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Changelog

Bright Addons Pro

Version 1.5.1

  • New: Feature Marquee widget. Rows of icon pills that scroll in alternate directions (left, right, left), pause on hover and link anywhere.

  • New: Social Proof Notification widget. A notification in a corner of the screen every few seconds with typed items, recent WooCommerce sales, product reviews or new posts, and a link such as your pricing page.

  • 80 Pro widgets, 131 widgets in total.

Version 1.5.0

  • New: Popup Builder. Design popups with Elementor in the Theme Builder and open them after a delay, on scroll, on exit intent, after idle time or from any link, with display rules, frequency (every view, once per visit, every few days, once), devices, 8 positions, 3 animations and closing options.

  • New: Theme Builder archive and search results templates, for the blog, categories, tags, authors, post type archives and search, built with the Post Archive widget.

  • Improved: the Theme Builder now builds on the Header and Footer Builder of the free plugin (included, version 1.5.0). Your templates, rules and header options stay exactly as they are.

Version 1.4.0

  • New: Google Reviews widget. Type your business name and your Google rating and reviews show in a grid, masonry, list, carousel, endless marquee, rating badge or floating badge. Add your Google API key once in Bright Addons Pro, Templates and Integrations tab. 78 Pro widgets, 129 widgets in total.

  • New: includes Bright Addons for Elementor 1.4.0 with 3 more free widgets: Ajax Search Free, Icon List with Tag and Icon Box with Tag. 51 free widgets.

  • Fixed: Nav Menu. When the phone menu opened as a side panel (left or right), mega panels built from menu items lost their styles and showed bullets and plain links. They now look the same as in the dropdown phone menu. The same fix covers every panel that opens over the page.

  • Improved: search engine data. Recipe Card always has an image and complete steps, with an optional video and rating. Event Card uses the featured image and names the organizer. Store Locator leaves out stores without an address. Breadcrumbs leave out crumbs without a link.

Version 1.3.3

  • Fixed: Container Carousel did not start on pages that also had a Cookie Consent banner. The two widgets shared a class name, so the cookie script took the carousel. Cookie Consent now has its own class names.

  • Fixed: Tilt Card and the carousel widgets (Post, Template, Team, Logo and others) could take over each other on the same page. Tilt Card now has its own class names.

  • Fixed: Coverflow Slider and Contact Form could take over each other on the same page. Coverflow Slider now has its own class names.

  • Fixed: the Site Logo widget took on Logo Carousel styles on pages with both (free widgets 1.3.2 included).

  • Saved pages keep working: Elementor's stored styles are rebuilt automatically after the update.

Version 1.3.2

  • Fixed: the Elementor editor could stay on its loading screen when Elementor Pro (or PRO Elements) was active and the page had a Modal Popup, Off-Canvas Panel, Cookie Consent, menu panel or another popup. Popups moved to the end of the page no longer look like an Elementor document to Elementor Pro. Their look is unchanged.

Version 1.3.1

  • Fixed: a PHP 8.5 deprecation notice from widget title tags when a tag setting was empty.

  • Fixed: the Nav Menu and Premium Menu widgets no longer stop on servers without the PHP mbstring extension.

  • Improved: safer reading of the Hover Reveal Box effect and Theme Builder template types on PHP 8.3, 8.4 and 8.5.

  • Tested with PHP 8.3, 8.4 and 8.5, WordPress 6.8 to 7.1 and Elementor 3.35 and 4.0.

Version 1.3.0

  • New: Elementor templates inside menus. In Appearance > Menus each item now has an "Elementor template" field. With Mega Panel 2 on in the Nav Menu widget, a template set on a top-level item becomes its full-width mega panel, and a template set on a second-level item shows in that item's preview pane or column. Works on the phone menu too.

  • New: includes Bright Addons for Elementor 1.3.0 with 8 more free widgets (WPForms Styler, Fluent Forms Styler, Gravity Forms Styler, Recipe Card, Code Block, Post Info, Stat Card and Job Listing). 51 free widgets in total.

