Slider & Popup Builder by Depicter – Add Image Slider, Carousel Slider, Exit Intent Popup, Popup Modal, Coupon Popup, Post Slider Carousel

Changelog

3.1.2

• Released: 2024-06-27
• Fixed
• Fixed an issue where an unwanted notice appearing in WordPress admin.

3.1.1

• Released: 2024-06-20
• Added
• Flush Cache Option: Regenerate CSS and flush cache of sliders manually by new option added in Depicter setting page.
• Fixed
• Fixed an issue where an unwanted watermark was appearing in the preview.

3.1.0

• Released: 2024-06-17
• Added
• Before and After Element: Showcase before and after states of photos interactively.
• Alignment Controls: Easily align selected elements in the editor with new alignment controls.
• Border Style Options: Apply border styles to your sliders, popups, and notification banners.
• Fixed
• Resolved an issue where the wrong blank popup and notification bar were displayed on the dashboard.

3.0.2

• Released: 2024-05-22
• Fixed
• Access to display conditions of imported popup templates fixed.

3.0.0

• Released: 2024-05-21
• Added
• Create Popups and Notification Bars: Expand your content creation beyond sliders and carousels with new popup and notification bar features.
• Improved Carousels: Enjoy smoother and more versatile carousel creation.
• Custom JS Actions: Bind custom JavaScript actions to elements for enhanced interactivity.
• Styling Options: Add box shadow and border radius to your sliders for a polished look.
• Sticky Posts Filter: Use the sticky posts filter option for WordPress dynamic sources to highlight important posts.
• Lottie Animations: Enhance your content with engaging Lottie animations.
• iFrame Element: Embed third-party services seamlessly with the new iFrame element.
• Improved
• Visibility Options: Improved functionality for nearby visibility options, making it easier to manage element visibility.
• Font Resizing: Enhanced resizing of font sizes using the transform tool in the editor for better control.
• Element Selection: Improved element selection and deselection process in the editor for a smoother editing experience.
• Fixed
• Dropdown Controls: Fixed issues with opening dropdown controls in the editor UI.
• Font Weight Changes: Resolved unwanted font weight changes when selecting multiple text elements.
• Background Video: Fixed the issue with the section background video muted option.
• Vimeo Player: Addressed autoplay and loop issues with the Vimeo video player.

2.1.11

• Released: 2024-04-13
• Added
• Plugin preview and test drive on WordPress.org enabled.

2.1.6

• Released: 2024-04-02
• Improved
• Fixed a performance issue while previewing slider in admin dashboard.

2.1.5

• Released: 2024-03-02
• Added
• Added more blob style photo frames to the editor.
• Improved
• Improved activating slides when slideshow is enabled.
• Private posts no longer appear in post sliders
• Depicter now is fully compatible with PHP 8.2 and 8.3.

2.1.3

• Released: 2024-02-13
• Added
• Introducing frames, now, you can add different frames to the photos to make custom masks.
• You now have the option to add a progress indicator with a story-like format on your sliders.
• Circle-timer control is added. Now, you can add a circle-timer to your auto slideshow sliders.
• Now you can add hover color to the element borders too.
• Improved
• Improved antialiasing on sliders with a visible nearby option enabled.
• Improved rendering 3D Parallax effect.
• Fixed
• Fixed an issue with navigating direction through slides by arrow controls.

2.1.0

• Released: 2024-01-29
• Added
• Countdown timers are now available, allowing you to create and display countdowns easily.
• You can now enhance your content with a new number counter feature, providing dynamic numerical elements.
• The auto-scroll feature has been added to enable smooth navigation through slides.
• Now you can change the hover border color of elements too.
• Improved
• Improved rendering slides when visible nearby is enabled.
• Fixed
• Addressed conflict with WP Rocket plugin affecting image lazy loading functionality.
• Resolved issue of unexpected auto slideshow pause.
• Fixed an issue with using hover transition duration less than 1.

2.0.9

• Released: 2023-12-25
• Fixed an issue with loading content on Safari and iOS browsers.
• Resolved a problem related to computing the upper space in fullscreen layouts.

