Slider Revolution Responsive WordPress Plugin 6.7.23

New Features

• Added color skins to define global colors for different color attributes through any kind of element. I.e. create a color group for highlight colors and then attach them to the font-color, border-color, navigation elements, slide backgrounds, shape colors and so on. This is the best way to edit templates very quick and simple.
• Carousel offset values can scale now also linear to slide scales to allow different horizontal carousel animations based on scale, horizontal offset and this new option
• Added retina canvas support for the Paintbrush AddOn. The Paintbrush AddOn version 2.1.3 is required
• Added global option to modify the Slider Revolution backend language manually (no need to change the whole WordPress backend language)
• Carousel slides will load on demand with lazy loading if lazy loading is set to single/smart. The amount of loaded elements depend on the amount of visible slides set in the carousel settings.
• Added auto width slides for the carousel mode (justified) Option.
• Added sticky mode for the carousel layout
• Added permanent visible individual layers, to extend the "visible all" layers feature in the carousel mode. This gives you more freedom as for which layers should always be visible and which should only be visible on slide focus
• Added an force overflow hidden option for the carousel mode which can be very useful in the new justified carousel mode
• Added new option to hide hover functionality on layers if the Slider is loaded on mobile.
• Added Page Template "Slider Revolution Blank Page" for Posts too
• Added Background Color Page option for Slider Revolution Blank Page Template
• Added Block Settings (PopUp, Spacing, zIndex etc) for Gutenberg, WP Bakery Page Builder and Elementor

Changes

• Updated google fonts
• Updated the preview function to show a more realistic preview in the backend using desktop mode
• Updated the carousel engine for a better performance and smoother animations
• Added throw phyiscs to the carousel engine
• Changed the internal packaging process, to always pack WordPress plugins with file permssions 755 (for folders) and 644 (for files), to conform the WordPress standards
• Added a workaround for a Safari bug where image layer animations shift when the opacity is below 1 at start
• Essential Grid will now be parsed in layer. On start animation, Essential Grid will call the redraw option
• Static layer editor will now honor the last edited slide and will resize and reposition none editable elements for better orientation in the static slide editing
• Warning added on background filters to inform about incompatible filters on videos for the Edge and Internet Explorer Browsers
• Videos in the editor can now have "auto" height and "%" width independent if they are positioned in columns, groups or on the stage directly

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where the usage of {{featured_image_url_*}} parameters for post based and Instagram sliders did not work properly
• Fixed a bug where layers from the layer library could not be imported
• Fixed a bug where the a slide would be visible on mobile even if the setting was set that it should not be visible
• Fixed a bug where updating from an old version of Slider Revolution could change the animations in rare cases, so that the slider editor can not be loaded
• Fixed tons of small glitches in the carousel rendering. Fixed swipe failures and missing elements on the left/right side. Fixed rotation and scale issues if the varying option was set to true
• The slider editor will now also save published/unpublished slides even if no other setting was changed on those slides
• Fixed scroll effects on mobile devices
• The dropzone will now only be shown to real dragged files in the editor
• Fixed minHeight issue on fullwidth sliders. From now on it will ignore unused values set by auto layout
• The Toggle state of playing/pausing a slider will not jump anymore between forward and backward when the slide is changing.
• Fixed box-shadow issue in FireFox by removing the filter rest blur(0px) on some elements
• Fixed a bug where Vimeo Autoplay on iOS was not working well on the 2nd and further Loops
• Bubble Morph bug fixed where linear resized small containers used to shake on mobile devices. Bubble Morph 2.0.3 is required
• Fixed a bug where an empty Slider Revolution block opens the template library on page/post editor loading
• Fixed the smart loading feature, which will now load the previous/next slide content when the slide is focused
• Fixed a bug where the optimizer stopped working in the page editor in case the module included any AddOns
• Fixed inline style issues on layers when the slide link was added at the end of the slide container
• Fixed a bug where looped media could not be saved. After 1 reload and resave the video lost its looped state
• Fixed a bug where inline styled colors in splitted text (chars, lines, words) were not respected
• TypWriter multiple line editing bug fixed. TypeWriter version 2.0.2 required
• Fixed device pixel ratio issue on retina displays. The Paintbrush AddOn version 2.1.3 is required
• Fixed an issue where none of the YouTube playlist listitems was selected after the playlist updates
• Fixed click mouseenter and mouseleave actions on layers in combination with navigation show/hide, slider focus/blur events
• Before After AddOn split initialisation will respect all screensizes now, instead of jumping 50% on smaller screens. The Before After AddOn 2.0.3 is required
• Fixed Slicey AddOn compatibility with the Type Writer AddOn. Slicey 2.0.1 AddOn required
• Fixed Google Font loading issue if the global option for preload was selected

New Features

• The import process now checks for image duplication not only in the same folder but in the whole WordPress installation

Changes

• The gutenberg block opens the module library now directly when added

Bugfixes

• Removed unwanted "rated" text from WooCommerce product star rating
• Fixed scrollbar issues in the editor and overview pages
• Fixed an issue with line heights in some rare cases where i.e. Safari was ignoring the responsive children sizes
• Fixed drop zone issues in the overview and editor mode where dragging files from desktop over the browser was not always working well

*This version includes all templates and addons*

New Features

• Added guide lines based on grid and on similar aligned layers where layers can snap to these guidlines also. Even gaps can be set to snap by predefined spaces

Changes

• Folders in overview will show now the first found elements admin thumb even in multiple depths
• GreenSock TweenMax library updated to version 2.1.3.
• Changed the Event Manager meta for layers from {{event_event_id}} to {{event_id}}
• Added an option in the Panorama AddOn to lock vertical draggings. Panorama AddOn 2.1.0 is required
• Change Facebook API connection to access tokens (because of the new API security guidelines)
• Changed the usage of wp_upload_dir() in the object library, so that the calls of it are minimized, as it caused issues on Pantheon Servers
• Changed behavior of certain functions to better support Pantheon servers
• Modal loading will now use the cover background already before the modal window is loaded. This happens only if the cover background is enabled and a color is selected

Bugfixes

• Fixed IE11 HTML5 bug
• Fixed IE11 navigation bugs
• Fixed migration issues where in the slide transition the first element was existing but was an empty string
• Fixed Instagram issue function 'instagram_autoloader' not found
• Fixed predefined height calculation of Sliders where preloaders on mobile devices were offset positioned
• Fixed import bug of static slides not deleting the old image id of a layer
• Fixed a scroll animation issue where a fullwidth slider position offsetted if the element was not embeded on a blank page template. Thanks to Kashif for the great suggestion!
• Updated missing media filters for the Pan Zoom effects
• Fixed "start with slide" in carousel mode which was somehow not fixed in version 6.1.2 due to a glitch
• Fixed issues in the overview/dashboard where some of the control buttons were not clickable in Safari Browser
• Fixed custom preset loading issues with the Particle Effects AddOn. Required version 2.1.0
• Fixed a notice that occured in a carousel if scale is set to off and fadeout is set to on
• Fixed issue where carousel elements scale over an acceptable limit. This value has been limited now
• Fixed line height issues on colums. Now you can also set line height defaults for columns to avoid spacing issues where layers within columns are lower than 25px
• Fixed a Paintbrush AddOn issue where the paintbrush option were not added to streams and post based sliders
• Fixed an issue with the carousel navigation due to bullets and arrows in some cases where the slide size was equal or bigger than screensize
• Fixed a markup issue in the overview where folder drop zones were not available anymore after last browser updates
• Fixed YouTube slide background images to show as default the high resolution image if available