[OneHeartChurchParticipant]

Dear Santa!

I’m so thankful for X theme and Cornerstone! It really has so much! I don’t want to ungrateful, but there are some things left before it really reaches it’s total perfection. Among them are:

1) More customize stuff on elements like text, columns and such. Specifically maximum width (for example on text elements that you don’t want to go all the way to the sides, but not be a super tiny columns on cell phones), and better horizontal and vertical align.

2) A section in the customise section where you can make a couple of different buttons, so that you don’t have to fix’em in CSS.

3) Ability to add icons in the shortcodes pop-up-page in text. And the icons visual, not in a drop-down-list.

4) Ability to add full text blog posts through elements, and not only excerpts.

5) Colour customisation in Prompt element.

Thanks for being awesome! 🙂

//Christoffer

[OneHeartChurchParticipant]

Dear Santa! I forgot a big one!

In templates: the ability to save sections, or several sections as blocks or pages!

As of today, you have to save the entire page as a page or block template! Not always very convenient! 🙂

[AlexanderKeymaster]

Francis, thanks for your feedback. We’ve discussed having some way to make a section “global” and editing it in one place would change it everywhere. We want to explore this further and find an implementation, but it would be down the road.

Ruben, we love the idea of simplifying things, and offering more customization options without code. For the next round of elements, we’re building out a system that will allow us to offer more design controls, hopefully changing any aspect of an element.

Pamsvas, try going to Dashboard > Update and clicking “Check again”. This is more support related, so if you still need help feel free to open another thread.

OneHeartChurch, thanks for presenting your ideas here. We’re definitely interested in offering greater flexibility working with elements. We’re also talking about making a place in the customizer where you can work with every element, setting defaults. This way you can define your button styles once, and they look the same way any time you add a new one to a page. From there you can make smaller tweaks. We’ll be starting with that, but offering some way to allow “presets” would be a nice layer on top. The shortcode generator is something we plan to revamp from the ground up, and have it use the same controls available in the inspector. As for full text, we’re talking about a “Recent Posts 2.0” element that will offer extensive query and design options. We don’t have plans to change the existing prompt element, but for now would recommend adding color with CSS. Finally, when it comes to saving blocks, you’ve hit on a very popular request. It would be awesome to have a way to choose which sections to save, instead of having to use a workaround of deleting sections. We want to be careful to find the best way to approach this.

[flacnvinylParticipant]

No matter what features you add, I hope you guys continue to craft beautiful speedy and lean code. Cornerstone is miles better than VC already. There are many times I wish the plugin was not in serialized data for quick edits without breaking everything, but I guess we can’t have it both ways.

Also, more variations on the marketing circle. We stopped using it due to how frequently it was being used across the web.

[AlexanderKeymaster]

Hi Drake,

The serialized data issue is something we have concerns about as well. It made sense originally, as we’re just using a WordPress API and that’s how they setup the storage, but it’s revealed a handful of issues. We’ve actually been able to solve the issue using JSON to store data, but we’re doing different rounds of testing to ensure it doesn’t introduce regressions.

[scaffreyParticipant]

I have a license for X Theme, I would like to use the cornerstone page builder with a non “x” theme. However when I switch the theme from X, cornerstone license is no longer validated. Is there a trick to getting non-themeco themes to work with cornerstone?

Thanks

[AlexanderKeymaster]

Hi scaffrey,

Using Cornerstone without X requires a standalone license. Being included in X, the bundled copy of Cornerstone can only be used in conjunction with that X license.

[ravensfanParticipant]

I do not know about anyone else but i am loving Cornerstone and the current path it is on. What an awesome feature. Thanks friends.

[hobbsieParticipant]

its great when it works, 3 days later im still trying to get it working fully, my 1st site i done went very smooth so thought id have another go but not this time.

[KyleKeymaster]

Thanks a lot, Ravensfan! We have a lot of even more exciting things in store for Cornerstone. Glad you are enjoying your time with it!

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Hobbsie, it looks like you have a thread going in the main forum related to your issue. Our staff will be happy to follow up with you there. Thanks!

[byrontyeParticipant]

Anyone want to share some links to sites they’ve done using cornerstone stand-alone not X? Would love to see it in action.

Wanting to try and use cornerstone on the Salient Theme by themenectar

[originalperceptionsParticipant]

Hi Team X,

I have just taken over a site that has been developed with Avada. Is Cornerstone compatible with all the Avada shortcodes and everything available in the Fusion Builder?

If so, that would be a pretty impressive combo.

[OneHeartChurchParticipant]

Don’t know if anybody has posted this on the wish list, but here I go:

Ability to time schedule blocks!

For us as a church, we often have blocks right under the welcome-text about what’s up next sunday. We do that on special events that aren’t big enough to have their own pages, but still important enough to have some own space.

Or for business that are having a special deal this particular week.

All this could be done by hand, but sometimes you want to prepare, but not launch the block straight away. And maybe you don’t have time to remove the block as quick as you would like. Having too many time scheduled blocks would be annoying, but that’s up to the user. I would really love such a feature, but use it sparsely.

Cheers!

[AlexanderKeymaster]

byrontye, we did some internal testing with Salient and it worked nicely.

originalperceptions, Cornerstone has been tested to work in Avada, but with the Cornerstone element library. You could use the Avada shortcodes, but they aren’t mapped in as elements.

OneHeartChurch, very interesting idea. There have been a handful of features we’ve not pursued because of how they would require adding additional controls to the UI (something we like to avoid) for something that would rarely be used. While I love the idea, on it’s own I’m not sure we would add something like this directly into Cornerstone. We could however explore the idea of Conditional Sections, and once enabled for a section, offer the user different criteria to use to enforce if a section should be hidden. This could include a date/time range. Off the top of my head, another would be if the user is logged in or not. The more conditions we have the more valuable a feature it could be. I’ll make a note of this to consider as a feature request.

[AlexanderKeymaster]

Thanks again everyone for your participation here! We’re concluding the launch party. Moving forwards feel free to open any new threads related to Cornerstone discussion or support.

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