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January and February saw the release of several updates of varying sizes with the Widgets Bundle update being the largest. In this post, I’ll briefly cover what was included in those updates. Thanks to all of our users, especially those that assisted with feedback and feature requests.
A child theme ensures that your code-level customizations are kept safe and not overwritten during the theme update process. If you think you might need to make code-level customizations in the future, it’s best to make use of a child theme from the beginning of your WordPress site’s development. In this tutorial, we’ll look at what happens to your Customizer settings when switching to a child theme late in the development process and how to quickly resolve the problem.
Take control of your WooCommerce layouts with Page Builder. SiteOrigin Premium version 1.10.0 includes our new WooCommerce Templates addon which allows you to build custom Page Builder templates for the Product, Archives, Shop, Cart, Empty Cart, Checkout and My Account pages. Reorganize existing WooCommerce content or add new content, all in the familiar Page Builder interface.
We’re excited to announce that version 1.9 of SiteOrigin Premium introduces the Mirror Widgets addon. Create a widget once, use it everywhere. Update it and the changes reflect in all instances of the widget. The Mirror Widget addon is perfect for information or functionality that you’d like to insert in several places but manage in a single location.
Autoptimize is our preferred plugin for reducing page size and improving load time, we use it right here on SiteOrigin.com. In our latest release of the Widgets Bundle, version 1.15.6 we’ve added a filter which prevents the exclusion of the /uploads/siteorigin-widgets/ folder, ensuring Widgets Bundle stylesheets are concatenation and minified.
Add beautiful, customizable hover text overlays with animations to your images. Hover overlays are great for galleries, portfolios or any image that would benefit from displaying information on hover. Overlays can be deployed in seconds using the predefined light/dark themes or fully customized using the wide array of style and animation options.
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SiteOrigin CSS 
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