Contemporary Review Magazine & Blog WordPress Theme v1.21

Critique is a colorful, refined, attractive & trendy WordPress Blog theme. It is apt for crash-test dummy, guest post, rouge, niche blogs, giver, giveaways, guides, how-to blogs.

Also, the theme fits the tell-all, business, cryptocurrency, professional, reverse, writer, world news, inspirational stories, affiliate. Furthermore it is suitable for minimal, media, freelance, news jacking, instructional, cheat sheet, entertaining, gaming, tutorial, industry, current events, checklists, listicles, infographics, case studies, profiles, interviews, expert opinions, reviews, comparisons.

Above all, it works for parody, funny, quizzes, surveys and polls, local, FAQs, contests, screencasts, live-streaming, time-saving, pop music, beginner, gallery, auto-biographical, recipes, customer experience, memes, charity, sports, TV series and shows, ads, food, fitness, DIY, finance, political, parenting, movie, car, pet, video blogs.

The theme features 3 different homepages, a number of cool blog post layouts, portfolio, Instagram feed support, custom widgets & shortcodes etc.

Newspaper & Magazine plugins

Due to one-click installation, the integration of custom widgets and shortcodes, and compatibility with a variety of plug-ins (amongst which are Elementor, elegro Crypto Payment, MailChimp for WP, ThemeREX Addons, etc.), the theme is super easy to set up and customize, in case you wish to sell things through your website, Critique has full WooCommerce support with respective shop design..

Critique ’s Key Features

• Professional design
• One-Click demo installation
• Modern, Flexible, Customizable
• WordPress 4.5+ Tested and Approved
• Built with HTML5 and CSS3 code
• Cross-Browser Compatibility: FireFox, Safari, Chrome
• Slider Revolution & Swiper Slider included
• Retina Images Support
• User menu and Main menu support
• Interactive Ajax Search
• Flexible Colors & Typography
• Layout Features:
  • 100% Responsive & Mobile-friendly
  • Boxed and Fullwidth page layouts
  • Elementor Page Builder support – modify any page content easily
  • Customize Header and Footer Layouts in Elementor Page Builder
• Advanced Blog Settings:
  • Multiple Blog Styles
  • Flexible Layout Options
  • 20+ Post Animations
  • Customizable Blog Feed (choose from post types or categories)
  • Post views, likes and sharing buttons
  • Related Posts Section
• Powerful Theme Framework:
  • Setting Inheritance and Override System
  • 750+ Customizer Options
  • Custom Post Types
  • Custom Widget Sets
  • Custom Shortcodes
  • Custom Theme Options Panel
  • Optimized for best performance
  • ...and many more!
• Plugins Compatibility:
  • Accelerated Mobile Pages
  • Advanced Popups
  • Contact Form 7
  • Easy Forms for Mailchimp
  • elegro Crypto Payment
  • Elementor
  • GDPR Compliance for Mailchimp
  • Kadence Blocks – Gutenberg Blocks for Page Builder Features
  • Limit Modified Date
  • Powerkit
  • ThemeREX Addons
  • ThemeREX Pop-Up
  • ThemeREX Updater
  • WooCommerce
  • WooCommerce Advanced Product Labels
  • WP GDPR Compliance
• Fontello & Image Icons
• Google Fonts
• Professional Support
• Detailed Documentation
• Regular Updates
• And many more

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Change log

18.12.2025 Version 1.21 – Update

 - WP 6.8.2 compatibility has been added; Plugins have been updated to their latest version

09.10.2025 Version 1.20 – Update

 - Added QW Extension addon (to version 1.6.2) has been added; - Accessibility improvements for WP Accessibility Check have been added; - Events list Widget: the Classic layout now includes the event time in addition to the date; - Images Compare Widget: Separate styling for separator/handler, option to hide handler and control tag/offsets for "Before" & "After" have been added; - Style tweaks for The Events Calendar integrations have been added; - Audio widget: template "default" (select audio from library) has been added.

