New Features:
1. Starter screen (appears on The7 registration) with an option to automatically set up The7 for building Elementor-based websites from scratch.
When choosing this option, The7 will automatically install the required plugins, choose optimal settings, create Global Fonts and Colors (Design System), add basic templates (blog, shop, archives, etc.) and template parts (header, footer, mobile menu, etc.), import minimal dummy content, etc. In other words, do all the prep work we usually do before creating a new demo.
2. Settings presets optimized for Elementor and WPBakery were added to The7 > My The7.
3. Option to disable old Page Templates and other features not required for Elementor-based websites was added under The > My The7, Settings.
4. Option to disable the icon font built into The7 was added under The > My The7, Settings.
New and updated demos:
1. New "Blank" demo (Demo design system). Handy if you are building a website from scratch without using a pre-made thematic demo.
2. "Elementor Shop" demo (Home: slideshow and side banners) was completely overhauled.
All other demos were updated to use new features.
Improvements:
1. All icons used in the theme were switched from the icon font to .svg.
2. Numerous minor improvements to forms styling (checkboxes and radio-buttons styling; styling for the Product Reviews widget; buttons icon spacing; etc.).
3. Numerous minor improvements to the Mini Cart widget (title and buttons background; min-height for title background; spacing after the last item; etc.).
4. "Gap" element in TinyMCE text editor is now editable.
5. Search widget now has the "clear" button.
6. Arrows in the Product Images widget now support .svg's; have responsiveness and spacing settings.
7. Toggles in the Product Filter widget now have hover and active color settings.
8. Numerous minor improvements to the Photo Scroller widget.
9. Mega menu margins can now be set in "em" and "rem" units.
10. "Normalize resize event on mobile devices" setting was added to Elementor Site Settings (works the same as in the Theme Options).
Bugfixes:
1. "Apply Coupon" button has wrong height on mobile devices.
2. "dt-the7/woocommerce/myaccount\form-login.php" template is outdated.
3. Image Box widget grid layout is broken in some settings combinations.
4. Minor appearance issues with the Product Revies form.
5. Position of 3+ level indicator in Shop Categories widget.
6. Header can't be excluded from 404 Page template.
7. Active product filters widget, icon size misses the "px" and "em" units.
8. Collapsible sidebar. The Product Categories dropdown is not visible with certain settings combinations.
9. Carouse widgets. Animation is missing with .svg arrows.
10. "Current subcategories" mode doesn't work in "The7 Product Categories Grid".
New Features:
1. The7 Mini Cart widget.
2. The7 Search widget.
Improvements:
1. Icons now will import during the single page import process.
2. fr_FR language file updated.
3. Minor decorations styling improvements for the The7 Horizontal Menu widget.
4. Image Box Grid widget is now translatable.
Bugs Fixes:
1. Custom Scrollbar sometimes appears when it shouldn't.
2. The7 Add to Cart widget doesn't respect the custom order of attributes.
3. Registration form in WooCommerce is not translatable.
4. FireFox. Theme Options > Branding. Settings are not being saved when using arrows in quantity fields.
Other minor improvements and under-the-hood changes.
New Demo:
Elementor Company - Home
New Features:
1. Image Box widget.
2. Grid Image Box widget.
Improvements:
1. Import of Single Posts with Elementor templates.
2. Post Grid widget can now display custom fields of custom post types.
Bug Fixes:
1. Layout issues in Filter by Price widget.
2. "Fashion Store" demo content cannot be removed.
New Features:
1. "Tabs & Accordion" widget.
2. "Menu Cart" widget.
Improvement:
Horizontal Menu. The toggle icon is now responsive.
Changes under the hood:
1. Pre-made websites data is not being imported/exported in JSON instead of being base64-encoded.
2. All REQUIRED notices in the Envato Theme Check plugin are being fixed.
Bug fixes:
1. Mobile menu doesn't close with specific settings combinations.
2. Close button doesn't work for the Contact Form 7 popup message.
New Feature:
Theme Style > Contact Forms settings added in Elementor.
Improved:
1. "Roboto Serif" font added to the fonts list.
2. Standard filters added the "Add to cart" button.
3. Option for arrows positioning relative to widget box or images was added to carousel widgets.
4. "Missing modules" info added to The7 System Status.
Bugs Fixed:
1. Product info tabs widget. Button in comments height adjusted.
2. Photo Albums post type sometimes causes PHP errors in the edit screen.
3. Spare space removed in product filters in popups.
4. Missing animation added to the WooCommerce Categories List widget.
5. Old "register_control" replaced in query-control/class-the7-query-control-module.php.
6. Posts carousel & masonry/grid. The "Open in new tab/window" option is not always available.
New Features:
Product Categories List widget.
