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.
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 in english, german & russian
- More infos on bundled plugins
UPDATE LOG:
"** 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 5.6.1 - October 10th, 2022 BUG FIXES - fix for sticky column on product page - single product builder: fix for customer reviews link - header builder, cart icon: fix for custom icon size
"** 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 -- Easy & intuitive frontend editing -- Use any content elements available in page builder -- 10+ cart & checkout specific content elements like Cart Table, Cart Totals, Checkout Steps, Cross-Sells, Billing Details and many more -- Includes Purchase Summary ("thank you" page) Builder -- Includes Empty Cart template builder -- 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 of your choice: Elementor or WPBakery -- Use any content elements available in page builder -- 12 pre-built creative product archives templates with one-click import feature - Blog Archives Builder -- Create global blog archives templates (blog categories, tags) using the page builder of your choice: Elementor or WPBakery -- Use any content elements available in page builder -- 30+ pre-built creative blog archives templates with one-click import feature - Blog Extended Grid element: new blog style added - List Style. Add blog grids in list style - Blog Extended Grid element: new grid style added - Creative Grid - Blog Extended Grid: "image height" control added - Blog Extended Grid: "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 - Custom Menu element: 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 DEMOS - Swimwear & Bikini Shop - Elegant Fashion Shop - Stylish Fashion Shop - Lingerie Shop - Book Shop - Fashion Shop Minimal 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 -- Easy & intuitive frontend editing -- Use any content elements available in page builder -- 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 -- Use any content elements available in page builder -- 20+ product specific content elements: Product Title, Product Gallery, Product Price, Add to cart, Product Tabs & Accordions Product SKU, Categories, Tags, Sharing, Product Content, Short Description, Extra Product Description, Additional Info & Reviews, Attributes, Meta, Breadcrumbs, Related and Upsell Products and much more… -- 15 pre-built creative product templates with one-click import feature -New content element: Custom Menu. Show any menu in any location of your website. Select different menu sources - choose between menus you have added in your WordPress installation or create a custom links list. Useful for adding menus in Mega Menu Builder - New content element: Products compact grid/list. Display product grids and product lists in a compact style. Ideal for displaying products in mega menu templates and narrow columns - Blog List (Elementor) / Blog (WPBakery) content element: new style presets added for showing blog posts in a compact style - Blog List (Elementor) / Blog (WPBakery) content element: new options for selecting different blog post sources, sort order, order by and offset added - Product Grids, Product Carousel content elements: 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 content element: 1x and 2x columns grid option added - Product categories content element: Items count setting added to control number of categories to display - Product categories content element: custom images height control 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 DEMO - Creative Fashion Shop 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 5.4.1 - April 27th, 2022 BUG FIXES - Fix in “1x column list” template of “Portfolio” element - Header Builder, WPBakery: z-index fix in responsive menu layouts - Fixes for better compatibility with “YITH WooCommerce Request a Quote” plugin - WPBakery, TheGem user icon pack: fixes for compatibility with new TheGem Icon Library - Elementor: fix for “Play on Mobile” feature in Title Area - Theme Options - Footer - Colors: fix in “Text Font Color” control UPDATES - TheGem Blocks plugin, WPBakery: improved loading performance in WordPress admin in pages/posts “Edit” mode - Theme Options - WooCommerce - Shop Grid: new “Content Width” control with additional layout options added - Google fonts list updated - Deprecated colorpicker control removed from WordPress admin
