Breek Minimal Masonry Theme for WordPress

Description

Breek is a super modern Blog focused on high speed and vivid colors, the theme fits perfectly any kind of blog specially personal, resources, freebies or biography blogs. It is super light, this fast theme was made with multiple techniques to achieve excellent Scores on Google, also we keep in mind the code quality and SEO. It is easy to use and customize. Includes 11 customs widgets and a powerful theme options panel to make easier the administration. Breek has AMP and RTL support and it is multilanguage, includes: Turkish, French, Portuguese, Spanish and English.

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Features

• Super Light and Modern design.
• Highly optimized and lightweight (just 1.5mb size).
• AMP Support (Transitional Mode) Check AMP Home and AMP Single Post.
• Constantly updated.
• Translation ready (English, Turkish, French, Portuguese and Spanish included).
• Minified and Optimized code.
• ACF Pro bundled (save $29).
• RTL included (Feedback appreciated).
• Open Graph Support.
• Built with SCSS and pre-compiled with Prepos 6 (Windows and Mac compatible).
• Dedicated advertising section (below header, before and after post content, custom advertise to place anywhere).
• Advertising section between grid posts. demo here
• Supports menu with icons
• Sticky sidebar for Posts
• Lazy Load for Lists (home pages, archives, categories, etc).
• Lazy Load for post content.
• Lazy Load for embed (iframes like Youtube/Vimeo/Soundcloud).
• * New: Category cluster demo here
• * New: 1 Click Updates
• HTML5 & CSS3 ready.
• 3 Single post dispositions
  • Fullwidth: cover for large images, see here.
  • Standard: image inside the article, see here.
  • Fullwidth No sidebar: see here
  • Classic No sidebar: see here
• No Sidebar Style for Post and Pages see here.
• Custom Tag page, see here.
• Custom Author page, see here.
• Custom 404 Page see here.
• About me Widget.
• Custom Tag Cloud Widget.
• Custom Galleries.
• Advertising sections.
• Disqus and Facebook support.
• Fully responsive.
• Video Support (Vimeo, Youtube, etc).
• Retina Display Ready.
• Font Awesome icons.
• Works on Android, Ipad and Iphone.
• Documentation included.
• Clean Design.
• Well Coded.
• Navigation Menu.

Changelog

v3.5.0 - 16 June 2020
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Summary: Core Web Vital (CWB) improvements.
TTI: Time to interactive.
LCP: Largest Contentful Paint
CSL: Cumulative Layout Shift

- Fixed: Correct Avatar not displayed properly on comments section.
- Fixed: Duplicated custom CSS from theme options.
- Fixed: Category cluster exclude filter not working.
- Fixed: Mobile footer sidebar incorrect width on tablet devices.
- Fixed: Low contrast color on Gallery Captions.
- Fixed: Border radius issue for Cover Block elements on IOS devices.
- Fixed: Border radius issue on articles list on Safari browser.
- Improved: Sanitization color for theme options.
- Improved: Several changes to improve LCP on Articles list.
- Improved: Several changes to improve LCP on Single Post Content.
- Improved: Image size for bgstyle articles.
- Improved: Now secondary CSS files, will be loaded with Prefetch instead of Preload to reduce the priority of not critical CSS files.
- Improved: Custom Scripts on Footer are fully removed in AMP pages to prevent JS errors (New AMP custom code will replace this functionality).
- Improved: Now fonts icons are loaded in 2 separated files, to reduce the load of other critical CSS.
- Improved: Content effects was fully removed on mobile devices, this will reduce TTI.
- Improved: Now Slider scripts will be loaded only if needed on every page.
- Improved: Now Code Prettify (prism) will be loaded only if needed on every page.
- Improved: Pasive listener warning for CWB.
- Improved: Now functions/sidebars.php, post-formats.php and theme-functions.php can be used inside the child theme, to override any function of these files.
- Added: New optimization section (advanced settings).
- Added: New option to disable animation on Homepage and Archives (tag, categories, author), this could reduce the TTI from CWB.
- Added: New option to disable animation on single post (by default it always OFF), this will greatly improve the CLS and TTI from CWB.
- Added: New option to select theme font icons method (standard, javascript or in footer), this will improve TTI and reduce a little the LCP from CWB.
- Added: New option to add a delay to the font icons load (only available for Javascript method).
- Added: New optimization option, now Async scripts can be removed automatically from the source code.
- Added: New option to change mobile body font size, and mobile single post font size.
- Added: Autofocus to search lightbox.
- Added: Custom Code for AMP pages, this will allow add Analytics codes and others.
- Added: Custom Social Icon for User Profiles, this will allow to create social buttons (like Pinterest or Instagram). This change will affect About Me widget and Author box (below single post).
- Added: Rel noopener and nofollow to About Widget and Author box.
- Added: Rel noopener and nofollow to Subscribe button and some other external links.
- Added: Russian Translation, special thanks to rugas334
- Added: Italian Translation, special thanks to destinpower

