TheGem is a versatile, responsive, high-performance WordPress theme with a modern creative design to suit a multitude of creative uses for building websites.

A Gem For Everyone

Designed and developed as an ultimate web building toolbox of design elements, styles & features, TheGem will help you build impressive, high-performance website in minutes, without touching a line of code. Don’t waste time on coding, explore your creativity!

TheGem has been carefully crafted for a variety of creative uses with such flexibility it really could be called the Swiss Army Knife of WordPress Themes!

With over 40 unique multi-purpose design concepts, 150 stunning demo pages, eight navigation settings in over 20 styles, plus flexible page layouts, the possibilities are really unlimited. Perfect for corporate business of any size and purpose, creative agency with fancy ideas, including fully featured WooCommerce fashion store ready to go, your website will spring to life within minutes. This theme also covers the needs of freelancer, photographer, architect & digital artist, offering amazing portfolio features with dedicated designs to suit individual needs. As experienced blogger seeking for unusual blog layouts that help to stand out, you will be inspired by TheGem’s blog features.

If you are a designer looking for a website with flair, then look no further. TheGem has been built with creative passion at heart, collaborating with top designers from Behance.net you will find eyepopping slick designs we know you will love.

TheGem for WordPress delivers everything to cover your ambitions & creative needs. Not convinced? Take it for a spin and check out some of the amazing demos NOW!

Why TheGem?

Take a look at our demos and you will quickly see 45 different reasons. Its design is impressive, the features and options are creative and well-balanced. There is nothing unnecessary and odd here – each and every design, style, layout and feature has been well thought out, based on years of experience building multi-purpose Wordpress themes. This culminates in a massive toolbox of a theme that gives you maximum creative freedom and simplicity in usage, that’s our promise.

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Ultimate Creative Power

The main intention for TheGem was to create a WordPress Theme for business, agencies, online shops, photographers, bloggers and designers that would give a maximum creative freedom for users not deeply involved in design & coding. The result is impressive: with more than 200 styles for more than 50 content elements you can create absolutely unique designs in minutes. It’s a wordpress onestop tool shop, and truly easy to use.

Future-Proof Design & Features

TheGem’s design is based on thorough analysis of 2016 Web Designs by UX Pin. This theme reflects modern trends of UI / UX design in the unique way, free of annoying mainstream approaches. TheGem is a fresh design experience, aimed to fulfill both understated and crazy ideas in a minimalistic, or excessive way – ultimately the choice is yours.

TheGem has over 40 complete design concepts, each and every one featuring its own style and character. These are not simple reskins; each demo has been thoroughly researched and features carefully considered design concepts, with a myriad of business types covered.

TheGem has been developed for high-performance and fully optimized for modern devices, including laptops, desktops, smartphones and tablets, as well as mastering SEO best practise. That’s why when buying TheGem you can be sure that you get the long- term winning website.

Secure, No Bloat, Focussed Usefulness

TheGem focuses only on addons & features which are needed for creating a diverse, unique website. Reducing the plugins dependency & optimising the code, we have achieved a much more stable and secure theme than many other multi-purpose themes on the market today. You can rest assured that with TheGem your new website is secure, future-proof, speedy and yet still packed with intuitive, awesome features without the bloat.

Broad Plugin Compatibility

By focussing on what users need and expect with a multi-purpose theme, TheGem has been optimized for compatibility with the most popular plugins from the WordPress plugin directory. This provides peace of mind to the end user that compatibility with industry bestpractise has already been achieved for you, no messy conflicts we promise.

Quick Facts

Built in collaboration with star designers from behance.net
Covers major UX / UI design trends of 2022
Strong focus on usability & user-experience
Perfect for corporate, agency, online shop, business, portfolio, blog, photography, landing page, app, onepage, fullscreen vertical scrolling, real estate, architecture, interior, construction
Fully responsive, mobile & retina ready
Can be used as multipage & onepage website
Includes fullscreen vertical scrolling
Multiple header & widgetised footer layouts
Unlimited sidebars with 20+ custom widgets
Fancy page headings with amazing backgrounds incl.
Parallax & video backgrounds
Built-in mega menu in 2 beautiful styles
Enhanced isotope grids
Infinite scrolling & load more pagination
Smooth scroll
Elegant animations
2500+ font icons (material design pack, elegant icons, fontawesome)

Easy To Use

No coding knowledge required
Updatable Visual Composer (No additional license needed, you save $34)
Very easy page building per drag’n’drop
150+ pre-built pages for quick start
Flexible easy-to-use page options
Enhanced intuitive portfolio & gallery management
Very detailed online documentation
Create stunning website without touching a line of code

Customizations

Fully Customizable
Powerful theme options
Unlimited colors for design & content elements
Google fonts & your own webfonts with font manager
250+ combinable style settings for shortcodes
Customize content styles easily in Visual Composer, no coding needed
Responsive visibility options

Optimizations

High performance, super fast with top pagespeed & yslow ratings
SEO / Search Engines Optimized, compatible with SEO plugins
WooCommerce full design integration for online shops
WPML optimized for translations & multilingual websites
Optimized for Contact Form 7
RTL ready
Child Theme Ready
Gutenberg & WordPress 5.0 ready
Compatible with 20 top popular wordpress plugins
Full cross-browser compatibility
One click demo import
Social networks, social sharing

Additional Values

WPBakery Page Builder ($64)
Revolution Slider ($85)
LayerSlider ($25)
Free updates
Experienced elite support
More infos on bundled plugins

UPDATE LOG:

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"** Version 5.11.0  - November 11th, 2025
NEW FEATURES
- Major accessibility compliance improvements (WCAG 2.2 / ADA / EAA)
- Added "Hotspot" content element
- Added "Image Compare" content element

NEW PRE-BUILT DEMOS
- AI Solutions, AI Startup, Smart AI Services, Auto Parts Shop, Health & Wellness Coach, Nutrition & Health Coach

