Soledad – Multipurpose, Newspaper, Blog & WooCommerce WordPress Theme

Soledad WP Theme – latest version 8.5.9 available for download!

WordPress Version 6.6.x Ready – RTL Languages Ready

Compatible with GDPR policy & AMP & BBPress & BuddyPress & Woocommerce

SEE HOW PEOPLE USE SOLEDAD

• https://gamerheadlines.com/
• https://www.techwiser.com/
• https://wpointer.com/
• https://techabu.co/
• http://www.foodreich.com/
• https://oral.law/
• https://www.entrepreneurshipsecret.com/
• http://www.esheepkitchen.com/
• https://ithuthuat.vn/
• https://www.einzigartig-selbstgemacht.at/
• http://www.wanderingsneakers.com/
• https://bazrco.ir/mag/
• http://petha.ir/
• https://ducankitchen.com/
• https://deteast.com/
• https://www.decoratarabia.com/
• https://limooshop.com/mag/
• http://www.folkradio.co.uk/
• http://www.diariodoviajante.pt/
• https://trashexpert.ru/
• http://mikuta.nu/
• https://www.livingthebeauty.de/
• https://www.impeter.co.uk/
• https://thachpham.com/

Main Features List

• 6886+ homepages demo for multiple purposes
• Compatible with Elementor Page Builder.
• Compatible with WPBakery Page Builder.
• More than 40+ custom elements for Elementor & WPBakery Page Builder.
• Multiple header & footer builders – header & footer builder
• Single Post Page Builder / Custom Post Types Builder
• Category, Tag, Search, Archive Builder
• Mega Menu Builder
• Exclusive Text To Speech plugin
• Exclusive Penci Live Blog Feature
• Exclusive Penci AI Smart Content Generate
• Penci Post Paywall System
• Frontend Posts Submission & Pay for Submitting Posts
• Pay Writer Syestem
• Bookmark Posts & Following Authors
• Built in Google Search replace to default WordPress Search Page
• Exclusive Penci Smart Crop Thumbnails – You can crop images exactly where you want, without the need to use Photoshop or any image editing tool.
• Google Web Stories supported
• Post Comment Ratings
• Co-Authors Plus supported – allows to assign multiple authors to a post.
• 1000+ Templates from Cloud Templates Library
• Multiple Flexible Mega Menus Builder
• Easy to create an online store website with Soledad.
• Text To Speech – Convert Text to Speech
• Compatible with EU GDPR policy
• Schema Markup & Google Structured Data Supports & validated
• Optimized for site speed
• 1000+ Sliders and Blog Combinations
• AMP Support
• Dark Layout
• In-Feed ads between posts feed
• Multiple ads spaces – Ads inside posts content supported
• Compatible with BBPress & BuddyPress
• Category Mega Menu
• WordPress Live Customization with 1500+ options
• 100% Responsive Design – Look great on all devices
• Real Awesome Gallery with a lot of styles
  • Justified Gallery
  • Single Slider Gallery
  • Masonry Gallery with 2 columns
  • Masonry Gallery with 3 columns
  • Masonry Gallery with 4 columns
  • Grid Gallery with 2 columns
  • Grid Gallery with 3 columns
  • Grid Gallery with 4 columns
• Infinite Click Button Load More Posts
• Infinite Scroll Load More Posts
• RTL Language Support
• Topbar Menu
• 11 Header Styles
• 4 Body Styles
  • Full Width ( No Boxed )
  • Boxed With Any Colors
  • Boxed Width Background Image
  • Boxed Width Pattern Image
• 4 Sidebar Styles for all pages, posts
  • Two Sidebars
  • Right Sidebar
  • Left Sidebar
  • No Sidebar
• Beautiful Featured Slider With 36 Styles
• Multiple Post Templates for different Stories, each Template comes with 3 formats:
  • Right Sidebar ( Default )
  • Left Sidebar
  • Full Width
• Woocommerce Compatible
• Featured Video Background
• Lightbox image in single posts
• Upload custom fonts & 800+ Google fonts, Typekit fonts included
• Flexible Images & Responsive Video
• Various Post Formats
  • Standard Posts
  • Video Posts
  • Gallery Posts
  • Audio Posts
  • Quote Posts
  • Link Posts
• Sticky Sidebar
• Custom Sidebar For Post & Page
• Unlimited Colors
• 25+ Custom Widgets
  • Soledad About Me
  • Soledad List Banner
  • Soledad Pinterest Widget
  • Soledad Facebook Page Box
  • Soledad Recent Posts
  • Soledad Popular Posts
  • Soledad Social Media
  • Soledad Tweets Slider
  • Soledad Quote
  • Instagram Slider
  • Soledad Posts Slider
• Search Engines Optimized
• Translation Ready – Transition your site in few minutes
• WordPress 4.0+ compatible
• Import Demo In One Click
• Contact form 7 & MailChimp for WordPress support
• Dedicated Documentation & Support Forum

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Credits

Images used on the demos site are all from Wallpaperswide & Pixabay.