v3.1.0 - 13 May 2020
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- Fixed: Error on category page with some page builders.
- Fixed: Warning on header.php
- Fixed: Gutenberg Styles not applied on Backend in WP 5.4
- Fixed: Aligncenter not applied on embeds where aspect radio is disabled.
- Improved: Sanitization of some URLs and Colors fields on theme options.
- Improved: Category cluster large image (slowing down the website).
- Improved: Fixed image background on IOS mobile devices (Safari).
- Improved: Framework hooks priority.
- Improved: Input fields font sizes to (16px), this will disable Auto Zoom on IOS mobile devices.
- Improved: Title sanitization on siblings post (below main single article).
- Improved: Border radius on cover blocks elements.
- Improved: Open Graph title for Home Page.
- Improved: H1 on Search Pages.
- Improved: H1 on Archives pages (category, tags and author).
- Removed: Instagram Widget (API was deprecated) also added a new guide how to add a Instagram Gallery.
- Added: Now shortcodes are supported inside epcl_tabs
- Added: Tags description and custom background image (same feature as Categories) to improve SEO.
- Added: Apply_filters to comments fields (this will ensure some plugins can dequeue any form fields, for example website field).
- Added: New option to show prev/next posts with the same category on single post (theme options ->blog -> single).
- Added: New filter on Post Carousel module (exclude categories).
- Added: New filter on Grid Categories module (exclude categories).
- Added: New option "ADS between X paragraph" on Theme options -> advertising -> single post.

v3.0.0 - 28 February 2020
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- Important: this update will break Theme Options panel, it's recommended to follow the next guide to migrate properly: https://estudiopatagon.ticksy.com/article/15573
- Fixed: Adsense banner (between grid posts) incorrect height.
- Fixed: Sidebar incorrect alignment on mobile devices.
- Fixed: Error if the license page can't connect to the updates server.
- Fixed: Align Center not applied on some Gutenberg elements.
- Fixed: JS error on old browsers (IE 10 - IE 11)
- Fixed: Text logo alignment on Minimal Header style.
- Removed: Some CSS and JS .maps files to make the theme lighter.
- Removed: Old webfonts to make the theme lighter.
- Removed: Webfonts on Breek Functions plugin to make the plugin lighter. 
- Improved: * Now all Theme Options will be available on the Customizer (Appearance -> customize).
- Improved: * Hard Rework to Theme Options Panel, it's not required anymore Redux Framework Plugin, saved (1.5MB).
- Improved: Now after theme update is succesfully installed, it will display a update plugin button, just to ensure all is up to date.
- Improved: If the update was already downloaded, it will install directly from the license page to avoid more external requests.
- Improved: Iframes fixed height on mobile devices (replaced with responsive embeds).
- Improved: Prepos configuration to make the compilator faster.
- Improved: Highly optimized disk space on main Breek Functions plugin from 1.3MB to 300KB
- Improved: Highly optimized all themes packages, total space saved: 3MB (zipped) 10MB (unzipped).
- Improved: Compatibility test up to PHP 7.4.1
- Improved: How to get username on theme activation page.
- Improved: Preload on custom Google Fonts from Theme Options.
- Added: * New Theme Options Panel.
- Added: * AMP Compatibility (Transitional mode).
- Added: * AMP Theme Options section.
- Added: * New Speed Option, Async Scripts inside Theme options -> Optimization.
- Added: Responsive embeds.
- Added: SCSS preprocessor config for Prepos v7.

v2.0.6 - 23 February 2020
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- Fixed: Language configuration on Breek Child theme.
- Improved: Documentation how to use Prepos Compiler.
- Added: Prepos 7 configuration.

v2.0.5 - 19 January 2020
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- Fixed: Incorrect output for Google Fonts, if typography fields are empty (this will reduce 1 external request).
- Fixed: Incorrect thumbnail size for posts carousel.
- Fixed: License deactivation issue, showing always the theme as activating even after clicking "deactivate" button.
- Improved: Enabled autocomplete for email field on Theme Wizard.
- Improved: Added how to get purchase code on Theme Wizard.
- Improved: Now carousel will use lazy load.
- Improved: Now posts carousel will use IMG HTML tag to increase SEO.
- Improved: Styles for changelog (on license page).
- Added: New external changelog page with the detail of all versions.
- Added: Now the license page has a test connection button, to debug in case customers can't connect to our servers.

