Version 3.0.0
Released: January 31, 2017
- New Skin & Demo for Lifestyle magazines – Trendy.
- New Demo: TheZine for sleek magazines.
- Upto 200% Faster Retina Images. Great for Mobile and MacBook users.
- Feature: New Header Styles: Trendy and Dark
- Feature: New “Highlights B” block.
- Feature: New Nav Styles: Dark Alt, Light Alt
- Feature: New Featured Area Grid B.
- Feature: 2 New Post Styles – Modern and Modern Simple.
- Feature: Alternate heading styles for home blocks.
- Feature: Filters for all home blocks (no more on just new focus).
- Feature: More blocks added to sidebar widget Post Listing Blocks.
- Feature: Social Widget with social counters.
- Feature: Support for “WP Instagram Widget”.
- Feature: Bottom Pagination for Multipage Content.
- Feature: Social Icons in footer about widget.
- Feature: Easily update Bunyad Plugins – no more delete/reinstall.
- Feature: Limit by tag for latest posts widget.
- Feature: JSON+LD Article Schemas with option to disable.
- Added: New Skins to Importer and “Settings Only” option.
- Added: Option to disable on-scroll effects for images.
- Added: Auto-add organization schema with social info from widget.
- Added: Compatibility with WP User Avatar plugin.
- Added: Skin post styling to post editor in backend.
- Improved: On-scroll image effects trigger more smoothly.
- Improved: RTL and responsive support in all skins.
- Improved: Use primary category for breadcrumbs.
- Improved: Article schemas with latest Google guidelines.
- Improved: Smart Sticky Navigation is more snappy now.
- Improved: Review schema updated to use JSON-LD.
- Improved: Editor styling for advanced skins.
- Improved: Pagination for custom query variables in CPTs.
- Improved: Breadcrumbs for full-width header layouts.
- Improved: “Responsive Images” for Retina – deprecated Retina.js. (old users switch)
- Improved: Featured video custom code markup support.
- Improved: Color picker in theme settings.
- Improved: Latest Google Fonts available.
- Improved: Added sub-menu arrows for dark nav.
- Fixed: Menu Import on PHP 7.
- Fixed: WPML using front-page on second language search.
- Fixed: WooCommerce 2.6+ add to cart.
- Fixed: Focus grid collapse on varied title lengths.
- Fixed: Sticky sidebar ads.
- Fixed: Ad widgets sometimes blocked by AdBlock.
- Fixed: Custom CSS blocked by AdBlock in some cases.
- Fixed: WPML search second language result listing.
- Updated FontAwesome, Revolution Slider, JS libs, TGMPA.
- Several backend UI improvements such as review box, options.
- Code refactoring and 50+ minor styling improvements.
Notes, Files & Plugin Changes
Important Notes:
- If you plan on using the new slider, blocks, or listing style, you will have to install and run the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin.
- A lot of files have changed. If you override your theme files in child themes, please refer to Files changelog and update your files.
- Remember to clear your cache plugin and browser cache.
Plugins to install/update: (after theme update via Appearance > Install Plugins) Bunyad Widgets, Bunyad Shortcodes, Bunyad Pagebuilder, Sphere Core
Files Changed: Files ChangeLog
Version 2.6
Released: September 21, 2015
- Feature: A new modern skin with a formal feel: Tech Skin.
- Feature: Tech Demo and the option to import its Sample Content.
- Feature: New Featured Area Grid option for slider area.
- Feature: Optional search in navigation with search overlay.
- Feature: Tall Grid Overlay listing style for categories and builder.
- Feature: Focus Grid block for page builder.
- Feature: Modern Light navigation option.
- Feature: Dark topbar variation.
- Feature: A new header option.
- Feature: New modern mobile header variation.
- Feature: Icons can be added to menu items.
- Feature: Smart Sticky navigation – fixed based on user intent.
- Feature: Set a different logo for mobile devices.
- Feature: Assign a different menu for mobile.
- Feature: Optional Search in navigation menu.
- Feature: Category slider limit by tag.
- Feature: Translation is now split into frontend and backend .po/.mo files.
- Feature: Select post meta to display in listings/blocks and widgets.
- Feature: Author name can be added to post meta now.