"** Version 5.4.0 - April 20th, 2022 NEW FEATURES - Header Builder: new element "Currency Switcher" added - Header Builder: "Shrink sticky row" option added for sticky headers made via sticky row option - Templates Builder: new content templates category added - "Section Template" - Header Builder, Menu Element: option for using section templates in offcanvas menu layouts added - Theme Options - Single & Archive Pages: "Global settings" are divided into groups and can be separately applied to header, title area, content area, footer - Theme Options - Archive Pages - Blog: extended grid added as layout option for displaying blog posts - Theme Options - Archive Pages - Search: -- extended grid as layout option for displaying search results added -- enabling/disabling different post types for search results page added -- mixed grid for displaying product search results (filterable grid) along with search results from other post types on the same search page added - Title Area: "Play on Mobile" setting added for video autoplay of video backgrounds in title area on mobile devices: in regular title and in title templates - WPBakery - Rows & Columns - Design Options: option to use different backgrounds on different devices (desktop, tablet, mobile) added - Portfolio grids, blog extended grids: dynamic URLs for filtering results added - Blog extended grid: option for disabling display of featured images in grid added - Product Categories: SVG support for category images - New animations for TheGem Button element NEW PRE-BUILT DEMOS - Interior Shop - Grocery Shop - Plants Shop - Watches Store - Medical Cannabis Shop - Organic Cosmetics Shop - Natural Cosmetics Shop UPDATES & IMPROVEMENTS - Improvements for better visual appearance of different website elements (submenus, hamburger menus) on notebooks with activated 125% zoom - Elementor plugin updated - WPBakery Page Builder plugin updated - LayerSlider plugin updated BUG FIXES - WPBakery: fix for scrolling in frontend editor while editing page in Fullpage scroller mode - Minor bug fixes in heading animations - Minor visual fixes for product page appearance on iPad - Fix for correct displaying of "add to cart" button in few design presets (skins) of WooCommerce shop grid - Fix for correct displaying of AJAX preloader in contact forms - Fix for displaying color controls in Post - Page Options in case alternative style for highlighted post is activated - Fix for clickable caption container in portfolio grids and portfolio sliders - Fix for correct displaying of blog extended grid in Safari 15 - Header Builder, Search Icon: fix for correct working of "Popular Searches" setting - Theme Options: fix for correct placement of JS while using "JS in Website Header", "JS in Website Footer" options - Theme Options: minor fix for compatibility with Polylang plugin
"** Version 5.3.3 - March 9th, 2022 BUG FIXES - fix for images in popular posts, recent posts widgets - fix for images in related posts - fix for images in WooCommerce sidebar product widgets - fix for round chart element after the latest WPBakery Page Builder update - fix for conflict between the latest WPBakery Page Builder version and Polylang plugin - fix for links in portfolio slider element - fix for thumbnails in AJAX live search for vertical menu layout - fix for infinite scroll pagination type in portfolio grids - fix for fatal error after disabling of Polylang plugin - Header Builder: additional fix for logo in logo split menu type - Header Builder: fix for smooth scroll in onepager menu anchors - Header Builder: Elementor, fix for menu colors in sticky header if "Light colors scheme" is enabled - Templates Builder: fix for paddings in Title Area templates in preview mode UPDATES - compatibility with WordPress 5.9.1 - updates in RTL styles for WooCommerce cart & checkout
"** Version 5.3.2 - February 22nd, 2022 BUG FIXES: - WPBakery Page Builder: editor buttons “Frontend Editor” and “Backend Editor” are missing in blog posts, portfolio and TheGem templates since WPBakery 6.8.0 update - WooCommerce, TheGem Classic Grid: issues with “added to cart” and “added to wishlist” notification bars - WooCommerce, product page: issue with displaying related products grid in case 100% metro style grid selected - Theme Options: “Colors - Elements - Tags” setting is assigned incorrectly - AJAX Live Search: minor display issues in showing live search results grid UPDATES: - Secondary Menu: additional style customization settings - Language Switcher: additional style customization settings
