Featured Added: The Theme Options Panel is synchronized with the WordPress Customizer. From now on, you can use either the Theme Options Panel or the WordPress Customizer. You can access it via Dashboard > Soledad > Theme Options Panel.
Featured Added: Option to add your own social media icons. You can access this option via Dashboard > Soledad > Add & Order of Social Icons.
Improve: Update the schema markup for the Penci Recipe plugin to align with the latest Google updates. This will improve the validation of your recipes on Google.After updating the Penci Recipe plugin, remember to regenerate thumbnails to achieve the best results..
Featured Added: We have replaced the old Twitter icon with the new X Twitter icon.
Featured Added: Users can now follow categories. Please update both the theme and the “Penci Bookmark & Follow” plugin to access this feature. For those who have previously installed this plugin, you need to insert the shortcode: [pencibf_follow_term_list] into the bookmark page to display the “Follow Categories” section.
Featured Added: The option to rearrange the order of social media icons via Dashboard > Soledad > Order of Social Icons. Simply drag and drop the social media icons to reorder them according to your preference.
Featured Added: Explore the new Author Box Style 5. You can access this option by navigating to Customize > Single Posts > General > Author Box Style.
Featured Added: Introducing the new Elementor widget called “Penci Taxonomy Listing.” This widget allows you to display the terms of any taxonomy, such as showcasing all Post Categories or Post Tags.
Featured Added: You now have the option to deactivate the user profile page rendering by the theme, in case you prefer to utilize the profile page provided by a plugin.
Featured Added: An option has been added to delete posts from the front-end. To access this feature, please update the “Penci Front-end Submission” plugin.
Featured Added: The new exclusive plugin “Penci Live Blog” – This is a plugin that allows you to create a “Live Blog” – automatically updating news from a football match or live events, enabling your readers to receive the latest updates without having to refresh the article.
Featured Added: New query option for Elementor Woocommerce widgets – “Recent Viewed Products”. Now you can select to showing “Recent Viewed Products” from Elementor Penci Widgets.
Featured Added: General demo for RTL language – check the demo here – more RTL demos will be added in the near future.
Featured Added: Introducing the new and exciting feature plugin: “Penci Smart Crop Thumbnails.” This plugin allows you to effortlessly the desired cropping point. Unlike WordPress, which typically crops images from the center, this plugin provides you with greater control. Simply access the media library and selecting an image, and you will see the drag point for customization.
Featured Added: Post Reading Progress – add the reading progress bar to your single post pages. Check the options for it via Customize > Single Posts > Post Reading Progress.
Featured Added: Font Size Changer – an option that enables your readers to adjust the font size within individual post pages with live preview changes. This allows them to find and save the font size they prefer for an optimal reading experience. You can check option for it via Customize > Single Posts > Post Reading Progress Bar.
Featured Added: Option to disable the Header Builder/Archive Template/Post Template/Penci Blocks on the admin panel – check the options via Customize > General > Extra Options.
Featured Added: Set Dark Mode as default when you activate the darkmode swticher. Check option for it via Customize > General > Dark Moode > Set Dark Mode as Default.
Featured Added:Exclusive “Penci Bookmark & Follow” plugin. With many features:
Enable readers to follow posts and authors of their choice.
It can be activated for both non-logged-in and logged-in users.
Send email notification for following users
Dashboard to control all informations related to Bookmark & follow
If you want to use there features, let’s install this plugin via Appearance > Install Plugin.
Featured Added: Allow for adding multiple reviews within a single post, along with a star rating style. To access these new features, let’s update the “Penci Reviews” plugin via Appearance > Install Plugins.
Featured Added: Show author avatar on the post layouts/single post pages behind the author name. You can enable it via Customize > General Settings > Author Avatar Settings
Fix: Problems with the Instagram – which are caused by recent changes to their API.
Please update the theme & update the plugin “Penci Soledad Demo Importer” to version 4.5 to get it. The templates of there demos already added to Cloud Templates Library also.
Featured Added: Post Comment Ratings – enable reviews for WordPress comments. You can enable it via Customize > Single Posts > Comments Form > Enable Comment Ratings.
Featured Added: A new gallery style is now available: Slider with Thumbnails. This style is ideal for galleries with many images, as it provides a better way to showcase them..
Featured Added: Custom Sidebar Manager – you can add/remove and control the custom sidebars via Dashboard > Soledad > Sidebar Manager.
Featured Added: There are now options to reset, import, and export customizer data. This feature is particularly useful if you need to transfer your customization data to another website or create a backup. You can see it on the Appearance > Customizer page – at the bottom left.
Featured Added: We have added many new options to generate images using AI Image Generate, including Midjourney, Open Journey, Stable Diffusion, Text to Pokemon, VAE, Anything, and text2image. You can find these new options under the “Image AI Engine” tab on the Soledad > AI Image Generate page. This feature can also be used to generate featured images when using AI to write your post content. Please update the plugin “Penci AI SmartContent Creator” to version 1.1 to get it.
Improve: Some minor issues with import demo data. Please update the plugin “Penci Soledad Demo Importer” to get it.
Update: Plugin “Penci Shortcodes & Performance” to version 5.5 – improve the lazyload of Youtube/Vimeo videos.
Featured Added: Add new plugin “Penci AI SmartContent Creator” – It’s a exclusive plugin from us. This plugin can assist you in creating articles and blog posts, as well as generating AI-based images. Additionally, it can suggest topic ideas and optimize keywords to save you time and improve the quality of your content. It is a must-have tool for content creation. this video tutorial
Featured Added: Sync views count from Jetpack plugin – new options to get views count from Jetpack when Jetpack plugin is activated.
Featured Added: New options for “Posts Page” ( from Settings > Reading > Posts Page ) – you can check the settings via Customize > General > Posts Page Settings.
Featured Added: Set different header for Woocommerce Pages works fine now.
Improve: Compatible with “Total Poll Lite” plugin.
Featured Added: Add new plugin “Penci RSS Aggregator” – It’s a exclusive plugin from us to helping you curate content, autoblog, import and display unlimited RSS feeds within a few minutes. Please check more details on this video tutorial
Featured Added: Add new plugin “Penci Podcast” – It’s a exclusive plugin from us. This plugin enables you to develop a top-notch podcast website with a wide range of features. Please check more details on this video tutorial
Featured Added: Option trusted user role to make the posts auto publish when user submit posts via front-end. Please update the plugin “Penci Frontend Submission” to get this feature.
Featured Added: Built-in & easy to setup Google Search replace with default Search page from WordPress via Customize > General > Search Settings > Google Search Result
Featured Added: Option for custom Mobile Logo Image via Customize > Logo & Header > Logo > Upload Logo for Mobile
Featured Added: Archive Posts Sorter Dropdown
Featured Added: New: Patreon Widget
Featured Added: New: BuyMeACoffee Widget
Featured Added: Elementor shadow options for featured images ( Apply for widgets: “Penci Big Grid”, “Penci Latest Posts”, “Penci Featured Cat”, “Penci Small Lists” )
Featured Added: Dashboard for Penci Pay Writer, you can easy to control the author’s performance & pay for selected authors in this page also. Please update “Penci Pay Writer” to version 1.1 to get all new features.
Improve: Elementor Ajax Query supports All Post Types.
Improve: Some problems with viewing media library.
Improve: Some problems with “Penci Paywall” & “Penci Frontend Submision” – please update those 2 plugins to the version 1.1.