1.69.1 – 05 July 2025

• Carousel, Post Carousel: Fixed animation speed and timeout to preserve zero values, updated continuous mode defaults, and improved animation speed handling.
• Features: Fixed link overlay functionality, improved feature link overlay, set feature width and tag prior to template rendering, and switched to semantic friendly list.
• Icon: Fixed icon rendering issue for sub styles.
• Multiple Media: Improved frame storage and refresh library after uploading new files.
• Simple Masonry: Fixed gutter field cascading from desktop to tablet/mobile and refactored gutter logic.
• Video Player: Added cover support for local external videos.
• General: Fixed number field sanitization to preserve zero values, renamed accessibility stylesheet to siteorigin-accessibility, added central accessibility stylesheet, improved widget form backup handling, and enhanced widget block functionality.

1.69.0 – 12 June 2025

• Hero: Added image alt support for improved accessibility.
• Layout Slider: Added image alt support and improved background image settings by hiding the settings until a background has been added.
• Slider: Added image alt support and improved URL handling with validation before setup.
• Widget Block: Replaced block editor bundle icon with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) implementation and updated to use inline SVG for default icon.
• General: Added new sow_get_allowed_esc_url_protocols helper function for enhanced URL protocol handling.

1.68.5 – 02 June 2025

• Blog: Fixed JavaScript (JS) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) not outputting in Block Editor preview.
• Blog Portfolio: Fixed sizing issue in Block Editor preview.
• TinyMCE Form Field: Prevented potential TypeError.
• Elementor: Improved dark mode styling, resolved misaligned checkbox checkmark placement, and fixed widget JS not being enqueued and preview not being flagged.

1.68.4 – 20 May 2025

• Blog Alternate: Fixed mobile spacing issue.
• Toggle Field: Adjusted toggle text to 11px, decreased size, and aligned toggle switch style and spacing with Page Builder (PB).
• Widget Block Icons: Refactored icon setup logic to centralize and simplify code, ensuring consistent handling of SVG and image icons.
• Widget Blocks: Added inline SVG icons.
• General: Updated Installer submodule.

1.68.3 – 11 May 2025

• Image Grid: Added gallery keyword support.
• Simple Masonry: Fixed preloader visibility, removed incorrect type, and resolved potential TypeError.
• Slider: Prevented empty overlay issues.
• Widget Blocks: Fixed icon saving and keyword support.
• General: Updated Installer submodule and performed bulk PHP CS improvements.

1.68.2 – 03 May 2025

• Icon Field: Fixed icon callback support to ensure proper rendering of custom icons.
• Posts Selector: Resolved fatal error related to date query handling.
• Price Table: Added siteorigin_widgets_price_table_button_attributes filter for enhanced button customization.
• Video Player: Fixed self-hosted video embeds and improved FitVids integration by triggering after unblock and resize events.
• General: Updated documentation and readme files for improved clarity and consistency.

1.68.1 – 12 April 2025

• Widgets Bundle Blocks: Resolved widget migration error by improving widget registration process and maintaining widget list integrity.

1.68.0 – 10 April 2025

• Accordion: Fixed custom sized icon output to maintain correct dimensions.
• Blog: Added “Always Add Read More” setting and made it enabled by default.
• Widgets Bundle Blocks: Added SiteOrigin category with custom icon.
• Widgets Bundle Blocks: Improved block and widget registration process.
• Widgets Bundle Blocks: Enhanced font consistency and fixed widget prefix issues.
• Widgets Bundle Blocks: Added container query support for external media fields.
• Widgets Bundle Blocks: Resolved map consent preview issues.
• Widgets Bundle Blocks: Improved migration permission checks and widget existence verification.
• Contact: Removed unused form ID field.
• Features: Added title and content classes for settings.
• Features: Resolved text design settings specificity issues.
• Icon Field: Improved responsive handling.
• Icon Field: Enhanced vertical alignment.
• Icon Field: Maintained min-height and padding settings.
• Media Field: Added container query support for external fields.
• Media Field: Increased external field breakpoint.
• Media Field: Improved external handling.
• Post Carousel: Added posts_limit support.
• Posts: Added “Maximum Posts to Output” field.
• Repeater Table: Added support for SelectorArray.
• Section Form Field: Set font size to prevent override in Twenty Twenty theme.
• General: Added widget backup functionality with filter to disable.
• General: Optimized widget SVG banners.
• General: Added block editor icons.
• General: Improved Elementor guest post type handling.

