AAE Pro v4.3.2

AAE Pro v4.3.2 brings a major expansion to the Elementor V4 Atomic experience, including nine Loop Filter widgets, six WooCommerce product widgets, Form Builder Pro improvements, Atomic popups, and a new performance suite.

This release also completes the unique-prefix rename requested during the WordPress.org review process. Compatibility has been carefully maintained so your site continues working regardless of whether you update the Free or Pro plugin first.

Highlights

• 9 new Loop Filter widgets for building advanced shops, directories, listings, and filterable Loop Grids.
• 6 new WooCommerce widgets, including Product Price, Rating, Badge, Stock, Add to Cart, and Variation Swatches.
• Form Builder Pro upgrades with Conditional Display, advanced validation, Date/Time fields, Create User, reCAPTCHA v3, Brevo, and Mailchimp.
• New Atomic widgets and extensions including Stack Cards, Button Pro, Offcanvas, Lottie, Draw SVG, animations, Parallax, Tilt, Sticky, Horizontal Scroll, and more.
• AAE Popup for Elementor V4 with popup templates, animation presets, timing controls, and editor settings.
• New performance tools including Lazy Animation, Reduced Motion, Performance Wizard, cache compatibility, usage tracking, and diagnostics.
• WordPress.org prefix update completed with backward compatibility, so Free and Pro can be updated safely without breaking existing integrations.
• Security and stability improvements across editor requests, API keys, ratings, reactions, plugin data, forms, and frontend rendering.

Added

Elementor V4 Loop Filters

Nine Loop Filter Widgets

Build advanced filtering experiences for shops, directories, classified listings, portfolios, and other Loop Grid layouts.

The new filter widgets include:

• Taxonomy
• Author
• Field
• Date
• Search
• Sort
• Result Count
• Active Filters
• Filter Drawer

The Field Filter supports price, rating, stock status, ACF fields, and other custom fields.

Instant Filtering

Filters now update Loop Grid results without reloading the page.

This includes:

• Live result updates
• Dynamic result counts
• Active filter chips
• Browser back-button support
• Shareable filtered URLs
• Progressive enhancement, allowing filter links to work even before JavaScript loads

Advanced Filter Controls

New filtering controls include:

• Two-handle price and range sliders
• Price brackets
• Checkbox and radio indicators
• Show All controls for longer filter lists
• Sort dropdowns
• Dynamic option counts showing how many results remain for each selection

WooCommerce URL Compatibility

Loop Filters understand WooCommerce’s native filtering parameters, including:

• min_price
• max_price
• rating_filter
• filter_<attribute>
• orderby

Existing WooCommerce shop links and native filter blocks can therefore work alongside AAE Loop Filters.

Full Styling Controls

Every major filter component can be styled independently from the Elementor Style tab, including:

• Labels
• Options
• Checkboxes
• Counts
• Swatches
• Rating stars
• Apply and Clear buttons
• Slider rails
• Slider fills
• Slider handles
• Value indicators

The release also includes 24 ready-made filter presets. Presets automatically install any required post types or ACF fields when needed.

Improved Date Picker

The Date Filter’s custom range control and Form Builder Date/Time fields now use a translated calendar interface that follows the WordPress site’s configured date format.

WooCommerce Widgets

Six new Atomic WooCommerce widgets have been added:

• Product Price
• Product Rating
• Product Badge
• Product Stock
• Add to Cart
• Variation Swatches

The widgets use WooCommerce’s native rendering system rather than introducing separate cart logic or custom endpoints.

Additional capabilities include:

• Variable product price ranges
• Sale, stock, featured, and new-product badges
• Real product stock information
• Variation swatches using actual WooCommerce term colors or images

Atomic Widgets & Extensions

New Pro Atomic Widgets

The following widgets are now available for Elementor V4:

• Stack Cards
• Button Pro
• Offcanvas
• Lottie
• Draw SVG
• Table of Contents

Button Pro includes eight GSAP-powered hover effects.

Lottie supports:

• Scroll-scrubbed animation
• Hover interaction
• Click interaction
• Cursor-driven animation

Atomic Extensions

AAE Pro now renders the following extensions for Atomic elements:

• Text Animation
• Regular Animation
• Image Animation
• Parallax
• Tilt
• Sticky
• Image Hover
• Image Reveal on Hover
• Cursor Hover
• Mouse Move
• Horizontal Scroll
• Scroll To
• Advanced Tooltip
• Parent / Child Hover
• Background Video for containers

AAE Popup

AAE Popup now supports Elementor V4 Atomic elements.

The new system includes:

• Dedicated popup template type
• Popup animation presets
• In-editor settings modal
• Individual timing controls for each popup

Form Builder Pro

Conditional Display

Fields and content can now be shown or hidden based on answers from other form fields.

Conditional Display supports:

• Fields
• Rows
• Headings
• Paragraphs
• Reveal animations

Additional Form Features

Form Builder Pro now includes:

• Custom regex validation
• Custom validation messages
• Date fields
• Time fields
• Create User action for registration forms
• reCAPTCHA v3
• Brevo integration
• Mailchimp integration

Performance

New Performance Screen

A dedicated Performance screen has been added with tools designed for Elementor V4 and animation-heavy websites.

