Livemesh Addons for Elementor

8.7

• Enabled widget output caching on the widgets

8.6

• Freemius SDK update to 2.8.1

8.5.1

• Added – Enhanced validation of the parameters for the piecharts.
• Added – Validating the slider id of timeline widget

8.5

• Fixed – Icons not being displayed for services, odometer, tabs widgets
• Fixed – Custom styling for piechart widget restored
• Fixed – Custom styling for icons like icon color, hover color and size restored
• Fixed – The carousel option for services, team members, testimonials, clients widgets not working

8.4.2

• Fixed – The marquee text widget using the incorrect escape function as reported by review team.

8.4.1

• Added – Escaping the style attribute to prevent directory traversal for template files.

8.4

• Added – Escaping the data output for posts grid, clients, services, timeline, team members, sliders, carousels, testimonials widgets for enhanced validation of user input.
• Added – Compatibility with WordPress 6.6 and Elementor 3.22

8.3.7

• Added – Escaping the data output for posts grid, posts gridbox slider, posts multislider, posts slider, heading, marquee text, tab slider widgets for enhanced validation of user input.

8.3.6

• Added – Escaping the style and template settings for sliders, posts grid, posts block, gallery, testimonials, services, team widgets for enhanced validation of user input.

8.3.4

• Added – The decoding sync attribute on images so that isotope filters work well

8.3.3

• Added – Validation for custom classes for timeline, device slider and marquee text widgets
• Freemius SDK update to 2.6.2

8.3.2

• Added – Validation of links for team member, services and social URLs

8.3.1

• Added – Validation of class attributes for animated text widget

8.3

• Freemius SDK update to 2.6.1

8.2.2

• Added – One new style for the testimonials slider widget

8.2.1

• Added – Three new styles for the testimonials slider widget
• Added – Dark version for testimonials slider widget styles

8.2

• Fixed – On rare occasions, not having Elementor PRO activated breaks the plugin.
• Fixed – Styling issues on the team member profiles when the image size is too small to occupy the grid width
• Fixed – The flipbox team member style can get cut when the carousel option is chosen

8.1.1

• Added – 4 more exciting new styles to team members widget. One of these based on flipbox effect and another invokes modal window to display team member details.

8.1

• Added – 3 new elegant styles to team members widget

8.0

• Added – Added intuitive image based style selector for posts gridbox slider, posts slider, posts multislider, testimonials, services, team members widgets.
• Added – Image based style select control to help choose styles visually. Will replace text based select styles dropdown in many widgets in future versions of the plugin.
• Updated – Compatibility with Elementor 3.17

7.9.3

• Added – New icons for few widgets
• Updated – Minor code refactoring and improvements

7.9.2

• Freemius SDK update to 2.5.12
• Updated – Compatibility with Elementor 3.16

7.9.1

• Added – Subtext option to the Marquee widget
• Added – Ability to output HTML for the text of the Marquee widget
• Updated – Compatibility with Elementor 3.14

7.9

• Freemius SDK update to 2.5.10

7.8

• Fixed – The Livemesh Item and Livemesh Grid do not show up in the list of template types in theme builder
• Fixed – The current query option in posts widgets – posts grid, posts carousel, posts block broken

7.7.1

• Fixed – Issue with query construction

7.7

• Updated – Disabled/Enabled Elementor AI for relevant controls on several widgets

7.6

• Updated – Freemius SDK 2.5.8 update
• Updated – Compatibility with Elementor 3.13

7.5

• Added – New elegant Timeline widget. Presently only supports horizontal timeline with touch swipe functions for navigation.

7.4

• Added – Two new styles to piecharts widget with additional customization options for line width, canvas size
• Added – A elegant new style to testimonials widget with the required customizations
• Updated – Compatibility with Elementor 3.11
• Updated – Freemius SDK 2.5.3 update

7.3

• Added – New Device Slider widget
• Added – Compatibility with Elementor 3.10

7.2.4

• Added – Compatibility with WP 6.1 and Elementor 3.8
• Added – Missing sanitization checks for theme color admin settings

7.2.3

• Added – New Marquee Text widget with plenty of customization options

7.2.2

• Added – New Animated Text widget with 6 text animations

7.2.1

• Fixed – Elementor editor would not load on certain sites when plugin is activated
• Fixed – JS errors seen in console when Elementor 3.7 is loaded on the site

7.2.0

• Added – Documentation for several important functions part of the plugin

7.1.9

• Added – Gradient background for Posts Slider, Posts Multislider and Posts Gridbox Slider
• Fixed – Some styles of Posts Slider, Posts Multislider and Posts Gridbox Slider displaying unwanted background overlay
• Updated – Freemius SDK 2.4.4 update

