Newsmag v1.7.1 - News Magazine Newspaper | ThemeForest 9512331

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Newsmag v1.7.1 - Newsmag is a modern WordPress theme that lets you write articles and blog posts with ease. We offer great support and friendly help!

The Newsmag template is excellent for a news, newspaper, magazine, publishing or review site. It also supports videos from YouTube and features a rating system. It uses the best clean SEO practices, and on top of that, it’s fast, simple, and easy to use. In addition, News mag supports responsive Google Ads and AdSense.

[ Version 1.7.1 ]
- UPDATE DESCRIPTION: This update brings a better compatibility with WordPress 4.2, Youtube V3 api support and also some hot fixes
- UPDATE NOTICE: Please update your social counter plugin to V 2.10. The plugin was changed to work with YouTube's API V3
- fix: WordPress 4.2 compatibility - in some instances the old version of the theme may loose the settings for specific categories due to rel="nofollow">this WordPress bug</a> that was fixed in 4.2
- fix: security update - the TGM Plugin Activation class that is recommended by Envato and used by most of the themes here has a security vulnerability that allows cross site script execution. We patched it in this version. rel="nofollow">Read more here</a> and rel="nofollow">here</a>
- improvement: visual composer updated to the latest version. It fixes a small issue with WordPress 4.2
- improvement: option to disable the image lazy loading animation
- improvement: option to disable the smooth scroll on browsers that do not have smooth scrolling support
- improvement: the lazy loading animation waits a predefined time until it show all the images. This prevents situations when a missing image prevented all the other images to appear
- improvement: better pagination system (sometimes it was adding . between consecutive numbers)
- improvement: trending now block is now animated and looks more nice
- improvement: general animation tweaks (subcategories, lazy loading, load more)
- improvement: the theme and social counter now uses YouTube API V3
- fix: the featured video now works with https hosts
- fix: the comment list is now visible even when the comments are closed (the same behavior as the default wordpress themes)
- fix: https for video format posts
- fix: video playlist on https sites
- fix: Load more button now fades out when there are no more posts to display
- fix: issue with title of post text encoding
- fix: When using block 14 after block 11 now its showing properly
- fix: the background ad url field from our panel was not working properly sometimes
- fix: vimeo video player shortcode now works as expected



[ Version 1.7 ]
- new: animation stack - all the animations form the theme are now faster
- new: custom made lazy loading effect on images. We took the time to create the best lazy loading effect from scratch. All the scripts that we use for it are custom made and are design to work as fast as possible with our themes.
- new: two additional ad spots
- new: BuddyPress support
- improvement: (metadata) all the pages from the theme pass the new google metadata validation tool
- improvement: better custom ads support in panel
- improvement: better excerpts panel with more information
- improvement: we moved the 'disable comments on pages' setting to the Page template section
- improvement: now on category pages the theme only gets child categories for the top level ones. Otherwise it will show the siblings
- improvement: we refactor the live ajax search box, it now provides a better user experience and it's preapared for major improvements
- improvement: better scrolling experience on google chrome
- improvement: updated visual composer plugin to the latest version
- fix: rss + excerpts issue, if wordpress was set to show rss excerpts, it was showing only 4 words
- fix: android chrome css issues (the small font icons where not aligned properly)

[ Version 1.6 ]
- fix: when you have background color on site, the color disappear on post style 6
- fix: the two strings that where not translated properly
- fix: arrow list shortcode
- fix: issue with page template options on sites that did not use the english language
- fix: featured image placeholders now work as expected again
- fix: hide and show category label panel setting
- fix: search icon click on affix was going back to top
- fix: excerpt not working for trending now
- fix: excerpt missing for mega menu title
- fix: links that contained only #_and_something did not work
- fix: https issue on backend. TinyMCE font was loaded via HTTP
- fix: astpect ration for vimeo videos
- fix: missing translation
- improvement: better top bar settings
- improvement: social icons moved in their own panel in backend
- improvement: better footer panel with better text and better organization
- improvement: better woocommerce 2.3 compatibility
- improvement: faster category page, the system that pulls the subcategories uses two less queries
- improvement: removed width of the top bar for better spacing
- improvement: removed the texture from parallax templates (prevent flickering)
- new: footer template system
- new: category template system + category top post style template. Currently we do not deliver any new templates but this system paves the way for easy user customizations via plugins and it also allows us to add new styles.
- new: when subcategories don't fit in the category page, the theme will make a drop down with the excess categories
- new: RGBA color picker in panel. You can now use colors with alpha blending (transparency) on all the elements of the theme that support colors

