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Essentials Changelog

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Added

New Image Comparison Element

Introducing the new Image Comparison element. Create interactive before-and-after sliders that help visitors instantly explore visual differences using smooth controls, multiple styles, and flexible customization options.

Perfect for showcasing transformations, product comparisons, renovations, photo editing, design projects, medical treatments, case studies, and much more.

Explore the Image Comparison Element →

WordPress 7.0 Custom Fonts Compatibility

Essentials Theme is now fully compatible with the new WordPress 7.0 Custom Fonts Library.

Manage, install, and use custom fonts more easily directly from the native WordPress fonts interface, while keeping full compatibility with the pixfort typography system and design options.

Explore Custom Fonts Support →

7 New Google Fonts.
New Alpha custom background color option in the Header builder.
New CSS Classes option to the Button and Link elements in the Header builder.

Updated

Updated Slider Revolution plugin to the latest version.
WooCommerce template files to the latest version.
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

CTA element custom title color option.
Accordion custom icon color option.
Minor bug fixes.

Added

22 New Google Fonts.
Carousel elements Dots color option.
Aria label attribute to the Back to top button for better accessibility.

Updated

Updated WPBakery plugin to the latest version.
Updated Slider Revolution plugin to the latest version.
Updated Master Slider plugin to the latest version.
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

Custom Text Size for the Levels Element.
Gallery 2 Columns items width.
Sticky bottom sidebar display.
Minor bug fixes.

We are very excited to continue providing an excellent product with powerful updates for our customers, and we are happy to announce Essentials v4, the biggest update we have ever made, packed with stunning new demos, major new features, and a greatly expanded templates library!

Added

3 New demos: AI Agency, Hosting, and Starter for Elementor (Flexbox Containers) + WPBakery
38+ new pages in Elementor + WPBakery
180+ new pixfort templates in Elementor + WPBakery
3 New header layouts in Demo Import
New Menu Template layout in Demo Import (Elementor + WPBakery)
Global Templates in Theme Builder
Dynamic Tags support in Elementor + WPBakery
ACF compatibility for Dynamic Tags and Page Templates
Custom Intros with display conditions
Menu Templates for Elementor and WPBakery
Template Carousel element
Global Template element in Elementor and WPBakery
Scroll Effects for Elementor and WPBakery
Animated Background Effects in Elementor and WPBakery
Mesh Gradient animated background effect
Dot Orbit animated background effect
Boxed Menu Style
New pixfort Templates interface in WPBakery
Vertical Marquee option
Advanced Sliding Text options
Fade Mask Effect for Elementor and WPBakery
Numbers Flow Animation
Google Fonts loading via the new v2 API
New option in pixfort Likes plugin to enable editing the likes count for each post via the post settings
Animated Heading element now include aria-hidden attribute on the rotating words for better SEO and accessibility
Gallery element 2 columns layout option
Gap option between icon and text in WPBakery Feature element
Content Box element Link option
Content Box Flexbox and Grid options
Flexbox Elementor demo Popups
Portfolio shadows style options
Feature element hover background color in WPBakery
WPBakery Card element background color option
New Article: Add Animated Background Effects
New Article: Scroll Effects
New Article: Creating Custom Intro
New Article: Dynamic Tags
New Article: Global Templates
New Article: Activate Elementor Flexbox Containers

Updated

Optimized javascript files for better performance
Styling files loading optimizations
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

Sticky footer overlay color opacity fix
Masonry items display inside Elementor
Custom Cursor exclusion color
Clients carousel hover effects display
Minor bug fixes.

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Added

Disable Intro area background image animation option.
Shadow and Border radius options for the Accordion element.
Shadow and Border radius options for the Search element.
Option to hide top padding for Pages, Blog, Shop and Portfolio from the Theme options.
Disable Blog post title option in Theme options.

Updated

Updated Slider Revolution plugin to the latest version.
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

Slider overlay color and border radius fix with disabled Slider navigation style.
Full Width Mega menu width.
Menu underline scroll color.
Minor bug fixes.

Added

Carousel Drag Scale Animation: Introducing the drag scale animation for carousels — a sleek and smooth effect that animates carousel items while dragging. This enhancement is available in all carousel elements, including blog, image, and video carousels, giving your layouts a more dynamic, modern feel.

45 New Google Fonts.

Responsive option for the number of Carousel items per page.
Optimized loading of the search field suggestions.

Updated

Updated Slider Revolution plugin to the latest version.
Updated Master Slider plugin to the latest version.
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

Post type icon display issue in Safari browser.
Minor bug fixes.

Updated

Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

Styling display for Portfolio Masonry items.
Minor bug fixes.

Added

New Display Conditions: We’ve introduced even more advanced Display Conditions, including Post Child Category and Archive Category options.
Added new Social Share Button Element: Make it easy for visitors to share your content with the all-new Social Share Buttons element, beautifully designed and customizable to match your website’s style.

Video Element 9:16 aspect ratio support.
Added Framer and Steam icons.

Updated

Updated Slider Revolution plugin to the latest version.
Updated WPBakery plugin to the latest version.
Updated WooCommerce plugin template files versions.
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

Vertical Tabs content color.
Minor bug fixes.

