Updating:

WP Champion Professional Theme Ver 3.4.1. has been released in our API for updating by way of the theme internal update function – please remember it can take up to one day for the propagation message to show up in your dashboard! 

If you have any questions your  welcome to contact the support team for guidance prior to updating.

ORDER OF UPDATING:

Customers of our “Total Managed”  hosting platform at 247wphosting.com can leave every aspect of updating to our hosting team (headed by James!). But if you feel you would like professional assistance in updating we offer very reasonable update pricing – contact us by email at support@thethemebuilders.com or via our skype id: support-thethemebuilders.com.

The recommended order of updating is:

  1. Do a backup of your website.  Its often useful to export your Rev Sliders, Essential Grids and you can also export your menus and even all your widgets.  But at least run a full backup of your database and website.
  2. Update all plugins other then those that are included with WP Champion.
  3. Update WP Champion and then update all the theme included plugins.
  4. Update your WordPress to Ver 5.8.
  5. MOST IMPORTANT: Once you start the updating don’t stop halfway to see if your site looks okay.  Of course it does not as your only part of the way through the process!
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Today's Release:

The release today has several main goals:

  • Plugins Updated: Revolution Slider, Essential Grid, Element Pack & Super Elements
  • New Theme Feature - Loading Effects: This is an animation which will display while a page is loading. More discussion below.
  • Core Theme: Confirmed WP 5.8 and Woo 5.6+ compatibility. 21 other code adjustments & fixes.
  • Woocommerce Features: We only have one minor adjustement related to Woo.  We are up-to-date on template compatibility.
  • Google Floc Setting: New settting in the Advanced Settings Panel to disable Google Floc (see below).
  • Other New Settings: 4 other new settings including one per a user request (exclude current post from post list widgets).

WP Champion Professional Theme Ver 3.4.1 Changelog:

Our API build webpage has a “Files” tab with a breakout of New, Different and Deleted Files. 

The Detail tab in the API release webpage will present you with the actual edited code in each file.  Please note its not the entire content of each file but the blocks of code in each file that were edited.  Click on “highlight” and edited code will be highlighted with two colors: purple for old code and green for new code.  This is for those who have a deep interest in java and php – not necessarily good for your mental health!!

There are 2 theme files that are deleted (related to the past removal of the roundabout slider from the theme), and 38 new theme files  for the new page loading animation ability.  Over 70 existing core theme files are modified in this release!

Raw Log:

PLUGINS UPDATED:
Updated: Revslider to 6.5.7
Updated: Super Elements to version 2.2.4
Updated: Element Pack to version 5.10.0
Updated: Essential Grid to version 3.0.12

ADDED/UPDATED:
001) NEW FEATURE – Loading Effect for each webpage with various loading animations for preload of webpages.
002) NEW SETTING – FloC disable setting in the Theme Advanced Settings. You can read the discussion at https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/04/18/proposal-treat-floc-as-a-security-concern/ if you have interest in this topic.
003) NEW SETTING – Default sidebar setting for Portfolio Tags.
004) NEW SETTING – Setting to enable breadcrumbs in 100% fluid width template.
005) NEW SETTING – Product Thumbnail columns override setting into Theme Page Options.
006) NEW SETTING – ON/OFF Setting to make the selected portfolio breadcrumbs page visible in the yoast seo breadcrumbs path.
007) Added: BBPress Theme Widget CSS for ul li a elements.
008) Added: Missing conversion field to woocommerce update tables when swapping from Striking Multfiflex to Champion.
009) Added: Google Analytics tracking-id field setting to be backwards compatible with Striking Multiflex.
010) Added: theme code to turn OFF support for block widgets when gutenberg has been disabled in the theme settings.
011) Updated: Changed Url Schema.org Breadcrumbs code to https.
012) Updated: Theme Admin Language file.

CHANGED/FIXED:
013) Changed – Excluding current post item from recent, popular, related posts overviews (single post, single portfolio and widgets).
014) Changed: Default GA-script when using tracking Id field instead of script with newer version.
015) Changed: Fancybox Thumb JS to follow minimum width and height setting for lightbox thumbnail.
016) Changed: On the fly Image resizing script to support minwidth and min height data attributeFIXED:
017) Fixed: Sidebar Array to string conversion warning message in single post and single page when elementor is active.
018) Fixed: Apply Page Layout in elementor pages that are using theme presets.
019) Fixed: Check for menu_name in option tabs title.
020) Fixed: Breadcumbs array index warning message.
021) Fixed: Warning error Undefined offset: 0 in breadcrumbs.php when wp_get_object_terms() was returning a empty string or array.
022) Fixed: Range slider drag element position in Theme page opptions panel. It was 0.3em off base.
023) Fixed: Css bug for Logo Centered overlapping Menu items.
024) Fixed: Background Image Fixed Cover on IOS devices is set to scroll. Annoyance on apple deviceds not supporting fixed background images set to cover.
025) Fixed: TinyMce is not defined error in shortcode-menu.js
026) Fixed: Theme Warning Messages relocating by wordpress in Theme Advanced settings.
027) Fixed: Woocart alignment for products with variations.

