Changelog

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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