Changelog

[Static Mode] - Elements and features now support being used on sites exported to static sites.

[Components] - All elements now fully support being used in the block editor inside Bricks components.

[Media Player] - Bunny Stream captions now also work with mp4 URLs, and are included with the page, supporting page caching and static sites.

[Media Player] - Improved handling of waveform caching to prevent invalid audio URLs being saved. Posters for unavailable YouTube/Vimeo videos no longer slow page load.

[Calendar] - New "event popup" dynamic tags to show the clicked event's details in an event popup, supported on static sites.

[Calendar] - Dates with am/pm now display correctly, Locale setting accepts WordPress-style values such as en_GB.

[Pro Slider] - All inner animation types now supported. Fixed issue with 'Run only once' option and inner animations staying hidden on repeat loops.

[Conditions] - Improved accuracy of conditions, including WooCommerce order and cart checks, date conditions and visitor language matching. WooCommerce conditions now hide the element if WooCommerce is deactivated.

[Dynamic Lightbox] - Added option to disable preloading adjacent slides for grouped lightboxes & improved accessibility when displaying iframes.

[Dynamic Tags] - Fixed error if invalid filter values used. Deprecated x_url_parameter falls back to Bricks' native tag.

[Favorites] - Tooltip now available when the button is disabled; favorite data can no longer save to non-public posts & favorite meta fields no longer show as default custom fields.

[Header Extras] - Sticky header now inherits boxed layout widths and fades correctly on both scroll up and down.

[Pro Tabs] - Fixed 'Adaptive Height' setting the height to 0 if tabs were hidden on page load.

[Shortcode Wrapper] - Inner content is no longer processed twice.

[Countdown] - Fixed issue where set date could be an hour out across daylight saving changes.

[Color Scheme Toggle] - Fixed aria-checked not staying in sync across multiple buttons.

[Panorama Viewer] - Fixed scrolling issue when trying to zoom in Firefox.

[General] - Security: Hardened sanitization for lightboxes, popovers and dynamic tag output.

[Licensing/Updates] - Stricter handling of data from the update server.

[General] - Custom attribute options now validated based on the tag they're being added to.

[General] - Hidden element content now use template tags and only load when shown.

[General] - Improved initialisation and better error handling to avoid conflicts with other libraries/elements on the page.

[General] - Performance improvements for inside Bricks and the block editor.

[General] - Updated JS libraries to the latest versions.

[Licensing/Updates] - Upgrades internal release system with additional validation checks for update packages.

[Calendar] - Added ability to display recurring event dates inside AJAX popup via data-x-event attributes.

[General] - Custom easing options added for elements that use the slide up function. (accordion, tabs, slide menu, notification bar, table of contents).

[Toggle Switch] - Added option to set toggle based on URL param.

[Read More] - Fixed issue where a Read More inside a hidden container could stop expanding after the container was toggled.

[Color Scheme Toggle] - Now supports toggling native light-dark() color schemes (ACSS v4+ and similar), in addition to Bricks' own.

[Add to calendar] - Now supports both live/office Outlook accounts.

[Modal] - Better support for triggering modals from inside other modals, with ESC key only closing the topmost one.

[Modal] - Added new interaction for closing all open modals at once (bricksextras.modal.closeAll).

[Modal] - Fixes Disable scroll option not preventing iOS momentum scroll.

[Pro Slider Controls] - Fixes not pausing autoplay/scroll on hover/focused if enabled in the slider’s settings.

[Calendar] - Fixes some events not appearing when Bricks filters already selected on page load.

[Read More] - Fixed read more always expanded if inside tabs opened with URL param.

[Panorama Viewer] — Fixes issue where arrow-key rotation could spin continuously if focused hotspot lost focus mid-rotation.

[General] - Updated JS libraries to latest versions

[Calendar Control] - New nestable element for adding external controls to a calendar element.

[Calendar] - Added option to automatically skip to view showing next available event on page load or when filters used.

[Calendar] - Can now set navigation limits for a fixed or relative date range.

[Calendar] - The More events text in daygrid view is now customizable.

