Hey everyone! We’ve just shipped the latest updates to Make and Make Plus, packed with features and improvements! Here are the highlights:

Make Plus:

• Added video background settings in all builder sections.
• New slideshow options for for Posts List and Products sections.
• Added Draft mode, which allows you to hide builder sections from the front-end, while keeping them visible in the builder.
• Individual section items (Columns, Gallery items, Banner slides and Panel items) can now be duplicated.
• Refactored Panels section, supporting child theme override.

Make:

• Added background position control for sections.
• Section settings are now categorized into panels, like the Customizer.
• Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 3.0 product galleries.
• Removed old Logo panel from the Customizer.

Make 1.8.5 is out and includes several small updates. Here’s what’s we fixed:

• Fixed issue which prevented Columns section titles from being refreshed in the builder.
• Fixed content preview of columns, which wasn’t being refreshed after dragging around columns.
• Fixed overlays, which were erroneously carrying around configuration data.

Make and Make Plus 1.8.4 are here! It’s a big update full of small improvements. Here’s what’s new:

Make:

• Added an option to open Gallery item links in a new tab.
• Added option to configure what menu turns into a mobile menu.
• Added missing default font to mobile menu toggles.
• Removed PHP notice caused by missing image fields in Columns section.
• Fixed a bug preventing titles from inheriting customizer typography settings.
• Added option for closing the configuration overlay without applying changes.
• Added button and keyboard shortcut for closing the configuration overlay.
• Added contextual labels to configuration overlay buttons.
• Removed a limitation preventing HTML links inside Gallery items content.
• Fixed CSS rules preventing typography and color settings from correctly applying to mobile menus.
• Fixed a bug resulting in content duplication when creating multiple Columns sections.

Make Plus:

• Fixed a bug preventing the “-1” count option from showing all products.
• Fixed a bug which was stripping HTML from Panel item titles.
• Added checks to widgetized columns to remove a number of PHP warnings.
• Fixed a bug preventing the duplicator to load on any CPT Edit Page screen.
• Fixed a bug preventing widgets from being removed when removing the containing section or page.

It’s time for a new release! After a huge refactor of Make and Make Plus in 1.8, we’re now doubling down on features. Here’s what’s new in 1.8.3:

• Increased the maximum number of columns in Columns sections from four to six.
• Added an option so builder sections can now be set to span the full width of your page.
• Updated Font Awesome to 4.7.
• Overhauled builder overlay styles to match core WordPress.
• Fixed an issue in the Banner section causing misplaced content.

As always, be sure to update Make together with Make Plus.