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Elements 3.0 is finally here, and it’s our biggest ever release!
AI Assistant (Beta)
- Build layouts and pages using components and templates, write or update content, and create custom components with the assistant.
- Get help with SEO checks, page titles, metadata and CMS blogs. The assistant can also troubleshoot your project, update settings and publish your site.
- Connect your own OpenAI or Anthropic API key, or use the new Elements MCP server with compatible AI apps. Settings now show which features each provider supports and link to setup guides.
- AI Memory keeps track of each project’s styles, design guidelines and changes.
- Generate images through OpenAI, with automatic conversion to JPEG for the web. The assistant can also create Markdown and CSV files and search the web for information and resources.
- Fixed an issue where the AI Assistant setup panel forced the window to full height.
Design tools and starter projects
- Updated all built-in themes to Tailwind CSS 4.3.2, with revised shadows and corner radii, plus new Mauve, Olive, Mist and Taupe colour palettes.
- Added Mask, 3D Transforms and Shapes components, including support for text that flows around custom shapes.
- Added radial and conical gradients, shadow colour and opacity controls, and more hover and mirrored scaling options.
- Added eight starter projects: Waitlist, Burger Co, Astra, Kinetic, Profile, Yonder, Wellness and Consultant.
- Refreshed existing starter projects with updated content, previews and fixes. Projects are now sorted alphabetically, and Asterra’s Three.js effects run in the editor.
- Improved styling consistency across components, including quote styles, dark mode links, corner radii, shadows and background overlays. A legacy option restores Tailwind 3 tap-to-hover behaviour on touch devices.
Editing your website
- Opening projects, switching pages and working with Globals are faster. The canvas now previews Three.js and other ES modules directly.
- Added Markdown Preview, plus separate Hide in Editor and Do Not Publish options for components.
- Create pages, files and folders from the Pages + button. Rename custom components from their context menu, with automatic numbering to prevent duplicate names.
- Pasting text now preserves links, formatting and line breaks, including content copied from RapidWeaver Classic.
- Improved image imports and editing: more reliable drag and drop, preserved WebP and AVIF transparency, and a Reveal Resource action to locate images quickly.
- Made Inspector labels and settings clearer, improved scrolling, and fixed disappearing toolbar text, image update issues and incorrect resource links.
- Fixed small-screen header layouts, iPhone menu scrolling, menus staying open and active navigation states. Accordions now support full keyboard operation, and modal anchor links work correctly on Android Chrome.
Images, media and content
- Galleries now support lightbox captions and author details, remote image folders, and optional thumbnail resizing and lazy loading for large collections.
- Tables can use Google Sheets or local and remote CSV files, automatically detect CSV delimiters, and include Drop Zones. Search, sorting, pagination and editor previews are more reliable, with optional First and Last buttons and translatable pagination text.
- Audio players now offer volume controls and elapsed time, with a fix for the progress scrubber.
- Video lightboxes now respect playback settings and work independently. Improved Vimeo muting, custom and CMS thumbnails, and poster images in previews and published pages.
- Improved the Online CMS Editor on mobile, added a wider resizable metadata sidebar, and made content handling more reliable when metadata contains errors.
- Fixed CMS post creation and YouTube embeds, improved image alt text support, and made metadata consistent across the Online Editor and connected tools.
- Added configurable upload limits for the Online Editor and MCP server, and control over the number of items in RSS feeds.
Publishing and reliability
- Saving and exporting are faster, especially when pages are unchanged. Published pages are smaller, with more reliable generation of styles.
- Added optional Markdown copies of your pages and a root llms.txt file to help AI tools read your site. Markdown copies are enabled by default for new projects.
- Components that need PHP now prompt you to change the page extension. Containers also support custom HTML attributes.
- Fixed FTP publishing crashes, occasional page markup corruption and shared asset changes failing to trigger publishing.
- Fixed several editing crashes, a rare blank login screen and inconsistent component updates. Diagnostic reports now include recent actions and undo history to help investigate problems.
- Google Fonts now retry loading and show clearer errors. Updated CMS and Forms dependencies to address security vulnerabilities, and fixed a PHP 8.5 issue affecting licence data.
- Component developers can now declare PHP requirements and restrict accepted resource file types.
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Elements 3.0 is finally here, and it’s our biggest ever release!
AI Assistant (Beta)
- Build layouts and pages using components and templates, write or update content, and create custom components with the assistant.
- Get help with SEO checks, page titles, metadata and CMS blogs. The assistant can also troubleshoot your project, update settings and publish your site.
