Existing customers can download Breakdance 2.0 from the customer portal.
Below, you’ll find a technical changelog. For details on the new features shown in the overview video above, visit breakdance.com/v2.
A huge thanks to everyone who submitted feature requests, bug reports, support tickets and other feedback during the beta/RC period. This has been invaluable in helping us shape Breakdance v2.
New Features
New Layout Engine
CSS Grid Layout Controls in the Design tab
CSS Flexbox Layout Controls in the Design tab
More Keyboard Shortcuts
Design Presets
Migration Mode
Element: Menu Custom Area
Element: Content Reveal
Element: Badge
Element: Pulse Dot
AnalyticsWP Integration for Form Conversion Tracking
Breaking Change: Users must now have manage_options capability to access form submissions. Use filter breakdance_form_submission_capability to change the required capability
Google Fonts – Add the latest fonts
Upgrade Stock Icons – To Font Awesome 6 Free
Forms i18n
A11y Polish
Hide Admin Notices – From templates page
Icon Search – Improve it, make it work without hyphens
Adding Classes – Ignore enter press if an autocomplete item is selected
Border Settings – Fix not appearing when set in certain combinations
TinyMCE – Fix editor not loading in certain situations
PageSpeed Insights – Fixes
Fix Setup Wizard – Deprecated notice
Fix UI – Word-wrap behavior
Right Click Menu UI – Fix inherited document styles
Sticky Offset – Fix media query
Media Resizer – If WordPress returns an error, show the error message text
Fix – Handle undefined array access errors on form actions in some cases
Fixed issue causing some control sections to be hidden when editing Design Presets.
Made the “Modified” settings filter button work properly in the Design Presets panel.
Improved error logging.
Fixed CMD+I shortcut on Windows.
Various fixes for Design Presets.
Improved default heading style CSS.
Corrected a typo in h6 class in Breakdance default typography css.
Corrected bug causing actions and dependencies to fail to load in the builder.
AI settings are now saved when the page is saved.
Animations – API to re-run entrance animations
Border Settings UI – Make control vertical
Number Input – Make it less restrictive
Gutenberg – Make image alignment work in cases where it was broken by default 100% width on the figure tag
Remove Empty Gutenberg Stylesheet – From the frontend
Fix Global Blocks – Make duplicates have unique IDs
Conditions – Prevent null post titles from causing an IO-TS error
Builder – Don’t fire element actions if element is not on the page
Right Click Menu UI – Fix inherited document styles
Sticky Offset – Fix media query
Lightbox – Visual improvements & bug fixes for Lightbox links.
Lightbox – Added Show Download Button option to settings
Link Settings – Added Disable Autoplay option
Breakdance AI – Improved error messages
Layout – Fixed grid auto column, row, and flow options in layout controls
Border Control – Fixed bug causing changes to apply to all sides when only one was selected
Layout v2 – Allow newlines in CSS “grid-template” field
Object Position – Now works properly with Aspect Ratio for the Image element
Made adjustments to ensure styles are retained for certain typographical elements where a heading tag is no longer used
Entrance Animations – You can now use on tab content
ACF Relationship Fields – Fixed issue causing fields to not show up in the query builder in some cases
V2 Layout Engine – Now default for advanced elements
Advanced Layout Options – Corrected issue causing them not to work
v2 Layout Engine – Fixed for popups
Element Enhancements & Fixes
Sliders – Advanced: One per view at, enable never breakpoint
Sliders – Advanced: Add initial slide option
Gallery – Fix width option at Design > Slider Images when used as slider
Gallery – Fix vertical align option at Design > Slider Images when used as slider
Sliders – Fix behavior when you have fewer slides than the viewport width
Image – Add object position
Section – Fix Ken Burns origin not working
FAQ – Smooth transition
Advanced Tabs – Support opening on hover
Image Element – Remove line breaks inside the `` tag
Fix Twitter Timeline – Not showing up
Sliders – Add option to disable keyboard control
Slider – Support slides per group
Slider & Animated Elements – Re-run animations on slide change
Tabs & Animated Elements – Re-run animations on tab change
Swiper – Set default aria role as `generic`
Facebook Like Button – Fix not appearing
Lightboxes – Don’t render duplicate slides
Comment Form – Fix: Always show comment field as required
Login Form – Fix: Remember me not working
Tabs – Customize width when vertical
Basic Slider – Add more HTML tag choices for titles
Fancy Testimonial – Use p, not h3
TOC Element – HTML tag choices for title
TOC Element – Don’t render headings from within popups
Adjacent Posts – HTML tag choice for post titles
Twitter Icons – Change to new X logo and brand color
Video Background – Add warning about 3rd party services