"** Version 5.3.1 - February 17th, 2022 NEW FEATURES: Header Builder - New element: Search form with AJAX live search option - New menu layout: logo split (horizontal menu splitted by logo) - Menu element: new styling and customization options added - Menu element: animated menu pointers added - Menu element: submenu indicator option added - New element: Language switcher - New element: Countdown - Option for different menu source on mobile devices - 30+ new pre-built header templates for eCommerce and business websites - Cart element: options to customize cart icon in page builder element Templates Builder - 30+ pre-built footer templates with one-click import feature - 15 pre-built title area templates with one-click import feature TheGem Blocks - 60+ new header blocks added UPDATES: - Elementor plugin updated - WPBakery Page Builder plugin updated - LayerSlider plugin updated - Revolution Slider plugin updated BUG FIXES: - Elementor: fixes for paddings and margins in the latest Elementor version - Fixes in portfolio grid element: filtering in Firefox, double video popup by clicking on portfolio video item, clicking on portfolio item caption - Fixes in product grid element: displaying the sub-categories of 3+ level in sidebar filter - Minor fixes in Blog Extended Grid element
"** 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 5.2.1.1 - November 17th, 2021 FIXES - Fix in theme and plugin activation procedure - Elementor: fix in 'Icons_Manager' class
"** Version 5.2.1 - November 16th, 2021 IMPROVEMENTS One-Click Optimization - Better Google font loading visualisation - Better caching integration of Google's re-captcha with JS delay option - Additional automated optimization rules for mobiles Theme Options - additional sticky header option for mobiles (enabled, hide on scroll, disabled) FIXES - WPBakery: Minor style fixes in portfolio grids - WPBakery: Fixes in product carousel script - Elementor: Fix for product page builder in Elementor Pro theme builder - Elementor: Fixes for alternative highlight style in blog extended grid - Elementor: Fix for not displaying empty categories in portfolio grid filter
"** 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 UPDATES - WPBakery - additional responsive settings for: Rows, Inner Rows, Columns, Inner Columns - WPBakery: update of Google Fonts list for heading and custom heading elements (new fonts added) - Elementor - Updates in portfolio grid, gallery grid, blog extended grid: * replacement of isotope by css flex grid for better performance ( justified grids) * pre-caching option for filters and pagination for better grid performance * skeleton loader option - Product grids, horizontal filters: height limit for dropdown list with scrollbar in case of many attributes - Theme Options: Top Area button, link target added FIXES - Product carousel: fix in block height calculation - Fix in "Show Categories" for shop grid in Customizer - Fix in video background overlay in Title Area
"** Version 5.1.3 - October 8th, 2021 FIXES: - Fix in product categories filter for displaying active items/subitems in filter - Minor fixes in product galleries on product pages - Fix in AJAX "add to cart" on product pages for variable products - Fix in Gutenberg function - Elementor: Minor fix in product categories element UPDATES: - Elementor Pro: Updates in product page elements for Theme Builder in Elementor Pro - Update of Google fonts in Theme Options
"** Version 5.1.2.1 - September 21st, 2021 FIXES - Minor fix in products grid for mobiles - Fix for "add to cart" notification bar on product pages for iOS
"** Version 5.1.2 - September 16th, 2021 NEW FEATURES - Color Swatches for product attributes in WooCommerce - Label Swatches for product attributes in WooCommerce - New Quick View for products in products & shop grid - New Product Carousel content element - New Product Categories content element - Skeleton Preloader for product pages - Product gallery grid for product pages: 1x column grid, 2x columns grid, 3x columns grid - New layout & design presets for product pages - New preset cart icons: “modern cart” and “bag” - Custom icon selection for cart icon - 1x column grid for Products Grid content element FIXES - Fix in “filter by tags” for shop grid - Fix in products grid for “Hide out of stock items” WooCommerce setting - Fix for currency display WooCommerce settings in product price filter
