Soledad WordPress Theme 8.6.9

Featured Added: Blog Grid Style 5 for Homepage Customizer & Archive Posts.
Featured Added: Category Options – Added the ability to select a custom post template/post style within category edit screen.
Featured Added: Animated Search Placeholder – Added an option to animate the search placeholder text with fade-in/fade-out or other animation effects. Appearance → Customize → Quick Text Translation → Multi Placeholder Search Text

• Featured Addedenci Shortcode & Performance Plugin
• Option to enable/disable Critical CSS cache and generate Critical CSS directly in the page editor.
• optimized thumbnail sizes: Appearance → Customize → Speed Optimizations → General & Lazyload → Disable all Unnecessary Image Sizes – It only applies to newly uploaded images.
• Updated Critical CSS scanning engine

Featured Added: Added Penci Collapsible option for each widget, allowing a custom widget height. Users can click the “Read More” button to expand and view full content.

• Featured Addedenci Video Playlist widget:
• Removed the requirement for a Google API key to display YouTube videos/players.
• Added support for creating playlists/videos from local or direct video links.

Featured Added: Penci Filter Everything plugin: Added filter option for posts by Authors
Featured Added: Sticky Social Share Style for single post pages – you can enable it via Appearance → Customize → Single Posts → General → Share Box Position → Sticky of the Post Content.
Featured Added: Enable Button Effect for General Buttons via Customize > General > Colors > Enable Button Effect
Improve: WPBakery backend display issues.
Update: Penci AI: Updated API to support the GPT-5 model
Fixed: Penci Front-end Submission plugin: fixed WooCommerce duplicate orders
Improve: Some minor issues.

8.6.8

8.6.7

Featured Added: Default heading font size options (h1, h2, ...) for the entire site via Customize > General > Typography > Advanced Typography Settings
Featured Added: Option to show/hide menu items based on users login status. Go to Appearance > Menus > Edit a menu item then you can see it.
Featured Added: Added support for multiple post types in Elementor Query section
Featured Added: Content Protection Options via Customize > General > Extra Options > Enable Content Protection — prevents users from copying content or opening dev tools
Featured Added: Added “Daily Post View” sorting for popular posts widgets & Elementor/WPbakery query
Featured Added: New option for image hover effect on archive pages via Customize > General > General Settings > Enable Thumbnail Zoom Effect
Featured Added: “Post Source” option — available in the edit post screen
Improve: the “Soledad Demo Import” plugin: redesigned UI, added options to check install for imported pages/posts/products/image generation
Improve: Changed AJAX calls for mega menu and ajax load more from `admin-ajax.php` to `wp-json` to reduce issues with cached AJAX requests via Customize > General > Extra Options > Handle AJAX with REST API.
Improve: Penci Shortcode & Performance plugin: generate separate critical CSS files for mobile and desktop
Improve: Optimized code for the Featured Slider
Improve: Option to fix Polylang plugin issues via Customize > General > Extra Options > click the “Fix Polylang Translation Issues” button
Improve: Penci AI plugin updated API URL
Improve: Fixed translation issues for WordPress 6.8
Improve: Some minor issues.

Featured Added: Added heading selection (H2, H3, H4, H5) options for all latest posts layouts. You can check the option via Customize > Posts Layouts.
Featured Added: Added custom post type selection and advanced query support for the News Ticker in the Header Builder
Featured Added: Added a new “Go to Top” style: Appearance > Footer > General > Go To Top Style
Featured Added: Added Circle Reading Progress Bar style for single post page.
Featured Added: Added “Grid Boxed 3” style for archive pages: Appearance > Customize > Category, Tag, Search, Archive > Category, Tag, Search, Archive Layout
Featured Added: Enabled synchronization of post view counts across multiple languages.
Featured Added: new option to allow thumbnail left or right for the list layout.
Featured Added: New Elementor element: ABC Categories Listing
Featured Added: Added a new option to enable links in excerpt content: Appearance > Customize > Category, Tag, Search, Archive > Enable Link on Excerpt Content
Featured Added: Added mouse cursor effect customization via Customize > General > Cursor Effect
Featured Added: Add new 10 newsletter subscription styles for Mailchimp.
Featured Added: Added a new Gallery style: Slider 3D
Featured Added: plugin “Penci Filter Everything” – Added start & end date filtering by published and modified date. Fixed ordering by name and alphabet.
Improve: Optimize Customizer options/description to make it shorter & easily to check. Now you can hover mouse to the ”?” icon to see the option description.
Featured Added:
Update Plugins:
Penci Filter Everything
Penci Feeds
Penci Sport
Update: Woocommerce templates
Fix: the WooCommerce Origin Status issue
Fix: Elementor Lightbox issue on Single Post/Page
Improve: Some minor issues.

Featured Added: New 12 Pre-built Single Post Styles: You can check them via Customize > Single Posts > General > Single Posts Template.
Featured Added: New Elements for Elementor: Added “Penci Recipe” and “Penci Review” elements to make it easy to include them in your single post content when using Elementor.
Featured Added: Penci Sport Plugin: Added a new style, column options, and a custom date-time format for the Penci Sport plugin.
Featured Added: Mobile Content Delayed Option: A new option to reduce DOM size for mobile by loading content only when users interact with the post.
Featured Added: Penci Text-To-Speech Update: New options to use OpenAI voices and data instead of Google voices and data.
Featured Added: Penci Front-End Submission: New options allow selecting specific categories/tags for submission instead of all categories/tags. Also, users can override templates in Penci Front-End Submission using a child theme.
Update Plugins:
Penci AI
Penci Front-End Submission
Penci Recipe
Penci Review
Penci Sport
Update: Woocommerce templates
Improve: Some minor issues.

