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Version: Beaver Builder 2.9

About this Release

🚀 New Features​

Multi-Layer Background Field​

A new background field that lets you layer different types of backgrounds on an element. You will see this in the Box Module, Rows and Columns.

What's Still To Come​

Saving layers for re-use.

Brand New Color/Gradient Pickers​

Our color picker has been completely rewritten and now supports any CSS color expression you can throw at it. You can select Global Colors in the color picker.

We've also built a new gradient picker that allows you to create gradients with an unlimited number of color stops and blend between them through different color spaces.

Limitations​

It is available in all color fields except:

  • Global Colors
  • Border field
  • Box Shadow field
  • Gradient field

What's Still To Come​

Eventually all color fields will be supported. While colors can be saved now for re-use, we still have to hook up field connections.

In the future, you'll be able to switch to a color space that suits you and access an even wider spectrum of colors!

Modules as Blocks​

A selection of our modules will be available as Blocks for the Block Editor. This feature is opt-in so it requires enabling in the Beaver Builder settings in the WordPress Admin.

Enable Modules as Blocks​

Navigate to Settings > Beaver Builder and click on the new Blocks tab. There you can enable select modules to use in the Block Editor.

Supported Modules​

The current list of supported modules is below but expect this list to grow in the future:

  • Accordion
  • Box
  • Countdown
  • Icon
  • Icon Group
  • Map
  • Number Counter
  • Posts
  • Posts Carousel
  • Posts Slider
  • Pricing Table
  • Tabs

💥 Improvements​

Modules without Wrappers​

As part of our continued effort to reduce the markup output by Beaver Builder, all of the Basic modules have been reworked to exclude their wrapper divs. To ensure backwards compatibility, wrappers will still render for existing modules on layouts, but anything new dropped on the page will exclude them.

Container Modules as Top Level Containers​

In Beaver Builder 2.8, we introduced a new Container Module, the Box Module. However, it required a container to exist around it. In 2.9, that changes so Box and all future container modules can be top level containers.

Outline Panel Improvements​

There is now a search/filter option and Node labels can be added and edited inline.

Subscribe Module​

Support was added for Active Campaign tags.

Google Fonts​

The Google Font list should be current. Previously, the list would only be updated at the time of release. The list will now be updated each time WordPress checks to update the plugin.

Accessibility Improvements​

We are committed to accessibility. Added are several enhancements:

  • Menu Module: Separated menu item and sub-menu icon
  • Accordion: Select HTML tag for Label
  • Tabs Module: Add focus missing on selected tab
  • Various improvements for the magnific pop-up script used

Performance​

Always looking at ways to improve performance, we've optimized some queries relating to Themer and debug mode.