UPDATES & IMPROVEMENTS
- Added "Category Base" slug setting for portfolio pages to include portfolio categories in portfolio page URLs
- Added "Brands" to the query selection in the Product Categories element
- Added an option to bypass content truncation in the Post Content element when used in the Loop Item Builder 
- Added "Product Meta" element to the Single Product Builder
- Ensured compatibility with the latest version of WordPress, WooCommerce, Elementor and WPBakery

BUG FIXES
- Fixed a minor border style issue in the “Filter Style” settings of the Products Grid element
- Fixed sticky column behavior (WPBakery)
- Fixed styling of the combobox for selecting product variations on product pages (WooCommerce)
- Fixed incorrect handling of the “Enable log-in during checkout” setting (WooCommerce)
- Fixed a minor issue in the WPML language selector

"** Version 5.10.5.2  - October 1st, 2025
SECURITY UPDATE
- This update contains important security fixes. Please make sure to update

NEW PRE-BUILT DEMOS
- News & Magazine, Modern Blog Magazine

UPDATES & IMPROVEMENTS
- Ensured compatibility with the latest versions of WordPress, WooCommerce, and Elementor
- Fixed a random loading issue in the Loop Item Builder (Elementor)
- Fixed a minor issue with the share link for social sharing on X

"** Version 5.10.5.1  - August 14th, 2025
SECURITY UPDATE:
- This update contains important security fixes. Please make sure to update.

UPDATES & IMPROVEMENTS:
- Added video background options to columns, inner rows and inner columns (WPBakery)
- Fixed a minor issue with margins in the Blog List element (Elementor)
- Ensured compatibility with the latest version of Elementor and WPBakery

"** Version 5.10.5  - July 31st, 2025
NEW PRE-BUILT DEMOS
- Tours & Travel, Steakhouse (light & dark versions), Seafood Restaurant, Modern Restaurant, Car Rental 02

UPDATES & IMPROVEMENTS
- Added new typography & styling settings for filter buttons & caption container in the Posts Extended Grid element
- Added support for the WYSIWYG ACF field type in the Custom Fields element
- Added new styling settings for product titles and prices in the Products Carousel element
- Added a Desktop Breakpoint setting in the Menu element in Header Builder for improved flexibility
- Improved font style list display in the Custom Heading element
- Ensured compatibility with the latest version of WooCommerce & Elementor
- Plugin Updates: Elementor, Revolution Slider, LayerSlider

BUG FIXES
- Fixed a compatibility issue with the Polylang plugin in AJAX live search when used in Templates Builder
- Fixed "Lines Slide Up" and "Words Slide Up" animations in the Animated Heading element when viewed in Firefox and Safari
- Fixed PHP deprecation notices when using PHP 8.2
- Fixed the Line Height setting for H1 on mobile devices in Theme Options → Typography
- Fixed custom CSS not importing in the Demo Import module (WPBakery)
- Fixed a minor issue causing menu blinking in the Header Builder (Elementor)

"** Version 5.10.4  - June 12th, 2025
NEW PRE-BUILT DEMOS
- Gym & Fitness (Dark), Gym & Fitness (Light), Tech Consulting & Solutions (Light & Dark)

UPDATES & IMPROVEMENTS
- Added "Ken Burns" effect with slideshow option for container backgrounds
- Added "Min Height" feature for pricing tables 
- Improved CSS saving process in Theme Options for enhanced security
- Improved layout shift behavior when using popups with the "Scrollbar Gutter Stability" setting
- Improved WPML compatibility for Global Section templates 
- Improved automatic background color styling in the TinyMCE editor 
- Updated "Styled Image" element
- Portfolio categories are now clickable on portfolio pages if portfolio archives are enabled

BUG FIXES
- Fixed a fatal error when deleting a post/product used for preview in TheGem Templates Builder
- Fixed background color display issue when using images with transparent backgrounds in the loop item builder
- Fixed cropped bottom area in the Testimonials element
- Fixed PHP warning when switching to the loop item builder from the Posts Extended Grid element
- Fixed scrolling issue in Fullpage Scrollers when viewed in the latest Safari browser
- Fixed issue in the "Clients" element: client sets were not properly filtered or displayed
- Fixed minor issue with the attribute select box in the "Add to Cart" element in TheGem templates
- Fixed minor issue with GIF logo support in Theme Options
- Fixed PHP warnings related to mega menu paddings
- Fixed duplicate "Image Ratio" setting in the "Posts Carousel" element

"** Version 5.10.3  - April 30th, 2025
NEW PRE-BUILT DEMOS 
- Tools Shop, Tech Startup Business, Yoga Studio, Mobile App Landing

NEW FEATURES
- Added dual-color attribute swatches
- Added "image" color attribute swatches
- Added filter by amount of sales (bestsellers) in product grids — product tabs filter
- Added HTML tag settings for accordion titles
- Added "Min Height" feature for textboxes 
- Added option to display a label with the client's name in the "Clients" element (on hover) 

UPDATES & IMPROVEMENTS
- Improved compatibility of TheGem content elements with Elementor's element caching feature
- Added new social icons to the "Social Icons" element in TheGem Header Builder
- Added optimization settings for managing WooCommerce product attributes count transient cache 
- Added a setting in Theme Options for enabling/disabling the mixed search results page
- Added 2x column setting for mobiles and tablets in the Posts Extended Grid element when loop item templates are used 
- Improved the display of review counts in product grids/lists
- Improved the display of the visibility icon in the WooCommerce "My Account" area (login, sign-up)
- Added a relative date format for the Post Meta element when used in the portfolio page builder
- Improved the display and behavior of the "Cart" element when used in global sections for mobile navigation
- Improved RTL styles for WooCommerce pages (shop, product pages, cart/checkout)
- Added new image sizes for the "Clients" element 
- Ensured compatibility with the latest version of Elementor, WPBakery Page Builder and WooCommerce
- Plugin Updates: Elementor, WPBakery, Revolution Slider, LayerSlider

BUG FIXES
- Fixed a minor issue in the single post builder to correctly detect the template in Elementor 
- Fixed lazy loading of images in mega menu templates
- Fixed a minor issue when navigating through bottom thumbnails in the "Gallery Slider" element 
- Fixed AJAX add-to-cart issue in the single product template
- Fixed mobile padding issues in the "Background Container" element
- Fixed query display issues in Testimonials and Teams elements when Elementor's cache is enabled