Featured Added: 13 new great demos for multiple purpose
Update: Vafpress Post Formats UI plugin
Improve: Some minor issues.

Featured Added: Create header layouts with Elementor via Penci Block – You can replace the header layout with a custom block built using Elementor. Simply design your desired header in Elementor, and then assign it as the header for your site:
- All header elements locate at Elementor > [PenciDesign] Header Builder
- Added: Penci Sticky Container: mark the contain element sticky when scroll
- Config the header layout at Customize > Logo & Header > Header Builder > Penci Block Header Builder
- Modify the Block Header in Category/Post/Page Editor screen similar to Header Builder option
Featured Added: Built-in social share meta data tags in the head tag. It will be automatically disabled if an SEO plugin is installed. You also can disable it if you want via Customize > Logo & Header > General > Disable Essential Meta Tags For Social Media
Featured Added: Flickr widget – embed Flickr images to your website. It’s similar like Instagram feed.
Featured Added: Phone number and TOC check options for quick registration form via Customize > Topbar > General Settings > Login & Register Popup
Featured Added: Archive Post Sort Options by Most Viewed and Most Comments
Featured Added: Patches option at Dashboard > Soledad > Patcher: a way to get the quick fix immediately without re-update Soledad theme.
Featured Added: Penci Podcast: add Close button to Player via Customize > Podcast > General Setting > Show Hide Podcast Player Button
Fix: Penci Shortcode: Fixed JS Delayed for the empty script tags
Improve: Optimize Penci Header Builder Front-end Loading Time by add the caching solution
Improve: Replace all twitter.com by x.com
Update: Update WooCommerce File Versions
Update: Penci Shortcode & Performance plugin
Improve: Some minor issues.

Featured Added: Plugin “Penci Filter Everything” – It allows you to filter everything in WordPress and WooCommerce, including products and any post types, by any criteria. It is compatible with WPML, ACF, and other popular plugins, and supports AJAX for seamless functionality. You can check this video tutorial for more.
Featured Added: Elementor widget: “Penci Custom Carousel” – You can create any carousel with each slide is a Penci Block or Template.
Featured Added: Elementor widget: “Penci Table of Content” – Use for Single Post Builder or embed it inside a page to create a table of content.
Featured Added: New 3 styles for Cookies/GDPR Policy via Customize > General > GDPR Policy
Featured Added: Option to show post subtitle under post title on archive via Customize > Posts Layouts
Featured Added: Option to show/hide Breadcrumbs on Archive Pages, Single Post Pages, ...etc via Customize > General > General Settings
Featured Added: Add social media options for Threads + Bluesky by default
Featured Added: Option to show recipe meta options on archive pages via Customize > Recipe Options > General
Featured Added: New Ticker Style: Marquee Style
Featured Added: new features for “Penci Front-end Submission” plugin – Add custom meta field submit with Advanced Custom Fields/Secure Custom Fields
Featured Added: Option for Woocommerce – For all WooCommerce Pages using Shortcode base instead of Gutenberg Block via Customize > WooCommerce > General > Use standard page content for cart and checkout pages.
Update: Update WooCommerce Templates
Update: Update Mobile Detect Library
Update: Update some plugins to make sure it works fine with the latest version of WordPress
Fix: Issues with Elementor Newest Version
Fix: Elementor Post Builder Reading Time
Improve: Use Ajax Filter for Penci Portfolio Plugin instead of iSotope to improve the performance
Improve: Some minor issues.

Featured Added: Penci Sport Plugin – a plugin to help you can isplays scores and rankings for popular football sports/leage. You can check widgets “Penci Football Fixture” & “Penci Football Standing” from Elementor and Appearance > Widgets to get it.
Featured Added: Option to use ajax Pagination for all archive pages via Appearance > Customize > Category, Tag, Search, Archive Pages > Enable AJAX Numeric/Next-Prev Pagination
Featured Added: 3 new featured sliders: Style 40, Style 41 & Style 42.
Featured Added: new widget “Penci Advanced Google Maps” for Elementor – a widget will help you showing multiple locations in one element – check this image for example.
Featured Added: new widget “Penci Content Accordion” for Elementor – a widget to showing posts or custom content with accordion style
Featured Added: new widget “Penci Compare Before/After” for Elementor – a widget to help you can compare 2 images before & after
Featured Added: new 3 styles for Ordered Numbers for “Soledad Popular Posts” widget.
Featured Added: Enhanced Penci AI plugin & support gpt-4o-mini.
Featured Added: Option to set default thumbnail image via Customize > General > General Settings > Default Thumbnail Image
Update: Update WooCommerce Templates
Update: “Penci Mobile Template” plugin
Fix: Issues with Elementor Newest Version
Fix: Elementor Post Builder Reading Time
Improve: Improve Header Builder URL
Improve: Some minor issues.