7.1.8

• Added – Documentation for Posts Slider, Posts Multislider and Posts Gridbox Slider
• Added – Code documentation for widgets

7.1.7

• Fixed – Elementor dropdown menu displaying incorrectly when Livemesh Addons is activated
• Update – Compatibility with Elementor 3.7

7.1.6

• Fixed – Deprecated warning in Elementor 3.6

7.1.5

• Fixed – The Carousel’s dots navigation moves erratically on hover in some installations

7.1.4

• Updated – Freemius SDK 2.4.3 security update

7.1.3

• Tweak – Posts Grid now supports upto 500 posts
• Compatibility with WP 5.9 and Elementor 3.6.0

7.1.2

• Added – Posts Grid, Posts Slider, Posts Carousel, Posts Multislider and Posts Gridbox Slider modules now let you exclude specific posts from the posts query

7.1.1

• Fixed – Livemesh Item and Livemesh Grid instances not being listed in the theme builder

7.1

• Fixed – Duplicate CSS entries in the minified CSS files due to a dev build configuration issue.

7.01

• Fixed – Testimonials Slider not working

7.0

• Fixed – Cumulative Layout shift issue with widgets
• Fixed – Rendering issues due to stylesheets loading in the footer.
• Tweak – Combined and minified CSS for faster loading

6.16

• New Widget – The Message Box widget

6.15

• Tweak – Increased the number of columns allowed in Posts Carousel.
• Added – Compatibility with Elementor 3.5.

6.14

• Fixed – Deprecated warnings raised on PHP 8.
• Added – Compatibility with PHP 8.

6.13

• Added – Ability to utilize Elementor templates from Elementor Custom Skin for Custom Skin in Posts Grid and Posts Carousel addons. This is as per a user request.

6.12

• Tweak – Moved to Slick Carousel library from legacy Flex Slider for the Testimonials Slider.
• Added – Compatibility with Elementor 3.4

6.11

• Added – Compatibility with Elementor 3.3 and WordPress 5.8.

6.10.2

• Fixed – The Posts Gridbox Slider does not display some of the posts in Safari browser.

6.10.1

• Fixed – The Posts Slider Style 1 does not display post summary information.
• Fixed – With Team Members addon Style 2, the member details wraps around the profile photo. Moved to CSS flex box based layout of elements.

6.10

• Added – Dark Mode setting for most widgets in the Style tab.
• Added – Additional styling for dark mode. This styling is applied when dark mode is enabled for widgets residing on pages or page sections with dark backgrounds.

6.9.5

• Added – Two new styles for Testimonials widget including one with list style Testimonials
• Refactored HTML generated for Testimonials and Testimonials Slider widget
• Refactored SCSS/CSS for Testimonials and Testimonials Slider widget

6.9.4

• Added – Added star rating option for Testimonials Slider
• Added – Add customization option for star ratings in Testimonials and Testimonials Slider widgets

6.9.2

• Added – Carousel option along with Grid for Services and Clients Elementor addons
• Added – Extensive customization options for Carousel function of Services, Team Members, Testimonials and Clients addons

6.9.1

• Added – Carousel option along with Grid for Team Members and Testimonials Elementor addons
• Added – Support for star rating in Testimonials addons
• Added – A new style for Testimonials addon
• Fixed – Error when plugin is activated in an environment using a legacy version of Elementor

6.9

• Updated – Freemius SDK 2.4.2 with license activation enhancements, beta programs fix and other features and bug fixes.

6.8

• Fixed – Sanitized options in the editor to enforce better security policies based on research by Wordfence team

6.7.1

• Added – Upgrade notice on the addons

6.7

• Added – New high performance, light-weight yet feature rich grid system for Services, Team Member, Testimonials, Pricing Table, Odometers, Piecharts and Clients Elementor addons.
• Added – Options for specifying auto column layout using minimum column size, column gap and row gap for those addons using the new grid system.
• Added – The new grid system utilizes the same responsive breakpoints as native Elementor widgets.
• Added – Moved the old grid system to a separate file for use in other modules dependent on the old grid system.

6.6

• Added – Customization options for placement, shape, color and visibility for slider navigation controls for Posts Slider, Posts Gridbox Slider and Posts Multislider.
• Removed – Styles for slider navigation arrow controls since they are less flexible and now obsolete due to new display customization options added.

