The Avada team has released a new update that includes very few new features — not surprising with the Avada 8 announcement — but a lot of fixes.

  • NEW: Added lots of new styling options to Testimonial element (e.g. border, typography, alignment, icon)
  • NEW: Added “marquee” style text scroll/rotation options to the Title element
  • NEW: Added option to allow AJAX add-to-cart on WooCommerce single products
  • NEW: Added “Reset Avada Caches” menu item to the Avada admin bar menu
  • NEW: Added home URL placeholder for usage in Avada Forms
  • PERFORMANCE: Huge rendering speed improvement for conditional logic for larger Avada Forms
  • IMPROVEMENT: Empty terms can now be chosen in the include and exclude options of the Post Cards element to allow later additions
  • IMPROVEMENT: The Events Calendar single event sidebar will now load even when legacy widgets are disabled
  • IMPROVEMENT: Added a new setup to avoid frequent HubSpot disconnection in case of server ping fluctuations
  • IMPROVEMENT: Featured image of an empty category can now be loaded when using Post Cards element
  • IMPROVEMENT: Popover CSS styles are now loaded in Image Hotspot element, even if Popover element is disabled
  • IMPROVEMENT: Added better image srcset calculation when lazy loading images that use aspect ratio settings
  • UPDATED: Rebranded Twitter to X in social icons
  • UPDATED: Compatibility with WordPress 6.4.1
  • UPDATED: Compatibility with WooCommerce 8.2.2
  • UPDATED: Compatibility with The Events Calendar 6.2.1
  • UPDATED: ScrollTrigger script to 3.12.2 and GSAP script to 3.12.2
  • ACCESSIBILITY: Added product name to the “Remove Item” button of the Cart Table element
  • ACCESSIBILITY: Replaced the comma separation of multiple terms in Breadcrumbs with CSS approach for a correct HTML list markup
  • ACCESSIBILITY: Added aria-current attribute to the current page in menus
  • COMPATIBILITY: Added compatibility layer for third-party plugins from Layouts also to Off-Canvas
  • COMPATIBILITY: Fixed Events Calendar main loop being wrong when a Post Cards element is rendered before the main content (e.g. in Mega Menu)
  • COMPATIBILITY: Fixed Avada Cache clearing in Global Options only working for the main language when using WPML
  • COMPATIBILITY: Fixed fatal error happening when translating elemens from the Avada Library with the WPML translation management
  • COMPATIBILITY: Made sure that Apple and Google Pay buttons of WooCommerce Payment plugin can be displayed when using Woo Checkout Payment element
  • COMPATIBILITY: Fixed WooCommerce Thank You page being 404 in secondary language when using WPML and a layout-based checkout page
  • COMPATIBILITY: Fixed WooCommerce PayPal Payments and WooCommerce Subscription plugins causing a fatal error in backend builder when the Woo Cart Table element was used
  • COMPATIBILITY: Latest version of WooCommerce Gift Cards plugin causing a warning on single product pages that use layouts
  • FIXED: Trailing separator showing in breadcrumbs on the homepage
  • FIXED: Time picker alignment being incorrect in elements
  • FIXED: Global Options reset not working
  • FIXED: PHP notice when conditional rendering checks for a $_GET variable that is not present in the URL
  • FIXED: Submenu dropdown arrow indicator not being visible on mobile when parent menu item has a Mega Menu on desktop
  • FIXED: Alert box being displayed below button when adding Stripe Button element to a post/page
  • FIXED: Dynamic data featured image sometimes not working correctly on archives
  • FIXED: Dynamic content in Tabs element not loaded when tab is opened through a link click
  • FIXED: Bottom border-radius values being interchanged in Alert element
  • FIXED: Lightbox for Featured Images Slider element not working when using AJAX load more in Post Cards
  • FIXED: Disable divider line setting in FAQ element not working
  • FIXED: Additional parameters not being added to Vimeo videos when video facade option is used
  • FIXED: Avada Form entry export button showing even user does not have export capability (export not working for such a user)
  • FIXED: $_GET var check in conditional rendering not working for Checkbox element in Avada Forms when using labels only
  • FIXED: Image caption of style Dario not being displayed correctly on mobiles in Image Carousel element
  • FIXED: Mega Menu being horizontally incorrectly aligned when using a different Menu element in a Container for a sticky header
  • FIXED: Text transform of menu item that is icon only on desktop being incorrect
  • FIXED: Button spacing being incorrect for variable products in Post Cards Cart element
  • FIXED: Variable product image linking to image instead of product when using Post Card Image element and Post Cards Cart element and changing variation
  • FIXED: Woo Product Grid element not resetting the WooCommerce loop which leads to issues when element is used before the main loop
  • FIXED: WooCommerce menu cart item count causing incorrect spacing of the parent menu item
  • FIXED: WooCommerce product category image alt tag wrong when displaying it through dynamic data in a layout
  • FIXED: WooCommerce price dynamic data not always being correct
  • FIXED: YouTube element preview thumbnail always loaded in default size when video facade option is used
  • FIXED: Layout conditions being removed from layout when posts/pages with quotation marks in title are added to the layout
  • FIXED: Several styling issues on the Events Calendar events search bar (e.g. mode hover color, outlines, and search icon on mobile)
  • FIXED: Several styling issues on the Events Calendar single events pages (like sidebar text color, link color, and quotes)
  • FIXED: PHP warning on the Events Calendar single events when Event Tickets add-on is used
  • FIXED: Avada Layout not applied to Events Calendar recurring events when the layout condition is set to the category of the main event
  • FIXED: Submission spinner for Contact Form 7 not working
  • FIXED: Alert dismiss icon being wrong for bbPress notices
  • FIXED: Missing div tag in the Slider Revolution “no slides found” message leading to display issues
  • FIXED: Deprecation notice for wp_global_styles_render_svg_filters
  • FIXED: Scroll sections sometimes being incorrectly split when Containers are used in Mega Menus
  • FIXED: PHP notice in PHP 8.3 regarding version_compare() function in the upgrade class
  • FIXED: PHP notice (non-numeric value encountered) in class-fusion-sanitize.php
  • FIXED: Button element gradient hover colors missing the default value
  • FIXED: Default value in option description being wrong when the global option uses subsets (like typography ones)
  • FIXED: Bulk actions for Layout Sections not working
  • FIXED: Order by option of Gallery element not being available in Backend Editor
  • FIXED: JS error when image size that was later deleted was set in an element in Live Editor
  • FIXED: Styling issues in Live Editor happening when third parties use jQuery UI library
  • FIXED: Adding an Avada Studio column to an empty Container not working in Live Editor
  • FIXED: Center-right position not being clickable in the Transform Origin option in Live Editor

Originally published on Nov. 2, 2023

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