
- NEW: Added a side header builder
- NEW: Added support to use custom icons (from icon font) for social media icons
- NEW: Added support for all social media sharing networks within the lightbox
- NEW: Added an option to download the icon selection JSON for custom icon sets
- NEW: Added options for gradient text colors in Title element
- NEW: Added an option to Avada Forms date element to set a date format for flatpickr
- NEW: Added an option to set a placeholder text color for Avada Forms
- NEW: Added responsive minimum height options for Container element
- NEW: Added responsive alignment options for Social Links element
- NEW: Added an option for mega menu title justification in Menu element
- NEW: Added a new option to allow setting a custom maximum height for mobile menus in Menu element
- NEW: Added an option for letter spacing on main menu items in Menu element
- NEW: Added an option to allow usage of reCAPTCHA to User Login/Register elements
- IMPROVEMENT: Added additional image size to responsive images sizes attribute for screens with more than 1920px width
- IMPROVEMENT: Avada Forms will now use HubSpot's form API, when submitting forms to HubSpot
- IMPROVEMENT: All features are now available after prebuilt site import, even if not used on that specific site
- IMPROVEMENT: Refactored the patcher classes, so that all parts of Avada can use them shared
- IMPROVEMENT: Refactored the Google font class, to add fewer font variants to body font, and to make sure no unneeded fonts get preloaded
- IMPROVEMENT: Extended new PHP responsive typography initialization to more areas
- IMPROVEMENT: Uploaded files in Avada Forms entries now showing as links, for easier opening
- IMPROVEMENT: Made sure the parallax JS script is not executed on mobile, if not enabled
- IMPROVEMENT: Removed compiled JS file from the builder frame in live editor to improve loading performance
- IMPROVEMENT: Added new actions and filters for better customizability
- IMPROVEMENT: Updated several option descriptions and dependencies for better usability
- UPDATED: Renamed Avada's built-in icon font names from icomoon to awb-icons and awb-admin-icons
- UPDATED: Compatibility with WooCommerce 5.3
- UPDATED: Updated lazySizesscript to latest version
- ACCESSIBILITY: Fixed anchor not having an href issue caused by the anchor scroll feature
- ACCESSIBILITY: Fixed anchor tag being used in Column element markup, if image hover effect is used, even if no link was set
- ACCESSIBILITY: Removed aria-hidden attribute from focusable close button in Alert element
- FIXED: Double slash in custom icon CSS file path
- FIXED: Responsive typography being incorrect in Title element when the sizes get below the minimum font-size
- FIXED: Responsive typography not working for animated text parts in Title element when animation font-size is set
- FIXED: Custom font-size set in Avada Slider not being respected for responsive heading typography
- FIXED: Export of Avada Forms entries not taking unfilled fields into account
- FIXED: Upload field in Avada Forms is not working correctly when multiple files are allowed and POST method is not used
- FIXED: Sliding bar special menu item toggle not being auto-hidden on mobile when the option is disabled in Global Options
- FIXED: Avada Forms reCAPCHTA failing when more than one submission is made during a single page load
- FIXED: Menu element text transform option incorrectly applying to mega menu content
- FIXED: Menu element text hover color not being applied when using a flyout menu and using background images
- FIXED: Menu element mobile menu spacing incorrectly inheriting spacing from main menu
- FIXED: Menu element dropdown indicator being incorrectly positioned when using icon only elements
- FIXED: Carousels not working correctly in mega menus of Menu element
- FIXED: Menu item center positioning not working when using desc text and vertical menu layout in Menu element
- FIXED: Sub-menu box-shadow being applied incorrectly to mega menu sub-menus in Menu element
- FIXED: Not all font styles being applied in mobile menu when icon only option is used in the Menu element
- FIXED: Mega menu title icon spacing being incorrect in Menu element
- FIXED: Spacing between icon and text missing in Menu element, when icons are positioned on top of text
- FIXED: Flyout menu icon active color being applied to the main toggle icon when on a page that is part of the menu
- FIXED: Scroll section links not working correctly when unpublished or conditionally rendered containers are on the same page
- FIXED: WP admin bar height not being respected when using anchor scroll
- FIXED: Lazy loading of background images not correctly working
- FIXED: Custom sticky headers below sliders jumping up when scrolling down in some cases
- FIXED: Page on load being scrolled to Google map when tooltip is opened by default
