WP Theme Vikinger - BuddyPress and GamiPress Social Community 1.9.8

Version 1.3.1 February 4th 2021

Fixes

- Fixed the header showing the cogwheel dropdown on lower resolutions when the same information was available on the mobile menu.

- Fixed the username (mention name) of the post author (in post version 3) being centered instead of aligned to the left.

- Fixed the "locked" and "unlocked!" achievement progress bar text not being translatable.

- Fixed "Archive" pages showing the page headers when the option to hide them was selected on the Customizer.

New Features

- Replaced "Messages" string with "Inbox" on the header messages dropdown to avoid confusion regarding the previewed content.

Color Theme Switch

You can now choose to enable a color theme switch via the "Customizer" -> "Vikinger Settings" -> "Color Presets" menu.

If enabled, your site logged in users will be able to change between a "Light" and "Dark" theme while browsing the site by using a sun / moon button that is added on the header on desktop and on the header menu on mobile.

From the same Customizer section you can set which of the existing color presets you want to assign when the "Light" or "Dark" theme modes are activated. For example, you can choose to use the "Custom" color preset for the "Light" theme mode, and the "Carbon Yellow" color preset for the "Dark" theme mode.

You can also set the default theme mode ("Light" or "Dark") that is used when the color theme switch is active.

When the color theme switch is disabled, the theme will use the color preset that you assign in the "Color Preset" option.

BP Better Messages Compatibility

The theme is now compatible with the BP Better Messages plugin BP Better Messages This means that, when the plugin is installed and active, it will replace the Messages profile setting screen with the one provided by the plugin. Also, when clicking on a message from the header messages dropdown, it will correctly open and display that message on the settings screen.

Verified Member for BuddyPress Integration

Added support for the "Verified Member for BuddyPress" plugin Verified Member for BuddyPress All member related widgets now support the display of the "verified" badge next to the user fullname or username (mention name) according to the setting the user has selected on the plugin ("Settings" -> "BuddyPress" -> "Verified Member").

Version 1.3.0 January 27th 2021

Fixes

- Fixed an issue that would cause group slugs to display incorrect characters when using certain languages.

- Fixed an issue that could cause the group manage popup to infinite load after submitting the creation of a new group.

- Fixed an issue that caused the activity feed to stop working when an activity or post that was shared was deleted and added a message which informs the user that the shared content was deleted.

- Fixed group status dropdown text not being translated correctly in the group management popup.

- Fixed an issue that caused the notifications bar to stop working when a user had a message from a deleted user in their inbox.

New Features

- BuddyPress Profile Fields that are empty will no longer display in the About, Personal Information and Personal Interests widgets, when they would previously display with a "-" as value.

- The slug option has been removed from the group creation and manage screens based on user feedback.

- Added a smooth scrolling effect when navigating to page anchors.

- Navigating to page anchors now takes into account the floating header height, which prevents the top part of the anchored content from being covered by the header.

bbPress Integration

Added support for bbPress forums. Users can now use bbPress with the theme to create and manage forums.

We also added support for forum images, this allows users to associate an image to a forum in the backend, this image will be displayed next to the forum information on the frontend and make it easier to visually identify forum content.

A new navigation item has been added to user profiles called "Forum", this new page has information about the forum activity of a particular user (created topics and replies, engagements and favorites). Logged in users can also view their forum and topic subscriptions from this page.

bbPress generated notifications will now show in the user notifications settings screen and the notifications header bar dropdown. These notifications include useful information and links to forum content.

bbPress generated activities will now show on activity feeds and we have added 2 new "Show" filters for them on the activity feed filters bar ("Forum Topics" and "Forum Replies").

Group Forums are not yet supported and will be added on a future update.

We highly recommend checking out the new tutorial videos we have released, which explain how to install the update and create a link to your new forums as well as show a forum creation example.

FAQs and Support

- We've updated the "FAQs" section with answers to the most frequently asked questions our support team has been receiving and we also updated the "Support" section with a more detailed explanation of what the theme Support does include according to Envato's Support Policy as well as third party sources that offer Customization Services for users that want to customize their theme