What's New with Ultimate Addons for WPBakery Page Builder
Version 3.16.14
1 Aug 2017
Two weeks down and we’ve got an update!
The Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer version 3.16.14 comes with many more improvements and fixes that make it even better with features and fixes that you had asked for.
Lets quickly take a look at the changelog in brief.
Improvement: Added div, paragraph and span tag options with heading tags for title in elements.
Improvement: Interactive banner – Added Title tags option.
Improvement: iHover – Added Title tags option.
Improvement: Compress plugin images.
Fix: Timeline issue with the link.
Fix: Info box alignment issue with icon at right with heading.
Fix: Dual button font size and line height option not working.
Fix: Hotspot RTL Compatibility.
Fix: Just icon tooltip text is not working.
Fix: Fatal error for re-declaration class in modules.
Fix: Advanced tabs scroll issue on click of tab.
Didn’t find the feature you’ve been looking for? Our team has queued all your requirements and added them to our to-do list. Just like the recent updates, we’ll make sure we come back with more. Stay tuned!
Until then, you can go ahead using the latest version by updating the Ultimate Addons on your website. You will soon receive a notification in your WordPress backend, after which you can update the plugin from the Updates page. Please make sure you have activated your license to receive update notifications.
Have something to say? We would love to hear from you. You can always get in touch. 🙂
Version 3.16.13
18 Jul 2017
Hello Ultimates!
Yayy! The Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer has reached over 40000+ direct customers.
On behalf of the entire team at Brainstorm Force, I take this opportunity to thank each one of you for being a wonderful customer and for all your love and support you’ve extended towards us. We promise to keep making your journey ultimate and support you in all your needs.
Today, I am here to present to you the Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer version 3.16.13. In this update, we revamped our codebase focusing on the performance and improved it by around 200%. Another effort to make the Ultimate Addons a stable, secure and performance oriented plugin for you all.
Here is the changelog in brief:
Improvement: Optimize all the plugin code.
Improvement: Provide filters for theme authors to disable enqueuing google fonts in the front end.
Fix: Flipbox flip not working on some of the websites.
If you wish to use the secure, stable and performance oriented Ultimate Addons without any hurdles, we would recommend you to update the plugin now. Make sure you have activated your license to receive an update notification and update the plugin from the Updates page in your WordPress backend.
Need help or guidance for anything? You can always write to us. 🙂
Whats more?
Performance has always been on our mind! Our team is determined to make high performing plugins and themes that work great in all environments.
We’ve recently launched our fastest WordPress theme, Astra that is determined to ease the process of Website design and development, making your website load faster than ever!
Astra is a free theme available on the WordPress repository and is 100% compatible with all major page builders. Yes, that means Astra flawlessly works with Visual Composer too!
Astra is accompanied by Astra Pro; a plugin that enhances the capabilities of Astra without affecting the performance. This means that you can take complete control of designing and building a beautiful website without worrying about the website speed.
Astra is free, while Astra Pro will be a paid plugin that can be used with the theme. However, we’ve introduced a pre-launch program for Astra Pro, where you can get a free copy of the plugin and use it with the theme. Sign up now and be a part of the pre-launch program.
You can read more about Astra on the website and join our Facebook group to be a part of the wonderful community where we carry on discussions, take suggestions, answer queries and more.
Security Updates: Immediate Update Recommended
17 May 2017
The Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer v3.16.12 was released on 3rd May 2017. If you have not updated, please do so immediately. If you have already updated to the latest version, then you can sit back and relax.
The last two updates (v3.16.11 and v3.16.12) of Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer are focused towards fixing Vulnerabilities disclosed by WPHutte. The vulnerabilities that are fixed are as follows:
Stored XSS
Remote Code Execution
Having fixed these vulnerabilities, we have also improved the overall security by checking user capabilities when performing any AJAX actions, checking nonces when submitting forms and overall improved sanitation of data to ensure nothing similar arises in the time to come.