- Improved: Category mega menu side links added to mobile menu.
- Improved: Mobile menu padding on second level depth.
- Improved: Off-canvas menu performance and animation.
- Improved: Added subtle hover animations to drop down menus.
- Improved: Article schema in all blocks according to latest Google requirement.
- Improved: iPhone 6 Plus responsive layout.
- Improved: FontAwesome updated to latest.
- Improved: RevSlider updated to latest.
- Fixed: Rendering off by 1px on Sticky Sidebar.
- Fixed: Sticky posts ignoring limit in Blog/Listing block.
- Fixed: Topic/replies issue on bbPress profile view.
- Fixed: Grid overlay for other archives (date, tags).
- Fixed: Rich Text widget editor switching issue.
- Improved code architecture, performance improvements and 20+ minor bug fixes.
Notes, Files & Plugin Changes
Important Notes:
- If you plan on using the new slider, blocks, or listing style, you will have to install and run the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin.
- A lot of files have changed. If you override your theme files in child themes, please refer to Files changelog and update your files.
- Remember to clear your browser cache.
Plugins to delete/re-install: (after theme update) Bunyad Widgets, Bunyad Shortcodes, Bunyad Pagebuilder
Files Changed: Files ChangeLog
Version 2.5.2
Released: June 13, 2015
- Fixed: XSS Security Issue in prettyPhoto Lightbox.
- Fixed: Limit search to posts setting on live search.
- Fixed: Audio player issues with WordPress 4.2.
Notes, Files & Plugin Changes
If you only wish to apply the security update, replace the file smart-mag/js/jquery.prettyPhoto.js with the latest one from the zip file at ThemeForest downloads.
Plugins to delete/re-install: (after theme update) None
Files Changed: Files ChangeLog
Version 2.5.1
Released: April 26, 2015
- Fixed: Potential security issue in TGM Plugin Activation library.
- Fixed: Off-canvas mobile menu width in boxed mode.
- Fixed: Centered images in Post Cover layout.
- Improved: Captions support in Post Cover.
- Improved: Mobile search tap areas and live search.
Notes, Files & Plugin Changes
If you only wish to apply the security update, replace the file smart-mag/lib/vendor/tgm-activation.php with the latest one from the zip file at ThemeForest downloads.
Plugins to delete/re-install: (after theme update) None
Files Changed: Files ChangeLog
Version 2.5
Released: March 23, 2015
- Contemporary Home Example (Shows new block)
- Feature: New unqiue post layout style: "Post Cover".
- Feature: 3 Columns version of Modern Listing Style.
- Feature: Post layout style with title/meta above featured.
- Feature: Adobe Typekit fonts are fully supported now.
- Feature: Live Search (AJAX) for top bar search.
- Feature: A centered header option where there's only a centered logo.
- Feature: Navigation variation with centered items.
- Feature: Native Sticky Sidebars with Smart Scroll.
- Feature: Compatibility with "Q2W3 Fixed Widget" plugin for Sticky Widget.
- Feature: Upload your own custom fonts – apart from Google Fonts.
- Feature: New "Modern" blockquote styles option. Same extra option for pullquotes too.
- Feature: Backend post editor's styling is quite close to what you see on front-end.
- Feature: A new Grid Overlay Listing Style. In 2 and 3 column versions.
- Feature: New homepage block in blog/listing for grid overlay style.
- Feature: Timeline Listing can be used in sidebar.
- Feature: Modern Listing Style addition in Listing Widget.
- Feature: Grid Overlay Style addition in Listing Widget.
- Fixed: Page Builder tab sticking to left side on WordPress 4.1.
- Fixed: RTL languages issue with star rating hover.
- Fixed: bbPress not showing topics on certain WP4 installs with WC.
- Fixed: News Focus category selection bug.
- Fixed: Pagination issues with a few search plugins.
- Fixed: Broken accordions shortcode with WordPress update.
- Improved: SEO – first link truncated in pagination to prevent duplicates.
- Improved: Slider left area gets priority in duplicate post prevention.
- Improved: category-meta.php can now be overriden in Child Themes.
- Improved: Better image selection in full-width 2-col grid listing.
- Improved: Added options for search box and its features in top bar.
- Improved: 68 minor styling changes, JS and PHP fixes.
