Change Logs

New

• Site Builder – Build headers, footers and WooCommerce templates with Elementor and choose where each one shows, from the new Site Builder screen in the PowerPack menu
• Site Builder – Display rules: show a template on the entire site, the front page, blog page, search results or 404 page, any post type or archive, a category, tag or author, or single posts and terms, with exceptions, and a priority for when two templates match the same page
• Site Builder – Header options in the Elementor editor: sticky on chosen devices, hide on scroll down, transparent over the page content, a different background and shadow once scrolled, and a Skip to content link
• Site Builder – WooCommerce templates for the Single Product, Product Archive, Cart, Checkout and My Account pages, each with a Theme, Full Width or Canvas page layout
• Site Builder – Headers and footers now work with block themes such as Twenty Twenty-Four and Twenty Twenty-Five, including on pages that use Elementor’s Full Width template

Enhancements

• Site Builder – Existing Header/Footer settings and WooCommerce Builder templates move to the Site Builder automatically when you update. Nothing changes on your site
• PowerPack settings – PowerPack now has its own admin menu with Home, Elements, Site Builder, Settings and License screens, instead of sitting under Elementor
• License – Redesigned License screen showing the plan, expiry date, sites used and update status, with a renewal reminder before the license expires, a clear explanation and next step when a key cannot be activated, and a confirmation before deactivating
• Categories – Carousel accessibility improvements: slide changes are announced to screen readers, slides that are not showing are hidden from screen readers and keyboard focus, and autoplay pauses on keyboard focus, and respects reduced motion
• Categories, Coupons, Posts – Added Pause on Interaction option for the carousel
• Devices – Image slider accessibility improvements: slide changes are announced to screen readers, labels are translatable, and autoplay pauses on keyboard focus and respects reduced motion
• Image Accordion – Added five presets: Classic Overlay, Caption Card, Rounded Gallery, Color Wash and Framed Panels. Color Wash and Framed Panels use your site’s global colors
• Image Comparison – Holding Shift with the arrow keys now moves the divider in steps of 10%
• Info Grid & Carousel – Added Offset Sides and Offset Width options, so the neighbouring items can peek in at either edge of the carousel
• Instagram Feed – Images below the first row are now lazy-loaded and decoded asynchronously, so a large feed no longer downloads every image before the page settles
• Instagram Feed – Caption vertical alignment, horizontal alignment and text alignment can now be set separately for each device
• Instagram Feed – When the feed cannot be loaded, the editor now shows the reason Instagram gave, such as an expired access token, instead of only a generic message
• Presets – Presets now have descriptive names instead of Preset 1, Preset 2
• Review Box – Added an Image Size option, and the image now includes srcset, width, height and lazy loading attributes
• Review Box – The Font Awesome stylesheet is no longer loaded when Elementor’s Inline Font Icons feature is active, and the star markup is built once per page instead of once per rating
• Testimonials – Added Pause on Interaction option, which stops the autoplay for good once the visitor moves the slider
• Testimonials – Images now carry srcset, native lazy loading and their intrinsic width and height, so the browser downloads an appropriately sized file instead of the full-size original for a small avatar or thumbnail
• Video Gallery – Added Pause on Interaction option for the carousel
• Video Gallery – Carousel accessibility improvements: the carousel is labelled, slide changes are announced to screen readers, labels are translatable, and autoplay pauses on keyboard focus, and respects reduced motion
• Tiled Posts, Magazine Slider – Tiles are now laid out with CSS grid
• Tiled Posts – Post thumbnails are rendered as images rather than CSS backgrounds, so they get responsive sizes, native lazy loading and their alt text
• Tiled Posts – Category Padding and Read More Spacing can now be set per device
• Progress Bar – The bar and percentage now render at their real values on the server, so they stay correct without JavaScript, in print and in reader modes
• Updated bundled libraries: js-cookie to v3.0.8, FullCalendar to v6.1.22 and Chart.js to v4.6.1