We would like to thank WPHutte for reporting the vulnerabilities privately and giving us enough time to patch and release the updates before disclosing the information publicly.
Since this is a security update, we request you to make sure you update the Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer as soon as possible; so that nothing affects you in the near future.
If you have activated your license, you should get an update notification soon. Please update the plugin from the Updates page in your WordPress backend.
If you have received Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer bundled with a theme, you will have to contact your theme author for the latest version of the plugin or purchase independent license directly from us to receive automatic on-time updates and first party support.
Saying this, we just want to assure that we at Brainstorm Force, have always and will continue to deliver the best possible product that is both safe and useful to use.
We came across an issue that some users faced. They found a PHP warning while using the font manager in the front end. The Ultimate Addon for Visual Composer version 3.16.12 comes with a fix for it.
Update in brief:
– Fix: PHP Warning in font manager appearing on front end for some users.
We request you to please update the plugin and avoid a similar issue at your end. You should get a notification soon if you have successfully activated the plugin.
Please update the plugin from the Updates Page in your WordPress backend.
Have any suggestions, feedback or queries to share. Please feel free to get in touch with us. 🙂
Version 3.16.11
2 May 2017
Hello Peeps!
It’s summer time here in India…And it’s raining updates at Brainstorm Force!
We released a couple of updates for the products and are here with an important Security update for the Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer.
We were notified about a vulnerability. Thanks to WPHutte for letting us know! We’ve worked on this and have fixed it in the Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer version 3.16.11. Along with the reported issue, we have also dived in to check the other loose ends and made sure they are now secure.
Therefore, it is highly recommended that you update the plugin asap.
In the previous update we had fixed an incompatibility issue with WooCommerce v3.0. But, we still came across a few others with WooCommerce v3.0.4. UAVC version 3.16.11 comes with a fix for this too.
Here is a quick look at the changelog of this update:
– Improvement: Overall security of the plugin by added sanitization wherever required, All the Ajax actions are now checked for user capabilities and nounce to harden the security. – Fix: Dual button not working properly for the second style. – Fix: WooCommere compatibility for version v3.0.4.
Since this is a security update, we request you to make sure you update the Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer as soon as possible; so that nothing affects you in the near future.
If you have activated your license, you should get an update notification soon. Please update the plugin from the Updates page in your WordPress backend.
Having released an update for ConvertPlug early this week, then an update for the Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder, and now one for the Ultimnate Addons for Visual Composer, it’s been a busy week for us!
But, that’s not all! We’ve been working on a theme that is so far the fastest, best performing lightweight theme ever.
We named it Astra! …and it will be released soon.
Want to know more about this theme? Join our dedicated Facebook group and be among the first ones to experience this theme. Astra is easy to use and can be used with your favorite page builders; Yes, Visual Composer too!
Looking forward to see you there. 🙂
Version 3.16.10
7 Apr 2017
Hello! 🙂
It’s been a month since we last wrote to you. And we are back with another update!
Although a minor one, this update has a number of fixes along with a fix for the conflict between the Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer and Woocommerce version 3.0.
Let us quickly go through the highlights of the update –
Fix: JavaScript error on WooCommerce v3.0 product pages.
Fix: Google Fonts Manager loading fonts with HTTP instead of HTTPS in the preview.
Fix: Google Fonts URL returning 404 if the generated URL had duplicate ‘|’ character.
Fix: Option disable parallax on mobile not working.
Fix: Info list aligning besides each other instead of one below other.
In the Closing!
As promised, we are determined to give you the best in your ultimate journey of website building! We request you to make sure you update the plugin asap, so that you do not miss on these fixes. If you have activated your license, you’ll soon get a notification for an update. Please update the plugin from the Updates page in your WordPress backend.
Please feel free to get in touch with us, in case you need any help or guidance. 🙂
Version 3.16.9
9 Mar 2017
Hello Ultimates 🙂
This update brings you a few fixes for those who came across some issues in the previous version.
