=== Ultimate Addons for Elementor Lite (UAE Lite) ===
Contributors: @brainstormforce, @nikschavan, @pratikchaskar
Tags: elementor, header footer builder, breadcrumbs, post meta, widgets
Requires at least: 4.4
Requires PHP: 7.4
Tested up to: 6.7
Stable tag: 2.0.2
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Elevate your Elementor designs with UAE Lite! Create custom headers, footers, and eye-catching posts/pages easily with powerful widgets and features.
## Description ##
Building and managing WordPress websites shouldn’t be overwhelming. That’s why we created **Ultimate Addons for Elementor Lite (UAE Lite)** – a free plugin that adds powerful features to Elementor, giving you complete control over your site’s design and functionality.
From crafting custom headers and footers to adding interactive design elements like breadcrumbs and metadata, UAE Lite is packed with features that make your website **look and perform better**. And best of all? You can do it all with Elementor’s intuitive drag-and-drop editor!
[Try it out on a free dummy site](https://bsf.io/hfe-demo)
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### What Can UAE Lite Do for You?
#### Design Eye-Catching Headers and Footers
Easily create custom headers and footers that perfectly match your brand. Use Elementor’s drag-and-drop builder to add logos, menus, and design elements, and **choose where they appear** – on the homepage, blog pages, or across your entire site.
#### Inbuilt Widgets for Speedy Design That Visitors Love
Save time with built-in widgets designed to handle common design needs. From logos and navigation menus to copyright notices and search bars, UAE Lite has you covered:
- **Post Info**: Automatically display key post details like author, publish date, time, and categories – a must-have for blogs and SEO optimization.
- **Breadcrumbs**: Help visitors navigate your site with a dynamic path display.
- **Scroll to Top**: Make your site more user-friendly with this handy button for easy navigation.
- **Site Logo**: Automatically pull your site’s logo or set a custom one with a link and caption.
- **Navigation Menu**: Pick from multiple menu layouts (horizontal, vertical, expanded, flyout) with extensive customization options.
- **Copyright Notice**: Use handy constants like `[hfe_current_year]` to keep your footer info up to date.
- **Site Title**: The site name will be automatically inherited from the customizer. You can add a prefix, suffix, icon, and link to it.
- **Site Tagline**: It will show a tagline from the customizer, with options for prefix, suffix, icon, and link.
- **Page Title**: Shows the title of your current post or page and provides options for prefix, suffix, icon, link, and alignment.
- **Retina Logo**: You can upload a high-definition retina image for your logo.
- **WooCommerce Menu Cart**: You can show the current number of products in the cart and the total price.
- **Search**: Add a search box to your design with various layout and styling options.
#### Place Elementor Templates Anywhere
Want to add a unique section, call-to-action, or custom block anywhere on your site? UAE Lite lets you design templates with Elementor and place them wherever you like with simple shortcodes.
#### Go Beyond with the ‘Before Footer’ Template
Enhance your footer designs with an extra section above the footer! Use it to showcase announcements, promotions, or newsletter signups.
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### Who Is UAE Lite For?
UAE Lite is perfect for:
- **Bloggers**: Showcase posts beautifully with Post Info and custom headers.
- **Small Business Owners**: Build a professional-looking website without hiring a designer.
- **Designers & Agencies**: Save time and wow clients with advanced layouts in minutes.
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== Installation ==
1. Install the plugin through the WordPress plugin directory or by uploading the ZIP file in your WordPress dashboard.
2. Activate the plugin via the "Plugins" menu.
3. Start creating your header, footer, and other templates under UAE > Dashboard.
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Loved what UAE Lite offers? Wait till you see what UAE Pro can do!
Here’s what makes it worth upgrading:
From WooCommerce tools to advanced sliders, create anything your site needs like
- **Premium Templates**- Speed up your workflow with pre-designed layouts.
- **Cross Domain copy-paste** - Copy and paste Elementor content between websites.
- **Welcome Music**- Play background audio to engage visitors upon page load.