Fixes

• Tiled Posts – Read More Spacing set in em or rem was applied as px
• Tiled Posts – Leaving Posts Count blank under Other Posts queried every post on the site; it is now limited to 50, and the limit can be changed with the ppe_tiled_posts_max_other_posts filter
• Progress Bar – Circle and Half Circle did not animate at all when Display Percentage was switched off
• Progress Bar – Speed only changed how fast the percentage counted, leaving the bar itself at a fixed one second
• Progress Bar – The bar replayed its animation every time it was scrolled back into view
• Video – Overlay Margin set in %, em, rem or vw was applied as px
• Advanced Charts – Since 2.13.0, the Background Color and Border Color set on each dataset were ignored, and charts were drawn in Chart.js’s default colors
• Advanced Charts – Since 2.13.0, charts with the Source set to CSV were never displayed, even when CSV text or a CSV file was provided
• Buttons – Presets now style every button and apply their icons, without changing icons you have chosen yourself
• Categories – The carousel arrows and the grid’s loading messages were announced in English on translated sites
• Coupons, Posts – The carousel arrows and dots were announced in English on translated sites
• Image Comparison – On RTL sites, the divider was placed on the wrong side and moved in the opposite direction of the pointer and the arrow keys
• Instagram Feed – An expired or invalid access token made every uncached page view wait on a blocking request to Instagram that could take up to a minute. Failed lookups are now remembered for five minutes, and the request times out after ten seconds
• Instagram Feed – Two widgets using different access tokens shared a single cache entry, so both showed photos from whichever account was loaded first
• Instagram Feed – Dynamic tags set on Instagram Profile URL, Link Title and Caption Length were ignored on the frontend
• Instagram Feed – Removed the Image Resolution option, which had no effect. The Instagram Graph API returns a single image URL per post with no size variants
• Presets – Choosing a preset on Info Box erased the Subtitle text
• Presets – Choosing a preset before its data had loaded had no effect
• Presets – Undo and redo now revert and reapply a preset in a single step
• Review Box – Line breaks, paragraphs and lists in the Summary text showed in the editor but were stripped on the frontend
• Review Box – Inline editing of the review item title did not work on the Percent and Number layouts
• Review Box – The Description and Summary fields had no formatting toolbar when edited inline
• Team Member – Link and Social Link fields on a newly added widget no longer default to “#”, which produced links that went nowhere
• Team Member, Team Member Carousel – Icons Gap spacing was applied to the wrong side in RTL layouts
• Video Gallery – The carousel ignored the Autoplay Speed setting and always moved every 3 seconds
• Woo Products – Adding a variable product to the cart from Quick View or the product actions bar reported success but left the cart unchanged
• Woo Products – The add to cart button showed the product as added even when WooCommerce refused it, for example when it was out of stock
• Woo Products – Dynamic tags in the Add to Cart text options were ignored, and the default text was shown instead
• Woo Products – Carousel slides kept the height they had before the window was resized or the device rotated, leaving products clipped or stretched
• Woo Products – In skins 2 to 5, a long product title or SKU with no spaces could stretch the grid past its column
• Woo Products – Products with no category rendered an empty category element that still took up space
• WPForms – With the modern form style, the Radio & Checkbox Border Width, Border Color and Color options had no effect
• License – An expired license was reset to “not activated”, and its expiry date was lost
• Countdown – The Redirect and Hide expiry actions, and Reset on Evergreen timers, did nothing when the timer ran out while the page was open; they only took effect on the next page load
• Countdown – The Evergreen timer Expiry Message was never shown, and returning visitors saw the word “undefined” once the timer had ended

Security Fixes

• Tiled Posts, Magazine Slider, Timeline, Advanced Posts – Protected meta keys can no longer be read by the post date Custom Meta Key option
• Progress Bar – Improved code security in the gradient colors
• Video Gallery, FAQ – Improved code security in the schema output
• Instagram Feed – Image URLs, links and captions received from Instagram are now escaped before they are output
• Presets – Hardened how preset data is loaded in the editor, removing an AJAX request that could read JSON files outside the plugin
• Registration Form – The page URL and browser details added to the admin notification email are now escaped
• Woo Products – Hardened add to cart requests and the recently viewed products cookie
• Countdown – Hardened how the expiry message and redirect link are stored and displayed
• Display Conditions – Fixed a security issue

Enhancements

• Tested compatibility with Elementor 4.4.0
• Accessibility – Improved keyboard navigation, screen reader support and focus handling across 25+ widgets, including How To, Login Form, Ninja Forms, One Page Navigation, Table of Contents, Video, Advanced Tabs, Tooltips and Link Effects
• Accessibility – All widgets now show a consistent keyboard focus indicator
• Accessibility – Larger click and touch area for carousel pagination dots
• Ninja Forms – Added Title HTML Tag option
• One Page Navigation – Added Navigation Label option
• Video – Added Accessible Label option

Fixes

• How To – SVG and uploaded Supply and Tool icons did not show, and step link settings carried over to later steps
• Icon List – The Text icon type showed nothing
• Info Table – Title and subtitle closing tags were missing
• Login Form – Clicking the Remember Me label did not tick the checkbox, and two forms on one page shared field IDs
• Ninja Forms – Submit button styles did not apply to submit input or button elements
• Various keyboard focus and tab stop issues in Modal Popup, Album, Image Slider, Slide Menu, FAQ, Advanced Posts, Advanced Menu and other widgets