Many users approached us saying that a “Token invalid error” appeared while trying to activate their license. Version 3.16.9 fixes this error now everyone can activate your license with just a single click!
Users facing this issue still need to activate their license to download this update in your dashboard, In such cases, we request users to use the alternative method of license activation, i.e. click on the link that says “Activate License using purchase key”. You’ll find this link on the bottom right of your Product License page. Here is an article that will help you activate your license using the purchase key.
Here is a brief list of fixes we’ve released in this update:
Fix: Token invalid error appearing for some users when activating the license. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Fix: Dual button icon images not aligned to center
Fix: Dual button second button linking to the first buttons link
Fix: Dual button first button background size option not working when “Design your own” option is selected
Fix: Advanced Tabs causing JavaScript errors on pages with anchors having # links
Fix: Advanced button “rel” option not working
Fix: Some users having issues with appear animations not triggering correctly when the row/element is in the viewport.
In the Closing!
Like always, we are determined to present you the best! We’ll make sure everything works well for everyone. If you have activated your license, you’ll soon get a notification for an update. Please update the plugin from the Updates page in your WordPress backend.
Feel free to get in touch with us, in case you need any further help or guidance.
Version 3.16.8
22 Feb 2017
Hello to our Ultimate users playing with the Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer. Well, it’s been quite a bit since we brought about a change. So, here we are back with a massive update in Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer version 3.16.8.
Without further adieu, let’s take a look at what’s new:
WPML Compatibility!
WPML is a very popular plugin among many of you. But for quite sometime, the compatibility with WPML was kind of broken. So for the past few weeks, we worked with the team WPML closely and ensured our plugins are compatible. So far, Ultimate Addons is the only 100% WPML compatible Visual Composer addon 🙂
Cheers to the amazing team at WPML for the cooperation. Below is a quick video team WPML made with a quick walkthrough. Or read their blog post here.
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RTL Support
Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer is now 100% compatible with RTL languages like Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, etc.
A New Way to Activate Your License
We made major changes in our license activation / registration process to make it easier and smoother. Now you can just login with Envato oAuth APIs and activate your license quickly!
Let me quickly share the steps how does it work now –
Once the plugin is installed, navigate to Ultimate → Product License and click on “Activate License” button
It will take you to Envato site which is the parent company of ThemeForest / CodeCanyon. Please login with your account.
Click Approve
And finally.. click the button on the next screen and activate your license. It will take you back to your website and your license will be active.
Well, if you have already registered your license, worry not! You won’t need to do a thing as your license registration will be automatically migrated. And for those of you, who ask customers to purchase a license and usually don’t have access to their Envato account, we’ve got you covered! You can still just ask them the purchase key and register with it.
Changes in Update Method
To provide a smoother experience, we had developed and implemented a custom method to offer Automatic Updates functionality. However, it had some drawbacks such as incompatibility with WP CLI and other softwares like Infinite WP that offer you functionality to manage websites remotely.
With version 3.16.8, we’re now using standard WordPress functions which means you can update the plugin just as you any other plugin from WordPress.org repository! Just register your license once and enjoy smooth automatic updates 🙂
Changes in our Support Portal
We’ve completely revamped our support site and you no more need to create account or login to your account to reach out to us. Now just fill out a simple form to open up your ticket 🙂
And that’s not all! There are many improvements and fixes we added in this release. Take a look at the detailed changelog below:
An option to pause on hover or center mode in Advanced Carousel
An option to switch to another tab by using the tab-index number
An option to align the title in an expandable section element
Margin / Padding options for Highlight box
Options to select zoom control positions for Google Maps Element
Typography options for the Countdown element
Apart from these, there are several improvements and fixes we’ve worked on. Here is a brief introduction for all of them.
Improvement: Added Area labels for Next/Prev buttons in Advanced Carousel
Improvement: RTL Support for all elements
Improvement: Rel and Title tag for all the links in all elements
Improvement: Maps – Added option to enable/disable dragging effect on desktop
Improvement: Info Box – Added option to select heading tags for title
Improvement: Modal Box – Added support for hosted videos in the modal box. Add any video with WordPress media selector and Select “Hosted video” in option.
