Featured Added:We’ve made enhancements to the sliders to achieve smoother transitions and a more appealing appearance. With 5 new Slider Animation Styles:
Fade
Coverflow
Flip
Cards
Creative
And “Swing” animation style for Carousel Slider.
You can adjust the general slider styles via Customize > General > General Settings and for featured slider via Customize > Featured Slider > General.
Featured Added: A great new Featured Slider Style 39
Featured Added: Float Video Post Format – The video will float in the corner as you scroll down outside the main video at the top. You can enable this feature via Customize > Single Posts > General > Enable Video Floating.
Featured Added: New Sub Menu Style 3 – You can select it via Customize > Logo & Header > Main Bar & Primary Menu > Sub-menu Style
Featured Added: Arrow icon for sub menu has child menu items.
Featured Added: Custom Post Template for Post Formats (Customize > Single Posts > Post Formats Builder )
Improve: We’ve made adjustments to ensure compatibility with the Elementor Header & Footer Builder in our theme. However, we still recommend using our dedicated header & footer builder as it’s better.
Featured Added: New widget ”.Soledad Stylisted Articles Count” ( in Appearance > Widgets ) – a great style for highlight the order of posts.
Featured Added: New widget “Penci Stylisted Articles Count” for Elementor & WPBakery.
Featured Added: New widget ”.Soledad Categories Stylist” ( in Appearance > Widgets ) – a great new widget to showing categories on the sidebar in a different way.
Featured Added: Sticky Sharing for Single Post Pages – please check option for it via Customize > Single Posts > General > Turn on the Sticky Share
Featured Added: Share Selection Text – helps the users can selected text & share those text to social media. Please check options for it via Customize > Single Posts > Share Selection Text.
Featured Added: Apply collapse for archive description: in case the archive description text is too long, it will be showing a “read more” button to help users can collapse & expand it.
Improve: Improve the “Advanced Categories” widget & add new option to enable toggle open/close the child terms
Improve: Sync Soledad Custom Fonts into Elementor list fonts
Featured Added: The Theme Options Panel is synchronized with the WordPress Customizer. From now on, you can use either the Theme Options Panel or the WordPress Customizer. You can access it via Dashboard > Soledad > Theme Options Panel.
Featured Added: Option to add your own social media icons. You can access this option via Dashboard > Soledad > Add & Order of Social Icons.
Improve: Update the schema markup for the Penci Recipe plugin to align with the latest Google updates. This will improve the validation of your recipes on Google.After updating the Penci Recipe plugin, remember to regenerate thumbnails to achieve the best results..
Featured Added: We have replaced the old Twitter icon with the new X Twitter icon.
Featured Added: Users can now follow categories. Please update both the theme and the “Penci Bookmark & Follow” plugin to access this feature. For those who have previously installed this plugin, you need to insert the shortcode: [pencibf_follow_term_list] into the bookmark page to display the “Follow Categories” section.
Featured Added: The option to rearrange the order of social media icons via Dashboard > Soledad > Order of Social Icons. Simply drag and drop the social media icons to reorder them according to your preference.
Featured Added: Explore the new Author Box Style 5. You can access this option by navigating to Customize > Single Posts > General > Author Box Style.
Featured Added: Introducing the new Elementor widget called “Penci Taxonomy Listing.” This widget allows you to display the terms of any taxonomy, such as showcasing all Post Categories or Post Tags.
Featured Added: You now have the option to deactivate the user profile page rendering by the theme, in case you prefer to utilize the profile page provided by a plugin.
Featured Added: An option has been added to delete posts from the front-end. To access this feature, please update the “Penci Front-end Submission” plugin.
Featured Added: The new exclusive plugin “Penci Live Blog” – This is a plugin that allows you to create a “Live Blog” – automatically updating news from a football match or live events, enabling your readers to receive the latest updates without having to refresh the article.
Featured Added: New query option for Elementor Woocommerce widgets – “Recent Viewed Products”. Now you can select to showing “Recent Viewed Products” from Elementor Penci Widgets.
Featured Added: General demo for RTL language – check the demo here – more RTL demos will be added in the near future.
Featured Added: Introducing the new and exciting feature plugin: “Penci Smart Crop Thumbnails.” This plugin allows you to effortlessly the desired cropping point. Unlike WordPress, which typically crops images from the center, this plugin provides you with greater control. Simply access the media library and selecting an image, and you will see the drag point for customization.
Featured Added: Post Reading Progress – add the reading progress bar to your single post pages. Check the options for it via Customize > Single Posts > Post Reading Progress.
Featured Added: Font Size Changer – an option that enables your readers to adjust the font size within individual post pages with live preview changes. This allows them to find and save the font size they prefer for an optimal reading experience. You can check option for it via Customize > Single Posts > Post Reading Progress Bar.
Featured Added: Option to disable the Header Builder/Archive Template/Post Template/Penci Blocks on the admin panel – check the options via Customize > General > Extra Options.
Featured Added: Set Dark Mode as default when you activate the darkmode swticher. Check option for it via Customize > General > Dark Moode > Set Dark Mode as Default.
Featured Added:Exclusive “Penci Bookmark & Follow” plugin. With many features:
Enable readers to follow posts and authors of their choice.
It can be activated for both non-logged-in and logged-in users.
Send email notification for following users
Dashboard to control all informations related to Bookmark & follow
If you want to use there features, let’s install this plugin via Appearance > Install Plugin.
Featured Added: Allow for adding multiple reviews within a single post, along with a star rating style. To access these new features, let’s update the “Penci Reviews” plugin via Appearance > Install Plugins.
Featured Added: Show author avatar on the post layouts/single post pages behind the author name. You can enable it via Customize > General Settings > Author Avatar Settings
Fix: Problems with the Instagram – which are caused by recent changes to their API.
Please update the theme & update the plugin “Penci Soledad Demo Importer” to version 4.5 to get it. The templates of there demos already added to Cloud Templates Library also.