GPL Soledad – Multipurpose, Newspaper, Blog & WooCommerce WordPress Theme V8.6.4

Update Soledad Version 8.6.4 – March 25, 2025​

• Featured Added: Added heading selection (H2, H3, H4, H5) options for all latest posts layouts. You can check the option via Customize > Posts Layouts.
• Featured Added: Added custom post type selection and advanced query support for the News Ticker in the Header Builder
• Featured Added: Added a new “Go to Top” style: Appearance > Footer > General > Go To Top Style
• Featured Added: Added Circle Reading Progress Bar style for single post page.
• Featured Added: Added “Grid Boxed 3” style for archive pages: Appearance > Customize > Category, Tag, Search, Archive > Category, Tag, Search, Archive Layout
• 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:
• Update Plugins:
  • Penci Filter Everything
  • Penci Feeds
  • Penci Sport
• Update: Woocommerce templates
• Fix: the WooCommerce Origin Status issue
• Fix: Elementor Lightbox issue on Single Post/Page
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.6.3 – February 24, 2025​

• 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.
• Update Plugins:
  • Penci AI
  • Penci Front-End Submission
  • Penci Recipe
  • Penci Review
  • Penci Sport
• Update: Woocommerce templates
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.6.2 – January 20, 2025​

• Featured Added: 13 new great demos for multiple purpose – please update the plugin Penci Soledad Demo Importerto get it
  • Simple News
  • Permaculture News
  • AI Generated
  • Fashion Forward
  • Decoration News
  • Zodiac Blog
  • Lifestyle News
  • Florist
  • Baby 2
  • Finance 2
  • Stock News
  • Business News 2
  • Finance News 3
• Update: Vafpress Post Formats UI plugin
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.6.1 – January 08, 2025​

• 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
• Improve: Replace all twitter.com by x.com
• Update: Update WooCommerce File Versions
• Update: Penci Shortcode & Performance plugin
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.6.0 – December 05, 2024

• 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
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Soledad Release Note v8.5.9 – October 31, 2024

• 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
• Update: Update WooCommerce Templates
• Update: “Penci Mobile Template” plugin
• Fix: Issues with Elementor Newest Version
• Fix: Elementor Post Builder Reading Time
• Improve: Improve Header Builder URL
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Soledad Release Note - Update Soledad Version 8.5.8 – September 27, 2024

• Featured Added:9 new great demos – to get it please update the plugin “Penci Soledad Demo Importer” after updating the theme:
  • Baking Recipes
  • Architecture News
  • Classic Arch
  • Business News
  • Finance News
  • Entertainment News
  • Manga News
  • Animals News
  • Mothers Diary
• Improve: Some minor issues.

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.
• Fix: Some issues with WooCommerce templates.
• Improve: Compatibility with PHP 8.3
• Improve: Some minor issues.