- FIXED: Number of products option not working correctly in Woo Archive element when set to 0
- FIXED: Icon element default margin being incorrect, when alignment is chosen and icon being displayed inside a flex container
- FIXED: Global elements missing p tags when used in legacy containers
- FIXED: Fixed CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift) issue caused by Avada Forms script on mobiles
- FIXED: Drop-down caret showing on WooCommerce Cart entry, even if cart is empty
- FIXED: WooCommerce multi-currency setup not working with quick view
- FIXED: WooCommerce quick view not working when used as dynamic data source in the Column element link option
- FIXED: WooCommerce ordering boxes incorrectly being displayed on product search result pages
- FIXED: WooCommerce Grid element having a few slider based options that don't save correctly
- FIXED: WooCommerce sale badge not showing in the Woo Carousel element
- FIXED: WooCommerce SKU for variable products not auto-updating in Meta element or dynamic data if every variation has its own SKU
- FIXED: WooCommerce shipping calculator field positioning being wrong for some countries
- FIXED: WooCommerce custom cart/checkout layouts AJAX load default cart totals when shipping method is changed
- FIXED: WooCommerce custom cart layout AJAX load default cart template when cart is updated if cart page is not set in WooCommerce options
- FIXED: Removal of last item in WooCommerce custom cart layout causing a 500 error
- FIXED: Radio input showing on WooCommerce checkout page, even if only one shipping option is available
- FIXED: WPML translations of Global elements not working when elements are in legacy mode Containers
- FIXED: Rollover title displaying category title instead of post title on Portfolio archive pages
- FIXED: Rollover icons not reflecting Page Options setting correctly for icons
- FIXED: Portfolio archives being 404 when using Polylang plugin and languages are being set to different sites
- FIXED: Image placeholder missing on Portfolio archive pages if no featured image was set
- FIXED: Flyout menu not closing on mobile when header/menu is in sticky mode
- FIXED: Date archives not displaying dynamic post titles in Post Cards element
- FIXED: Live search input ID not being unique when multiple search boxes are on the same page
- FIXED: Live search result in Search element not being limited to post type, if only a single post type is selected
- FIXED: AJAX loading of next posts not working when using a custom search layout
- FIXED: AJAX loading of next posts not working when infinite scroll and load more posts by button elements are on same page
- FIXED: Styling issues on the single events page of The Events Calendar
- FIXED: Compatibility issue with The Events Calendar Pro plugin that led to widget options not saving correctly
- FIXED: Some hosts being blocked from updating Avada due to site URL being part of the user agent
- FIXED: PHP notice happening when retrieving SVG image dimensions on hosts where allow_url_fopen is disabled
- FIXED: Alignment of privacy bar button being wrong on RTL sites
- FIXED: Button set being cut off on some screen sizes in Avada Slider options
- FIXED: Avada Slider in parallax mode being incorrectly displayed when using boxed mode
- FIXED: Removed fallback in referrer function to make sure external referrers are not allowed
- FIXED: SSL issue being reported by some scanners, due to a few social sharing networks not using HTTPS
- FIXED: Text-based next/prev pagination buttons being limited in width when using the padding mode
- FIXED: Error happening when trying to perform a bulk action without an action being selected on back-end
- FIXED: Legacy font families for header and footer loading, even if Layout Builder was used to setting up header and footer
- FIXED: Compatibility issue of the MemberPress plugin with the Layout Builder
- FIXED: Column ID collision happening sometimes when different layout section previews are loaded in the live editor Layout Builder
- FIXED: Wireframe display issue in live editor when using different layout sections on one page
- FIXED: ACF dynamic callback being incorrect in Layout Builder
- FIXED: ACF dynamic data not being available in Post Card element
- FIXED: HTML content not working in before/after fields of dynamic content
- FIXED: Dynamic data countdown date not working correctly in live editor
- FIXED: Column margin/padding drag handlers disappearing on drag in some cases
- FIXED: Box shadow not working for Container element in live builder when currently editing the container
- FIXED: Social links icons boxed padding not auto-updating in live editor

- NEW: Compatibility with WooCommerce 5.2
- PERFORMANCE: Changed display mode of Menu element to be mobile-first, based on PHP estimation, to reduce CLS