Image – Fix missing sizes attribute in some cases
Icon – Fix responsive padding not working
Comments List – Rename itemprop attribute value
Rich Text – Add missing img alignment classes for TinyMCE
Image Hover Card – Fix whitespace below card if link is set
Search Form – Fix unclickable close button/close button appearing behind WP admin bar
Search Form – A11Y: Ensure elements are unfocusable when the search dialog is hidden
Search Form – Fix: Label pointing to the wrong id
Post Loop Builder – When set to slider layout and used via global block, the slider breaks when that global block is used more than once on the same page
Global Blocks – Ensure a unique block ID for each unique instance of a global block
TOC Element – Fix onProperyChanges error if container does not exist
Popups – Fix breakpoint conditions
Posts List / Post Loop Builder – Filter bar – Support sorting terms by name, term_order, count, and hide uncategorized
Posts List / Post Loop Builder – Filter bar – Option to hide ‘Uncategorized’ category
Header Builder – better sticky and offset controls
Menu Builder – Fix A11y when a form was used inside a menu custom dropdown
Form Builder – Fixed error caused by conditional fields marked as required
Tabs Element – Added open on hover option
Image Hover Cards – Now work correctly with Design Presets
Form Builder – File Upload fields can now be conditional
Icon – Fixed bug causing styles to only apply to All Devices breakpoint
Mobile Menu – Fixed issue that caused custom area to flicker when opening
Design Library
Design Library – Add apply_filters in getDesignProviders
Design Library – Update URLs when importing a design set
Design Library – Improve position of “Add to Page” button
Design Library – UI polish
Forms
MailChimp Integration – If subscriber already exists, update the list member information
ActiveCampaign Integration – Fixes and improvements
Form Submissions – Fix fatal error on submissions page if submission record in the database contains invalid serialized data
Form Submissions – Fix date formatting
Form Submissions – Fix form submissions when combining filters
Email Action – Fix attachments not being sent when store submission is active but “store uploaded files” is disabled; add missing esc_html to the Email Action details dialog
Email Action – Escape email headers before passing them to wp_email and saving them to the database
Email Action – Ensure names like O’Brien are not improperly escaped
Email Action – Add CC support
Email Action – Add BCC support
Webhook Action – Allow JSON as body in webhook requests
Form Builder – Add option to hide labels for individual fields
Form Builder – Make required tooltip appear for file upload input
Form Builder – Fix conditional fields not appearing in certain cases
Form Builder – Enable all operands for use with conditional field display when using checkbox and radio form fields
Form Builder – Fix conditional display of fields relying on a number field that is set with the + / – buttons
Form Builder – Fix min value requirement when using + / – buttons
Form Builder – Fix double quotation marks in field labels causing formatting problems
Dynamic Data
Dynamically Set Images – Add srcset and sizes
ACF Integration – Fix custom fields not being available in the dynamic data chooser in some cases
Meta Box Integration – Fix custom fields not being available in the dynamic data chooser in some cases
Show All Dynamic Fields – In the chooser at all times
Conditions Chooser UI – Add autocomplete
Conditions – Allow using the same condition multiple times with AND
Support Truncating – Multi-byte characters, and strip HTML from truncated text
Video Element – Support dynamic data for setting poster images
WooCommerce
Woo – Improve i18n
Woo – Support transparent product images
Woo – Fix loading required files even if Woo styles are disabled
Woo – Price as dynamic data: use get_price_html function, which includes currency symbol automatically
Woo – Prevent SSR error in the builder when cart is hidden
Woo – Prevent Mini Cart from throwing an error when it is hidden (the Woo PayPal Elements plugin hides the Mini Cart widget on the cart page on purpose)
Woo – Products List: Hide out of stock not being respected
Woo – Quantity input: hide if only one item per cart is allowed
Woo – Checkout: fix order review form position after Woo update
Woo – Mini Cart: Fix padding-right shifting design
Woo – Mini Cart: Compatibility with entrance and scrolling animations
Woo – Made shop table styles apply for subscription product.
Woo – Changed default gallery thumbnail width from 100px to 300px.
Woo – Fixed placement of dropdown arrow on checkout page in Firefox.
Element Studio
Element Studio – Make arrays in code output cleaner
Element Studio – Remove paths that start with settings from dynamic properties on save
Element Studio – Replace deprecated get_class function
Element Studio – Add svw and svh units
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