"** Version 5.1.1 - August 31st, 2021 FIXES - WooCommerce: fix on the login/registration page - Elementor: fix for loading of custom titles on archive pages - Elementor: fix for column defaults for "Quickfinder" widget - Theme Options: fix for displaying TheGem filters settings in WooCommerce -> Shop Grid
"** 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 General - additional settings for page paddings on WooCommerce pages - additional settings for breadcrumbs in content for WooCommerce pages - additional settings for paddings on WooCommerce pages - additional settings for title area on WooCommerce pages - WooCommerce sidebar widgets re-styled for new shop grids and single product layouts 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 UPDATES - Elementor: performance improvements in editing mode FIXES - Minor fixes in mega menu - Fixes in title area breadcrumbs for product categories - Fix for notice on the search results page
"** Version 5.0.2.2 - July 9th, 2021 - Fix for logo & header position by activated image loading optimizations - Elementor: Fix in scroll-to-anchor script for onepagers
"** Version 5.0.2.1 - June 15th, 2021 - Minor fixes in Products Grid (WPBakery & Elementor) - Fix for product categories (grid appearance after first installation, WPBakery & Elementor)
"** Version 5.0.2 - June 9th, 2021 UPDATES - Shop demos updated with new Products Grid element - Improvements in Products Grid element (both WPBakery & Elementor) - Global styling settings for Products Grid element (Theme Options -> WooCommerce -> Elements Styles) - Support for bottom area, footer widget area and custom footer in Fullpage Vertical Scroller - Updated TheGem elements icons in WPBakery Page Builder FIXES - Fix for few social icons in Theme Options (TikTok, Discord, Soundcloud)
"** Version 5.0.1 - May 24th, 2021 NEW FEATURES WPBAKERY VERSION WooCommerce: new products grid element for WPBakery - multiple sources for product selection - advanced product filters - optimized responsive controls - 26 pre-made skins & presets - endless customization options UPDATES WooCommerce: updates in product page template for better compatibility with third-party WooCommerce plugins FIXES - WooCommerce: minor fixes in product gallery - Elementor: fixes in products grid elements
"** Version 5.0.0 - May 5th, 2021 NEW FEATURES ELEMENTOR VERSION Theme Options & Page Options: reworked, extended, updated - new light-weighted & fast VueJS core app - reworked intuitive GUI for maximum usability - three-tiered approach for layout & styles management (global, posttype, post) - new responsive settings controls - menu & header constructor - additional typography settings - typography preview - global color favorites - extended color picker - extended background types - icon library - help tooltips with screenshot galleries - dark mode - quick navigation - enhanced CSS & JS editors - theme dashboard - system status overview - PageSpeed optimization: font preload settings WooCommerce: new extended product gallery for product pages - multiple layout styles - zoom magnifier - product videos: self-hosted, youtube, vimeo - better responsiveness - retina-ready thumbnails WooCommerce: new products grid element for Elementor - multiple sources for product selection - advanced product filters - optimized responsive controls - 26 pre-made skins & presets - endless customization options WPBAKERY VERSION WooCommerce: new extended product gallery for product pages - multiple layout styles - zoom magnifier - product videos: self-hosted, youtube, vimeo - better responsiveness - retina-ready thumbnails UPDATES WooCommerce: updated templates for compatibility with the latest version FIXES Elementor: fixes for pagination in Blog Grid and Blog Timeline elements WooCommerce: fixes in demo import plugin for product attributes and product variations