[Social Share] - Six new share buttons for AI assistants: Claude, Google AI, ChatGPT, Grok, Perplexity, and Mistral AI.

[Site Breadcrumbs] - Can now output breadcrumb schema as JSON-LD instead of microdata.

[Site Breadcrumbs] - Added `bricksextras/breadcrumbs/items` filter for easier customizing of breadcrumbs.

[AI Skills] - Compatibility with bricksextras-skills to give AI agents upfront information on elements and features.

[General] - Allow BricksExtras conditions and nestable elements to be added via Bricks' abilities API (Bricks 2.4).

[General] - Improved handling of common mistakes when configuring via Bricks MCP.

[Pro Slider] - Now initializes Splide in builder to remove conflict with Bricks' 2.4 CSS syncing options.

[Pro Slider Gallery] - Added option to set aspect-ratio for gallery images.

[Pro Slider] - Added edge padding for moving slides away from edges of the slider viewport.

[General] - Added better support for dynamic data when set via components props.

[General] - New admin pages, layouts and styling.

[Image Hotspots] - Now supports Image Hotspots Field for ACF.

[Dynamic Table] - Improved sorting with option to set date format and locale.

[Builder] - Repositioned X-ray mode toggle from Bricks v2.4 to center, as to not conflict with customizable areas.

[Conditions] - Fixed WPMembers condition options not appearing in settings.

[Pro Slider Gallery] - Fixed incorrect photoswipe attribute on links when linking to Bricks' lightbox.

[Pro Slider] - Fixed slide aria labels not being correct when setting slides as list items.

[Pro Slider] - Fixed AutoScroll/Play continuing when both loop and conditional slider enabled.

[Dynamic Table] - Fixed export interaction displaying HTML tags for links in cells.

[Header Extras] - Fixed Undefined array key PHP and WP_Styles warning if using OpenLiteSpeed.

[Header Extras] - Fixed Header Extras options not available on WooCommerce shop page.

[Calendar] - Event overrides setting changed to event exceptions (can be used to add one-off occurrences as well as modify existing).

[Calendar] - Added an option to remove all-day row from timeGrid view.

[Calendar] - Added data-calendar-view attribute to allow for easier custom CSS targeting for styling specific views.

[Calendar] - Fixed exclusion dates not removing events from calendar.

[Calendar] - Fixed Bricks filter elements (active filters, reset button) not updating when filtering calendar query loop.

[Calendar] - Fixed incompatibility with older versions of FullCalendar being used on same page.

[Calendar] - Stable release, migrated to FullCalendar v7, accessibility improvements, new description/location/event display fields.

[Add to Calendar] - New element for enabling users to save event details to Google / Outlook / Yahoo calendars.

[Dynamic Table] - Sort by numbers now supports formatted values (currency symbols, percentages, commas).

[Toast Notifications] - Added support for targeting a specific nested element when updating message text in interactions (e.g. "My message @.my-text-element")

[Offcanvas] - Added option to exclude selectors from the hash to close behavior.

[Pro Tabs] - Hash link matching now supports absolute URLs, not just relative.

[Countdown] - Link control for redirect destinations (internal posts, dynamic data, custom URLs), delay time and custom text to display during delay.

[Dynamic Lightbox] - Gallery option now supports including video from ACF Gallery fields.

[Dynamic Lightbox] - Added option to customize read more text and set truncate length for captions on mobile.

[Page Tour] - Updated to latest version of ShepherdJS.

[Pro Offcanvas] – Removed the inert polyfill (sufficient native browser support).

[Pro Slider] - Fixed autoplay progress bar not updating when play/pause button connected to same slider.

[Header Extras] - Fixed sticky header showing initial state on page refresh in Firefox if page already scrolled.

[General] - Fixed dynamic data options not rendering inside Bricks' array query loop type.

[Media Control] - Fixed seek distance always defaulting to +30 for the seek forward control.

[Media Player] - Fixed "click to play" not triggering for the default UI.

[Media Player] - Fixed "Uncaught DOMException" error in Firefox when local poster image set.

[Calendar] – (Beta) New element for displaying query loop items as events in a calendar view, with support for Bricks' filters and recurring events.

