Salient - Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme 17.0.5

Once you've updated your theme, make sure to also update your Salient plugins to get access to the features listed below.

• Added two new demos: Salient Resort and Salient Architect
• Added new "element navigator" to Salient WPbakery page builder front-end editor
  • Easily access and edit elements in a tree-style view
  • Scroll to the exact location of an element on the page
  • Create more complex designs with an intuitive structured overview of your content
• Added option to toggle element settings position in front-end editor. Settings can now be fixed to the right-hand of the screen, out of the way of the content.
• Added new and improved column/row highlighting in the front-end editor
• Added new element dragging functionality with vastly better performance and element icon indicator visible in the front-end editor
• Added new element icon set for page builder elements in the front & backend editors
• Added option to control inner row positioning - relative/absolute with control over positioning per device viewport - Greatly enhances the potential for advanced custom designing.
• Added Single Image page builder element option - continuous looped animation
• Added Single Image page builder element custom max width setting for each device viewport
• Added option to select WP image size for "Single image" page builder element
• Added new advanced coloring overlay options within Row/Column page builder elements.
  • Create complex gradients with unlimited draggable colors and precise control over the angle
• Added new Column page builder element animation options - continuous movement by scroll position
  • Create complex parallax websites
  • High performance CSS3 powered animation
• Added theme option to specify general link styling
• Added theme option to define letter spacing unit type for all fields in the Typography tab
• Added field to "Single Image" page builder element to specify custom "sizes" attribute
• Added option to define custom Column page builder element border radius
• Added option to make Column page builder element sticky
• Added "link styling" option to "Split line heading" page builder element
• Added new Split Line Heading page builder element animation styles
• Added option to define Split Line Heading page builder element font size separately for each device viewport
• Added option to define row/column background images separately for each device viewport
• Added option to define inner row "pointer events"
• Added option to ignore sticky posts in Post Grid page builder element
• Added new style "Vertical List" to Post Grid page builder element
• Added option to define row margin separately for each viewport
• Added theme option to define "Filter" Sidebar Toggle Starting State in the Salient options > WooCommerce tab
• Added compatibility with WooCommerce Additional Variation Images plugin when using "Left Thumbnails + Sticky Product Info" gallery type
• Added border styling options to "call to action" page builder element
• Added new button style animation option "Text reveal wave" to "call to action" page builder element
• Added theme option to keep single blog post navigation limited to category
• Added new blog post header theme option style "Featured media under title"
• Added new blog post meta theme option "Estimated reading time"
• Added new blog post pagination option "Parallax Next Link Only"
• Added iconsmind library to Salient Menu Item Options
• Added button styling options to Salient Menu Item Options
• Added new Off Canvas Menu style "Fullscreen Inline with Dynamic BG"
• Added Salient Menu Item Option to make any menu item persist in mobile navigation header
• Added option to add entrance animation to header navigation on a per page basis
• Added option to define custom font size to testimonial slider element
• Added functionality to allow Hide Header Until Needed animation effect to work on mobile devices
• Added parallax and icon positioning options to "Fancy box" page builder element > hover description style
• Added portrait video aspect ratio option to "Self hosted video player" element
• Added lazy loading option support for "Image Gallery" page builder element when using masonry image grid styles
• Added option to define background overlay coloring for all blog header styles
• Added new options for "Image Gallery" page builder when using flickity styles
  • Option to stagger columns
  • Greater control over columns per viewport
• Added new page builder element "Text Inline Images" which allows images to easily be placed in between words within a segment of text.
• Added new options for Carousel page builder element > Simple Slider style
  • New drag indicator option/styling
  • Emit slide color to row background
  • Slider Transition Type (fade/slide)
• Added new options for Carousel page builder element > Flickity style
  • Define custom widths for specific carousel items
  • Hide a specific carousel item on mobile
• Added new performance themes options:
  • Responsive Page/Post Header Image Sizing
  • Remove Font Awesome
  • Defer jQuery
• Added option to lazy load video backgrounds on page builder rows/columns
• Added 30 new Salient Studio templates
• Added PHP8 compatibility

Fixed​

• Fixed input type "number" base theme styling
• Fixed Page Full Screen Rows to correctly use permanent transparent header theme option on mobile
• Fixed nectar video lightbox nectar button style to show correct coloring when hovering
• Fixed "Post Grid" page builder element "Lightbox Gallery" to work correctly with Content under featured image style
• Fixed "Simple Slider" carousel page builder element next/prev button icon alignment on iOS
• Fixed transparent header coloring when passing Global Section elements
• Fixed WooCommerce product tags widget to display correctly on mobile
• Fixed WooCommerce shop sorting fancy dropdown positioning with latest WooCommerce
• Fixed WooCommerce off canvas reviews functionality to work with third party plugins which override the default gallery
• Fixed Flickty carousel page builder element positioning when opening material off canvas navigation
• Fixed Global Section custom CSS not applying to home/front pages
• Fixed "Box Roll" page header effect to allow "Image With Hotspots" page builder element to open correctly on mobile
• Fixed WP dark color switcher compatibility with box roll header layout
• Fixed WooCommerce filter toggle z-index issue when using "right sidebar" layout
• Fixed Salient theme options panel UI responsive sizing
  
  

  Improved​

  • Improved CSS/JS asset loading
  • Improved Front-end editing drag/drop sorting performance
  • Improved Page Builder element tab categories|
    
    
    Updated
    • Updated iconsmind library to only load icons as needed instead of relying on the large bundled font file (performance improvement)
    • Updated Salient options > Header navigation color scheme layout to be more intuitive
    • Updated Salient Core version to 1.9
    • Updated Salient Demo Importer to version to 1.9
    • Updated Salient Home Slider to 1.4.1
    • Updated Salient Nectar Slider to 1.7.1
    • Updated Salient Portfolio: 1.7.1

v13 is a major release. After updating, remember to clear the cache from any performance plugins you have active as well as your browser cache.

Once you've updated your theme, make sure to also update your Salient plugins to get access to the features listed below.

Fixed
Fixed "Page Full Screen Rows" option to correctly center columns that are set to be equal height. (WPBakery v6.7 compatibility fix)

Fixed​

• Fixed Salient options panel dynamic stylesheet from generating too often
• Fixed Redux framework admin ajax issue
• Fixed performance conflict with Yoast content analyzer when using many images/galleries within page content
  • Note: You must update to WPbakery 6.7 to get this change.
• Fixed secondary header to correctly display when using "Hide header until needed" effect and scrolling fast

Updated​

• Updated WPBakery to latest version (6.7)