LayerSlider - Kreatura Slider Plugin for WordPress 7.14.0

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This update introduces a modal window asking your consent for using certain features in LayerSlider. A new Privacy tab has also been added to the LayerSlider -> Options page where you can enable/disable these features & services.

This release focuses on plugin-wide improvements and bug fixes including lots of less visible changes to enhance compatibility and stability.

IMPROVEMENTS

• Greatly improved Play By Scroll feature, which now works as expected if a slider covers the entire page or located at unusual places.
• Improvements to HTTPS secure sites to overcome some edge cases that might affected certain sites very rarely.
• Improvements to script loading and handling, which provides extended compatibility with CDNs and JS minify/combine features commonly used in themes and cache plugins.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed pre 5.3 PHP parsing errors.
• Fixed date localization in dynamic posts.
• The Popup click trigger now prevents navigating away from page if it's set on a linked element.

OTHER CHANGES

• Theme authors now have the ability to enforce certain settings located under LayerSlider -> Options -> Advanced in order to maximize theme compatibility.
• Removed the "Put JS includes to body" advanced setting. The "Include scripts in the footer" option should be used as an alternative.
• Lots of under the hood improvements and bug fixes.

KNOWN ISSUES

• Chrome 66's Autoplay Policy Change: Google introduced new browser restrictions, which will prevent automatic video/audio playback in certain situations. Autoplay is now allowed only when either the media won't play sound, after the user clicks or taps on the site, or (on desktop) if the user has previously shown an interest in media on the site.
  
  Another follow-up update will arrive soon, which will provide further options to mitigate these restrictions. Since it's governed by the browser, there is no way to restore the previous behavior. However, we can supply alternate options like autoplaying muted videos where visitors can restore sound with a separate button.

Fixed an issue that caused Popup sliders not displaying in some cases.
Fixed the Origami transition on slides with no slide background image.
Fixed image pickers to always display high quality preview images.
Fixed video/audio MIME-types when selecting multiple source formats.
Fixed newly imported slides to always show the proper preview image.
Further minor improvements and bug fixes under the hood.