Hester Core

Hester Core is the optional companion plugin for themes by Peregrine Themes. It extends functionality and unlocks additional features for supported themes. With Hester Core, you can:

• Add exclusive widgets and modules.
• Access advanced Customizer options.
• Use additional Elementor widgets.
• Import pre-built demos.

Hester Core makes it easy to set up your website quickly, customize layouts, and create a professional design — without touching any code.

Automatic Installation Automatic installation is the easiest way to install Hester Core as WordPress handles the file transfers itself. To do an automatic install of Hester Core, log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New. In the search field type "Hester Core" and click Search Plugins. Once you’ve found our plugin simply click "Install Now". After the installation has finished, click the "Activate Plugin" button. Manual Installation

1. Upload the "hester-core.zip" folder to your "/wp-content/plugins" directory or alternatively upload the "hester-core.zip" file via the "Add New" button in WordPress plugins page.
2. Activate Hester Core.

1.1.5

• Added AJAX functionality for dismissing welcome notice.
• Added Hester Theme Library functionality for browsing and installing themes.
• Enhanced demo and theme libraries with HesterToast integration. = 1.1.4 =.
• Removed welcome banner notice image.
• Improved Elementor widgets style.

1.1.3

• Refactor limited message formatting in customizer settings for features, services, and slider.

1.1.2

• Fixed enqueued assets (CSS/JS) URL.

1.1.1

• Included missing JS files.
• Refactored asset paths in Assets_Manager and enhance Morphext functionality in hester-widgets.js.
• Added admin notice to showcase "Elementor widgets" support.
• Removed unnecessary "unsupported theme" notice from class-hester-core-admin.php file.

1.1.0

• Added Elementor widgets: Animated Heading, Contact Form 7, Flip Box, Off Canvas, Posts, Pricing, Ajax Search, Slides, Tabs, and WooCommerce widgets (Add To Cart, Categories, Products, Carousel).

1.0.10

• Importer updated to 0.9.5.
• Blogsy theme support added.

1.0.9

• Update call to post_exists to include post_type in the query
• PHP 8.4 compatibility fixes.
• Improved demo import performance.
• Fix a bug on deserialization of untrusted input.
• Update compatibility tested-up-to to WordPress 6.8.

1.0.8

• BlogHash theme support added.
• Widget issue fixed.

1.0.7

• Bloglo theme support added.

1.0.6

• Theme template name added.
• Unnecessary code remove.
• Style issues fixed.

1.0.5

• Fixed issues.
• Hester lite layouts default value changed.
• Hester lite demo update.
• Hester lite hero image changed.

1.0.4

• Language file update.

1.0.3

• Added home section order default value.

1.0.2

• Header layout default value change.
• Slider default value change.
• Slider style setting added.
• Tablet mode info section top spacing set.

1.0.1

• New demo category added

1.0.0

• Initial release 🚀