This release focuses on improving the Slider Builder. It brings long awaited and highly requested editing capabilities as well as new new features that will enhance your content in many ways.
NEW EDITOR FEATURES
NEW LAYER & CONTENT TYPES
- Import slides: With just a couple of clicks, you can import any slide from any slider you have on your site. You don't even have to navigate away, it will be added right into the editor where you want it.
- Import layers: Similarly to slides, a nice UI will help you to import any layer from any slider quickly and super easily.
- New Context Menu: Right clicking in the Preview area will open the new context menu. It allows you to select common tasks like adding/removing/duplicating layers as well as to perform copy/paste operations, aligning layers and many more. The old behavior to list and select overlapping layers is also integrated into this new solution.
EDITOR CHANGES
- Button layer: Buttons now have a dedicated layer type. They also received some presets you can easily apply to have different types of buttons with different styles.
- Icon layer: There's also a new Icon layer type. You can choose from 675 pictographs to easily include them in your sliders.
- Icon support: Icons can also be used in combination with other layer types like Buttons, Text or HTML layers.
OTHER NEW FEATURES
- Choose before adding: The Add New button now acts as a drop down to choose the type of layer you want to use. Certain layer types (Image & Icon) now immediately prompts you to select the content you want to add. For example, in case of an Image layer, this would be the WordPress Media Library where you can immediately select or upload an image.
- Layer placeholders: No more invisible "contentless" layers. Now every layer type has a placeholder that visually represents it within the editor.
- Inline editing: Double clicking on layers to edit them right in the Preview area now works with non-textual contents as well like Icon or Image layers. In those cases the modal window to add/replace an icon or image will open.
- Align layer options: besides the grid view, now you can also align layers along the horizontal or vertical axis separately.
- Layer-less slides: Slides no longer have an included empty layer by default.
IMPROVEMENTS
- Added "Skip Slide Breaks" option for Play By Scroll sliders to eliminate the stop between slide changes.
BUG FIXES
- Improved compatibility with image preloaders.
- Special effects like the Origami transition can now be mixed with regular slide transitions.
- Prevent re-initializing sliders on the same element multiple times.
- Improved compatibility with GSAP sandboxing enabled.
- Fixed rewinding video / audio layers after changing slides.
- Fixed Play By Scroll starting position detection.
- Fixed global background size option not always working as expected.
- Fixed an issue that could break layer styles in rare cases.
- Many more under the hood fixes and improvements.
- Fixes for developers:
- Fixed an issue with the destroy API method.
- Fixes for overriding default settings like skins that not always worked as expected.
- Fixes in the LS_Sources class that affected externally loaded skins and other materials.
NEW FEATURES
IMPROVEMENTS
- New option to add your custom class names to the slider container element.
BUG FIXES
- LayerSlider now performs significantly better on your front-end pages due to some fixes in the caching implementation.
- Further improvements in the WPML implementation: shortcode contents will no longer show up in String Translation under the 'default' text domain.
- Changed the Template Store UI and animations to enhance performance on older devices.
- Fixed the right click menu in the Slider Builder, which enables you to easily select overlapping layers.
- Fixed rare issues with layer selection, layer locking and undoing changes, which affected the Slider Builder in very specific cases.
- Fixed previewing Play By Scroll sliders, which previously left the Slider Builder in a non-scrollable state.
LayerSlider 6.5.7
This update fixes a PHP debug message displayed when your site has the WP debug mode enabled.
LayerSlider 6.5.6
Changes of media layers:
Autoplaying videos will no longer display the play icon for that brief moment, making background videos and in other cases a perfectly smooth video surface.
You now have the option to set the volume of background videos. They are muted by default and there was no way to change that previously.
The 'Controls' and 'Show Info' media layer settings now include an 'Auto' option. It is based on the most common use cases and respects settings set by the embed code or HTML attributes.
The 'Controls' option for media layers was not working as expected in some cases. For example, you can now enable controls for audio layers as well.
Media layers are now properly pause and resume playback (based on your settings) when closing/re-opening a Popup slider.
Changes in the WPML implementation:
When setting up the 'Dynamic content from posts' feature, the Post Options screen now shows only the posts belonging to the currently selected language set by WPML. Duplicate entries created as a translation will be filtered out and can be reached by choosing the corresponding language from the WPML menu on the top admin bar.
The 'Dynamic content from posts' feature now lets WPML to generate the post permalink on its own. This ensures to always have the appropriate URL based on your WordPress and WPML settings.
Fixed an issue that could make layers unselectable in the Slider Builder when you used 'class' as a custom layer attribute.
Fixed an issue that caused Google to index the 'static' plugin folder causing unwanted search results.
Fixed the OS native fullscreen mode in Firefox.
Fixed previewing the Origami transition in the Slider Builder.
Fixed an issue in the Dynamic content feature that could break the Slider Builder interface in very rare cases.
Increased compatibility by workarounding certain issues in 3rd party plugins and themes.
General fixes and improvements under the hood.