AraTheme — Changelog (Release Notes)

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AraTheme · Release notes

What changed in each AraTheme version. Update with one click from Addons → AraTheme → Licence & updates, or by hand (see Licence, renewals and one-click updates). Your settings, pages and texts are kept on every update.

1.3.1 — coming next

Added

  • SEO section: a built-in SEO guide with 11 practical steps for hosting businesses.

Fixed

  • Checkout: with one-step checkout on and items in the cart, the checkout page could reload itself again and again. Fixed.
  • Theme manager: an "&" in a text was stored as "&" and could show in titles. Texts are now stored as typed; affected texts are repaired the next time their section is saved.
  • The web invoice and quote pages show your theme brand (logo, or mark and name) instead of the old WHMCS logo.
  • Dashboard: the billing period ("Annually", "Monthly" …) is shown in the visitor's language.
  • Services list: the "Renew services" button opens the WHMCS service renewal page.
  • Phones: the cookie-settings button no longer covers the total in the checkout bar.
  • The closed mobile menu is no longer reachable with the keyboard or screen readers.
  • Announcements: one main heading per page (better for SEO and screen readers).

Changed

  • The suggested robots.txt no longer names the admin folder.

1.3.0 — 14 October 2026 — first public release

Licence and updates

  • Annual licence per WHMCS installation, checked once a day with digitally signed answers; 7-day grace period when our server cannot be reached.
  • Without an active licence WHMCS switches back to its own theme and order form; all settings are kept and AraTheme switches back on after renewal.
  • One-click updates: signed download, checksum check, automatic backup (last three kept), automatic roll-back on failure, restore of an older version.
  • Supports WHMCS 9.0 and later, PHP 8.1 and later.

Client area and store

  • Every client-area page redesigned, light and dark mode, mobile layout, right-to-left and left-to-right.
  • Dashboard with services, domains, billing, tickets, renewal countdowns and "needs your attention".
  • Services and domains as searchable cards with status filters; redesigned service and domain details.
  • Tickets with department hours, reply times and common requests; chat-style ticket view.
  • Account pages with profile photos, profile strength and a sign-in & security card.
  • Order form based on Standard Cart: plan cards, billing period switch, compare-plans table, one-step checkout, "complete it in one step" offers, restyled MarketConnect pages.
  • Branded 404 and rate-limit pages.

Theme manager

  • Brand, colours (automatic shade scale and contrast check), header, menus, promo bar with countdown, footer.
  • Homepage: hero with domain search, plan tabs with live prices, reorderable sections, FAQ.
  • Product group cards, feature icons, store settings.
  • Support: department hours, help assistant, live platform status from providers' status pages.
  • Page builder with ten block types, per language, with SEO per page.
  • News and offers with promo codes, countdowns, banners and a one-time pop-up.
  • All texts and product texts per language; ready in English, Arabic, Norwegian and Spanish.
  • Client emails and the PDF invoice in your brand style.
  • Built-in cookie-free statistics, GA4 reports, trackers with Consent Mode v2, script error log.
  • Cookie banner (GDPR / ePrivacy) with a record of consent.
  • SEO: titles and descriptions per page and language, canonical links, hreflang, share cards, structured data, XML sitemap, robots.txt.
  • Settings search, sticky save bar, export / import of all settings.
  • Faster pages: only the styles each page needs are loaded.
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