Update Changelog

Update Soledad Version 8.5.9 – 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.

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.

Update Soledad 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.

Update Soledad Version 8.5.6 – August 27, 2024

• Fix: Issue with resetting the header style to the default style in the latest update.

Update Soledad Version 8.5.5 – August 26, 2024

• Featured Added: 3 New Lazyload Thumbnail Loading Effects: Fade In, Zoom In & Blur, Blur. You can check the options via Customize > Speed Optimization > General & Lazyload > Lazyload Effects
• Featured Added: Option to delayed load Footer Content to help you reduce the DOM size – You can check the option via Customize > Footer > General > Enable Footer Content Delayed
• Featured Added: Options for Delayed Elements in Single Posts: Customize > Single Posts > General: Delayed Load “Author Box” – “Post Navigation” – “Related Posts” – “Comments” Sections / Delayed Load Sidebar Content on Mobile
• Featured Added: Option to show post excerpts by a maximum number of lines. You can check the options for it via Customize > Posts Layouts
• Improve: Custom Font Upload UI & Upload more font variants under a single name. You can check it via Dashboard > Soledad > Custom Fonts
• Featured Added: Option to Collapse/Expand Main Post Content via Customize > Single Posts > General > Maximum Content Height.
• Featured Added: Option to disable Ads for Specific Pages/Posts. Available on the edit screen of a page/post.
• Featured Added: Built-in Primary Category if you don’t use any plugin support primary category: Apply custom post type templates/settings for all posts inside a category via primary category
• Featured Added: Option to use Penci Block for Mobile Vertical Menu. You can check the option for it via Customize > Logo & Header > Vertical Mobile Navigation > Use Penci Block Content for Vertical Mobile Nav
• Improve & Fix: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.5.4 – July 29, 2024

• Featured Added: Penci Mobile Template plugin: Create separate Page Content and Templates for desktop and mobile, support Page, Archive & Post templates
• Featured Added: new layout List Boxed Style 3 for Homepage/Archive Pages/Elementor & WPBakery Latest Posts widget
• Featured Added: Grid Boxed Style for Related Posts ( Style 6 )
• Featured Added: Some new styles for tags – you can check it via Appearance > Single Posts > General > Tags Style
• Improve: Inline Related Posts Random Order no duplication posts anymore
• Featured Added: Options for Global Fonts to specify alternative font stacks for iOS and Android for better Speed Performance on mobile, you can select fonts for mobile via Customize > General > Typography
• Featured Added: AJAX submit for MC4WP Form
• Featured Added: “Penci Contact Form” widget for Elementor/WPBakery. For simple contact form, you can use this widget, don’t need to install Contact Form 7 plugin anymore.
• Featured Added: “Penci RSS Feed” widget for Elementor/WPBakery – help you can get posts via RSS and display it on a great layouts
• Featured Added: Mobile Ads Options via Dashboard > Soledad > Ads Manager – click on Mobile/Desktop icon to change it
• Featured Added: Option for Sort Posts based on Total Like of Posts
• Featured Added: Code Syntax Highlight for CSS/HTML option fields on Customizer
• Update: Update WooCommerce Templates
• Improve: Child Theme Compatible: Overwrite all parent theme files with the corresponding files in the child theme.
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.5.3 – July 05, 2024

• Featured Added: 10 new great demos – to get it please update the plugin “Penci Soledad Demo Importer” after updating the theme:
  • Gaming News
  • Real Estate News
  • Video 2
  • Video News
  • Beauty World
  • Education News 2
  • Sport News
  • DIY & Craft 2
  • Automation News
  • Motorcycle News
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.5.2 – June 21, 2024

