About this Release
Beaver Builder 2.10 includes the following new features and improvements.
🚀 New Features​
Assistant Integration​
Added new cloud icon to the toolbar for connecting to the cloud and saving templates.
Components​
Add the ability to select fields that can be edited per-page for global templates, allowing you to override the global defaults on a per-page basis.
Pre-built Box Module Templates​
Added 60+ pre-built Box module templates.
Star Rating Module​
Added a new Star Rating module to easily display ratings to create testimonial sections and more!
💥 Improvements​
UI Changes​
Content Panel​
Pre-built rows and modules​
Reworked the pre-built rows and modules panels to show categories instead of a dropdown.
Saved Tab​
Added the ability to collapse the sections in the Saved panel.
All Nodes​
Added a "Save As" action to the settings dropdown on overlays. Added a "Type" select in the "Save As" form to include Template, Global, and Component.
Global Templates​
Change the global template overlay and badge color to green for better contrast with white text and icons.
Accessibility​
Any changes to markup mentioned here make use of the Deprecation API.
Accordion Module​
Changes to HTML tags used for elements for new modules dropped on the page, increase focus ring size and change key event listener from keypress to keydown.
Content Slider Module​
Added various improvements including making sure focus ring shows for links, add support for reduced-motion preference, prevent auto play on focus in or out, add aria-label and role attributes, improvements to keyboard navigation, adding focus to slider dot navigation, adjusting HTML markup in favor of list tags and button tags and more!
Gallery Module​
Added various improvements including deprecating div tags in favor of list tags and adding ARIA roles for the deprecated div tags.
Menu Module​
Added various accessibility improvements including enhancements for keyboard navigation, using appropriate aria attributes and roles, adjusted some markup and sizing of sub-menu icon as well.
Photo Module​
Change markup to use figcaption for caption per accessibility recommendations.
Posts Module​
Added various accessibility improvements including deprecating the div container tag in favor of a unordered list and added a new option in the post container field.
Post Slider & Post Carousel​
Added many accessibility improvements including using list tags for slides, button tags for navigation and pagination, proper aria attributes and making sure focus is visible on all controls.
Tabs Module​
Added arious accessibility fixes including using button tags for any buttons instead of links or divs.
Row Shapes​
Add generic title/desc to row shapes for accessibility.
Modules that display excerpts​
In modules that display excerpts, change default read more text to provide more context per accessibilityrecommendations.
WP Admin​
Reworked wp-admin list table to show "Global" or "Component" label. Reworked user access settings to allow editing per-page component settings but not the component itself. Added new user access setting for enabling or disabling cloud access based on user role.
Other Changes​
Performance​
Improved the time it takes for settings to initially render when first opened.
Subscribe Module​
Added support for ConvertKit custom fields