  • Improved: the new free widgets sit in the right categories on the Widgets page.

Version 1.2.0

  • New: redesigned Widgets page. Free and Pro widgets now sit together in seven categories, with a category list that shows how many widgets are on in each one, filters for On / Off and Free / Pro, and a search box (press / to jump to it).

  • New: one-click presets (Everything, Business site, Blog or magazine, Online shop, Lean and fast) and live counters for switched on widgets.

  • New: click any widget to open its details: description, where to find it in Elementor, what it loads, and links to its live demo and guide.

  • New: a save bar appears only when there are unsaved changes, with Discard, and the page warns before you leave with unsaved changes.

  • Improved: Extensions and the page template and Instagram settings each have their own tab. Theme Builder and Form Entries are one click away in the same tab bar.

Version 1.1.2

  • Fix: after an update, browsers and page caches could keep the previous stylesheets and scripts, so Mega Panel 2 showed every sub list at once. Every Pro file now carries its own version stamp, so the new files load straight away after each update.

Version 1.1.1

  • Improved: Nav Menu "Mega Panel 2" (mega panels built from the menu, renamed from "Menu Panels"). In the groups and live preview layout a group now shows its own image and description, and a link shows its own only when it is pointed at or reached with the keyboard.

  • Fix: menu items deeper than the third level (for example Products > Product 4 > Sub Product 13 > Sub Sub Product 1) now show in every Mega Panel 2 layout, nested below their parent, on desktop, tablet and mobile. Each of them has its own preview.

  • New: in the Mega Panel 2 groups and live preview layout, a link with sub-items opens them in an extra column next to the links (it appears only while that link is pointed at); deeper levels are listed below their link in that column. The mobile menu keeps them nested. New "Links Column Width" style control.

  • New: the 10 newest free widgets are included (Image Mask, Image Stack, SVG Draw, QR Code, PDF Viewer, Site Logo, Copyright Text, Recent Posts List, Simple Table, Image Gallery): 40 free widgets, 117 in total.

  • Improved: the Theme Builder sticky header tells widgets inside it when it is stuck, so the Site Logo widget can switch to its sticky logo.

  • Fix: the Bright Addons Pro admin menu opens the Widgets page again (the page where widgets and extensions are switched on and off), with Theme Builder below it.

Version 1.1.0

  • New: Theme Builder for headers, footers, single posts and the 404 page, with display rules and sticky, shrinking, hide-on-scroll and transparent headers. Works with classic and block themes.

  • New: 32 dynamic tags for posts, archives, the site, visitors and WooCommerce, also with the free Elementor.

  • New: Premium Menu widget with 7 styles: advanced dropdown, circle, list, side, full screen, accordion and one page scroll menu.

  • New: Nav Menu mega panels built from the menu itself, with an image, short description and badge for every menu item in Appearance > Menus, in 4 layouts and with full style options.

  • New: AJAX Live Search layouts (icon that opens into a box, box sliding down, search window, side panel), search by SKU, ID, custom fields and category names, a category dropdown, grouped results, recent and popular searches.

  • New: Post Content and Post Comments widgets for single post templates.

  • New: the 10 newest free widgets are included (30 free widgets, 107 in total).

  • New: Appearance > Menus is available on block themes too, so their menus can be used in the menu widgets.

  • Fix: with the Twenty Twenty-One theme, widget buttons no longer turn dark grey and images in post grids keep their shape.

  • Fix: the Woo Product Details widget no longer causes a "Theme without comments.php" notice in the editor.

Version 1.0.2

  • New: Post Archive widget with 10 layouts for every archive and custom post type, sorting, search inside the archive, term filter, custom fields and AJAX load more or infinite scroll.

  • New: Page templates for all post archives and for the archive of each post type.

Version 1.0.1

  • Fix: picking an MP3 from the media library in the Audio Player no longer stops the page or the editor.