"** Version 5.10.2  - February 25th, 2025
NEW PRE-BUILT DEMOS:
- Design & Branding Agency (dark and light versions), Fullservice Digital Agency (dark and light versions), Digital Agency Onepager, Advertising Agency

UPDATES & IMPROVEMENTS
- Added customization options for the "Scroll to Top" button in Theme Options
- Added Polylang support in the Header Builder - Language Switcher element
- Added relative date format for the Post Meta element (date, date updated)
- Added settings for custom image aspect ratio in the Gallery Slider element
- Added submenu indicator option for the built-in header
- Added support for Elementor's "Element Caching" option for content elements
- Added auto-exclusion of GDPR elements from Elementor's "Element Caching" option
- Added automatic removal of excluded terms in all grid filters
- Added Bluesky and Houzz social icons
- Added display of username in the "Sign In / Sign Out" content element
- Added WPML and Polylang support for the built-in "Thank You / Purchase Summary" WooCommerce checkout page
- Improved GDPR settings for Google Maps

BUG FIXES 
- Fixed correct loading of styles when the GDPR module is enabled/disabled
- Fixed minor compatibility issues with WPML and Polylang plugins
- Fixed compatibility issues with the latest version of the WCFM Marketplace plugin
- Fixed correct display of stock amount when a single product template is used
- Fixed correct display of grouped products in the "Add to Cart" element when a single product template is used
- Fixed PHP warning in the Gallery Grid element

"** Version 5.10.1 - January 14th, 2025
NEW PRE-BUILT DEMOS:
- Creative Agency (dark and light versions), SEO Agency

UPDATES & IMPROVEMENTS:
- Updated Google Fonts in Theme Options with new fonts added
- Improved support for TTF and WOFF2 fonts in TheGem’s Self-Hosted Fonts module
- Ensured compatibility with the latest version of WooCommerce and Elementor
- Improved compatibility with the Polylang plugin in TheGem Templates Builder
- Added responsive options for frame settings in "Body Frame" website layout

BUG FIXES:
- Fixed the "Truncate Title" setting in the Portfolio Grid element
- Resolved a minor visual issue with the "Perspective" navigation type 
- Fixed the Progress Donut element when used within tabs and accordions
- Corrected the disabling of styles and scripts in the GDPR module when GDPR is disabled
- Fixed loading of TheGem icon library in the "Menu" element in Header Builder
- WooCommerce: Fixed duplicate wishlist icon display in legacy product grids
- WooCommerce: Fixed the "Clear selection" button functionality after selecting product variations in the quick view popup
- WooCommerce: Fixed an error notice in the product gallery when a product image is removed
- Header Builder: Applied a minor compatibility fix in the "Menu" content element

"** Version 5.10.0 - December 12th, 2024
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Ensured compatibility with the latest version of WordPress. Elementor and WPBakery security fixes released. Please make sure to update.

NEW FEATURES:
- Mobile Navigation Builder:
-- Create custom layouts for mobile navigation using Elementor or WPBakery to elevate your website’s mobile experience
-- Use any content elements available in the page builder
-- Includes 5+ pre-built mobile navigation templates with a one-click import feature
- Portfolio Archives: added the option to enable portfolio archive pages in Theme Options with built-in layouts or custom archive templates
- "Custom Menu" Element: introduced additional settings for submenu items
- Dynamic Popup: added a simple way to assign popups to any links via dynamic tags. Popups can now be triggered with any link
- Dynamic Lightbox: added a "Dynamic Lightbox" feature that allows linking elements to images or videos, which open in a lightbox

NEW PRE-BUILT DEMOS:
- Job Board Listing, Online Courses, Dental Care

UPDATES & IMPROVEMENTS:
- Added a "Truncate Title" option to the products grid, product carousel content elements, and shop grid settings 
- Added an "HTML Tag" setting for product titles on product pages
- Fullpage Scroller: Added "Footer Slide Anchor" and "Footer Slide Name" settings for the footer area 
- Added a "1x" column setting to the "Posts Carousel" element
- Added an "8x" column setting to the "Product Categories" element ( Elementor, WPBakery )
- Added a "Scrollbar Gutter Stability" setting to prevent content layout shifts when the scrollbar appears
- Added the "Search Form" and "Sign In/Sign Out" elements to "General Elements," making it available for use in any content type
- TheGem Demo Import: added an one-click installation of required plugins in shop and listings demos
- Plugin Updates: TheGem Blocks, Elementor, WPBakery, Revolution Slider, LayerSlider 

BUG FIXES:
- Fixed compatibility issues with the latest version of WordPress, Elementor and WPBakery (make sure to update)
- Resolved an issue with the thumbnail arrow in the "Gallery Slider" element for correct display in Chrome
- Elementor: Fixed interactions, parallax effects and GDPR module when Elementor's element caching feature is enabled
- Fixed the display of the off-canvas content area when enabled for built-in header types in Theme Options 
- Fixed the display of the legacy classic shop grid
- Elementor: Fixed the trigger for "body start," ensuring it fires correctly
- Ensured compatibility with the latest version of the YITH Wishlist plugin and WPML plugin
- Applied minor fixes for compatibility with the Relevanssi plugin and the latest Polylang plugin

"** Version 5.9.9 - September 30th, 2024
IMPORTANT UPDATE: WooCommerce Compatibility and Elementor Security Fixes Released. Please make sure to update.