"** Version 4.7.0 - March 8th, 2021 NEW FEATURES - TheGem Interactions: trendy scrolling and mouse interactive effects to spice up your website content. Learn more & demo: https://codex-themes.com/thegem/interactions-landing/ - WPBakery: parallax in columns - WPBakery: new custom icon pack - WPBakery: animation delay control added NEW PRE-BUILT DEMOS - LMS Landing: https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/lms-landing/ - LMS App Landing: https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/lms-app-landing/ - Creative Agency Dark: https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/agency-creative-dark/ - Creative Agency Light: https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/agency-creative-light/ - Agency Onepager: https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/agency-creative-onepager/ - Agency Fullpage: https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/agency-fullpage/ - Business Consulting 02: https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/business-consulting-02/ - Business Services 01: https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/business-services-01/ - Business Services 02: https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/business-services-02/ - Photography Fullpage: https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/photography-vertical-slider/ - Technology Blog: https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/technology-blog/ - Travel Blog 02: https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/trip-blog/ - Travel Blog 03: https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/trip-blog-light/ UPDATES - Updates in cart, checkout and mini-cart for better display on mobiles and tablets - TheGem for WPBakery: translations/language packs for theme options and page options (Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Arabic, Russian, Polish) FIXES - Fix in split menu layout (when changing to responsive mode) - Elementor: fix for portfolio grid, blog extended grid and product grid for correct loading in Internet Explorer 11 - Elementor: correct appearance of icons in "select icons" overlay in theme options - Fix for Flickr widget (file permission issues) - Minor fixes for self-hosted & google fonts in GDPR module
"** Version 4.6.0 - January 20th, 2021 NEW FEATURES WPBakery Version Theme Options & Page Options: reworked, extended, updated - new light-weighted & fast VueJS core app - reworked intuitive GUI for maximum usability - three-tiered approach for layout & styles management (global, posttype, post) - new responsive settings controls - menu & header constructor - additional typography settings - typography preview - global color favorites - extended color picker - extended background types - icon library - help tooltips with screenshot galleries - dark mode - quick navigation - enhanced CSS & JS editors - theme dashboard - system status overview - PageSpeed optimization: font preload settings FIXES Both versions - Fix in Portfolio List element (correct loading in case of corrupted thumbnail) - Fix in Portfolio Slider element (correct loading in case of corrupted thumbnail) - Logo position in sticky menu (Safari) - Additional fixes for http/https content display issues
"** Version 4.5.8.1 - December 23rd, 2020 UPDATE - jQuery easing functions
"** Version 4.5.8 - December 21st, 2020 NEW - TheGem Blocks for Elementor released. More details: https://codex-themes.com/thegem/blocks-landing/ - Elementor: Parallax in columns FIX - minor fixes for http/https content display issues - Elementor: minor fixes in grid elements (product grid, portfolio grid, blog extended grid, gallery grid) for displaying in editor mode and on front-end
"** Version 4.5.7 - December 10th, 2020 FIX - jQuery fix for compatibility with the latest WordPress version (5.6) - Pagespeed lazy loading fix for compatibility with Safari 14.x
"** Version 4.5.6 - November 10th, 2020 UPDATE - Elementor: "Edit" button for custom titles & custom footers in editing mode - Elementor: updates in elements templates for code customizations via child theme - WPBakery: updates in styles for tabs, tours and accordions for compatibility with the latest WPBakery version - WooCommerce: updates in templates for compatibility with the latest WooCommerce version FIX - RTL fix for Featured Posts Slider element - Fullpage scroller: fix for product slider - Fullpage scroller: fix for blog list - Fullpage scroller: fix for background color - Elementor: fix for Lottie widget (Elementor Pro) - Elementor: fix for header & footer builder (Elementor Pro) - Elementor: fix for product image gallery (Elementor Pro, WooCommerce) - Custom page titles: fix for Ken Burns effect