- PERFORMANCE: Added image dimension auto-calculation for SVG uploads
- PERFORMNCE: Added custom icon font CSS files to the CSS compiler
- IMPROVEMENT: WooCommerce products without featured image can now be shown in the Woo Product Grid element
- IMPROVEMENT: Added Avada's element visibility options to the WooCommerce Cart elements
- IMPROVEMENT: Added support for dependency checks in the element scanner, in case some elements are part of other elements
- FIXED: Compatibility issue between WooCommerce builder and third party SEO plugins, causing fatal errors on edit pages
- FIXED: WooCommerce list view being displayed incorrectly when using Clean layout
- FIXED: WooCommerce Checkout Form opening element disappearing on backend page save
- FIXED: WooCommerce placeholder image not being used in the clean product layout
- FIXED: WooCommerce translation string mismatch
- FIXED: PHP warning on Post Card element when the source is set to WooCommerce products and WooCommerce being inactive
- FIXED: WooCommerce product archives using the blog archives sidebar in live editor
- FIXED: Check for custom layout for the WooCommerce shop page not always correct on backend editor
- FIXED: "Cart Page" label in backend pages table potentially being doubled up, depending on custom layout setup
- FIXED: Custom Flyout Menu not opening correctly if no link is set
- FIXED: Menu items set to be mega menu column titles that are linked not being displayed in the Menu element
- FIXED: Offset option not correctly working in Post Cards element
- FIXED: Rollover title displaying taxonomy name instead of post name on taxonomy pages
- FIXED: Deleted Avada Forms showing up as empty options in the form select field on the form entries page
- FIXED: Time and date fields in Avada Forms not getting correct styles applied when flatpickr is not used
- FIXED: Avada Forms time field not displaying 12hrs time format correctly
- FIXED: Avada Forms causing a JS error when used on sites with multi-language plugins when the form is missing a translation
- FIXED: reCAPTCHA causing JS error when multiple instances are used on the same page where one is in a Modal element
- FIXED: Sticky container positioning sometimes being off, when elements prior to it dynamically change height
- FIXED: Styling issue on conditional rendering logic options in live editor
- FIXED: Prebuilt website import failing on PHP8 when no widgets are set
- FIXED: Live editor not always being able to save page in Firefox due to timing issue
- FIXED: fusion_breadcrumbs_defaults filter not being applied when using the Breadcrumbs element
- FIXED: PHP notice in live editor when using custom layouts for post type archives
- FIXED: Custom icon font preload, preloading all font files instead just .ttf one
- FIXED: Avada Element Library table not being correctly updated when elements get deleted
- FIXED: Google fonts preloading not working for 400 variants

In Avada 7.3 the WooCommerce builder gets extended and now allows fully custom shop, cart, checkout and archive pages.

- NEW: Added a completely new product registration setup, which now uses single purchase codes
- NEW: 2 professionally designed prebuilt websites using the new Avada WooCommerce Builder features
- NEW: Introducing the Avada Post Card setup, to easily create layouts to display multiple posts of a post type
- NEW: Post Cards element to display custom post cards as a grid, a carousel, or a slider
- NEW: Post Cards Archive element to render archives in the new post card style
- NEW: Post Card Image element, with specific layouts like rollover and crossfade
- NEW: Post Card Cart element for adding WooCommerce specific elements
- NEW: 17 prebuilt post cards, including 9 blog posts, 4 products and 4 categories
- NEW: WooCommerce Sorting element for shop pages
- NEW: WooCommerce Cart Table element
- NEW: WooCommerce Cart Coupons element
- NEW: WooCommerce Cart Shipping element
- NEW: WooCommerce Cart Totals element
- NEW: WooCommerce Checkout Tabs element
- NEW: WooCommerce Checkout Billing element
- NEW: WooCommerce Checkout Shipping element
- NEW: WooCommerce Checkout Order Review element
- NEW: WooCommerce Checkout Order Payment element
- NEW: WooCommerce Checkout Form element, to wrap the main checkout form as needed
- NEW: WooCommerce Archives element to easily display archive page layouts
- NEW: WooCommerce Product Grid element, to easily display product sections and pages
- NEW: Added WooCommerce Cross Sells to the Up-Sells element
- NEW: Added 9 options for custom WooCommerce out of stock badge styling and added option to the Product Images element
- NEW: Added a new option to have the menu cart counter displayed as badge
- NEW: Added several options to Dynamic Data system (e.g. "Hello user", Cart update, items in cart, permalink etc.)