• Featured Added: 5 new styles for block heading titles/widget heading titles ( style 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 )
• Featured Added: New element “Penci Multi-Taxonomies Posts Filter” for Elementor & WPBakery Page Builder
• Featured Added: Option to showing child categories of current category if this category has child categories. You can enable it via General > Category, Tag, Search, Archive Pages > Show Child Categories on Single Category Page
• Featured Added: Options to customize the next/prev buttons for single slider gallery style when you use widget “Penci Gallery” from Elementor/WPbakery Page Builder.
• Featured Added: Restore Customizer Option – If you mistakenly reset all the edited options in the customizer, then after doing that, a “Restore Customizer” button will appear and help you restore it.
• Improve: Improve the Smooth Scroll when you enable smooth scroll via Customize > General > Enable Smooth Scroll
• Update: Woocommerce templates
• Update: Swiper Slider Library includes inside the theme
• Improve: Issues with latest version of WPBakery Page Builder plugin
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.5.1 – May 28, 2024

• Featured Added: New layout Grid Boxed, Grid Boxed 2, List Boxed, List Boxed 2 for Homepage, Archive Pages..
• Featured Added: New layout Grid Boxed, Grid Boxed 2, List Boxed, List Boxed 2 for widget “Penci Latest Posts” inside Elementor/WPBakery Page Builder
• Featured Added: Support to showing 2, 3, 4, 5 columns for Grid Post Layout
• Featured Added: Support to showing 2columns for Grid Post Layout on Mobile
• Featured Added: New comment list style – you can check new styles via Customize > Single Posts > Comments Form
• Featured Added: New 3 styles for Blockquote: Style 6, Style 7, Style 8 – you can check new blockquote styles via Customize > Single Posts > General > Blockquote Style
• Featured Added: New option to custom header for category pages – you can check this option on edit a category screen
• Featured Added: New option to custom accent colors & other colors for category pages – you can check this option on edit a category screen
• Featured Added: Improve the AMP plugin
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.5.0 – May 06, 2024

• Featured Added: Include a navigation edit button within the Customizer to facilitate easier navigation to edit locations. Check out this image for reference.
• Featured Added: Provide an option to modify the post’s modified date and freeze the modified date upon editing a post.
• Featured Added: Introduce an option to utilize the img tag instead of a background image for post layouts. This can be accessed via Customize > General > General Settings.
• Featured Added: New option to enable full-width functionality for the Mega Menu Builder.
• Improve: Enhance the loading performance of category mega menus by default, utilizing Ajax loading. Users can disable this feature via Customize > Logo & Header > Category Mega Menu > Use AJAX Loading for Category Mega Menus
• Improve: Enhance the HTML structure of category mega menus to improve SEO.
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.4.9 – April 23, 2024

• Featured Added: 2 new demos:
  • Travel Magazine 2
  • Game Magazine 2

  Please update the plugin Penci Soledad Demo Importer to get data for those demos.

• Improve: Improve Google Rich Data based on new rules from Google
• Improve: Compatible with the latest version of Woocommerce.
• Update: Update Penci Soledad Demo Importer, Penci Recipe, Penci Review plugins.
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.4.8 – April 01, 2024

• Featured Added: Options to manage all the links on the website. You can select to add rel attribute for all links, select open links in new tab, new window…etc You can check the options for it via Customize > General > Links Manager
• Featured Added: New Weather widget inside Appearance > Widgets. Now, you can easily to add weather to your sidebars.
• Featured Added: Enhance the Weather widget by incorporating several new captivating animations. This will make the Weather widget more engaging and visually appealing.
• Featured Added: Add a new button to the Weather widget. Clicking it will fetch the current weather based on the user’s location.
• Featured Added: Introducing 4 new category mega menu styles! You can now select and experience these new styles by navigating to Appearance > Menus > editing the menu items you’ve set to display category mega menu. You’ll find the option to change the category mega menu style there.
• Featured Added: Introducing two additional positions: Top and Bottom, to display child categories within the category mega menu.
• Improve: We’ve enhanced the logic for retrieving child categories data in the category mega menu. The updated logic is as follows: If the selected menu item displayed as a category mega menu has child menu items, a list of these child menu items will be displayed within the category mega menu. If there are no child menu items, the child categories of that category will be displayed (this was the previous logic).
• Update: Update “Penci Shortcodes & Performance” plugin.
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.4.7 – March 04, 2024

• Fix: Instagram recently changed its API, and we have just made the necessary changes to address issues when connecting to your Instagram account.
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.4.6 – February 29, 2024

