We’re excited to introduce version 1.5.147, released on July 17, 2025 — a release packed with widget improvements, UI polish, new customization options, and essential bug fixes. This version is all about giving you more control over how your content looks and behaves, with cleaner output and better performance across the board.
Among the standout additions this time: two exciting new features for our Job Listing, major improvements to Content Box Overlay and Animated Border Icon Box, and the release of a brand-new widget — Flag Icons — a lightweight, versatile way to add country flags to your designs. We’ve also introduced advanced layout and styling controls for many existing widgets, plus resolved some long-standing issues reported by our users.
Whether you’re designing dynamic job boards, customizing overlays, fine-tuning post layouts, or crafting stunning icon effects — this update gives you more flexibility to create beautifully responsive, high-performing Elementor websites.
Let’s dive into the full changelog:
Version 1.5.147
Plugin Updates:
Fix: Added entity decode for subjects in form emails to properly render special characters.
Fix: Resolved issue with
remove_orderbyin post selection, improving query behavior.Fix: Added protection when registering Elementor widgets to avoid cache-related conflicts.
Fix: Fixed issue with AJAX search when using titles-only filtering.
Fix: Cleaned up JavaScript issues in background widgets to improve front-end rendering.
Widget Updates:
Animated Floating Elements Background (Pro) – Feature: Added Starting Point option, allowing users to define the initial position or item displayed when the widget loads.
Job Listing (Pro) – Feature: Added Remote Connect option, also added Fallback Image option to display a default image when the item image is missing.
Post Carousel (Free) – Feature: Added Show Full Post Content option, allowing users to display the complete content of a post instead of just an excerpt.
Job Listing (Pro) – Feature: Added new styling options for Job Info Items, including Border Radius, Padding, Background Color, Background Color on Hover, Border, and Border on Hover for enhanced visual customization.
Content Box Overlay (Free) – Feature: Enabled Image size/resolution selection. Introduced Transition Duration, Title HTML Tag, Icon, and Show Title condition and debug option: “Preview Hidden Content” to assist during styling. Also added Icon, and badge option.
Animated Border Icon Box (Free) – Feature: Added Title Condition and Title HTML Tag option. Enabled SVG Icon Upload and introduced “Enable Full Box Link” option. Also introduced a new Layout tab and reorganized related options for clarity. Added Badge Option and moved Title Border settings to the new Separator tab, along with new Border Width and Separator Gap controls.
Post Grid (Free) – Change: Added 9 new options in the “Image Object Position” setting to allow precise image alignment: top left, top center, top right, center left, center center, center right, bottom left, bottom center, and bottom right.
Content Box Overlay (Free) – Change: Added new styling options, Height, Image Fit, Image Position, Image CSS Filter, Title Spacing, and Separator line styles. Improved overall widget functionality and optimized CSS loading based on conditions, and removed unused CSS for better optimization.
Animated Border Icon Box (Free) – Change: Added a dedicated Icon tab in styles, including controls for Icon Size, Color, Shadow, and Gap. Also added a separate Icon Gap setting. Removed old typography option, and added styling options for the Title. Restructured HTML and CSS, removing unused elements for improved performance.
Tabs Filter (Pro) – Change: Added CSS rule to remove text decoration from the tab item link element, enhancing the overall visual clarity.
Repeater Table (Pro) – Fix: Fixed issue where CSV and JSON sources for the table were not working with the widget, ensuring proper data loading and display.
Alphabet Filter (Pro) – Fix: Fixed issue where enabling the Post Count option triggered an alert displaying an error, ensuring smooth functionality.
Morph Background Slider (Pro) – Fix: Fixed issue when Transition Direction option was not working as expected.
Liquid Full Screen Menu (Pro) – Fix: Fixed issue where the Menu was causing horizontal scrolling when resizing the window, ensuring proper responsive behavior.
Testimonial Carousel (Free) – Fix: Added additional check of Masonry Layout Items position and correction in case of misalignment.
Post Grid (Free) – Fix: Fixed an issue where, when the List View option was enabled and the layout was switched to list view, post items were not full width as expected. This update ensures that all post items properly stretch to full width in list view mode for a consistent and cleaner layout.
Underline Link Hover Effect (Pro) – Fix: Fixed issue where the transition duration was not applied to the text element, ensuring smooth and consistent animations.
Select Dropdown Filter (Free) – Other: Added additional instruction for the Select First option, providing clearer guidance on its usage and behavior.
Tabs Filter (Pro) – Other: Added additional instruction for the Select First option, providing clearer guidance on its usage and behavior.
Flag Icons (Free) – Release: New Widget: Flag Icons. Easily add country flag icons to your Elementor designs – perfect for highlighting international destinations, events, or global content.
Final Thoughts
Version 1.5.147 continues our commitment to delivering flexible, powerful tools for Elementor users who want more control and better performance — without complexity. From smarter layout options to bug fixes that smooth out daily workflows, this release reflects your feedback and our drive to improve every detail.
We’re especially excited about the enhancements to popular widgets like Job Listing, Post Carousel, Content Box Overlay, and the introduction of the new Flag Icons widget, which opens up fun and practical design possibilities for multilingual and travel-related websites.
As always, your feedback fuels our innovation.
Stay tuned — more powerful updates and new widgets are on the way.