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A Look Into the Future – August Update

Hi everyone! Things are hustling and bustling around here and we’re just in the nick of time for an August update.

Now that the summer is winding down, we’ve been strategizing for the upcoming year. We have some big ideas in the works and we want to share some of the concepts with you. Also, we’re planning a community event next month and we have a new intro to make! Let’s go…

Join Us for a Chat on Sep. 15th

As Beaver Builder and the community keeps growing, admittedly, it’s been more difficult for us to keep up with all the new users, conversations, and news. Last year, we held a “Slack Halloween Party,” and it was a great way to connect with the community. We invited everyone to our Slack channel, put masks on our avatars, and spent some time talking and getting to know one another.

We don’t have a holiday to celebrate this time, but we wanted to do something similar. The plan is to hang out on Thursday, September 15th, at 11:30 am pst. Justin, Billy, myself, and anyone else from the team we can wrangle will all be hanging out in Slack to talk and answer questions.

We’d love it if you can join us! If you haven’t already, be sure to join the Beaver Builder’s Slack Channel here.

Beaver Builder 1.8.5

We released a couple of minor updates to the page builder this month. There were a few bug fixes, some prep work for WordPress 4.6, new actions/filters, and a couple minor features.

One nifty new feature is the ability to clear the Beaver Builder cache using WP-CLI. There are also several new and updated translations available! A bit more on the translations later.

You can see details of all the enhancements and bug fixes on our change logs page.

A Breakthrough from the Beaver R&D Labs

From the beginning of Beaver Builder, the most-requested feature has been the ability to put columns in columns. It a feature we wanted to have, but never found an elegant way to implement—until now!

Columns in columns are coming to @BeaverBuilder! Share on X

After having a bit of an epiphany, Justin has been hacking on some awesome proofs of concept and they’re coming together really nicely. Have a look…

We’re still working out the kinks, but we’re really excited to have a solution to the UI problem that we’re proud of. There’s some discussion about the clip on Facebook.

We also recently shared some new sidebar UI concepts courtesy of Mr. Brent Jett.

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While these are still likely a few versions out, we’re having so much fun experimenting we wanted to share sooner than later.

The goal is finding ways to both make Beaver Builder more intuitive for new users and also make it faster and more efficient for power users. Our plan is to get working prototypes out as early as we can, so stay tuned!

New Knowledge Base is Live

For the last several weeks, we’ve been working on updating and refactoring our Knowledge Base. It’s live now and we started using it internally for support. It’s fantastic. It’s far better organized, contains new articles, and the search feature is much improved.

Have a look: http://kb.wpbeaverbuilder.com/

We’re planning to phase the new Knowledge Base in over the next few months. Nancy is responsible for the majority of this project, and she’d love to get your feedback here in the comments!

The Team is Growing!

katherynWe have another intro to make. I hope you all will join me in officially welcoming Kathryn Davies to the squad! She’s taking on a bit of a hybrid role helping with support, documentation, and marketing! Kathryn is from Florida and she spent 2 years living abroad in Chile.

Kathryn is a long-time WordPress user and she has an impressive background in startup marketing and PR. We’re thrilled to have her and you’ll surely be seeing her presence around the community.

 


Footnotes

Sacramento WordPress Meetup

Our very own Justin Busa is giving a presentation at the Sacramento WordPress Meetup next week on September, 6th. If you’re in the area, come by and say hello.

3rd Party Highlights

I wanted to highlight two Beaver Builder add-ons that have been making a lot of waves lately. First up is PowerPack from BeaverAddons. PowerPack has an assortment of advanced modules that extend our existing offerings. Also worth checking out is Ultimate Addons from the team at Brainstorm.

Not an add-on per say, but our friend Davinder created a great resource for Beaver Builder called ProBeaver. Particularly, his newsletter has been amazing as he shares all the latest tutorials and news from the week. Thanks, Davinder!

New Affiliate Banners

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Did you know you can get paid when you tell people about Beaver Builder!? It’s true. We have a very generous affiliate program and we just launched some really slick new banners and adverts. Check them all out on our new brand assets page.

New Translations Courtesy of GoDaddy

GoDaddy offered to help translate the lite version of Beaver Builder. With their help, we have 15 new translations and updates to 24 existing translations.

I’ve always been a big proponent of WordPress’ mission to Democratize Publishing. I believe, in a small way, Beaver Builder contributes to that mission. This donation from GoDaddy literally makes the power of Beaver Builder accessible to millions of people who otherwise didn’t have it.

