Featured Addedenci Player Rankings Plugin – a plugin that allows you to create and manage ranking tables for players across any field – from sports, eSports, gaming, billiards, education, to custom competitions. This plugin gives you full control over how your rankings look and behave. You can check video tutorial for this plugin here
Featured Added: Live Visitors Counter: Show the real-time number of active readers. You can check it via Customize > General > Live Viewer Notification
Featured Added:new features for Category Pages:
If a category has multiple subcategories, it will display in a magazine-style layout — each subcategory shown as a section, with X posts per layout based on your settings. You can enable it by go to Posts > Categories > edit categories contains child categories > Enable Magazine Layout for This Category
Option to filter posts by month/year
Featured Added: Option to hide post/page titles on single post pages.
Featured Added: Option to show post categories in the same line with the post meta section. (Customize > Posts Layouts)
Featured Added: Customize theme color for mobile devices via Appearance > Customize > General > Colors > Theme Color. Example usage: The color may appear in the browser’s address bar, title bar, or status bar on mobile.
Featured Added: Exit Intent Popup: Show a popup notice when the user attempts to close the tab. You can check it via Customize > Exit Intent Popup
Featured Added:new features for Penci AI SmartContent Creator plugin:
Automatically generate a featured image based on the post title
Automatically generate a post excerpt based on the title and content
Featured Added: Article Feedback: Added: “Helpful” feedback button at the end of each article. You can check it via Customize > Article Feedback.
Featured Added: new widget “Penci Advanced Calculator” for Elementor – an advanced form calculator widget
Featured Added: Option to choose HTML heading tag (e.g., H1–H6) for “Block Heading Title” for widgets from Elementor & WPBakery Page Builder
Fixed: WooCommerce checkout issues.
Update: WooCommerce Templates.
Update: “Penci Finance” plugin – Update Yahoo Finance API
Featured Added: Default heading font size options (h1, h2, ...) for the entire site via Customize > General > Typography > Advanced Typography Settings
Featured Added: Option to show/hide menu items based on users login status. Go to Appearance > Menus > Edit a menu item then you can see it.
Featured Added: Added support for multiple post types in Elementor Query section
Featured Added: Content Protection Options via Customize > General > Extra Options > Enable Content Protection — prevents users from copying content or opening dev tools
Featured Added: Added “Daily Post View” sorting for popular posts widgets & Elementor/WPbakery query
Featured Added: New option for image hover effect on archive pages via Customize > General > General Settings > Enable Thumbnail Zoom Effect
Featured Added: “Post Source” option — available in the edit post screen
Improve: the “Soledad Demo Import” plugin: redesigned UI, added options to check install for imported pages/posts/products/image generation
Improve: Changed AJAX calls for mega menu and ajax load more from admin-ajax.php to wp-json to reduce issues with cached AJAX requests via Customize > General > Extra Options > Handle AJAX with REST API.
Improve: Penci Shortcode & Performance plugin: generate separate critical CSS files for mobile and desktop
Improve: Optimized code for the Featured Slider
Improve: Option to fix Polylang plugin issues via Customize > General > Extra Options > click the “Fix Polylang Translation Issues” button
Improve: Penci AI plugin updated API URL
Improve: Fixed translation issues for WordPress 6.8
Featured Added: Enabled synchronization of post view counts across multiple languages.
Featured Added: new option to allow thumbnail left or right for the list layout.
Featured Added: New Elementor element: ABC Categories Listing
Featured Added: Added a new option to enable links in excerpt content: Appearance > Customize > Category, Tag, Search, Archive > Enable Link on Excerpt Content
Featured Added: Added mouse cursor effect customization via Customize > General > Cursor Effect
Featured Added: Add new 10 newsletter subscription styles for Mailchimp.
Featured Added: Added a new Gallery style: Slider 3D
Featured Added: plugin “Penci Filter Everything” – Added start & end date filtering by published and modified date. Fixed ordering by name and alphabet.
Improve: Optimize Customizer options/description to make it shorter & easily to check. Now you can hover mouse to the ”?” icon to see the option description.
Featured Added: New 12 Pre-built Single Post Styles: You can check them via Customize > Single Posts > General > Single Posts Template.
Featured Added: New Elements for Elementor: Added “Penci Recipe” and “Penci Review” elements to make it easy to include them in your single post content when using Elementor.
Featured Added: Penci Sport Plugin: Added a new style, column options, and a custom date-time format for the Penci Sport plugin.
Featured Added: Mobile Content Delayed Option: A new option to reduce DOM size for mobile by loading content only when users interact with the post.
Featured Added: Penci Text-To-Speech Update: New options to use OpenAI voices and data instead of Google voices and data.
Featured Added: Penci Front-End Submission: New options allow selecting specific categories/tags for submission instead of all categories/tags. Also, users can override templates in Penci Front-End Submission using a child theme.
Featured Added:Create header layouts with Elementor via Penci Block – You can replace the header layout with a custom block built using Elementor. Simply design your desired header in Elementor, and then assign it as the header for your site:
- All header elements locate at Elementor > [PenciDesign] Header Builder
- Added: Penci Sticky Container: mark the contain element sticky when scroll
- Config the header layout at Customize > Logo & Header > Header Builder > Penci Block Header Builder
- Modify the Block Header in Category/Post/Page Editor screen similar to Header Builder option
Featured Added: Built-in social share meta data tags in the head tag. It will be automatically disabled if an SEO plugin is installed. You also can disable it if you want via Customize > Logo & Header > General > Disable Essential Meta Tags For Social Media
Featured Added: Flickr widget – embed Flickr images to your website. It’s similar like Instagram feed.
