esotera

Description

Colorful, clean and beautifully animated, Esotera is a highly customizable, multi-purpose responsive theme that’s perfect for your blog, portfolio, photography or business website. Demo: https://demos.cryoutcreations.eu/wp/esotera

Changelog

1.4.0

Release date: 2025.10.28

• Major rewrite of all critical action and filter hooks to resolve the '_load_textdomain_just_in_time() was called incorrectly' notice introduced by WordPress 6.7. If you're using a child theme to apply complex overrides, these may need adjusting to account for the new order of things
• Added Bluesky social icon
• Added hint about header video limitations to WordPress' Header Media customizer panel
• Added hint (and link) about the landing page functionality in WordPress' Homepage Settings customizer panel
• Added banner/slider background color option
• Moved the landing page "Featured Content" option into the main Landing Page customizer panel
• Rearranged WordPress' built-in site identity options for better consistency
• Changed "Fixed Menu" option to "Sticky Menu" for clarity
• Changed all outgoing frontend links to be protocol agnostic and avoid warnings from automated quality check tools.
• Changed failover featured boxes 'camera' icon to only be visible when no featured image is used, to avoid interference with transparent images
• Fixed 'View all posts by' translation inconsistency in user-bio.php
• Fixed support for landing page text areas background images (broken since 1.3.0)
• Fixed side socials alignment with the Mystic personality
• Removed backwards support for pre-WordPress 4.5 logo functionality
• Bumped required PHP version to 7.0
• Updated to Cryout Framework 0.8.7.1:
  • Added support to change built-in customizer panel priorities
  • Added support to customize priority for theme customizer panels
  • Added the Button customizer control (used for the personalities apply button)
  • Added the Personality customizer control (for personalities selection)
  • Merged 'hint' control as subtype of 'notice' control
  • Fixed "About theme" customizer panel layout issues due to WordPress 6.7 accessibility changes
  • Fixed theme indicator misplaced with WordPress 6.7 accessibility changes

1.3.0

Release date - 2025.02.15

• Fixed XSS vulnerability allowing the output of unsanitized user names set by rogue editors/contributors - reported by stealthcopter on patchstack.com
• Fixed theme reset styling overriding block file buttons
• Fixed PHP 8.2+ deprecation warning in presentation page boxes filter
• Added 'cryout_preslider_hook' hook to landing page slider section
• Added additional 'limited' selection for table appearance option for improved compatibility with content plugins
• Added 'esotera_navigation_compat' filter to allow overriding the "access" id on menu container and improve uber/mega menu compatibility
• Added generated 'esotera-accent-1/2' and 'esotera-accent-1/2-bg' classnames and 'esotera-accent-1/2' CSS variables for the main accent colors
• Added interactive hint to WordPress' Homepage Settings panel while using the landing page with a static homepage
• Added new social icons: AliPay, Apple, Behance, Bootstrap, Git, Gitlab, Google, Mastodon, Messenger, Microsoft, Teams, Person (simple, circle, square), QR Code, Rumble, Signal, Snapchat, Sourceforge, Substack, Telegram, Threads, Trello, Unity, Whatsapp, Xbox, and one that shall not be named
• Updated social icons: Twitter (X), Facebook, Github, Google Play, PayPal, Skype, Stripe, Steam, Spotify, Linkedin, Reddit, YouTube, WordPress (old icons are still available by adding the '-old' suffix to the classnames).
• Changed default social icon for tel: links
• Renamed 'striped' tables option and CSS classname
• Improved theme defaults to make all default configurable texts translatable
• Improved support for bare homepage content by removing the minimum height
• Improved styling to support more than two banner/slider caption buttons
• Improved compatibility with ShiftNav plugin by removing focus interception from buttons
• Improved accessibility:
  • Side menu / mobile menu toggler
  • Main menu
  • Back to top button
  • Loading of the built-in icon font
  • Width and height attributes for portfolio images, featured images and testimonials
• Updated Cryout Framework to 0.8.6.6:
  • Fixed deprecated ${var} usage with PHP 8.2+
  • Updated rich text schema support for comments
  • Precognitively fixed erroneous white square in customize screen panels with Zynith SEO plugin
  • Fixed whitespaces in font control title hint due to spaces in markup

1.2.6

Release date - 2024.09.18

• Accessibillity fixes for many elements including main menu, side menu, mobile menu, back to top button and others
• Fixed XSS vulnerability allowing the output of unsanitized user names set by rogue editors/contributors
• Fixed comments markup inconsistency (itemprop='discussionURL' visible)

1.2.5.1

Release date - 2022.05.27

• Improved Safari mobile browser detection for iPhones and iPads (for better handling of rendering quirks in social apps)
• Updated to Cryout Framework 0.8.6.3:
  • Fixed fatal error on Customize screen due to inconsistent handling of empty categories since WordPress 6.0
  • Fixed 'Disable' and 'All Categories' options not available in category selector options on sites with no categories defined

