7.0.9 is WordPress 6.9 compatible
Slider Revolution
update history
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Slider Revolution 7
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7.0.9
New Features
- Layers hidden in the editor (because they are not part of the active scene) can now be edited by temporarily resetting parent transitions and visibility during editing.
- In the editor, full-stage alignment is now calculated based on the visible checkerboard stage area (instead of the full wrapper container) to make elements easier to edit.
- Added an optional live preview rendering feature in the Elementor Builder
- Added a function to add bulk slides from WP media library
- Added a function to add Slide(s) from existing modules
Bugfixes
- Fixed carousel touch swipe not working on Android devices.
- SR7.F.module.collect() now reinitializes fast Ajax-loaded content after page changes.
- Fixed the default action link target so links open in the same window by default.
- Action setup is now guided: the trigger selector stays disabled until an action type is selected.
- The slide background can now be used as an action trigger.
- Fixed multi-selected layers not moving with the keyboard arrow keys.
- Improved stability on fast Ajax/PJAX sites where SR7 could fail to start after navigation.
- Fixed modules failing to load in the Divi Builder after upgrading.
- Fixed a typo in the video settings.
- Removed the full-screen button from video controls when Allow Full Screen is disabled.
- Fixed Uniform Gaps not appearing in preview and preventing unexpected spacing issues.
- Fixed a bug where video thumbnails were regenerated whenever the source changed, even if a matching thumbnail already existed in the WordPress Media Library.
- YouTube, HTML5, and Vimeo videos now support contain/cover sizing based on the selected aspect ratio while keeping the original layer dimensions.
- Fixed a backward compatibility issue caused by themes/plugins calling the removed getAllSliderAliases() function.
- Fixed scroll-based filters and transforms rendering even when scroll effects were disabled globally.
- Fixed an issue where a missing canvas could break nested modals and render content with unwanted empty space.
- Fixed duplicated layers in the editor sometimes receiving multiple chained _DBL_ random suffixes.
- Fixed an issue where Disabled on Mobile could disable the entire module, even when the module was not set to run on mobile.
- Fixed missing Alt and Title attributes in noscript image elements generated by Slide Background layers.
- Improved Slide ID handling: duplicate Slide IDs are now updated in the editor and frontend to prevent broken processing.
- Scroll Based Timeline interactions were not started in some situations
Changes
- Renamed Element to Layer for consistent terminology
- Removed none working WPML class and replaced it with a new WPML functionality through the AI Translate AddOn
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7.0.8
New Features
- Enhanced the BeBuilder Slider Plugin module selector and improved builder slider widget preview.
- Added RTL options for legacy navigation components.
- Enabled support for external image sources for background images and layer image sources.
- Maintained module selection in the Gutenberg editor when updating the module alias.
Bugfixes
- Improved slide thumbnail loading in the editor to ensure smooth performance, even with 200+ large slides.
- Resolved an issue where the editor initialization was delayed when loading modules with 200+ slides.
- Optimized processing of slides and modules during editor load.
- Fixed an issue where very old SR6 modules without background or layer IDs could not be edited.
- Resolved cases where the editor failed to load or produced JavaScript errors due to premature initialization of AddOns and slides.
- Corrected image dimension display in the image source selector when no image is selected.
- Removed occasional duplicate entries in builder module selectors.
- Fixed an issue where callback action targets were converted into arrays during migration, preventing execution on first render.
- Corrected message escaping for status messages received from ThemePunch servers.
- Fixed an error when loading modules with numeric custom IDs.
- Resolved PHP deprecation warnings that caused JavaScript errors on certain pages.
- Corrected image dimension updates and background/layer image source handling.
- Restored deprecated slider wrapper hooks to maintain backward compatibility.
- Fixed toolbar position inputs being visible when multiple layers were selected.
- Resolved an issue where background position fields disappeared after selecting custom positioning.
- Fixed missing vertical direction option for bullet navigation.
- Resolved conflicts when mixing modules with and without the ScrollVideo AddOn on the same page (requires ScrollVideo v7.0.5).
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7.0.7.1
Bugfixes
- Translation Bug breaks Editor and Preview
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7.0.7
New Features
- Added full support for Divi 5 Builder
- Introduced keyboard accessibility: slides can now be changed using the “Enter” key when navigation arrows are focused
- Admin and navigation thumbnails are now automatically optimized and saved as WebP images for better performance
- Improved thumbnail navigation settings to reliably retain selected sizes after saving
Bugfixes
- Resolved a migration issue affecting very old modules with missing timeline data
- Fixed an issue that could break the Elementor builder when using transparent background colors
- Improved REST API reliability for post-based modules in certain edge cases
- Ensured correct fetching of the current post via REST API
- Eliminated slide overlay flickering during transitions
- Fixed HoverMorph and Filmstrip addons not updating correctly after slide changes in the backend
- Resolved an issue where custom fonts were not displaying properly in the backend and frontend
- Fixed the “Edit Module” functionality in the WPBakery widget
- Improved bulk color handling to correctly remember the last selected color before applying changes
- Fixed background animations from transparent to RGBA in specific cases (e.g., SVG layers)
- Restored missing video sources (YouTube/Vimeo) and poster images when using stream content
- Resolved a MetaBox error on builder pages
- Fixed display issues with the Slider Revolution logo in Elementor dark mode
- Preserved full-width and full-height settings when adding modules via the add_revslider function
- Corrected CSS loading order issues that caused layout misalignment in preview mode
Changes
- Enhanced backend translations for multiple languages (DE, ES, FR, IT, JA, PT, RU)
- Extended migration support to unlicensed modules that do not use addons or premium features
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7.0.6
Bugfixes
- Removed the Dark Theme CSS class name from not our own admin pages
- Compatibility fix for Visual Composer using deprecated RevSlider class
- Opening the editor with a wrong module id or slide id will redirect now to the dashboard
- Link action pointing on the “/” path was broken after update to SR7. Now it will redirect to the root domain
- AI Image Size Dimension slider was showing the wrong values
- Fixed an issue where modals triggered by URL hash changes only worked on page reload and not during runtime
- Fields to set HTML Data, Id, Class, DeepLink and Attributes for slides were not editable
- Fixed not working vertical touch swipe navigation in Android devices
- The slider failed to load on the frontend when the Borlabs Cookie plugin was active
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7.0.5.1
Bugfixes
- Improved compatibility with hard-cached backend environments where third-party or server-side caching may cause mixed loading of SR6 and SR7 editor assets.
