Arcanumesotera Child Theme

Arcanum

 WordPress Theme

Arcanum is a fresh and colourful child theme which expands on the already superb Esotera.

The plethora of features and timeless love for gradients are still here, with a little twist.

Responsiveness, Search Engine Optimization, a light framework and WooCommerce support are the pillars on which great design and clean typography flourish. And as always, the level of customization is unmatched.

Free WordPress Theme

Free WordPress Theme

A WordPress theme that includes all the features and functionality out of the box, for free. We don't hide half the theme behind a paywall.

Highly Customizable

Highly Customizable

With well over one hundred theme customization options it will be a piece of cake* to make it your own.

Up To Date

Up To Date

Constantly updated and upgraded to the latest design trends, web standards and WordPress versions.

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Arcanum News

Esotera 1.3.0 returns to the path

Changelog:

v1.3.0:

  • 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
  • Fixed theme reset styling overriding block file buttons
  • Fixed PHP 8.2+ deprecation warning in presentation page boxes filter
  • 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

v1.2.6:

  • Fixed XSS vulnerability allowing the output of unsanitized user names set by rogue editors/contributors – reported by stealthcopter on patchstack.com
  • Fixed erroneous itemprop=’discussionURL’ output in comments markup
  • 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

Plus changelog:

  • Added body class identifier for currently selected personality
  • Added order and orderby control options for the landing page featured boxes
  • Added links functionality on phones/email in contact template and widget
  • Added meta option to remove main content background color on individual posts and pages
  • Added search functionality in the icons shortcode editor UI
  • Added separate control option for Featured Image in Header for custom post types (Jetpack portfolios, WooCommerce products)
  • Added separate section layout option for 404 page
  • Improved shortcodes styling compatibility with WordPress blocks using the same .row classname
  • Improved video header centered alignment
  • Fixed Plus specific translations not loaded correctly
  • Fixed responsiveness trigger limit not applying to top navigation between 640 and (configurable) 800px
  • Fixed lefover left/right padding on full width page template
  • Fixed overlay placement with Serious Slider plugin
  • Fixed erroneous update availability message on unexpected reply from Plus backend API
  • Bumped bundled Featured Content plugin to version 1.2.3
  • Synchronized with Esoteras 1.2.6 and 1.3.0

Esotera 1.2.5(.1)

Changelog:

v1.2.5.1:

  • 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

v1.2.5:

  • 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

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Esotera 1.2.3/.4

Changelog:

v1.2.4

  • 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

v1.2.3.1

  • Really fixed mobile menu search creating an extra focusable item

v1.2.3

  • 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

Esotera 1.2.2

Changelog:

  • 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 titles 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

Esotera 1.2.1 experiences entities

Changelog:

  • 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

Esotera 1.2.0 makes a colorful return

Changelog:

  • 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

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Arcanum Stats

  • Current Version: 1.0.0
  • Last Updated: 16 Oct 2019
  • Rating: 
  • Downloads: 20 759
  • Active installs: 300+

Arcanum Support

  • Support Status: Child theme
  • This is a child theme which receives most updates through the parent theme and inherits its support cycle. Child themes can also receive individual updates when necessary.