6.5

• Added – Great looking 8 new slider direction arrow styles for posts slider, posts gridbox slider and posts multislider widgets.
• Fixed – The Posts Multislider would ignore the image size option chosen by the user.
• Fixed – The template overridden for Posts Carousel content template would not take effect.
• Removed – Image size option for Posts Slider addon since sliders typically require full sized images.
• Added – Compatibility with WordPress 5.7

6.3.1

• Updated – Tested for compatibility with Elementor PRO 3.1.0

6.3

• Improvement – Moved addons Pricing Table, Services, Tab Slider and Heading to template based design for easy customization.
• Added – New template files for Pricing Table, Services, Tab Slider and Heading addons that can be overridden in the theme.

6.2.1

• Fixed – The spacing between columns in generic carousel not taking effect.

6.2

• Improvement – Moved to templates based design for easy customization for generic carousel, stats bars, odometers, piecharts, team members, testimonials and testimonials slider widgets. More widgets being migrated in next releases.
• Improvement – Moved away from hooks/filters based customization for some of the widgets since they are not being utilized well. Templates are much more intuitive and require less effort; they let you copy files to your theme and override them quickly.
• Improvement – Moved to templates based design for Posts Carousel widget. If you have done any customization of this popular widget through WP hooks/filters, pls note they will not work anymore in the new version. Pls find the template file in templates/addons/posts-carousel folder in the plugin, copy the same to your (child) theme and make changes as per requirements. Much easier now than using hooks/filters.
• Fixed – Social icons not showing up on team members widget.
• Fixed – The templates for posts slider, posts multislider, posts gridbox slider widgets overridden in theme not taking effect

6.1

• Removed – Unused JS and CSS files

6.0

• Update – Massive overhauling of JS scripts to improve performance
• Improvement – Breaking up bigger scripts into smaller ones, each meeting the needs of a single widget
• Update – Most pages can see anywhere from 50 to 90% reduction in JS and CSS.
• Removed – Bigger JS and CSS files that would load on some pages.

5.3

• Improvement – Further performance gains by having most widgets load only the CSS they require.
• Improvement – Removed superfluous CSS files and some big CSS files were broken down into files for individual widgets

5.2

• Fixed – Display issues with some widgets in Elementor 3.1
• Added – Compatibility fixes and changes for Elementor 3.1
• Added – Performance improvements by loading only the required CSS for widgets active on the page

5.1

• Added – The Posts Multislider widget
• Added – Support for 3 built-in styles for Posts Slider with additional customizations
• Fixed – Warnings for slick JS in Elementor 3.x

5.0

• Added – The Posts Slider widget
• Added – Support for 2 built-in styles for Posts Slider with additional customizations
• Added – The Posts Grid Box Slider widget
• Added – Support for 3 built-in styles along with additional customizations
• Fixed – Warnings with PHP 7.4 version

4.6

• Added – The plugin Elementor modules now point to the online docs
• Updated – Readme.txt file for latest features and additions to the plugin

4.5

• Added – Online documentation with help pages for all the recent Elementor addons/enhancements added to the plugin.
• Updated – The WP admin menu for the plugin renamed to Livemesh Addons from Elementor Addons

4.4

• Added – Option to disable featured image for posts in posts carousel addon
• Added – Custom icons for almost all elementor addons part of this plugin
• Updated – Freemius SDK 2.4.1 with License White-Label Update, WP 5.5. jQuery Compatibility, Auto-Updates UI Integration, and more!

4.3.1

• Added – Smooth height option to Testimonials Slider addon for Elementor

4.3

• Added – Touch enabled, responsive Tab Slider widget for Elementor
• Added – Three default styles for Tab Slider widget
• Added – Extensive customization options for Tab Slider elements
• Added – Ability to deactivate Tab Slider addon in the Settings window
• Added – Ability to use icons or images for titles of tab slider

4.2

• Fixed – The message prompting for the custom grid template not fully visible
• Fixed – The drop indicator for grid items in Livemesh Grid templates displayed incorrectly
• Added – Styling for error messages prompting the user to choose Custom Skin and Custom Grid Elementor theme builder templates
• Updated – Freemius SDK 2.4.0

4.1.1

• Added – Adaptive height option for single slide Posts Carousel addon
• Fixed – Class does not exist error when registering document types

4.1.0

• Added – Compatibility with Elementor 3.0
• Fixed – Method get_site_editor_type does not exist error when loading Theme Builder in Elementor PRO