2.0.7

• Released: 2023-12-23
• Added
• Now you can create vertical bullets control too.
• Customize arrow controls further by adjusting symbol size.
• Improved
• Improved resizing elements by transform tool
• Rendering text animations improved.
• Improvement on text trim option of excerpt element for dynamic sliders applied.
• Improvements for better compatibility with PHP 8.1+ applied.
• Fixed
• Addressed a bug causing elements to disappear on Android browsers.
• Resolved an issue with the layout of the templates list on the dashboard when viewed in Safari.
• Fixed an issue that caused the ‘Animation Out Auto Start’ option to not work.
• Entering negative values in the number input results in the NaN value fixed.
• Unexpected font size change of text elements with auto width size fixed.
• Addressed an issue with background color of slider.

2.0.6

• Released: 2023-12-07
• Improved
• Compatibility with PHP 8.2 applied.
• Fixed
• An issue with data migration in new version of Depicter fixed.
• Depicter assets will no longer load on all pages if the “Load assets on all pages” option in the settings page is disabled.

2.0.4

• Released: 2023-11-26
• Fixed
• Resolved an issue where the validation of links (URLs) was not working correctly in certain elements.

2.0.2

• Released: 2023-11-24
• Fixed
• A compatibility issue with Elementor while using shortcode with slug or alias fixed.

2.0.0

• Released: 2023-11-22
• Added
• Welcome to your new 🎛️ dashboard! Now, managing projects and exploring templates is more streamlined and user-friendly.
• Get creative with more project types! You can now craft not only sliders but also carousels, hero sections, and dynamic sliders.
• Never miss an update with the new notifications panel! It keeps you informed about all the exciting new features, updates, and templates.
• You can now save your work as a draft, even after publishing a project.
• Scheduling feature! You can set when your sliders are visible on your website.
• You can now schedule the visibility of each slide, or set it as invisible if preferred.
• You have more control over the slideshow timer. Choose whether it pauses or resets when the mouse cursor leaves the slider.
• When there’s only one slide, the grab cursor and swipe navigation automatically disable.
• Now you can scale down and up text elements by transform tool.
• Now you can set Depicter only to start loading when it appears in the browser viewport.
• Corner radius and hover background color options have been added to Play/Pause elements.
• Improved
• Experience smoother project saving and loading in the editor, making your workflow more efficient.
• Enjoy improved playback options with enhanced video elements for a more versatile viewing experience.
• Get better search results while searching in your sliders in dashboard.
• Better support for system fonts is available now.
• Fixed
• An issue where applying custom styles to elements wasn’t working correctly has been resolved.
• An issue with displaying the slider on Safari has been fixed.
• An issue with dragging elements with middle-aligned positioning origin has been fixed.
• An incompatibility with some cache plugins fixed.
• A conflict with jetpack plugin fixed, when “Compose using shortcodes to embed media” option was enabled.

1.9.6

• Released: 2023-08-01
• Added
• Google fonts now download to your WordPress site upon importing templates if the fonts config is set to “Save Locally” in the settings page.
• Now you have access to over 3.2 million free stock photos from Pexels in the Depicter editor.
• Improved
• Mouse wheel navigation on scrollable pages has been enhanced.
• Fixed
• A bug with Depicter element of Divi builder fixed.

1.9.5

• Released: 2023-06-14
• Improved
• Slider importer improved.

1.9.4

• Released: 2023-06-11
• Fixed
• A random issue with opening documents that have dynamic sources like post slider and WooCommerce sliders has been fixed.
• An issue with applying the correct width value to the bullet points has been fixed.
• An issue that caused the browsing of stock vectors to crash has been fixed.
• An issue with the appearance of dynamic images on the slider preview, which caused some images not to crop, has been fixed.

