Cornerstone 7.6.0, Pro 6.6.0, and X 10.6.0 Beta (1)

Beta
#1

Rev up your V8 4.8L engines and boot up those testing sites because Cornerstone enters another great iteration. We think you guys will love this one and look forward to what you all think of this release. As always, thanks for being valued users of Themeco. It’s you who truly makes our products great and these features wouldn’t have come to fruition without your input.

See how to test the beta here.

Pressed on time? Check out the beta playground to test the new features on our sandbox site.

Masonry

Somebody call the founding fathers because Masonry comes to Cornerstone. The Cornerstone is actually the first stone set in the construction of a masonry foundation. That translates well to the digital world with this update, as now you have a set of controls for creating masonry layouts with the Row element in this update. Learn how to create masonry layouts in WordPress.

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HTML Storage Option

A pain point in many Cornerstone sites is the lack of support with SEO plugins and searching by content in a Cornerstone Document. That changes with this update as we offer a new way to store your content based documents (posts, pages, custom post types). Shortcodes will continue to work just as before, and behind the scenes, rendering a page that uses Shortcodes or HTML works the same. We plan on setting this storage option as the default for new sites in Cornerstone 7.7.0+. See our documentation on HTML Storage in WordPress for how to enable this feature and how to migrate your website(s).

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Looper Fields UI Improvements

Looper field memorization got you down? Well that changes in this release. Now the Dynamic Content Looper Field UI will have a select box of all available fields you can select from. It surfaces little known features like grabbing a singular item in an array or object. It even works with the Looper Depth feature. This is one of those features, that once you’ve used it you won’t know how you made by without it.

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Notable Features

  • Theme Options export will also export Global Colors and Fonts
  • Scroll Progress controls for the Line Element
  • Breadcrumb looper and Breadcrumb (Elements) prefab
  • Modern Event Calendars can have custom Single and Archive layouts
  • Global Colors and Fonts have a control to change the ID

I’ll paste the whole changelog below.

Happy Building!

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#3

Beta1

  • Feature Masonry option for the Row Element
  • Feature Content based Posts can use HTML storage for better support with SEO plugins
  • Feature Breadcrumbs looper provider and Breadcrumbs Elements prefab
  • Feature Meta Query builder data type control
  • Feature Query Builder Post Status control
  • Feature Attachment / Media post type can be selected in the Query Builder when used with the Post Status
  • Feature Scroll Progress control for the Line Element
  • Updated Theme Options Headline Font Family didn’t effect the font family “inherit” value of valid elements like Headline and Card Title
  • Updated Select boxes have a Dynamic Content button
  • Updated Unit field will have a full length value when it detects Dynamic Content, and Dynamic Content is selectable via the unit dropdown
  • Updated Border Style and Color can enter breakout mode
  • Updated Global Colors and Fonts have a control to edit the ID of an item
  • Updated Theme Options Export will export and import global colors and fonts
  • Updated Looper Field Dynamic Content contains a select box with all available looper keys available
  • Updated Google Fonts List
  • Updated Font Awesome 6.7.2
  • Bugfix Parameters using isVar could not be used properly by Twig
  • Bugfix Row template could not use parameters using isVar
  • Bugfix Controls that went from it’s base breakpoint value to another value back to the base value would not work. Example going from “auto” to “50%” back to “auto” on the Div width
  • Bugfix Custom attributes and other array based values had a poor rendering strategy resulting in most Twig templates working improperly
  • Bugfix Modern Event Calendars Single and Archive layouts for events would not use a custom layout
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#4

Will this “ HTML Storage Option” option remain optional forever, or will it be mandatory in the future?

#5

The shortcode option will probably always exist, it would be too abrasive to remove it entirely. There are also older sites I’ve seen that would manually create shortcode content. It fixes a lot of issues though so we hopefully plan on having it as the default for newly created sites in Cornerstone 7.7.0.

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#6

Is that a freemasonry joke? :joy:

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