"** Version 4.5.5 - September 17th, 2020 FIX - Ken Burns fix for page titles - Minor fixes in fullpage vertical scroller - Fix for default background color in custom footer - Fix for hovers in product grids (WPBakery) - Minor fixes in blog list, extended grid, featured-post-slider, portfolio-grid (Elementor) - Fixes in Demo Import UPDATE - WooCommerce template "Order Item Details" updated
"** Version 4.5.4 - September 3rd, 2020 NEW - WooCommerce demos for TheGem Elementor - Product Grid element for Elementor - Product Slider element for Elementor UPDATE - Styles update for WooCommerce (TheGem WPBakery & TheGem Elementor) - TheGem Demo Import for Elementor: single pages import updated FIX - Minor fixes in Mailchimp Opt-In (Elementor)
"** Version 4.5.3 - August 27th, 2020 FIX - Fix for fullpage scroller (when using Blog Extended Grid) - Fix for wishlist page (compatibility with latest WooCommerce) - Fix for wishlist button in product grids - Minor fixes in TheGem Elements (Elementor) UPDATE - Update of "proceed to checkout" button in WooCommerce/Cart - Update of WooCommerce templates for compatibility with the latest version - Replaced deprecated jQuery functions in admin area
"** Version 4.5.2 - August 17th, 2020 FIX - Fix for lazy loading animations (compatibility with WordPress 5.5) - Fix for fullpage scroller (white background issue in case parallax enabled) - Fix for position of wishlist icons in product overviews - Fix for wishlist page
"** Version 4.5.1 - August 14th, 2020 FIX - jQuery fix for compatibility with WordPress 5.5 - Fix in lazy loading script for compatibility with latest Safari & Firefox - ZillaLikes update for compatibility with WordPress 5.5 - Fix for "add to wishlist" buttons (WooCommerce)
"** 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 4.4.2 - July 1st, 2020 NEW - Ken Burns effect added for rows Ken Burns effect is a type of panning and zooming effect used in video production from still imagery. Like parallax, this effect adds dynamics to large background areas. TheGem includes zoom-in and zoom-out Ken Burns effects with transition speed settings. Demo 1: https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/lookbook-vertical-slider/ Demo 2: https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/music-festival/ UPDATE - Update in fullpage vertical scroller for Ken Burns support - Update in fullpage parallax sliding effect - Update in GDPR compatibility for WPML translations - Update in WPML documentation - Instagram Gallery element deprecated FIX - Fix in SmoothScroll script for browsing websites via iFrame in incognito mode - Fix in Blog Extended Grid post linking
"** Version 4.4.1 - June 3rd, 2020 NEW - New TheGem blocks added in following categories (both in multicolor and dark mode): Contact Forms, Counters, Footers, News & Blog, Galleries, Grids, Pricing Tables, Testimonials - New parallax scrolling effect added to fullscreen vertical slider. Demo: https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/app-landing/ FIX - Fix for target "_blank" setting in portfolio page options
"** Version 4.4.0 - May 14th, 2020 NEW TheGem Blocks extended: - "Dark Mode" added. All blocks are now available both in multicolor & dark color modes to maximize the trendy look of your website, create dark mode page versions and provide more A/B test options. - New category “eCommerce” with rich selection of WooCommerce blocks added - New category “Custom Titles” with collection of pre-made page titles added - New blocks added in categories: Call to Action, Hero, Contact Forms, Newsletter Subscriptions, News UPDATE - WooCommerce templates - TheGem Blocks: removing blocks from favorites improved FIX - TheGem Blocks: fatal error because of lack of mbstring fixed - Fix for portfolios in fullpage vertical scroller - Fix for diagrams in fullpage vertical scroller
"** 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/
"** Version 4.2.1 - March 23rd, 2020 * Updates for WooCommerce 4.x * Additional overlay settings for fullwidth container and background element in custom titles * Fix for using anchors in custom URLs (URLs with additional symbols) * Additional fixes for generating custom css filename on some hosts
