Featured Added: Footer quick contact buttons – add hotline fixed links at the bottom left/right – you can check it via Appearance → Customize → Footer → Footer Quick Contact
Featured Added: Option equal height for Penci Big Grid element when using content above/below the image
Featured Added: New widget “Soledad Penci Quick Contacts”
Improve: Improve AJAX Like Posts & Posts Views performance
Improve: Penci Soledad Demo Import: add import demo options for non-commerce use
Update: Updated Google Fonts library
Fixed: Fixed Elementor import/podcast issues
Improve: Some minor issues.
Featured Added: Related Posts/Related Posts Popup support for custom post types, you can select it via Customize > Single Posts
Featured Added: Horizontal Scroll Menu for the Mobile Header Builder
Featured Added: Single Post Editor: added option to toggle post meta visibility. You can now easily hide post meta via Custom Options when editing posts or pages
Featured Added: Automatically group overflowing menu items into a “More” menu. Enable it at Appearance → Customize → Logo & Header → Main Bar & Primary Menu → Enable “More” Menu for Overflow Items
Featured Added: Penci Video Playlist: new option to fetch new videos directly from a YouTube channel
Featured Added: Penci Date/Time element: added support for displaying local time
Featured Added: Header Builder: added box shadow option for all elements inside header builder
Featured Added: Header Builder: Added toggle for drag & drop mode when selecting elements to add
Featured Added: Social Share: added support for Flipboard, ChatGPT, and Perplexity
Featured Added: Remove author links / disable author archive pages via Appearance → Customize → General → General Settings → Disable Author Link
Featured Added: Penci AI plugin: added a new model and improved API calls
Featured Added: Penci Paywall plugin: added option to require user subscription to view Elementor elements. Enable it via Edit Element → Advanced → Penci Paywall
Featured Added: Penci Sport: Improved API calls and HTML markup & Added Team filter option
Improve: AJAX post like count: automatically updates like status and like count without page reload
Improve: Improved AJAX behavior when scrolling to Elementor elements
Update: Updated WooCommerce Templates
Update: Updated Google Fonts library
Fixed: Some security issues reported by patchstack.com
Improve: Some minor issues.
- Featured Added: 9 new great demos for multiple purpose – please update the plugin Penci Soledad Demo Importer to get it
- Improve: Some minor issues.
Soledad - Multi-Concept Blog Magazine AMP WordPress Theme Soledad 8.6.9.1 Nulled - Octorber 24, 2025
Fixed: Some security issues reported by patchstack.com
Improve: Some minor issues.
Featured Added: Blog Grid Style 5 for Homepage Customizer & Archive Posts.
Featured Added: Category Options – Added the ability to select a custom post template/post style within category edit screen.
Featured Added: Animated Search Placeholder – Added an option to animate the search placeholder text with fade-in/fade-out or other animation effects. Appearance → Customize → Quick Text Translation → Multi Placeholder Search Text
Featured Added: Penci Shortcode & Performance Plugin
Option to enable/disable Critical CSS cache and generate Critical CSS directly in the page editor.
optimized thumbnail sizes: Appearance → Customize → Speed Optimizations → General & Lazyload → Disable all Unnecessary Image Sizes – It only applies to newly uploaded images.
Updated Critical CSS scanning engine
Featured Added: Added Penci Collapsible option for each widget, allowing a custom widget height. Users can click the “Read More” button to expand and view full content.
Featured Added: Penci Video Playlist widget:
Removed the requirement for a Google API key to display YouTube videos/players.
Added support for creating playlists/videos from local or direct video links.
Featured Added: Penci Filter Everything plugin: Added filter option for posts by Authors
Featured Added: Sticky Social Share Style for single post pages – you can enable it via Appearance → Customize → Single Posts → General → Share Box Position → Sticky of the Post Content.
Featured Added: Enable Button Effect for General Buttons via Customize > General > Colors > Enable Button Effect
Improve: WPBakery backend display issues.
Update: Penci AI: Updated API to support the GPT-5 model
Fixed: Penci Front-end Submission plugin: fixed WooCommerce duplicate orders
Improve: Some minor issues.
Featured Added: Installation Wizard on first theme activation.
Featured Added: Penci Paywall plugin – hide part of a post using the shortcode [penci_hide_content].
Featured Added: Vertical scrolling option for posts in Penci Widgets: Recent/Popular Posts.
Featured Added: Timeline layout for archive pages.
Featured Added: Horizontal layout option for Penci Filter Everything Plugin.
Featured Added: Desktop Push Notification — show post subscribe box when the OneSignal push notification plugin is installed.