1.2.5

Release date - 2022.04.29

• Added 'esotera_box_readmore' filter for landing page featured boxes read more texts
• Added support for using the associated featured images as header images on the static home and blog pages
• Improved JS compatibility with ShiftNav plugin
• Improved single posts fixed next/previous navigation by moving it to hookable esotera_fixed_nav_links() function and limiting links to same taxonomy
• Improved compatibility with script name collision in deferring check by increasing specificity
• Improved compatibility with sub-optimal SSI configurations
• Fixed landing page text areas content retaining incorrect narrow width on mobile devices
• Fixed landing page icon blocks using incorrect smaller widths with 2/4 columns settings
• Fixed portfolio type lists displaying slugs instead of properly formatted names
• Fixed featured images using the incorrect width in 3 post columns / left sidebar only configuration
• Updated to Cryout Framework 0.8.6.2:
  • Added static blog page detection function (for featured images in header)
  • Added Polylang support for featured boxes category filtering (thanks to espasso)
  • Improved PHP 8 compatibility

1.2.4

Release date - 2021.02.26

• Added configuration hint for header image when the theme's slider / banner image is active on the homepage
• Updated to Cryout Framework 0.8.5.7
  • Expanded hint control styling to apply in the Site Identity panel

1.2.3.1

Release date - 2021.02.11

• Really fixed mobile menu search creating an extra focusable item

1.2.3

Release date - 2021.02.05

• Removed lazy loading functionality from featured images as it sometimes interferes with image sizes
• Fixed leftover border on main navigation
• Fixed mobile menu and sticky top bar z-index issues
• Fixed mobile menu search creating an extra focusable item
• Fixed breadcrumbs on one-column layouts on mobile
• Fixed breadcrumbs padding on mobile
• Fixed search widgets in footer
• Fixed author section border on single pages on resolutions between 800px and 1024px
• Fixed multiple RTL issues
• Added click-navigation to target panels in header content and site identity hints
• Changed preloader failsafe auto hide time
• Changed banner caption title animation option to toggle control and renamed/relocated for clarity

1.2.2

Release date - 2021.01.13

• Added lazy loading for featured images and landing page elements
• Optimized frontend.js structure
• Improved preloader handling when JavaScript is broken on the site or disabled in browser
• Fixed social icons in side-menu not being accessible with keyboard navigation
• Fixed header title animation support for HTML entities and special characters
• Fixed landing page blocks layout with 2/4 columns
• Fixed landing page blocks borders
• Fixed block editor galleries layout
• Fixed back to top button animation styling when using child themes

1.2.1

Release Date - 2020.12.29

• Improved comment placeholder/label option functionality
• Renamed landing page 'static image' element to 'banner image' for clarity
• Removed all padding/margins from before/after content and top/bottom inner widget areas
• Fixed header titles support for HTML entities and special characters
• Fixed header widget area sometimes overlapping interactive content
• Fixed block editor font sizes using the incorrect 'regular' slug
• Fixed site title overlapping mobile menu toggler on certain configurations
• Fixed left sidebar navigation not being displayed when there are no widgets assigned
• Fixed incorrect scroll position after closing mobile menu on Firefox since v1.2.0
• Updated to Cryout Framework 0.8.5.6:
  • Fixed issues with font families that contain multiple words

1.2.0

Release Date - 2020.12.16

• Added accessibility for mobile menu
• Added 'Tested up to' and 'Requires PHP' header fields in style.css
• Improved handling of font weights
• Improved visibility of featured boxes images when no images are present
• Code cleanup and sanitization improvements according to the theme sniffer rules
  • Fixed empty else statements in core.php, landing-page.php, styles.php
  • Added extra sanitization in includes/landing-page.php, includes/meta.php, includes/core.php, admin/main.php
• Cleaned up and optimized frontend scripts, including for WordPress 5.5/5.6 jQuery updates
• Renamed content/author-bio.php file to content/user-bio.php to avoid name collision with WordPress' templating system
• Fixed plural forms in comments count for more complex languages - https://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers#Plurals
• Fixed non-prefixed global variables in content.php and comments.php
• Fixed logo using incorrect height after assignment in the customize preview
• Fixed accessibility for side menu
• Fixed malfunctioning preloader, header image and content animations with WordPress 5.6
• Fixed (hopefully) printing on Chrome prints the side menu background over the site content
• Fixed "Inherit General Font" option not working as expected
• Fixed team members photos having a weird aspect ratio after Team Members plugin update
• Updated to Cryout Framework 0.8.5.5:
  • Improved JS code to remove jQuery deprecation notices since WordPress 5.6
  • Changed custom post type label in breadcrumbs from singular_name to name
  • Added echo parameters to cryout_schema_microdata() and cryout_font_select() functions
  • Fixed color selector malfunction since WordPress 5.3
  • Fixed Select2 selectors no longer working with WordPress 5.6 on Firefox
  • Additional sanitization and even more sanitization changes to comply with current wp.org requirements