- Updated: Styling & Compatibility for WooCommerce 2.3.
- Updated: FitVids.js to the latest version to add support for fitvidsignore class.
- Updated: RevSlider and FontAwesome to latest versions.
Notes, Files & Plugin Changes
Important Notes:
- If you plan on using the new “Grid Overlay” listing style, you will have to install and run the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin.
- content.php has changed massively. Update it accordingly in your child themes.
- Remember to clear your browser cache.
Plugins to delete/re-install: (after theme update) Bunyad Page Builder, Bunyad Widgets, Bunyad Shortcodes
Files Changed: Files ChangeLog
Version 2.4
Released: November 18, 2014
- Feature: Revolution Slider now included and can be selected for featured area.
- Feature: Infinite Scroll can be enabled per-category, for all archives, or in page-builder listing block.
- Feature: YARPP plugin support for related posts using theme style.
- Feature: Posts per page setting for each category archive.
- Feature: Define the number of columns and type of columns for footer widgets.
- Feature: More default slider controls – number of slides on left, filter by tag, specific post ids.
- Added: News Focus Block can now display posts without a category filter.
- Added: <!–more–> support when using classic listing block in page builder.
- Improved: Review schema is updated with more data.
- Improved: Homepage duplicates handling of slider posts.
- Improved: Typography setting for headings now affect both posts and pages.
- Improved: Various visual improvements for a better look and consistency.
- Improved: Featured image now links to single post in classic blog listing.
- FontAwesome updated to 4.2.
- Fixed: Orientation change image issue with WP-Retina2x plugin.
- Fixed: Show gallery in normal way if “Show Featured” is disabled.
- Fixed: Review Schema on translated dates and star ratings.
- Fixed: Post slideshow double click and tags issue.
- Fixed: Theme Settings restore not working in some cases.
- Fixed: Latest Reviews Widget sorting by rating.
- Fixed: Popular posts by Jetpack stats posts limit when not enough views.
- Fixed: Chrome 38 bug wrapping title on single.
- Fixed: Missing recolor for recent comments.
- Over 50 code stability improvements, Bunyad Widgets and Shortcodes hooks, and minor fixes.
Files & Plugin Changes
Plugins to delete/re-install: (after theme update) Bunyad Page Builder, Bunyad Widgets, Bunyad Shortcodes
Files Changed: Files ChangeLog
Version 2.3
Released: August 5, 2014
- Feature: Multi-page Posts now have a unique content slideshow option – AJAX or normal browsing.
- Feature: Modern off-canvas mobile menu. Choose between classic or the off-canvas.
- Feature: Add an optional logo to the sticky menu.
- Feature: New Advanced Tabber widget – now add any widget to the sidebar tabber widget.
- Feature: Popular Posts widget integrated with WordPress.com Stats to sort by views.
- Feature: Classic Large Blog listing style for categories and blog/listing block.
- Feature: Control excerpt lengths in Theme Settings now.
- Feature: Search icon on mobile navigation – optional.
- Added: Support for 2, 4, and 5 column WooCommerce shortcodes.
- Added: A hook for WordPress menu plugins – nav roles and other similar plugins compatibility.
- Added: Settings for heading sizes H1-H6.
- Added: Theme image sizes in WordPress Add Media popup.
- Added: Support for background image in header and featured area. Not just patterns.
- Added: Option to turn off prettyPhoto lightbox.
- Added: Version number to assets to refresh browser caches on theme updates.
- Improved: Re-organized Theme Settings with many more options and UI cleanup.
- Improved: News Focus block with sidebar on smartphone landscape.
- Improved: Form stylings in sidebar.
- Improved: Styling of WooCommerce and bbPress login icons on mobile menu.
- Improved: FontAwesome updated to 4.1.0.
- Improved: Sample content importer has a new option to make it work on less powerful hosts.
- Improved: Significant performance increase in older IE.
- Fixed: WooCommerce category widget hierarchy layout.
- Fixed: Broken WooCommerce advanced shortcodes in v2.2.1.
- Fixed: Popular posts widget not ignoring sticky post behavior.
- Fixed: Flexslider in Firefox for Android.
- And countless more improvements and minor changes.