- **Advanced Heading**- Create engaging and customizable headings for your pages.
- **Business Hours**- Customize and display your business hours stylishly.
- **Toggle Button**- Let users easily switch between two types of content.
- **Google map**- Add customizable, multi-location maps with custom markers.
- **Image Gallery**- Build attractive, feature-rich galleries with advanced options.
- **Info box**- Add headings, icons, and descriptions in one flexible widget.
- **Modal Popup**- Design engaging popups with interactive animations and content.
- **Post Layout**- Display and customize blog posts beautifully on your site.
- **Price List**- Create elegant, customizable lists for menus or product catalogues.
many more that you’d love.
[UAE Pro](https://ultimateelementor.com/?utm_source=wp-repo&utm_campaign=header-footer-elementor&utm_medium=description) unlocks unlimited possibilities, helping you design websites that are not just functional but extraordinary.
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### More Tools to Enhance Your WordPress Website
If you love UAE Lite, you’ll love our other products too:
- **Astra**: The fastest, most flexible WordPress theme – perfect for any type of website.
- **Starter Templates**: Choose from hundreds of ready-to-use website designs or use AI to build a site tailored to your needs.
- **SureTriggers**: Automate repetitive tasks and connect your favorite apps for ultimate efficiency.
- **SureForms**: Create stunning forms, quizzes, or surveys in minutes.
- **SureCart**: The ultimate plugin for effortless eCommerce – perfect for online sellers.
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== Frequently Asked Questions ==
### 1. Can I use UAE Lite with any WordPress theme?
Yes! UAE Lite works seamlessly with all themes. If needed, you can enable theme support manually under UAE > Theme Support.
### 2. What’s the difference between UAE Lite and UAE Pro?
UAE Lite offers essential tools to get started, while UAE Pro unlocks advanced widgets, dynamic content, and premium features for professionals.
### 3. Can I use UAE Lite with WooCommerce?
Absolutely! You can design custom headers, footers, and other sections for WooCommerce pages with UAE Lite.
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== Screenshots ==
1. **Widget Dashboard**: Easily manage features and settings.
2. **Header/Footer Builder**: Create stunning designs in Elementor.
3. **Post Info Widget**: Showcase metadata dynamically.
4. **Scroll to Top**: Add easy navigation to your site.
5. **Theme Compatibility**: Works flawlessly with any theme.
== Changelog ==
= 2.0.2 =
- Fix: Added a class_exists check to prevent critical errors caused by class redeclaration.
- Fix: Verify Elementor Kit settings before accessing to avoid potential issues.
= 2.0.1 =
- Fix: Conflict with site customizer style.
= 2.0.0 =
- New Feature: Scroll to Top Button.
Add a dynamic "Scroll to Top" button to enhance navigation and improve user experience on long pages.
- New Widget: Post Info Widget.
Display metadata like author name, publish date, categories, tags, and more dynamically on your posts or pages.
- New Widget: Breadcrumbs Widget.
Add navigational breadcrumbs to improve site navigation and guide users through your content hierarchy.
- Improvement: Revamped User Interface.
Introduced a new, user-friendly UI similar to UAE Pro for easier management of widgets and features.
- Improvement: Rebranded as UAE Lite from Elementor Header & Footer Builder: Packed with all your favorite features plus new widgets, functionality, and a sleek UI.
= 1.6.47 =
- Fix: This update addressed a security bug. Props to Wordfence for privately reporting it to our team. Please make sure you are using the latest version on your website.
= 1.6.46 =
- Fix: This update addressed a security bug. Props to Wordfence and Francesco Carlucci for privately reporting it to our team. Please make sure you are using the latest version on your website.
= 1.6.45 =
- Improvement: Enhanced the enqueue_scripts method with checks to ensure styles load safely.
= 1.6.44 =
- Improvement: Compatibility with latest Elementor and Elementor Pro 3.25 version.
- Fix: This update addressed a security bug. Props to Wordfence and Francesco Carlucci for privately reporting it to our team. Please make sure you are using the latest version on your website.
