Version 6.0.1 - August 7th, 2019
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- NEW: The professionally designed new Avada classic demo is now available
- NEW: Added lightbox as target option to the Button element
- UPDATED: Font Awesome now is on version 5.10.1 offering 1535 icons
- FIXED: "Additional CSS" field in WP customizer not being visible
- FIXED: Tracking code field contents not loaded on the front-end pages
- FIXED: Link hover color being incorrect in the footer
- FIXED: Font weight field being reset, when choosing Regular 400 Italic
- FIXED: Header background image repeat option not working correctly
- FIXED: Footer 100% width background image option not working correctly
- FIXED: Sliding bar in left/right position in some cases causing display issues with the page contents
- FIXED: Menu highlight arrows being incorrectly positioned for headers v2 - v4
- FIXED: Post Meta Page Options not correctly saving in back-end
- FIXED: Body font-style being incorrectly applied to buttons, footer-headings and navigation
- FIXED: Content alignment to right in Content Boxes element not working correctly in Fusion Builder Live
- FIXED: Overlay color not showing on Container element when using parallax animated images in Fusion Builder Live
- FIXED: Links and elements in sidebars not always being clickable in Fusion Builder Live
- FIXED: Select field height being incorrect, cutting off text contents
- FIXED: Sticky footer not working correctly
- FIXED: WPML languages not being centered in mobile menu when center alignment was chosen
- FIXED: Column equal heights not correctly triggered after changes in Gallery element
- FIXED: Element animations firing on mobile, even if disabled for mobiles
- FIXED: Some strings in Fusion Core plugin not being translatable
- FIXED: Button in privacy bar going full width when buttons are set to span in Theme Options
- FIXED: Edit link for Slider Revolution being incorrect in Fusion Builder Live for latest slider versions
- FIXED: Option correlation being incorrect for 100% header width option
- FIXED: Google fonts set for body and heading tags not loaded in the WP block editor back-end
- FIXED: Dimension arrows missing in the post Page Options section in back-end
- FIXED: Compatibility issue with WooCommerce Product Carousel, Slider & Grid Ultimate Pro and menu cart icon
- FIXED: Removed assets path from media query CSS URLs to resolve conflict with iThemes Security setting
- FIXED: A compatibility issue of Fusion Builder Live and WP Smush plugin
Version 6.0 - August 5th, 2019
Our team has worked incredibly hard on Avada 6.0 Live, redefining the site creation and page building experience. We could not be more excited about the result.
Avada 6.0 with the brand new Fusion Builder Live intuitively revolutionizes how you build your pages. It is super user-friendly and packed with features.
Fusion Builder Live presents the future of page editing and will enrich the Avada Live ecosystem further.
But Avada 6.0 Live brings even more to the table that will change your outlook on what a site creation suite and a page builder can do.
Below are some of the highlights of these new product generations of Avada and Fusion Builder Live. This is where it all begins:
- NEW: For Avada 6.0 Live we entirely re-engineered the site-building process, giving you the fastest way ever to design your sites and projects
- NEW: A completely new UI was created exclusively for Avada 6.0 Live with extreme attention to detail to speed up your creation process
- NEW: Direct front-end editing of all your pages and posts, live-updating elements, layouts and options
- NEW: An inline text editor, that allows you to quickly change text contents, color, font-size, font-weight and a ton of other things on text blocks, headings, and other elements
- NEW: Live front-end drag & drop of containers, columns, and elements
- NEW: Live margin and padding dragging on containers and columns for easy layout creation
- NEW: A toolbar was added that will serve as your "mission control" center for the front-end creation process
- NEW: A completely custom side panel has been created which lets you change all the options Avada offers on the fly and that can be on left or right of the page, overlaying or as a sidebar
- NEW: Possibility to switch between side panel and dialog mode for displaying element options
- NEW: Live editing of Theme Options which lets you easily see the effect of your global settings on the pages
- NEW: Live editing of Fusion Page Options, which lets you easily see the effects directly on the page you are working on
- NEW: Live editing of Fusion Builder Element Options, showing you directly how your changes are reflected on the front-end
- NEW: Live changing between different header layouts and easy controls to edit logo and menus
- NEW: Live changing of widget areas, in sidebars, footer, sliding bar and widget area elements
- NEW: Easy Live UI to add / change / remove sliders and Page Title Bars
- NEW: Live responsive page preview for tablets and phones, landscape and portrait
- NEW: Color palette preset feature, allowing to define custom colors that will be available as presets on all color pickers
- NEW: Fusion Builder Live preferences for easy customization of the creation workflow
- NEW: One-click wireframe preview, bringing Fusion Builder back-end to the front-end
- NEW: Keyboard shortcuts for frequent events / changes have been added for better usability
- NEW: One-click option to reset an element to its default settings
- NEW: One-click option to get to the online documentation of the currently edited element
- NEW: One-click option to directly show you global option selection for Fusion Builder element options
- NEW: One-click option to show/hide the option description for clean UI
- NEW: One-click option to directly save your live created pages either as draft or to publish right away
- NEW: Ability to live edit featured images on posts, portfolio posts and WooCommerce products
- NEW: Added a preview mode to the Live Editor, which hides all controls and toggles scrolling sections and other elements for a full preview