Files & Plugin Changes
Plugins to delete/re-install: (after theme update) Bunyad Page Builder, Bunyad Widgets, Bunyad Shortcodes
Files Changed: Files ChangeLog
Version 2.2.1
Released: July 9, 2014
- Added: Number of posts for each tab individually in “Recent Tabs” widget.
- Added: Tag description tag archives – like categories.
- Added: Consistent action hooks to Bunyad Widgets.
- Added: Use points rating on user ratings hover.
- Added: Compatibility for Custom Sidebars v2.0 update.
- Improved: Animation Smoothness in Chrome 35 on shop image hover.
- Improved: Firefox zoom animation on slider hover.
- Fixed: Compatibility of JetPack “Publicize” & “Social” module with Duplicate post removal feature.
- Fixed: Stars missing in older Android Browsers.
- Fixed: Shop page sorting and filter background on dark skin.
- Fixed: Multiple votes from same ip on user ratings.
- Fixed: Previous/Next not full-width.
- Fixed: News Focus Block sub-cats double click issue.
Files & Plugin Changes
Plugins to delete/re-install: (after theme update) Bunyad Page Builder, Bunyad Widgets
Files Changed: Files ChangeLog
Version 2.2
Released: June 26, 2014
- An all new mesmerizing Dark Skin!
- Feature: Full Post Types (and CPTs) support in Page Builder.
- Feature: Star Rating support in review posts.
- Feature: Get related posts by tags.
- Feature: Frontend overall public voting/rating for reviews.
- Feature: Globally display ratings as stars for all widgets and blocks.
- Feature: Previous/Next post navigation – on popular request.
- Feature: Timeline template option for archive and author listing.
- Feature: Links support on featured image captions.
- Improved: Single post page responsive design in smartphones portrait.
- Improved: Pingbacks styling in comments.
- Fixed: Custom category labels not working on slider.
- Fixed: Broken featured posts grid limit by tag.
- Fixed: Duplicate post removal on homepage taking effect on other page.
- Fixed: Blog/Listing missing offset feature.
- Fixed: “Download Backup” not working.
- Fixed: WooCommerce product search.
- Fixed: Custom CSS priority higher than WooCommerce on on-page setting.
- Fixed: Responsiveness of self-hosted video shortcode.
- Fixed: Prevent possible “NaN” value in overall review in admin.
Files & Plugin Changes
Plugins to delete/re-install: (after theme update) Bunyad Shortcodes, Bunyad Page Builder, Bunyad Widgets
Files Changed: Files ChangeLog
Version 2.1
Released: May 20, 2014
- Feature: Select correct category label for posts belonging to multiple categories.
- Feature: Offset support for home-page blocks. Ignoring first X posts is possible in every block now.
- Feature: Prevent duplicate articles in home-page blocks.
- Feature: On-page and External Custom CSS option for performance on really slow webhosts.
- Feature: Caption overlay on single post featured images and galleries.
- Feature: Simple Demo Import – make it like demo easily with random images.
- Fixed: Image sizing in retina display on blog listing style.
- Fixed: Broken rich text HTML widget in page builder.
- Fixed: WooCommerce page title color changing issue.
- Fixed: Image hover animations on Chrome 34.
- Fixed: Lost pixel-perfection in Chrome due to a bug in Chrome 34.
- Fixed: Shortcode generator button presets.
- Fixed: WPML home-page translation getting copied.
- Improved: Delete widget cache on new comments.
- Improved: Aesthetics in admin area metaboxes.
- Improved: bbPress login widget language translation.
- Improved: More filters and actions added to blocks and widgets.
- Several minor improvements & bug fixes.
Files & Plugin Changes
Plugins to delete/re-install: (after theme update) Bunyad Shortcodes, Bunyad Page Builder, Bunyad Widgets
Files Changed: Files ChangeLog
Version 2.0.1
Released: April 17, 2014
- WordPress 3.9 Compatibility.
- WP 3.9: Fixed GUI Shortcodes.
- WP 3.9: Fixed Rich Text page builder widget.
- Added: Reviews support in latest gallery carousel.
- Fixed: Mega menu sub-cat hover color setting.
- Improved: Language strings text-domain unified for WooCommerce and bbPress.