1.67.2 – 20 March 2025

• Call To Action: Cleared floats to prevent content overflow.
• Contact: Fixed Really Simple Captcha functionality.
• Video Player: Improved hide controls handling, prevented self-hosted videos from not autoplaying, ensured hide controls setting doesn’t affect externally hosted videos, and fixed missing media elements in external videos.
• General: Prevented JavaScript variable declaration conflict with ‘sowb’ identifier.

1.67.1 – 18 March 2025

• Posts Query: Added no results text for improved user feedback.
• Posts Query: Enhanced autocomplete functionality to pass post ID.
• Video Player: Added click-to-play functionality for self-hosted videos.
• General: Implemented manual widget block tests.

1.67.0 – 17 March 2025

• SiteOrigin Widget Block: Transitioned from a single multi-select block to dedicated individual blocks for each widget, significantly improving the block editor experience.
• Blog: Improved author avatar sizing and prevented false positive Web Application Firewall (WAF) flags.
• Cards, Post Carousel: Enhanced resize handling after posts are loaded and fixed dot navigation.
• Google Maps: Resolved type check issues.
• Post Carousel: Implemented sizing improvements.
• Recent Posts: Prevented WAF blocking.
• General: Added more info link to legacy block and implemented preview check for widget blocks.
• Developer: Updated Google Fonts and Font Awesome libraries.

1.66.0 – 01 March 2025

• Carousel: Improved resize handling by delaying events, ensuring adaptive height application and correct breakpoints, and reorganizing layout.
• Cards Carousel, Post/Card Carousel: Maintained fixed container height after resize and fixed second dot display.
• Contact: Resolved notice for missing name field, removed additional select margin, added aria-describedby support, and moved description inside the field container.
• Contact Description: Added top margin setting.
• Editor: Removed wp_targeted_link_rel from output.
• Google Maps: Fixed MapStyles icon notice, ensured custom Map Styles JSON validation, prevented undefined Map ID issues, updated Map ID description, added Map ID setting, and restored * support for Map Styles.
• Video, Video FitVids: Improved video JS loading and skinable host detection, removed skinable host requirement, and ensured FitVids always enqueues.
• General: Added WP Optimize support, introduced siteorigin_sanitize_json helper, and resolved notice related to active widget area script detection.

1.65.1 – 05 February 2025

• Carousel: Fixed Dynamic Navigation potential to be applied when disabled.
• Contact Form: Fixed Browser Check setting.

1.65.0 – 03 February 2025

• Blog: Added support for siteorigin_widgets_blog_post_meta.
• Blog: Added a fallback for undefined post_type to avoid errors.
• Blog: Reset filter categories when the template doesn’t support them.
• Carousel: Improved adaptive height so the slider adjusts based on all visible items.
• Contact Form: Added a check to ensure the “To” and “From” email addresses aren’t identical, improving deliverability.
• Contact Form: Introduced settings for submit button hover/focus styling (background, border, and text colors).
• Contact Form: Added design options for success messages.
• Contact Form: Applied title case to admin labels for consistency.
• Contact Form: Improved field handling by switching to Widgets Bundle instance storage and refining form name management to prevent conflicts.
• Contact Form: Resolved warnings related to undefined array keys in the contact widget.
• Contact Form: Adjustment to always set up reCAPTCHA when in use.
• Contact Form: Improved developer email handling and layout directory email.
• Google Maps: Replaced the deprecated google.maps.Marker with AdvancedMarkerElement to address deprecation notices.
• Google Maps: Moved widget configuration from siteorigin-panels and updated admin texts for translation.
• Icon Field: Improved icon caching in the Block Editor to reduce redundant icon fetch requests.
• Image: Prevented empty <img> output when no image is set.
• Post Carousel: Changed autoplay to a preset field and improved continuous scrolling handling.
• Post Carousel: Added a filter for valid widget instances in Ajax handling and refactored the Ajax code.
• Taxonomy: Removed the preview button since this widget relies on the loop.
• Block Editor Select: Adjusted spacing so the text no longer touches the chevron.
• Multi-Measurement: Fixed a potential NaN value issue when no value is present.
• Multi-Measurement: Fixed value update issues when no state handler is present.
• Onclick: Added Popup Maker support and ensured a semicolon is appended to prevent syntax errors.
• Default Form Options: Added widget form field support so defaults are now saved correctly.
• Section Defaults: Resolved a TypeError in widget sections.
• Select2 Form Field: Moved editor CSS to the field stylesheet to prevent conflicts with other plugins.
• Select Form Field Multiple: Fixed a gap issue in the Block Editor.
• Teaser: Resolved dismiss button misalignment and improved overall structure and hover behavior.
• Widget Form: Debounce widget change backups to improve performance during rapid edits.
• WPML: Adjusted editor labels for compatibility with the upcoming WPML 4.7 release.
• Admin: Prevented the aside area from becoming stuck during resize events in the Page Builder.
• getWidgetFormValues: Improved select value performance on Apple devices.
• Added missing i18n domains and fixed non-singular string literal text issues.
• Corrected text domain mismatches.

