Media Consult Changelog

Made speed performance improvements to the theme.

Added an option that allows you to insert a text near the mobile menu hamburger.

Fixed all the icons that were not loading properly in the theme.

Fixed several small CSS issues.

Moved custom metaboxes, custom widgets and social media icons functionality to plugins in order to comply with Themeforest requirements.

Properly enqueued the css in the child theme via functions.php.

Improved the custom metaboxes design to better fit with Gutenberg editor.

Updated the translation dictionary.

Added ressources custom post that allows you to add documents, whitepapers, annual reports, etc to your site.

Added latest ressources posts widget that allows you to display your most recently added ressources by category.

Added a new blog listing layout.

Added a featured posts shortcode that allows you to display your latest posts in a tabular style.

Added new shortcodes: history, flexible banner and quote, latest blog posts, service highlight and a lot more.

Added sitemap template.

Added CSS animated page loader.

Created a new modern demo to show all the new & additions and changes.

Fixed custom widgets notices that were being displayed if the widgets were used outside of the theme’s sidebar.

Made lots of CSS fixes and improvements.

Improved Elementor compatibility by styling several Elementor widgets to fit Media Consult styling.

Improved the design of the document info shortcode.

Improved the design of the latest posts widget.

Updated the translation dictionary.

Updated the demo content xml file.

Added a new slider that displays your latest posts.

Added a new option that allows you to choose between the classic sidebar design and a new minimal one.

Added a new option that allows you to have in the theme’s header a search form along with an introductory text message instead of email, phone and social media icons.

Fixed introduced in version 4.1.3 where the portfolio columns stopped working.

Made few CSS adjustments to improve spacing of the blog post detail title.

Updated the translation dictionary.

Updated the demo content xml file.

Added a new slider that will display your latest posts from the category of your choice.

Added posts filtering section that allows you to filter posts by published date and category.

Added a new posts listing layout on 3 columns.

You can now enable or disable the author name at the top of each post detail.

You can now enable or disable the social media icons at the top of each post detail.

You can now enable or disable the author post name at the top of each post detail.

Fixed a notice error message in the latest posts custom widget.

Fixed a bug where posts filtered by author listing was not working.

Updated the translation dictionary.

Updated the demo content xml file.

• Added

  The theme now supports unlimited color options via color pickers from Live Customizer.

   

• Fixed

  Fixed a bug where the slider images were not being resized properly if the theme was updated from a version older than 4.0.

   

• Updated

  Made few CSS adjustments to improve the theme’s overall look.

   

• Updated

  Updated the translation dictionary.

   

• Updated

  Updated the demo content xml file.

   

Added 2 new modern header menu layouts.

Now you can choose to left / right align your header menu.

You can now add social media icons in the theme’s header.

Added new functionality to the footer that allows you to change the order of the menu and copyright information and also replace the menu with social media icons.

Added styling for Archive and Comments Gutenberg Widgets.

Made a handful of css fixes and adjustments to improve the theme’s design.

Made few small improvements to the top right area of the header.

Improved the styling for Gutenberg Widgets.

Updated FontAwesome icon library to the latest version.

Updated the translation dictionary.

Updated the demo content xml file.

Updated the documentation with the latest information.

The theme is now Gutenberg(the new WordPress visual editor) READY.

Added default block CSS styles for the new Gutenberg Visual Editor.

Added custom meta boxes for custom field values for easier theme setup.

Added documentation for the new [tagline_icon] shortcode that was introduced in version 4.0.4

Fixed all PHP notices that were being displayed if wp-debug was set to true.

Improved the theme’s styling to assure compatibility with Gutenberg Visual Editor.

Replaced the main css styles with dynamic generated SASS. All the original SCSS files are being included in the theme.

Changed how the custom page titles are being added for easier theme setup.

Improved the title formatting design for archive listings.

Updated the translation dictionary.

Updated the demo content xml file.

Updated the documentation with the latest information.

Added testimonial shortcode.

Added “about the author” box at the end of post detail.

Added previous and next post links at the end of post detail.

Added clients carousel to the demo.

