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#1

Hey TC team! Have had a chance to do some building with RC1 and noticed a few items I thought I’d summarize below:

1. Global container formatting is still being lost in the builder preview when adding in custom CSS. Can be anything like just type the letter “d” into the Page CSS and the page loses any global container widths.

2. If you are working on a an element with an anchor link such as a button and you click it once in the builder preview it goes into a hover state that cannot be undone without refresh.

3. Delimiter is not working in the Countdown element

4. Not sure if it is supposed to, but colors and font assignments don’t appear to come through when exporting Theme Options JSON. Would be amazing it it did (or if it was at least an option).

5. Also, not so much RC1 but I think there should be some consideration in revisiting the idea of allowing the Themeco template library to be hidden from sites.

I recently had a client think they were being savvy and clicked on “+” then navigated to “Themeco” then clicked “Starter Site” and it immediately replaced the homepage, blog archives, and other items throughout a giant 150+ page website. While I know there is a warning, apparently it was overlooked. And while it wasn’t destructive, it was immediate (live site began reflecting the Starter Site design). While this library might be helpful during the build process of a site, it can be a distraction once there is a design standard setup. Would love the option of hiding this in both the template library and the “+” menu.

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6. I believe there used to be a way to set your default container type (row or grid). I didn’t really use this much back then but did this disappear? More and more I’m finding myself using rows and divs nearly equally as my starting container. Would be really cool to replace the default starter with a container selector first, then a layout selector.

Step 1: Select container
Step 2: Select layout (row would stay the same, grid would stay the same, div could add in a raw div or a globally contained div with L/R margin set to auto by default).

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  1. Parallax backgrounds are quite jittery. These used to be super smooth.

  2. Not the biggest deal at all but this double loader has driven me nuts since V6. See it in several places but specifically on new document creation (page, archive, single, header, footer, etc)

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#2

Hey @DoncoMarketing,

For point 5, you can use the following CSS in UI CSS:

button[data-tco-tab-id="theme"] {
	display: none;
}

Although what we really need is this :sunglasses:

Point 6, nice idea :slight_smile:

Point 8, same here. Think it’s just an oversight since I recall they mentioned wanting to clean that one up.

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#3

@JvP – You sir are an absolute genius. Thank you for sharing! Not sure why I didn’t think to take a stab at UI CSS :man_facepalming: – This was perfect.

#4

Update to #1 – Narrowed this down to the Starter Stack. Video below:

#5

#9 In 6.3.1 - When the builder is refreshed with CS tabs open it defaults to opening the documents pane vs the active tab you were working on.

#6

No problem! Though I’m far from being a genius.

Love your YouTube videos by the way, those are definitely genius :clap:t2:

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#7

  1. I will have this fixed for custom stacks most likely in the next release. Appreciate all these notes too!

  2. What browser / OS are you on, or what am I doing wrong here?

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  1. I’m not sure if this was broken in 5 or just my pro5 site, but I couldn’t really find answers as to what this used to do. Silly question, but it was a delimiter in this sense right?

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  1. Yeah that’s definitely coming in 6.3 in a point release. Will be awesome to export that data as well.

  2. With the permissions revamp I think we could easily create a permission or two for this. I agree once your sites all running you probably never want to touch the site imports.

  3. I have added this feature request to bring it back from Pro5.

  4. That’s a fix that’s coming. I’ll review sometime next week.

  5. Noted and I think we’re going to change that at least for the blank documents and probably keep for the imports.

Great stuff thanks for everything!

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#8

  1. Awesome! Thanks :slight_smile:

  2. Here’s a little video: https://www.loom.com/share/25b6cec46c97454da5c7ad485ad1ab34?sid=e4bcb168-f31e-4bde-9473-17dd4c929857

  3. Yep, those are the delimiters. You’ll notice on my end that there is no “/” I’ve tried all of them.

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  4. Awesome! :tada:

  5. Amazing :smiley:

  6. Awesome. V5 had just a user preferences default. Would be amazing to get some sort of stylized starter interface – then you wouldn’t even need the user default preferences. All sections would just open up to a container type selector.

  7. Awesome!

  8. :+1:

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#10

@JvP Far from it on this end too :stuck_out_tongue: Appreciate you tuning in!

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#11

  1. Thanks a lot for that video. I’ll review next week, but I think I have a good fix in place for that.

  2. Yeah that picture was me trying to fix the element. It’s definitely missing, Once I get the styling in place you’ll see those guys again.

Have a great weekend!