  • Fix: Scroll to Top, Cookie Consent, Reading Progress, the Nav Menu and every other Bright Addons script now keep working with cache and speed plugins that combine, defer or delay JavaScript (LiteSpeed Cache, WP Rocket, Autoptimize, Cloudflare Rocket Loader), and even when another plugin's script has an error.

  • Fix: LiteSpeed Cache "Generate UCSS" no longer removes the styles for open panels and visible buttons.

  • New: Page templates for the search results, shop, product category (with subcategories first, products at the deepest level), product tag and single product pages.

  • New: Woo Product Details widget.

  • New: Product Categories widget can show the subcategories of the category being viewed.

  • New: Off-Canvas Panel can use your own icon or uploaded SVG for the open button, with a second icon while the panel is open.

  • Improved: Gallery Slider custom shape options.

Version 1.0.0

  • First public release: 72 Pro widgets, the 20 free widgets and 10 extensions for Elementor.

  • Includes all 20 widgets of the free Bright Addons plugin (92 widgets in total); the separate free plugin is switched off automatically when Pro is active.

  • Requires WordPress 6.5 or newer.

  • Licensing and automatic updates through Freemius.

Changelog

Bright Addons for Elementor (free)

Version 1.5.0

  • New: Header and Footer Builder. Design the site header and footer with Elementor and show them on the entire site, the front page, all posts, all pages or chosen pages, with hide rules and a header that stays at the top. Works with classic and block themes and the free Elementor plugin. Find it under Bright Addons > Header and Footer.

Version 1.4.0

  • New: 3 widgets. Ajax Search Free shows live results from pages, posts, custom post types, products and categories while visitors type. Icon List with Tag and Icon Box with Tag show a Free, Pro, New or custom tag next to any item. 51 free widgets in total.

  • Improved: Recipe Card. Each step can have its own photo, and the recipe can have a video link and a star rating. The recipe data for search engines now always has an image (the recipe photo, else the featured image, else the site logo or icon), each step has a name, a link and an image, and the rating is only added when it is valid.

  • Improved: Event Card. The event data for search engines uses the featured image when the card has no image, never the placeholder, and names the site as organizer.

Version 1.3.2

  • Fixed: on a page with a Logo Carousel, the Site Logo widget took on the logo box size and spacing of the carousel. Both widgets now have their own styles.

Version 1.3.1

  • New: a "Bright Addons Pro" card and a "Leave a review" link on the settings screen, and a "Get Pro" link on the Plugins screen. Nothing in the free plugin is locked or changed.

  • New: after two weeks of use, a small notice asks administrators for a review on WordPress.org. It shows only on the Dashboard, Plugins and Bright Addons screens, and "Maybe later" or "I already did" hide it.

  • Improved: clearer plugin description and screenshot captions.

Version 1.3.0

  • New: 8 widgets. WPForms Styler, Fluent Forms Styler, Gravity Forms Styler, Recipe Card, Code Block, Post Info, Stat Card and Job Listing.

  • New: the form stylers start from a clean, modern look that you can turn off to keep the form plugin's own style.

Version 1.2.0

  • New: 10 widgets. Image Mask, Image Stack, SVG Draw, QR Code, PDF Viewer, Site Logo, Copyright Text, Recent Posts List, Simple Table and Image Gallery.

  • New: "Header and Footer" group on the settings screen.

Version 1.1.1

  • Fixed: with the Twenty Twenty-One theme, buttons in the widgets (carousel arrows and dots, tabs, alert close button, floating contact button) no longer turn dark grey.

  • Fixed: with the Twenty Twenty-One theme, Post Grid images keep their shape.

  • Fixed: tab names no longer turn uppercase in themes that style every button that way.

Version 1.1.0

  • New: 10 widgets. Advanced Divider, Blockquote, Alert / Notice Box, Pros and Cons, Review Score Box, Coupon Code, Star Rating, Floating Contact Buttons, Contact Info List and Event Card.

  • New: Event schema option in the Event Card widget.

  • Improved: the plugin stays inactive when the same widgets are already loaded by Bright Addons Pro.

Version 1.0.0

  • Initial release with 20 widgets.