- NEW: Added Conditional element rendering system, to display elements based on custom conditions
- NEW: Conditional rendering system for Avada Forms
- NEW: Added option to easily export entries of Avada Forms
- NEW: Added option to allow multiple file uploads in one upload input in Avada Forms
- NEW: Added disabled option to text and textarea input of Avada Forms
- NEW: Added Scroll Progress element to visualize page scroll progress
- NEW: Added 3 new animation types to Avada's element animation system
- NEW: Added new options to Countdown element, including counting to a WooCommerce product sale or an Events Calendar event
- NEW: Added post content excerpts and font options to the Content element
- NEW: Added icon background size option to the Icon element
- NEW: Added link options and left/right margin to the Title element
- NEW: Added space between choice to the main menu item text align option in Menu element
- NEW: Added margin options and justification alignment choice to the Text Block element
- NEW: Added vertical alignment option of Column element when in row mode.
- NEW: Added option to YouTube and Vimeo elements to set a title attribute for accessibility
- NEW: Added option to disable FAQ element rich snippets
- NEW: Added WP CLI command to easily clear Avada caches
- NEW: Compatibility with WordPress 5.7
- NEW: Compatibility with WooCommerce 5.1
- PERFORMANCE: Added new option to automatically search site-wide for unused elements and disable them in builder option
- PERFORMANCE: Added 2 new options to choose variants and subsets for key fonts to be preloaded
- PERFORMANCE: Added a new option to disable jQuery migrate script
- IMPROVEMENT: Google fonts will now always load in woff2 format
- IMPROVEMENT: Added validation to Google maps API key field to avoid white space issues
- IMPROVEMENT: Avada Slider is now available for users with editor role
- IMPROVEMENT: Custom layouts can now be assigned to bbPress topics
- IMPROVEMENT: Meta and Pagination elements are now available in Page Title Bar Layout Sections
- IMPROVEMENT: Cloning of Layout Section elements is now possible
- IMPROVEMENT: WooCommerce Notice element now works on all pages
- IMPROVEMENT: WooCommerce rating sorting option now also gets disabled if reviews in general are disabled
- IMPROVEMENT: Added clone and live edit options and type icons to the element library table
- IMPROVEMENT: Added new actions and filters for better customizability
- UPDATED: Font Awesome now is on version 5.15.3 offering 1609 icons
- UPDATED: Added compatibility with latest Contact Form 7, which no longer uses ajax
- UPDATED: jQuery code to make sure it is compatible with WordPress 5.7+
- ACCESSIBILITY: Fixed role issue in Toggles element
- ACCESSIBILITY: Fixed legacy Page Title Bar missing landmark role
- ACCESSIBILITY: Fixed load more button not being a real button
- ACCESSIBILITY: Fixed close buttons in Modal element not working for screen readers
- FIXED: Contact Form 7 ajax loading spinner not working correctly
- FIXED: Dynamic CSS not being correctly loaded in a few cases where async loading is used
- FIXED: Color pickers in Global Options not updating in live editor
- FIXED: First and last image in the WooCommerce product lightbox being doubled
- FIXED: Hidden WooCommerce products still appearing in live search results
- FIXED: Compatibility issue with 'WooCommerce Additional Variation Images' plugin, where variation images get duplicated
- FIXED: Disabled variations not working for Avada's WooCommerce variation buttons
- FIXED: RTL issue in Avada's WooCommerce variation swatches
- FIXED: Quantity field length issue when using percentage values in the WooCommerce Add To Cart element
- FIXED: WooCommerce shop page being affected by a Layout that is set for all products in the live editor
- FIXED: PHP notice when importing a prebuilt site with products when WooCommerce is not active
- FIXED: Regular price position not working correctly for variable products when using the WooCommerce Price element
- FIXED: WooCommerce quick view image animation in cases where the featured image is larger than the quick view modal
- FIXED: WooCommerce Add To Cart element stacked variations not displaying correctly for grouped products
- FIXED: PHP notice on WooCommerce single product pages, when percentage sale badge is used and regular price missing
- FIXED: Sticky sidebars not working correctly when header is turned off in Page Options
- FIXED: Lightbox loading Vimeo preview image even if URL param is set to suppress it
- FIXED: Lightbox not working for elements added newly through ajax load more / infinite scroll actions when only first image per posts should be shown
- FIXED: Max width setting not working in Lottie element if the element is linked
- FIXED: Submitting an Avada Form through ajax causing a JS error
- FIXED: Some Avada Form elements not being translatable using WPML
- FIXED: Error message always being shown in Avada Forms when using "Send To URL" submission method
