Docly – Documentation And Knowledge Base WordPress Theme with bbPress Helpdesk Forum

Changelog

2.4.0 (23 July 2026)

New: Rebuilt license system with dedicated Envato purchase-code and Freemius license handling, AJAX-based activation, and feature gating
Added: New theme settings control for enhanced customization
Added: Sign In/Sign Up ACF field groups
Improved: Register/Verify page rebuilt on the new license system with refreshed markup and styling
Improved: Updated theme setting icons
Improved: WooCommerce My Account login form design
Fixed: Resolved the Forumax notice issue
Fixed: Author page and WooCommerce checkout page UI issues
Fixed: Multiple minor bug fixes and improvements

2.3.2 (29 January 2026)

Added: Antimanual plugin added to required plugins list for improved content control
Improved: Codebase refactored by removing forum-related files, scripts, sidebars, and settings
Improved: Introduced Forumax version check with critical admin notice for outdated installations
Improved: Header styling standardized for Forumax pages with user page color overrides
Tweaked: Forum-related widgets removed from Docly and made available exclusively in Forumax
Tweaked: SCSS and CSS formatting improved, unused styles removed, and assets regenerated
Tweaked: Code indentation and formatting standardized for better readability and maintenance
Removed: bbPress integration fully removed from the theme and migrated to Forumax plugin

2.3.1 (20 December 2025)

Enhanced: Docly license verification handling

2.3.0 (16 December 2025)

New: Jobus plugin integrated for seamless job management functionality
New: AJAX-based license verification added with improved first-attempt validation
Fixed: Cart page button hover color issue resolved
Tweaked: Improved overall compatibility and stability across core features
Tweaked: Minor UI and performance improvements for a smoother experience

2.2.0 (26 November 2025)

New: Classic Menu icon color fields added (Icon Color → Hover Color, Sticky Icon Color → Sticky Hover Color)
Fixed: Prevented empty search submissions in Docly hero search forms
Fixed: Logo display issue
Improved: Breadcrumb padding and shape image positioning
Improved: Hero search form background shape responsiveness

2.1.5 (13 September 2025)

Fixed: Deprecated text domain issue
Fixed: Footer widget alignment issue
Tweaked: Box shadow issue on forum profile resolved
Tweaked: Restored missing dropdown arrow icon in the menu
Tweaked: Improved reply and topic voting button hooks
Tweaked: Enhanced forum user profile on mobile screens
Tweaked: Subscribe widget image upload field issue resolved

2.1.4 (30 May 2025)

New: Keyword style control added in the "Hero Search" widget
Fixed: Deprecation warning by wrapping translatable content in hook
Fixed: Resolved the Testimonials Widget icon issue
Fixed: Resolved the product view cart button design
Fixed: Docs sidebar widget issue resolved
Fixed: CTRT+Click new tab issue
Fixed: Some issues of testimonial Widget
Tweaked: Improved some dark mode issues
Tweaked: Updated the Elementor Deprecated functions
Tweaked: WooCommerce outdated files 

2.1.3 (30 September 2024)

Fixed: Topic tag page was showing all the topics not showing by the current tag
Fixed: Blog, Shop, and footer list item design issue
Fixed: WooCommerce Outdate template file
Fixed: FAQs content gap
Fixed: Title typography, color, and description text color in the Alert box widget

2.1.2 (11 July 2024)

Fixed: Solved sidebar issue on the forum page
Fixed: PHP deprecation notice Fixed
Fixed: Topic create as anonymous issue solved
Tweaked: Removed duplicated JS. (same JS exists in EazyDocs)

2.1.1 (06 December 2023)

Fixed: Dropdown menu active color issue

2.1.0 (08 November 2023)

Fixed: Hide Draft Docs from Ajax search result
Fixed: Mobile menu dropdown item

2.0.9 (25 October 2023)

Fixed: Blog post image size issue
Fixed: Child theme when installed and activated, the color codes don't work.
Fixed: Deprecated demo importer plugin functions
Tweaked: Animate (Motion) effects
Updated: wooCommerce outdated template files
Updated: Demo contents