1.64.2 – 18 December 2024

• Select: Fixed field name handling to prevent unintended array format in Widgets Bundle forms.

1.64.1 – 14 December 2024

• Post Carousel: Auto disabled navigation arrows when Autoplay Continuous Scroll enabled.
• Simple Masonry: Resolved a potenital error.
• Posts & Links Fields: Improved post and taxonomy search functionality; added user capability checks and no results handling.
• Select2: Removed multiple requirement for Select2 usage.

1.64.0 – 24 November 2024

• Anchor ID: Improved ID handling to better support special characters and international text.
• Author Box: Added Author Name HTML Tag setting.
• Button Grid: Renamed setting Buttons Per Line to Buttons Per Row.
• Carousels: Resolved minor Block Editor display issues.
• Post Carousel: Added Post Title Font setting.
• Simple Masonry: Improved loading.
• Widget Block: Various admin form styling fixes and improvements.
• Fixed load_textdomain notice.
• Improved admin font field performance.
• Updated Google Fonts list.
• Updated Font Awesome from 6.6.0 to 6.7.0.
• Updated Tested up to tag.

1.63.4 – 23 October 2024

• Image Grid: Ensured the image link always covers the image.
• Simple Masonry: Removed removed transition to improve CLS.

1.63.3 – 11 October 2024

• Button: Renamed Justify alignment to Full Width.
• Button: Update to ensure Justify full-width output in conjunction with the Atom theme.
• Blog: Removed generic Read More CSS class to avoid conflicts.
• Improved field error translation handling.

1.63.2 – 23 September 2024

• Blog: Output Filtered taxonomy directly.
• Blog: Prevented multiple Blog Widgets on a page from “stacking” pagination.
• Blog: Updated styling to prevent Read More underline from themes or plugins.
• Carousel: Added container_classes.

1.63.1 – 28 August 2024

• Blog: Resolved a potential Portfolio filtering issue.
• Post Carousel: Resolved a backtracking issue and added preloading.
• Social Media Buttons: Added Bluesky.
• SiteOrigin Widget Block: Added missing author description for Editor and Social Media Buttons.
• Updated Google Fonts.
• Updated Font Awesome from 6.5.2 to 6.6.0.

1.63.0 – 11 August 2024

• Button Grid: Update to ensure the Grid Widget doesn’t override the settings of unrelated Button Widgets.
• Blog Offset: Increased the author avatar image width.
• Blog: Added Trim Manual Excerpt setting. Trim the excerpt even if a manual excerpt has been added.
• Slider: Resolved a potential PHP 8 TypeError.
• Video: Ensured video oEmbed is able to apply full screen.

1.62.3 – 23 July 2024

• Updated Google Fonts.
• Presets: Hid empty default if default_preset is set.
• Blog: Ensured default content size outputs with px unit of measurement.
• Developer: Posts Field: Added show_count to optionally show the post count.
• Developer: Blog: Addded siteorigin_widgets_blog_filter_categories_output.
• Developer: Blog: Added siteorigin_widgets_blog_content_wrapper_styles.

1.62.2 – 30 June 2024

• Improved attribute name handling.
• Button Grid: Accounted for possible warnings.
• Carousel: Improved continuous scrolling behavior.
• Carousel: Update to prevent autoplay in the Block Editor preview.
• Carousel: Resolved potential PHP deprecated warning.
• Lottie Player: Fixed attribute output.