NEW DEMOS 
Interior Design, Branding Agency, Shop Jewelry, Medical Directory/Listing

NEW FEATURES 
- Added support for "Teams" and "Testimonials" post types in "Posts Extended Grid" and "Posts Carousel" queries. You can now display team members and testimonials using these versatile grid and carousel content elements
- Added the option to enable single team member pages and team archives in Theme Options
- Added the ability to use loop item templates built with TheGem Templates Builder to display custom designs for team members and testimonials in loops
- Extended the built-in custom fields for team members and testimonials with dynamic TheGem custom fields
- Added hierarchical portfolio categories, allowing unlimited sub-levels to the portfolio category structure
- Added responsive options for adjusting the width of the off-canvas content area in header builder
- Introduced additional padding settings for menu items in custom menu element

UPDATES & IMPROVEMENTS
- Restored the classic appearance of the portfolio categories metabox 
- Posts Extended Grid and Posts Carousel Elements: Added buttons for creating, editing, and inserting loop item templates 
- WooCommerce: Improved compatibility, display, and functionality of the native WooCommerce product gallery on product pages. Ensured compatibility with the latest WooCommerce version
- Elementor & WPBakery: Improved the transition effect for sticky containers and rows
- Plugins Updated

BUG FIXES 
- Fixed responsive settings for image positioning in "Image" element
- Fixed parallax backgrounds in sections if lazy loading for backgrounds is activated 
- Resolved the preg_split() deprecation error in Posts Extended Grid
- Corrected the display of the metro grid on iOS devices
- Fixed loading animations and double navigation issues on mobile devices in Gallery Grid element
- Fixed interaction effects when the “Element Caching” option is enabled in Elementor
- Elemenetor - Single Product Builder: Fixed preview of product content in “Description” tab
- Applied minor RTL fixes for the “Product Carousel” element
- Fixed issue with clickable client items in "Clients" element
- Fixed issues with the display of dynamic tags in the loop item builder

"** Version 5.9.8  - August 14th, 2024
UPDATES & IMPROVEMENTS
- WPBakery: Added new positioning settings for the “Styled Image” content element
- Fullpage Scroller: Added options to apply different color schemes to the header and navigation dots on different slides 
- Loop Item Builder: Added a “Post Content” element to display post content in loop item templates 
- Testimonials: Added an option to show testimonials in random order
- Pages: Added “excerpt” meta field 
- WooCommerce, Search Results: Added an option to include product variations in search results 
- WooCommerce: Improved compatibility with the WooCommerce PayPal Payments add-on
- Improved scrolling behavior on touch devices by updating the touchstart event  
- Added a social icon for Threads
- WPML: Applied several updates to increase compatibility
- WooCommerce: Ensured compatibility with the latest WooCommerce version and WooCommerce Germanized plugin
- Elementor: Updated for compatibility with the latest Elementor version
- Updated WPBakery plugin (important security update), Elementor, Revolution Slider and LayerSlider plugins

NEW PRE-BUILT DEMOS
- Real Estate Agency & Listing 03 

BUG FIXES 
- WPML Multicurrency: Fixed a currency issue in AJAX live search
- Header Builder, WPBakery: Fixed a minor issue with inner rows 
- Overlay Navigation: Fixed a minor issue where desktop overlay navigation
- “Video” Portfolio Item: Fixed the video autoplay on mobile devices
- Loop Item Builder: Fixed default styles for the “Product Price” and “Add to Cart” elements
- Elementor: Fixed size settings for the close icon in the "Accordion" content element
- WPBakery, Templates Builder: Fixed saving "Post Meta" element in single post template
- WPBakery: Minor fix for video backgrounds in rows
- WPBakery, Templates Builder: Fixed flex settings in inner rows and columns

"** Version 5.9.7 - July 2nd, 2024 
IMPORTANT UPDATE: 
- Deprecated DOMSubtreeModified event removed and replaced for compatibility with the new versions of Chrome browser. Please make sure to update prior to the end of July, 2024.

NEW FEATURES:
Templates Builder:
- Added option to apply specific single post templates to all posts of a selected taxonomy term
- Added option to apply specific single product templates to all products of a selected product taxonomy term 
- Added "Post Gallery" dynamic source option to "Gallery Grid" and "Gallery Slider" elements 
WooCommerce:
- Added display of image swatches to product filters and product grids
- Added additional tooltip option for displaying image swatches 
- Added display of review counts in product grids/lists
Header, Title Area, Fullpage Scroller: 
- Added separate "Header Overlap" setting for mobiles 
- Added sticky container option for Elementor containers
- Fullpage: Added color settings for navigation dots 
- Title Area: Added option to enable/disable display of post excerpt
Grids: 
- Gallery Grid: Added "Equal height" option for "Fullsize" image sizes
- Post Extended Grid, Portfolio Grid: Added "Default filter: Hide Empty Filters" option for shared taxonomies

NEW DEMOS: 
- Real Estate Agency & Listing 02 
- Fullpage Creative Portfolio 01
- Fullpage Creative Portfolio 02
- Fullpage Creative Portfolio 03

UPDATES:
- Added new prebuilt blocks for Team, Footer, and Contact
- Ensured compatibility with the latest WooCommerce version
- Updated sliders for compatibility with the latest SR7 update of Revolution Slider
- Updated for compatibility with the latest Elementor version
- Updated for compatibility with the latest WPBakery version
- WPML: Applied several updates for increased compatibility
- WPBakery, Elementor, Revolution Slider & LayerSlider plugins updated 

BUG FIXES: 
- Elementor containers: Fixed missing video background dynamic tag in templates builder
- Elementor, dynamic tags: Fixed several issues with displaying ACF dynamic fields
- Onepager: Fixed correct display of the active main menu item
- WooCommerce, single product builder: Fixed correct application of TinyMCE styles in "Product Short Description" content element
- Fullpage Scroller: Fixed issues with closing and correct displaying of navigation
- Fullpage Scroller: Fixed sticky header issue
- WPML: Fixed correct filtering in grids for multilingual filters
- One-click optimization: Fixed wishlist icon in header
- Templates Builder: Fixed correct importing of the prebuilt cart templates

"** Version 5.9.6  - May 2nd, 2024
NEW FEATURES
- Loop Builder: Added WooCommerce content elements. Create custom loop item designs for shop product loops
- 7 pre-built shop loop item templates added 
- Title Area Builder: New dynamic elements for page/post title, excerpt, featured image and more added to the title area builder 
- Preview settings for title area templates added in page builders
- 10 new pre-built title area templates added 
- Archives Builder: Added pre-built templates for search results page
- TheGem Blocks updated. Major update of pre-built TheGem Blocks: added new blocks for eCommerce, FAQ, Clients, Call to action, Services, Testimonials, About Us, Pricing Tables, Counters, Contact, Footer
- New pre-built demos: Sushi Bar (WooCommerce), Mobile App Landing