2.0.8 (24 June 2023)

Fixed: Custom JS code was not working
Fixed: Elementor deprecated function error
Tweaked: Removed some unessential attributes from Elementor widgets

2.0.7 (30 December 2022)

Fixed: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function eazydocs_get_option() in /docly/template- parts/header-elements/search_banner.php:13
Updated: Demo content xml file updated from the new server

2.0.6 (26 December 2022)

Fixed: Parent Theme styles was not working with Child theme
Fixed: Some elementor widgets color issues with dark mode

2.0.5 (06 December 2022)

Fixed: Search form issue solved
Fixed: Single doc dark mode text color issues solved
New: Added faq terms in the search result

2.0.4 (09 September 2022)

Integrated: BBP Core
New: Voting Feature
New: Private Reply feature

2.0.3 (04 July 2022)

Tweaked: Compatibility with EazyDocs improved
Updated: Theme Settings demo content

2.0.2 (24 June 2022)

Tweaked: External link styled differently
Tweaked: Compatibility with EazyDocs improved

2.0.1 (14 June 2022)

Fixed: JS console error on the docs and OnePage doc pages
Fixed: Child Theme's style was not overriding the main theme's style
Updated: Docly Child theme to 1.1.1 version (included in the theme package)
Tweaked: Compatibility with EazyDocs improved

2.0.0 (10 June 2022)

Update Notice/Guide: https://tinyurl.com/2aaux85v
BIG CHANGE: weDocs plugin replaced with our own EazyDocs plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/eazydocs/)
Altered: OnePage Doc creation system moved to EazyDocs plugin (the old method is still working)
Moved: Doc Settings removed from Theme Settings and moved all the Doc related settings to the EazyDocs plugin
Tweaked: Bootstrap version upgraded to v5.1.3 from v5.0.0-beta3

1.5.4 (7 April 2022)

Fixed: Elementor notice about typography

1.5.3 (21 January 2022)

Fixed: Doc link was not working if doc slug change in the "(Docly) Docs List" WordPress widget
Fixed: Forum topics page breaks if no topics found.
Fixed: Docly child theme's stylesheet (style.css) was replacing the main theme's style.css (docly-child.zip included in the theme package)
Tweaked: Blog single post title tag changed to h1 from h2

1.5.2 (10 November 2021)

New: Custom Fonts support added
Fixed: Forum user profile Favorites
Tweaked: Removed filters from Forum user profile page (filters is not suitable there)
Tweaked: Sticky, Closed status badges added to Forum Topics

1.5.1 (17 October 2021)

Tweaked: Articles Title string changing option added to Theme Settings > Doc Settings
Tweaked: "FAQ Tabs" Elementor widget (Category Order and Order by options added under the Filter tab)
Tweaked: Post status published posts will show on doc ajax search results
Fixed: Docs label was not changing along with the docs slug change from Theme Settings > Doc Settings
Fixed: Github social icon was not showing
Fixed: Forum Topic Replies (last reply was not showing and +1 reply count was showing in the pagination)

1.5.0 (30 September 2021)

New: Custom Posts options added to the Theme Settings > General page
Fixed: Continue Reading Label text was not changing on Blog Grid Category layout
Tweaked: Breadcrumb structure (docs section link added)
Tweaked: Performance improved. wc-block-style and wc-block-vendors-style disabled by default. You can enable it from Theme Settings > Shop > Gutenberg Blocks

1.4.9 (12 September 2021)

New: [authors] shortcode added for viewing all authors of the website
Tweaked: Header Navigation colors, Menu active/hover states
Tweaked: Made the Header nav container consistent with the Doc page layout on the Doc single page
Tweaked: Blog pages (featured post shadow, Post title on post details page)

1.4.8 (11 September 2021)

Fixed: Forum freshness (who was last active in a forum) link was not showing correctly
Tweaked: Menu color made black on the Archive page.
Tweaked: Author post archive page (author description shown below to the author name)

1.4.7 (26 August 2021)