= 1.6.43 =
- Improvement: Icons displaying correctly on frontend.
= 1.6.42 =
- Fix: Navigation Menu – Active color now changes correctly when moving between pages.
- Fix: Page Title - The icon was showing too big, now it appears the right size.
= 1.6.41 =
- Improvement: Compatibility with latest Elementor and Elementor Pro 3.24 version.
- Improvement: Implemented widget output caching to enhance page performance.
- Improvement: Updated the deprecated code in codebase.
= 1.6.40 =
- Improvement: Navigation Menu - The dropdown menu now extends to full width when the navigation menu container is set to full width on smaller screens.
- Fix: Navigation Menu – Console error for undefined property ‘left’.
= 1.6.39 =
- Improvement: Updated minimum PHP version requirement to 7.4.
= 1.6.38 =
- Improvement: Improved code quality syntax and security checks for better coding standards and practices.
= 1.6.37 =
- Improvement: Compatibility with latest Elementor and Elementor Pro 3.23 version.
= 1.6.36 =
- Fix: This update addressed a security bug. Props to Wordfence for privately reporting it to our team. Please make sure you are using the latest version on your website.
= 1.6.35 =
- Improvement: Compatibility with latest Elementor and Elementor Pro 3.22 version.
- Improvement: Updated sanitize SVG function.
- Fix: Search - Compatibility with Polylang switcher.
= 1.6.34 =
- Fix: Navigation Menu - Submenus show up for few seconds during the page load
- Fix: Navigation Menu - Huge icon show up for few seconds during the page load
- Fix: Navigation Menu - Unable to click on submenu when top distance is added for dropdown
= 1.6.33 =
- Fix: Unable to edit the Header/Footer with Elementor in few cases.
= 1.6.32 =
- Fix: Improved plugin security.
= 1.6.31 =
- Fix: Conflict with WP SVG Images plugin.
= 1.6.30 =
- Fix: Improved error messages during plugin activation.
= 1.6.29 =
- Fix: Navigation Menu – The submenu container opens without hovering over the parent menu item.
- Fix: This update addressed a security bug. Props to Wordfence.
= 1.6.28 =
- Fix: Error messages appearing for Display rules.
= 1.6.27 =
- Improvement: Compatibility with latest Elementor and Elementor Pro 3.21 version.
- Improvement: Compatibility with PHP 8.3 version.
- Fix: This update addressed a security bug. Props to Wordfence.
= 1.6.26 =
- Improvement: Compatibility with latest Elementor and Elementor Pro 3.20 version.
- Improvement: Compatibility with PHP 8.2 version.
= 1.6.25 =
- Security Fix: Hardened the security of the plugin. Props: Wordfence.
- Fix: Automatic translation support for templates on Specific Pages / Posts / Taxonomies, etc.
- Fix: Navigation Menu - Multistep submenu fails to display when a border radius is applied to dropdown.
= 1.6.24 =
- Improvement: Compatibility with latest Elementor and Elementor Pro 3.19 version.
- Fix: White Label - Astra's theme name does not change when Astra is white-labeled.
- Fix: Navigation Menu - Language switcher flags not displaying when using Polylang plugin.
= 1.6.23 =
- Fix: This update addressed a security bug. Props to WordPress Plugin Review Team and Plugin Vulnerabilities Team for reporting it to our team. Please make sure you are using the latest version on your website.
= 1.6.22 =
- Fix: Retina Image - Navigating to custom URL by clicking on images.
= 1.6.21 =
- Fix: Site Logo - Width and height settings not applying to the logo.
= 1.6.20 =
- Fix: Flyout menu not appearing correctly.
= 1.6.19 =
- Fix: Header and Footer layout broken after last update.
= 1.6.18 =
- Improvement: Compatibility with latest Elementor and Elementor Pro 3.18 version.
- Improvement: Compatibility with WordPress VIP Go rules.
= 1.6.17 =
- Improvement: Compatibility with latest Elementor and Elementor Pro 3.17 version.
