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Four New Demos To Show The Power of Avada
We have added 4 new demos that are built entirely from our included options. These demos are unique and creatively designed for the specific industries they represent. Best of all, you can import them directly from the WordPress admin and use for your site. They are Avada Fashion, Avada Mobile App, Avada Cafe and Avada Travel. More coming soon!

New iLightBox Integration With 6 Skins & Additional Options
We have replaced prettyPhoto light box with the faster, more feature rich iLightBox. This new light box comes with 6 design skins that you can easily choose from our theme options panel. In addition, we’ve added new theme options to control the position of the image thumbnail navigation panel. We have also simplified the titles and captions so it is consistent with what you see in the WordPress media section; image titles display as light box titles and image captions display as light box captions.

New WooCommerce List View & Horizontal Product Tab Option
A new «List View» layout option has been added for the WooCommerce shop page. This gives you the option to display products in the standard «Grid» or new «List» layout. A new theme option on the WooCommerce tab controls this. When selected, the shop page will display a grid/list icon set which allows your viewer to choose the view for your products on the front end. In addition, we have added a new option that allows you to choose horizontal tabs for the single product page, in addition to our standard vertical tabs.

New Carousel Design Along With Several New Options
Carousels were given a minor design change that allow the images to span the full width of the container. This allows the navigation arrows/boxes to sit on top of the images. In addition we have added several new options for customization. Carousels can now be set to autoplay, choose column size, control column spacing all the way down to 0px, use mouse click to drag scrolling, show or hide navigation boxes, show or hide the border. Each of these options have been added to these elements: image carousel, recent work carousel, WooCommerce product carousel and WooCommerce featured slider. In addition, related posts & projects have the options added to the theme options panel under the «Extras» tab.

NOTE: Due to the new carousel options, we no longer need separate elements for client slider and image carousel. They have been consolidated into one element called «image carousels». When you update, your client sliders will be converted to image carousels when you open and edit the page.

Over 40 New Theme & Page Options Added
We have added over 40 new theme and page options to help you take your site design further. These options put you in the drivers seat, giving you control over your website.

New Welcome Screen In WordPress Admin
We have added a new Welcome Screen in the WordPress admin that provides a better user experience. It will automatically show after you install Avada, and you can easily access it in the left sidebar of your admin at any time. This new addition has 4 different pages.
– Product registration page – this page allows you to fully register your product to be eligible for free support and auto theme updates. Previously this was located in theme options.
– Support page – contains important links to our support center and resources.
– Install Demos – this is where you can easily import any of our demo content as well as preview a specific demo. Previously this was located in theme options.
– Fusion Plugins – this is where you will be able to view and download new plugins that our team is developing. Very exciting products are on their way!
– System Status – this shows you important information about your sites status and helps the troubleshooting process