• Featured Added: Thumbnail video preview on hover featured images. Let’s edit a post and scroll down then you can see this new feature.
• Featured Added: 3 new styles for Blockquote. You can check it via Customize > Single Posts > General > Blockquote Style.
• Featured Added: 4 new styles for Next/Prev Post Navigation. You can check it via Customize > Single Posts > General > Next/Prev Post Navigation Style. And you should check to “Show Post Thumbnail on Next/Prev Post Navigation” to see the different between styles.
• Featured Added: Custom URL after users logged in via Popup: Customize > TopBar > General Settings > Redirect to a custom URL after logging in.
• Featured Added: A new plugin “Penci Google Analytics Views” – it’s a plugin to help sync pageview data from Google Analytics to your WordPress. If you want to sync Google Analytics pageview, let’s install this plugin and check the options for it via Customize > Google Analytics Page Views.
• Featured Added: New option to order posts based by most viewed posts in 24 hours.
• Featured Added: Add copy button for share selection text. You can check this new button via Customize > Single Posts > Share Selection Text.
• Featured Added: Option to enable sticky columns for Container from Elementor.
• Update: New Google Fonts from Google Fonts Library
• Update: Update Woocommerce Templates.
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.4.5 – January 22, 2024

• Featured Added: 4 new related posts styles – you can change it via Customize > Single Posts > Related Posts
• Featured Added: Sponsored posts options – edit a post then scroll down – you can see the options for sponsored posts.
• Featured Added: Make your post content more interesting with new heading styles inside post content – adjust it via Customize > Single Posts > General > Custom Style for Heading 1 Inside Post Content. Then other heading styles there.
• Featured Added: New element “Penci Custom Heading” for Block Editor – when write the content by use Block editor ( Gutenberg Editor ), search for element “Penci Custom Heading” and you will see it.
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.4.4 – January 05, 2024

• Featured Added: We’ve made enhancements to the sliders to achieve smoother transitions and a more appealing appearance. With 5 new Slider Animation Styles:
  • Fade
  • Coverflow
  • Flip
  • Cards
  • Creative

  And “Swing” animation style for Carousel Slider.
  You can adjust the general slider styles via Customize > General > General Settings and for featured slider via Customize > Featured Slider > General.

• Featured Added: A great new Featured Slider Style 39
• Featured Added: Float Video Post Format – The video will float in the corner as you scroll down outside the main video at the top. You can enable this feature via Customize > Single Posts > General > Enable Video Floating.
• Featured Added: New Sub Menu Style 3 – You can select it via Customize > Logo & Header > Main Bar & Primary Menu > Sub-menu Style
• Featured Added: Arrow icon for sub menu has child menu items.
• Featured Added: Custom Post Template for Post Formats (Customize > Single Posts > Post Formats Builder )
• Improve: We’ve made adjustments to ensure compatibility with the Elementor Header & Footer Builder in our theme. However, we still recommend using our dedicated header & footer builder as it’s better.
• Improve: Update WooCommerce Templates.
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.4.3 – November 21, 2023

• Featured Added: New widget ”.Soledad Stylisted Articles Count” ( in Appearance > Widgets ) – a great style for highlight the order of posts.
• Featured Added: New widget “Penci Stylisted Articles Count” for Elementor & WPBakery.
• Featured Added: New widget ”.Soledad Categories Stylist” ( in Appearance > Widgets ) – a great new widget to showing categories on the sidebar in a different way.
• Featured Added: Sticky Sharing for Single Post Pages – please check option for it via Customize > Single Posts > General > Turn on the Sticky Share
• Featured Added: Share Selection Text – helps the users can selected text & share those text to social media. Please check options for it via Customize > Single Posts > Share Selection Text.
• Featured Added: Apply collapse for archive description: in case the archive description text is too long, it will be showing a “read more” button to help users can collapse & expand it.
• Improve: Improve the “Advanced Categories” widget & add new option to enable toggle open/close the child terms
• Improve: Sync Soledad Custom Fonts into Elementor list fonts
• Improve: Update WooCommerce Templates.
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.4.2 – September 28, 2023

• Improve: Supported for new feature of CO-Author Plus plugin: “Guest Author”
• Improve: Some security issue with ajax request & issue with ajax request can’t return exactly excerpt length.
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.4.1 – September 19, 2023

• Update plugins:
  • Penci AI Smartcontent Creator
  • Penci Recipe
• Improve: issues some cases can’t be create content with plugin Penci AI Smartcontent Creator by overload API from OpenAI.
• Improve: validate rich results of recipes follow new recommended from Google.