1.9.3

• Released: 2023-06-10
• Added
• Now you can enable, disable, or save Google Fonts locally on your host. (check plugin setting page).
• Now you can enable or disable preloading of website resources (images and CSS) for faster page load speed.
• Improved
• The swiping gesture and loop option are now turned off when only one slide is added to the slider.
• Embedded videos now support lazy loading as well.
• The loading performance of the sliders list in the dashboard area has been improved.
• Compatibility improvements with Oxygen builder applied.
• Fixed
• The “custom” fill mode option of slide background videos has been removed.
• An issue with applying gradient colors when one of the colors is transparent has been fixed.
• Unwanted visibility of hidden elements between tablet and mobile breakpoints has been resolved.
• The issue of unwanted photo cropping while switching between slides has been fixed.
• An issue with drag and drop of Depicter block in WordPress editor fixed.

1.9.2

• Released: 2023-05-09
• Added
• Depicter translated into Japanese and Dutch too.
• Fixed
• A medium-rated security vulnerability reported by Wordfence were fixed.
• An issue that caused the first slide of some sliders not to appear were fixed.
• Some minor bugs were fixed.

1.9.0

• Released: 2023-04-29
• Added
• Introducing 🪄 AI Wizard. Now you can create sliders with the power of ChatGPT in a few seconds! (PRO)
• Now you can create dynamic sliders from any WordPress Custom Post type (PRO).
• We added support for Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) to the WordPress data sources.
• Long awaited theme fonts! Now you can use any of the custom fonts that are added to your website (No config required!).
• Improved
• Major improvement in using data sources and creating dynamic sliders.
• Copping and resizing image elements and slide backgrounds improved.
• Fixed
• Fixed an issue with unwanted scaling while resizing an image element right after adding it to a slide.
• An issue with Beaver Builder fixed.

1.7.3

• Released: 2023-03-20
• Added
• An issue where editing dynamic tags on text elements caused the editor to crash.
• Resolved an issue where old sliders couldn’t be opened with the latest version of the editor.
• The issue causing the “invalid color” error fixed.
• Improved
• Improved the display of YouTube videos as slide backgrounds.

1.7.0

• Released: 2023-02-28
• Added
• Now you can add YouTube or Vimeo videos as slide background (PRO).
• Now you can resize image while cropping by zoom control.
• Now you can use WebP images inside the slider.
• Improved
• Replacing image elements by dropping another image on them improved.
• Ken-burns effect got minor improvements.
• On preview, now you can scroll to see scroll parallax effects.
• Fixed
• Fixed an issue that caused the editor to crash while changing animation parameters.

1.6.2

• Released: 2023-02-20
• Improved
• Depicter is now fully compatible and integrated with Oxygen Builder plugin.

1.6.0

• Released: 2023-02-09
• Added
• Now you can add gradient colors to elements and slide background.
• Now you can add the Ken-burns effect to the slide background image (PRO).
• Text animations are available now! You can add them to single and multiline text elements (PRO).
• Introducing Clip and Reveal animation types (PRO).
• Integration for Oxygen page builder applied. Now you can use Depicter element in Oxygen builder too.
• Improved
• Generating thumbnails from slides are improved.
• Fixed
• A JS error on iOS 14 fixed.
• An issue with border-radius and video elements on safari fixed.
• An issue with applying vertical parallax effect fixed.
• An issue with previewing slider on Nginx web server fixed.
• An issue with the localization of the editor fixed.
• An issue with disabling the hover effect on tablet and mobile breakpoints fixed.

1.5.5

• Released: 2022-12-25
• Added
• Introducing Handpicked Posts slider (PRO). Now you can handpick some posts to be displayed as a slider.
• Introducing WordPress Pages slider (PRO). Now you can display your website pages as a slider.
• Introducing Handpicked Pages slider (PRO). Now you can handpick some pages to be displayed as a slider.
• Introducing Handpicked Products slider (PRO). Now you can handpick some products to be displayed as a slider.
• Now you can crop the background image of a section as well.
• Now Depicter Gutenberg widget (WP Block) has live preview in WordPress Blocks Editor.
• Fixed
• An issue with sliders that contain empty slides fixed.
• An issue with animating the color of “Scroll Down Indicator” element fixed.
• An issue with responsive rotation of some elements fixed.
• An issue with localization of Depicter Editor fixed.
• Improved
• Improvement for generating style for “In Stock Status” element applied.

