WP Theme Vikinger - BuddyPress and GamiPress Social Community 1.9.8

v1.9.8

• Header
• Fixed an issue that caused the header friend requests widget to close when interacting with pending friendship requests.
• Elementor
• Replaced db “is_built_with_elementor” deprecated function.
• Backend
• Backend React application code has been refactored and improved.
• Backend code has been separated from frontend code.
• Introduced a number of improvements to backend and frontend load times / performance.
• Improved backend pages visual presentation.
• Vikinger custom plugins are now included in the theme package, this improves install speed and allows users in regions where github is blocked / can’t be accessed to be able to install them.

Version 1.3.6 March 9th 2021

Fixes

- Fixed an issue that caused duplicated user and group information to display on group forum topics and replies activities.

New Features

- Selected grid types for blog post, member and group lists are now saved for logged users. This means that the next time they browse to a page with the same type of list (member, group or post), the last grid type that the user selected will be automatically used for the list display.

Search Improvements

We introduced a new section called "Search" (in "Customizer" -> "Vikinger Settings") to allow search related customization.

Users can now choose to hide the header search input by using the "Display / Hide" option.

We also added options that allow the user to select which components are included in search results, both on the search main page as well as the header search dropdown.

The available options are:

- Show blog posts in search
- Show members in search
- Show groups in search

Any combination of blog posts, members and groups can be selected to be included in search results (i.e. only blog posts, blog posts and members, members and groups, etc).

User Avatar Improvements

We introduced a new section called "Avatar" (in "Customizer" -> "Vikinger Settings") to allow avatar related customization.

The new "Avatar Type" option can be found here from where you can select the following options:

- Hexagon
- Circle
- Square

The type selected will be used for the display of all avatars throughout the site.

Also, user avatars no longer show rank related progress bar and badges when the GamiPress plugin is not installed and active.

Version 1.3.5 March 4th 2021

Fixes

- Fixed an issue that caused the forum description notice to try to get the last author information even when the forum had no content.

- Fixed post comment list showing a loading indicator even when the post had 0 comments.

- Fixed an issue that could cause the comment list to wrongly report that more comments where available to show after creating a new comment.

- Fixed an issue that caused the reply button to show on comments when the "Allow Comments" option was disabled.

- Fixed an issue that caused the light/dark mode toggle to not refresh the page under certain conditions.

- Fixed an issue that caused duplicated characters to appear on some inputs when using certain languages.

New Features

- Added a different background color to forum and topic even rows to improve visual separation between them.

- Pages with "Allow Comments" option disabled now hide all comment related elements instead of only disabling the comment form.

bbPress Group Forums

Users can now create a forum for their group by using the frontend "Manage Groups" settings screen.

If the bbPress settings option "Allow BuddyPress Groups to have their own forums" is active, then a new "Forum" tab will be added to the group manage popup for group admins. You can also select a forum or category to be used to contain all group forums from this settings screen by using the bbPress "Primary Forum" option.

From the group manage popup "Forum" tab, the "Enable forum for this group" option can be activated to create a forum for the group which will be available both on the forum page and as a new link on the group page navigation bar.

The group name, description and status will be used by default for the group forum, however users can choose to change the title, description and status of the forum (the group avatar image will be used as the forum image).

After enabling forum for the group, group admins can delete the forum and all its content just by disabling the same option ("Enable forum for this group") and by clicking on "Save Changes".