1.62.1 – 17 June 2024

• Accordion: Aligned Scroll to Offset value with Tabs.
• Button Grid: Resolved a potential layout warning.
• Contact Form: Resolved potential invalid field border.
• Updated Google Fonts.
• Updated Font Awesome.
• Updated SiteOrigin Installer.

1.62.0 – 06 June 2024

• New Widget! Button Grid: Add multiple buttons in one go, customize individually, and present them in a neat grid layout.
• Blog: Validate title HTML tag before output.
• Slider: Restored Responsive Height setting.
• Tabs: Always trigger tab_change event when changing tabs.
• Testimonials: Removed unused SVG.
• Links Field: Reduced width.

1.61.1 – 20 May 2024

• Button: Resolved Atom theme background error.

1.61.0 – 19 May 2024

• New Widget! Recent Posts: Drive traffic to your latest content with a visually appealing, fully customizable recent posts showcase.
• Button: Minor padding adjustments to improve alignment.
• Post Carousel: Add Animation Setting.
• Social Media Buttons: Update to ensure Atom buttons render normally if hover styles are cleared.
• Social Media Buttons: Updated Skype default colors.
• Post Selector: Corrected date_query_relative check.
• Resolved fallback shortcode decoding issue.
• Increased the required PHP version.

1.60.0 – 26 April 2024

• Author Box: Applied title margin directly to wrapper and adjusted alignment.
• Blog: Resolved a potential fatal TypeError.
• Blog: Resolved settings warning caused by undefined “settings” array key.
• Carousel: Added full navigation output option.
• Features: Improved icon position alignment on desktop and mobile.
• Headline: Resolved a translation issue related to the Tag setting.
• Post Carousel: Minor settings label adjustments.
• Post Carousel: Fixed RTL output.
• Tabs: Updated to use the Anchor ID Manager.
• Query Posts: Date Range: Changed default and minimum to 1.
• Multi-Measurement Preset: Resolved an issue with saving values.
• Page Builder: Resolved missing widgets in the Add Widget modal.
• Widgets Block: Prevented empty needle warning.
• Number Field: Updated to account for potential null values to prevent deprecated notice.
• Fields: Ensured $value isn’t null before processing it to resolve preg_replace() deprecated notice.
• Deprecated Notices: Resolved intval deprecated notice.

1.59.0 – 11 April 2024

• New Widget! Author Box: Display author information, including avatar, name, bio, and post links in a customizable box.
• Contact Form: Resolved an issue where using multibyte characters (e.g., “מייל” for Email) as field labels prevented the form from being submitted correctly.
• Social Media Buttons: Updated X network color defaults.
• Social Media Buttons: Added Snapshot Square icon.
• Social Media Buttons: Updated Wire theme border default colors.
• Improved icon and font handling.
• Updated Google Fonts list.
• Block Editor: Moved editor check to the main Widgets Bundle class.
• Developer: Added a width argument to text input fields.
• Developer: Added multi-measurement support to the presets field.
• Developer: Removed tmp_grunion_allow_editor_view.

1.58.12 – 24 March 2024

• Post Loop: Resolved a potential post__in error.
• Post Loop: Resolved a potential post selector post__not_in deprecated warning.

1.58.11 – 23 March 2024

• Carousel: Resolved a potential warning.
• Features: Correct HTML tag output.
• Slider: Replaced $.isFunction usage.
• Social Media Buttons: Updated Tripadvisor title label.
• Video Player: Resolved potential warning.
• Block Editor: Always process shortcodes.
• Color Field: Added support for color hexadecimal values with alpha channel notation (e.g., #RRGGBBAA). Enhanced validation for RGBA color values.
• Post Selector: Resolved a potential deprecated notice.
• Updated SiteOrigin Installer.
• Developer: Added new Contact Form hooks.

1.58.10 – 05 March 2024

• Enhanced the saving process and validation for widgets and blocks in the Widgets Block.
• Loaded defaults for the widget form field.
• Removed the unfiltered_html check in the Editor Widget.

1.58.9 – 03 March 2024

• Editor: Resolved shortcode output.