[ Version 1.5 ]
- UPDATE DESCRIPTION: This update brings another round of performance improvements, all the renamed shortcodes are now loaded on demand a lot of small and medium fixes and the new translation panel.
- UPDATE NOTICE: Please update the social counter. The following shortcodes and widgets have been renamed:
* td_ad_box -> td_block_ad_box
* td_authors -> td_block_authors
* td_homepage_full_1 -> td_block_homepage_full_1
* td_popular_categories -> td_block_popular_categories
* td_video_vimeo -> td_block_video_vimeo
* td_video_youtube -> td_block_video_youtube
* td_text_with_title -> td_block_text_with_title
* td_slide -> td_block_slide
* td_social_counter -> td_block_social_counter
* rel="nofollow">Rename the short codes via SQL</a>
* Please note that the renamed widgets have to be re added to each sidebar after this update. Make sure that you backup your database and if possible get the widget list from your sidebars.
- new: theme translation panel that allows the community to send and receive translations and corrections
- new: the theme comes already translated in 17 languages (via theme panel, .po .mo are also provided in the /translation folder)
- fix: author meta data was a bit broken in google meta data testing tool
- fix: author meta data is present even when SHOW AUTHOR BOX is set to disabled in theme panel
- fix: missing excerpt length in the panel for related posts
- fix: top menu css fix (second level menu in the top bar is now hidden)
- fix: missing bullets list
- fix: tagDiv modal window is now translated as well (1 of 2 etc)
- fix: bug with external urls that contain #hash not working
- fix: Pagebuilder + page title template - when a sidebar position was selected on page, all the widgets from the sidebar stopped working
- fix: Pagebuilder + page title template - pagebuilder elements got confused about the number of columns with or without sidebar
- fix: video playlist title encoding issue with double "
- fix: footer text backslashes on single quoate characters
- fix: slider view counter now obeys the panel vide counter setting
- fix: speed booster 3.2 now works as expected with bbPress (the bbpress css is no longer moved after the theme css)
- fix: gradient hover transition from Big Grid Firefox fix
- fix: we have regenerated the font icons
- fix: woocommerce product list css bug on responsive iPad portrait
- improvement: speed booster 3.2 - google fonts are no longer moved to the footer of the page. Faster apparent loading time
- improvement: visual composer plugin updated to the latest version
- improvement: the panel loads and saves faster. The total size of the panel was reduced by ~ 40%, we load the rest via ajax
- improvement: most of the controls from the panel are now animated via css
- improvement: you can now customize the number of related articles (3, 6, 9, 12) or if the sidebar is used (5, 10, 15, 20)
- improvement: added related posts title excerpt in theme panel. You can now cut the title on related posts if needed
- improvement: 9 more shortcodes are loaded on demand, meaning that if the shortcode is not used, the theme doesn't even opens the file.
- improvement: now you can Login/Register from bbPress to post a new topic or post a reply via our modal login window
- improvement: On posts with pagination, template 4 and 5 now show the featured image on all the pages of the post


