Installation : The plugin ‘Elementor’ is installed and active. Unzip the content of the ‘zip’ in the plugins directory and then proceed to activate it.
Components : You can Activate / Deactivate each of the components/features in the ‘EAC Components‘ settings page to avoid loading unnecessary resources.
Language: “English (United States)” is the default language of the plugin except for wordpress sites whose language setting is French.
Change log
V2.1.8 – 03/14/2024
New: ‘Custom CSS’ feature added global custom CSS to the site (Read more).
New: added an indicator in the navigator to show that the element has Custom CSS applied to it (Read more).
New: added an indicator in the navigator to show that the element has display conditions applied to it (Read more).
New: Elementor, ACF and Woocommerce dynamic tags are compatible with the PRO version of Elementor.
Updated: The list of dynamic ACF tags is displayed by ACF group name.
Improved: compatibility with Elementor 3.19.2
V2.1.7 – 02/12/2024
New: added new feature ‘Display conditions’ on section, container and widget to hide elements according to simple rules (Read more).
New: added two new dynamic ACF tags ‘ACF Date time & ACF group Date time’ with Date picker field (Read more).
Updated: dynamic ‘shortcode’ tag added escape filter.
Fix: ‘Custom CSS’ with PHP 8.1.x trim function passing null to parameter.
Improved: accessibility ‘Ken Burns effect’ consolidates rules relating to navigation with screen readers.
V2.1.6 – 01/10/2024
Updated: ‘Single menu’ added option to display menu items in multiple columns as Mega menu.
Updated: dynamic tag ‘Elementor templates’ added ‘Container’ in the item selection list.
Fix: dynamic tag ‘Acf text field’ no longer in the list of dynamic tags.
Fix: ‘Pinterest feeds’ the fields are not emptied when the feed is modified.
Improved: prevent security vulnerabilities when the HTTP request is being made to an arbitrary URL.
Improved: accessibility ‘Simple menu’ consolidates rules relating to navigation with screen readers.
Improved: compatibility with WordPress 6.4.2
Improved: compatibility with Elementor 3.18.2
V2.1.5 – 12/19/2023
Updated: accessibility ‘Openstreetmap’ setting up rules for navigating between elements with the keyboard and screen readers.
Updated: accessibility certain modifications may have an impact on the existing CSS, notably the buttons.
Updated: start of the migration of Javascript handlers with the method recommended in the Elementor 3.10 version.
Updated: ‘ACF Relationship grid’ delete the selection list of post types
Fix: accessibility ‘Off-canvas’ keyboard focus is not trapped in content when the Off-Canvas is open.
Fix: ‘Off-canvas’ on mobiles ‘body’ scrolling is not always disabled when Off-canvas is open..
Notice: to increase the audience, visibility and ranking (SEO) of our work, it would be great if you put a link from your site to our site.
V2.1.4 – 12/01/2023
Updated: ‘Lottie background’ added “Loop” option to trigger the animation once or loop (Default).
Updated: ‘RSS reader’ prevent PHP directive ‘allow_url_fopen’ from causing an exception.
Updated: ‘RSS reader’ added an option (Content: vertical alignment) to better manage the space between elements.
Updated: ‘Openstreetmap’ prevent PHP directive ‘allow_url_fopen’ from causing an exception.
Updated: ‘PDF viewer’ prevent PHP directive ‘allow_url_fopen’ from causing an exception.
Improved: accessibility ‘Simple menu’ implementation of rules relating to navigation with the keyboard and screen readers (Read more).
Improved: accessibility ‘Grid Load more’ button the focus is on the first focusable element of the new items.
Improved: accessibility ‘Grid Load more’ button displays the number of loaded items out of the total number of expected items.
Notice: to increase the audience, visibility and ranking (SEO) of our work, it would be great if you put a link from your site to our site.
V2.1.3 – 11/15/2023
Updated: the ‘Clone, Create, Trash, Edit with Elementor’ actions of header/footer templates are now relative to the rights defined in the ‘Role Manager’ module of Elementor (Read more).
Updated: ‘Simple nav menu’ added option to enable/disable overflow.