v2.0.0 - 14 January 2020
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- Fixed: incorrect space below post on "Classic Posts" layout, this issue is related to Safari only.
- Fixed: embeds/iframes incorrect height on mobile devices.
- Fixed: incorrect alignment of sidebar on tablet devices.
- Fixed: when title max length is assigned, that was affecting menu items (navigation widget).
- Fixed:  issue with blurry image on IOS mobile devices (it is recommended to upload larger images as full background to prevent any blur issue on mobile devices).
- Improved: added a new way to detect the parent theme, this should avoid customers using Child Theme see disappears the Theme Options section after updates.
- Improved: footer copyright now will use wpautop to prevent incorrect behavior on specific plugins (Elementor, Galleries Manager Pro).
- Improved: input and submit buttons appearance on IOS devices.
- Improved: now share buttons will use short url instead, this will improve sharing posts on any language.
- Improved: now whatsapp share button works on Desktop and Mobile.
- Improved: now One Click Demo importer plugin is not needed anymore.
- Improved: All documentation about how to update the theme.
- Speed Improvement: now when selecting Google Fonts from Theme Options it will be displayed with swap attribute.
- Added: translation strings for Twitter Widget (days ago, hours ago, etc).
- Added: new welcome page with the minimun system requirements and changelog of the theme.
* New Feature: 1 Click Updates, there is a new License page to download updates directly also the theme will  periodically check for new versions.
* New Feature: Theme Wizard, if is your first installation it will appear a new Wizard page to guide new customers accross all required stuff to make the theme working properly. 

v1.5.0 - 17 December 2019
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- Fixed: if author bio (below post content) was disabled that option affects Author's main page (archives).
- Fixed: incorrect domain language on Social Widgets (Loco translate bug)
- Fixed: shortcodes error WP 5.3
- Fixed: columns shortcodes not aligned properly when using home text editor module.
- Fixed: caption styles on Gutenberg Galleries WP 5.3
- Fixed: incorrect margins on Gutenberg Galleries WP 5.3
- Fixed: special characters when using share buttons (Twitter, VK, Facebook, etc).
- Improved: submit button appearance on IOS.
- Improved: now paragraphs can be used on Footer Copyright text.
- Improved: now EP Recent Post Widget will exclude the current post (on single post) to avoid duplication (SEO boost).
- Improved: now EP Posts by Category Widget will exclude the current post (on single post) to avoid duplication (SEO boost).
- Improved: now Author Page will use H1 instead of H4 (SEO boost).
- Added: rel nofollow to share buttons.
- Added: rel nofollow to social profiles.
- Added: rel nofollow to custom banners.
- Added: lazy load to default galleries.
- Added *: Instagram Widget.
- Added: new filter for all main posts modules (grid and classic), now the posts can be ordered by Date, Views (popular) and Title.
- Added: new filter for all main posts modules (grid and classic), now posts can be ordered ASC or DESC.
- Added: new option to limit the title length for grid posts and classic posts lists, this option is located on Theme options -> blog.
- Added: new option to display videos post format on lightbox (useful for video blogs).
- Upgraded: ACF to version 5.8.7

v1.4.2 - 07 October 2019
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- Fixed: incorrect alignment of ADS between posts (this error was generated on v1.4.1).

v1.4.1 - 06 October 2019
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- Fixed: incorrect custom styling color on 404 page.
- Fixed: Facebook APP ID (for comments), was not working properly to moderate comments.
- Improved: Now posts lists effects are loaded early.
- Added: New module "Grid Category", this will display a masonry list of categories, usefull for SEO purposes (Category cluster method).

v1.4.0 - 11 September 2019
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- Fixed: arrow default background color on Gallery Posts.
- * Important fix: gradient and full background images not working properly on Android/IOS devices. There was a minor blank space on scroll only on mobile. This fix will pseudo-element solution, so probably some customers must use body:before instead of body custom CSS to apply their own custom backgrounds.
- Fixed: sticky sidebar overlap on posts and pages.
- Fixed: AOS.js map error.
- Fixed: mobile footer not working properly when a custom sidebar is selected.
- * Important fix: submenu arrows not working on IOS 6+ on Safari browser.
- Improved: now ADS will use CSS to hide them on mobile/tablets (just to ensure ADS are removed if cache plugins are installed).
- Improved: site_url was replaced with home_url on some pages.
- Improved: removed AOS effects CSS to reduce the layout load, now plugins.min.css size is 130kb (160kb before).
- Improved: now related posts use lazy load if enabled.
- Improved: now lazy load has a minor delay to avoid unnnecesary load.
- Added: now Carousel module has 2 new filter options: order by views and order by date (all time, past month and past week).
- Added: now Recent Posts with Image Widget has a new filter: order by date (all time, past month and past week), this could be combined with posts views filter to show your most popular posts.
- Added: new option on Theme Options -> Blog -> Global to change the number of visible categories, by default: 2.
- Added: new option to disable default Open Graph meta tags on Theme Options -> Advanced Settings.
- Added: new option to disable custom styles for Gutenberg Editor's backend on Theme Options -> Advanced Settings.
- Added: new option to disable titles on Pages.