[ Version 1.4 ]
- new: internal api
- new: bbPress support
- improvement: this version of the theme requires the new tagdiv social counter plugin. You can find it in the /plugins folder
- improvement: dynamic loading of blocks and modules ( ~15% lower ram usage )
- improvement: video play list is more compatible with different hosts/servers. If your video play list was not downloading the video details, please update the theme.
- improvement: support for overwriting of blocks via child theme and via plugins
- improvement: support for new blocks, headers, modules, smart lists, thumbnail sizes via our plugin api
- improvement: admin panel help text (Template settings panel)
- improvement: when the user disables the post view, the theme will stop keeping track of them in the background -> faster loading time
- improvement: added option to have a border on the text with title widget + page builder block
- improvement: now you can login to post a comment directly from the comment section
- improvement: added in Theme Panel -> Translations: SHARE
- fix: the [tagDiv] Text with title widget and shortcode. It now works properly with HTML content but please rebuilt the widget and hit save again to see the changes.
- fix: print css background issue
- fix: video title encoding issue on the tagdiv play list (sometimes the title of the video was rendered with strange characters)
- fix: issue with "&" encoding as strange characters in block titles
- fix: pagination issue on categories that don't have child categories and when the category big grid is disabled
- fix: rich snippets reviews
- fix: missing image for two placeholders

[ V 1.3.1 ]
- updated visual composer to V 4.3.5 (this version of the plugin is compatible with WordPress 4.1)

[ V 1.3 ]
- improvement: added translation for EVEN MORE NEWS widget from footer
- improvement: added in Theme Panel -> Custom Typography: Footer text under logo
- improvement: added in Theme Panel -> Post settings: Show/Hide categories tags on single post page
- improvement: added in Theme Panel -> Custom Typography: Subtitle for post
- fix: slider height when the screen size is smaller then 320px
- fix: removed image captions that appears in post excerpt
- fix: reviews stars number display
- fix: added break-word for comments text
- fix: php notice when source or via have no url
- fix: sharing show/hide issue
- fix: twitter share strange characters in title
- fix: facebook like button show on https
- fix: load default style stack was not working
- fix: module 14 css bug
- fix: added module MX 4 to the excerpt panel


[ V 1.2 ]
- NEW: woocommerce support
- NEW: added buttons shortcodes in post editor
- improvement: added arrow list style format in post editor
- fix: fixed Child theme




[ V 1.1 ]
- NEW: 17 Predefined Page Templates in Visual Composer Builder.
- NEW: article print css
- NEW: text with title block is now also available as a widget
- NEW: .po/.mo translation support
- improvement: added slider auto play feature
- improvement: wp_booster v3.0 - stability improvements, better compatibility with other plugins
- improvement: new style format for the text editor
- improvement: new elements that can be customized from theme panel -> custom typography
- improvement: responsive go to top arrow (it doesn't cover the footer text on tablets) (thanks Chris)
- improvement: titles with big fonts now have a better readability (added letter-spacing) (thanks Chris)
- improvement: Ad box shortcode support title (thanks Chris)
- fix: smart sidebar issue on chrome - it was flickering sometimes
- fix: smart sidebar was not positioned properly when ajax content was loaded in the main area of the theme
- fix: missing font when roboto is used as font in the theme panel ( thanks ZTWP / newspaper theme )
- fix: speed booster 3.1 - font loading and speed booster font optimizations. The speed booster uses collections to load fonts now
- fix: homepage full post featured - bug when you were unable to press scroll down arrow.
- fix: homepage full post featured - bug when you were unable to select the dropdown under the featured image.
- fix: extra pixels from bottom body on mobile versions.
- fix: bug images strange position in smart list 2 on safari.
- fix: removed extra closing tag from comments pages.
- fix: video icon on slider to stay centred on resize.
- fix: IOS slider style and functionality
- fix: smart list 3 css fix
- fix: block 14 in footer css bug
- fix: grid 2 columns css bug
- fix: comments pagination bug
- fix: footer search css bug in IE11
- fix: rich snippets reviews
- fix: click on home link and on logo adds a trailing backslash as expected, preventing one redirect
- fix: disqus comments css
- fix: social sharing from Jetpack css



[ V 1.0 ]
- initial release