Enhancements

• Business Hours – Added a Day and Hours Spacing control under Rows Style

Fixes

• Business Hours – A long day name, such as Wednesday, ran into the hours with no space between them
• Image Slider – Slides Per View was ignored on the Mobile Extra, Tablet Extra, Laptop and Widescreen breakpoints
• Image Gallery – Since 3.0.0, Load More did not load any images when the gallery was saved as a global widget
• Woo – Cart – Since 3.0.0, applying a coupon code did nothing and showed no error

Security Fixes

• Charts, Contact Form 7, Fluent Forms, Hotspots, Instagram Feed, Ninja Forms, Pricing Table and Table – Fixed security issues
• Posts query, query control, links in the editor preview and PowerPack settings – Fixed security issues affecting multiple widgets

Enhancements

• Google reviews now work with API keys from Google Cloud projects that only have Places API (New) enabled. Google no longer lets new projects enable the older Places API, so these keys showed no reviews
• Business Reviews – Google reviews are now requested without the place details the widget does not use, which lowers the cost of each request on the Google Cloud bill
• Advanced Tabs, Coupons, Event Calendar, FAQ and Interactive Circle – Added Menu Order and Relevance to the Order By options of the posts source

Fixes

• Business Reviews – With Filter By set to Review Date, the widget showed the five most relevant Google reviews sorted by date instead of the five newest. API keys that only have Places API (New) enabled still get the five most relevant, as that API cannot return the newest
• Business Reviews – Errors from Google, such as an invalid Place ID, are now shown in the editor instead of an empty widget
• Business Reviews – With Reviews Source set to All, a PHP fatal error occurred when the Google or Yelp reviews could not be loaded
• Advanced Posts, Card Slider, Content Ticker, Magazine Slider, Marquee, Showcase, Tiled Posts and Timeline – With Exclude Current Post enabled and posts chosen to exclude, the current post was still shown
• Advanced Posts, Card Slider, Content Ticker, Magazine Slider, Marquee, Showcase, Tiled Posts and Timeline – Avoid Duplicates only left out posts already shown by these widgets; it now also leaves out posts shown by Advanced Tabs, Coupons, Event Calendar, FAQ, Interactive Circle, Marquee and Showcase higher up the page
• Advanced Tabs, Coupons, Marquee and Showcase – Query ID had no effect on the posts shown, so the powerpack/query/{query_id} hook could not change them
• Advanced Tabs, Event Calendar, FAQ and Interactive Circle – With Post Type set to Media, the posts source showed nothing
• Event Calendar – With Exclude Current Post enabled, the posts chosen to exclude were still shown
• Interactive Circle – Dynamic tags in the circle items were ignored, and the static text was shown instead
• Icon Rotate set before version 2.13.0 was no longer applied
• Info Box – Inline HTML such as <br> in the icon Text and Button Text was rendered as escaped text instead of being parsed
• PowerPack settings – Verify reported a Google Places API key as invalid when its project only had Places API (New) enabled

Security Fixes

• Info Box Carousel – The item image URL is now escaped in the editor preview
• Posts, Marquee, Coupons, Showcase, Woo Products, Advanced Tabs, FAQ, Event Calendar and Interactive Circle – The author and post filter types are now limited to their allowed values, so the query can no longer return private, draft, pending or scheduled posts

Enhancements

• Gravity Forms – Added Dropdown Arrow option to use the default arrow, a custom icon, the Gravity Forms theme arrow or no arrow, with Arrow Size, Arrow Offset and Arrow Color options
• Video Gallery – Added numbered pagination: the Pagination section now has a Type option to choose between the Load More button, Numbers, and Numbers with Previous/Next links, with style options for the page numbers

