Essential Grid Gallery WordPress Plugin 3.1.2.1

BUGFIX

• Fixed Lightbox Group issues
• Fixed Lightbox issues with double Thumbnails
• Fixed offseted Thumbnails in Lightbox galleries
• Fixed Lightbox triggering on Cover and Media containers

CHANGES

• Replaced jQuery.parseJSON against JSON.parse to support upcoming WP 5.6 with jQuery 3.0
• Added Version Checking for rbtools.min.js which will allow to load the latest version of ThemePunch tools if Slider Revolution and Essential Grid also activated

BUGFIX

• Fixed missing Lightbox On/Off Global function
• Fixed missing Select box of WooCommerce Elements in Skin Editor
• Fixed missing Custom Metas in Skin Editor
• Fixed Slide JavaScript Failure where over animations i.e. in HowardTaft Skin was not any more working
• Fixed JSON Parse issues in Skin and Grid Editor
• Fixed frontend issues in Grids with Blank elements where in some cases a javascritp error broke the page rendering
• Get rid of Double or Muliple created thumbs in Lightbox Gallery thumbnails list
• Fixed frontend special character display in meta information

NEW FEATURE

• Added Support for Wordpress Version 5.5
• Added option to disable the video playback in grids on click, on cover or media
• Added new navigation skins
• Added the element to add the full textual representation of a month (January through December) in the skin editor

CHANGES

• Removed redundancy of processes to reduce cpu and gpu load
• Updated FancyBox based Lightbox, and remove Older JackBox and Social Box based Lightboxes.
• Moved Global Settings, Import/Export Settings, Font Settings, Meta and Search settings grouped under Global Settings now
• Redesigned the Administraion Views
• Added some Performance Boost, for better and more Effective loading, better filtering and smoother Animations
• Changed duplication name from Grid-* to "Copy of #name# *"
• Changed the behavior of sorting by favorite
• Changed editor behaviour, where the available layer backgrounds will not auto change its color synced to the cover color to avoid visual issues
• Connection to Instagram now via the official Facebook API (customer security)
• Changed the activation/deactivation process so that OVH customers can now properly activate/deactivate the plugin. (in addition, the essential-grid-ovh plugin is needed)
• New Essential Grid ShortCode/Quick Editor added to pages and posts. Gutenberg version extended with post based grids and custom quick grids
• Minimum amount of Visible items will be loaded if Filter selected and amount of visible Items less then defatult
• Simplified the script structures and shortened the required amounts of loaded files

BUGFIX

• Issues with autoplay of videos, embedded and/or in lightbox fixed in this version
• Fixed an issue where clicking on the clear or search submit buttons would open clickable dropdown lists
• Icon selector in skin editor was not scrollable when the mouse pointer was hovering the single icons
• Click on cover will allow now also to play self hosted videos in ligthbox
• CodeMirror updated, and some double scrollbars and missaligned formatting fixed
• Touch swipe option will now show/hide further options based on this option value
• Loading new items on filter change may sometimes shows double "No Items Available" and "No More Items Available" content. This will wait now until the loading finishes its job before it shows any further details
• Fixed PHP 7.4 deprecated message for PHP implodes in the frontend
• Fixed an issue in filters when titles contain single quotes (')
• Fixed double output of meta value "date day"
• Fixed caching issue for WordPress galleries (same output for each gallery)
• Fixed animation issues on hover and added performance for smoother and quicker animations on single items
• Fixed issue when using empty taxonimies layers
• Fixed ajax loaded Slider Revolution links and navigation elements in lightbox mode. Required RS version 6.2.11
• Fixed an issue where Slider Revolution can not be opened twice in a row in lightbox. Required RS version 6.2.11
• Fixed an issue in the source selection of grids: Taxonomies can now be combined with "and"
• Duplicated existing Navigation Skins with the version number v2 to solve issues with stacking hover stlyes on mobile devices
• Simplified navigation styles due the new v2 edition
• Solved a problem where navigation, filtering, sorting and searching were not available if they were added by a shortcode outside of the grid
• Embedded videos can start now again with auto play (muted due the new browser restrictions)
• Fixed cache clearing issue for Vimeo streams
• Fixed the issue that YouTube playlist overview grids did not show the images
• Fixed WooCommerce sorting "total sales"
• Fixed API limitation for Facebook albums
• Fixed an issue where item animation when changing the Grid height would not trigger the new item in animation of other grids before scrolling the window
• Changing the page in masonry look did not refresh the position of single items. This bug has been fixed in the latest version
• Changed Twitter Sharing Link to the current one