UPDATES & IMPROVEMENTS
- Added "Default Paddings" option to Elementor flexbox containers to maximize compatibility with default TheGem paddings and gaps used for sections and columns in previous Elementor versions
- Improved compatibility with the latest WPML and ACF Multilingual versions for all TheGem content widgets in Elementor, project details and TheGem custom fields
- Improved accessibility and SEO for all grid elements 
- Added option to close hamburger menu navigation on ESC
- Added option to show collapsible submenus on click for vertical menu layout in "Custom Menu" element
- Ensured compatibility with the latest versions of Elementor, WooCommerce, and WordPress
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder plugin & Revolution Slider plugin (security vulnerabilities fixes), Elementor & LayerSlider plugin 

BUG FIXES
- Fixed functionality issues with "Reverse Columns" and "Custom Breakpoints" (Elementor)
- Fixed formatting display in product short description for Product List and Product Grid elements 
- Fixed social sharing in templates created with TheGem templates builder
- Fixed JSON encoding and usage of Cyrillic letters in "Additional Tabs" feature (WooCommerce)
- Fixed applying of product archive templates to product attributes and product tags archives (WooCommerce)
- Fixed display issues in mega menu templates used in header templates built with flexbox containers (Elementor)
- Fixed  language switcher header element for better compatibility with the latest WPML version 
- Fixed "Equal Height" setting in Posts Extended Grid element in case loop item template is used (Elementor)
- Fixed lazy loading animations of button element in Fullpage Scroller
- Fixed "Truncate description" setting in Blog List and Blog Grid
- Fixed "Autoscroll" setting in “Clients” element (Elementor)
- Fixed compatibility issues with Polylang plugin and WP Offload Media plugin

"** Version 5.9.0  - July 26th, 2023
NEW FEATURES
- Loop Builder
-- Create custom designs for your grid/list items: posts, pages, portfolios & CPTs. Easy and fast, with Elementor or WPBakery
-- 5 dynamic loop item specific content elements: Post Title, Post Excerpt, Featured Media, Post Meta, Custom Fields (full compatibility with ACF and Toolset plugins)
-- Full compatibility with custom post types
-- 40+ pre-built loop item templates with one-click import feature
-- Posts Extended Grid & Posts Carousel: Loop Item Templates option added to apply loop templates to grids/lists

- Grid Filter & Grid Sorting elements added
-- Smart AJAX filters for any post type
-- Full compatibility with WooCommerce, CPTs, ACF and Toolset
-- Filter Builder
-- Cross-Page Filtering

- Post Gallery added
-- Post Gallery meta box added
-- TheGem Elementor: Post format "Gallery" added to display post galleries in post grids 
-- TheGem WPBakery: Post format "Gallery" extended with "Post Gallery Meta Box" option
-- Post Gallery content element added to dynamically display the gallery from post gallery meta box

- Posts Carousel content element added
- Portfolio Carousel content element added 
- Gallery Grid: Filter added

- WooCommerce
-- Off Canvas Cart: quantity selection control added
-- Collapsible hierarchy option for product categories added
-- Product Filters: list max height setting for filters added
-- Product Filters: dropdown filter display type added to the vertical/sidebar filte 

- Templates Builder: preview settings for single post and archive templates added in page builders 
- Custom Fields element: frontend formatting options for ACF field type "checkbox" added 

NEW PRE-BUILT DEMO
- Car listing / rental
-- Custom post type
-- Custom taxonomies
-- ACF fields
-- Loop item templates
-- Grid filters
-- Single post & archive templates

UPDATES & IMPROVEMENTS
- Compatibility with the latest WooCommerce version
- Compatibility with the latest WooCommerce Germanized version
- Team content element: equal height setting added
- Quickfinders content element: equal height setting added
- Elementor, accordion content element: Option to close open section on click added
- Elementor: default PHP page template option added to Theme Options
- WPBakery, rows & columns: background overlay and background gradient options added
- WPBakery, inner rows: position absolute added
- WPbakery, icon content element: Option to add SVGs and images added
- Button content element: settings for top and bottom margins added in WPBakery
- WPBakery, Button content element: inline positioning option added
- Portfolio Item: option to add alternative image to display in lightbox added
- WPBakery, Dynamic Data: "Manual Input" option added to manually specify any custom field using the field’s name
- Elementor plugin updated
- LayerSlider plugin updated
- Documentation relaunched: https://docs.codex-themes.com/
- New video tutorials added: https://www.youtube.com/@codexthemes9412/videos

BUG FIXES:
- WooCommerce: fix for sticky sidebar setting in main shop page and product categories
- WooCommerce: fix for "add to cart" notification in case of "out of stock" products
- WooCommerce: fix for correct displaying of mini cart in the latest WooCommerce version
- WooCommerce Germanized: fix for Checkout Builder (duplicate display of checkboxes)
- Single Product Builder: fix for "Additional information" tab in case of variable products
- Fix for mobile search text placeholder not being changed via Theme Options
- Portfolio Grid, Posts Extended Grid: fix for correct displaying metro grid in Safari browser
- WPBakery, Blog content element: minor fixes for Styled List 01 and Styled List 02 blog styles

"** Version 5.8.0  - April 25th, 2023
NEW FEATURES
- Portfolio Page Builder
-- Create global portfolio page templates using the page builder of your choice: Elementor or WPBakery
-- 10 project specific content elements: Title & Excerpt, Featured Image, Project Gallery, Project Meta, Project Details, Custom Fields, Related Projects, Navigation, Breadcrumbs, Project Content
-- Dynamic content elements for displaying project specific personalized information like client, services, technical data etc.
-- 17 pre-built creative project templates with one-click import feature

- Portfolio Page settings extended
-- New media formats for portfolio grids/lists: Animated GIFs, Videos, Galleries
-- Project gallery meta box added
-- Project Details custom fields added

