Changelog - Maniel

Tweak

• Maintenance release: version alignment after a core plugin fix.

Improvement

• The theme now degrades gracefully when the Core Plugin is inactive — pages render without fatal errors instead of breaking.

Compatibility

• Confirmed compatible with WordPress 6.9.

Tweak

• Normalized theme header metadata (stable tag, tested-up-to).

Bug fix

• No gap above the fixed header on phones when the WordPress admin bar scrolls away
• The 404 page header fills the full screen height again

Compatibility

• Refreshed WooCommerce template compatibility information
• Improved compatibility with WordPress 7.0 and current versions of supported plugins

Bug fix

• Fixed comment lists failing on some posts and pages

Tweak

• Version bump to stay in step with the core plugin update

Improvement

• Improved theme stability without required plugins

Improvement

• Improved overall stability and reliability

Tweak

• Better version compatibility checking between theme and core plugin

Breaking change

• Improved update process - theme and plugin can now be updated in any order without issues

Improvement

• Improved overall code quality, stability, and security
• Updated theme and plugin infrastructure for better performance
• Improved compatibility with WordPress 6.9
• Improved automatic update system reliability
• Improved Elementor settings synchronization

Performance

• Refreshed and optimized all CSS and JavaScript assets

Bug fix

• All required plugins are now visible immediately after theme activation
• Minor bug fixes and improvements

Tweak

• Updated build toolchain and third-party libraries

Improvement

• full php 8.5 compatibility
• added support for wp 6.8.2
• updated all js/css libraries
• updated woocommerce templates

Performance

• reduced bundled assets size by 15%
• improved php code optimization

Tweak

• refactored and professionally reformatted code

Improvement

• jkdevkit 1.9.2 compatibility
• bundled plugins
• translation files
• PHP 8.3 support

Tweak

• overall css/js reformatting

Bug fix

• wp 6.5 issues

Improvement

• woocommerce updates
• PHP 8.3+ compatibility
• responsive styles
• jkdevkit 1.8.9

Bug fix

• minor design issues

Tweak

• overall theme reformatting & refactoring

Bug fix

• elementor compatibility issues

Improvement

• compatibility with block/classic editor

Bug fix

• minor design issues

Tweak

• overall css/js code quality

Improvement

• demo import url

Bug fix

• mobile menu fix

New feature

• new single post settings

Improvement

• PHP 8.3 compatibility
• jkdevkit 1.8.4 compatibility

Performance

• minimized the number of additional database queries

Bug fix

• navigation top bar empty state issue

Tweak

• overall files reformatting

Removed

• support for PHP 7.2

New feature

• added new styles to the wishlist popups

Improvement

• newsletter popup responsive
• wishlist responsive
• overall theme responsive styles
• css/js libraries
• transferred some functionality to the framework related API
• php 8.1+ compatibility and improvements
• after import handler
• image rendering handler

Performance

• css code refactoring
• optimized css variables
• merging files for optimization and reducing extra requests

Bug fix

• newsletter popup fixed alignment bug on mobile
• newsletter popup fixed dark scheme issues
• shopping cart toggle on mobile
• jkdevkit compatibility issues
• maichimp input color on dark color scheme
• mailchimp button hover on dark color scheme
• woocommerce js connection
• navigation cart increase/decrease handlers
• bugs with adding to cart from the wishlist

Tweak

• overall theme reformatting

Removed

• removed all outdated copyright comments
• removed extra handlers / outdate code from the old versions

New feature

• added RTL support
• 50+ new settings
• introduced fonts picker in Customizer
• post like/views handler
• completely redesigned all theme modules

Improvement

• PHP 8.2+ compatibility
• jkdevkit 1.7 integration
• CSS/JS libraries updates
• WordPress 6.3+ compatibility
• new theme/plugin autoupdates
• jkdevkit transferred to the separate plugin
• localization/translation files
• demo import files
• new version of ACF plugin
• Woocommerce templates
• fixed security bugs
• new Elementor Builder version compatibility

Removed

• revomed the old font selector
• old theme modules