Release
Notes

Break out your sunscreen and funny beach towels everyone, summer is finally upon us (at least in our hemisphere, but you can pretend otherwise)! For everyone here at Themeco Headquarters, there's no better way to celebrate this season of fun in the sun than with an update to our product line! So sit back, relax (perhaps with a piña colada in hand), and enjoy.

If you keep up with the community run X Theme Users group on Facebook, you may have seen Kyle drop a few hints about our upcoming Extension integrations. Now that the time has finally arrived, we couldn't me more thrilled to officially share the news of our two new Extensions with v4.6.0 of X: ACF Pro and Superfly!

For those who might not already be familiar with it, ACF Pro is an absolutely stellar plugin that makes including custom fields onto your posts and pages incredibly easy. You can utilize the fields you've added to pull through custom data and output it as needed, allowing you to create more involved and immersive pages that go beyond standard content. Our Cornerstone integration with ACF Pro takes things even further, letting you place shorthand markup that will pull through data into your element content. To read more about ACF Pro, make sure to check out our Knowledge Base article that goes into much greater detail on the whole integration.

Superfly is the new kid in town that everybody on the block wants to hang out with. Superfly is a menu builder that allows you to setup unique navigation layouts for your website that look truly spectactular across all devices. You can read more about Superfly in our Knowledge Base article and see how to set it up and work with it.

ACF Integration

With this release of Cornerstone we've added a simple integration with ACF, allowing custom fields to be accessed in the page builder. For example, you can place {{acf:my_title}} in any Cornerstone text field. It will be expanded with the contents of your My Title field in ACF.

While more of a behind the scenes feature, we're proud to announce that Cornerstone now uses JSON for data storage instead of the serialization method furnished by WordPress natively. Many of you have had the unfortunate experience of losing the ablility to edit in Cornerstone after moving your site to a new URL. This is because PHP serialization is a strict format that will break if the length of content changes. JSON is much more flexible, and will help Cornerstone be more resiliant in a database migration.

Earlier this year Google deprecated the use of their Google Maps API without providing and API key. We've added a field to the Google Maps element allowing a key to be specified.

This release also introduces some underlying framework changes in preperation for Cornerstone v2.0.0. Most notable is the relocation of all localized strings to a central folder. We appologize for any inconvenience this is to those who have translated the plugin. Moving forward, having everything in one folder will be more sustainable as features are added.

Conclusion

This release also includes a few bug fixes, various improvements, and updates to our other bundled Extensions. As always, we look forward to seeing how you keep creating with X and our Extensions and will see you all very soon!

Update: October 7, 2016

Salutations, esteemed Themeco customers (and those who simply enjoy perusing changelog notes). As always, we are thrilled to be bringing you another release with an array of goodies for you to dig into, so let's get started!

With v4.6.3 of X, we are introducing our latest Extension: WP Cost Estimation & Payment Forms Builder!

You'll no doubt find many uses for this incredibly powerful forms builder that integrates directly with both Stripe and PayPal (no additional addons needed). Perfect for any industry where quotes are given out, from web designers and developers to builders and beyond. You can read more about the WP Cost Estimation & Payment Forms Builder Extension in our knowledge base article.

This release also covers a handful of maintenance items, including updating our Google Fonts and Font Aweseome options to provide the latest options available. Stay tuned! We will have an exciting progress report to share related to v5.0 of X next week, including the addition of a surprise feature!