Flatsome 3.0
We rebuilt the theme from scratch
We started off with Flatsome in September 2013. That’s almost 3 years ago. A lot has changed since then and Flatsome has grown up from a small WooCommerce theme to a full-grown Multi-Purpose theme ready to be used for any WordPress project.
- NEW: Completely re-written theme. Much smaller CSS file, but tons of new features.
- NEW: New incredible Front-End Page Builder. (UX Builder).
- NEW: New Option Panel using Customizer. Preview changes live.
- NEW: Live Drag and Drop Header Builder.
- NEW: Change sticky header for Header Top, Header Main or Header bottom.
- NEW: Show header Cart in Off-Canvas or Dropdown.
- NEW: Open Header Login in a Lightbox for quick login.
- NEW: New Header element: Contact. Add Email and Phone number to header easily.
- NEW: Added Category dropdown to Search Box.
- NEW: Built-in Live Search (You can disable YITH Live search if you want).
- NEW: New Search Box Styles. / Outline
- NEW: Add Icons to buttons that can be visible all the time or reveal on hover.
- NEW: Option to set custom Transparent Header Height and Mobile Header Height.
- NEW: Option to set custom Transparent Header background color.
- NEW: Add drop shadow to Columns, Buttons and Images.
- NEW: Possible to add slogan below logo.
- NEW: Option to change global site width.
- NEW: Section Masks. (Arrow, Angled and Fade Out).
- NEW: Added ‘Scroll for more’-arrow option for Sliders, Banners and Sections.
- NEW: Shrink and fade sticky style.
- NEW: Built in Language dropdown for WPML and Polylang.
- NEW: Change position of Product Up-sells (Sidebar, Below description, disabled)
- NEW: Options to Have full Width / Container header.
- NEW: New ways to display Account and Cart in header.
- NEW: Make Account or search visible for mobile view.
- NEW: Option to add Thumbnails to Blog Post Widget.
- NEW: New Page Template. Show header on scroll.
- NEW: Option to always show slider arrows (Not only on hover).
- NEW: Added radius option to buttons.
- NEW: Many new button styles
- NEW: Google Fonts are now loaded with JS (Faster Page Loading).
- NEW: Updated to Flickity 2.0 on all sliders.
- NEW: Added parallax option to Slider.
- NEW: Added Height option to newsletter element.
- NEW: Catalog Mode products now has Variation select.
- NEW: Snapchat & 500px added to Follow Icons.
- NEW: Option to create Custom Maintenance page.
- NEW: Header Checkout element.
- NEW: Add ‘Focus Point’ to Banner Backgrounds.
- NEW: New button styles.
- NEW: New Form Style – Flat.
- NEW: Page Titles Control. Add Amazing Page Titles.
- NEW: New page options for footer. Simple / Transparent / Disabled.
- NEW: Replace footer with a custom Block.
- NEW: Option to center Absolute Footer.
- NEW: Video Element. Embed responsive YouTube videos etc.
- NEW: Optimisation options added to Advanced options.
- NEW: Enable / Disable lazy load of banners and section backgrounds.
- NEW: Added “Tutorials” tab to Flatsome Panel.
- NEW: Change global default page templates. (Can be overrides pr page).
- NEW: Change width of Product Image Gallery on product page.
- NEW: Option to change how many product pr row on Tablets.
- NEW: Option to Center content in Top Bar.
- NEW: Option to set custom Sale bubble text.
- NEW: Many new product image hover styles. Zoom, Zoom Fade, Blur ++.
- NEW: Option to use Default WooCommerce Zoom (PrettyPhoto) instead of Flatsome Lightbox.
- NEW: Option for Google+ login on Account.
- NEW: Improved My Account Page Template.
- NEW: Newsletter Header element.
- NEW: Add Blocks to header.
- NEW: Count Up Number text option.
- NEW: Fancy Underline text option.
- NEW: Icons for Titles.
- NEW: New layouts for Portfolio post type.
- NEW: Filter option for portfolio.
- NEW: New layouts for blog.
- NEW: Option to have different blog layout on archives.
- NEW: New Hotspot element for UX Banners.
- NEW: Video Icon for Images with Youtube links. Also opens video in a lightbox.
- NEW: Hundreds of new options for all our shortcodes. Try them out in our new page builder.
- NEW: Option to Lazy load images.
- NEW: Sticky Sections option. Create cool sticky sections when scrolling.
- Changed: Full Product templates now uses shop sidebar as default if no product sidebar widgets are empty.
- Changed: Default included form plugin is now Contact Form 7, but Ninja Forms plugin is still supported.
- Changed: Featured Items is now called ‘Portfolio’.
- Changed: Featured Box is now called Icon Box.
- Changed: No more IE8 support. (But should still be accessible)