Tweaked: wpml-config.xml file updated with still_stuck_text, help_form_link_text, doc_feedback_label
Tweaked: views text made translatable

1.4.6 (20 August 2021)

Fixed: Theme's default brand color scheme was not showing in Firefox
Fixed: Tooltip popups were not appearing.
Fixed: Author links of Forum Reply on Forum Topic page
Tweaked: wp-custom.js file merged to main.js file in the docly > assets > js folder
Tweaked: Shop (product image linked in shop page, product gallery border color changed to brand color)
New: Global Search settings added to Theme Settings > General (Ajax Search, Focus Search by "/")
New: Doc Meta show/hide option added to Theme Settings > Doc Settings

1.4.5 (10 August 2021)

Fixed: Page content appearing on Main Menu dropdown item hover when you have Mega Menu
Tweaked: Product details page (Gallery carousel and magnify glass enabled for product images, Product Add to Cart and Review form design improved)
Updated: Language (docly.pot) file
Updated: New support center URL updated https://docs.creativegigs.net/forum/docly-wordpress-theme/

1.4.4 (30 July 2021)

Tweaked: Docs archive page linked in the breadcrumb.
Tweaked: Docs archive page design ([wedocs] shortcode output)
Fixed: The search keyword showing at the append of "Search result for:" text on the Search Results page.

1.4.3 (19 July 2021)

New: Shop settings added under Theme Settings page
Tweaked: Products, Product Categories, Filter by Price, Product Search widgets style improved
Tweaked: Search Banner placed instead of the Titlebar on the Shop and Product details page
Fixed: Product image sizes (you need to regenerate the product images to get the sizes fixed)

1.4.2 (14 July 2021)

New: wooCommerce support enabled with Shop, Cart, Checkout, My Account pages
New: Author name and Doc post views added bellow to the Doc Title
New: Breadcrumb Show/Hide and Date Published, Modified options added to Theme Settings > Header > Search Banner
Updated: docly-core-en_US.pot in the Docly core plugin
Tweaked: Blog posts shadow (used more accurate subtle shadow)
Tweaked: Search in bbPress forums from the Forum archive page's Search Banner.
Tweaked: The "Focus Search by /" option moved to Theme Settings > General from Theme Settings > Doc Settings > Search Banner

1.4.1 (05 July 2021)

Fixed: When you unfold the doc section tree, the section title jumps a line and this happens only since the last theme update.
Fixed: Doc Right Sidebar's widget content overflows on sticky mode (desktop screen)
Fixed: Doc Right Sidebar overflows on sticky mode on tablet screen
Fixed: Doc Feedback form not working on mobile
Tweaked: Doc Feedback area and the Comment form view improved on mobile
Tweaked: Doc Right Sidebar show hide Toggle arrow added on mobile view

1.4.0 (25 June 2021)

Tweaked: Onepage navigation
Tweaked: Made the "No Results Found" text translatable.
Fixed: New Metaboxes not updating

1.3.9 (21 June 2021)

Fixed: When you unfold the doc section tree, the section title jumps a line and this happens only since the last theme update.

1.3.8 (10 June 2021)

Tweaked: Shortcode support enabled for the "Docy List Items" Elementor widget
Fixed: When click on the subjects below on the doc details page, the banner stick hides the text
Fixed: Documentation section text cutting off when it's long

1.3.7 (21 May 2021)

Tweaked: Title tag option added in the Quote Elementor widget
New: vk social option added to Theme Settings > Social Links
Fixed: Onepage Doc width

1.3.6 (12 April 2021)

Fixed: Closed, Open tabs fixed
New: Search Keywords and Ajax search enabled in Hero 3 (Helpdesk)
New: Doc Right Sidebar widget area added to Appearance > Widgets
New: "Right Sidebar Content" option for Onepage docs.
Tweaked: Explanation design of Notice widget (text color changed)
Tweaked: Password Protected Doc design (the password form redesigned)

1.3.5 (05 April 2021)