4.0.0

• Added – Choice of ‘Custom Skin’ and ‘Custom Grid’ for posts grid items to design your custom posts grid and/or custom posts grid item using theme builder templates in Elementor PRO. You can now create custom skins for grid items and also create custom grid layout via drag and drop of page builder elements in Elementor.
• Added – Choice of ‘Custom Skin’ for posts carousel items with the ability to use theme builder templates for designing your own posts carousel. The custom skins for posts carousel items can now be designed via drag and drop of page builder elements in Elementor.
• Added – Design custom skin for items of Posts Carousel and Posts Grid with custom choice of fields and their arrangement using the Elementor page builder.
• Added – Ability to choose separate Skin Templates for individual items within a Posts Grid. A single Posts Grid can now feature a disparate set of grid items which utilize individual skins of their choice.
• Added – Ability to use any custom post type with custom fields(including ACF/Pods/Toolset) for Posts Grid and Posts Carousel items.
• Added – You can now drag and drop widgets in Elementor to build custom carousels/sliders and grids of Services, Events, Features, Team, Testimonials, Posts Grid, Posts Carousels, etc. by utilizing the custom grid and grid item templates feature built into Posts Carousel and Posts Grid widgets. Possibilities for building custom carousels and grids are endless with dynamic widgets and page building experience provided by Elementor and data provided by custom post types and ACF/Pods/Toolset plugins.
• Added – Added two theme builder template locations Livemesh Item and Livemesh Grid to help build custom grids and custom skins for posts grid and posts carousel widgets
• Fixed – The posts carousel does not show arrow navigation controls on smartphones
• Fixed – Handle lazy load feature part of WP 5.5

3.0.0

• Added – Options to turn off/on title and taxonomy terms displayed on posts grid thumbnail
• Added – Options to turn off/on title and taxonomy terms displayed on posts carousel thumbnail
• Added – Open in new window option for post links in posts carousel and posts grid
• Added – Ability to add read more link for the posts carousel and posts grid
• Added – Styling for the read-more link for the posts carousel
• Fixed – The posts carousel item element would populate wrong style classes
• Fixed – The WP filters/hooks in posts carousel received page id as post id

2.9.9

• Fixed – The posts carousel and posts grid Elementor modules can cause errors when the taxonomy terms are missing.

2.9.7

• Tweak – Enabled lazy load for all the widgets except for the Posts Grid addon. Posts Grid utilizes the popular Isotope library for laying out grid elements and Isotope library is not compatible with lazy loading of images.

2.9.6

• Updated – Freemius SDK 2.3.2 with Opt-In / Out Enhancements, User Change, and More.
• Added – The Posts Grid, Posts Carousel addons are now compatible with most of the popular lazy load plugins.

2.9.4

• Updated – Freemius SDK 2.3.1 with white-label mode, URL whitelisting, and other features and bug fixes.
• Fixed – The social icons were not being displayed for team member profiles part of the Team Member widget for Elementor.

2.8

• Added – RTL Support for ALL modules.
• Added – The grid items on all relevant modules like Posts Grid, Testimonials, Services, Pricing Table, Clients, Stats, Team Members, etc. are now displayed from right to left on RTL sites.
• Fixed – Sliders and Carousels including Posts Carousel do not display slide content on RTL sites.

2.7.5

• Added – Support for Related Posts and Current Query in Posts Grid and Posts Carousel modules. These modules can now be effectively used in Elementor Theme builder templates.
• Added – Support for FontAwesome 5 Icon Library in all relevant modules where icons are used.

2.7.4

• Added – Support for external page link in services and team member Elementor modules.
• Added – Missing dark background styles for Services and Team Elementor modules.

2.7.3

• Fixed – The Taxonomy Chosen dropdown displaying superfluous taxonomies in the dropdown for Posts Grid.
• Fixed – Some taxonomies and/or their terms missing from taxonomy terms selection in query builder of Posts Grid and Posts Carousel.
• Fixed – Not able to sort the filters of the Posts Grid with taxonomy reordering plugins.

2.7.2

• Fixed – Some sites reporting error – call to undefined function get_blog_list().
• Updated – Freemius to 2.3.0.

2.7

• Added – Plugin is now fully compatible with the WPML plugin.
• Added – All of our addons are now translatable using the WPML plugin.
• Added – Offset support for Posts Grid/Portfolio and Posts Carousel modules.

2.6.2

• Updated – Readme.txt and documentation
• Removed – Unused files in plugin folders.

2.6

• Updated – Freemius library with a security fix. Recommended to update immediately.
• Fixed – Some themes can raise JS error due to jQuery $ being unavailable
• Updated – Flexslider library with RTL support

2.5.2

• Fixed – Carousels utilizing slick JS causing conflict with Elementor scripts.

