Shoptimizer – Fastest WooCommerce WordPress

## What's New
- Customizer Sale Badge Savings Value: Added a Customizer option to display sale badges showing the exact saved amount value alongside an optional custom prefix.
- Dedicated Search Results Sidebar: Introduced a dedicated "Sidebar Search Results" widget region specifically for search results pages.
- Featured Images in Search Results: Search result listings now render featured images for standard posts and pages in addition to WooCommerce products.
- Cart & Checkout Progress Bar Labels: Added Customizer controls to override and customize the cart and checkout progress bar step labels.
- Brand Archive Load More Support: Extended the "Load More" pagination functionality to support brand taxonomy archive pages.

## Tweaks & Improvements
- Grid Feature Architecture: Refined grid feature architecture and resolved an issue where default block patterns were being blocked.
- Search Modal & Header Accessibility: Improved screen reader accessibility for search modals and header icon buttons by properly assigning accessible names and hiding purely decorative icons.
- Developer Tooling & Linting: Added PHPCS/WPCS configuration, Composer tooling, CI linting checks, and mini-cart lint cleanup.

## Bug Fixes
- Gravity Forms Price Calculation: Fixed a pricing update issue with Gravity Forms add-ons when used on single product variation forms.
- Full-Width Header Search Duplicate Form: Resolved an issue where the full-width header search modal rendered duplicate form markup when Regular Search was active.
- Cart Quantity Auto-Update Script: Fixed script enqueueing to ensure the cart quantity auto-update script reliably loads on checkout and cart views.
- Loco Translate MO File Warning: Removed an empty Kirki translation file that caused invalid MO file warnings inside Loco Translate.