DesignSetGo

Changelog

2.11.1 – 2026-10-23

• Security: Section, Row and Grid only use the HTML elements their “HTML Element” setting offers, including when converted to core blocks.
• Security: Custom CSS checks read escaped characters the same way browsers do.
• Fix: Keyboard users can use modals again: focus moves into the modal, and Tab no longer closes it.
• Fix: Opening a page in the editor no longer removes padding from Sections inside other Sections.
• Fix: Icon List colour, background, size and icon position now show on your site, not only in the editor. Existing lists update without re-saving.
• Fix: Hide on desktop, tablet or mobile and Max Width now work on blocks WordPress builds on the server, such as Latest Posts and Search.
• Fix: Dynamic Query: Load more no longer repeats posts after a filter change. “Exclude current post”, archive results and shop price and rating filters stay applied when results update. Offsets no longer leave empty pages, category counts include subcategories, and focus stays on the filter you used.
• Fix: A malformed filter link no longer shows an error page in place of your page.
• Fix: Forms: US and international phone numbers pass validation (international numbers use dashes). A blank number field is no longer saved as 0, and {page_url} in emails is the form’s page. “Too many submissions” shows on the form instead of reloading it, and the security check resets after a failed submission.
• Fix: Closing and quickly reopening an Accordion item no longer leaves it empty. A Counter ending at 0 shows 0, and its prefix and suffix show when reduced motion is on.
• Fix: A duplicated accordion item, tab, hotspot or counter gets its own ID, so screen readers announce the right panel.
• Fix: Breadcrumbs show a visible focus outline, hide draft and private parent pages, point the right way on right-to-left sites, and appear on archive, search and 404 pages.
• Fix: Six logo and trust-bar patterns, large Blobs and bordered accordions no longer make pages scroll sideways on phones. Logo rows already on your pages wrap on phones and small tablets without re-saving.
• Fix: Convert & Deactivate converts every page and keeps quotes and special characters intact.
• Fix: Privacy exports and erasures include all of a person’s form submissions, not only recent ones.
• Fix: llms.txt is no longer rewritten on every save, updates when its settings change, and pages no longer answer some apps and bots with “Not Acceptable”.
• Fix: Settings saved in part (for example through the API) keep their other defaults.
• Fix: Uninstalling DesignSetGo removes all of its data, on every site of a multisite network.
• Fix: The Dynamic Image block’s editor styling loads again.
• Fix: Draft Mode: creating a draft no longer breaks blocks (no more “Attempt Block Recovery” in the draft). A draft copy can’t be published as a second live page by Quick Edit or scheduling. Publishing warns you if the live page changed since the draft was made, and carries over template, slug, parent, order and category changes.
• Fix: Sliders work on right-to-left sites, autoplaying sliders have a pause button, and scroll-driven sliders become normal sliders when reduced motion is on.
• Fix: Pages with a form or slider no longer scroll sideways on right-to-left sites.
• Fix: Sticky header settings chosen for an individual header (shadow, shrink, hide on scroll, background) now apply on your site, and a header hidden while scrolling reappears when you jump back to the top.
• Fix: Blocks animated “On Hover” or “On Click” are visible before you interact with them, and animated blocks show when printing.
• Fix: Timeline marker shapes and colours now show on your site. Existing timelines update without re-saving. Opening a page with an older Timeline no longer marks it as having unsaved changes.
• Fix: Countdown Timer adds hidden units to the next one shown, so hiding Days shows 77 hours instead of 5.
• Fix: Table of Contents lists every heading, including ones that skip a level, supports non-Latin headings, and no longer jumps to the top of the page when it has nothing to list.
• Fix: Card: turning off the button area no longer deletes its buttons, and badges are read as their text. Modal Trigger padding from the spacing presets now applies. Existing pages update without re-saving.
• Fix: A Group or Section with a click interaction no longer blocks typing a space in fields inside it.
• Fix: Forms: with the country code dropdown shown, phone numbers are saved without an extra “+”. Success messages are read once by screen readers, and visitors whose clock is off can still submit.
• Fix: Dynamic Query: random order no longer repeats posts when you load more, and a sort option no longer hides posts missing the sorted field. Posts published at the same moment, or sharing a title when sorted by title, are no longer repeated or skipped across pages. Filter counts stay available while the index rebuilds and update when a category is deleted.
• Fix: Image Accordion panels read their heading and caption to screen readers, and hover works on touch-screen laptops. Scroll Marquee no longer stops the page scrolling. A map whose address can’t be found shows a message instead of a pin in New York.
• Fix: Moving Text Path text has a pause button and stops while off screen. Progress bars and Reveal on Hover respect reduced motion and keyboard focus. Sticky Sections stack correctly after rotating a phone and with more than 20 sections.
• Fix: Comparison Table tooltips open on tap and are no longer cut off when the table scrolls, Text Reveal keeps links readable by screen readers, and icons without a label are no longer announced by their name.
• Fix: The settings screen shows an error with a Retry button if settings fail to load, instead of a form that can’t save.
• Fix: AI assistants connected through DesignSetGo change the block you asked for, instead of sometimes changing a different block on the page.
• Improved: Structured data from a Star Rating block set to Aggregate rating now only appears when the rating count is shown, and the count can go above 1,000.
• Improved: Custom CSS no longer allows @import. It only ever worked in the first block on a page; load fonts and stylesheets through your theme instead.
• Security: The form endpoint limits how often one visitor can submit, including to forms that don’t exist, and parallel submissions can no longer get around a form’s limit.

