Every AxcelersBlocks release.

IMPROVED

• Redesigned the style panel into clear groups: Typography, Spacing, Sizing, Layout, Position, Borders, Background, Effects, and Image, with new icons and tooltips.
• Icons on Heading, Bodycopy, Button, List and List Item can now use full flex and grid layout controls.
• Rebuilt the Spacing, Border, Background, Effects, Position, Sizing and Typography controls with a new visual UI.
• Image: the block no longer picks up WordPress’s default 1em bottom margin for figures on the front end, so images sit exactly where the layout puts them. A margin set in the block’s Spacing control still applies.
• Heading and Bodycopy: a value of “0” (for example a stat) now displays instead of “(No content provided)”.
• Table: Icons, and Buttons with an icon, placed inside table cells now show their icon on the front end. The icon SVG was being removed when the table was printed.
• Video: a Video block that has a poster but no video link yet now shows the poster as a still image (no play button) instead of nothing, on the page and in the editor. The play button appears once a video is added.
• Editor: undo now works after inserting AXB blocks or patterns. Before, the editor’s automatic bookkeeping (unique class and current-post sync on Heading, Bodycopy, Button, Image and Video) was recorded as an edit and re-applied after every undo, so undo appeared to do nothing.
• Background video on Box, Column and Columns (Styles › Background › Video): a media-library file, an .mp4/.webm link, or a YouTube or Vimeo link. It plays muted behind the content, with a poster image, an overlay colour and opacity, Loop, and per-device Play on (off on mobile by default to save data). It loads only where it plays and only while on screen. Visitors who prefer reduced motion see the poster, and a pause button is shown by default (WCAG 2.2.2).
• Background › Layers: Video is now a layer type in the “Add layer” menu (Box, Column and Columns) instead of a separate Video section. The video row sits at the top of the layer list (it always plays above the image, gradient and overlay layers), and its controls use the layer editor: Source (library or YouTube / Vimeo / .mp4 link), Poster, Play on (Desktop / Tablet / Mobile cards), Overlay with opacity, and Loop / Pause button switches. Saved videos are unchanged.
• Editor: YouTube videos (Video block and background video) now preview as their thumbnail in the editor instead of YouTube’s “Error 153”. The editor canvas sends no referrer, which YouTube now requires; the front end plays the real video as before.
• Box: the whole box can now be a link (custom URL, email, phone, anchor, post permalink, author, term, post meta, term meta or ACF field), with new tab, title, ARIA label and nofollow/sponsored/ugc options.
• Button and Box links: choose the link kind (URL, Email, Phone or Anchor) and the mailto:, tel: or # prefix is added for you.
• Image: settings split into Image source (Library, URL or Dynamic), Alt text & caption, and Responsive images panels. Added a caption, a “Decorative image” option (outputs empty alt), and one “if the image is missing” choice (hide, placeholder, or fallback for dynamic images). The block’s own alt text is now used when set.
• Video: removed the link option. A link around a playable video is invalid HTML and could open the link instead of playing. Videos that had a link now render without it.
• Heading and Bodycopy: excerpt dynamic tags can now end with an ellipsis or nothing, and can keep or strip HTML. Excerpt length is no longer capped by WordPress’s 55-word default.
• Clickable Box: the link now sits inside the box as a covering layer instead of wrapping it, so buttons and links inside a card are no longer nested in another link. The card link is named after its first heading (or its ARIA label) for screen readers.
• Links that open in a new tab now tell screen-reader users “(opens in a new tab)”.
• Decorative icons in Heading, Bodycopy and Button are hidden from screen readers.
• Button: the editor warns when a button has an icon but no text or ARIA label, and the link title is used as its name when set.
• Faster editing on large pages: the unique CSS class check no longer scans every block on every keystroke, Columns no longer re-renders when other blocks change, device settings are fetched once (and preloaded) instead of once per block, and generated block CSS and SVG icons are cached.
• Full-width Box blocks now break out of the constrained editor canvas, matching the front end.
• Heading and Bodycopy now start with zero margin instead of the theme’s default heading/paragraph margin.
• Keyboard users get a visible focus ring on AXB buttons. Mouse clicks do not show the ring.
• Brand colours are read from WordPress Styles (Site Editor → Styles → Colors).
• Addons can add their own settings tabs with the axcelersblocks_settings_tabs filter and axcelersblocks_render_settings_tab action.
• Registers nine WordPress abilities so Claude Desktop, Cursor, or similar apps can read the block catalog, style schema, patterns, device widths and brand colours, and can insert a pattern or update device and brand settings when the WordPress user is allowed to. Subscribers, contributors and logged-out users cannot run write abilities.
• Requires the official MCP Adapter plugin and an Application Password. Everyday editing does not need this.
• Requires WordPress 6.9 or later.
• The uninstall routine now removes all plugin-owned options.