Improved:
1. Minor changes to comments styling.
2. Active submenu branch is now opened in the mobile view of the Horizontal Menu widget.
3. Opening a submenu will collapse other submenus in the mobile view of the Horizontal Menu widget.
4. Paragraph Spacing setting now influences lists, quotes, etc.
5. Large mega menus are now properly scrollable.
Bugs Fixed:
1. "theme-color" tag doesn't pick up The7 Accent color.
2. The mobile menu is not scrollable in the Horizontal Menu widget.
Improved:
1. URLs autocorrect when importing a pre-made website.
2. The7 will prompt to disable Elementor "experimental features" that can break websites.
3. "Spacing" settings are now responsive in "Simple Grid" and "Simple Carousel" widgets.
4. General pre-made websites import process improvements.
Bugs Fixed:
1. WP 5.9 breaks labels on the Checkout page.
2. Issues with Vertical Menu visibility.
3. Mega-menu appearance settings are not visible in preview when DOM optimization feature is disabled.
4. Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class 'WC_Tax' not found..
Improved:
1. Elementor Settings import during a pre-made website installation.
2. Default number of posts in carousel-style widgets changed from "all" to "12". This will not affect existing websites.
3. The7 + newest version of FVM integration.
Bugs fixed:
1. Issues with input fields on the WooCommerce checkout page on mobile devices.
Improvements:
1. Option to enable/disable "Deprecated Elementor Widgets" added to The7 dashboard (The7 > My The7, Settings).
2. Option to enable/disable "Unused Mega-menu Settings" added to The7 dashboard.
3. Breadcrumbs Text setting is added to The7 dashboard.
4. Min Height setting added to the Prоduct Sorting widget.
5. Custom Fonts for Price styling in Products and Products Carousel widgets.
6. Styling for Sale and Zoom labels in the Product Images widgets.
7. Button Size setting added in the Product Review widget.
8. "Nothing found" message now displays only for the "Current Query" source in the posts-feed-based widgets.
Bugs Fixed:
1. Issue with SVG icon size on hover in the Simple Posts and Carousel widget.
2. Problem with image width (in px) in Simple Posts widget.
3. Simple Product Categories Carousel. Item border is cut.
4. Issue with animation speed when using Load More pagination mode.
5. Changing category title font-size attribute in Simple Product Categories widget not working correctly.
6. Recently Viewed source does not track current products.
7. Issue with the height of The7 Icon widget when using Inline positioning on mobile devices.
8. Shifted number of products in the Menu Cart widget.
9. 'isInner not defined' notice in templates in Elementor editor.
New Features:
1. New "Product Counter" widget.
2. New "Price Filter" widget.
3. We have switched from using the LESS variables (and phpless library) to the CSS variable. It's a massive chunk of groundwork that, in the future, will enable live editing of Theme Options via Elementor Site Settings.
4. An experimental option to disable Theme Options and enable the Elementor Theme Style was added to The7 > My The7, "Settings" screen.
Demos:
1. New "Business Advisors" demo showcasing the use of Elementor Theme Style. Note that this is an experimental demo that relies on bits of custom CSS code to build the header (this is how custom headers are presently being built with Elementor).
2. "Consulting" demo was converted to using Elementor Theme Style.
Improvements:
1. Simple Grid and Icon Box Grig widget: spacing between columns and rows is not responsive.
2. Vertical Menu widget:
2.1. Optional title and spacing settings added.
2.2. When copying widget styles, the menu itself is not being copied.
3. Numerous improvements to "Simple _" widgets.
4. The7 Products widgets now have a dedicated "number of products" setting (instead of setting this number in the WordPress customizer).
Bug fixes:
1. Elementor "Search" widget. Unnecessary bottom margin.
2. Warning: Undefined array key "description" when saving a shortcode as an Element in WPBakery.
3. "Products" widget. The product title is not clickable.
4. Remove references to SVG files in FontAwesome all.min.css
5. "Order by Rating" is broken in the "Simple Products" widget.
6. Broken inline and lazy loading options in the "Image" widget in the new version of Elementor.
7. Icon Box Grid. Widget title Style settings are missing.
8. .SVG icons are not changing colors on hover in buttons, Multipurpose Posts Carousel, and Grid widgets.
9. Clicking on pagination makes a page scroll to the top.
10. Applying a link to the whole box breaks the layout of "Simple _" widgets.
11. "Number of Posts" setting works incorrectly on "desktop" and "wide desktop" in "Testimonials Carousel" and "Multipurpose Carousel" widgets.
Other minor improvements, bug fixes, and under-the-hood changes.