- Fixed compatibility error with Divi 5 builder.
Slider Revolution 6
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6.4.10
New Features
- Three.js and WebGL support management between Slider Revolution AddOns
Bugfixes
- Installing slider templates with higher version requirements allows to download templates even if current installed version is not able to handle the data
- Mobile issues with blurred and 3d animated elements (i.e. Black Friday Template)
- Static HTML5 video layers can not be imported in editor due to invalid id failure
- Fullscreen button on HTML5 video is not responding or closing full screen after opening
- Spinner is showing up under 100ms, even if next carousel element reached
- Exporting sliders with SVG has a problem when the server was changed from http:// to https://
- Importing sliders with SVG in the global slide does not properly import them
- Video background on IE with landscape video not fitting entire canvas
- Canvas animation brakes in some cases iOS memory limits, and use too many resources on retina displays
- Max width of container would stretch image content, and still keep some cached values on original height
- Play button appears on slide background video
- WPMU DEV websites issues with the usage of WordPress based caching results in Slider not beeing able to be saved properly
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6.4.8
New Features
- SVG Layer: Added new option ‘Style All Elements’, enabling it will style all SVG elements in layer, like ellipse, polygon etc
- Added popup on “url hash” to shortcode builder options
- Added “1 Time per session Pop Up” option with session length (default 24 hours) in the shortcode builder options. (Disable and reload frontend to clear cookie)
Bugfixes
- Multiselect dropdowns do not show the selected values
- Scrolling, resizing screen during select dropdown is open, puts the dropdown offseted to original select position
- Resizing Layers in editor with aspect ratio set to “auto” or “none” calculates the wrong height of element or giving NaNpx as result
- Particles Addon 2.3.5: Custom 1 Colored SVG files from Original library can not be colored by particle styles
- Swapping between External source, image source and solid color/transparent do not update the current slide background image in editor
- Higher Modal window may add horizontal scrollbar on Window resize
- Draging Text layer wrap the text if layer hit the right side of parent container, after releaseing all good
- Slide based aligned layers in backend positioend wrong if layers added to group
Changes
- Videos will not be prepared at the start on invisible slides, which will avoid unwanted loading side effects
- Backend optimiziation, further editor loading time and runtime optimizations
- Replaced Select2 function with ThemePunch functions which brings a great performance boost on the backend
- Optimized the opening processes in the slider editor. Less loops on multiple draws until all elements are created
- Replaced tons of innerHTML content building due documentFrames creation
- Replaced slow input element initialisation processes
- Added further RAF processes in drawing and initialisation processes to optimize editor runtime processes
- Changed behaviour by dropping/dragging layers when a group is overlaying rows and columns with an overdimensioned shape inside
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6.4.7
New Features
- Global option internal caching added. This will cache slider HTML to improve loading times
Bugfixes
- Issue with high resolution displays and multiple slicey elements. Elements are scaled or getting very slow. Fix is available in Slicey AddOn 2.1.1
- {{featured_image_url_original_size}} not working properly
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6.4.6
Bugfixes
- YouTube video on mobile does not start automatically
- YouTube video on event pauses, plays and pauses again
- Gutenberg styling issues after latest WP version update
- Layer images and background images do not load sometimes (mostly over CDN, or with lazy loading 3rd party plugins)
Changes
- DPR got now also auto max values and default is auto DPR
- Removed unneeded functions and files on WP pages and posts
- Reduced and cleaned up some of the PHP sources
- Added indexes to Slider Revolution tables
- Partly optimized db queries (More will come in next udpates)
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6.4.5
Bugfixes
- One time error occuring in the update process introduced in 6.4.4
- There was an empty line in the plugin overview at Slider Revolution
- All text was getting selected at once, now user can select layer text manually
- On resize Vimeo and YouTube iframes were getting affected by ‘Twenty Twenty One’ theme and causing them to get wrong sizes
- Sometimes resizing would create horizontal scrollbar or leave blank space on right side
- Image loading times out on slow network before load, now slider will wait longer for images to load
- Custom SVG elements would not create a new category on upload, and setting favorite on them would first be visible after reload
- Pan zoom may show half sized images after the latest DPR function
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6.4.4
Bugfixes
- If scrollbar gets removed due to page height change then sometimes the slider doesn’t resize
- Fixed WPBakery page builder block styling
- HTML5 video layer cover sizing
- Video fit cover option was causing issues to Vimeo/YouTube backgrounds
- Bg cover and x% offset calculates the horizontal offset wrong wise on the vertical axis
- Fixed Vimeo thumbnail not loading in editor
- All cookies were decoded by RS, now only cookies set by RS are decoded
- Video play/pause button was not showing on mobile
- TypeWriter layer postions are not correct in fullscreen sliders. Revolution Slider version 6.4.4 and TypeWriter AddOn version 2.1.1 required
- Deep linking does not always link to the right page
Changes
- Slides with random speed will fall back to 1000ms, random speed won’t be allowed any more
- Distortion AddOn stretch images. Option added to set optional scaling
What’s changed from
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