Added

Advanced Blog post options to disable post Thumbnail, Author, Date or Categories via the Theme options
Added new Breadcrumbs Element: Now you can add breadcrumbs directly to any part of your page.

Updated

Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

Marquee justify icon center.
Nested WooCommerce Categories widget styling.
Check for WordPress user manage options role in Admin options Ajax requests.
Minor bug fixes.

Added

Marquee Change Direction on Scroll: Automatically reverse marquee direction as users scroll.

Marquee Smooth Velocity Option: Adds extra speed to the marquee based on the user’s scroll speed.

Updated

Updated Slider Revolution plugin to the latest version.
Updated WooCommerce template files.
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

Menu underline colors.
Footer display with enabled Elementor Maintenance mode.
Minor bug fixes.

Added

Menu Box advanced text color options (Title, Text and Button Colors)

Updated

Updated WPBakery plugin to the latest version.
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

Display default Intro image after deleting the custom Intro Background image.
Display Popup custom launcher image preview in the Popup options.
Minor bug fixes.

Added

New Solid Icon Style
Introducing over 2,000+ beautiful solid icons — now available in the Essentials Theme! This update brings the total to 6,000+ icons and counting, giving you more creative flexibility than ever before.

Switch Icon Styles on the Fly
Easily toggle between Line, Duotone, and Solid icon styles directly within supported elements. Enjoy seamless customization across your design.

Performance and usability improvements to support this upgrade and enhance your workflow.

Updated

Updated Google Fonts list to add new fonts.
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

Custom Page Intro Background image.
Blog title custom color in Elementor.
Video placeholder image.
Intro Breadcrumbs category in the Category archive page.
Minor bug fixes.

Added

Option to select menu dropdown text colors.
Option to select intro section text colors.
Container Divider layers opacity option in Elementor Containers.
Custom post types for display conditions in the Theme Builder.
Shadow option for the Accordion Element in Elementor.
Responsive Minimum height option for for the Photo Box and Promo Box Elements in Elementor.

Updated

Updated Slider Revolution plugin to the latest version.
Updated WPBakery plugin to the latest version.
Updated WooCommerce plugin template files versions.
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

Handle Countdown element date for more than one year.
Make sure that Footer display conditions are not modified after Elementor save.
Enhanced Popups display to prevent duplicated launchers when using WPML plugin.
Empty Media in Elementor elements check when using WPML plugin.
Minor bug fixes.

Added

Accordion Content Paragraph typography option in Elementor.
Feature Content typography option in Elementor.

Updated

Updated Slider Revolution plugin to the latest version.
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

WPML translation of the poster image in the Auto Video Elementor element.
WPML Launcher translation check.
Minor bug fixes.

Bug Fixes

WordPress Admin Panel current page title styling.
Feature element content align in Elementor.
Language switcher display in WordPress front page.
Minor bug fixes.

Added

Added quick access links to current page Header and Footer.

Added new site Theme Builder tab in WordPress Admin Panel.

Added WPML automatic image translation of the theme elements.
Added WPML translation of the Elementor elements links.

Updated

Updated Slider Revolution plugin to the latest version.
Updated WPBakery plugin to the latest version.
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

Display custom Shop Sidebar options normally in the Shop page.
Banner custom background color.
Pause Video elements inside Popups on Popup close.
Promo Box custom background color.
Minor bug fixes.

Bug Fixes

Display Testimonial Masonry element styling normally.
Load Google maps element content.
Minor bug fixes.

Added

Added new site Design System tab in Theme options.
Added new Buttons global design system options.

Header & Footer display conditions options.

Optimized css assets.
Responsive max width option for Sliding Text & Heading elements in Elementor plugin.

Updated

Updated Slider Revolution plugin to the latest version.
Updated WPBakery plugin to the latest version.
Updated WooCommerce templates versions numbers.
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

WooCommerce checkout sticky sidebar.
Google maps element loading inside the builders.
Minor bug fixes.

Updated

Updated WPBakery plugin to the latest version.
Updated WooCommerce templates version number.
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

Menu Widget dropdown open and close toggle.
Display page content animation after clicking browser’s back button in some browsers.
Minor bug fixes.

Added

Enhanced pixfort Header builder.
New Header Columns controls.
New Header Scroll options for each header area.
New Header builder preview mode.

New demo import interface.

New pixfort Templates library interface in Elementor.
Categories in pixfort Templates in Elementor.

Advanced animations options in Sliding text element in Elementor.

Updated

Updated Slider Revolution plugin to the latest version.
Updated WPBakery plugin to the latest version.
Updated WooCommerce templates version number.
Updated translation files.
Optimized elements javascript functions.

Bug Fixes

Minor bug fixes.

Added

Highlighted Text animation options on individual text items.
Blog post author image alt attribute.

Updated

Updated Slider Revolution plugin to the latest version.
Updated WPBakery plugin to the latest version.
Updated WooCommerce Login Form template version number.
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

Clients element auto height image styling.
Minor bug fixes.

Added

Portfolio option in the Popup conditions.

