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.
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
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.
Image link
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.
Image link
Marquee Smooth Velocity Option: Adds extra speed to the marquee based on the user’s scroll speed.
Image link
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
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.
WordPress Admin Panel current page title styling.
Feature element content align in Elementor.
Language switcher display in WordPress front page.
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.