1.5.2

• Released: 2022-12-11
• Added
• New translations Dutch, Russian, and Chinese added.

1.5.1

• Released: 2022-12-06
• Added
• Now you can publish or open a slider in the editor from WordPress Blocks page.
• Fixed
• An issue with changing the slug of slider from editor fixed.

1.5.0

• Released: 2022-11-24
• Added
• More than 50 premium templates are available now
• Now you can add parallax options to the elements and slide background (PRO).
• WooCommerce data source is available now (PRO).
• WordPress Pages data source is available now (PRO).
• Now you can set your slider to show partial or fully area of nearby slides on both sides (PRO).
• Now you can add animation-in and animation-out to the slide background (PRO).
• Improved
• Overall performance of editor got improved.

1.3.8

• Released: 2022-10-25
• Added
• Now Depicter loads faster than ever before by parallel loading of slider assets.
• New setting page and option added to load Depicter assets on entire pages of website.
• Improved
• Fullscreen laying out in mobile devices got improved.
• Previewing slider changes in the editor got some improvements
• Handing connection issues in the editor procedure improved.
• List of sliders in page builder elements reordered by last modified date.
• After importing a new slider the current breakpoint in the editor is always desktop.
• Depicter markup is now completely valid for W3C standards.
• Fixed
• A fix for an issue with setting up multiple sliders in the page applied.
• Appearance of editor in RTL layout WordPress dashboards fixed.
• An issue with loading i18n locale files fixed.
• An issue with creating plugin tables after adding a new network site fixed.
• Preventing errors if one of media files used in slider was deleted from media library.
• An issue with retrieving media links for websites with different uploads directory fixed.

1.3.5

• Released: 2022-10-09
• Added
• Depicter Element for Divi Page builder added.
• Now you can directly publish an unpublished slider in Divi page builder.
• Now you can directly publish an unpublished slider in WpBakery page builder.
• Improved
• Style and functionality of unpublished notice improved.
• Fullscreen sizing in mobile screen sizes improved.
• Fixed
• An issue with rendering grouped elements in the preview fixed.
• An issue with the style of slider when there are multiple sliders in a page fixed.
• An issue with not loading the slider on Safari v14 fixed.
• An issue with appearing slides with no elements fixed.

1.3.3

• Released: 2022-10-02
• Fixed
• An issue with old created documents or templates that led to editor crash fixed.

1.3.2

• Released: 2022-09-24
• Fixed
• An issue with loading custom styles of slider fixed.
• An issue with the edit button of slider in Elementor page builder fixed.

1.3.1

• Released: 2022-09-21
• Fixed
• An issue with loading styles of slider on some page builders fixed.
• A minor error while using Depicter along with Elementor fixed.

1.3.0

• Released: 2022-09-21
• Added
• Now, you can set the full-screen layout above margin calculates automatically.
• Now, the auto height feature gets enabled automatically. Just increase the content height of a slide and see the result on a boxed or full-width layout.
• Added “Adaptive height” option. It deprecates the old “Aspect ratio” option and improves elements resizing on different device screens.
• Added the possibility of dropping photos over video elements.
• Now you can change swiping direction regardless of the sliding transition direction.
• Added option of going to the next slide after the video ends to the video and embedding video elements.
• You can also add custom class names to the elements. It helps you connect them to third-party scripts.
• Now copying and pasting styles covers element sizes too.
• You can also find vertical navigation arrows in the left side panel.
• If a page does not have Depicter slider, Depicter assets do not load on that page.
• Improved
• The CSS code snippets now have copy button.
• Improved overall performance of moving and aligning elements on the editor.
• Improved keyboard navigation behavior.
• Page speed improvements for slider applied.
• Fixed
• SSL certificate error while importing templates fixed.
• An issue with rending self-hosted videos cover photo on the editor.
• Fixed an issue with overlapping slider preview with the preview modal.