- Fix: Site Logo - Added an alt text for the default logo.
= 1.6.16 =
- Compatibility with latest Elementor and Elementor Pro 3.16 version.
- Compatibility with PHP 8.1 version.
= 1.6.15 =
- Improvement: Compatibility with latest Elementor and Elementor Pro 3.15 version.
- Improvement: Added WPML support.
- Fix: Navigation Menu - HTML validation error on mobile layout related to tabindex inside elements with attribute [role="button"].
- Fix: Polylang plugin language causes conflicts when set up with a custom Header Footer.
- Fix: Site Logo - Align icons not rendering in Elementor editor settings.
= 1.6.14 =
- Improvement: Compatibility with Elementor version 3.13 and Elementor Pro version 3.13
- Fix: Navigation Menu - Accessibility error corrected for [aria-hidden="true"] attribute.
= 1.6.13 =
- Compatibility with Elementor version 3.7.2 and Elementor Pro version 3.7.3.
= 1.6.12 =
- Compatibility with Elementor and Elementor Pro.
= 1.6.11 =
- Improvement: Compatibility with Elementor Pro version 3.7
- Fix: Removed meta tag attribute [maximum-scale=1] for a better accessibility.
= 1.6.10 =
- Improvement: Compatibility with Elementor version 3.6.
Removed elementor deprecated functions and replaced with latest functions.
Now to work with Elementor Header & Footer Builder, Elementor minimum version 3.5.0 or higher will be required.
= 1.6.9 =
- Improvement: Compatibility with Elementor Pro version 3.6
- Fix: Navigation Menu - If Polylang language switcher is present in the menu, it closes the menu with a click.
= 1.6.8 =
- Improvement: WordPress 5.9 compatibility.
= 1.6.7 =
- Improvement: Added GDPR support to Subscription form.
= 1.6.6 =
- Improvement: Added compatibility to Elementor core version 3.5.0. Now to work with EHF, Elementor minimum version 3.1.0 or higher will be required.
- Fix: PHP warning of undefined array key on responsive controls in all widgets.
= 1.6.5 =
- Fix: Hide empty cart count badge hiding even when cart is not empty.
= 1.6.4 =
- Improvement: Elementor 3.4 compatibility.
= 1.6.3 =
- Improvement: WordPress 5.8 compatibility.
- Improvement: Elementor 3.3 compatibility.
= 1.6.2 =
- Improvement: Copyright - Added custom link attributes support.
- Improvement: Page Title - Added custom link attributes support.
- Improvement: Retina Image - Added custom link attributes support.
- Improvement: Search - Added gradient color support to the search button.
- Improvement: Site Logo - Added custom link attributes support.
- Improvement: Site Title - Added custom link attributes support.
- Fix: Templates views section not displaying correctly and related code conflicting with Yoast SEO plugin.
- Fix: Widgets icon color issue with Elementor's dark mode.
= 1.6.1 =
- Fix: Footer misplaced in the header or content area due to a bug introduced in v1.6.0.
= 1.6.0 =
- New: Added Email Subscription and About Us section on the settings page.
- New: Renamed the plugin to Elementor Header & Footer Builder.
- Improvement: Added an option to hide + & - sign added by Twenty Twenty-One Theme.
- Fix: Navigation Menu - Border for dropdown is also applying to the menu trigger icon.
- Fix: Navigation Menu - Fix top distance option for dropdown adding a top-margin to sub-menu.
- Fix: Navigation Menu - Fixed active color issues in case of full-page anchor links used in nav links.
- Fix: Navigation Menu - Navigation schema not working.
= 1.5.9 =
- Improvement: Added notice to update Elementor to v3.0.0 or higher
Elementor has deprecated few functions and namespaces with its v3.0.0. Following Elementor, our plugin too deprecates similar functions and namespaces. You will now require the Elementor v3.0.0 or higher.
- Improvement: Elementor 3.2 Compatibility - Added Elementor Global Color and Typography scheme support.