Added IconsMind font library.

Improved the design of the sharing & social media profile icons.

Made design improvements & added new parameters to the card blocks in order to improve usability.

Improved the service block with new parameters & css styles in order to improve its functionality & usability.

Added new parameters to the content carousel in order to improve its functionality.

Updated fontAwesome Icon Library to the latest version.

Updated the translation dictionary.

Updated the demo content xml file.

Added team member blocks so you can now build pages with team members.

Updated the documentation with the latest information.

Updated the demo content xml file.

Fixed a bug where the content slider didn’t resize in theme’s content.

Fixed a bug where the document info block was not being displayed properly if the sidebar was aligned to left.

Fixed a bug where the latest posts custom widget was not being displayed properly if the sidebar was aligned to left.

Improved the design and animation of toggle content, accordion and tabs elements.

Updated the demo content xml file.

Fixed a bug where the content slider didn’t resize in columns grid.

Fixed a bug where the portfolio pagination settings were not working.

Fixed a bug where the search form from search page results was not being displayed properly.

Updated the translation dictionary.

Updated superfish menu plugin to the latest version.

The theme’s css has been reworked with CSS Grids and the theme is now fully responsive.

Added Magnific Popup instead of prettyPhoto.

Now you can choose from more than 800 Google fonts using the Easy Google Fonts plugin.

Now you can create your own contact forms with Contact Form 7 plugin.

The theme is now fully compatible with Mailchimp for WP plugin, so you can add your own newsletter.

Now the theme can be configured with WordPress built in Customizer. The custom theme options panel has been removed.

You can now insert widgets in your footer on 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 columns.

Added back to top arrow in the right bottom of the theme’s footer.

Removed all deprecated PHP / WordPress functions to ensure full compatibility with the latest versions of WordPress.

Updated the overall design of the theme.

Updated the translation dictionary.

Removed the Twitter Widget.

Removed the Flickr Widget.

Removed the news section.

Removed latest news widget.

Removed prettyPhoto script.

Removed all the deprecated functions and made sure the theme is 100% compatible with the latest version of WordPress.

Fixed a WPML compatibility bug related to the custom posts.

Reworked the responsive functionality of the theme.

Updated superfish menu plugin to the latest version.

The theme is now fully compatible with WPML.

Added theme support for title tag in concordance with WordPress 4.1 standardization of document title.

Added Google Plus and Linkedin sharing buttons.

Fixed an issue where the contact form wasn’t always sending messages.

Fixed an bug where the pagination links for blog were not being displayed on newer versions of WordPress(4.0, 4.1).

Updated the theme options panel to the latest version.

Updated superfish menu plugin to the latest version.

Removed Technorati social media button for article sharing.

Included the demo xml file.

The theme is now fully compatible with WPML.

The theme is now fully compatible with WooSidebars plugin.

Updated the theme options panel to the latest version.

Updated the translation dictionary.

Restored the blog, news and portfolios to work with templates instead of category listings.

Updated the documentation to reflect the latest changes.

Added a starting child theme for easy theme customization.

Fixed a bug where instead of portfolio page title, the portfolio page slug was displayed in both portfolio sections.

Fixed all php notices that were appearing when custom widgets were added to the sidebar with wp_debug set to true.

Fixed a translation domain related string that was not included in .po / .mo files and regenerated the dictionary.

Updated superfish menu to the latest version.

Updated the theme options panel to the latest version.

Updated all the theme functions so that they can be re-written inside a child theme.

Updated the documentation with information about how to use the newly added child theme.

Removed wp-pagenavi plugin from the theme. Now you have to manually install wp-pagenavi plugin from wordpress repository to have numbered pagination links.

Changed the way style.css is included by respecting the themeforest standards.

The flexslider is now called only when it’s used.

Moved the js scripts inclusion from header to footer to assure better plugin compatibility and faster content loading.

Fixed the error notices that were displayed when wp_debug was set to true.

Updated superfish menu to the latest version.

Now the portfolio sections list the posts by category slugs, not category names. Listing portfolio posts by category names was causing issues with categories that contained special characters such as e acute etc.