Lazy Animation

GSAP resources can now load only when an animated element approaches the visitor’s viewport.

Reduced Motion

Improved controls allow sites to better respect reduced-motion preferences.

Performance Wizard

The Performance Wizard can safely disable the legacy Elementor V3 layer when it is not required and restore it when needed.

Cache Compatibility

Improved compatibility has been added for:

• LiteSpeed Cache
• WP Rocket

Animations are prevented from running on lazy-load placeholders, and required AAE scripts are protected from problematic combine, defer, and delay behavior.

A new per-page performance panel also lets you control:

• Caching behavior
• Per-file loading
• Lazy-load overrides

These settings can be configured directly for the page you are editing.

Usage & Diagnostics

New performance and maintenance tools include:

• Widget usage counts
• Extension usage counts
• GSAP library display conditions
• Cache Advisor
• Server Diagnostics

Usage counts show how many pages depend on a widget or extension before you disable it.

Improved Starter Template Imports

Starter templates can now install their required plugins during import.

Lottie files and custom fonts are also imported locally instead of being loaded from the demo server.

Changed

Unique WordPress.org Prefix

Every class, constant, function, option, and namespace defined by the add-on now uses the unique aaeaddon prefix requested during the WordPress.org review process.

The Pro namespace is now:

Wealcoder\AnimationAddonsPro

Previous names continue to resolve for backward compatibility, helping prevent existing themes, snippets, or integrations from breaking.

Free and Pro Update Compatibility

AAE Pro v4.3.2 works with both the previous and updated versions of the Free plugin.

The Pro plugin can resolve Free plugin:

• Classes
• Constants
• Functions
• Options
• Hooks

under either naming format.

This means you can safely update Pro first, which is the recommended update order.

An admin notice will appear when the matching Free release, v4.2.2, has not yet been installed.

Separate Translation Domain

AAE Pro now uses its own text domain:

animation-addons-for-elementor-pro

Translations are loaded from the Pro plugin’s own languages/ directory.

Previously, 1,067 strings depended on the Free plugin’s translation system.

The translation template has also been regenerated and now contains 2,682 strings.

Frontend Performance Improvements

Frontend processing has been reduced by approximately 150 KB of PHP per page view.

Additional improvements include:

• ScrollSmoother no longer interferes with position: fixed or position: sticky elements
• Preloader assets load only when required
• Cursor assets load only when required
• Scroll Indicator assets load only when required

Security

Term Picker Permissions

The editor term picker previously allowed unauthenticated requests that could return terms from any taxonomy, including private taxonomies.

It now requires:

• A valid editor security token
• Permission to edit posts

Dynamic Tag Autocomplete Permissions

Dynamic-tag autocomplete requests could previously expose titles from draft or private posts when a valid token was available.

Users must now also have permission to edit posts.

YouTube API Key Permissions

Editor-level users could previously replace or remove the site-wide YouTube API key through the YouTube widget’s status request.

Site-wide API key changes are now restricted to administrators.

Mailchimp Endpoint Security

Mailchimp editor endpoints could previously be reached without authentication and could store the site’s API key using only a valid token.

These endpoints are now handled by the Free plugin and are no longer registered by AAE Pro.

Secure Plugin Information Requests

Template dependency information was previously retrieved using plain HTTP and deserialized.

Required plugin information is now retrieved securely through the WordPress Core Plugin API over HTTPS.

Additional Security Improvements

This release also includes:

• Licence deactivation now requires the site’s current licence key
• Mega Menu requests include capability checks
• WPML requests include capability checks
• YouTube requests include capability checks
• Post reactions only accept published posts
• Post ratings only accept published posts
• Reaction and rating requests are rate-limited

Fixed

Free and Pro Compatibility

When used alongside the previous Free plugin version:

• Mailchimp subscription forms could trigger a fatal error
• Atomic widgets could fail to register
• PHP snippet types could fail to register
• Form hooks could fail to initialize

These issues are now resolved across supported Free and Pro version combinations.

Image Reveal on Hover

Image Reveal on Hover worked inside the Elementor editor but could appear invisible on the frontend because its overlay was clipped by the widget’s parent container.

The overlay now mounts in a page-level layer.

Scroll UI Flash

Fixed unstyled content briefly appearing before CSS loaded for:

• Scroll to Top
• Scroll Indicator

Post Rating Modal

The Post Rating login modal could be clipped by its parent container. This has been fixed.

V3 Popup Atomic CSS

Atomic CSS used inside a V3 popup template could fail to load on the frontend. It is now included correctly.

Form Date Picker Notice

Sites that had never enabled the Form widget could generate a WP_Scripts::add notice whenever Elementor loaded.

The date-picker runtime is now registered only when required.

Local Inter Font

The Inter font is now served from the bundled plugin files instead of loading from fonts.googleapis.com.

Widget Styling Fixes

Additional fixes include:

• Stack Cards width settings now apply correctly on the frontend
• Offcanvas styling improvements
• Button Pro styling improvements
• Filterable Gallery lightbox styling improvements