Updating:

WP Champion Professional Theme Ver 3.4.3. 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.

SPECIAL NOTE: For this release 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. Deactivate and delete Super Elements Ver 2.2.4 (or earlier) in your plugin library
  3. Update all plugins other then those that are included with WP Champion.
  4. Update WP Champion and then update all the theme included plugins.  You will see a prompt to install Super Elements Ver 2.2.7 – go ahead and do this.
  5. If you have not previously done so go ahead and update your WordPress to Ver 5.9.3
  6. 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 - WebP Image Support: Our theme exclusive on-th-fly image caching now supports WebP images. More discussion below.
  • Core Theme: Confirmed WP 5.9.3, Woo 6.4.1, Easy Digital Downloads 2.11.6, WPML 4.5.2 and Elementor Pro 3.6.5+ compatibility.
  • Woocommerce Features: We are up-to-date on template compatibility.
  • New Settings: 2 new settings: one is shadow related the other is menu control for logged in users.
  • Tweaks and Fixes: The usual mix of tweaking and fixes - our never ending work for the nirvana of perfection in hundreds of thousands of lines of code!

WP Champion Professional Theme Ver 3.4.3 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 no theme files that are deleted or added in this update.  37 existing core theme files are modified in this release!

Raw Log:

PLUGINS UPDATED:
Updated: Revslider to 6.5.21
Updated: Element Pack to version 6.0.11
Updated: Essential Grid to version 3.0.15
Updated: Super Elements to version 2.2.7
Updated: Mobile Detect Script to Ver 2.8.39

ADDED/UPDATED:
001) NEW FEATURE – WebP image support. There is no fallback image support for old browsers.
002) NEW SETTING – Global Remove Shadow effects for featured header.
003) NEW SETTING – Select and set a different Menu for logged in Users with override in Theme Page options for the Top Menu, Main Menu, Footer Menu & Alternate Menu.
004) Updated: Admin language file.

CHANGED/FIXED:

005) Changed – Page Remove Shadow effects for featured header to a tritoggle.
006) Changed: Menu Location Name from <Theme Name> Navigation to <Theme Name> Main Navigation in WordPress -> Appearance -> Menu’s.</li>
007) Changed: admin style css for select element js updates
008) Removed: Flock Setting because google stopped implementing it.
009) Fixed: Error message in error.log for breadcrumbs line 283. By accident added double $$ in variable name.
010) Fixed: Palette SubMenu Title color toplevel menu items was not applied.
011) Fixed missing search icon in search widget in header top_area on ipad and iphone.
012) Fixed: Annoying Logo Image Alt text Showing on page load before Logo Image was finished loaded in firefox.
013) Fixed: Removed Double admin language file.
014) Fixed: Menu not showing when no global menu was set to the top or main menu container and a custom menu container was set in a preset or page options.
015) Fixed: Submenu not working on main menu when WordPress Menu functionality was turned OFF. CSS was targeting sub-menu class which was not added to auto generate menu with page items.
016)  Fixed: Checking Empty http_referer in $_SERVER to avoid error in server log file.
017) Fixed: Error log message for thumbnail width en height index in category widget. Now setting default values first.

Release Log Detail:

Plugins Updated:

The following are updated.

  1.  Revolution Slider : to Ver 6.5.21 – minor fixes and tweaks.
  2.  Essential Grid:  to Ver 3.0.15 – bug fixes (we hope!).
  3.  Element Pack: to Ver 6.0.11 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 releases.
  4. Super Elements: to ver 2.2.7.  Fixes an elementor core compatibility issue and some new widgets.

Super Elements Notes: Vers 2.2.4 included in the last Champion update in January 2020 has one or more widgets in its “Extends” group that conflict with recent versions of Elementor.  Our recommendation is to delete Ver 2.2.4 from your website and install Ver 2.2.7 included in this theme update.  Any existing super elements content should be unaffected by this recommendation.  But if you visit a webpage and some content is not displaying open the page with Elementor  editor and just resave it.

Also a reminder that in recent Essential Grid 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 3.6.5 and Elementor Pro and insofar as we can determine everything is 100% compatible.

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New Shortcodes and Settings:

New Feature: WebP image support. There is no fallback image support for old browsers such as IE.
New Setting: Global Remove Shadow effects for featured header.
New Setting: Select and set a different Menu for logged in Users with override in Theme Page options for the Top Menu, Main Menu, Footer Menu & Alternate Menu.

We will add some explanations and images on May 4.

WebP Image Support

Explanation forthcoming.

Global Remove Shadow effects for featured header

Explanation forthcoming.

Select and set a different Menu for logged in Users

Explanation forthcoming

Core Theme:

Changed: Page Remove Shadow effects for featured header to tritoggle.
Changed: Menu Location Name from <Theme Name> Navigation to <Theme Name> Main Navigation in WordPress -> Appearance -> Menu’s.
Changed: admin style css for select element js updates.
Removed: Flock Setting because google stopped implementing it.
Fixed: Error message in error.log for breadcrumbs line 283. By accident added double $$ in variable name.
Fixed: Palette SubMenu Title color toplevel menu items was not applied.
Fixed: Missing search icon in search widget in header top_area on ipad and iphone.
Fixed: Annoying Logo Image Alt text Showing on page load before Logo Image was finished loaded in firefox.
Fixed: Removed Double admin language file.
Fixed: Menu not showing when no global menu was set to the top or main menu container and a custom menu container was set in a preset or page options.
Fixed: Fixed: Submenu not working on main menu when WordPress Menu functionality was turned OFF. CSS was targeting sub-menu class which was not added to auto generate menu with page items.
Fixed: Checking Empty http_referer in $_SERVER to avoid error in server log file.
Fixed: rror log message for thumbnail width en height index in category widget. Now setting default values first.

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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