1.2.0

• Released: 2022-09-05
• Added
• Now you can publish or rename a slider directly from the dashboard area.
• You can find slider shortcode in the dashboard area too.
• Now you can preview and publish slider changes from Depicter Elementor element as well.
• Fixed
• An issue with element positioning on mobile view fixed.
• An issue with rendering dynamic photos that lead to a crash fixed.
• An issue with publishing sliders right after removing a data source fixed.
• Improved
• Improved editor data recovery procedure.
• Improved error handling in dashboard.

1.1.9

• Released: 2022-08-27
• Fixed
• A conflict with WPBakery page builder fixed.

1.1.8

• Released: 2022-08-22
• Fixed
• An issue with initializing the slider when the page is already loaded.
• An issue with loading a missing js file while editing a post in WordPress dashboard fixed.
• An issue with cropping animated Gif images fixed.
• An issue with rendering images that led to a crash fixed.
• Improved
• Mobile breakpoint size changed to 767px.

1.1.7

• Released: 2022-08-20
• Added
• Now you can edit content of data source connected text elements too.
• Improved
• Loading image elements inside the editor got improvement.
• Repositioning elements by keyboard arrow keys got some improvements.
• Fixed
• An issue with aligning elements to the center of the slider fixed.
• An issue with unwanted animation start on selecting elements inside the editor fixed.
• Unwanted changes of element upon switching between responsive breakpoints fixed.
• Fixed an issue with applying custom styles to the elements.
• An issue with loading slide background video cover image addressed.
• An issue with trimming excerpt in post slider fixed.

1.1.6

• Released: 2022-07-24
• Added
• Depicter is now faster than ever with new performance enhancements.
• Improved
• Overall performance of updating options in editor improved.
• Background videos start playing after the slide get fully loaded.
• Fixed
• An issue with “Go to next slide” option of looped video backgrounds fixed.
• An issue with slider built-in cache fixed.
• An issue with displaying loading animation fixed.
• An issue with setting controls position with the positioning presets fixed.
• An issue with slider custom styles fixed.
• An issue with importing and exporting slider containing SVG files fixed.

1.1.4

• Released: 2022-07-13
• Added
• Now you can set self-hosted video element as a slide background via the right-click context menu.
• Built-in cache added for published sliders.
• Improved
• Reduced conflicting issues with third-party lazy loading plugins.
• Importing templates and sliders procedure improved.
• Improved image-loading inside the editor.
• Improved overall performance of editing content in the editor.
• Fixed
• An issue with hiding slider responsively fixed.
• An issue with pointer cursor on elements with action fixed.
• An issue with hiding children elements of a group element.
• An issue with importing SVG files while importing a slider fixed.
• An issue with “inherit” option of font family for text element fixed.
• An issue with text letter-spacing with value of 0 fixed.

1.1.2

• Released: 2022-06-26
• Added
• Now you can set the font family as inherit from the theme in the cases that you want texts to get fonts from the theme.
• Improved
• The appearance of “content area” in the editor improved.
• The quality of post slider backgrounds improved.
• Fixed
• Unwanted playing element animation upon element selection changes fixed.
• Removed unexpected white borders at sides of scrollbars in the editor.
• Unwanted visibility of group elements children fixed.
• An issue with loop navigation while keyboard is enabled fixed.
• An issue with loading and applying Google Font variations fixed.
• An issue with linking image element to a URL fixed.
• An issue with “Open in New Tab” option of elements fixed.
• An issue with not loading an asset file fixed.
• An issue with hover animation of controls fixed.

1.1.0

• Released: 2022-06-14
• Added
• Now you can create dynamic sliders from WordPress posts
• Now you can import and export your sliders
• After each update, you can see changes right in your panel.
• Improved
• Slide design area does not upscale when zoom value is set as “fit”.
• Editor shows notice when it does not have access to the Depicter servers
• Improved transform tool hints
• Fixed
• Now elements with “wait for action” enabled option don’t appear at the start.

1.0.0

• Released: 2022-06-01
• Improved
• Now slide area locates in the center of the workspace area.
• Better support for 3D rotation animations applied.
• Fixed
• A random issue with dropping assets and replacing photos from the assets panel fixed.
• Miscalculation of scrollbars on right side of assets panel fixed.
• An issue with applying default font weights to text elements fixed.
• An issue with playing move animations after changing the movement value fixed.

