Release
Notes
March 4, 2026
6.8.0
7.8.0
10.8.0
Over the years, we’ve introduced powerful new systems, expanded capabilities, and pushed the boundaries of what a modern website builder can do. With the same intention, we’ve refined the everyday experience — listening closely, smoothing friction, and strengthening the foundation beneath it all.
This release cycle reflects both of these pursuits.
You’ll find meaningful Quality of Life improvements — streamlined workflows, smarter interactions, and refinements that make the builder faster and more intuitive. Alongside that progress comes continued innovation with the launch of Cornerstone Forms — setting a new standard for what form, filtering, and app building inside WordPress can be.
Less friction. More power. The Cornerstone way.
Element Parameters
Element Parameters that accept Dynamic Content now surface all supported Parameters in a list directly insde Cornerstone. This eliminates manual entry, reduces syntax mistakes, and speeds up setup — particularly when working with complex data structures.
Autosave
AutoSave now works quietly in the background as you build, continuously preserving your progress. Changes are captured automatically, reducing the risk of lost work and eliminating the need to manually save during active sessions. It’s a seamless safeguard that keeps your focus on building.
AutoSave is optional and can be managed at any time from Cornerstone Preferences.
Gradient Builder
Draggable color stops have arrived!
You can now click and drag gradient stops directly inside the Gradient Builder. It’s a small change that makes shaping gradients faster, smoother, and far more natural.
Icon(ic) Expansion
Better design options plus a boost in performance? Yes and yes! Custom icons in the WordPress menu now use the Cornerstone Icon Picker. This means a faster experience in the editor, smoother process to work with, and consistent design options between the back-end of WordPress and Cornerstone.
Better Navigation
The Cornerstone Menu in WordPress is expanding. You can now navigate directly to key areas of the Cornerstone Builder directly from the WordPress admin including Headers, Footers, Layouts, and Form Submissions for Cornerstone Forms.
Devs Rejoice
SQL is now available as a Code Editor option within the Controls API, enabling syntax highlighting and structured formatting for database queries. This brings better visibility and precision when building advanced, data-driven controls.
WooCommerce Endpoints
WooCommerce checkout endpoints have been added to Conditions, enabling logic-based targeting across key stages of the checkout flow. Show or hide content with greater precision and create more intentional conversion paths for your customers.
Preview Condition
You can now use a dedicated Cornerstone Preview Condition to show or hide Elements based on whether you’re inside the builder or viewing the live site. This makes it easier to tailor the editing experience without affecting front-end output.
Element Dynamic Content
Element data is now accessible from within the Element itself. Dynamically link controls to internal values, power advanced Twig logic directly from Element data, or build Elements that adapt, compute, and respond based on their own configuration.
The User Looper
The User Loopers makes it easy to surface and structure user data wherever you need it opening the door to more advanced, data-driven experiences. Create dynamic user directories or populate user select boxes directly with Cornerstone Forms.
The Menu Looper
The Menu Looper allows you to build menus from scratch and control every layer of their output. Structure them dynamically, render them exactly, and move beyond default menu limitations with this powerful new addition. The Looper renaissance continues.
(No Longer) Lost in Translation
We’re making an important shift in how Cornerstone and WPML handle translations.
The legacy WPML manual editing workflow is being deprecated. While it served a purpose, there were fundamental limitations with the approach, and we’re moving toward a simpler, more standardized integration aligned with WPML’s core translation system.
Advanced multilingual builds will now rely on Localization Dynamic Content and Conditions. This allows you to manage variations within a single page rendering entirely different sections based on language using Conditions or Dynamic Content.
The legacy manual editing system will remain available for existing sites, and it will be automatically enabled if your site was built prior to this release. You can continue using it if needed, however it will no longer receive new features or support. Our focus moving forward is ensuring that all Elements, Layouts, and Components integrate cleanly with WPML’s translation dashboard.
We’re collaborating with the WPML team to ensure a smooth experience and compatibility as this transition unfolds. Read more about our WPML integration.
Cornerstone Forms
Cornerstone Forms reimagines what form building should be. Fully native to Cornerstone, it replaces traditional contact form plugins, filtering and facet tools, and even lightweight app builders with one unified workspace. Whether you're collecting submissions, filtering content, or powering interactive experiences, everything happens inside Cornerstone, giving you complete design freedom and technical depth without compromise.
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Changelog
- Pro 6.8.0 - March 3, 2025
- Feature: Autosave builder preference
- Feature: Element Dynamic Content. Which will output data from your element.
- Feature: Menu Looper
- Feature: User Looper
- Feature: Is Cornerstone Preview condition
- Feature: Menu custom icons uses our icon picker
- Feature: New dynamic options for Cornerstone controls, db_options, post_type, terms.