- NEW: Added dedicated color schemes for controls of global elements, nested columns and scrolling sections for better usability
- NEW: Fusion Builder Live UI style integration for tinyMCE editor
- NEW: Added easy ways to access the front-end builder from the post edit screens, post type list tables and from the WP admin bar
- NEW: A completely new section in our online documentation specifically for Avada 6.0 Live with plenty of resources and videos
While we focused on Avada Live for 6.0, but we have also worked in a ton more features, additions, and fixes for you:
- NEW: Avada now supports front-end and back-end styling for Gutenberg native blocks
- NEW: Gutenberg font size support was added and matches Theme Option values
- NEW: Block editor width will now fully reflect set site width
- NEW: Added support for the Gutenberg alignfull and alignwide classes in back-end and front-end
- NEW: Added support for CSS variables and added an option to turn on/off
- NEW: Avada now requires a minimum PHP version of 5.6 and has an automated check for that to avoid fatal errors
- New: Added lightbox as link option for links in the Column element
- IMPROVEMENT: All widgets have been moved to Fusion Core plugin
- IMPROVEMENT: Fusion Page Options are now part of Fusion Core plugin
- IMPROVEMENT: Google analytics code, social icons, and caching functions are now also available through Fusion Builder
- IMPROVEMENT: The admin news widget is now part of Fusion Core plugin
- IMPROVEMENT: The contact page template form is now part of Fusion Core plugin
- IMPROVEMENT: Added compliance with Envato's new theme check requirements
- IMPROVEMENT: The Theme Options panel will now also work on installs that use symbolic links for WP
- IMPROVEMENT: Auto-play of self-hosted videos on container backgrounds is now working on mobile
- IMPROVEMENT: Testimonial element children now use Name and Company as preview text for better distinction
- IMPROVEMENT: Fusion Slider YouTube and Vimeo videos now allow for larger preview images
- IMPROVEMENT: Preview images for YouTube and Vimeo videos are now larger in Fusion Slider
- IMPROVEMENT: Changed some unitless input fields to range sliders for better usability
- IMPROVEMENT: Continued refactoring to improve performance
- IMPROVEMENT: Refactored JavaScript resize events to improve client-side performance on browser resize
- IMPROVEMENT: Removed deprecated browser prefixes from CSS files
- IMPROVEMENT: Added a filter to disable CSS caching
- IMPROVEMENT: Removed deprecated scoped attribute from inline style tags
- IMPROVEMENT: The deprecated Google+ icon is removed
- IMPROVEMENT: Compiled CSS filenames now take into account custom-CSS changes to avoid browser-cache issues
- UPDATED: Font Awesome now is on version 5.10 offering 1535 icons
- UPDATED: Moved from chosen.js to select2 for theme-specific select boxes
- UPDATED: jQuery mousewheel script to latest available version 3.1.13
- UPDATED: The default main highlight color in Avada has been changed to our new modern green
- UPDATED: Removed any code that was there to ensure support for abandoned IE9
- FIXED: Columns in mega menu becoming stacked when the menu goes to a second row
- FIXED: Sharing box being added to the bottom of every Gutenberg post
- FIXED: Gravity forms select box styling not being responsive on resize
- FIXED: Login form styling issue on the WooCommerce MyAccount page
- FIXED: JavaScript error happening when editing Fusion Menu Options
- FIXED: Issue in social icons widget, not correctly updating old custom icons
- FIXED: Facebook widget not correctly resizing if the maximum width is smaller than wrapper width
- FIXED: Menu hover color being wrong if using menu background highlight style and hovering sub-menus
- FIXED: Social icons not using dedicated line-height which leads to layout issues in some cases
- FIXED: Font Awesome solid 900 woff file using the wrong path
- FIXED: Avada admin screen column styling not being correct in WordPress 5.2.1+
- FIXED: Header v7 logo position not correctly respecting search icon and WooCommerce MyAccount and cart link
- FIXED: Cart icon not showing in mobile header, if mobile flyout menu is selected
- FIXED: Missing jquery-ui-sortable dependency for avada-fusion-options.js script
- FIXED: Page Title Bar Headings displaying on archive pages even if disabled in TO
- FIXED: A site loading speed issue when a large amount of posts is present
- FIXED: Sub-menu borders not always being correct in the menu widget
- FIXED: Vertical menu widget not using correct spacing in all cases
- FIXED: Division by zero issue in content box element, if image dimensions can't be retrieved from the database
- FIXED: PHP notice in content boxes element when icon size on parent is set in px
- FIXED: Lightbox title being incorrect in image element
- FIXED: Image URL sometimes missing in the uploader of the image element
- FIXED: Inner border partially being visible in content boxes element when border size is set to 0
- FIXED: PHP notice in the Fusion Builder Library page when element names use special chars
- FIXED: Tabs showing in mobile layout on desktop when loading media queries async and CSS compiler is off
- FIXED: Image bottom shadow option not working in person element
- FIXED: Removed a redundant isotope call in the Blog element
- FIXED: Removed alpha channel from the color picker in Soundcloud element, as that is not supported
- FIXED: Text being blurry in some cases in Flip Boxes element
- FIXED: Conflicts between Avada's select2 implementation and the one from Events Calendar and Slider Revolution
- FIXED: Small gaps in section separator element due to not dedicated set line-height
- FIXED: Bottom borders on tabs element not being correct in responsive mode
- FIXED: LayerSlider selection not being loaded on element re-edit
- FIXED: SVGs in content box icons not loading in the set size for all browsers
- FIXED: ThemeFusion's newsfeed admin widget retrieving data from old URL causing a redirect
