November 4, 2025
Breakdance 2.6 is here, and it makes building, designing, and launching WordPress sites faster, smoother, and more intuitive than ever.
Create unlimited button presets. Write code in a pro-level editor powered by CodeMirror 6. Experience major PHP performance improvements that make the builder feel almost instant. Plus improved third-party integrations and dozens of workflow refinements.
Owner, designer, developer, marketer, pick your hat. This release helps you build faster, design smarter, and deliver better results with less effort.
You can start beta testing right now. Just go to your Customer Portal and download it, or enable beta updates directly from your plugin.
If you want the highlights from 2.6, keep reading.
In web design, nothing screams “I built this site myself and I have no idea what I’m doing” like inconsistent styles. Breakdance takes this very seriously, which is why we have the best Global Styles in the space, and it’s also why, in Breakdance 2.6, we’re bringing that same power for buttons inside our most popular elements.
You can now create and reuse button presets in the Buttons element itself, as well as in commonly used elements like Pricing Tables, Fancy Testimonials, Icon Boxes, and Image Boxes.
That means you can build once, reuse everywhere these elements appear, and keep your calls-to-action perfectly on-brand without starting from scratch each time. Each preset maintains full responsive design capabilities across all breakpoints.
Wanna try? Open an Icon or Image Box, Pricing Tables, or button elements » Style » Custom » Presets, or open Global Settings » Buttons, and explore the new Presets panel.
Breakdance 2.6 introduces a rebuilt code experience powered by CodeMirror 6, the same tech behind many pro coding tools.
If you love to mix drag-and-drop design with custom code, you’ll love this. The new Code Editor makes writing CSS, HTML, and Twig inside Breakdance feel like using a dedicated IDE.
Creativity shouldn’t feel risky. Design Presets now includes a History panel that tracks every save and stores a revision. Browse previous revisions, see who made each change and when, and restore any revision with one click. The system automatically prunes old revisions (keeps 15 most recent + 1 per day for 30 days) to prevent database bloat.
To try this feature, just edit any design presets, and you’ll see the History button on the top right corner of your Breakdance Builder UI.
Breakdance now loads faster, runs smoother, and feels more responsive than ever. We optimized both PHP rendering and CSS delivery.
We added static caching to functions that were regenerating the same data on every request. Element CSS templates, external attributes, dependencies, and actions now cache their results instead of rebuilding them repeatedly. Animation controls cache their configuration. Twig templates that don’t contain any Twig syntax skip the template engine entirely.
We improved shape divider loading. We switched from SHA-1 to CRC32B for Twig template hashing because it’s faster. We refined property iteration to skip keys that don’t need processing.
Empty stylesheets no longer get created or enqueued. Breakdance now checks if CSS files actually contain content before loading them.
This applies to global settings CSS, presets, variables, selectors, and post-specific styles. If there’s no content to output, the file doesn’t load. Fewer HTTP requests means a cleaner HTML head section and faster page loads. We also added CSS minification to post stylesheets.
These changes add up to faster page loads, quicker builder response times, and reduced server resource usage.
The Dynamic Data dialog now focuses the search input automatically when it opens. Type your search and press Enter to select the first matching field.
The first result shows a visual highlight and an Enter key indicator. No more clicking into the search box or scrolling to find what you want. If you work with dynamic data frequently, this speeds up your workflow.
Breakdance plays nicely with the tools you already use. We improved compatibility with The Events Calendar, WooCommerce product variations, and WPCodeBox so these integrations work seamlessly with your Breakdance sites.
We improved asset loading so The Events Calendar’s default structural CSS, typography, and component styling load automatically. TEC shortcodes now display with properly sized icons, styled buttons and forms, and clean layouts, even when you’re using Breakdance’s themeless mode (recommended).
We added the CSS variable that the plugin uses for its cross icon, so now product variation swatches from GetWooPlugins display beautifully when using their blur with cross for disabled attributes. We also improved how the swatches appear in the single post and archive templates.
Keep things organized in one place with WPCodeBox, the best code snippet manager plugin for WordPress. In Breakdance 2.6, you can now send your header and footer code from Breakdance » Settings » Custom Code directly to WPCodeBox with one click.
Don’t have WPCodeBox yet? Use code BD26 at checkout for 20% off.
WordPress’ Permalinks can become broken for a variety of reasons, often due to another plugin or some other changes on your site, and when this happens, the builder can fail to load. Breakdance 2.6 detects this and adds an “Auto Fix Permalinks” button to the warning screen.
Click it to flush rewrite rules without navigating to WordPress Settings > Permalinks. The page refreshes automatically after fixing the issue, and then you can go back to building beautiful sites in Breakdance without leaving the builder.
Preview Headers and Footers with Dynamic Data From Pages: When editing a Header, Footer, or Popup, the “Previewing Post” dropdown now includes Pages. You can now see how dynamic data in these elements would appear when rendered on a Page.
Rich Text Image Alignment: Images in rich text elements now respect WordPress alignment classes (aligncenter, alignleft, alignright). Set image alignment in the TinyMCE editor and it displays correctly.
Design Preset Fixes For Complex Elements: Design Presets now work correctly with Advanced Accordions, Image Boxes, and other complex elements.
Build smarter by combining Breakdance with best-in-class tools. In Breakdance 2.6, a new “Partner Discounts” menu item appears in your WordPress admin under Breakdance. It displays exclusive offers from our partners on tools like AnalyticsWP, WPCodeBox, WP All Import, and Oxygen Builder. If you’d prefer not to see it on client sites or your own, you can hide it with this simple code snippet:
/**
* Disable Breakdance Partner Discounts menu
*/
add_action('admin_menu', function() {
remove_submenu_page('breakdance', 'breakdance-partner-discounts');
}, 999);You can also find more deals for Solid Affiliate, WP Debug Toolkit, and Elevated Extensions in the Customer Portal.
Version 2.6 represents hundreds of hours of refinement, optimization, and enhancement. Every feature, every performance improvement, and every UX refinement exists for one reason: to help you build better sites faster.
From instant button styling to performance work that makes the builder feel quick, every change keeps you moving. The new code editor brings professional coding tools to your workflow. Dynamic data is faster to work with. Third-party integrations work better.
Breakdance 2.6 is available now. Update today and experience how fast, fun, and powerful building with Breakdance can be.
We can’t wait to see what you design with it. Tag us @TeamBreakdance on X and share your creations on Facebook.
Each new Breakdance release makes it faster, brings new features, makes it more robust, more scalable, and overall better than before, and this is no accident. We work day and night to make all of that magic come to life and make Breakdance the go-to builder for professionals who want to build serious WordPress sites.
If you’re an affiliate, every new release means one thing: it’s never been easier to promote Breakdance.
With the new features, smoother workflows, and a builder that practically sells itself, there’s never been a better time to start sharing Breakdance with your audience. Normally, our affiliate commission is 33%. During the 2.6 launch week period, we’re increasing it to 50%. That’s right, half the revenue goes to you.
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