- Connect your own OpenAI or Anthropic API key, or use the new Elements MCP server with compatible AI apps. Settings now show which features each provider supports and link to setup guides.
- AI Memory keeps track of each project’s styles, design guidelines and changes.
- Generate images through OpenAI, with automatic conversion to JPEG for the web. The assistant can also create Markdown and CSV files and search the web for information and resources.
Design tools and starter projects
- Updated all built-in themes to Tailwind CSS 4.3.2, with revised shadows and corner radii, plus new Mauve, Olive, Mist and Taupe colour palettes.
- Added Mask, 3D Transforms and Shapes components, including support for text that flows around custom shapes.
- Added radial and conical gradients, shadow colour and opacity controls, and more hover and mirrored scaling options.
- Added eight starter projects: Waitlist, Burger Co, Astra, Kinetic, Profile, Yonder, Wellness and Consultant.
- Refreshed existing starter projects with updated content, previews and fixes. Projects are now sorted alphabetically, and Asterra’s Three.js effects run in the editor.
- Improved styling consistency across components, including quote styles, dark mode links, corner radii, shadows and background overlays. A legacy option restores Tailwind 3 tap-to-hover behaviour on touch devices.
Editing your website
- Opening projects, switching pages and working with Globals are faster. The canvas now previews Three.js and other ES modules directly.
- Added Markdown Preview, plus separate Hide in Editor and Do Not Publish options for components.
- Create pages, files and folders from the Pages + button. Rename custom components from their context menu, with automatic numbering to prevent duplicate names.
- Pasting text now preserves links, formatting and line breaks, including content copied from RapidWeaver Classic.
- Improved image imports and editing: more reliable drag and drop, preserved WebP and AVIF transparency, and a Reveal Resource action to locate images quickly.
- Made Inspector labels and settings clearer, improved scrolling, and fixed disappearing toolbar text, image update issues and incorrect resource links.
- Fixed small-screen header layouts, iPhone menu scrolling, menus staying open and active navigation states. Accordions now support full keyboard operation, and modal anchor links work correctly on Android Chrome.
Images, media and content
- Galleries now support lightbox captions and author details, remote image folders, and optional thumbnail resizing and lazy loading for large collections.
- Tables can use Google Sheets or local and remote CSV files, automatically detect CSV delimiters, and include Drop Zones. Search, sorting, pagination and editor previews are more reliable, with optional First and Last buttons and translatable pagination text.
- Audio players now offer volume controls and elapsed time, with a fix for the progress scrubber.
- Video lightboxes now respect playback settings and work independently. Improved Vimeo muting, custom and CMS thumbnails, and poster images in previews and published pages.
- Improved the Online CMS Editor on mobile, added a wider resizable metadata sidebar, and made content handling more reliable when metadata contains errors.
- Fixed CMS post creation and YouTube embeds, improved image alt text support, and made metadata consistent across the Online Editor and connected tools.
- Added configurable upload limits for the Online Editor and MCP server, and control over the number of items in RSS feeds.
Publishing and reliability
- Saving and exporting are faster, especially when pages are unchanged. Published pages are smaller, with more reliable generation of styles.
- Added optional Markdown copies of your pages and a root llms.txt file to help AI tools read your site. Markdown copies are enabled by default for new projects.
- Components that need PHP now prompt you to change the page extension. Containers also support custom HTML attributes.
- Fixed FTP publishing crashes, occasional page markup corruption and shared asset changes failing to trigger publishing.
- Fixed several editing crashes, a rare blank login screen and inconsistent component updates. Diagnostic reports now include recent actions and undo history to help investigate problems.
- Google Fonts now retry loading and show clearer errors. Updated CMS and Forms dependencies to address security vulnerabilities, and fixed a PHP 8.5 issue affecting licence data.
- Component developers can now declare PHP requirements and restrict accepted resource file types.
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Elements CMS 2 is here!
This major update introduces a faster, cleaner CMS foundation, new components, and the brand-new Online Editor.
- Added Elements CMS 2 with a rewritten, faster core.
- Added the Online Editor, a browser-based WYSIWYG editor for CMS content.
- Added a new Search component for live searching Markdown content.
- Existing CMS v1 components now upgrade automatically to v2.
- CMS content carries across without migration or reconfiguration.
- Added optional Online Editor upgrades for version history, custom fields, multiple users, whitelabel theming, API access, webhooks, AI writing tools, and MCP support.
A big update that lays the groundwork for the future of Elements CMS.