Featured Added: Archive page options — show sub-category descriptions and column settings when “Show Child Categories on Single Category Page” is enabled.
Featured Added: Penci Bookmark & Follow plugin — option to display bookmark icon in post meta.
Featured Added: Option to order posts by post meta key/value in widgets/Elementor post query settings.
Featured Added: New Elementor element — Penci Hover Box for Elementor
Featured Added: New block heading styles — Style 29 & Style 30.
Featured Added: Post Reactions options — enable via Appearance > Customize > General > Like Posts & Social Sharing.
Improve: WCAG compliance — General > Extra Options > Accessibility > Enhanced Accessibility.
Update: Penci Demo Importer plugin — automatically install required plugins for the selected demo.
Update: Header Builder — added align/flex options for each column, optimized caching, and improved HTML markup.
Update: WooCommerce Templates.
Fixed: Some Security vulnerabilities.
Improve: Some minor issues.
Featured Added: Search Popup Style — Choose this style via Appearance > Customize > Logo & Header > Main Bar & Primary Menu > Header Search Style. Also applies to the Header Builder’s Search Button element.
Featured Added: Sticky Next/Prev Posts — Displays the next/previous sticky post below the main header when scrolling through a single post. You can enable it via Appearance > Customize > Single Posts > General > Enable Sticky Related Posts.
Featured Added: New Layout “Grid Boxed 4” — Available for Archive Pages and the Penci Latest Posts element.
Featured Added: Link Hover Effect — Adds a hover underline effect to post titles on archive pages. Enable it via Appearance > Customize > General > Category, Tag, Search, Archive Pages > Enable Underline Color for Post Titles on Hover. Also applies to Elementor elements: Latest Posts, Big Grid, Featured Cat, Small List, etc.
Featured Added: Social Share support for Bluesky and Threads.
Featured Added: Focus Mode Reading — Displays a button in the bottom corner of single posts. When clicked, it hides unnecessary page elements and shows only the main post content. You can enable it via Customize > Single Posts > General > Enable Focus Mode
Featured Added: New: Block Heading Style 28/ Widget Heading Title Style 28
Featured Added: Dropdown Share Button in Post Meta — Enable it via Appearance > Customize > Single Posts > General > Show Dropdown Share in Post Meta.
Featured Added: Accessibility Options — Available under Appearance > Customize > General > Accessibility.
Featured Added: New Elementor widgets:
Penci Circle Menu: Create a circular menu with hover effects.
Penci Circle Info: Display icons with animated content in a circular layout.
Penci Marquee: Apply marquee effects to text or images.
Penci Timeline: Display posts, post types, or custom content in a timeline layout.
Update: Penci Paywall Plugin:
Users can subscribe to unlock content by specific category or taxonomy
Now supports all payment gateway plugins
Update: Penci Front-end Submission & Penci AI Integration:
If the Penci AI plugin is installed, a “Generate Content with AI” button will appear in the front-end submission form
Enable it via Penci AI Smartcontent Creator > Content > Enable for Penci Front-end Submission
Featured Added: Option to hide post/page titles on single post pages.
Featured Added: Option to show post categories in the same line with the post meta section. (Customize > Posts Layouts)
Featured Added: Customize theme color for mobile devices via Appearance > Customize > General > Colors > Theme Color. Example usage: The color may appear in the browser’s address bar, title bar, or status bar on mobile.
Featured Added: Exit Intent Popup: Show a popup notice when the user attempts to close the tab. You can check it via Customize > Exit Intent Popup
Featured Added: new features for Penci AI SmartContent Creator plugin:
Automatically generate a featured image based on the post title
Automatically generate a post excerpt based on the title and content
Fixed: Compatibility issue with the latest version of WPBakery Page Builder.
Fixed: Font Size Changer issue when loading content via JavaScript.
Fixed: Resolved a compatibility issue affecting Elementor Lightbox when used with Swiper.
Update: WooCommerce Templates.
Improve: Some minor issues.
- Featured Added: Penci Player Rankings Plugin – a plugin that allows you to create and manage ranking tables for players across any field – from sports, eSports, gaming, billiards, education, to custom competitions. This plugin gives you full control over how your rankings look and behave. You can check video tutorial for this plugin here
- Featured Added: Live Visitors Counter: Show the real-time number of active readers. You can check it via Customize > General > Live Viewer Notification
- Featured Added:new features for Category Pages:
- If a category has multiple subcategories, it will display in a magazine-style layout — each subcategory shown as a section, with X posts per layout based on your settings. You can enable it by go to Posts > Categories > edit categories contains child categories > Enable Magazine Layout for This Category
- Option to filter posts by month/year
- Featured Added: Option to hide post/page titles on single post pages.