Featured Added: Phone number and TOC check options for quick registration form via Customize > Topbar > General Settings > Login & Register Popup
Featured Added: Archive Post Sort Options by Most Viewed and Most Comments
Featured Added: Patches option at Dashboard > Soledad > Patcher: a way to get the quick fix immediately without re-update Soledad theme.
Featured Added: Penci Podcast: add Close button to Player via Customize > Podcast > General Setting > Show Hide Podcast Player Button
Fix: Penci Shortcode: Fixed JS Delayed for the empty script tags
Improve: Optimize Penci Header Builder Front-end Loading Time by add the caching solution
Featured Added: Plugin “Penci Filter Everything” – It allows you to filter everything in WordPress and WooCommerce, including products and any post types, by any criteria. It is compatible with WPML, ACF, and other popular plugins, and supports AJAX for seamless functionality. You can check this video tutorial for more.
Featured Added: Elementor widget: “Penci Custom Carousel” – You can create any carousel with each slide is a Penci Block or Template.
Featured Added: Elementor widget: “Penci Table of Content” – Use for Single Post Builder or embed it inside a page to create a table of content.
Featured Added: New 3 styles for Cookies/GDPR Policy via Customize > General > GDPR Policy
Featured Added: Option to show post subtitle under post title on archive via Customize > Posts Layouts
Featured Added: Option to show/hide Breadcrumbs on Archive Pages, Single Post Pages, ...etc via Customize > General > General Settings
Featured Added: Add social media options for Threads + Bluesky by default
Featured Added: Option to show recipe meta options on archive pages via Customize > Recipe Options > General
Featured Added: New Ticker Style: Marquee Style
Featured Added: new features for “Penci Front-end Submission” plugin – Add custom meta field submit with Advanced Custom Fields/Secure Custom Fields
Featured Added: Option for Woocommerce – For all WooCommerce Pages using Shortcode base instead of Gutenberg Block via Customize > WooCommerce > General > Use standard page content for cart and checkout pages.
Update: Update WooCommerce Templates
Update: Update Mobile Detect Library
Update: Update some plugins to make sure it works fine with the latest version of WordPress
Fix: Issues with Elementor Newest Version
Fix: Elementor Post Builder Reading Time
Improve: Use Ajax Filter for Penci Portfolio Plugin instead of iSotope to improve the performance
Featured Added:Penci Sport Plugin – a plugin to help you can isplays scores and rankings for popular football sports/leage. You can check widgets “Penci Football Fixture” & “Penci Football Standing” from Elementor and Appearance > Widgets to get it.
Featured Added: Option to use ajax Pagination for all archive pages via Appearance > Customize > Category, Tag, Search, Archive Pages > Enable AJAX Numeric/Next-Prev Pagination
Featured Added: 3 new featured sliders: Style 40, Style 41 & Style 42.
Featured Added: new widget “Penci Advanced Google Maps” for Elementor – a widget will help you showing multiple locations in one element – check this image for example.
Featured Added: new widget “Penci Content Accordion” for Elementor – a widget to showing posts or custom content with accordion style
Featured Added: new widget “Penci Compare Before/After” for Elementor – a widget to help you can compare 2 images before & after
Featured Added: new 3 styles for Ordered Numbers for “Soledad Popular Posts” widget.
Featured Added: Enhanced Penci AI plugin & support gpt-4o-mini.
Featured Added: Option to set default thumbnail image via Customize > General > General Settings > Default Thumbnail Image
Soledad Release Note Version 8.5.7 – September 23, 2024
Featured Added:Penci Finance Plugin – a plugin to help you can display Stock Market & Cryptocurrency data. You can check widgets “Penci Stock Market Data” & “Penci CryptoCurrency Data” from Elementor and Appearance > Widgets to get it.
Featured Added: Set a Penci Block to display as the Maintenance/Coming Soon Mode via Customize > General > Maintenance Mode.
Featured Added: Option to always sticky mode for the Table of Contents.
Featured Added: Option to select different styles for top and bottom social share buttons via Customize > Single Posts > General.
Featured Added: Copy Link button in the social share area – if you want to show it, you can enable it via Customize > General > Like Posts & Social Sharing > un-check on “Hide Copy Link Button”
Featured Added: “Penci Visibility Controls” Module for Elementor – Display Elementor elements based on conditions such as user login status, browser, device, language, date/time, etc – You can see this option panel when click on “Avanced” tab for any widget from Elementor.
Featured Added: Sync penci_date shortcode via JavaScript to display the current user’s real-time date via Customize > General > General Settings > Synchronize user time for the penci_date shortcode and the Date/Time Header Builder element. Solved the date/time doesn’t change when you do using a caching plugin.
Featured Added: Penci Paywall – Free Mode – Users must log in to view full post content.
Update: Penci Soledad AMP plugin – support “Web Stories” plugin for AMP version.
Update: Penci Bookmark & Follow – fix some small issues with PHP 8.3.
enci Player Rankings Plugin – a plugin that allows you to create and manage ranking tables for players across any field – from sports, eSports, gaming, billiards, education, to custom competitions. This plugin gives you full control over how your rankings look and behave. You can check video tutorial for this plugin here