- Feature: WooCommerce layouts have checkout endpoint assignments
- Feature: Control partial list-style
- Feature: function `cs_render_child_elements_as_data` for usage in data based element rendering
- Feature: `valid_ancestor` control option which requires the element type to have a parent be a certain element type
- Feature: Dynamic Content button for List control can use Dynamic Content for the whole list
- Feature: Column Element Order control
- Updated: A URL parameter that was 0 would not be returned properly
- Updated: Control type select will enter breakout mode when using value `__custom__` as a select option
- Updated: `cs_element_library_group_arrangement` filter to change the elements group order
- Updated: `cs_element_should_hide` filter to add custom element hiding code
- Updated: `sql` can be use as a mode type in the 'code-editor' control type
- Updated: Cornerstone control type `date-time` has a `timeFormat` and a `dateFormat` option
- Updated: Element prefabs can have their own custom Icon
- Updated: Preview based settings code moved out of preview to App
- Updated: You can utilize light-dark as a color value in our color picker
- Updated: Audio and Video element did not utilize SVG icons when in Font Awesome SVG mode
- Updated: Parameter dynamic content will display as a select box of available parameters
- Updated: Box and Text shadow have new default values so the App can seem more responsive when enabling those features
- Updated: Template tab renamed to Library
- Updated: Component name setting will try to create a slugged version of it's title
- Updated: Our custom post types will show up in the WP dashboard as a post type list
- Updated: WPML Cornerstone manual editor is turned off for new sites. Sites built with previous versions will have this enabled when upgrading during this transition period
- Updated: Ability to grab entire field setting data in ACF Dynamic Content
- Updated: Theme Options link on the WordPress admin sidebar
- Updated: WPML integration will send info about our elements so all elements going forward will be translatable by WPML by default
- Bugfix: You couldn't use a bool value in a 'list' type control
- Bugfix: The menu custom icons were causing severe performance issues
- Bugfix: Alt colors not working on a breakpoint when it's the same as the base value
- Bugfix: Child theme had a style dependency issue on custom stacks
- Bugfix: External API using URL encode on a the attribute type would not work with certain APIs
- Bugfix: A managed parameter that was being used as a list would not work properly
- Bugfix: Youtube videos inside our Video player setting didn't have properly working controls
- Bugfix: Jump links scrolling would sometimes have the sticky header overlapping the final location
- Bugfix: Closing a document that opened a document that was edited, would not show the save button as having changes.
- Bugfix: When switching from a linked to an unlinked border, it would improperly set your border color to black
- Cornerstone 7.8.0 - March 3, 2025
- Feature: Autosave builder preference
- Feature: Element Dynamic Content. Which will output data from your element.
- Feature: Menu Looper
- Feature: User Looper
- Feature: Is Cornerstone Preview condition
- Feature: Menu custom icons uses our icon picker
- Feature: New dynamic options for Cornerstone controls, db_options, post_type, terms.
- Feature: WooCommerce layouts have checkout endpoint assignments
- Feature: Control partial list-style
- Feature: function `cs_render_child_elements_as_data` for usage in data based element rendering
- Feature: `valid_ancestor` control option which requires the element type to have a parent be a certain element type
- Feature: Dynamic Content button for List control can use Dynamic Content for the whole list
- Feature: Column Element Order control
- Updated: A URL parameter that was 0 would not be returned properly
- Updated: Control type select will enter breakout mode when using value `__custom__` as a select option
- Updated: `cs_element_library_group_arrangement` filter to change the elements group order
- Updated: `cs_element_should_hide` filter to add custom element hiding code
- Updated: `sql` can be use as a mode type in the 'code-editor' control type
- Updated: Cornerstone control type `date-time` has a `timeFormat` and a `dateFormat` option
- Updated: Element prefabs can have their own custom Icon
- Updated: Preview based settings code moved out of preview to App
- Updated: You can utilize light-dark as a color value in our color picker
- Updated: Audio and Video element did not utilize SVG icons when in Font Awesome SVG mode
- Updated: Parameter dynamic content will display as a select box of available parameters
- Updated: Box and Text shadow have new default values so the App can seem more responsive when enabling those features
- Updated: Template tab renamed to Library
- Updated: Component name setting will try to create a slugged version of it's title
- Updated: Our custom post types will show up in the WP dashboard as a post type list
- Updated: WPML Cornerstone manual editor is turned off for new sites. Sites built with previous versions will have this enabled when upgrading during this transition period
- Updated: Ability to grab entire field setting data in ACF Dynamic Content
- Updated: Theme Options link on the WordPress admin sidebar
- Updated: WPML integration will send info about our elements so all elements going forward will be translatable by WPML by default
- Bugfix: You couldn't use a bool value in a 'list' type control
- Bugfix: Alt colors not working on a breakpoint when it's the same as the base value
- Bugfix: External API using URL encode on a the attribute type would not work with certain APIs
- Bugfix: A managed parameter that was being used as a list would not work properly
- Bugfix: Youtube videos inside our Video player setting didn't have properly working controls
- Bugfix: Jump links scrolling would sometimes have the sticky header overlapping the final location
- Bugfix: Closing a document that opened a document that was edited, would not show the save button as having changes.
- Bugfix: When switching from a linked to an unlinked border, it would improperly set your border color to black
- X 10.8.0 - March 3, 2025
- Feature: Menu custom icons uses our icon picker
- Updated: You can utilize light-dark as a color value in our color picker
- Updated: Audio and Video element did not utilize SVG icons when in Font Awesome SVG mode
- Updated: Our custom post types will show up in the WP dashboard as a post type list
- Bugfix: Child theme had a style dependency issue on custom stacks
- Bugfix: Jump links scrolling would sometimes have the sticky header overlapping the final location
FAQ
Status
- 03/02/26: Pro 6.8.0, X 10.8.0, and Cornerstone 7.8.0 available via manual updates
- 03/04/26: Pro 6.8.0, X 10.8.0, and Cornerstone 7.8.0 available via automatic updates
The following confirmed issues are specific to this cycle. If listed here we are planning to address it in a subsequent point release. Items will be crossed off as they are corrected and you will see corresponding notes in the changelog above.
- None reported so far