Release 2.5

March 27, 2024
43 changes

we’ve got some exciting updates to share with you!

SASS Integration and CSS coding enhancements

 

This update brings exciting new capabilities when dealing with Custom CSS, allowing you to integrate SASS into your workflow. With the experimental SASS integration for Advanced CSS and SuperPower CSS, you are now able to write nested CSS declarations and leverage the power of the SASS syntax into your builds. Additionally, improvements have been made to SuperPowerCSS, including the addition of a new Fullscreen mode, adjustments to the display of the shortcuts cheatsheet, better suggestions inside the dedicated dropdown and a couple of bug fixes.

 

UX Enhancements

 

Several enhancements have been made to the user interface to improve your overall experience with AT and to decrease the amount of shortcuts spread all over the builder. The addition of the AT Main Menu in the toolbar and the Contextual Class Menu make it easier to access the builder tweaks without getting crazy with the backend options. Additionally, improvements to the theme settings UX should increase the backend readability.

 

New Keyboard shortcuts

 

A particular effort has been made for the keyboard shortcuts lovers! You are now able to add new elements inside your structure panel using the keyboard, navigate between your style tabs, and open new AT modals such as “Plain Classes”, the “Global Query Loop Manager” and “Find & replace”.

 

Better Client Editing Control

 

Users now have more control over client editing permissions, with the ability to select which controls clients can see for each element type. Furthermore, the specific builder tweaks for the Strict Editor View have been improved without the need for you to mess with any CSS code – including new tweaks to show/hide specific parts of the builder and a revamped ” reduced left-panel visibility” feature.

 

Improvements to the Template Tweaks

 

A new “Featured Image” column has been added to the Bricks template page & the related builder tweaks have been refined.

 

Bug Fixes and Misc Improvements

 

This release contains many bug fixes. Stability improvements have been implemented to ensure a smoother user experience.

The css rules applied to the masonry view of the template popup were conflicting with the Unsplash image popup and were badly rendering the image layout.
The tweak "Class preview on hover" stopped working correctly once the user started filtering the classes in the dedicated text input.
Game changer fix here! The "V" icon of the variable picker has been slightly moved to be perfectly centered inside his icon container.
Users with "Edit Content" roles were visualizing the root component option of the Class Converter (introduced in 2.4). It has now been excluded by default.
In some rare cases, after exporting/importing custom color palettes made with AT's color manager, the shades were "unliked" from the parent color which prevented to apply bulk changes on shades when modifying the parent color.
The backdrop-filter control added by Advanced Themer was only showing if the "Filter / Transitions" tab was also activated, otherwise you had to explicitly search after the control in order to manipulate the value. Now, if the "filters / transitions" tab isn't activated, the control will sit inside the CSS tab.
Since the CSS variables have been introduced inside the suggestion dropdown of the SuperPowerCSS, the vanilla CSS values and "!important" weren't included in the dropdown anymore. Now both variables and vanilla css values are suggested.
If you added a custom snippet to your site to make the admin topbar visible inside the builder view (which by default is hidden), it was generating a CSS conflict with "the Draggable Structure Panel" tweak and prevented it to work correctly.
Fixed a possible backend security issue. I don't want to share too much details on this for obvious reasons, but the scenario where the security issue could be potentially exploited require so many massive human errors from an Administrator account that makes it really unlikely to happen in real life.
In the previous releases, each time you moved an element through the contextual menu of the structure panel, the menu would close itself. If you wanted to move the element by several position, you had to reopen the menu each time. Now when you move an element, the contextual menu stays open.