"** Version 4.2.0 - January 28th, 2020 NEW: * Advanced Fullpage Scroller New advanced type of vertical scroller added with following features: - Better smoother scrolling experience - Better UX for touch and mobile devices - 5 new styles for navigation dots - Tooltips in various styles - Fixed backgrounds for parallax experience - Continuous endless scrolling - Normal scrolling mode for mobile devices - Animation effects on scroll - Two new animated vertical fullscreen demos added: https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/product-landing/ , https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/app-landing/ * Custom CSS field in ROW Element in Page Builder for fine-tuned css customizations on the row level UPDATE: * Re-organisation of some page options for better UX * Update of shop templates for the latest WooCommerce version
"** Version 4.1.2 - December 18th, 2019 UPDATE: - Parallax effects: complete rewritten code optimized for smooth scrolling and better performance - Counters and countdowns: optimized code for better animation FIX: - Elements alignment in two layouts of responsive menu - Enhancement in video player controls - Fix for animation in perspective menu while scrolling - Fix for search button animation in overlay menu
"** Version 4.1.1.1 - December 3rd, 2019 - Update in hamburger menu for tablets - Fix for 3rd level menu in classic horizontal layout - Fix for clicks in responsive menu "slide from left" - Update in logo position in responsive by activated hidden cart option
"** Version 4.1.1 - November 25th, 2019 NEW FEATURES & UPDATES: - New WooCommerce cart widget for mobiles - Sticky menu / header crossfade animation improvements - Layout improvements in mobile menus - Animation improvements in hamburger & vertical menu styles - Search animation for overlay menu style - New designs & pre-built websites - WooCommerce compatibility updates - Pagespeed optimizations for youtube & vimeo videos on page - RTL updates: styled lists, widgets archive & tweets - Page options: re-grouping of header & footer settings - Demo importer: loading speed improvements for main demo content - Scroll-to-top improvements - Icon loading improvements - Multi-lingual updates for GDPR module - Alt-attributes for images in textbox
"** Version 4.0.2 - November 11th, 2019 - Updates in WooCommerce templates
"** Version 4.0.1 - August 16th, 2019 - Minor WooCommerce fixes
"** Version 4.0.0 - August 8th, 2019 - BIG UPDATE RELEASE: - 100+ complete pre-built websites - Brand new one-click demo import - New advanced blog grids & layouts - New designs: 20+ new design concepts - GDPR built-in management - Custom titles builder - More page speed optimizations - Compatibility with Revolution Slider v. 6.x - Updates in WooCommerce - Improved WPML compatibility - WordPress 5.0 (Gutenberg) improved options and compatibility - PHP 7.3 compatibility
"** Version 3.8.3.1 - May 23rd, 2019 - Update for LayerSlider update procedure
"** Version 3.8.3 - April 19th, 2019 - Update of WooCommerce templates
"** Version 3.8.2.1 - March 20th, 2019 - Update in WooCommerce templates
"** Version 3.8.2 - March 5th, 2019 - Minor fixes
"** Version 3.8.1 - February 22nd, 2019 - Update of WooCommerce templates for compatibility with the latest version - Minor fixes
"** Version 3.8.0 - February 5th, 2019 - Image loading optimization options in "Theme Options" - Update of WooCommerce templates for compatibility with the latest version - Minor fixes
"** Version 3.7.0 - December 11th, 2018 Version 3.7.0 - Updates and additional stylings for: * Blogs * Portfolio * Teams * Testimonials * Quotes * Contact Forms * Newseltter Forms * Tabs & Accordions * Top Area & Footer * Preloaders * Diagrams - Additional settings for responsive fonts - Option for adding custom social icons - Settings for social icons in teams - Updates for the latest WooCommerce version
"** Version 3.6.1 - November 8th, 2018 - Updates in WooCommerce for compatibility with the latest version
"** Version 3.6.0 - October 2nd, 2018 - Compatibility with Gutenberg / WordPress 5.0 ready - New design concepts: Charity & Non-Profit - Minor fixes
"** Version 3.5.0 - August 15th, 2018 IMPORTANT update for all next theme’s updates. Next updates will be available via a WordPress dashboard. Please update your current theme’s version to this one!