Fixes

• Accessibility – In carousels with Infinite Loop enabled, the slide position read out to screen readers was one slide behind after looping past the first or last slide
• Advanced Posts – Filters for terms with non-Latin names, such as Greek or Cyrillic, showed every post instead of only the posts in that term, and a link to one of those filters
• Breadcrumbs – On a tag archive for a tag with no published posts, the tag name was missing from the breadcrumb, and PHP warnings were written to the error log
• Carousels – On some sites the navigation arrows and autoplay did not move the slides, depending on how the spacing between slides had been saved; this affected Image Slider, Advanced Posts, Instagram Feed, Tabbed Gallery, Timeline, Video Gallery, Woo Categories and the other carousel widgets
• Content Reveal – With Content Visibility By set to Lines, a PHP warning was written to the error log each time the widget was rendered
• Gravity Forms – Dropdown fields showed two arrows when the form used the Gravity Forms Orbital theme
• Login Form – The lost password form kept loading forever when the email address did not belong to an account on sites with a security plugin that hides which accounts exist; it now shows the reset email message, and shows an error instead of loading forever if the request fails for any other reason
• Login Form – The lost password form now passes the same details to other plugins as the WordPress lost password page, so security and captcha plugins that check the request no longer break it
• PowerPack settings – On the Elements tab, Activate All and Deactivate All acted on every widget even while a filter or a search was narrowing the list; they now act only on the widgets shown, and read Activate Shown and Deactivate Shown while the list is narrowed
• WPForms – Since 3.1.0, the form fields were shorter and narrower than the sizes set in WPForms
• Woo Mini Cart – Since 3.1.0, with Show Cart On set to None, clicking the cart button did nothing instead of opening the cart page

Security Fixes

• Animated Gradient Background – Colors are now validated and escaped in the editor preview and on the frontend
• PowerPack settings – Only administrators can now change settings, including which widgets and extensions are enabled

Enhancements

• Accessibility – Widgets across the plugin now expose correct ARIA roles, accessible names and states, and their interactive parts can be reached and operated with the keyboard alone
• Accessibility – The carousels and sliders across widgets no longer autoplay when the visitor has asked for reduced motion
• Event Calendar – Added Background Color, Padding and Border Radius options for the header and footer toolbars
• Event Calendar – Added a Background Color option for events, on both normal and hover
• Event Calendar – Added Link Color and Link Hover Color options for the event popup description
• Event Calendar – The Event Time popup field is now Event Date & Time, with Date Format and Time Format options that include presets and custom formats
• Video – Vimeo and Dailymotion thumbnails are now cached, so the page no longer waits on their servers every time it is loaded or previewed in the editor
• Video – Thumbnails are now lazy-loaded, and a custom thumbnail chosen from the media library is served at a size that suits the player instead of at full resolution
• Video Gallery – Added a Lightbox section to the Style tab with a Video Width option, to control how large the video is shown in the lightbox
• Video Gallery – Added a Title HTML Tag option, so the video title can be output as a heading and contribute to the page outline
• Video Gallery – Vimeo and Dailymotion thumbnails are now cached, so the page no longer waits on their servers every time it is loaded
• Video Gallery – Thumbnails are now lazy-loaded, and a custom thumbnail chosen from the media library keeps its responsive sizes
• Team Member – Added support for HTML in the Position field
• Charts – Added Accessible Label, Accessible Description and Screen Reader Data Table options, so the chart data can be read out as a table by screen readers, and the chart no longer animates when the visitor has asked for reduced motion
• Review Box – Added Title HTML Tag options for the widget, features, pros and cons headings, so the heading order can be corrected on the page
• Contact Form 7 – Added Title HTML Tag option, focus now moves to the first invalid field when a submission fails, and to the response message when the form is sent
• Showcase – Added Title HTML Tag option
• Recipe – Added Section Heading HTML Tag option
• Twitter Buttons – Added Button Text option, used as the button’s accessible name and shown when X’s script is blocked, and the button now loads in the site language
• Twitter Tweet – A View post on X link is now shown in place of the tweet and read by screen readers until the embed loads, and the tweet now loads in the site language
• Twitter Timeline – Added Link Text option to name the embedded timeline for screen readers, and the timeline now loads in the site language
• Table – Added Table Caption and Caption Visibility options, so the caption can name the table for screen readers while staying hidden on the page, sortable headers now report the direction they are sorted in, and the tooltips can be opened from the keyboard and report their expanded state
• Modal Popup – Added Title HTML Tag option
• Offcanvas Content – Added Title HTML Tag, Toggle Accessible Label and Panel Accessible Label options
• Testimonials – Added Name HTML Tag option
• Interactive Circle – Added Title HTML Tag option so the content title can be a real heading
• Gravity Forms, WPForms, Fluent Forms, Formidable Forms – Added Title HTML Tag option
• Business Reviews, Card Slider, Content Ticker, Image Slider, Info Box Carousel, Logo Carousel, Magazine Slider, Team Member Carousel, Woo Categories, Woo Products – Autoplay now pauses while the pointer or keyboard focus is inside the carousel, and automatic slide changes are no longer announced, so screen reader users are not interrupted every few seconds
• Coupons – Added Copy Text and Copied Text options
• WPML – The Twitter Buttons Button Text and the Coupons Copy Text and Copied Text can now be translated
• Advanced Menu – Added unit options to the dropdown Minimum Width, toggle Thickness, mobile menu Submenu Indent and Padding, close icon Size, Position, Padding and Border Radius, and submenu indicator Size
• Advanced Menu – Added an Alignment option for the Off Canvas and Full Screen close icon
• Woo Categories – The widget now loads its own small stylesheet instead of the one shared by all WooCommerce widgets, so pages that use it without other WooCommerce widgets load less CSS
• PowerPack settings – Widgets on the Elements tab are now grouped into more categories