- FIXED: HTML entities encoding for Avada Forms email contents missing
- FIXED: Avada Form input labels not being correctly associated with their inputs
- FIXED: Number field in Avada Forms being able to be set to negative numbers, if min value is set to 0
- FIXED: Hidden form fields not being available for the HubSpot form mapping
- FIXED: SQL error when Avada Form tables have to be created on update
- FIXED: Avada Form labels of radio inputs not using label color
- FIXED: Form encryption type being wrong when using upload inputs and POST submission method in Avada Forms
- FIXED: Open and close action hooks for Avada Form being off
- FIXED: Emulation of terms being off in the live editor
- FIXED: Dynamic data for term count not working correctly
- FIXED: Custom footer layout can cause post contents column width to be off
- FIXED: Content width being incorrect on Events Calendar single events pages, when meta sidebar is turned off
- FIXED: JS error when using load more / infinite scroll options in Events element
- FIXED: Duplicated CSS menu ID when using vertical menu widget
- FIXED: Facebook widget disappearing on resize, if the calced width is not an integer
- FIXED: Widget element throwing PHP notice, if plugins serving corresponding widgets get disabled
- FIXED: Events Calendar widget option styling being incorrect in the editor, when using Events Calendar Pro
- FIXED: Compatibility issue with the Events Calendar lists widget, leading to settings being unchangeable
- FIXED: Default value of border color not correctly working in Meta element
- FIXED: Some elements not correctly picking up number of posts from Settings > Reading as default
- FIXED: Page Title Bar title being wrong on post type archive pages
- FIXED: Element specific JS files missing in compiled file if page is password protected
- FIXED: Lift-up shadow in Nested Columns element being incorrect when columns use rounded corners
- FIXED: Spacing issue in live editor when editing Nested Columns element in the library
- FIXED: Nested Columns element changes not always registered correctly as content change when in wireframe mode of the live editor
- FIXED: Gallery element preview in live editor not working when using the bulk image upload method
- FIXED: Backend editor jumps to top of page after editing nested columns
- FIXED: Styling of backend editor's content error modal being off
- FIXED: Checklist element having empty paragraph tags when being saved as global element
- FIXED: Clone button in Pricing Table element nor working correctly
- FIXED: JS error caused Sharing Box element script if no link is set
- FIXED: Footer font color global option using incorrect default value
- FIXED: Issue in Search element where search being limited to post title did not always work, depending on Global Options settings
- FIXED: Avada Slider height being wrong when using full screen mode but not parallax on side header layouts
- FIXED: Width and height attributes missing in Avada Slider fallback image
- FIXED: A PHP8 compatibility error in class-fusion-settings.php
- FIXED: Some scripts missing a dependency, causing JS errors
- FIXED: JetPack compatibility issue where social sharing icons were displayed in custom header and footer layouts
- FIXED: A 404 error on assets in Avada's LayerSlider styles
- FIXED: Removed hard-coded column width in Related Posts element, if there are viewer posts than set columns
- FIXED: Social Sharing element link and title don't work for archives
- FIXED: Incorrect height of SVGs when using image lazy load
- FIXED: Missing text domain on 2 strings on the Avada dashboard
- FIXED: Clickable elements not always working in Text Block element
- FIXED: PHP notice in fallback method for loading custom icon fonts
- FIXED: Element titles being escaped in the builder leading to issues with translations to some languages
- FIXED: PHP notice happening in some cases when using live search
- FIXED: Compatibility issue with some Slider Revolution slider setups
- FIXED: Post type being displayed as slug instead of name for custom post types on the search results page
- FIXED: Tracking code in a few cases not loading correctly when using privacy options
- FIXED: Live edit link in the WP admin bar being wrong when editing Layout Sections with preview set to archives
- FIXED: Dependency issue in Global Options panel, where some menu options were not correctly displayed on first tab load
- FIXED: Icon option not being correctly initialized on a fresh install, when Global Options have not been saved yet
- FIXED: Popover element displaying 'undefined' instead of staying blank when no content was set
- FIXED: Sub-menu not being toggled when clicking on link text of a hashtag online menu item in the Menu element
- FIXED: Standard font family selection not working correctly in Menu element
- FIXED: Icon alignment issue in Menu element, when using vertical layout
- FIXED: Library elements being publicly queryable