Release Log Detail:

Plugins Updated:

The following are updated.

  1.  Revolution Slider : To Version 6.5.7 – minor fixes and tweaks.
  2.  Essential Grid:  to 3.0.12 – bug fixes.
  3. Element Pack: to Ver 5.10.0 which is continuing its track record of introducing new Elementor Widgets and adding more functionality for 3rd party plugins. It is confirmed compatible to the latest Elementor/Elementor Pro (Aug 27) releases.
  4. Super Elements:  To Version 2.2.4 which has new widgets and extends. 

Essential Grid:  A reminder that in recent updates its developers have removed from the extended license version (the version we are allowed to build into a theme) all grid skins but 4 basic starter skins. So we have added to our importable content setting in the Advanced Settings panel an option to import 72 skins  being the ones removed plus a few extra.

We have tested this Champion release and its included Elementor plugins with Elementor 3.4.3 and Elementor Pro 3.3.8 (latest releases as of Aug 30) and insofar as we can determine everything is 100% compatible.

New Shortcodes and Settings:

New Feature: Loading Effect  with various loading animations for preload of webpages.
New Setting: FloC disable setting in the Theme Advanced Settings. https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/04/18/proposal-treat-floc-as-a-security-concern/
New Setting: Default sidebar setting for Portfolio Tags.
New Setting: Setting to enable breadcrumbs in 100% fluid width template.
New Setting: Portfolio Thumbnail columns override setting into Theme Page Options.
New Setting: ON/OFF Setting to make the selected portfolio breadcrumbs page visible in the yoast seo breadcrumbs path.

Page Loading Effect

The page loading effect is an animation that appears while a webpage is loading, such as a circle that gradually closes as the page loads, or a counter.   This animation can be set to be across the entire website  and be customized for specific pages or groups of pages (using Presets).   There are 15 animations and 4 color aspects for each animation chosen.  The animation is cache plugin compatible and compatible with pages designed with Elementor.

Portfolio Tag Sidebar Setting

This setting allows one to set a custom sidebar to appear on all webpages which are Portfolio Tag archives.  So if you are using portfolio tags (good for SEO) and displaying portfolio meta with your portfolio items, clicking on a portfolio tag will bring them to the meta webpage with the custom sidebar you have set here.

Woo Thumbnails Control

This setting allows for control of the number of thumbnail images below the featured image on Woo Single Product pages. 

Yoast Portfolio Breadcrumbs Path

If using Yoast for SEO it allows one to customize the breadcrumbs path.  This setting allows Yoast to show the Portfolio Parent page in the Yoast breadcrumb path.

Core Theme:

Changed: We now exclude the current post item from recent, popular, related posts overviews (single post, single portfolio and widgets).
Changed: Default GA-script when using tracking Id field instead of script with newer version.
Changed:Fancybox Thumb JS to follow minimum width and height setting for lightbox thumbnail.
Changed: On the fly Image resizing script to support minwidth and min height data attribute
Added: BBPress Theme Widget CSS for ul li a elements.
Added: Conversion field to woocommerce update tables when swapping from Striking Multfiflex to Champion.
Added: Google Analytics tracking-id field setting to be backwards compatible with Striking Multiflex.
Added: Theme code to turn off support for block widgets when gutenberg has been disabled in the theme settings.
Updated: Changed Url Schema.org Breadcrumbs code to https.
Updated: Theme Admin Language file.
Fixed: Sidebar Array to string conversion warning message in single post and single page when elementor is active.
Fixed: Apply Page Layout in elementor pages that are using theme Presets.
Fixed: Check for menu_name in option tabs title.
Fixed: Breadcumbs array index warning message.
Fixed: Warning error Undefined offset: 0 in breadcrumbs.php when wp_get_object_terms() was returning a empty string or array.
Fixed: Range slider drag element position in Theme page opptions panel. It was 0.3em off base.
Fixed: Css bug for Logo Centered overlapping Menu items.
Fixed: Background Image Fixed Cover on IOS devices is set to scroll. Annoyance on apple deviceds not supporting fixed background images set to cover.
Fixed: TinyMce is not defined error in shortcode-menu.js
Fixed: Theme Warning Messages relocating by wordpress in Theme Advanced settings.
Fixed: Woocart alignment for products with variations.

All of the above is in the category of theme polishing and optimization.  The practical outcome for owners is simply that everything works better.


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