1.58.8 – 02 March 2024

• Button: Resolved a potential alignment warning.
• Contact Form: Resolved a potential deprecated notice.
• Editor: Resolved a potential noreferrer empty text deprecated notice.
• Features: Prevent a potential feature width CSS miscalculation.
• Google Maps: Resolved a potential PHP 8.2+ warning.
• Sliders: Resolved a potential FitVids related error.
• Color Fields: Resolved a potential deprecated notice.
• Text Input: Resolved undesired HTML removal on multisite installations.
• Shifted control for lazy loading images to WordPress.
• Added additional data sanitization.
• Beaver Builder: Resolved an issue on save.

1.58.7 – 25 February 2024

• Anything Carousel: Corrected global responsive settings propagation.
• Blog: Removed pagination markup if pagination is disabled.
• Blog: Updated pagination screen reader text and level.
• Button: Added Calendly to OnClick allowed list.
• Video Player: Resolved potential FitVids warning.
• Repeater Tables: Minor styling updates.
• Textarea: Update to allow line breaks.

1.58.6 – 15 February 2024

• Added recursive sanitization to fields to prevent potential errors during saving.
• Post Carousel: Prevented a potential fatal error related to the loop_posts migration.
• Social Media Buttons: Resolved a potential warning by adjusting the conditions for color changes.
• Social Media Buttons: Removed redundant changes to the icon_color and icon_color_hover values.

1.58.5 – 12 February 2024

• Blog: Resolved a potential columns related warning.
• Block Editor: Prevented a potential text field empty value error.

1.58.4 – 10 February 2024

• Call to Action: Improved tag handling.
• Features: Fixed spacing and gap value output.
• Fields: Improved field sanitization.
• Social Media Buttons: Migrated Twitter to X.

1.58.3 – 05 February 2024

• Button: Additional improvements for OnClick handling
• Button: Added OnClick support for MailerLite.

1.58.2 – 27 January 2024

• Button: Restricted OnClick field allowed values to known services and functions.

1.58.1 – 26 January 2024

• Icon: Prevented a Potential TypeError.
• WooCommerce Shop: Check for SiteOrigin blocks within other blocks.
• Developer: Added Contact Form siteorigin_widgets_contact_form_field_output.
• Developer: Prevented a potential error when an ItemLabel isn’t defined.

1.58.0 – 18 January 2024

• Accordion: Improved accessibility.
• Accordion: Improved the title icon vertical alignment.
• Accordion & Tabs: Adjusted the default header background colors.
• Anything Carousel: Improved cross-browser navigation display.
• Beaver Builder: Resolved SiteOrigin Slider related error.
• Carousel: Disabled the ‘previous’ navigation button on the first slide when loop functionality is disabled.
• Carousel: Resolved a potential undefined variable notice.
• Carousels: Increased Animation Speed default value.
• Carousels: Disabled slide transitions if browser motion is set to Reduced.
• Contact Form: Resolved potential submission form error message display.
• Features: Reset before/after spacing to prevent misalignment due to third-party global styles.
• Features: Added a Feature Spacing setting.
• Google Maps: Resolved deprecated notice.
• Google Maps: Update to prevent potential data loss when navigating away from the page while editing.
• Layout Slider: Resolved Extra Top Padding unit of measurement output if a value other than px is selected.
• Post Carousel: Update to display Autoplay continuous scroll if Autoplay is enabled.
• Post Carousel: Updated to prevent thumbnail from exceeding display width on mobile.
• Price Table: Added a Sale Price setting.
• Price Table: Added HTML support to the Title, Subtitle, Price, and Per fields.
• Price Table: Moved design related settings to a Design settings section.
• Slider: Added loading support to the widget’s background image.
• Slider: Resolved a potential double-up of background images via HTML and CSS.
• Sliders: Updated to prevent loss of form field focus on input.
• Social Media Buttons: Added Viber.
• Tabs: Improved accessibility.
• Tabs: Updated deprecated KeyCode usage.
• WooCommerce: Re-render the shop page if there are any Widgets Bundle blocks present.
• Updated Google Fonts.
• Updated Font Awesome from 6.4.2 to 6.5.1.
• Measurement Units: Minor admin styling improvements.
• Admin Radio Form Fields: Improved cross-browser display.
• Select2: Minor styling improvements.
• Developer: Added repeater table item label display option. Allows the repeater to act more like a table.
• Developer: Added siteorigin_widgets_blog_custom_template to the Blog Widget. Allows for custom templates to be selected from the Template select.
• Developer: Added box model type indicator classes.

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