17.09.2025 Version 1.19 – Update

Added: - Plugin Settings – Added links to documentation and descriptions of custom Elementor settings/widgets. - Stack Sections – Added transition duration control for Zoom, Blur, Opacity effects. - Elementor Presets Support – Added ability to save/load custom style presets for widgets, sections, columns, and containers. Stored in /plugins/trx_addons/presets/trx_addons-presets.json. - Skin Notice – Admin notice now includes "Dismiss" (7 days) and "Never Show Again" options. - Accessibility Improvements – Added role="button" to non-link anchors, converted anchor tags to <span> where appropriate, and added control for target="_blank" for external links. - TrxAddons: Hook for SportsPress to prevent redirecting to the “Welcome” screen after activation during demo import. - Theme Core Check: Added warning if theme core isn't updated before skin update (to avoid missing functions). - Backdrop Blur: New settings for sections, columns, containers, and all Elementor widgets; default semi-transparent background for sticky sections. - HotSpot Widget: Major redesign for responsive positioning and styling; added tag selection, icon customizations, popup alignment, offsets, and more. Fixed: - Security: Fixed potential LFI vulnerability during pagination. - TrxAddons: Tribe Events export now checks for new TEC tables (tec_events, tec_occurrences) if no events in wp_posts. - Stack Sections: Fixed offsets, sticky section positioning on iOS, and animation issues with GSAP. - TrxAddons: Fixed issue where inserting an empty header/footer would insert full page content. - AJAX Responses: Standardized response parsing and error handling across theme/plugin. - Mobile Menu: Fixed auto-close when clicking tabs inside the menu. - PHP 8 Compatibility: Fixed various warnings and errors with string/integer operations and child post queries. - Header Fixes: Ensured mobile menu button displays correctly in default headers not using shortcodes. - Customizer: Fixed reset behavior for Logo option. - Minor bug fixes and optimization.</span>

02.06.2025 Version 1.18 – Update

 Updated: QW Extension addon (to version 1.6.1); Updated: Optimized all image files stored in the plugin and theme folders; Added: TrxAddons: WPML – added translation support for our Elementor Extensions like "Background Text"; Added: theme_filter_page_title_selector filters in JS and PHP to allow replacement of the page title selector in Elementor skins and clones; Added: In the woocommerce.js script, added updating of the total number of products on the page after loading the next batch via load_more or infinite; Added: a forced check for addon and skin updates via the "Check again" link; Added: support for skin filtering keywords in the Theme Dashboard; Fixed: SEO attributes now respect the "SEO snippets" option to avoid validation issues; Fixed: in the WooCommerce page processing script – Cart: after changing the shipping address on touch devices (mobiles, tablets), the product table disappeared; Fixed: in the markup and styles of sub-tabs in theme and plugin options to align the spacing from the last sub-tab to the next tab’s heading; Fixed: In theme options, added a selector to display a divider if a hidden option (type=hidden) precedes it. Previously, the divider (border) was missing in this case; Fixed: Disabled initialization of the mediaelements script for videos inside the Revolution Slider; Fixed: Moved loading of translation domains and theme plugins to priority -1 on the after_setup_theme action; Removed: 'medium' from external thumbnail sizes to prevent conflicts with the custom trx-addons-thumb-medium size; Removed: the Twenty20 Image Before-After plugin is no longer recommended for installation (compatibility is retained), please use the Images Compare widget instead

07.05.2025 Version 1.17 – Update

 - CSS\PHP fixes for WP 6.8 (shortcodes\widget layouts);

07.01.2025 Version 1.16 – Update

 Removed: Disabling of rendering replacement in the Post Featured Image block for FSE themes (works only for video, audio, and gallery formats now) Fixed: Sticky sidebar positioning script on fullwidth pages, when fixed_blocks_sticky == false selected in the options Fixed: Syntax in the function of the URL replacement for Vimeo videos 

