Recently, we’ve been shipping major updates to Breakdance, introducing powerful new features, refining the UI, and making Breakdance even more efficient. In this post, we’ll give a recap of updates in the last eight months – since we shipped 2.0.

Breakdance 2.0 – July 2024

Key Features in Breakdance 2.0

• New Layout Engine
• CSS Grid & Flexbox Layout Controls in the Design tab
• Design Presets
• Migration Mode
• New Elements:
  • Menu Custom Area
  • Content Reveal
  • Badge
  • Pulse Dot
• Integrations:
  • AnalyticsWP for Conversion Tracking
  • WPCodeBox
• Copy and Paste Enhancements:
  • Control Section Properties
  • Multiple Sections
• Global Settings Import/Export
• Breakdance AI
• More Keyboard Shortcuts
• Plus many additional enhancements—consult the Breakdance 2.0 Release Announcement for details.

Breakdance 2.1 – September 2024

Key Features in Breakdance 2.1

• Brand New Image Element
• Icon Library Enhancements
• New Condition: Is Page/Post Built With Breakdance
• Custom Breakpoints in most dropdowns
• Global Colors in Gradient Picker
• More Keyboard Shortcuts
• Plus many additional enhancements—consult the Breakdance 2.1 Release Announcement for details.

Breakdance 2.2 – November 2024

Key Features in Breakdance 2.2

• Term Loop Builder – Custom layouts for term data, displayed as a list, grid, or slider
• Loop Elements Enhancements – Display a specific Global Block when empty
• Plus many additional enhancements—consult the Breakdance 2.2 Release Announcement for details.

Breakdance 2.3 – February 2025

Key Features in Breakdance 2.3

• Quick Navigator – Add new posts and edit template settings without leaving the builder
• Display Loop Items in Accordion & Tab Layouts
• Quickly Wrap Any Element
• Use Multiple Dynamic Data Points in a Single Text Control
• Plus many additional enhancements—consult the Breakdance 2.3 Release Announcement for details.

Breakdance 2.4 – February 2025

Key Features in Breakdance 2.4

• Preview Without Leaving the Builder
• Use ACF Flexible Content Within Breakdance
• New Element – Hover Swapper
• Add Icons To Menu Links
• Run Form Actions Conditionally
• WooCommerce Product Lists – Show 2nd Image On Hover
• Image Element – Double Click To Open The Media Library
• New Element – Overlapped Images
• Plus many additional enhancements—consult the Breakdance 2.4 Release Announcement for details.

Where to Get Updates on Breakdance: The Blog, Not the Feature Requests Board

If you’re looking for updates on what we’ve been working on, the feature requests board isn’t where you’ll find them—our blog, email announcements (get a free account to subscribe to our email list), and YouTube channel are.

The Canny Board: It’s for Tracking Feature Requests, Not Announcements

We use the Canny feature requests board to track user-requested features, not as a place to post updates. It’s an internal tool that we’ve made public so users can vote on existing requests instead of us getting 100 duplicate feature requests for the same thing. That’s its purpose—to help us organize requests, not to provide a development roadmap.

Do we build features based on the Canny board? Absolutely. Just look at what we’ve shipped in the last eight months—many of those updates came directly from user requests. But we update the board for our own internal use, and while we periodically mark things as “Planned” or “In Progress,” it’s not meant to be a real-time progress tracker.

Want to Know What’s in Breakdance? Read the Updates

We’ve heard people ask why we don’t mark features as “Done” on the Canny board. Technically, we could, and in fact, a couple times per year we do go through the Canny board and clean it up, but ultimately, that’s not how we communicate updates.

Whenever we release a new version of Breakdance, we:

• Publish a blog post detailing every new feature, improvement, and fix.
• Send an email announcement directly to users.
• Release a YouTube video walking through the latest updates.

That’s where you’ll find the most accurate, up-to-date information on what’s new in Breakdance. If you want to know what we’ve been working on, read the latest release posts right here on our blog.

Why Don’t We Rely on Canny for Updates?

We absolutely love Canny and wholeheartedly recommend it to any software team that needs to track feature requests at scale. Canny has a feature that’s supposed to notify users when a request is marked as done. But in general, we’ve found that those emails don’t get noticed – not through any fault of Canny’s, but simply because users expect the emails to come from us. Users are much more likely to open and read an email directly from us than a notification from a third-party tool.

That’s why we handle feature announcements the way we do—through our own blog, emails, and YouTube videos—so you get the most complete and reliable updates, straight from us.

So, if you want to track what we’re building, don’t look at the Canny board—check our blog instead.