- Fix: Navigation Menu - Last menu item button disappearing while switching from mobile to desktop.
- Fix: Navigation Menu - Last menu item button alignment not working in RTL view.
= 1.5.8 =
- Fix: Hardened allowed options in the editor to enforce better security policies.
= 1.5.7 =
- Improvement: Compatibility with Elementor v3.1.
- Fix: Navigation Menu - Undefined index notice when menu is not set.
= 1.5.6 =
- Fix: Buttons showing cart subtotal.
= 1.5.5 =
- Improvement: Compatibility with Elementor v3.1.
- Improvement: Cart - Added Items Count hover color options.
- Fix: jQuery shorthand deprecation warning for click() and focus() functions.
- Fix: Cart - Fixed fatal error due to cart initialization.
= 1.5.4 =
- Improvement: Compatibility to PHP v8.0.
- Improvement: Improved compatibility with Astra theme.
- Improvement: Navigation Menu - Added option to toggle menu item.
- Fix: Added 'alt' attribute to the widgets containing images.
- Fix: Closed the missing HTML tag in footer in the global theme compatibility.
- Fix: Navigation Menu - Alignment option not working for the last menu item set as 'Button'.
= 1.5.3 =
- Fix: Polylang plugin conflicting issue with target rules.
- Fix: Navigation Menu - Double link attributes issue with translation plugins.
= 1.5.2 =
- Improvement: Compatibility with Polylang.
- Improvement: Navigation Menu - Added 'SiteNavigationElement' schema support.
- Improvement: Navigation Menu - Added support to SVG for toggle and close icon.
- Improvement: Navigation Menu - Added active color support to the link hover effects.
- Improvement: Page Title - Added option to disable the link.
- Fix: Exclude EHF templates from query for target rules - Specific Pages / Posts / taxonomies etc.
- Fix: Cart - Missing wrapper class in the control selector.
- Fix: Navigation Menu - Added responsive support to flyout box width.
= 1.5.1 =
- Fix: Retained GeneratePress theme's after header while using EHF header.
- Fix: Target rule 'Specific Pages/Posts/Taxonomies etc' not working.
- Fix: Cart - Error in some cases.
= 1.5.0 =
- New: Search widget.
- New: Users can now share non-personal usage data to help us test and develop better products. ( Know More )
- Improvement: UI improvements.
- Improvement: Navigation Menu - Added active color for dropdown and current menu parent.
- Improvement: Navigation Menu - Changed the tablet breakpoint to 1024 in order to support iPad Pro.
- Fix: Compatibility to PHP v7.4.
- Fix: GeneratePress theme header now overriden by EHF.
- Fix: Cart - Count not increasing with AJAX call.
- Fix: Page Title - Added support for archive title.
- Fix: Site Title - Custom URL not working.
= 1.4.1 =
- Fix: EHF header overlapping Astra WooCommerce Off-Canvas.
- Fix: WooCommerce Menu Cart - 'div' tag of custom cart layout was not closed.
- Fix: WooCommerce Menu Cart - Fatal error with count when cart is empty.
= 1.4.0 =
- New: WooCommerce Menu Cart widget.
- Improvement: Compatibility to Elementor Pro v2.9 full site editing.
- Improvement: In-built support to Hello Elementor theme.
- Improvement: WPML support to before footer template.
- Improvement: Navigation Menu - Added option to convert last item into CTA.
= 1.3.1 =
- Fix: Copyright - Link with open in new tab not working.
- Fix: Navigation Menu - Hamburger menu click not working on responsive devices.
- Deprecated: Removed the theme dependency for the plugin, so removed the associated notice.
= 1.3.0 =
- New: Added 'Site Logo' widget.
- New: Added 'Site Title' widget.
- New: Added 'Site Tagline' widget.
- New: Added 'Navigation Menu' widget.
- New: Added 'Page Title' widget.
- Improvement: Elementor v2.9 compatibility.
= 1.2.2 =
- Fix: Add default fallback theme support after checking if current theme does not add it.