1.1.1

Release Date - 2019.10.11

• Fixed extra top margin on body when no header image is used
• Improved fixed mobile menu functionality to only execute when fixed menu option is enabled
• Fixed mobile side menu close button not usable in some instances since 1.1.0
• Fixed some landing page elements missing effects on older Edge releases due to :focus-within changes in 1.1.0

1.1.0

Release Date - 2019.10.02

• Fixed paragraphs indentation option not working
• Fixed boxes ratio issue
• Added 'esotera_header_image' and 'esotera_header_image_url' filters to allow custom control over featured images in header functionality
• Fixed breadcrumbs missing link on home icon on WooCommerce pages
• Added option to disable default pages navigation and improved mobile menu functionality to hide toggler when main navigation is empty
• Fixed 'wp_body_open' action hook support for WordPress versions older than 5.2
• Improved main navigation usability on tables by adding the option to force the mobile menu activation
• Fixed Gutenberg lists displaying bullets outside of content on landing page sections
• Improved list bullets styling in landing page text areas
• Improved dark color schemes support for HTML select elements
• Added visibility on scroll functionality on the fixed menu on mobile devices
• Improved mobile menu dark color schemes support by using non-link texts to use the configured menu text color
• Updated fixed menu styling to account for WordPress admin bar responsiveness breakpoints changes
• Improved keyboard navigation accessibility:
  • Added 'skip to content' link
  • Added focus support for post featured images, landing page featured boxes, landing page portfolio, main navigation search form
  • Converted menu close element to button
• Added support for future official child themes
• Updated to Cryout Framework 0.8.4.1:
  • Optimized options migration check to reduce calls
  • (Finally?) fixed 'Too few arguments' warning in breadcrumbs on Polylang multi-lingual sites
  • Removed news feed from theme's about page per TRT requirements - https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/73150#comment:3

1.0.0

Release Date - 2019.07.04

• Added option to enable/disable the static slider title animation
• Fixed sub-submenus under-menu indicators being always visible on the right margin
• Fixed sub-submenus having an extra bottom border
• Fixed items with sub-menus having no right padding
• Fixed hamburger menu button in the main navigation not being clickable in some cases
• Updated style.css description

0.9.1

Release Date - 2019.06.23

• Fixed submenus having wrong background color on IE11 and Edge
• Fixed Site Title not being vertically aligned on some rare occasions on Chrome
• Fixed Site Title size on mobile on Chrome
• Scaled down menu items size on mobile
• Fixed dot character being inside link in footer link

0.9

Release Date - 2019.06.21

• First Esotera release

Bundled Fonts

Icomoon icons Copyright Keyamoon.com License: GPL license, https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html Source: https://icomoon.io/#icons-icomoon

Entypo+ icons Copyright Daniel Bruce License: CC BY-SA 4.0 license, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Source: http://www.entypo.com/faq.php

Feather icons Copyright Cole Bemis License: MIT license, https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT Source: https://feathericons.com/

Zocial CSS social buttons Copyright Sam Collins License: MIT license, https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT Source: https://github.com/smcllns/css-social-buttons

Bundled Images

The following bundled images are released into the public domain under Creative Commons CC0:

Header images: https://www.nicepik.com/nikon-sunset-smile-jean-jacket-denim-blonde-camera-pier-ocean-beach-portrait-woman-free-photo-1304826 https://www.nicepik.com/closeup-shot-of-light-bulbs-various-technology-electric-lamp-lighting-equipment-illuminated-free-photo-403707

The rest of the bundled images are created by Cryout Creations and released with the theme under GPLv3.

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Third Party Resources

Esotera WordPress Theme bundles the following third-party libraries and resources:

TGM Plugin Activation Copyright Thomas Griffin, Gary Jones, Juliette Reinders Folmer License: GPL-2.0 or later license Source: https://github.com/TGMPA/TGM-Plugin-Activation

HTML5Shiv Copyright Alexander Farkas (aFarkas) License: Dual licensed under the terms of the GPL (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html) and MIT (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) licenses Source: https://github.com/aFarkas/html5shiv/

FitVids Copyright Chris Coyier - http://css-tricks.com + Dave Rupert - http://daverupert.com License: WTFPLlicense Source: http://fitvidsjs.com/

prepareTransition Copyright Jonathan Snook License: MIT license Source: https://snook.ca/archives/javascript/preparetransition-jquery-plugin