2.5

• Minor fixes and enhancements

2.4

• Added – A filter to control taxonomy dropdown limit
• Added – Increased number of columns on carousel

2.3.3

• Fixed – Social media icons not showing up for team profiles.
• Added – Filters for settings object employed for rendering the addons

2.3.1

• Fixed – Incompatibility with some themes which load waypoints JS script.

2.3

• Added – Extensive support for filters and templates to enable users to customize the output generated by the Elementor addons. You can now create a template file in the elementor-addons folder in your child theme to customize the addons HTML or use filters to customize output generated by the addons.
• Updated – Documentation providing information on how to use templates and filters to customize the plugin addons

2.2

• Fixed – Incompatibility with certain themes due to different versions of waypoints scripts being used.

2.1

• Fixed – Certain widgets/addons like pricing, carousel, services raised errors when the ‘Add Item’ button was pressed to add items. Errors are seen with the latest version of Elementor.
• Fixed – Deprecated warning on checkbox control.

2.0.2

• Fixed – The grid filter does not reflect the taxonomies chosen in the query.

2.0.1

• Fixed – Bug fixes.

2.0

• Added – Image size options for all relevant Elementor extensions.
• Added – New simpler grid system for all elements that use grid.
• Added – Seamless control of the number of columns at all device resolutions for all those elements that involve grid – posts/portfolio grid, clients, services, testimonials, team, charts, pricing table, etc.
• Added – Sample animations for services, clients, testimonials, team, and pricing table.

1.6

• Added – Compatibility with Elementor and Elementor PRO 2.
• Added – Dynamic field connections for most widgets supported by Elementor 2.
• Updated – Removed Livemesh prefix from all elements. For example, Livemesh Services is now named Services, Livemesh Tabs is now Tabs, Livemesh Grid is now Posts Grid, etc.
• Added – Ability to specify client name in HTML for additional formatting.
• Updated – Waypoints script with new API for handling events on scroll
• Fixed – Some themes can break animations and report script errors for elements like piecharts, odometers, progress bars, etc.

1.5.4

• Fixed – Posts Grid columns can break in certain resolutions in Firefox.
• Fixed – The piechart value is not being rounded.
• Fixed – The post grid and posts carousel date format not reflecting the user preference specified in the Settings page.

1.5.3

• Fixed – Next Previous buttons of carousels would not show up in certain installations due to conflicts with base slick carousel styles

1.5.2

• Fixed – Categories or taxonomy terms repeat when specific taxonomy terms/categories are chosen in the query window

1.5.1

• Fixed – Some themes have trouble rendering grid columns
• Fixed – Comma shows up in category list for the image hover in grid

1.5

• Upgrade – Simpler grid system based on NEAT 2.1 version
• Updated – The CSS is now optimized for vendor prefixes with reduced properties and file size.

1.4.1

• Added – Ability to rate plugin from admin screen

1.4

• Fixed – The post image in a grid or posts carousel was not clickable to the link specified
• Fixed – The grid filters would not center when a heading was not specified.
• Fixed – The grid filters will not display multi-line on devices of lower resolutions like mobile devices.
• Updated – Compatibility with WordPress 4.9 version

1.3

• Added – Extensive customization options including typography, color, and other styling options for all addons/modules
• Fixed – The lightbox image was smaller than the uploaded size
• Fixed – Service icons would show up even when the ‘None’ option was chosen

1.2.1

• Fixed – Translations not working with default files provided by the plugin
• Fixed – The client images would show up misaligned and with additional padding in certain sites

1.2

• Fixed – The portfolio grid Elementor addon leaves an empty space on the top when no heading is specified and when no taxonomy filters are specified
• Fixed – In a few installations, the grid elements may not occupy full width between 769px to 800px device resolutions
• Fixed – The grid raised a warning when certain taxonomies are chosen in the grid settings.
• Credit – Big thanks to user Axel for finding ALL these bugs that I could not have found myself.

1.1

• Fixed – Links in a few Elementor addons were showing even when no link URL was specified
• Fixed – A few addons would wrap around and move outside of the editor container
• Fixed – Odometers, Piecharts, and Bar Charts Elementor extensions would not show up for preview in the editor
• Fixed – Links in few addons would not take into consideration the setting to open URL in new window
• Fixed – The posts carousel would not show up on mobile devices
• Fixed – The posts carousel dots navigation was not clickable
• Fixed – The posts carousel would not expand beyond 960px in width
• Fixed – Some Elementor addons having a strange grey background in elementor editor

1.0

• Initial release.