The page builder is a tool for using pre defined HTML blocks to lay out content for content creators and marketers.
Priority | Item | Estimated Release Date | Notes |
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1. | Improved Preview mode | April 2025 | Preview mode sometimes doesn't show a 100% accurate component reflection as occassionally a style drops out. |
2. | Image cropping | April 2025 |
The image upload process needs a more user friendly overhaul. Obvious issues at the moment are:
The plan is to remove the src field on the image component and replace it wih a select image button. You will then be able to:
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3. | Improved responsive design controls | 2025 |
Ability to finesse mobile version of components with some differences to the desktop version of the same instance. |
4. | Replace TinyMCE with new WYSIWYG | 2025 |
TinyMCE has gotten expensive and the facility it provides isn't as true a WYSIWYG experience as we would like to offer. The plan is to swap it out for a Notion style editor where the content blocks better reflect what is on the page. Use of the WYSIWYG should be a last resort for text formatting (adding links, small areas of bold) or for large blocks of text such as a news article that isn't broken up into multiple sections or components. We want to provide an editor that give the best user experience whilst also reflecting how the text will look on the published page |
5. | Copy component in canvas | Late 2025 |
Ability to copy and paste a comonent into the same page. This is a work in progress that will hopefully be released this year. |
6. | Save/create templates | Late 2025 |
Although we can create templates manually and register them to the code, it would be good if it was possible to build a template within a page and have it available in the left menu for future use. As the components are usually registered on program build there may be some complexity with achieving this, but we are looking into it. |
7. | "Smart" columns | TBC |
Based on the idea of having a container and pressing a button to add or remove columns, making it easier to have a 1,2,3 or 4 column layout. |
Priority | Item | Estimated Release Date | Notes |
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1. | Fix double scrollbar on CMS embed | April 2025 | Work in progress. we can change the iframe height for the canvas to resize as it grows, but we need to finesse what happens when it shrinks such as if a component is removed or the responsive buttons are pressed. |
2. | Better responsive canvas display | April 2025 | Work in progress to get the CSS to duplicate more efficiently. |
3. | Popup modal needs tab to hide "advanced" fields | 2025 | |
4. | Add toggles to header and left column to maximise canvas space | 2025 | |
5. | Help videos | 2025 - Ongoing |
As more features are added, users will need more initial help with building pages. A series of short videos can help as an additional training resource. |
6. | New left list for larger lists | 2025 |
Some websites will need a lot of custom components making the left hand list get longer and harder to access on laptops. This will become more of an issue if users can create their own components. We need a better UI to search, select and drag components from a menu. |
7. | Change API to not be case sensitive on sql queries | 2025 |
Low priority |
8. | Redo will only go forwards 2 steps from undo. If you undo 3+ then anything on redo +2 is lost | TBC |
Low priority |
This is TinyMCE specific and proving difficult to resolve based on how TinyMCE renders in the canvas. If we're swapping out the editor for something else there will be little point resolving this.
We're open to additional suggestions to improve the product for your use cases. Please email [email protected] with your suggestions and we'll do our best to incorporate them into our plan.
Last updated: 12/11/2024