v1.3.0 - 09 August 2019
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- Fixed: language text domain issue.
- Fixed: minor warning on EP social widget.
- Fixed: sticky header background color not applied properly from styling options.
- Fixed: now tabs shortcode is visible on EP shortcode generator (lightbox).
- Fixed: footer logo icon not displaying when custom footer logo is selected.
- Fixed: back to top button was displayed even if the option was OFF.
- Fixed: classic and grid with sidebar module not detecting properly custom sidebars if home sidebar is empty.
- Fixed: single post not detecting the correct custom sidebar if articles sidebar is empty.
- Fixed: on RTL version the masonry posts start from the right.
- Important fix: advertise between posts not displayed properly.
- Improved: now Open Graph url will use trailing slash (same structure from Permalinks) to avoid duplicate urls.
- Improved: Now Posts Carousel uses more space on mobile devices.
- Improved: now Gutenberg single images and Classic editor single images that are pointing to "media file", will be opened in the default lightbox.
- Important improvement: now when optimization is ON, the theme will load only the Critical CSS, this will reduce the style and layout load, so the mobile performance will improve between 2 and 7 points.
- Improved: moved shortcodes CSS and JS inside the theme, this will reduce 2 request.
- Improved: now clipboard is loaded from the theme instead of a CDN, this will reduce 1 external request.
- Added: basic styles to default select boxes (dropdowns).
- Added: new option to disable Google Fonts (only recommended if you are using system fonts, like Arial, serif, etc).
- Added: all strings of Back-End (theme options and others) into breek-functions/languages.
- Added: PHP, Java, HandleBars, JSON, TypeScript, Objective-C, Visual Basic as default languages on Prism (syntax highlighter).
- Added: new option to upload custom icons into Post Categories.

v1.2.2 - 20 July 2019
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- Fixed: filtering problem on custom home pages.
- Fixed: custom EP cloud tag widget not displaying colors from Theme Options -> styling.
- Added: Open Graph support, now posts, pages, home, archives and category pages will display featured image, title and a small description if shared on Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, etc. To extend this functionalities it is recommended to install Yoast SEO.

v1.2.1 - 16 July 2019
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- Added: French language special thanks to Tractebel user.
- Added: Portuguese language special thanks to wzojgoias user.

v1.2.0 - 10 July 2019
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- Fixed: Minor problem with the pagination text on RTL.
- Improvement: moved comments type options from blog -> single posts to Blog -> global options (this option will be used for Post and Pages).
- Added: Facebook Comments support.
- Added: edit button for posts in the front-end (just to make quicker the administration for logged in users).
- Added: new option to hide categories globally on Theme options -> blog -> global options.
- Added: new option to hide categories only on single posts on Theme options -> Blog -> single post content.
- Added: New (EP) Tag Cloud widget, this widget extends the basic Tag Cloud and add more options like: Ordering, Filtering and Limit (to prevent large amount of links on the sidebar).

v1.1.2 - 08 July 2019
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- Fixed: Subscribe button not detecting the properly the data stored from Theme Options -> Subscribe -> Title of button.
- Added: Some extra translations of subscribe button title for Spanish and Turkish languages.

v1.1.1 - 07 July 2019
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- Added: Turkish language thank you very much to Mevlut for this gesture of kindness.

v1.1.0 - 06 July 2019
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- Fixed: some alignment issues on mobile and tablet.
- Fixed: sometimes the ads between posts was not loading properly, this problem only happens when masonry is enabled.
- Fixed: incorrect alignment of the comments box on mobile.
- Improvement: now widgets look better on tablet (if enabled).
- Added: new column image for post (usability feature).
- Added: Now Breek supports RTL.

v1.0 - 04 July 2019
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- Initial release.

Credits

Images by: freepik and pixabay

Fonts:

• Montserrat – https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Montserrat
• Poppins – https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Poppins

Fonts icons by: Remix Icon and Fonts Awesome

Important: ACF Pro Plugin is only bundled in the theme, you are not allowed to use or distribute on any other theme.