Full List of New Features
– four new amazing demos built only with Avada
– new iLightBox integration along with 6 design skins and new theme options
– new WooCommerce list view
– new WooCommerce horizontal tab view on single product page
– new parallax footer option
– new sticky footer theme option
– new 1 column builder element for design purposes
– new design for carousels, images now go edge to edge with navigation on top of images
– new carousel element options: autoplay, column size, column spacing, mouse click to drag scroll, scroll items, navigation display, border
– new carousel element options added to image carousel, recent work carousel, woo product carousel and woo featured slider
– new theme options for related posts/projects to utilize new carousel options
– new option to control post titles below image for related posts/projects
– new mobile_visibility option for full width container, columns and image frame shortcakes
– new picture size option for related posts and projects (auto or fixed)
– new theme option for responsive Heading typography
– new setup for column background images, if no content is inserted then image shows in original aspect ratio
– new content alignment for columns so content can be in direct center of container
– new animation options for column elements
– new image rollover color option to box in content elements
– new theme options for font weight
– new font size option for checklist element that gives you exact control over icon and text size
– new option to hide the ALL category for portfolio and FAQ post filters
– new theme and element option to show/hide the circle around the icon for the separator element
– new theme and element option for separator element that controls border thickness
– new option to align the separator when a specific width is used (left, right, center)
– new option for small image to large image added to the image frame element (this allows us to combine image frame and light box element into one)
– new theme options to control the color and sizing for the woo sorting text/icons
– new tabular design for the full width element popup window (this will be implemented to more elements in the future)
– new page title bar options to show page title without the bar
– new page options to control page title bar border colors
– new welcome screen setup in WP admin area
– new theme and element option added to content box element to control title & icon font size
– new letter spacing options added for menu text and button text (more to come soon!)
– new theme option for mobile header background color
– new theme options to control the rollover icon size
– new theme and element options to control the social icon font size
– new theme option for aligning the menu text (left, right, center)
– new theme option to control button font family and font weight independently
– new theme and element option to control the margins on columns
– new element option to control bottom margin on content boxes
– new theme and element option to place counter icon on top of text
– new theme option for mobile menu font size and color
– new theme option for mobile menu height (padding between each item)
– new theme option to control mobile menu toggle independently
– new theme option section to control the margins on heading fonts
– new theme option to control the sliding bar icon color
– new theme option to disable the pin animation for google maps with default contact page
– new element option to randomize testimonials
– new element option to offset post count on recent post and blog element
– new element option to offset post count on recent work
– new theme option to control sharing box title font size and color
– new theme and element option for top and bottom margin for tagline box element
– fusion slider heading and caption text fields are now regular text fields that can take elements and other HTML
– new fusion slider option to control the max-width of content
– new independent mobile logo field
– new independent sticky header logo field
– full width and column elements can now use % and px as values for padding
– updated font awesome to version 4.3
– new page option that controls the sidebar color
– new option to display a «Load More Posts» button for blog and port posts instead of loading them automatically. This can be chosen in the pagination options.
– new option to control the color of the «Load More Posts» button
– implemented Google’s new «No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA» API
– updated demo content for Avada Classic
– updated google fonts list
– added compatibility for Geo Directory plugin
– change setup to allow main content background to be be partially transparent and show boxed background behind it
– new smooth scroll option added
– major enhancements to parallax full width containers, parallax scroll effect is now mobile compatible
– new options for full width container: background image parallax, parallax speed, parallax on mobile, youtube & vimeo video backgrounds
– implemented changes to allow elements to be used in the header 4 banner field , ex: button
– added sound cloud boxed format
– new «delimiter digit» option for counter boxes that allows any digit to be used in the counter number. ex: ,
– new fusion_maps.js plugin for google maps that is more streamlined and solves various issues
– added more space to custom css field in theme options
– added unique names to «categories & posts» in menu section for blog/portfolio/faq
– all language files updated from Transifex
– new setup that enables image placeholders for portfolio featured images if none are added
– tagline field in theme options for header 4 can now take HTML
– new theme option and element option to strip HTML from post content
– added BuddyPress global sidebar control (combined with bbPress)
– added support to extract plain text from fullwidth SC for excerpts
– phone number field can now take elements
– new shortcake parameter for title element to set divider to «none»
– new Facebook widget integration, requires new facebook app id on June 23rd
– code block element has added coding/decoding so WP editor does not mess with content
– new theme option to control the height of all search field heights
– new border size option for separator element
– new side header breakpoint theme option to control when side header turns into mobile view

Continually Optimized & Refactored Code
Our team has devoted a lot of time and energy into reviewing and optimizing our code. Our refactoring will result in a slimmer, faster version of Avada than ever before. Our motivation for this continuous process is to enhance your workflow experience and ensure code quality stays at a high level. This is a continual effort and will make using Avada more delightful than it already is.

Refactored Header.php file and clean up head
dynamically generated CSS has been outsourced making the head tag of every page much shorter and cleaner.

Refactored sticky header and implemented entirely new sticky header setup
no more jumping in sticky header, no more duplicated menus and menu entries. Smooth transitions from normal header to sticky header. New option to add a unique sticky header logo. Different action hooks added for dev user interaction.

Refactor portfolio templates
all portfolio templates are now controlled by one single file, compressing the portfolio code structure. New option to include image placeholders. Improved filter implementation for infinite scroll. On new loading of items, only those from the selected filter will be shown. New option to load more items via button click. Different action hooks added for dev user interaction.

Refactor blog templates
all blog templates are now controlled by one single file,compressing the needed code and making updates easier. Different action hooks added for dev user interaction.

Refactor blog layouts
better overall code basis. Similar infinite scroll additions as for portfolio layouts. Different action hooks added for dev user interaction.

Refactor footer
overall code cleaning, new footer parallax effect option, new sticky footer option for pages with little content (and thus small overall height). Action hook added for dev user interaction.

Consolidate all retina image css media queries
Cleaned up inconsistencies when retina versions of images would kick in. Now all use the same media query.