Removed scripts.php from lib/custom/ that contained the external files(js, css) calls. Now these files are called from functions.php.

• Added

  The theme is now responsive.

   

• Fixed

  Fixed a couple of css glitches for sidebar widgets.

   

• Fixed

  Fixed a bug that was introduced in version 3.0 where the contact form wasn’t sending the email to the designated email address.

   

• Fixed

  Fixed a bug that was introduced in version 3.0 where the custom css box functionality wasn’t working at all.

   

• Fixed

  Fixed a bug where the localization text domain wasn’t loaded properly.

   

• Fixed

  Fixed a bug where the tracking code wasn’t working.

   

Improved the widgets functionality

Cleaned and reworked all the theme’s css styles – about 40% of css code from style.css was removed.

Properly enqueued all external css / js files in theme’s header.php.

Overall the theme now has 20-30% less code without losing any functionality

Updated theme options panel to the latest version.

Replaced cufon with @font-face.

Blog, news, portfolios and slider section have been all re-worked and their setup greatly simplified.

For image resize in portfolios, blog, news and slider posts, now the theme uses the built in post thumbnails via WordPress Media Uploader.

Restyled the flickr widget.

Updated theme’s translatable dictionary(.po and .mo files).

Reworked, improved and updated the whole theme documentation.

Removed timthumb.

Now the theme supports unlimited sidebars for any page / post / category via custom sidebars plugin.

Reworked and improved the news section css and overall structure.

Fixed a couple of text domain problems and regenerated the language dictionary.

Changed the way the homepage works – instead of creating a post that populates the homepage content, now you just have to create a homepage template.

Fixed an invalid non existent reference to a cufon js file.

Fixed a couple of notices that were displaying in the theme’s admin if debug mode was turned on.

Fixed an issue with the height of the menu dropdown items.

Fixed a couple of css issues.

Reworked core, using the options framework by DEVIN.

Added localization support.

Portfolios and news page now use wordpress 3.0 custom posts.

Now you can have unlimited portfolios.

Increased the number of shortcodes: from less than 10, now there are more than 35 to use.

Added flickr widget.

Added the option to add a different slide entry, with full width image and text above the image.

Added the ability to remove the sidebar on homepage via options panel.

Fixed lots of css bugs, cleaned and updated the css code.

Replaced the Slimbox plugin with prettyPhoto, in order add video support for lightbox.

Servives page is no longer a page template, it’s a static page created via shortcodes.

Changed the old jquery dropdown on main menu with superfish.

Added 2 new shortcodes: read more button for slider and bullet lists.

Added custom menu area for footer too. Now you have 2 custom menu areas, both for header and footer.

Slider posts can now link to a page chosen by the user, not just to the post detail.

Changed the way the javascript is included in the theme in order to improve compatibility with plugins.

fixed a couple of css glitches and added more styles.

general_styles.css and index.css don’t exist anymore, now all the main styles are in style.css found in the theme’s root

Widgets and sidebar code is now in widgets.php found in lib folder.

Reworked the toggle content css styles.

Updated the cufon file Liberation_Sans_400.font.js to contain all glyphs.

Added shortcodes for left align and image in text, right align an image in text and toggle content.

Added toggle content functionality.

Added fullwidth page template – now you can create and populate pages that don’t have sidebar.

Fixed a handful of css bugs.

Assured compatibility with wordpress 3.0.

Now you must use the new menu manager that comes with wordpress 3.0.

2 new options are available: now you can add seo meta keywords and seo meta description directly from General Options panel.

Added jquery no conflict to make sure the javascript code that comes with this theme does not interfere with other plugins.

Fixed a major bug where the sidebar for homepage was working only if the slider was populated with a unique category.

Fixed a bug where the sidebar for 404 page was not displayed properly.

Fixed a bug where the tables were not displayed properly when the cell information was displayed on more than 1 row.

Fixed a typo in the admin custom panel General Options.

The javascript for homepage slider has been compressed so it will load faster.

After sending a message via contact form, when the succes box is displayed, the contact form is no longer shown.