Files & Plugin Changes
Plugins to delete/re-install: (after theme update) Bunyad Shortcodes, Bunyad Page Builder
Files Changed: Files ChangeLog
Version 2.0
Released: April 8, 2014
- Full WooCommerce Integration with unique styling:
- Right Sidebar and Full-width option.
- All page styled: Shop, Cart, Checkout, My Account.
- Styled the native widgets in a Unique SmartMag style.
- Made it fully responsive.
- New WooCommerce related options in Theme Settings.
- Fixed: Empty categories not listed in blocks category selection.
- Fixed: RTL issues on flexslider.
- Fixed: SSL protocol for google web fonts.
- Fixed: Widgets cache issue with WPML.
- Fixed: Safari 5.1 menus work again.
- Fixed: 99.999% decimal bug with columns in pagebuilder.
- Improved: Custom CSS can now work off a different directory.
- Improved: More hooks and many framework changes for better extensions.
- Improved: Better looking long titles when using slide animation of slider.
- Improved: Default page template featured setting.
Files & Plugin Changes
Plugins to delete/re-install: (after theme update) Bunyad Widgets, Bunyad Shortcodes, Bunyad Page Builder
Files Changed: http://theme-sphere.com/forums/topic/smartmag-files-changelog/#version-200
Version 1.5.2
Released: March 13, 2014
- FEATURE: Global color support for categories. Site’s main color will change for a category and its posts.
- FEATURE: Advanced Custom Taxonomy support in Homepage blocks and Archives.
- FEATURE: Limit by category on Bunyad Recent Posts widget.
- Improved: Custom taxonomies handling on single post page and archives.
- Improved: Long menus in Firefox.
- Improved: Portrait view on android.
- Improved: prettyPhoto / lightbox is disabled for usability on mobile devices.
- Improved: Translation contexts and some string issues.
- Improved: Tag cloud widget styling.
- Fixed: Pagination issue on classic home page
- Fixed: Recent tabs widget heading color not updating.
- Fixed: Attachment links being loaded in lightbox.
Files & Plugin Changes
Plugins to delete/re-install: (after theme update) Bunyad Widgets
Files Changed: http://theme-sphere.com/forums/topic/smartmag-files-changelog/#version-152
Version 1.5.1
Released: Feb 28, 2014
- FEATURE: Disable featured area (image/video/gallery) per post.
- Added: Category description can now be displayed on category listing – shortcodes
work too. - Added: Two new styling and typography options relating to excerpts.
- Added: Pagination to authors page template.
- Improved: Navigation on light skin.
- Improved: Recent tabs widget now handles non-latin languages.
- Improved: In-post captions better styled.
- Improved: Bg images in boxed mode now work better on mobile devices.
- Fixed: Search results pagination with special chars.
- Fixed: Posts limit on highlights block.
- Fixed: Slider height in boxed mode on 480px smartphones.
- Fixed: Chrome 33 issue with FitVids.js text rendering.
- Fixed: Embed shortcode issue in Text widget of Pagebuilder.
- Fixed: Right side slider category limit gets reset.
- Fixed: Post gallery relying on global post per page setting.
- And 9 more minor improvements and changes.
Files & Plugin Changes
Plugins to delete/re-install: Bunyad Widgets, Page Builder
Files Changed: http://theme-sphere.com/forums/topic/smartmag-files-changelog/#version-151
Version 1.5.0
Released: Feb 19, 2014
- FEATURE: Added full bbPress integration & a new custom widget for bbPress.
- FEATURE: Added a login/register modal and a navigation button (bbPress).
- Improved: Menu on tablets is fully touch friendly now.
- Improved: Much improved LIGHT Color Scheme.
- Improved: Added option to change bg color of Mega menu sub-nav (left).
- Improved: Custom CSS parser is compatible with most plugins now.
- Improved: Page Builder no longer breaks when a plugin uses Prototype.js.
- Fixed: Javascript being stripped in header/footer Theme Settings.
- Fixed: Multiple “Recent Tabs” now work on same page.
- Fixed: 8 minor bugs.
Files & Plugin Changes
Plugins to delete/re-install: (after theme update) Bunyad Widgets, Bunyad Page Builder
Files Changed: http://theme-sphere.com/forums/topic/smartmag-files-changelog/#version-150
Version 1.1.0
Released: Feb 13, 2014
- FEATURE: All Page Builder blocks now have tag support – not just categories. UNIQUE!