0.9.11

• Released: 2022-05-12
• Added
• Now you can drop photos and videos from your hard drive to the Depicter editor.
• Pasting RGBA colors to the color picker added.
• Now you can set the zoom to fit by Ctrl+Shift+0
• Improved
• The size of arrow controls improved.
• Appearance of “Slides” and “Options” tab improved.
• Overall performance of editing features improved.
• Resizing photos and SVG elements in the editor improved.
• Reset crop functionality improved.
• Mask animation performance improved.
• Fixed
• Unwanted movements of elements upon switching between slides and options tabs fixed.
• An issue with typing space character when the text or button element is selected.
• Extra white space on the right side of scrollbars in Windows removed.
• An issue with previewing SVG images in slider is fixed.

0.9.10

• Released: 2022-04-28
• Improved
• Improved workspace scrollbars
• Improved searching behavior through assets
• Fixed
• An issue with typing space character when the text or button element is selected.
• An issue with loading google fonts on Blank or Canvas page template of default WordPress themes fixed.
• An issue with fullscreen or fullwidth layout appearance on default WordPress themes fixed.
• An issue with showing embed videos in their actual size fixed.

0.9.8

• Released: 2022-04-18
• Added
• Now you can pan through your design by mouse wheel too.
• Improved
• Improved editor layout appearance on 1366px screen sizes.
• Now the preview shows the current breakpoint
• Major improvement in panning and zoom functionality applied.
• Changed font weights to human-readable labels.
• Improved slide sizing options and appearance inside the editor
• Fixed
• Unwanted movement of elements between breakpoints fixed.

0.9.7

• Released: 2022-04-10
• Fixed
• Unwanted movement of elements right after creating a new slide.

0.9.6

• Released: 2022-04-06
• Added
• Introducing auto-positioning for elements – It helps you to locate elements responsively more easily
• Responsive scale feature added to all elements.
• Keyboard shortcut for changing elements depth added.
• Preview animation upon changing the animation parameters added.
• Improved
• Improvements in naming elements and new slides applied.
• Improvements in text element default styles applied.
• Improvements in text element options applied.
• Improvements in button element default styles applied.
• Improvements in updating values of input option values applied.
• Fixed
• Applying 3D rotation animations.
• Responsive hide options didn’t work on image elements.
• Out wrapper control elements were not clickable.
• Foreground elements animation-in didn’t play at initialization.
• An issue with installations having old version of MySQL fixed.
• An issue with wrong aspect ratio of uploaded images was fixed.
• An issue with using <?php depicter(); ?> function fixed.

0.9.4

• Released: 2022-03-05
• Added
• Now you can select elements by right-click menu too.
• Shortcuts preview is added to right-click menu.
• Recent colors added to the color picker.
• Recent fonts to the fonts list.
• Now you can paste YouTube and Vimeo URLs to the editor to create an embed video element.
• Now you can create text elements by pasting your copied text.
• Now you can open slider editor right from Elementor depicter element.
• Improved
• Improved dashboard styles.
• Improved zooming functionality in the workspace.
• Selecting multiple elements by holding the shift key.
• Improved document rendering in mobile fullscreen layout.
• Improved element animation in starting time upon starting sliding.
• Improvement applied to cache module.
• Fixed
• An issue that caused editor crash when an image element was removed while cropping.
• An issue with ordering elements after grouping them.
• An issue that caused editor crash when a shortcut was used right after opening right-click menu.
• An issue with generating styles for text shadow and box shadow with zero values fixed.
• A console error that appeared in admin pages was fixed.

0.9.3

• Released: 2022-02-20
• Minor bug while fetching image from image library fixed.

0.9.2

• Released: 2022-02-16
• A fatal error with PHP 8.0 fixed.

0.9.1

• Released: 2022-02-14
• Minor bugs fixed.

0.9.0

• Released: 2022-02-03
• Initial release