14.12.2024 Version 1.15 – Update

 Added: Option "Redirect 404" Added: Option "Disable word hyphenation for the headings on tablets and mobile devices" Added:Parameter "Show Description" in Layouts - Title shortcode Added: Layouts: filter 'trx_addons_filter_sc_layout_content_need_inline_css' for custom layouts Added: Elementor: default settings for compatibility with Elementor "Optimize Control Loading" Added: Options for customization of shortcodes Switcher and HotSpot Added: Slider Widget: responsiveness for "Slides per view" and "Slides space" parameters Added: AI Helper: API support for ModelsLab music generation Added:AI Helper: Text To Speech/Speech To Text/Voice Covering API from OpenAI and ModelsLab and a new widget Audio Generator (AGenerator) Added: AI Helper IGenerator: script for repeated opening of images Added: AI Helper: authorization parameters for Open AI and Google AI APIs to use proxy servers Added: API Text To Speech / Speech To Text / Added: Elementor Page Settings: a filter to disable a default section background for layouts Fixed: Mouse Animation styles Fixed: Revolution Slider: demo url to support a new version of slider tables Fixed:FontAwesome 4 compatibility Fixed: "NavMenu" script for layout submenus Fixed: PHP8 Compatibility for CPT Services Fixed: Iframe resize of fullscreen video Fixed: Elementor 3.25.0+ compatibility Fixed: AI Helper Chat: title and button styles Fixed: API Stable Diffusion renamed to ModelLab Fixed: xxx_get_file_dir() for file compilation in /uploads on multisite installations Fixed: Rendering of Instagram video posts Fixed: Woocommerce: styles of product discounts Updated: QW Extension addon (to version 1.6.0) 

08.05.2024 Version 1.14 – Update

 - Updated Demo data; - Improved Theme styles; - Skin 'default' is updated to the version 1.8

23.04.2024 Version 1.13 – Update

- Fix: CSS\JS\PHP fixes (shortcodes\widget layouts)

18.04.2024 Version 1.12 – Update

- Fix: CSS\JS\PHP fixes (shortcodes\widget layouts)

05.02.2024 Version 1.11 – Update

- Added: Compatibility with The GDPR Framework plugin; - Added: MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress plugin; - Removed: Easy Forms for Mailchimp plugin; - Removed: GDPR Compliance for Mailchimp plugin; - Removed: Cookie Information plugin; - Fix: CSS fixes for better plugin compatibility; - Updated: Demo data.

26.12.2023 Version 1.10.0 – Update

 - Updated: Themes styles and scripts; - Demo data; - Improved: Plugin Compatibility

26.12.2023 Version 1.9 – Update

- Skin 'default' is updated to the version 1.5.0

26.12.2023 Version 1.8 – Update

- Skin 'default' is updated to the version 1.4.0

26.12.2023 Version 1.7 – Update

- Skin 'default' is updated to the version 1.3.0

26.12.2023 Version 1.6 – Update

 - Added: Instagram Feed plugin; - YouTube Shorts video support; - TikTok Icons; - Updated: Demo data; - Improved: Theme styles; - Plugins Compatibility

27.10.2022 Version 1.5 – Update

- Added: WPC Smart Quick View for WooCommerce compatibility; - Added: 3 new product styles for the product feed; - Fix: CSS fixes 

20.09.2022 Version 1.4 – Update

 - CSS\PHP fixes for WP 6.0+ (shortcodes\widget layouts);

21.04.2022 Version 1.3 – Update

 - Added: Featured image caption on the post page 

07.04.2022 Version 1.2 – Update

 - CSS\PHP fixes for WP 5.9+ (shortcodes\widget layouts);

16.12.2021 Version 1.1 – Update

 - Theme option that allows to invert the colors of the logo in a dark scheme has been added; - Category page view has been updated; - Post formats styles in Blogger widget has been updated; - Variable product page view after WooCommerce update has been fixed;

29.11.2021 Version 1.0 – Release