Updated

Updated Slider Revolution plugin to the latest version.
Updated WPBakery plugin to the latest version.
Updated WooCommerce Login Form template version number.
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

WPBakery active Tab content order.
Minor bug fixes.

Added

Responsive Heading tags font sizes and line heights options in the Theme options.
Added aria-label attribute to the hamburger menu button for SEO.
Optimization of the styles and scripts files.

Updated

Updated Slider Revolution plugin to the latest version.
Updated WPBakery plugin to the latest version.
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

Minor bug fixes.

Added

New pixfort icons with extended library icons (Line and Duotone styles), for more information check this announcement article.
Optimized icons loading for all icons types (only used icons are loaded in the page).
Added line icons custom stroke width option.
Added Duotone icons option in Header elements, Menu items, Buttons, Tabs, Social Icons, Team member and Slider elements.

Updated

Updated Slider Revolution plugin to the latest version.
Updated WPBakery plugin to the latest version.
Updated WooCommerce navigation template file version number.
Set the translated popup ID in the Button element.
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

Minor bug fixes.

Added

Added Gallery and Circles elements repeater fields to WPML translation editor.
Use the select WordPress Blog page as the main home item in Blog posts Intro area breadcrumbs.

Updated

Updated Slider Revolution plugin to the latest version.
Sanitize Feature element image alternative text.
Search icon file optimization.
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

Small screens post meta data wrap.
Minor bug fixes.

Added

Video element option in Elementor to inherit the border radius option.
Photo stack element image sizes attribute.
Automatically verify and fix custom logo image height value with a missing unit.

Updated

Updated Slider Revolution plugin to the latest version.
Display Popup conditions search results in all languages with Polylang plugin.
Display Features list items translation with WPML plugin string editor.
Display Shop Intro in WooCommerce Cart and Checkout pages.
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

Popup condition search results.
Popup minimum height display in Safari browser.
WooCommerce checkout page Intro title.
Elementor section dividers with margin value.
Responsive options parameters with the new versions of WPBakery plugin.
Pricing element features list align.
Minor bug fixes.

Added

New Dashboard interface.

New Theme installation wizard.
Feature element link translation in WPML.
Apply custom Category option in Portfolio element with Blog post type in WPBakery.
Envato market plugin was removed and it’s no longer needed to update the theme (theme updates are now available directly within pixfort core plugin).

Updated

Updated WPBakery plugin to the latest version.
Updated Slider Revolution plugin to the latest version.
Updated Master Slider plugin to the latest version.
Display Highlighted Box image alt text.
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

Badge background color in Pricing element in WPBakery.
Custom footer option for the custom 404 page.
Minor bug fixes.

Added

Use templates inside Accordion items in Elementor.

Updated

Updated translation files.
The One Click Demo Import plugin was removed and it’s no longer needed to import the demo content (demo import is now available directly within pixfort core plugin).

Bug Fixes

Progress Bars animation when multiple elements are in the same page.
Display Elementor sections normally in Safari browser.
Minor bug fixes.

Updated

Keep empty HTML paragraph tags which have ID, Class or Role attributes.
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

FAQ element content in Elementor plugin.
Display system fonts as main Body or Heading fonts.
Minor bug fixes.

Updated

Optimized page transition animation loading style.
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

WooCommerce product stars font icons styling.
Minor bug fixes.

Added

Responsive Highlighted text custom font size in Elementor.
Responsive Numbers text custom font size in Elementor.

Updated

Optimized elements loading.
Optimized elements inline css loading.
Optimized Cart sidebar loading.
Optimized Header search overlay loading.
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

Minor bug fixes.

Added

Dynamic links for Circle element items in Elementor.
HTML tag option for Heading element in Elementor.

Updated

Updated WPBakery plugin to the latest version.
Optimized asset loading for the pixfort Likes plugin.
Enabled display of private Portfolio items in the Portfolio carousel element for logged-in users.
Updated the display of the last item in the Levels element to match the item point.
Enabled shortcodes inside Card element fields.
Optimizations for CSS and JavaScript files.
Improved settings modal for Header builder elements.
Updated translation files.

Bug Fixes

Tabs badge custom background color in Elementor.
Tabs Title bold option in Elementor.
Photo box Infinite animation option in Elementor.
Promo box custom title size option in Elementor.
Image box custom title size option in Elementor.
Numbers top text custom size option in Elementor.
Increase vertical view option in Carousels in Elementor.
Highlighted text display custom gradient panel inside Elementor builder.
Marquee Duotone icons custom color.
Shop category rounded corners option.
Minor bug fixes.

Added

New Intuitive pixfort Theme Options Interface.
Theme Options performance improvements.
Theme Options instant options search.
Theme Options search shortcut.
Quick option locator in Theme Options search.
Theme Options help tooltips.

Updated

Updated WPBakery plugin to the latest version.
Updated Slider Revolution plugin to the latest version.
Updated pixfort Likes plugin for compatibility with the latest PHP version.
Popups loading optimizations.
Use custom 404 page title.
CSS and Javascript files optimizations.
Display custom page header while global site header is disabled in Theme options.
Updated Google fonts list.
Updated translation files.