= 1.2.1 =
- Categorize the Elementor widgets in a separate category in the Elementor window.
- Hide target rules options when a custom block template is selected.
= 1.2.0 =
- New: Support all the themes, Includes two separate fallback methods so that you can create custom headers and footers for any theme.
- New: Added target rule engine, which allows you to have different headers/footers for different pages.
- New: Added Retina Image Elementor widget, which can be used as a Site Logo.
- New: Added Copyright widget and Shortcode for current year & site title.
- Improvement: Allow before footer to work on Elementor Canvas Template when not using Astra Theme.
- Improvement: Added support of `Before Footer` action for all the themes.
= 1.1.4 =
- Fix: Flush permalinks on plugin update to Elementor error when trying to edit the Header/Footer.
= 1.1.3 =
- Improvement: Allow changing the permalinks for the hfe templates (#162)
- Fix: WPML Translations do not work when using the Elementor Template as a shortcode. (#159)
- Fix: Page content appears over the header. (#150)
- Fix: Remove the deprecated function warning for shortcode functions. (Props @hogash #145)
= 1.1.2 =
- Fix: Depracated function warning from Elementor's method `\Elementor\Post_CSS_File`
= 1.1.1 =
- Fix: Blank header being displayed when only footer is translated using WPML.
= 1.1.0 =
- New: Rename plugin to be Header Footer & Blocks builder as now the blocks templates can be used as shortcodes.
- New: Add templates before the footer for Astra Theme. Options for other themes will be coming soon.
- New: Use templates (Blocks) anywhere in your content with the help of shortcodes.
- Improvement: Improved the UI of the metabox for Header Footer post type.
= 1.0.16 =
- Fix: Make the theme not supported notice dismissable.
- Fix: Use specific selector when adding z-index for the header.
= 1.0.15 =
- Fix: Default Header being displayed for Generatepress and Gensis theme after v1.0.14.
= 1.0.14 =
- Fix: Fixes possible PHP notices/Errors due to WP_Query being called early for all the supported themes.
= 1.0.13 =
- Fix: PHP Notices and errors due to WP_Query being called early when some plugins use filters inside WP_Query.
= 1.0.12 =
- Fix: Compatibility with Elementor 2.0 changed canvas template path.
= 1.0.11 =
- Load the CSS footer early in the page to avoid slow rendering of CSS.
- Change the schema.org links to be https.
- Fix: Added correct schema markup for the footer.
= 1.0.10 =
- Load the header layout correctly in the in Elementor canvas template.
- Load the Elementor Pro CSS/JS files in .
- Provide more filters for the helper functions.
= 1.0.9 =
- Add Support for WPML.
- Updated the missing strings from the translations template.
= 1.0.8 =
- Allow filters to override the WP_Query parameters when retreiving the Header / Footer template id.
= 1.0.7 =
- Fix: Dismissable notice not actually dismissing.
= 1.0.6 =
- New: Option to display the header/footer on the pages using Elementor Canvas Template.
= 1.0.5 =
- Fix: Correctly check if Elementor actually is active before using its methods. This fixes errors for sites using older versions of PHP where Elementor does not actually get activated.
= 1.0.4 =
- Improvement: Use Elementor's created instance when rendering the markup for header/footer - Credits itay9001
= 1.0.3 =
- Fix: Adding theme support for the plugin does not remove the "no supported" notice.
= 1.0.2 =
- New: Added support for the OceanWP Theme.
- Fix: Load the Elementor header assets correctly in the header. This fixes header looking different just when loading the page as previously Elementor would load its CSS in the footer.
- Introduced helper functions for rendering and checking the headers to make it simpler to integrate HFE with more themes.
= 1.0.1 =
- New: Added support for the Astra WordPress theme - The Fastest, Most Lightweight & Customizable WordPress Theme.
* Moved the menu under Appearance -> Header Footer Builder.
* Fix: Header content getting hidden behind tha page content.
* Use Elemenntor's canvas template when designing header and footer layout to have full width experience.
= 1.0.0 =
* Initial Release.