Newspaper - News & WooCommerce WordPress Theme 12.7

Version 7.7 – February 3rd, 2017

• new: this theme version has support for block templates and it comes with 17 bundled templates. A block template can change the appearance of a blocks title, pagination and more. The global block template will also affect the way comments, related posts and widgets look and feel.
• new: widgets can use block templates that are different from the global one that is selected in the panel
• new: options for google font weights and styles. The theme will only load the needed font weights and styles from now on
• misc: author box is added as a widget now
• misc: added footer social icons color option
• misc: archive widget style
• misc: The Header Style section from Theme Panel was redesigned with icons to be more user friendly
• misc: image box block now supports custom gaps between pictures and custom heights
• misc: widgets can now use an image upload control. The first widget to use this is the imagebox widget
• misc: google fonts now always load as one file
• misc: theme panel layout and spacing is much improved now
• misc: inline ad displays at the last paragraph whenever there are not as many paragraphs mentioned in After Paragraph field and the article bottom ad is not active
• misc: we updated the list of compatible plugins in the theme
• fix: update the instagram icon
• fix: pulldown filter alignment on category template 8
• fix: image caption link on smartlists was not working
• fix: the tagline from the text logo
• fix: instagram widget on the boxed version was overflowing
• fix: the password reset link that was sent from our login modal window was not working
• fix: for buddypress styling issue – members, activity, groups pages and search form
• fix: we switched to https all the post sharing links
• fix: the mobile theme did not load the translations from the theme’s .po .mo files
• fix: the not secured warning in chrome only appears now when the login box is opened
• fix: theme action error in the status panel when the theme is already activated
• fix: featured images from vimeo videos are now larger
• fix: ajax login works now via https
• fix: the sample plugin that shows how to add new modules and blocks works as expected now. It was giving a fatal error

Version 7.6.1 – January 26th, 2017

• fix: We modified the login modal window code to only appear on the page when front page login is enabled. This makes sure that some versions of Chrome browser will not mark the site as Not Secure.

Version 7.6 – December 20th, 2016

• misc: Visual Composer plugin updated to the latest version 5.0.1
• misc: Revolution Slider plugin updated to the latest version
• misc: full compatibility with WordPress 4.7
• new: DEMO – Beauty blog – a fresh and simple blog demo. Easy to use and beautifully designed
• new: The Plugin Page from where a user installs the included plugins was completely redesigned to be more user friendly.
• new: added support for block templates overwritten via the Theme API system in demos. All future demos can now load different block templates if needed.
• new: the comment form is now validated with javascript. This was a long requested feature and we are very happy how it turned out.
• misc: css fixes in the theme panel and the welcome screen
• misc: we finally updated the social icons and we also removed the icons for dead services (picasa, Posterous etc)
• misc: the Social Networks panel now checks each input to be correct, this prevents user error and bad URL’s that supposed to go to social networks profiles but instead go to 404 pages on the site
• misc: we removed the max-width from srcset on images and the responsive images on mobile now work as expected
• misc: translation panel information text
• misc: on android, when a user uses the mobile search, it will autofocus on the input field now
• fix: password protected comments now work as expected
• fix: facebook videos that are in the content of the post now work and resize as expected
• fix: font panel css issues
• fix: the tag ajax filter now displays the tags in the order of the id’s the user selects. Before it was alphabetically
• fix: home breadcrumb does not appear as structured data as required by the google metadata testing tool
• fix: smartlists that had image captions with HTML where broken. Now we fixed them.
• fix: category sorting options was not working sometimes.