7.13.0 Oct 16, 2024

Introducing the Maintenance & Coming Soon Add-On: Don’t let maintenance work or site launches be a roadblock for your visitors. Our Maintenance & Coming Soon add-on allows you to turn those static, inactive pages into engaging and informative experiences. Keep your audience excited while your site gets ready behind the scenes.

Other changes:

• The use of rounded corners, set under Project Settings → Appearance, is now visually represented within the Project Editor without entering a preview mode.
• The transformation options under Layers → Style allow using random values like those under the Transition menu.
• On the LayerSlider dashboard, the ‘NEW’ badge on the Add-Ons & Premium button will be cleared once the modal window is opened and will reappear only when new updates or changes are introduced.
• Various under-the-hood bug fixes.

7.12.5 Oct 8, 2024

• Fixed a rare issue that might have affected inserting images from the Media Library on certain sites.
• Automatic layer naming now uses title case.

7.8.0 Aug 11, 2023

• Introducing Smart Background, a new feature that allows you to customize how layer backgrounds behave. You can detach the background from a layer to create an effect as if you were looking through the layer - like a window - to the background. For example, you can create mosaic-like images when used with multiple layers. Read our blog post to see examples and learn more.
• The whole project editor interface received countless improvements to enhance user experience and accessibility significantly. From clicking into option fields to selecting text, all behave more naturally. For example, text fields won't lose focus when clicking certain interface elements, smaller fields automatically expand to make room for longer values, etc. By popular demand, the active slide has also received a much more noticeable highlight.
• A lot of additional transition properties can now handle random values. In addition to the already existing random feature, which picks a number from a range between two numbers, you can now also provide a list of fixed values to choose from randomly. They have a new, shorter, and easier syntax. Clicking the + sign next to a transition option field will reveal and provide examples for both.
• Scroll Transition offers new transition properties: Alternate Transform Origin, Reverse Easing, and Reverse Duration. These allow you to drastically change how a layer reacts and animates when scrolling the page back and forth.
• The color picker now offers a way to copy and paste colors and gradients across layers, slides, and projects. It now also properly updates as you undo/redo changes.
• Assets Library now automatically retries downloading assets in case of a failed attempt, and it also comes with additional interface improvements.
• System Status can now recognize and properly interpret and display special PHP settings used in edge cases.
• Improved how layers with Parallax Transition behave and eliminated some jumpiness in certain cases.
• Added additional mouse cursor options under the STYLE menu.
• Fixed layout issues in OS native fullscreen mode.
• Fixed an issue that prevented animating certain Ending Transition effects on slide change.
• Fixed distorted images in the editor in rare and special cases depending on the zoom levels.
• Fixed layer style filters not properly restored after cycling through slides.
• Fixed the filter editor popup not correctly parsing special values in some cases.
• Fixed an issue in the layers list that sometimes did not correctly reflect the selected layers in multi-select mode.
• Lots of other small improvements and bug fixes under-the-hood.
• LayerSlider 7.7.11 is now available!Jul 14, 2023
• Fixed dynamic layers and other issues caused by the previous security update.
• Significant rendering performance improvements for Chrome.

7.7.10 Jul 12, 2023

• This update contains very important security fixes. Updating is strongly recommended.
• Added Project Settings → Thumbnail Navigation → Thumbnail Fill Mode option.
• Replaced Twitter feed with a brand new News section.

7.7.9 Jul 3, 2023

• Fixed certain Popup rendering and layout issues.

7.7.8 Jun 22, 2023

• Added 30 brand-new 2D slide transitions with unique effects.
• Added Project Settings → Appearance → Animate First Slide option to play the selected slide transition when a project first appears. Additional options are also available to override the transition duration and time shift.
• New keyboard shorcuts: Use Ctrl/Cmd + ←/→ to quickly change slides in the editor.
• Significant rendering performance improvements.
• Heavily optimized some plugin files to improve load times and reduce network traffic.
• Videos now always use the "cover" fill mode.
• Increased compatibility with older projects when importing slides and layers.
• Prevented web browsers from caching custom CSS and Transition Builder files.
• Fixed an issue where position adjustments didn't work with parallax layers.
• Fixed an issue that affected the Backdrop Filter option.
• Fixed the slideTimelineDidUpdate callback event "timeline" parameter in Project Preview.
• User interface and under-the-hood bug fixes and improvements.

7.7.6 May 23, 2023

• Introducing: Position Adjustments. Fine-tune layer positions in a more refined way, especially if you want to align layers relative to the bottom and right edges.
• Significant improvements and fixes for keyboard shortcuts.
• Fixed an issue that resulted in media playback in the background while quickly changing slides.
• Fixed a Chrome rendering issue where videos appeared blank in rare cases.
• Fixed some layer style properties when using a min/max responsive ratio.
• Fixed the "Missing Ending Transitions" warning that sometimes appeared incorrectly.
• Other under-the-hood changes.

7.7.5 May 8, 2023

• Added Project Settings → Miscellaneous → "Fix resizing issues in special cases" option.
• Updated French localization. [Thanks to Patrick Perrono]
• Fixed certain exporting issues, especially affecting the "Export as HTML" option.
• Fixed a resizing issue with static layers.
• Fixed detecting available external fonts in the editor in Safari.
• Fixed Text Transition rendering issues in Safari.
• Layers with text transitions now properly inherit text decoration settings.
• Various UI and under-the-hood enhancements and bug fixes.

7.6.8 Jan 24, 2023

• Interface and usability improvements in the new Templates section.
• Fixed the Hide on Mobile option on desktop machines with touchscreens.
• Fixed an issue in IE11 that caused a "Multiple jQuery issue" notification.

7.0.5 - Dec 3, 2021

• Important fixes for UI and performance issues in the Project Editor.
• Project IDs are now visible and searchable on LayerSlider’s dashboard.
• Various minor fixes and improvements.

7.0.4 - Nov 29, 2021

• Added layer alignment shortcuts to the STYLE menu of layers.
• Fixed Media Library modal window in Safari.
• Fixed scrolling issues in Project Preview.
• Various fixes under the hood.

6.11.9 - Sep 28, 2021

• Fixed LayerSlider's Gutenberg block.
• Various compatibility fixes.

6.11.8 - Apr 19, 2021

• Improved compatibility with older versions of LayerSlider.
• Other improvements and bug fixes under the hood.

6.11.7 - Apr 7, 2021

• Fixed minor user interface issues.
• Fixed layer order when using <picture> element.
• Fixed linked <picture> elements.

6.11.6 - Feb 1, 2021

• Fixed image sizes & positions with certain image optimization plugins
• Added WayPoint support to update scroll triggers after slider initialization

6.11.5 - Feb 1, 2021

• Prevent WordPress applying HTML-native lazy loading on slider images. LayerSlider has its own lazy loading mechanism that’s more suitable for sliders and popups.
• Added "Use loading attribute" option to LayerSlider → Options → Advanced to restore HTML-native lazy loading.
• Increased compatibility for 3rd party themes and plugins.

6.11.4 - Mar 3, 2021

• This release fixes an issue introduced in the last update when there are multiple sliders on page.

6.11.3 - Jan 25, 2021

• Full PHP 8 support.
• Shortcodes can now be used in slide and layer linking fields to generate dynamic URLs.
• Performance improvements when rendering front-end pages.
• Various bug fixes, including one affecting multisite networks.