- FEATURE: Sorting options in Page Builder blocks: date, modified date, random – latest/ oldest first.
- FEATURE: Article Schema fully implemented to homepage, single post, & listings.
- FEATURE: Google Authorship support is now built-in when a gplus+ link is set in
author profile. - FEATURE: Multiple highlight posts (big blocks) supported for News Focus Block.
- FEATURE: Custom background image support for Pages and Posts in boxed mode.
- FEATURE: Latest gallery block can now be limited to a category or tag. Also inclues a bug fix.
- FEATURE: Option to show latest posts in the slider instead of manually marking
featured posts. - FEATURE: Use a category or a tag for showing posts on the right side 3-posts grid of slider.
- FEATURE: Recent Tabs widget now supports limiting by tags instead of just categories. Improved usability as well.
- Improved: Added options to add custom header () and footer code ().
- Improved: Added styling for more social icons (instagram, youtube, tumblr, google+).
- Improved: Handling for custom post types in breadcrumbs.
- Improved: Trending news ticker now uses ellipsis for long titles.
- Improved: Child themes can now override framework and page-builder blocks too.
- Improved: Removed hentry microformat rich snippet and replaced with schema.org
Article. - Fixed: OS X Chrome having issues with whitespaces in comment count.
- Fixed: Dropcaps no longer have a character missing on home-page when using
auto-excerpt. - Fixed: Change highlight color when theme color changes.
- Fixed: Menu links in top-bar are now fully responsive.
- Fixed: Issue with category having white background in boxed mode unless a category image is set.
- Fixed: Image Logo is aligned vertically centered now by default regardless of
white-spacing in image. - Fixed: Custom CSS/colors not applying when a plugin causes functions.php to load twice.
- Fixed: 8 more minor bug fixes and improvements in CSS, sample data, and widgets.
- Added: A child theme example.
Files & Plugin Changes
Plugins to delete/re-install: (after theme update) Bunyad Widgets, Bunyad Shortcodes, Bunyad Page Builder
Version 1.0.5
Released: Feb 9, 2014
- Added: Top bar menu support is built-in now. No more Custom CSS.
- Fixed: WordPress category widget styling issue in hierarchical view with no post count.
- Fixed: Saving tabbed widget without selecting category/title causes errors.
- Fixed: Errors when reviews are enabled without adding criteria.
- Changed: Bunyad Widgets plugin is no longer force activated.
Files & Plugin Changes
Plugins to delete/re-install: (after theme update) Bunyad Widgets
Version 1.0.4
Released: Feb 8, 2014
- Fixed: Pagination spacing and selection issue on front-page blog listing blocks.
- Fixed: Mobile menu not clickable when not named main-menu.
- Feature: Shortcode support added in Advertisement widget.
- Usability: Added auto-selection of page template when pagebuilder is activated to stop users from missing this step.
Files & Plugin Changes
Plugins to delete/re-install: (after theme update) Bunyad Widgets, Bunyad Page Builder
Version 1.0.3
Released: Feb 7, 2014
- Fixed: prettyPhoto mosaic tiled galleries not being grouped.
- Fixed: A PHP warning on plugins activation in some installations.
- Fixed: Image flickr in firefox.
- Fixed: Responsive version of the blog listing style having left spacing.
- Fixed: Sticky posts taking priority in the featured area.
- Fixed: Margin of gallery block when used at bottom.
Files & Plugin Changes
Plugins to delete/re-install: (after theme update) Bunyad Widgets, Bunyad Page Builder
Version 1.0.2
Released: Feb 5, 2014
- NEW FEATURE: Google Responsive Ads fully supported now.
- Fixed: An issue with using Custom Menus prior to navigation menu.
- Fixed: Mosaic tiled gallery width.
- Fixed: Category Mega Menu featured post not working properly.
- Fixed: Retina logo is no longer required when using image based logo.
- Fixed: Media Library search broken in admin area.
- Fixed: Styling issue for google-plus social icon in top bar.
- Fixed: 728×90 ad vertical alignment issue in right side of header.
- Documentation improvements and fixes.