Updated: ‘Image gallery, Post & product grid’ added an option in grid mode to adjust each row to the same height (Read more).
Updated: ‘Image gallery, Post & product grid’ filters are fully customizable.
Fix: ‘ACF Relationship grid’ doesn’t work with Header and Footer templates.
Fix: ‘Sticky effect’ Top/Bottom thresholds can be null.
Fix: ‘Table of content’ does not jump to section on first touch on mobiles.
Improved: accessibility for readers with disabilities (Read more).
Improved: accessibility add outline focus for focusable elements.
Notice: these changes have a potential of breaking somme components CSS.
Improve: loading shared scripts ‘Swiper & RSS feed’ with ES6 module Export/Import statements.
Improved: compatibility with WordPress 6.3.2
Improved: compatibility with Elementor 3.16.0
Notice: ‘Openstreetmap’ since end of October 2023 Stamen tile service is closed. “Toner, Tonerlite & Terrain” requires an API key to work (Stadia).
V2.1.2 – 08/07/2023
Fix: ‘Breadcrumbs’ widget critical error with Yoast SEO.
Fix: Showing product description of ‘Product Grid’ widget does not check if woocommerce is still active.
Fix: ‘Chart’ widget does not use a strict comparison to check an external URL.
Fix: ‘ACF Relationship Grid’ widget title style disappears when featured image option is disabled.
V2.1.1 – 07/24/2023
New: added ‘Breadcrumbs’ widget for the ‘Header & Footer builder’ feature (Read more).
New: added ‘Reading progress bar’ widget for the ‘Header & Footer builder’ feature (Read more).
New: added ‘Unfiltered medias’ feature to improve security when adding external JSON URL for Openstreetmap and Lottie widgets (Settings page ‘EAC components/WordPress’ tab).
Updated: ‘Image gallery’ inline editing of button label, description and title.
Updated: ‘Team members’ inline editing of name, job title and biography.
Updated: Slider mode now supports image centering.
Fix: ‘Simple menu’ appears briefly when the responsive device ‘Hamburger menu’ is triggered.
Fix: ‘PDF viewer’ button icon not displayed.
Fix: ‘PDF viewer’ button or text alignment is not correct.
Improved: added lazyload for images loaded in main components like Post grid, Product grid, Image gallery, ACF relationship, Team members.
Improved: navigation menu display for header and footer builder is optimized.
Improved: compatibility with Elementor 3.14.1
Notice: 36 components and 17 features always available for free.
V2.1.0 – 06/13/2023
Notice: due to a big changes with the new features, the plugin requires at least WordPress 5.9 and PHP 7.4
New: added ‘Header & Footer‘ feature will allows you to build and design your own headers and footers (Read more).
New: added basic widgets to help you create your headers and footers (Simple menu, Site and page title, Social media, Search form…) (Read more).
Updated: ‘Openstreetmap’ added fullscreen control.
Updated: ‘RSS reader’ added control to change the button label.
Updated: ‘Sticky element’ script code refactoring to take into account the new feature of building a header.
Fix: ‘HTML sitemap’ post settings does not retrieve taxonomy.
Fix: ‘Off canvas’ the icon is not displayed when the trigger is a button.
Fix: ‘Author infobox’ does not appear with the selected post type.
Improved: compatibility with Elementor 3.12.2 and WordPress 6.2.2
V2.0.2 – 03/03/2023
New: ‘Effect Ken Burns’ is a new feature that allows you to create a background slideshow with a Ken Burns effect for each image (Read more).
Updated: ‘ACF relationship grid’ now supports global ACF fields created with the feature Options pages.
Fix: ‘ACF relationship grid’ WooCommerce product image not loading.
Improved: ‘ACF relationship grid’ improved content display in grid or slider mode by adding a vertical align control.
Updated: ‘Image hotspots’ added new controls to manage the image. Default values can impact the existing.
Fix: ‘Modal box’ the contents of block templates appear briefly when the page loads.
Fix: ‘Openstreetmap’ default configuration tiles file does not load correctly.
Fix: ‘Openstreetmap’ on Safari the click on the markers is inoperative.
Fix: ‘Product grid’ displays the sold quantity of the product even if the product is out of stock.