Update Soledad Version 8.4.0 – September 11, 2023

• 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..
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.3.9 – August 23, 2023

• 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.
• Update Plugins:
  • Penci Bookmark & Follow
  • Penci Front-end Submission
  • Penci Live Blog
  • Penci Soledad Demo Importer
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.3.8 – August 02, 2023

• 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.
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.3.7 – July 12th, 2023

• 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 > Enable Font Sizes Changer
• 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.
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.3.6 – June 13th, 2023

• 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.
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.3.5 – May 23th, 2023

• Featured Added: 3 new great demos:
  • Pet Care
  • Interior Design Personal Blog
  • Zero Waste Personal Blog

  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.

• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.3.4 – April 29th, 2023

• 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.
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.3.3 – April 7th, 2023

• 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.
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.3.2 – March 14th, 2023

• 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: Option to display AMP pages with ?amp=1 – To get this feature, please update the “Penci Soledad AMP” plugin.
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.3.1 – February 06th, 2023

• 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.
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Big Update Soledad Version 8.3.0 – January 11th, 2023

• Featured Added: Penci Paywall plugin – A plugin to help you restrict access to your premium content and monetize it via paid subscriptions. You can check more on this video tutorial
• Featured Added: Penci FrontEnd Submission plugin – A plugin to help your readers can submit posts to your website via Front-end. You can also setup the system pay for submit posts to your website. You can check more on this video tutorial
• Featured Added: Penci Pay Writer plugin – A plugin to help your readers can pay for your authors. You can check more on this video tutorial
• Featured Added: Custom text selector color/background color via Appearance > Customize > General > Colors > Selector Background Color & Selector Text Color
• Featured Added: Custom post title for single post. So, you can show title of posts on the layouts & on single post pages is different.
• Featured Added: Option to select the category text color & background color. Please check it via Posts > Categories > edit a category and scroll down.
• Featured Added: AdBlocker Detector via Appearance > Customize > Ad Blocker Detector
• Featured Added: Floating ads banner on the left & right of container – You can check the option via Soledad > Ads Manager > Float Banner Left/Right
• Improve: WooCommerce Templates outdate problems.
• Improve: Some problems with the latest version of Elementor.
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.2.9 – November 14th, 2022

• Featured Added: New option to auto estimate reading time based on the post content via Customize > General > General Settings > Estimate Reading Time base Post Content
• Featured Added: New option to adjust the reading words per minute when you enable “Estimate Reading Time base Post Content” via Customize > General > General Settings > Reading Time: Words Per Minute
• Featured Added: New option to auto get featured image from your post content – If a post doesn’t exists a featured image – it will be grab the first image inside your post content and set it’s featured image. This option apply for video posts format ( Youtube, Vimeo ) also, will take the featured image from Youtube or Vimeo videos.
• Featured Added: New widget for Elementor and WPBakery “Pencil Animated Headline” – a new design to help you can build more impress headings.
• Improve: Improve the conditions for showing the promote popup, please check the options for it via Customize > Promote Popup
• Improve: We’ve improved the website Accessibility & SEO based on the new rules from Google. You can see the improvement when testing your website on Google PageSpeed.
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.2.8 – October 25th, 2022

• Featured Added: The first theme introduces feature: “Text To Speech” – It gives your readers more experience to surf the web. Your readers just need to press the play button and listen to the article content instead of having to read it. To get this feature, you can go to Appearance > Install Plugins > and install the plugin “Penci Text To Speech”. After that, check the guide here to know how to setup this feature.
• Featured Added: Add new Ajax Next/Prev or Load More Buttons for Widgets ( Appearance > Widgets ): “Soledad Recent Posts”, “Soledad Popular Posts”, “Soledad Posts Tabs”, “Soledad Related Posts”.
• Featured Added: Add new Ajax Next/Prev or Load More Buttons for widgets from Elementor: “Penci Recent/Popular Posts”, “Penci Posts Tabs”.
• Featured Added: More options for widget “Penci Custom Sliders” from Elementor: Support for Video Sliders, Parallax, Full Screen, 2 new styles for Dots Navigation
• Improve: The interface of Install plugin page ( Appearance > Install Plugins )
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.2.7 – October 4th, 2022