General media query issue with side header
Media queries for responsive layouts are now dynamic. That means if a side header layout is used, we no longer use fixed px based media queries, ex: «do this at 800px screen width and below». Since the side header takes up a portion of the available screen width and since that width can be chosen by the user, we calculate the width newly at which mobile media queries need to kick in, so that the content behaves more or less the same as on top header layouts.

Major improvements to feature image loading for various areas of the theme
we have it setup now for lazy loading images. Most prominent place to see are portfolio archive templates, where the pics are not shown all at once when they are all loaded, but are displayed one by one progressively.

New activate developers mode
Quality of life addition for support staff and dev users. All js files are de-bundled and loaded separately, which makes debugging much easier. On the other hand, when disabled, all js files will be merged into one single, auto-minimized js file, which reduces not only amount of bytes that need to be loaded, but also the amount of server requests tremendously.

Improve breadcrumbs setup and also fixed a few breadcrumb issues
breadcrumbs now have their own class and are managed in a single file in one place. OOP architecture improving performance too. Separator between breadcrumbs can be freely chosen now as a theme option. New option to disable the post categories being listed in the breadcrumb path. Parent and child categories are shown correctly now in tree structure.

Automatic disabling features for less files
This can increase performance if you are not using a specific feature. We only load the needed styles now when it is really needed. RTL styles will only be loaded on RTL site, WooCommerce styles only when woo is active, bbpress the same. Responsive styles only if the option is checked.

General Fixes & Improvements
– fixed issue of theme options not saving due to host security settings change
– fixed BuddyPress page issue of wrong header showing
– fixed minor IE styling issues
– fixed wpml issue of main menu page option not working per language
– ensured polylang works with different theme options
– fixed minor issue with ubermenu compatibility
– reconfigured wpml-config.xml
– fixed gravity form styling issues
– fixed section separator issue with fading animation
– new one page setup that fixed a few minor issues with scroll
– minor adjustments for Safari v5 compatibility
– added styling for woo «Out of Stock» message so it matches the «Sale» badge
– contact form 7 button style fixes to ensure all the button theme options work
– fixed samsung galaxy S3 responsive issue
– added link button to our editor for RTL language
– fixed counting bug with number of items in builder window
– improved builder performance with cloning
– fixed carious fusion slider issues (image cutting off, video uploader shows error, IE issue)
– fixed issue with flip box icons/transparency
– validated a few errors with W3C validation
– increased bottom margin on footer columns for mobile layout
– fixed the flip box / sticky header issue in Safari
– iframe in mega menu widget area will now load in IE/Safari
– allow meta boxes to use double quotes
– youtube videos on iOS in modals will load again if modal is reopened
– added back ability for individual tab linking
– body font line-height will not affect the text in top secondary menu
– toggles inside of toggles drawback
– fixed various translation issues
– fixed issue of toggles not working with infinite scroll
– fixed issue of override background color issue in boxed mode
– blog grid and timeline layout will display correctly with no space if only image is set to show
– added logo dimension files for speed reports
– fixed woo shop/archive pages image/hover issue
– fixed issue of placeholder image when no product image is added
– fixed issue of toggles misaligning when no title is used
– removed native tooltips from all tooltips
– if menu border is set to 0, then it will also be 0 in sticky header
– various style fixes for woo and product hover icons
– guest checkout user name now displays the actual username instead of guest
– remove extra spacing on bottom of portfolio post page when everything is disabled
– paragraphs will now work in comments
– fixed issue of category description showing twice with infinite scroll
– fixed new issue of Fusion builder last value always resetting to yes with certain size columns
– fixed issue of Fusion Builder loading empty content after page load
– removed gravatar link in facebook share code
– fixed issue of testimonials in sliding bar
– vertical tabs now support RTL
– fixed google font API call for subsets, added url encoding missing
– fixed issue of bbPress topic count not being added
– infinite scrolling loading issue
– fixed issue of woo sale icon showing in front of sorting dropdown
– on category archives the category desc on infinite scroll is repeated
– fixed breadcrumbs on category pages
– fixed padding consistency on 100% site width setting
– fixed product variation issue on front end with gallery
– fixed issue of facebook not working on iPhone
– fixed issue of image size inside tabs in firefox
– improved builder to take into account line breaks in editor
– Add fusion slug to script and styles enqueue to avoid conflicts in builder plugin

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