- Featured Added: Option to show post categories in the same line with the post meta section. (Customize > Posts Layouts)
- Featured Added: Customize theme color for mobile devices via Appearance > Customize > General > Colors > Theme Color. Example usage: The color may appear in the browser’s address bar, title bar, or status bar on mobile.
- Featured Added: Exit Intent Popup: Show a popup notice when the user attempts to close the tab. You can check it via Customize > Exit Intent Popup
- Featured Added:new features for Penci AI SmartContent Creator plugin:
- Automatically generate a featured image based on the post title
- Automatically generate a post excerpt based on the title and content
- Featured Added: Article Feedback: Added: “Helpful” feedback button at the end of each article. You can check it via Customize > Article Feedback.
- Featured Added: new widget “Penci Advanced Calculator” for Elementor – an advanced form calculator widget
- Featured Added: Option to choose HTML heading tag (e.g., H1–H6) for “Block Heading Title” for widgets from Elementor & WPBakery Page Builder
- Fixed: WooCommerce checkout issues.
- Update: WooCommerce Templates.
- Update: “Penci Finance” plugin – Update Yahoo Finance API
- Improve: Some minor issues.
- Featured Added: Default heading font size options (h1, h2, ...) for the entire site via Customize > General > Typography > Advanced Typography Settings
- Featured Added: Option to show/hide menu items based on users login status. Go to Appearance > Menus > Edit a menu item then you can see it.
- Featured Added: Added support for multiple post types in Elementor Query section
- Featured Added: Content Protection Options via Customize > General > Extra Options > Enable Content Protection — prevents users from copying content or opening dev tools
- Featured Added: Added “Daily Post View” sorting for popular posts widgets & Elementor/WPbakery query
- Featured Added: New option for image hover effect on archive pages via Customize > General > General Settings > Enable Thumbnail Zoom Effect
- Featured Added: “Post Source” option — available in the edit post screen
- Improve: the “Soledad Demo Import” plugin: redesigned UI, added options to check install for imported pages/posts/products/image generation
- Improve: Changed AJAX calls for mega menu and ajax load more from `admin-ajax.php` to `wp-json` to reduce issues with cached AJAX requests via Customize > General > Extra Options > Handle AJAX with REST API.
- Improve: Penci Shortcode & Performance plugin: generate separate critical CSS files for mobile and desktop
- Improve: Optimized code for the Featured Slider
- Improve: Option to fix Polylang plugin issues via Customize > General > Extra Options > click the “Fix Polylang Translation Issues” button
- Improve: Penci AI plugin updated API URL
- Improve: Fixed translation issues for WordPress 6.8
- Improve: Some minor issues.
- Featured Added: Added heading selection (H2, H3, H4, H5) options for all latest posts layouts. You can check the option via Customize > Posts Layouts.
- Featured Added: Added custom post type selection and advanced query support for the News Ticker in the Header Builder
- Featured Added: Added a new “Go to Top” style: Appearance > Footer > General > Go To Top Style
- Featured Added: Added Circle Reading Progress Bar style for single post page.
- Featured Added: Added “Grid Boxed 3” style for archive pages: Appearance > Customize > Category, Tag, Search, Archive > Category, Tag, Search, Archive Layout
- Featured Added: Enabled synchronization of post view counts across multiple languages.
- Featured Added: new option to allow thumbnail left or right for the list layout.
- Featured Added: New Elementor element: ABC Categories Listing
- Featured Added: Added a new option to enable links in excerpt content: Appearance > Customize > Category, Tag, Search, Archive > Enable Link on Excerpt Content
- Featured Added: Added mouse cursor effect customization via Customize > General > Cursor Effect
- Featured Added: Add new 10 newsletter subscription styles for Mailchimp.
- Featured Added: Added a new Gallery style: Slider 3D
- Featured Added: plugin “Penci Filter Everything” – Added start & end date filtering by published and modified date. Fixed ordering by name and alphabet.
- Improve: Optimize Customizer options/description to make it shorter & easily to check. Now you can hover mouse to the ”?” icon to see the option description.
- Featured Added:
- Update Plugins:
- Penci Filter Everything
- Penci Feeds
- Penci Sport
- Update: Woocommerce templates
- Fix: the WooCommerce Origin Status issue
- Fix: Elementor Lightbox issue on Single Post/Page
- Improve: Some minor issues.