- "Portfolio Grid" content element extended
-- Support for new media formats added: Animated GIFs, Videos, Galleries 
-- New design skin added: Alternative Style
-- Image Aspect Ratio setting added 
-- Project Details in grid item's caption 
-- AJAX portfolio filters extended, AJAX search added
-- "Read More" button options added
-- Two new hover effect options added 
-- "Disable hover icons" and "Disable link to portfolio page" options added
-- New AJAX preloader type added 

- Query for posts in grids and lists extended
-- Support for posts of any post type added 
-- "Same taxonomy items ( Related )" option added
-- Dynamic query depending on the taxonomies of the selected post type
-- Exclude posts selection extended

- "Posts Extended Grid" content element 
-- "Blog Extended Grid" renamed in "Posts Extended Grid" and upgraded
-- Create listings of any kind with dynamic content and AJAX filtering
-- Query for posts extended ( see above )
-- New image controls added 
-- Custom Fields in post caption added (supports ACF/Toolset)
-- AJAX grid filters extended and AJAX search added 
-- "Read More" button options added
-- New AJAX preloader type added 

- Post formats upgraded 
-- Video format controls for displaying videos in posts grids enhanced 
-- Elementor: Gallery meta box added for displaying galleries in posts grids

- Single Post/Page & Archives templates extended 
-- Single Post Builder & Archives Builder are extended and now can be used with any post type or page. Create global single post & archive content templates and apply them on pages/single posts and archives of any type
-- Full support for custom post types

- Dynamic Content 
-- TheGem's Custom Fields added: add different types of custom fields globally and personalize values in any posts of any post type
-- Dynamic Tags extended (Elementor): the list of accessible dynamic tags options extended, full support for for ACF and Toolset fields
-- Dynamic Data (WPBakery): Dynamic data (text, link, image) option added to the following content elements: Rows, Columns, Heading, Infotext, Button
-- Dynamic Text Shortcode: insert dynamic text fragments and combine them with static text within one text block / sentence
-- Single Post Data elements added: special group of dynamic content elements, which can be used on any post/page via page builder

- Custom Post Types
-- Full support for custom post types in Theme Options and Page Options added
-- Support for custom post types in TheGem Templates Builder added. Apply templates created with Templates Builder on your custom post types
-- Support for custom post types in grids and lists added. Create loops with posts of your own custom post type

- WooCommerce Builder updates
-- Additional (Custom) Product Tabs feature added
-- Off Canvas Cart added
-- New grid product images settings added: image size, image aspect ratio
-- Single Product Builder: "Gallery Grid" element can now be used in product templates with dynamic data source "Product Gallery" 
-- Theme Options - Shop Grid: product list layout added, "Hide out of stock" option added 
-- Products Grid element upgraded: exclude query extended, new ajax preloader style added, new options for "load more" pagination 
-- WPBakery, product carousel & product categories elements: shadow settings added 

- Performance updates:
-- Native lazy load option added: lazy loading uses browser to detect elements in the viewport and lazy load them
-- HTML / DOM size optimized for all grids and lists
-- "Reduce HTML Size" setting added in all grids and lists
-- Posts Extended Grid: JS and CSS optimized 

- WPML updates 
-- Translation of product attributes in WooCommerce - Shop Grid 
-- Improvements in WPML integration for templates created in TheGem Templates Builder
-- Option to assign different logos for different language versions

UPDATES & IMPROVEMENTS
- WooCommerce
-- Product tabs: click behavior on mobiles improved
-- Style improvements for WooCommerce Germanized plugin
-- RTL improvements in shop filters

- WCAG: "Empty button" and "Empty links" improvement recommendation added to TheGem Button element and grids
- Popups: Images preloading option added
- WPBakery: Video background added to the row's settings
- Elementor: Placeholder for Revolution Slider's / LayerSlider slide in editing mode added
- Elementor, Accordion: option to load all sections closed added
- Pagination option added to blog -> compact list styles 
- TikTok icon added to header icons pack 

BUG FIXES
- WooCommerce: AJAX Add to cart fixes for variable products in Single Product Builder
- WooCommerce: fix for switching the product variation images in gallery
- PHP8 compatibility fixes
- Fix for LayerSlider selection not saved in Page Options
- Fix for YITH Wishlist Pro plugin: Wishlist icon disappears in Header Builder
- WPBakery, fullpage scroller: minor fix for footer scrolling
- Elementor: fix for link custom attributes in TheGem Button content element 
- Header Builder: fix for search in mobile navigation 
- Theme Options: Single Pages -> Search Page: fix for title template
- Minor compatibility fix for RankMath SEO
- Minor fixes for "Title Area -> Video" in Elementor

"** Version 5.7.0  - November 29th, 2022
NEW FEATURES
- Popups Builder
-- Build engaging popups in any imaginable designs. Fast & easy. With page builder of your choice: Elementor or WPBakery
-- Use any content elements available in page builder
-- Smart Triggers: specify triggers to show popups in the right moment. Add and combine multiple triggers matching your marketing requirements: On page load, On scroll, On exit, On click, After inactivity
-- Advanced Options: add additional options like "show after x page views", "show up to x times", "popup delay", "scroll direction" etc. to enhance the user experience
-- Display Options: choose where to include your popup. Activate your popup for the entire website or exclude it from specific parts. Specify on which pages, posts, archives, post types the popups should be shown.
-- Display Position: specify different popup positions across different devices.
-- Separate Devices: define on which devices to show your popup: desktops, tablets, mobiles. Show different popups on different devices. Apply different popup styling options across different devices.
-- "On Click" Popups Anywhere: activate "on click" popups for any content elements on your page - buttons, links, banners etc. Add promotions, subscriptions, contacts and custom menus anywhere on your website - for example as buttons in header, content or footer.
-- 40+ Animations: choose from different entrance and exit animations with different directions.
-- 50+ pre-built engaging popup templates with one-click import feature

- Single Post Builder
-- Create custom global blog post templates using the page builder of your choice: Elementor or WPBakery
-- Use any content elements available in page builder
-- Dynamic content: populate your blog post templates with dynamic content like title, excerpt, main content, featured content etc. using dynamic content modules
-- Display options: apply blog templates globally on all blog posts. Or apply different templates for specific posts separately to make them stand out.
-- 10+ blog post specific content elements: Post Title, Post Excerpt, Post Content, Post Info / Meta, Post Navigation, Featured Image, Featured Content, Author Box, Post Breadcrumbs, Post Comments
-- 30+ pre-built single post templates with one-click import feature