Fixes

• Advanced Tabs – An Advanced Tabs widget placed inside another one could have its active tab cleared by the outer widget
• Image Gallery – When loading more images failed, the Load More button stayed disabled in its loading state, with no way to try again
• Content Reveal – The revealed content kept a fixed height, so zooming in or enlarging the text could cut off the bottom of it
• Coupons – The filters and the filter dropdown had no styling unless an Advanced Posts widget was also on the page
• Event Calendar – The event Text Color did not apply to events shown as a dot
• Event Calendar – The Color and Typography options for the event popup description had no effect
• Display Conditions – With Elementor’s element cache active, a condition set on a container, section, column, or a static widget such as Heading kept the show or hide decision made on the first page load and reused it on every post the template renders
• Video – The sticky player was squashed into a thin strip when the aspect ratio was set to 9:16 or 1:1
• Video Gallery – With Click Action set to Lightbox, the video did not start playing until it was clicked a second time
• Video Gallery – The lightbox always showed the video at 16:9 and ignored the Aspect Ratio set in Gallery Settings
• Video Gallery – With Click Action set to Lightbox, the video settings were ignored, so Mute, Captions, the Vimeo player colour and the Dailymotion end screen only applied when Click Action was set to Play Inline
• Video Gallery – With Source set to YouTube Channel, the gallery showed an extra empty video, as the channel itself was listed as one of its videos
• Video Gallery – With a YouTube Playlist or Channel source, video schema described the Custom source’s sample videos instead of the videos shown on the page
• Video Gallery – Video schema was output with http:// URLs on sites served over HTTPS
• Business Reviews – Reviewer images from Google did not show, as Google blocked the photos when they were loaded from another site. A placeholder avatar is now shown if a photo still fails to load
• Charts – With another Elementor addon that includes charts installed, the chart looked different in the editor and on the frontend and ignored many of its settings
• Advanced Menu – On RTL sites, setting the close icon Horizontal Position pinned the close icon to both sides, stretching its background across the top of the Off Canvas or Full Screen panel
• Image Hotspots, One Page Nav, Link Effects – On some sites, these widgets were not loaded even when switched on, so they were missing from the Elementor panel

Security Fix

• Video Gallery – Improved code security

Deprecated

• Twitter Grid – Twitter retired grid embeds and renders them as a timeline instead, so the widget is no longer offered in the Elementor panel and will be removed in a future version. Widgets already placed on a page keep rendering and no longer log Twitter’s deprecation notice to the browser console. Use the Twitter Timeline widget instead

Enhancements

• Event Calendar – Default View is now a responsive control, so the calendar can open in a different view on tablet and mobile
• Content Reveal – Visible Amount can now be set to 0, in pixels or lines, to keep the content fully hidden and show only the toggle button

Fixes

• Content Reveal – Setting Visible Amount to 0 pixels left the content stuck open, as the toggle button no longer collapsed it
• Image Slider, Showcase – The feature image disappeared after opening and closing the lightbox on sites where the attachment URL does not resolve, such as when media is offloaded to a CDN
• Album, Image Gallery, Tabbed Gallery – The lightbox did not open on sites where media is offloaded to a CDN
• Advanced Accordion, FAQ – An accordion nested inside another accordion collapsed immediately when one of its tabs was clicked

Enhancements

• PowerPack settings – Version Control now lists the last 10 versions instead of 5

Fixes

• Team Member – PHP error with image

Enhancements

• Woo – Cart – Added cell padding option

Fixes

• Woo Categories – Content from all the cards was overlapping
• Testimonials – With Center Mode enabled, the slideshow layout stacked all testimonials on top of each other, and the carousel layout failed to position the slides
• Advanced Menu – One page links whose target ID is not a valid CSS selector, such as one starting with a digit or holding a dot, jumped to the section instead of scrolling to it

Hotfix

• Fixed critical error in Timeline widget

Fixes

• Testimonials – Carousel and slideshow layouts left a large blank space on the frontend and the testimonials were not visible when the widget was the only slider on the page
• Coupons, Woo Categories – Carousel layout left a large blank space on the frontend and the coupons were not visible when the widget was the only slider on the page