Cornerstone 7.8.0, Pro 6.8.0, and X 10.8.0 Beta (1)

Beta
#1

It’s still pretty cold outside (for some of us). So stay inside and boot up those testing sites because Cornerstone enters it’s next beta. There’s a lot to go through on in this release. I’ll post the full changelog below this message. Thanks for joining us for the ride.

See how to test the beta here.

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

Quality of Life

There’s a lot to Cornerstone, especially with the release of Cornerstone Forms. And this year we decided we wanted to really cleanup some of the rougher edges. There’s more to come in this regard, but here are some starters in this release.

  • Element parameters Dynamic Content will display a list of available parameters. Instead of manually typing in all your parameters
  • Autosave builder preference.
  • Box and Text shadow have new defaults so when you enable those features, something actually changes on the page.
  • Video and Audio element will utilize SVG icons when in Font Awesome SVG mode

Our Looper Dominance Continues

Some of you probably forgot we were in a Looper Renaissance. In this release we’ve added in the Menu and User looper. Create a user directory page or a user selectbox using Cornerstone forms. Build a menu completely from scratch. Both are great additions to our growing collection of Loopers.

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(No Longer) Lost in Translation

We make a big move in how we handle translations in Cornerstone and WPML. We are deprecating the WPML manual editing system that worked entirely in Cornerstone. There are fundamental issues with this approach and we are going to move to something more simpler and standarized with WPML. Translations will now be handle entirely through WPML in their dashboard. We are currently working with them to get Layouts and Components translatable here. And in this release every element data that should be translated will be sent to WPML from us. Meaning Cornerstone Forms and any new element going forward will be completely translatable.

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In it’s place for more advanced pages, we will have Localization Dynamic Content and Localization Conditions. Using one page you can create completely different sections based on Conditions or Dynamic Content.

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As we move to this new system with WPML we’ll let you enable this older system in our settings. Sites built before this release will automatically enable this setting. We will not be adding features to this manual system. Instead focusing on making sure all Elements, Layouts, and Components are able to be translated by WPML. It might take some time working with WPML to make sure that’s possible, but we’re currently working with them closely to make sure their translation dashboard works properly.

Cornerstone Forms

Thanks for the initial feedback on Cornerstone Forms. As we parse this feedback, we’ll be making some changes to the core of Cornerstone Forms and while we do that we might need to change most of the forms we supplied for you.

Have a great day.

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Beta 1

  • 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
  • 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 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 - 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
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So. Much. Awesomeness.

:drooling_face: – been waiting for this for a long time. LOVE IT!

So this unlocks the ability to do in-context notation, right? I could have a whole section that would only appear in the builder, and not on the front end?

Will there be documentation for these? I’m unclear on what a few of them are.