[Pro Slider Control] – Added a pagination option for including external pagination dots for sliders.

[Page Tours] – Added hashlink navigation to allow users to skip to different parts of page tours via links inside the steps.

[Panorama Viewer] – Added hashlink navigation to allow users to navigate to different hotspots via links inside the tooltips.

[Panorama Viewer] – Improved keyboard navigation; added options to include scene titles and custom ARIA labels on hotspot buttons and links.

[Color Scheme Toggle] – Options now sync when using multiple toggles on the same page.

[Cursor] – Added the ability to add hover text per browser language or site language.

[Table of Contents] – The scroll tracker now supports multiple tables of contents on the same page.

[Slide Menu] – Added an option to reposition the sub-toggle icon within the structure.

[Slide Menu] – Added more style controls for toggle icons.

[Site Breadcrumbs] – Added an option to include a custom ARIA label.

[Site Breadcrumbs] – Fixed an unclosed span tag.

[Dynamic Chart] – Updated Chart.js to the latest version.

[Lottie] – Updated Lottie to the latest version.

[Media Player Audio] – Fixed the incorrect positioning of captions.

[Read More] – Fixed an issue where the toggle icon did not work with custom icon sets.

[General] – Fixed an issue where some elements failed to initialize if the SureRank plugin is active.

[General] – Fixed an issue where quotes and special characters were displayed as HTML entities in certain config settings.

[Header Extras] – Fixed an issue where the Bricks' mega menu dropdown was not correctly positioned when placed inside a hidden row.

[Color Scheme Toggle] - New element for toggling between dark/light/system mode for Bricks color schemes with view transitions.

[General] - All elements will now redraw colors when Bricks' color mode toggles from dark/light. (applies to Charts, QR codes, Audio waveforms).

[Conditions] - Added 'Current Taxonomy Term is' and 'Current Taxonomy Term is descendant of' conditions.

[FluentCart Conditions] - Added 'user just purchased' condition for use on receipt pages.

[Site Breadcrumbs] - Added option to use icons for separator.

[Site Breadcrumbs] - Added inline display option to allow text to wrap as one line.

[Page Tour] - Added option to customize arrow size.

[Lightbox] - Will now automatically pause Bricks' video elements when moving between grouped lightboxes.

[Header Search] - Placeholder text and screen reader label can now be set independently.

[Header Search] - Fixed open button still focusable if hidden behind search form.

[Media Player]. - Fixed issue causing 'Reset on play' not to work on iOS when on low battery mode.

[Media Player Audio] - Fix issue causing artist name not visible if not using a playlist.

[WooCommerce Conditions] - Fix 'product in cart' not working if condition used inside filtered loop.

[Toast Notification] - Full release

[Media Player] - Added an option to have captions on by default.

[Media Player] - Added an option to have caption language auto-selected.

[Media Player] - Added the ability to force controls always visible (set delay to -1).

[Media Player] - Waveform bar colors now support Bricks v2.2's new color picker.

[Dynamic Chart] - Chart spacing / font sizes / aspect-ratio and label rotations now all changeable per breakpoint.

[Dynamic Chart] - Now supports multi-line dataset labels and x-axis labels are now supported by using br tags.

[Header Search] - Added an option to display submit button next to search input.

[Fluent Form] - Added controls for styling "button type" radio inputs.

[Notification Bar] - Aria label on dismiss button are now customizable.

[Social Share] - Switched to modern 'x.com/intent/post?' share URL for X.

[WooCommerce Conditions] - Added "User has orders with status" condition.

[WooCommerce Conditions] - Math type conditions (Cart count etc.) now support dynamic data.

[General] - All BricksExtras dynamic tags now registered through Bricks' filters rather than custom provider.

[Adjacent posts] - Fixed an issue where posts in other languages could be included in loop if sorting by menu_order (polylang).

[General] - Fixed color settings being too small in builder on various elements (Bricks v2.2).

[Toast] (beta) New element for adding container to receive toast notifications.

[Toast Notification] (beta) New element for setting individual notifications and triggers.

