HootKit

Which themes does HootKit work with?

HootKit is designed to work seamlessly with wpHoot themes. Some features are only available when used with compatible wpHoot themes.

Nothing happens when I activate the plugin

HootKit is a companion plugin for wpHoot themes. Please make sure your theme is compatible with HootKit by checking the theme documentation.

What is the plugin license?

This plugin is released under a GPL license.

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3.0.5

• Improve Import UX
• Add demopacks for Voltino theme

3.0.4

• Minor CSS and display fixes
• Updated new demopacks manifest for theme importer

3.0.3

• Support ‘widgets-v3’ files
• Move Post/Content Grid to v3 widgets – using css Grid
• Updated new demopacks manifest for theme importer
• Remove support for ‘post-grid-firstpost-category’
• Standardize “style-” classes to “textstyle-” for v3 widgets onwards

3.0.2

• Support import of ‘_menu-item-hootmenu’ during menu import in XML (eg. contains menu item bg/font colors)
• Page Content widget
• Add options for Social Icons widget (accent bg and shape)
• Postcarousel widget – remove ‘hootkit_carousel_titleascaption’ filter

3.0.1

• Widgets as Shortcode misc module
• Fix bug in Content Grid widget – First post as standard size
• ‘Open in new tab’ option for multiple widgets
• Postcarousel widget – allow ‘hootkit_carousel_titleascaption’ filter

3.0.0

• Refactored code
• Optimize performance for FA icons list in admin widgets
• Add support for ‘misc > Code’ modules
• Add support for ‘misc > Tools’ modules
• Add support for ‘misc > Import’ modules
• Load dashmenu if theme supports dashboard (settings as part of dashboard plug)
• Add support for ‘list-evenspacecol’ in post-list widgets
• Add support for ‘cbox-evenspacecol’ in content box widgets
• Include default support for ‘grid-widget’ and ‘list-widget’
• Remove several deprecated code
• Remove support for ‘nohoot’ tag. Hence removed duplicated Hoot Framework library code/css from themes.
• Remove ‘themelist’ tag and cleanup various unused code
• Minor CSS fixes for settings
• Support for ‘imgbg-cssvars’ (set background image as inline css variable instead of inline style)
• Support for ‘content-blocks-style5-nojs’

2.0.21

• List widgets – Add class for style0
• Grid widgets – Add display for 1×2 non standard unit
• Update ‘supports_version’ to use array (refactor directory structure)

2.0.20

• Fix “Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly” warning

2.0.19

• Add align options for Social Widget
• Content Grid – Display Content if only buttons available
• Icons List – Icon Color Option
• Support for new themes

2.0.18

• Fix customizer notices for latest themes

2.0.17

• Version Bump

2.0.16

• Provide option to hide WC Offscreen Cart
• Add option to enable ‘classic-widgets’ for supporting themes
• Add customizer options mods for supporting themes
• Add AOS support for supporting themes

2.0.15

• Minor css changes for admin screens
• Update WooCommerce label in Settings page
• Read More link text compatibility with theme customizer live changes
• Add v2 templates for supporting themes
• Fix admin wp.media bug with WooPaymets plugin (Ticket#12065)

2.0.14

• Add X (twitter) to Social Profiles

2.0.13

• Fix lightSlider script for jquery >= 3.0 (Ticket#11596)

2.0.12

• Add discord and whatsapp options in social profile

2.0.11

• Fixed bug in content-block view when only image is present Ticket#10774
• Fixed bug in slider (image) caption area view when no content to be displayed Ticket#11190

2.0.10

• Added icon options to Content Blocks widget for supporting themes
• Added social icons alt color option for supporting themes
• Added Image slider Style 3 and Subtitle option for supporting themes

2.0.9

• Updated Font Awesome to 5.15.3 (increase icons from 991 to 1608 )
• Added TikTok to Social Icons List

2.0.8

• Fix “Indirect access to variables, properties and methods” bug with older PHP version (< 7.0) on Settings screen #10560

2.0.7

• Fix widget name issue with SiteOrigins Page Builder

2.0.6

• Fixed hootSetupWidget not running on saving widget in classic widgets screen

2.0.5

• Reinstate widgets for non hoot themes
• Update to WordPress 5.8 compatibility

2.0.4

• Fix syntax issue with older PHP versions (7.0-7.3)

2.0.3

• Add ‘load_hootkit’ filter to selectively load plugin modules
• Refactored config[‘modules’] to separately allow widgets, blocks and miscallaneous
• Refactored assets class on how assets are added for loading
• Refactored helper mod data set (include assets and adminasset attributes)
• Updated structure and values stored in ‘hootkit-activate’ option
• Added Settings page to enable/disable modules
• Compatibility with Legacy_Widget_Block_WP5.8_beta1 (checked upto RC1)
• Fixed widget group bug (pass $this->number to js to assign correct fieldnames)

2.0.2

• Add filters to allow force load hootkit for non hoot themes

2.0.1

• Refactored dirname() usage for compatibility with PHP < 7.0

2.0.0

• Refactored internal code for more modularity for blocks implementation
• Add hk-gridunit-imglink class to content-grid-link (css bug fix for background image link)
• Added offset option to post grid widget

[See changelog.txt for all versions]