• Update: Smart Lists now supported in Soledad. You can enable it for a post by going to Edit a post > scroll down and check the options for Smart Lists on “Smart Lists Settings for This Post”
• Featured Added: Support plugin Co-Authors Plus – allows you to assign multiple authors to a posts.
• Featured Added: Option to disable the Plus button for social sharing – in case the buttons too long, it will drop to a new line if you disable the plus button. Please check the option for it via Customize > Single Posts > General
• Featured Added: New “Penci Soledad Migration Data” plugin – it’s a plugin to help you migration data from other WordPress Themes into Soledad Theme. Supports WordPress Themes: Newspaper, Jnews, Jannah, Sahifa, Newsmag, Publisher, SmartMag, Bimber, Solopine’s Themes.
• Update: Plugin “Penci Shortcodes & Performance” to version 5.3
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.2.6 – September 19th, 2022

• Featured Added: Support builder for all custom post types – you can build your single template via Dashboard > Post Template and apply it to any custom post types via Customize > Single Posts > Custom Post Types Builder.
• Featured Added: Option to show the custom fields together with the post meta ( for default posts template ). Please check the options for it via Customize > Single Posts > Show Custom Post Meta.
• Improve: New widget “Post – Custom Field” for Elementor & WPBakery – it can helps you easy to showing any custom fields for your single post pages or single custom post types template.
• Update: Plugin “Penci Shortcodes & Performance” to version 5.2
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.2.5 – August 31th, 2022

• Featured Added: We’ve added the ajax live search by default for the search form on the header default & header builder. If you don’t want to use it, you can disable ajax live search via Customize > General > Search Settings. You can check the options for ajax live search here also.
• Featured Added: Option to upload your own avatar on the edit user profiles screen. Now, you can do that without using an additional plugin.
• Improve: Improve the site security from ajax calls.
• Improve: Improve some problems with dark mode switcher.
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.2.4 – August 22th, 2022

• Featured Added: Dark Mode Switcher now supported! You can enable it via Customize > General > Dark Mode. If you’re using the header builder, you need to enable the option via Customize > General > Dark Mode first to make the element “Dark Mode Swticher” in the Header Builder appears.
• Featured Added: Add support pagination for Wishlist page. More options for it please check via Customize > Woocommerce > Wishlist.
• Update: “Penci Shortcodes & Performance” to version 5.1.
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.2.3 – July 26th, 2022

• Featured Added: We’ve created a new ads manager system to help you can manage your ads better – It’s synchronized with the options from Customizer. You can check it via Dashboard > Soledad > Ads Manager
• Featured Added: New option for “Social Counter” widgets – you can use the styles of social counter to show the social media URL from Customizer – now you can get more options to show your social media URLs.
• Featured Added: New animation / position for element “Penci Button Popup” from Elementor or WPBakery.
• Improve: The lazy load of youtube videos when you use the Speed Optimization from the theme – It’s faster and running smoother. Please update the plugin “Penci Shortcodes & Performance” to get it.
• Improve: The loading of CSS when you use Elementor to build your category/archive/single post pages.
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.2.2 – July 18th, 2022

• Featured Added: 2 new great demos:
  • Art Personal Blog
  • Cypto NFT Personal
• Featured Added: Many new Blocks for Elementor Cloud Template Library & Templates from 2 new demos already added.
• Featured Added: Google Web stories supported – you can use it for your site by install the plugin Web Stories from Google.
• Featured Added: New widget “Web Stories” for Elementor & WPBakery Page Builder – required plugin “Web Stories” installed & activated to get it appears.
• Featured Added: New widget “Web Stories” via Appearance > Widgets – required plugin “Web Stories” installed & activated to get it appears
• Featured Added: Support for Breadcrumbs from Rank Math plugin – to enable it, you just need go to rank math settings and enable the breadcrumbs from Rank Math and it will be appears on the site.
• Improve: The install plugins page – we recommend some other plugins there.
• Improve: Improve widget “Penci Mailchimp” with new styles & options.
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.2.1 – July 04, 2022

• Featured Added: Many new elements for WPBakery Page Builder. WP Bakery Page Builder now has all the same widgets as Elementor.
• Improve: Improve widget “Penci Fancy Heading” with new styles & options.
• Improve: Improve widget “Penci Testimonials” with new styles & options.
• Improve: Improve widget “Penci Team Members” with new styles & options.
• Improve: Improve widget “Penci Mailchimp” with new styles & options.
• Featured Added: Option for use widget Video Playlist with the Youtube Playlist ID or URL.
• Improve: We continue to optimize the site speed in this version. Improve loading speed for websites has many posts/pages/media.
• Improve: Some minor issues.

Update Soledad Version 8.2.0 – June 06, 2022

• Quick Fix: Some minor issues with Penci Header Builder.
• Improve: License System.