New: Best Answer and Mark as Solved features added to Forum topic (Doc https://is.gd/K1FLSw)
New: Admin links (Edit, Merge, Close, Stick (to front), Trash, Spam, Unapprove, Reply) added to Forum Topic page
Tweaked: Forum topic page design
Tweaked: Performance Improved by optimizing assets (bbPress CSS, JS separated and loading by dependency and responsive.css, responsive2.css files merged to one single file)

1.3.4 (19 March 2021)

Tweaked: "Docly List Item" Elementor widget (Steps Indicator control added, WYSIWYG editor enabled in the text field)
Tweaked: "On This Page" titles line-height reduced and margin added to make consistent spacing for long titles.
Tweaked: Deleted the extra Doc Icon field from "Options :: Doc" metabox fields to get rid of confusion using the featured doc image.
Tweaked: Moved the Docly Core plugin moved to the server to reduce the theme size
Fixed: A flush on clicking on the article title in the Ajax Search results.

1.3.3 (09 March 2021)

Fixed: Dark Mode switcher not working
Fixed: Font Size Switcher not showing in the OnePage doc
New: Theme version added to the "docly-version" meta tag in the header.php file

1.3.2 (08 March 2021)

New: Secondary Color and Paragraph Color added to Theme Settings > Color Scheme
Tweaked: Accent Color output (now, the accent color will change more accurately)
Tweaked: "Theme Settings > Doc Settings > Right Sidebar > Light/Dark Mode" option (This option will permanently disable and delete the Dark mode and will keep only the light mode.)
Tweaked: Forum User Profile page
Fixed: Topics Started, Replies Created, Favorites, Subscriptions tabs fixed in the Forum user profile page
Updated: Language file (docly.pot file in the languages folder)

1.3.1 (06 March 2021)

New: Theme Auto-update feature on Registering/Verifying the theme.
Tweaked: "Hero" Elementor widget (Padding control added for the Cool Hero, Popular Topics deleted as it was unnecessary)
Tweaked: Dropdown menu's submenu position
Tweaked: Custom Doc Ordering options and Active Doc option added under Filter (Now you can order the doc tab items as your desired order and choose the active tab item)
Tweaked: "Theme Settings > Color Scheme > Accent Color" option (added some missing brand colors selectors those were not changing)
Tweaked: CSS variables used for colors in the theme's root style.css file
Tweaked: "List Style" Elementor widget
Tweaked: Forum user profile design improved
Fixed: Menu colors output not working as settings roles from Theme Settings > Menu > Classic Menu
Fixed: Js console errors on OnePage Doc
Fixed: Simple Footer background color and font colors not changing from Theme Settings > Footer > Background / Font Colors

1.3.0 (25 February 2021)

Tweaked: "Process Tabs" Elementor widget (dependency set to the Bottom content).
Fixed: Removed the unfinished Gutenberg blocks

1.2.9 (05 February 2021)

Tweaked: Moved the "Focus Search by /" setting from Theme Settings > Header > Search Banner" to "Theme Settings > Doc Settings > Search Banner" and a new description was added.
Tweaked: Responsiveness of the theme
Tweaked: Onepage navigation (active color added to nav title on scroll to a specific doc section and parent doc expand on scroll)
Fixed: Ajax doc search results in mobile view
Fixed: Doc Feedback contact form send button not working

1.2.8 (07 January 2021)

New : Search Form in the Onepage documentation
Tweaked : Code syntax highlight feature enabled in the Onepage documentation
Updated : Theme language file (.pot)

1.2.7 (04 January 2021)

Tweaked : "Enable Pre-loader" on and "Page IDs" options added in "Theme Settings > Preloader" page
Fixed : Image Hotspot widget's pointer position
Notice : If you get a Critical Error from 1.2.6 update, delete the old "CG Redux Framework" plugin. Then install it from "Appearance > Install Plugin"

1.2.6 (27 December 2020)

Tweaked : Ajax Doc Search structure and design
Fixed : Forum Archive Call to Action button not showing while logged in
New : Theme Settings > Doc Settings > Search
New : Post/Page preview popup (to enable this feature in link, add the class="tooltips" data-tooltip-content="#popup_view" attributes in anchor tag. And the URL should be the same website URL.)