2.11.0 – 2026-10-14

• Security: Form webhooks to a link-local or carrier-grade NAT address (169.254.x.x, or 100.64.x.x to 100.127.x.x) are blocked, and the way to allow one depends on your WordPress version. Current WordPress releases (7.1, and 6.7.6, 6.8.7, 6.9.6 and 7.0.3 or later) block these addresses themselves, and WordPress’s http_request_host_is_external filter allows them. On older versions DesignSetGo blocks them instead, and only the designsetgo_form_webhook_allow_reserved_host filter allows them.
• Fix: When a page refreshes in place while you edit it, blocks that weren’t on the page before load their right-to-left styles on RTL sites. Their scripts also still load when a caching or optimization plugin rewrites the page’s script tags.

2.10.0 – 2026-10-13

• New: Multi-step forms. Use “Split into steps” in a form’s Settings (or the Multi-step template) to show a long form one step at a time, with Next / Back and a progress indicator. Next matches your Submit button, Submit takes its place on the last step, and you can set a Progress colour and style each step title. Once the form is sent, only your success message shows. Without JavaScript the form shows as one page.
• New: Form fields can show or hide based on other answers (“Show Company name when Customer type is Business”). Set it under a field’s Settings → Conditional logic. Hidden fields are skipped when the form is submitted, even if they’re required, and steps whose fields are all hidden are skipped too.
• New: Send each form submission to a webhook (Zapier, Make, a CRM…). Set the URL in the form’s Settings panel and a signing secret under DesignSetGo → Settings → Integrations. Failed deliveries retry automatically, each submission shows its delivery status with a Resend option, and the URL field warns you when an address can’t receive submissions.
• New: Export form submissions to CSV from the Form Submissions screen, filtered by form and date range. Columns use your field labels (submissions received before this update use field names), and the form filter names the page each form is on.
• New: Layout overrides for Section, Row and Grid, and for the blocks directly inside them. Under the block’s Settings, set its size, spacing, gap, position and layering separately for desktop, tablet and mobile.
• New: Grid has Tablet and Mobile Column Templates, so tablets and phones can have uneven column widths too, such as a narrow column beside a wide one.
• New: Custom CSS has Desktop, Tablet and Mobile tabs. Tablet CSS applies at 1024px wide and below, and Mobile CSS at 767px and below.
• Improved: Grids set to two or more columns on mobile now keep the column spans you set, instead of forcing every item to one column. Check those Grids on a phone after updating. Single-column mobile Grids still stack as before, and a Grid with Align Rows on still gives each card one column so their rows line up.
• Improved: The submission details screen shows each field’s label alongside its field name, and a ticked checkbox reads “Yes” there and in the CSV export instead of “1”.
• Improved: Bundled patterns use fictional company and person names instead of real brands.
• Security: Your Turnstile secret key and form webhook signing secret are no longer shown to AI assistants connected to your site through DesignSetGo’s settings tools. They stay hidden, as they already were on the settings screen.
• Security: Form email logs no longer record recipient addresses or subjects, and Map error logs no longer record the address you entered. Both can contain personal details.
• Fix: Forms now send when a visitor’s browser has JavaScript turned off or blocked, and show your success or error message afterwards. Before, the answers were lost. If a submission fails, the visitor’s answers stay filled in and the message says what to fix, such as a required field left empty.
• Fix: Typing into a block’s empty Custom CSS box no longer jumps out of the box after the first letter. Before, only that letter was kept as CSS and the rest of what you typed went into the block’s own text.
• Fix: Adding or removing a background video in the editor no longer closes the block’s settings and moves you out of the panel you were working in.
• Fix: Screen readers no longer announce the decorative drawing in Icon, Icon List and Icon Button blocks on top of their label.
• Fix: Hotspot markers in the editor now sit exactly where they appear on your site. Before, every marker after the first was shown lower than its real position.
• Fix: An Advanced Heading’s font size, line height and letter spacing now apply to the heading, instead of being overridden by your theme’s heading styles.
• Fix: Form message boxes, date pickers and dropdowns use your theme’s font instead of the browser’s default.
• Fix: Outline buttons in the bundled patterns show their label instead of a solid dark box. This also fixes buttons already on your pages.
• Fix: Countdown patterns start 30 days out when inserted, instead of showing “The countdown has ended!”.

