Creating beautiful websites shouldn’t feel like wrestling with your tools. This update brings a streamlined editing experience, more creative control, faster performance, and smarter workflows across the board. Whether you’re building complex layouts or fine-tuning the details of a single page, these enhancements help you move quicker, design cleaner, and push your creativity further — without adding complexity.
Front-End Editor Enhancements
This release makes navigating, editing, and styling your pages noticeably smoother. The focus: clarity, speed, and a better experience for power users.
1. Element Navigator
The new Element Navigator gives you a tree-style overview of every element on your page.
- Perfect for complex layouts
- Makes it easy to jump between elements
- Helps troubleshoot structure at a glance
What used to require guesswork or endless clicking is now organized and easily accessible.
2. Sidebar Settings
Choose the editing layout that works best for your flow.
- Toggle between the classic modal or the new sidebar mode
- See your page more clearly while editing
- Update settings without obstructing your design
3. Advanced Gradients
Row and Column elements now support a powerful gradient overlay system.
- Add unlimited draggable color stops
- Control the angle with precision
- Create complex gradients without writing CSS
Designers get the creative freedom they’ve been missing from native builder tools.
New Demos & Elements
Fresh creative starting points and flexible new design tools expand what you can build.
Two New Demos: Resort & Architect
These professionally designed demos showcase modern layouts and real-world use cases:
- Resort: Business-focused, responsive, and modern
- Architect: Minimalist, structured, and visually rich
New “Text with Inline Media” Element
Add images directly between words for a modern editorial look.
Great for:
- Magazine-style layouts
- Artistic pages
- Storytelling sections
It’s a subtle but powerful design pattern used in high-end websites.
Upgraded Menu Functionality
Navigation is often the heart of the user experience. This update makes menus more flexible and visually engaging.
Fullscreen Off-Canvas Menu
Each menu item can now display its own image—perfect for immersive navigation experiences.
Persistent Mobile Menu Items
Keep key links accessible on mobile at all times, even when the menu collapses.
New Iconsmind Integration
The Iconsmind library is now available for menu items, giving you a larger set of modern icons.
Menu Button Styling Options
More control over your hamburger and menu trigger styles means your navigation can match your brand perfectly.
New Blog Design Features
Blog creators get more visual control and better reader-experience options.
Parallax “Next Link Only” Pagination
A new immersive pagination style that appears as the user scrolls.
New Post Header Layout
A “Featured media under title” header style adds more flexibility to your blog design system.
Estimated Reading Time
A new theme option that automatically displays reading time—great for UX and SEO.
Performance Improvements
Speed matters—for SEO, conversions, and user satisfaction. This release focuses heavily on reducing weight and improving runtime performance.
25% Reduction in Loaded CSS/JS
A major codebase optimization reduces load times across all pages.
On-Demand Icon Loading
Iconsmind icons now load individually instead of as a full font, reducing unnecessary downloads.
Lazy Loading for Video Backgrounds
Rows and columns with video backgrounds can now be lazy-loaded to save bandwidth.
Improved Parallax Scrolling
Smoother motion on both desktop and mobile.
New Performance Controls
Additional theme options let you fine-tune performance behavior based on your needs.
PHP 8 Compatibility
Ensures long-term stability and compatibility with modern hosting environments.
Element Upgrades
A long list of enhancements for finer, more flexible design control.
New Drag/View Indicators
Improved cues make interacting with elements clearer and more intuitive.
CSS “Sticky” for Columns
Sticky positioning is now available at the column level, unlocking advanced layout techniques.
Row Positioning Per Device
Control row positioning (relative or absolute) for each viewport—game-changing for custom, layered designs.
Single Image Upgrades
More sizing and animation options give you better visual control.
New Post Grid Styles
Fresh layouts and configuration options modernize blog and archive designs.
Parallax Gallery Options
Vertical and horizontal scrolling parallax effects now available for image galleries.
Conclusion
This update does more than add new features—it transforms the way you design. With a faster, cleaner front-end editor, expanded creative tools, upgraded menus and blog options, and major performance improvements, you can build more confidently and creatively than ever.
If you’re ready to take your workflow to the next level, this release gives you everything you need.