Improved: compatibility with Elementor 3.10.2
Notice: minimum Elementor version expected 3.5.0
Notice: old components ‘Background slideshow’ and ‘Ken Burn slideshow’ are removed from this release.
V2.0.1 – 01/20/2023
Updated: ‘Product grid’ add a configuration tab in the plugin settings page for better integration with WooCommerce (Read the help).
Fix: critical error user logged in as ‘editor’ and plugin settings option ‘WordPress/Grant access Options Page’ enabled.
Fix: ‘Product grid’ dynamic tags are again available for text fields.
Fix: Components whose dependencies are not active (ACF, WooCommerce) are no longer visible in the plugin settings page.
Updated: improve the coding of PHP files with PHP coding standards.
V2.0.0 – 01/01/2023
New: ‘Multiple background images’ Add multiple background images in the elements like Container/Section/Column (Read the help).
Fix: ‘Lottie background’ Lib jQuery not loading.
Fix: ‘Post grid’ mode slider The avatar covers the entire container under certain conditions.
Notice: Elementor 3.8.0 Important note if you have enabled ‘Container’ experiment and are using the feature ‘EAC custom CSS’. Please check the developer note chapter ‘Updated Class Names‘.
Notice: 27 components and 15 features always available for free.
V1.9.9 – 12/06/2022 — WP: 6.0.3 – Elementor: 3.7.0 – ACF: 6.0.3 – WooCommerce: 6.9.0 – PHP: 7.4
Updated: ‘Product grid’ added the badge ‘New‘ for the new product you registered.
Updated: ‘Dynamic Woocommerce Tags’ added dynamic tag ‘Product category image‘.
Fix: ‘Dynamic Woocommerce Tags’ The ‘Product Tags’ tag does not retrieve the taxonomy.
Fix: ‘Product grid’ features, content horizontal alignment not working.
Fix: ‘Product grid’ HTML mode for ‘Out of stock’ not showing.
Notice: ‘Settings page’ rename ‘Components’ tab to ‘Basic’.
V1.9.8 – 11/20/2022 — WP => 6.0.3 Elementor => 3.7.0 WOOCOMMERCE => 6.9.0 PHP => 7.4+
New: ‘Product grid’ Add a grid of your products by displaying it in different forms (Grid, Masonry and Slider), which integrates perfectly with Woocommerce widgets (Read the help).
New: ‘Dynamic Woocommerce Tags’ 15 dynamic tags to display Woocommerce product values anywhere on your site (Read the help).
Updated: ‘ACF Relationship posts in a grid’ added ‘Read more’ button.
Updated: ‘Slider mode’ sharing a single instance of the slider for the components that use it. May impact the existing.
Fix: ‘Images gallery’ display Elementor’s default image if the current image has been deleted from the library.
Fix: ‘Table of content’ default styles not applied correctly.
Tweak: Introduce elementor/widgets/register hook for making it compatible with elementor 3.7.x
Tweak: Introduce elementor/controls/register hook for making it compatible with elementor 3.7.x
Tweak: Introduce elementor/dynamic_tags/register hook for making it compatible with elementor 3.7.x
Notice: 27 components and 14 features always available for free.
Notice: ‘Slider pro’, ‘Round image’ and ‘image with ribbon’ are removed from this release.
V1.9.7 – 09/03/2022 — WP => 6.0.2 Elementor => 3.6.0 PHP => 7.4+
Updated: ‘Image gallery’ added new display mode ‘Slider‘ (Read the help).
Updated: ‘Post grid’ added new display mode ‘Slider‘.
Updated: ‘Post grid’ supports now the feature ‘side-by-side’ text to left or text to right for all display modes.
Updated: ‘ACF relationship post in a grid’ added new display mode ‘Slider‘.
Notice: Read the help to use the Slider.
Notice: due to the refactoring of these three components, it is possible that the existing one will be slightly impacted.
To remedy these drawbacks, go to the dashboard ‘Elementor/Tools’ button ‘Regenerate Files & Data’ to update styles.
Notice: With the addition of slider mode, the components ‘Slider pro’, ‘Round image’, ‘image with ribbon’ will be removed in the next release (1.9.8).
EAC Team