2.9.0 – 2026-09-29

• Security: Public Markdown, excerpts and generated exports respect visibility for logged-out visitors. Old plugin-owned caches and static exports are invalidated on update. If cleanup cannot write to the filesystem, resolve the administrator notice before regenerating exports.
• Security: Dynamic Query refresh templates stay on the server behind signed, viewer-bound opaque references; hidden block content no longer appears in page-source data.
• Security: Turnstile-enabled forms accept submissions only after successful Cloudflare verification. Missing keys and verification outages stop submissions; forms without Turnstile are unchanged.
• Performance: Load only the icons and extension assets a page uses. Blocks, extensions and icons added by Query load-more or an authorized live refresh initialize without a full page reload.
• Performance: Responsive images and image dimensions reduce unnecessary downloads and layout shift. Countdown updates pause in background tabs; Slider drag listeners exist only while dragging.
• Improved: More native block transforms preserve content and settings. Section and Row orientation changes no longer replace the block automatically. New Maps start with a location search.
• Improved: Clearer block inspectors, a Scroll Accordion Add Item toolbar control, theme-driven icon and marker sizes, and refreshed translations in all nine bundled locales.
• Fix: Browser-valid custom form patterns no longer receive a conflicting PHP interpretation. Supported shared patterns remain enforced on the server; unsupported custom syntax stays browser-only, alongside native field limits.
• Fix: Dynamic icon requests are split into batches of at most 100 names. Incomplete and failed answers remain retryable, so large updates retain every icon.
• Fix: Existing Modals retain their historical white surface and dark default close icon when unset. Editor and frontend use the same explicit background token; authored colors take precedence.
• Fix: Multiple Dynamic Query blocks keep their controls scoped independently, and Timeline marker sizes apply on the published page.
• Fix: Countdown deadlines honor the selected or WordPress site timezone consistently for all visitors.
• Packaging: Include all seven runtime pattern images; exclude development tooling and duplicate marketing assets.
• Before updating: Check countdown deadlines/site timezone and Turnstile keys. Saving/importing blocks without the edit_css capability can remove their per-block custom CSS. Unset visual values can follow theme defaults.
• After updating: Purge page/CDN and Markdown caches. Open WordPress/admin, confirm export cleanup completed, and regenerate static Markdown/llms files if needed. Old cached Query pages need fresh references; keep page-cache lifetimes below 30 days and purge affected pages if Query source transients are cleared.

2.8.2 – 2026-09-23

• Fix: DesignSetGo blocks no longer show as unsupported in the editor after an update. If you had ever switched a block off under DesignSetGo → Blocks & Extensions, blocks added in later versions arrived switched off too, and pages already using one showed “Your site doesn’t include support for this block”. New blocks and extensions now arrive switched on. Anything that was already off stays off, so if a page still reports a DesignSetGo block as unsupported, turn it back on under DesignSetGo → Blocks & Extensions. Your content is safe either way.
• Fix: Switching an extension off under DesignSetGo → Blocks & Extensions now takes effect. Before, only Dynamic Tags respected its switch. A switched-off extension’s controls no longer appear in the editor, and switching off Draft Mode turns it off entirely. Content already using an extension keeps working exactly as it was saved. If you switched extensions off in the past, their controls will now disappear from the editor.
• Fix: Switching off a block or extension, or removing a post type from llms.txt, sometimes didn’t stick after saving. These settings now save exactly as you set them.

2.8.1 – 2026-09-21

• Fix: On a page with an overlay header, the header sits over the top of the hero again, instead of leaving a band of empty space above it. 2.8.0 started adding space above the first section on these pages, which pushed the hero image down and left a strip of plain page background showing under the header.
• Fix: A hero’s own top spacing now shows from the first moment the page appears. 2.8.0 described this fix, but it wasn’t taking effect.