Improvement: Optimized images in the plugin’s package
Fixed: Ultimate Addons menu not being registered in some multisite environments
Fixed: JavaScript files not being loaded on pages even if shortcode was present on a page
Fixed: Animation effects in advanced carousel not working
Fixed: Interactive banner 2 – Multiple interactive banners opening links in new tab. Each link did not open in a new tab, rather loaded the page in the same tab.
Fixed: Info list – List alignment set to right, breaks the content alignment to enter
Fixed: Disable Parallax on mobile option not working
Fixed: Insufficient memory error when activating the plugin from WP-CLI
Fixed: Center alignment of Flip boxes not working on mobile devices
Last, but not the least – Please Update!
Since we’ve made changes in the update method, one click auto updates with old method will be supported for roughly next 50 days, i.e. until April 20th, 2017. Of course, you will be able to manually update the plugin at anytime later (Through FTP or by reinstalling the plugin)
Not sure how to update any version before 3.16.8? Here is an article from our knowledge base.
Well, that’s about it for today! Try out the new version and let us know how you find it 🙂
Best Regards,
Sujay and whole UAVC team.
Version 3.16.7
4 Aug 2016
– Fixed: Appear animation conflict causing pages to creash in salient theme.
– Fixed: Flip boxes not working when added inside advanced carousel on mobile phones.
– Fixed: Info list causing descriptions not aligned in the center of adjacent icons.
– Fixed: Appear animation breaking for some users.
– Updaed slick js to latest version which fixes compatibility issues in Ultimate Carousel.
– Lots of minor bug fixes and browser compatibility fixes.
Version 3.16.6
28 Jun 2016
Highlights –
– Fixed: Font Icons – SSL issue for $_SERVER[HTTPS] failing
– Fixed: Icon Manager – Font zip are not showing after being uploaded
– Fixed: Icon Manager – Filetype x-zip allowed to upload
– Fixed: Advanced Button – Animation issue while background image applied
– Fixed: Video backgrounds – Safari browser alignment issue
– Improvement: Google Maps – Changed Google Map policy support to new domains with API key required – How to create Google API key in order to make the Google Maps element work?
Fixed: Font Icons – SSL issue for $_SERVER[HTTPS] failing
Recently, we have fixed the SSL issue. The fonts are not loading over HTTPS.
We have used $_SERVER[HTTPS] variable to check SSL although sometimes it is failing to provide the correct result.
Hence we have added a fallback method to check SSL.
Fixed: Icon Manager – Font zip are not showing after being uploaded
Due to recent WP updates, zips are not showing in Icon manager as soon as they are uploaded in media. And user required to refresh the page.
We have fixed this issue and now it is working perfectly.
Fixed: Icon Manager – Filetype x-zip allowed to upload
Recently we came across some weird issue. One of the users could not able to upload fonts as our script returning “Invalid ZIP file” error.
After debugging we found the server is returning x-zip file format hence our script is now allowing to proceed.
We have added x-zip file type support for Icon Manager.
Fixed: Advanced Button – Animation issue while background image applied
Animation was not working well while we used background images
Fixed: Video backgrounds – Safari browser alignment issue
In Safari browser the video is moved a bit down unnecessary.
We have added browser-specific CSS to resolve this issue.
Improvement: Google Maps – Changed Google Map policy support to new domains with API key required
Are you facing issue with Google Maps? Such as –
Well, this is because of two reasons –
1. Changed policy of Google Map API
2. Your domain must be created after June 22, 2016
Recent Google policy states that you must enter Google Map API key to keeping using of Google Maps.
Here we have added an option where a user can enter their key for Google Maps.
Note – The domains which are created before June 22, 2016, won’t necessary to create API key, the maps will continue to work without a key.