- One-Click Optimization Extended
-- One-Click Optimization tool is extended with WP Super Cache plugin bundled with TheGem
-- Automatic installation, setup & configuration
-- Delay JavaScript Execution option added
-- "Force JS delay on product pages" and "Force JS delay on shop pages" options added for installations running WooCommerce
-- Disable Gutenberg CSS option added: in case you don't use Gutenberg you can use this setting to avoid loading of unused Gutenberg CSS files

- Privacy & GDPR module extended
-- "Disable Google Fonts" one-click option added
-- "Disable DNS Prefetch" one-click option added

- Variation Swatches in Shop / Product Grids (WooCommerce)
-- Let your shop visitor choose the product variations directly in shop grid / product listing and add it to the cart without visiting the product page
-- Activate color swatches, label swatches and other attributes and display it in product loops, showing the respective variation image

- Product List (WooCommerce): New layout for presenting product loops added - Product List
- New content element added: Social Sharing

- Portfolio Grid element 
-- new grid style added - Creative Grid
-- "image height" control added
-- "truncate title" and "truncate description" controls added
-- new sorting options for portfolio items in grid + "exclude portfolio items " + "offset" options added

UPDATES & IMPROVEMENTS
- Shop Grid / Products Grid (WooCommerce): TheGem Filters - option to define the appearance order of filters added
- Elementor: Portfolio Grid, Blog Extended Grid, Products Grid, Gallery Grid - "Disable Grid Preloader" option added
- WPBakery: "Reverse columns order on mobiles", "Reverse columns order on tablets" options added for rows
- WPBakery, single post, rows and columns: Ken Burns and parallax effects apply on post's featured image in case no image is selected for Ken Burns / parallax and "Use post featured image as background" option is activated
- WooCommerce templates updated for compatibility with the latest WooCommerce version
- List of available Google Fonts updated
- Easy Forms for Mailchimp plugin: compatibility with PHP 8.x fixed; WPBakery: Easy Forms for Mailchimp editing modal in WPBakery front end editor fixed
- WPBakery plugin updated
- Elementor plugin updated
- LayerSlider plugin updated
- Revolution Slider plugin updated

BUG FIXES
- WooCommerce: filtering by product tags and product brands (WooCommerce Brands plugin) fixed
- WooCommerce: coupon form in checkout fixed
- WooCommerce: add to cart issue fixed for WooCommerce Subscription plugin
- WooCommerce: responsiveness for "Additional Information" table improved
- Elementor, Blog Extended Grid: audio posts - audio player design fixed
- WPBakery, TheGem Button: Element ID control fixed

"** Version 5.6.0  - October 04th, 2022

NEW FEATURES
- Cart & Checkout Builder (WooCommerce): Create any imaginable cart & checkout layouts with page builder of your choice: Elementor or WPBakery. Incl. 22 pre-built cart & checkout templates with one-click import feature

- Product Archives Builder (WooCommerce): Create global product archives templates (product category pages, product tag pages, product attribute pages) using the page builder. Incl. 12 pre-built creative product archives templates with one-click import feature

- Archives Builder: Create global blog archives templates (blog categories, tags) using the page builder of your choice: Elementor or WPBakery. Incl. 30+ pre-built creative blog archives templates with one-click import feature

- Blog Extended Grid element: new blog style added, new grid style added, "image height" control added,  "hide description" and "truncate description" controls added
- Blog List, Blog Grid, Extended Grid, Blog Slider, Featured Posts Slider - multi-select option for "Posts Source" control added. Select posts basing on categories, tags, authors and manual posts selection
- Blog List, Blog Grid, Extended Grid, Blog Slider, Featured Posts Slider - new sorting options for posts added
- Custom Menu element: horizontal layout added, menu pointers with animations added
- Header Builder: new element "Sign In / Sign Out" added for adding sign in, sign out, my account etc. links, which differ depending on the logged in or logged out user
- Visibility settings for content elements depending on the logged in or logged out user status

NEW PRE-BUILT SHOP DEMOS

UPDATES & IMPROVEMENTS
- Elementor: "offset" option for full height sections added for correct calculation of the viewport area in case header is used
- WPBakery, TheGem Button: additional settings for responsive mode added
- Page Options: new style settings for titles and excerpts in "Regular Title Area" added
- Templates Builder: "private" status by templates removed to avoid misunderstandings
- WooCommerce: style of WooCommerce notices refreshed to meet the modern look
- WPBakery: script for sticky columns improved
- Updates for compatibility with the latest WooCommerce version
- Elementor plugin updated
- LayerSlider plugin updated
- Revolution Slider plugin updated

"** Version 5.5.0  - July 07th, 2022
NEW FEATURES

- Mega Menu Builder: Create any imaginable mega menu layouts with page builder of your choice: Elementor or WPBakery. Incl. 50+ pre-built mega menu templates for shops, agencies, business etc. with one-click import feature 

- Single Product Builder (WooCommerce)
-- Create global product page templates using the page builder of your choice: Elementor or WPBakery. Incl. 15 pre-built creative product templates with one-click import feature

- New content element: Custom Menu. 
- New content element: Products compact grid/list. 
- Blog List content element: new style presets added for showing blog posts in a compact style
- Product Grids, Product Carousel: new products sources added to display related or upsell products in Single Product Builder 
- Column (Elementor): sticky column option added
- Rows and Columns (WPBakery): option to display post own featured image as background image added
- Columns (WPBakery): options for adding shadows added
- TheGem Blocks plugin: mega menu and single product blocks added

UPDATES & IMPROVEMENTS
-Theme Options -> WooCommerce -> Shop Grid: random ordering option added
- Heading (WPBakery) / Animated Heading (Elementor) content element: icon color settings added
- Product categories: 1x and 2x columns grid option added
- Infotext content element (WPBakery): option for using images instead of icons added
- AJAX Live Search: searching with SKUs added
- Search results: searching in custom post types added
- Header icons pack added to Icons Library to be available while editing any post type
- Divider content element (WPBakery): additional settings added
- TheGem Blocks plugin updated
- LayerSlider plugin updated
- Revolution Slider plugin updated