2.8.0 – 2026-09-18

• Fix: Timeline items fade in as you scroll on the published page again. They were appearing all at once, already visible, because a stylesheet meant only for the editor was also being sent to visitors. The same problem put a dashed outline around Image Accordion and a grey border on Scrolling Gallery images. 33 blocks were sending their editor styling to visitors; none are now.
• Fix: A page with an overlay header no longer hides the top of the hero behind the header while the page loads. The hero’s top spacing is now right from the first moment it appears, instead of being corrected a split second later.
• Fix: Form Builder – when two published pages hold forms that share an ID, a submission is now matched to the form that was actually filled in. Forms end up sharing an ID when you insert the same pattern twice or duplicate a form block. Before this fix the notification email could go to the other form’s recipient, or a submission could be refused for a required field that wasn’t on the form the visitor saw.
• Fix: Form Builder – fields laid out in three or four columns fit on one row, and stack properly on phones instead of overflowing.
• New: Section – Content Position puts the width-constrained content column on the left, center or right of the section, instead of always centering it.
• New: Section – Box Width caps the width of the section’s own box, so a section used as a card or panel narrows its background, border, shadow and shape dividers along with it. Until now only the text inside could be narrowed.
• New: Grid – a Column Template setting gives uneven columns on desktop, such as a narrow sidebar beside a wide main column. Tablet and mobile keep their own column counts.
• Fix: Section – the faint horizontal line that could show across a shape divider’s inner edge at certain browser zoom levels is gone.
• Fix: Tabs – tab labels take their color from the text around them instead of a theme preset, so they stay readable on a dark or colored background.
• Improved: New overlays on Section, Row, Grid and Scroll Accordion items start lighter, and an overlay color that already includes transparency now sets its own strength instead of having more applied on top. Overlays already on your pages keep their current strength, even after you edit them.
• Fix: The contact form’s “Select an option” placeholder and other bundled text now appear translated on non-English sites. An older installed language pack could hide newer translations included with DesignSetGo.
• Fix: More blocks added by an AI assistant come out valid the first time you open them, so you no longer see “Attempt Recovery”. This covers images, lists, quotes, headings, captions, icon buttons, modals, cards, counters, form colors and grid ordering.
• New: AI and agent tooling – a designsetgo/add-blocks ability adds several top-level blocks in one step.

Earlier releases (2.7.5 and earlier)

For the full version history, see CHANGELOG.md in the GitHub repository. Highlights:

• 2.7.x — Chart, Star Rating, Hotspot and Text Path blocks, Animated Headline modes for Advanced Heading, the Interactions extension, Schema.org markup for Accordion and Star Rating, an off-canvas panel for Modal, deeper animations, WooCommerce product queries, a keyless Google Maps option, Loop Carousel layouts for Dynamic Query, and WordPress 7.1 support.
• 2.6.x — Theme animation defaults (set an entrance animation once per block type), sticky and overlay headers that follow your theme’s colors and survive AJAX page updates, size tokens for Section shape dividers, Grid columns that wrap instead of overflowing, and forms that work from cached pages and from footers, template parts and widgets.
• 2.5.1 — Six layered Section shape dividers and a Content Clearance control.
• 2.5.0 — Grid “Align Rows” option, a Button Style control for the Form Builder submit button, a Modal overlay color that follows your theme, working Cloudflare Turnstile tokens, and fixes for “Attempt Recovery” prompts on translated and AI-generated sites.
• 2.4.0 — Section Divider block, Fill / Outline icons, theme-driven defaults for icons, forms, maps and SVG patterns, a new Justify control for Pill, Icon, Icon Button and Modal Trigger, safer form notification emails, and many editor and frontend fixes.
• 2.3.0 — Theme section styles for Section, Row and Grid, site-wide default shape dividers, and redesigned shape dividers.
• 2.2.0 — Column Min Width for Grid and Icon List, Scrolling Gallery image fit and size controls, silent upgrades for older block markup, and PHP 7.4 support.
• 2.1.x — Dynamic Query block family, Dynamic Tags, Block Bindings, Meta Box/Pods/JetEngine sources, Conditional Visibility, per-URL Markdown, Hover Effects, editor UX refresh, and security hardening.
• 2.0.x — Comparison Table, Timeline, Advanced Heading, Shape Dividers, Draft Preview Mode, 150+ patterns, WooCommerce blocks, form improvements, and major bug fixes.
• 1.4.x — llms.txt for AI language models, Draft Mode, Visual Revision Comparison, PHP 8.0+.
• 1.3.x — Abilities API (50 AI abilities), scroll-driven extensions, Text Style, Cloudflare Turnstile.
• 1.0–1.2 — Initial public release: 43 blocks + 11 extensions, Map and Card blocks, REST API hardening, 9 translations.