"** Version 3.4.1 - August 2nd, 2018 - Mobile checkout style fixes for online shops - Mini cart fixes for products in private mode - Option: Fullscreen vertical scroller for mobiles
"** Version 3.4.0 - July 27th, 2018 NEW DESIGN CONCEPTS: - 3x brand new ICO & Cryptocurrency Landing Pages - 3x brand new Handyman & Craftsmen Services Designs UPDATE: - Update for the latest WooCommerce version - New social icons added - Few minor fixes
"** Version 3.3.1 - June 16th, 2018 Updates: - Update in WooCommerce templates for compatibility with the latest WooCommerce version
"** Version 3.3.0 - May 29th, 2018 Updates: - Update in WooCommerce templates for compatibility with the latest version - Few minor bug fixes
"** Version 3.2.1 - March 23rd, 2018 Updates: - Gradient backgrounds in content elements (shortcodes) Minor WooCommerce Fixes: - Images in category listings - Ajax requests in cart - Overlay menu
"** Version 3.1.0 - February 15th, 2018 - Updates for the latest WooCommerce update 3.3.x
"** Version 3.0.5 - November 14th, 2017 - UPDATE: Alternative processing of custom.css for avoiding cache-issues - FIX: Icons in VC backend editor
"** Version 3.0.4 - November 7th, 2017 - Improvements in RTL - Updates of WooCommerce templates - Fixes for self-video in portfolio - Fixes for landing pages with perspective menu - Fixes for apple's magic mouse in fullscreen vertical scrollers
"** Version 3.0.0 - September 26th, 2017 - BIG UPDATE RELEASE: - Design concepts: 17 new design concepts - Menus & navigation: new styles of desktop navigation - Menus & navigation: new styles of mobile menus - WooCommerce: product grids, metro, justified, masonry - WooCommerce: product carousels - WooCommerce: quick view - WooCommerce: catalog mode - WooCommerce: one-step checkout - WooCommerce: additional paginations, infinite scroll, load more - WooCommerce: additional font settings - Rich content footer / custom footer - Global page & post settings - Fixed column page layouts - Updates in galleries / Fancy Box 3.0 - New element: Instagram gallery - Body paddings for global page layouts - Global layout settings for blog & shop categories - Custom permalinks for portfolio & news
"** Version 2.2.2 - July 13th, 2017 ** - FIX: Fixes for compatibility with WooCommerce 3.1.1
"** Version 2.2.1 - June 7th, 2017 ** - FIX: Fixes for compatibility with WooCommerce 3.x
"** Version 2.2.0 - April 25th, 2017 ** - NEW: New type of mobile menu added - UPDATE: Updates for WooCommerce 3.0.4 - NEW: New image thumbnail generator. Better page loading performance - FIX: Minor js fixes
"** Version 2.1.1 - April 7th, 2017 ** - Update for WooCommerce 3.x compatibility
"** Version 2.1.0 - April 4th, 2017 ** - NEW: Comprehensive pagespeed optimizations - NEW: Optimizations in lazy loading animation effects. Migration from JS to CSS effetcs - NEW: Optimizations in retina optimized image generation for better page loading across devices - NEW: Default page title settings added in theme options - FIX: Several fixes in woocommerce tenplates - FIX: Synchronisation of vertical scroller slider markers with menu items - FIX: Other small fixes
"** Version 2.0.2 - December 15th, 2016 ** - Alt Attributes in Galleries - Minor Fix in Cart & Checkout - Minor Fix of Custom Header in Backend Editor - New Settings for Fixed Header on Mobiles
"** Version 2.0.0 - November 20th, 2016 ** NEW FEATURES: - Overlay navigation type - Parallax footer in page options - Full Polylang compatibility UPDATES: - PO files - Google fonts - Updates in 404 pages - WooCommerce templates FIXES: - Translations for top area, mobile menus, breadcrumbs - Minor fixes in hamburger menu - Translations for countdowns
"** Version 1.2.0 - September 14th, 2016 ** NEW FEATURES: - Enable / disable header - Enable / disable footer - New main menu layout for 100% width FIXES: - Vertical scroller for iphone - Auto-scroll for tabs, accordions and pageable container - Styles for child theme OTHER: - New styles for contact forms - Theme Options: Icons were modified
"** Version 1.1.0 - September 1st, 2016 ** NEW FEATURES: - Enable/disable parallax effects on mobile devices - Enable/disable css animations on mobile devices UPDATES: - Update in RTL