My sincerest thanks to GoDaddy and the entire team that helped make this happen.

Until Next Time

Well, that about does it. If you have a second, we’d love to hear your thoughts on the new Knowledge Base below in the comments,

Thanks for your time, everyone. Until next month (when we’re planning a BIG announcement)… 😉

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17 Comments

  1. Davinder Singh Kainth on August 31, 2016 at 8:18 pm

    Robby, thanks for the ProBeaver mention.
    Glad Beavers are loving it.

    …and thanks for a cool roundup of everything Beaver – the official one 😉



    • Robby McCullough on September 5, 2016 at 10:37 am

      We should share notes, haha! 🙂



  2. Geoffrey Gordon on August 31, 2016 at 11:32 pm

    Hi Justin

    I keeps saying this on every update, but it is true…. Beaver builder has been handsdown the best investment of my company to date. Nothing has pseed up my workflow more efficiently, been so easy to customise and it just keeps getting better and better. I salute you guys. It has given me so much work, I havenet even had time to revamp my own website. 🙂



    • Robby McCullough on September 5, 2016 at 10:38 am

      Haha! I know the feeling. It took us a LONG time to finally move our agency website over to Beaver Builder because we got so busy.



  3. Regev on September 1, 2016 at 7:59 am

    Divi 3.0 is coming with integrated A/B testing. Better add that feature to the Beaver Builder too, cause it’s a whole game changer for a lot of us.



    • Robby McCullough on September 5, 2016 at 10:41 am

      Hey Regev. Thanks for the feedback.

      For now, we recommend using Google Analytics with Beaver Builder for A/B testing. That’s what we use on our site. It would be a great extension, though!



  4. Gary McHugh on September 1, 2016 at 4:28 pm

    Keep it up guys. Still loving Beaver I will be loyal for life. I have nearly migrated all client sites from varying themes to Beaver now apart from a few pain in butt sites run by the theme with one letter (Raises one eyebrow) which I now HATE with a passion.

    ALL of them have been so easy to migrate, a couple of hours per site it really is unbelievable.

    I love that you guys keep improving without your updates buggering up live sites. It is the best, it is the fastest, it is plain AWESOMENESS in a zip file.

    You are all my heros. 😉

    PS. Beaver speeds even rock on https this result is with live chat and slow ass Google analytics installed. 662ms read it and weep other themes.

    https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/enVXxq/https://3001web.com



    • Robby McCullough on September 5, 2016 at 10:50 am

      Hey, that’s awesome! Thanks for sharing. 😉



  5. Brian on September 2, 2016 at 3:23 pm

    Keep killing it! Y’all are changing the game.



  6. Tiago Martins on September 4, 2016 at 4:40 pm

    Awesome. I believe that you guys only bring the best, we’re using BB in a few websites already, even the Designers love it. Well done guys.



    • Robby McCullough on September 5, 2016 at 10:49 am

      Thanks!



  7. Dan Neumann on September 8, 2016 at 11:59 am

    Very excited about the direction BB is going in. The nested columns are HUGE! We’re building all our sites now with BB and are looking forward to all the coming improvements.



    • Dan Neumann on September 9, 2016 at 6:48 am

      Also you might want to consider putting a link to your blog in the main navigation menu. There is a lot of great information here and I don’t know if most people know you even have a blog.



  8. marlonlamancio on September 12, 2016 at 7:55 am

    I’m crazy when it comes to monthly updates! As always exciting news! Improvements in the UI look great. I just think you should worry about keeping a closer interface of WordPress in general to provide a more fluid user experience. The UI needs to improve but can not get away much of WordPress way to not confuse the user, understand my concern? I just love what Mapstes did, a beautiful interface, iconographic and not very different from the WordPress UI https://www.dropbox.com/s/2dqiodgxxr4uxfa/bb-design.zip?dl=0

    Thanks guys for keeping the good work!



    • Robby McCullough on September 12, 2016 at 9:56 am

      Hey Marlon! Thanks for the kind words and the feedback. We really appreciate it.

      I totally agree with your sentiment about keeping the UI/UX similar to WordPress’. We have and will definitely continue to keep that in mind when we make updates. 🙂



      • marlonlamancio on September 13, 2016 at 11:27 am

        Thanks for your reply and I’m glad to hear that! Regards



  9. Julia on September 16, 2016 at 9:43 am

    Suggestion: Place menu text inside of a span to allow for more flexibility, say for this sort of thing: http://www.cssdesk.com/7HsEm



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