# ColorMag Pro `meteorgpl-theme/colormag-pro` — a WordPress theme as a Composer package. ColorMag Pro is the pro version of ColorMag free theme. - Author: ThemeGrill — https://themegrill.com/wordpress-themes/ - Homepage: https://themegrill.com/themes/colormag/ - License: not declared - Buy a license from the vendor: https://themegrill.com/themes/colormag/ - Page: https://meteorgpl.com/packages/meteorgpl-theme/colormag-pro - Tested up to WordPress: 7.0 - Requires PHP: 7.4 - Translations: bg_BG, cs_CZ, da_DK, de_DE, el, en_CA, en_GB, es_ES, fa_IR, fr_BE, fr_FR, he_IL, hu_HU, id_ID, it_IT, ja, ko_KR, nb_NO, nl_BE, nl_NL, pl_PL, pt_BR, ro_RO, ru_RU, sl_SI, sv_SE, ta, tr_TR, uk, zh_CN - Vendor: ThemeGrill — https://meteorgpl.com/vendors/themegrill.com ## About ColorMag is a fast, flexible WordPress theme built for news portals, online magazines, personal blogs, and publishing sites. Trusted by 50,000+ publishers worldwide, it's the #1 news & magazine theme on WordPress.org. Whether you're launching a breaking news site, a lifestyle magazine, or a niche blog, ColorMag gives you everything you need out of the box — no coding required. It comes with 30+ one-click starter demos for news, health, sports, entertainment, and fashion niches. It integrates deeply with the Magazine Blocks plugin (21+ custom Gutenberg blocks for post layouts), includes built-in ad widget areas for easy monetization, and is optimized for Core Web Vitals and fast load times. Full Gutenberg support, WooCommerce compatibility, RTL and translation ready in 35+ languages, and clean SEO-friendly markup are all included. Download ColorMag free and get your news or magazine site live in minutes. Premium upgrades and support available at https://themegrill.com/themes/colormag-upgrade/ /**********************************************************/ ## Changelog ### 5.2.4 — 2026-09-04 * Added - Order By option for Related Posts and Flyout Related Posts, defaulting to Recent. * Tweak - Pro features now need an active license, and the license expiry date is shown. * Fix - Related Posts and Flyout Related Posts could show very old posts. * Fix - Related Posts order by Random repeated the same posts in the same order. * Fix - Logo and other header items were squeezed into a narrow column. * Fix - Header content overflowed the screen on mobile when several elements were added. * Fix - Customizer tooltips and popovers were forced to the wrong width. * Fix - License-lock script was widening every Customizer tooltip, not only its own. * Fix - Locked-setting tooltip covered neighboring settings instead of the preview. * Fix - Locked-section tooltip showed the generic upsell instead of the license form. * Fix - Hovering a locked builder section did not show the license popup. * Fix - Locked builder components showed a text PRO badge instead of a lock icon. * Fix - Mobile menu could be cut off with no way to scroll it. * Fix - Header search icon did nothing on pages built with Elementor. * Fix - Advanced blog layout style 2 showed the image beside the content, not above. * Fix - Widget set to latest posts wrongly applied a category or tag filter. * Fix - Extra closing tag in widget image markup produced invalid HTML. * Fix - News Ticker showed a blank box when placed in more than one header area at once. * Fix - Saving a widget from the block editor could log undefined array key warnings. ### 5.2.3 — 2026-08-18 * Added - Typography control for the header builder Button element. * Added - Icon size control for the header builder Search element. * Fix - Block editor typography (fonts, sizes, and colors) didn't reflect the Customizer's configured settings. * Fix - Block editor heading colors didn't match the front end. * Fix - Block editor blockquote and link colors didn't match the front end's palette color. * Fix - Block editor paragraph and list text ignored a customized Base Typography font size. * Fix - Several typography controls' fonts (per-heading levels, header/footer builder widgets, and more) weren't loading in the block editor. * Fix - Block editor button color used a fixed color instead of the theme's palette color in right-to-left (RTL) languages. * Fix - Search icon clipped when a custom icon size was set. * Fix - Current menu ancestor items in the primary navigation didn't inherit the active text color. * Fix - Imported demo footer widget text color was forced white, overriding the widget's own styling. * Fix - Header logo placement migration ran even on fresh installs that never had the legacy setting. * Fix - Footer bottom bar alignment (right/center) migration never applied due to a variable mismatch. * Fix - Header bottom area background color wasn't applying the selected global palette color. * Fix - Advanced blog post layout style 2 wasn't rendering the featured image on the right. * Fix - Demo-import migration reset a customized color palette back to default. ### 5.2.2 — 2026-07-16 * Enhance - Smoother "scroll to top" animation. * Enhance - The site title show/hide option is now a simple on/off toggle. * Enhance - The search box now responds instantly when you click the search icon. * Enhance - Media library scripts now load only on the widgets screen instead of on every admin page. * Enhance - Usage-tracking preference set in ColorMag (free) now carries over when you upgrade to Pro. * Enhance - Less background work on every page load (migration flags no longer auto-load) for better overall speed. * Enhance - Faster loading on pages that display random posts (replaced ORDER BY RAND() with a lighter offset-based query). * Enhance - Pages load faster by reusing saved styles instead of rebuilding them on every visit (dynamic CSS is cached and refreshed on Customizer save). * Dev - Simplified the Block 10 widget render by removing a redundant condition. * Dev - Removed an unused get_css() stub method and orphaned html5shiv polyfill files. * Dev - Removed a 2.4 MB duplicate Font Awesome bundle in favor of the already-loaded minified version for lighter page loads. * Fix - Issues in the random post widget. * Fix - Layout overflow when using Elementor. * Fix - Welcome notice background color issue. * Fix - Changing the Body font size also resized buttons. * Fix - Hamburger menu icon not displayed at 768px screen width. * Fix - Images and text overlapped the sticky header while scrolling. * Fix - Removed the developer debug button from the production dashboard. * Fix - Sliders and news tickers reloading repeatedly, causing slowdowns. * Fix - Added a proper label to the mobile menu button for screen readers. * Fix - The automatic monthly cleanup of cached fonts now runs as expected. * Fix - Formbricks feedback survey not loading due to a wrong environment ID. * Fix - Border color issue in the header search box and "search again" field. * Fix - Sorting was silently disabled in the Elementor post widget due to a typo. * Fix - Transparent Header option had no effect when the header builder was active. * Fix - Dashboard stability improvements (fixed blank/disappearing dashboard issues). * Fix - Hidden character (UTF-8 BOM) in migration files that could crash the dashboard. * Fix - Advanced blog post layout not working correctly in ColorMag Pro v5.2.0 and above. * Fix - Fatal error on the ColorMag dashboard when the Freemius SDK submodule was missing. * Fix - 404 error for the icon-font stylesheet (colormag-econs.css) in the Elementor editor. * Fix - White-label custom theme name was not reflected in the Customizer "Active theme" label. * Fix - Removed a dead editor.js file that caused a 404 error in the Customizer and block editor. * Fix - Shop "Add to cart" button did not inherit the configured button background and text color. * Fix - White-label branding now uses a proper WP_Theme wrapper instead of a fragile internal hack. * Fix - Logo picker not opening on the white-label settings page (media library wasn't loaded there). * Fix - WooCommerce add-on plugins (Subscriptions, Bookings, and others) no longer lose their styling. * Fix - Global color picker Hex field showed the wrong value when the Primary Color used a palette swatch. * Fix - A large Body font size inflated the WooCommerce quantity field and single-product "Add to cart" button. * Fix - Site title dependent settings were hidden on initial Customizer load even though the toggle was enabled. * Fix - Search bar on the search results page did not inherit the configured search bar background and text color. * Fix - Dark mode stylesheet was loaded for all visitors even when dark skin / color switcher wasn't in use; now loaded only when needed. ### 5.2.1 — 2026-06-29 * Fix - Too many redirects error when trying to update theme from ColorMag >> License. * Fix - Duplicate HTML IDs, rendered twice in desktop and mobile headers. ### 5.2.0 — 2026-06-09 * Added - Excerpt option for Single Post. * Added - Hide Category option in the Featured Posts (Style 4) widget. * Dev - Security audit of the codebase. * Dev - Added PHP 8.5 and WordPress 6.8+ compatibility. * Tweak - Updated header redirection. * Tweak - Removed an empty "Contact Us" tab. * Tweak - Updated theme description and documentation icon. * Tweak - Added step increments to range slider controls in the Customizer. * Tweak - Refined info-text design and fixed typos, brand names, and grammar. * Tweak - Used asset version instead of timestamp for admin stylesheet cache-busting. * Tweak - Limited builder option database writes to the admin area for better performance. * Tweak - Replaced technical terms with simpler, non-technical wording and clearer Customizer labels. * Tweak - Declared GPL-2.0-or-later license for the bundled Customind framework and updated its build. * Fix - Category title height issue. * Fix - ColorMag dashboard page issues. * Fix - WooCommerce checkout layout issue. * Fix - Blog title font size not changing. * Fix - Sticky footer and sticky header issues. * Fix - Heading migration and a footer builder option. * Fix - Right-side gap and footer bottom scroll issues. * Fix - H3 and H4 sharing the same default font size (24px). * Fix - PHP warning (foreach() argument) in Elementor widgets. * Fix - Color Switcher widget gear icon not opening its settings. * Fix - UI breaking in the color palette dropdown (HEX, RGB, HSL). * Fix - Search button color not reflected in the search box dropdown. * Fix - Post Elements / Post Meta sorting not working on Single Post. * Fix - Image position could not be changed on Single Post and Blog pages. * Fix - Header Builder page is broken when accessed from Appearance → Header. * Fix - Inconsistent design between Header Builder types and the Footer Builder. * Fix - Sanitized footer copyright shortcode output to prevent admin-stored XSS. * Fix - Social icons (X, Instagram) not displayed with their official brand icons. * Fix - Activate License button remains disabled after entering a valid license key. * Fix - Sanitized unauthenticated AJAX inputs (page number, category ID, post title). * Fix - Escaped category titles and news ticker post titles to prevent XSS / stored XSS. * Fix - Skin color change not reflecting in the Customizer preview (previously required a reload). * Fix - Restricted REST API meta auth_callback to the edit_post capability (privilege escalation). * Fix - Switched OpenWeatherMap API call to HTTPS and disclosed the external service in readme.txt. Full changelog: https://meteorgpl.com/packages/meteorgpl-theme/colormag-pro/changelog ## Install ```sh composer config repositories.meteorgpl composer https://composer.meteorgpl.com composer require meteorgpl-theme/colormag-pro ``` The repository needs a token (see https://meteorgpl.com/docs). The vendor's license checks are intact: activate the theme in WordPress with a key bought from the vendor. ## Versions No version has been published yet.