NEW PRE-BUILT SHOP DEMOS

BUG FIXES
- Theme Options -> Archive Pages -> Blog: fix for layout settings not being applied on tags archives
- Fix for animated heading element for proper display of animations if used in title area template
- Fix for infinite scroll pagination on the mixed search results page
- Minor bug fixes in heading animations (words animations supporting extended characters)
- Fix for compatibility with sitemap xml generated by RankMath (conflict with pagespeed optimization script resolved)
- Fix for compatibility between Footer templates and WPML Multilingual plugin

"** Version 5.3.0 - January 25th, 2022 
NEW FEATURES:
New Header Builder
- Create any imaginable website headers with page builder of your choice: Elementor and WPBakery
- Easy & intuitive frontend editing
- Use any content elements available in page builder
- Flexible layouting and elements positioning with TheGem’s flex options
- Multiple menu layouts
- Design separate header layouts for different devices (desktop, tablet, mobile)
- Two options for making sticky headers
- Header overlap for transparent headers with one-click activation option
- 14 header specific content elements: logo, menu, secondary menu, wishlist, my account, infobox and many more
- 40+ pre-built header templates for shops, agencies, business etc. with one-click import feature

Icon Library (TheGem WPBakery)
- Brand new TheGem icon library for WPBakery page builder with easy & fast icon search (available in all WPBakery elements, which use icons)
- New icon pack for header builder elements

IMPROVEMENTS:
- Product galleries on product pages have been optimized for faster loading and better web core vitals
- Optimized styles on product pages for faster loading
- WPBakery: new “Shadow” setting in row’s design options
- WPBakery: new “Z-Index” settings in row’s design options

UPDATES:
Templates Builder
- "Custom Titles" renamed in "Title area templates" and moved to TheGem's Template Builder 
- "Custom Footers" renamed in "Footer templates" and moved to TheGem's Template Builder

"** Version 5.2.0 - November 2nd, 2021 
NEW FEATURES
One-Click Optimization
- Improved core web vitals & performance
- Extra speed boost for page loading
- Webpage Caching
- CSS & JS minification with Autoptimize plugin (bundled with TheGem, free)
- Automated one-click setup

Animated Heading
- New content element to add headings with plenty of additional options like combined headings, text rotation, flexible HTML formatting control for SEO, responsive options 
- Advanced heading animations 

AJAX Live Search
- Live search with instant search results 
- Increased search speed
- Better user experience 
- Fullscreen overlay search (horizontal and overlay menu types)
- Search input with AJAX live search (hamburger, perspective and vertical menu types)
- Control of post types to involve in searching 
- Control of instant search result suggestions amount
- Popular searches 

New product layouts
- Centered Product Info
- Boxed Product Info, Custom Background

"** Version 5.1.0 - August 19th, 2021 
NEW FEATURES
Shop Grid
- Extended Shop Grids for shop main page and WooCommerce archive pages
- justified, masonry and metro grid layouts
- flexible adjustable grid columns and gaps with additional responsive options
- 25+ pre-made customizable product item presets (check demos)
- load more, infinite scroll and page numbers pagination options
- 6 adjustable "sale", "new", "out of stock" labels pre-sets
- extended WooCommerce widgets product filters with AJAX filtering: sidebar filter and hidden sidebar filter
- 3 types of in-built AJAX TheGem products filters: sidebar, hidden sidebar, horizontal filters
- 6 types of lazy loading grid animation styles
- skeleton preloader for shop grid
- additional customizable grid styling options

Single Product
- Advanced single product layouts for WooCommerce product pages 
- AJAX add to cart
- flexible adjustable columns width for product gallery and product description
- adjustable column position for product gallery and product description
- 100% width layout option
- sticky product option
- location for page builder content: you can now select where to display content created with page builder: inside of "Description" tab and as extra content below tabs
- 3 types of layout for description & reviews: tabs, accordion, one-by-one
- 3 types of styles for description & reviews tabs
- different position for description & reviews accordions (next to gallery, below gallery)
- additional layout options for description & reviews tabs & accordions
- additional display options for elements on product page (title, description, reviews, price etc.)
- extra display option for product attribute (like "Brand" for example)
- additional display options for product meta elements
- upsell products: settings for columns, number of items with additional responsive options
- related products: settings for columns, number of items with additional responsive options
- 6 pre-built customizable product layout presets

Cart & Checkout
- New cart & checkout layouts added 
- checkout steps in two styles
- cross-Sell products: settings for columns, number of items with additional responsive options
- extra content for "Thank you / order complete" page

Page Builders
- products grid: replacement of isotope by css flex grid for better grid performance 
- products grid: additional grid caching of pagination, sorting and filters for better grid performance
- skeleton preloader on first grid loading for products grid
- sidebar position for sidebar filters in products grid
- Products Tabs

"** Version 4.5.0 - August 05th, 2020 

THEGEM FOR ELEMENTOR RELEASED

- 100% compatibility with Elementor and Elementor Pro
- with all 400+ pre-built demos
- 30+ unique TheGem elements (extended, updated, reworked)
- with pre-made customizable presets & skins 
- with powerful Elementor extensions: fullpage scroller, custom breakpoints, dynamic content and many others
- better control of responsiveness
- unlimited customization options
- detailed documentation

"** Version 4.3.0 - April 21st, 2020 
MEET THEGEM BLOCKS
An ultimate tool for building webpages in a speed of light!

- huge collection of pre-designed page sections 
- section templates for hero, contact, about, portfolio, blog, pricing tables, counters and many more other page sections
- create any page with unique layout in minutes
- all blocks can be easily combined on one page 
- speed up your workflow: (1) insert -> (2) combine -> (3) customize -> (4) re-use
- all blocks optimized for best performance scores and responsive
- eye-catching free media content included
- regular updates and new blocks
- check more features at https://codex-themes.com/thegem/blocks-landing/

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