[Toggle Switch] Added an option to set initial state as checked/unchecked.

[Media Player] Added an option to disable the media announcer.

[Gallery Query Loop] Fixed the issue preventing gallery output when inside nested loops.

[General] Fixed compatibility for older versions of PHP (7.4).

[Site breadcrumbs] Fixed issue causing dynamic data tags to not render.

[Dynamic Chart] Fixed tooltip animation not showing.

[Pro Slider] Fixed slide height control not being able to be set.

[Licensing] - Added a button to 'revalidate license' after site migration without needing to re-enter the license key.

[Licensing] - Now supports defining license key in wp-config.php file BRICKSEXTRAS_LICENSE_KEY

[Gallery Query Loop] - Now support AJAX pagination via Bricks' pagination element (from Bricks v2.2+).

[Dynamic chart] - Added chart stacking option when displaying multiple datasets.

[Media Player] - Added option to autoplay when inside a modal that reopens.

[Page Tour] - 'Remember progress' now supports multiple tours on the same page.

[Page Tour] - Added option to save progress without auto-resuming on page load, allowing tours to be manually resumed via interactions.

[General] - Improved in-builder translations. Majority of commonly used setting labels now use Bricks' included translations (remaining are in pot file).

[Star rating] - Fixed size not applying to custom SVGs.

[Page Tour] - Fixed 'hidden' interaction trigger not firing.

[Dynamic Chart] - Now supports styling chart canvas via Bricks' v2.2 new color options.

[Dynamic Chart] - Added support for populating with JSON via Bricks v2.2 'Array' loop type.

[Page Tours] - Page steps can now be used with dynamically loaded content.

[Page Tours] - Added new interaction triggers for both starting/resuming based on config / user progress.

[Favorites] - Fixed issue where counter wouldn’t always update immediately if post deleted.

[Read More] - Fixed JS minification issue.

[Image Hotspots] - New nestable option with support for using with Bricks filters.

[Image Hotspots Marker] - New nestable element for adding individual markers to the image.

[Pro Slider Control] - New segment options for progress bar and autoplay progress.

[Media Player Audio] - Better support for live streams (and switching between live & on-demand in playlists).

[Media Player] - Now supports source URLs with no file extension by setting MEME type.

[Media Player] - Improved poster fetching / performance. 

[Before / After Image] - Improved the slider motion and now supports Image hotspots element replacing the second image.

[Panorama Viewer] - No longer displays "No panorama image was specified" if scene ID does not exist or is missing the image.

[FluentCart] - Fixed issue where conditions not accessible in settings.

[Back to Top] - Fixed incompatibility with Usercentrics.

[Pro Tabs] - Fixed adaptive height not animating on the very first tab switch.

[Media Player Audio] - New control types will now display conditionally based on current media settings.

[Media Player Audio] - Replaced attribute option with new UI for adding download options.

[Media Player Control] - Fixed the missing "replay icon" settings on default UI option.

[Media Player Audio] - Added two new control types: "artist" and "download"

[Dynamic Chart] - Can now customize the chart canvas' aspect-ratio.

[Table of Contents] - Improved heading ID generation with language-aware transliteration (replacing umlaut characters etc.).

[Media Player] - In builder performance improvements.

[Dynamic Lightbox] - Fixed issue which could cause multiple lightboxes to trigger with Bricks' filter elements.

[Before After Image] - Fixed issue where input background-color visible in Firefox.

[Panaroma Viewer / Scenes] - Stable version. Improved workflow & performance in the builder and added loading spinner & nav instructions overlay.

[Social Share] - Added option to set custom image and description for Pinterest pinning.

[Media Player] - Added option to show remaining time in default UI.

[Dynamic lightbox] - Fixed issue where Lightbox iFrame wouldn't work when both inside of a condition and inside infinite scrolled AJAX content.

[Media Player Audio] - Fixed an issue where title wouldn't display if populating with Bricks' query_api dynamic tag.

[Media Player Audio] - Fixed an issue where audio waveform could flicker when changing audio sources via playlist.

[Media Player] - Fixed poster-image control inside default UI not picking up poster changes.