3.0.0 – Header Builder, Advanced Animations, and Performance-First Design

Added

• Added Header Builder to Theme Builder -> custom header layouts, off-canvas menu, mobile overlay menu, transparent header
• Added Header Builder state editing -> dropdown to edit default, scrolled, and transparent header states independently, fully custom transitions between states (logo swaps, sizing, coloring, etc.)
• Added Nectar Navigation block -> WP menu integration for Header Builder, extensive styling controls, off-canvas menu, mobile overlay menu, dropdown design options
• Added Megamenu block -> animations, customizer options, blur background option
• Added Search block -> ajax support, fullscreen option
• Added Header Actions block for Header Builder w/ WooCommerce cart integration
• Added Off-Canvas Menu drilldown sub-panes and per-item gap control, with dropdown open-state polish (caret flip, link effects held while open)
• Added Table of Contents block -> auto-detects headings, generates linked navigation, optional auto anchor links with click-to-copy URL for any heading on page
• Added Ticker block -> auto-scrolling loop for any child blocks, fully flexible alternative to marquee, responsive support, dynamic direction looping, stagger children animation
• Added World Time block with synced minute updates
• Added Animation System v2 -> scroll-triggered animations, spring physics, per-property timing controls with timeline view, perspective/translateZ, scale lock
• Added Scroll Position Trigger UI -> element/viewport dropdown controls, color animations (text + background), per-property timing
• Added Interaction animation type -> custom hover animations for any block, trigger animation properties on self or sibling blocks, spring easings with custom config
• Added Pinned animation -> Row Animation End option, per-property timing
• Added perspective support -> preserve-3d, shared class resolver
• Added Transform Origin option with editor preview styles
• Added easing options to Scroll Position animations
• Added option to specify slide amount in entrance animations
• Added animation editor previews for all blocks
• Added children targeting for “Scroll into View” animations—allows automatic staggering for all child blocks within a container (previously supported self only)
• Added Text block -> animation options “Fade Up” + “Blur Fade Up”
• Added per-property timing (offset/duration) to interaction (hover) animations, matching scroll-position animations
• Added per-page used CSS optimization with caching (Customizer > General Settings > Performance)
• Added inline block CSS delivery -> per-page block detection, stylesheet concatenation, eliminated per-block network requests
• Added Conditional Asset Loading System for intelligent per-page script/style delivery
• Added GSAP animation bundle -> consolidated core, ScrollTrigger, and CustomEase into single file
• Added DOM reduction -> blocks conditionally render minimum wrapper levels necessary based on complexity (animations, effects, etc.), 30-50% global reduction
• Added semantic HTML tags for header/nav elements
• Added lazy image loading system with preloading for top-level row/column background images (Nectarblocks > Plugin Options)
• Added deferred CSS optimization
• Added removal of jQuery migrate dependency
• Added removal of anime.js dependency -> converted all animations to GSAP
• Added Fluid Typography -> root font-size with global fluid scaling
• Added Local Google Fonts support with customizer bypass and cache management (Nectarblocks > Plugin Options)
• Added Adobe Fonts integration -> connect/disconnect/refresh flow, kit CSS rendering, typography selector integration
• Added Color Scale system -> palette presets, tonal variants, color clipboard support
• Added Nectarblocks Settings UI overhaul with interactive spotlight onboarding guide
• Added new Spacing block UI for padding/margin
• Added user-saved color palettes -> save and switch between preset palettes, preview palettes without saving
• Added row-based color and typography management
• Added drag-and-drop reordering for Background Layers, Global Typography, Global Colors, and animation repeaters
• Added bulk editing for colors and typography rules (Shift + Click select to delete)
• Added UX improvements for color and typography naming
• Added Template Editing v2 -> Theme Builder rendering, default templates for single post, archive, and off-canvas menu
• Added WooCommerce templates for Full Site Editing with :where() zero-specificity CSS scoping
• Added theme.json preset integration -> spacing, font size, and font family presets available in block controls
• Added footer locations to Theme Builder
• Added full Global Sections conditions list to Header, Off-Canvas Menu, Footer, and Parallax Footer template parts
• Added slim single template for custom post types, plus per-CPT post-navigation options in the Customizer
• Added theme customizer color sync to Nectarblocks global design system -> single source of truth for all colors across customizer and plugin via CSS variables, hex manipulation support
• Added fancy checkboxes
• Added Stateful Editing system -> edit block properties per-state (spacing, effects, transforms, images, border controls)
• Added Text block to stateful editing
• Added Text Color option for Column/Flexbox blocks
• Added Column Link option -> screen reader text, button effect trigger, option to disable link from button
• Added Row block -> text color control, animation support
• Added Flex order option
• Added custom skin option for Video Player block -> editor controls, scroll-hover
• Added Image Gallery/Grid -> bulk edit mode with multi-select deletion
• Added mask control option for Divider block
• Added object position controls for Image block
• Added box shadow inset option
• Added custom image sizes attribute override for Image block
• Added aspect ratio for Flexbox block editor preview
• Added optional color inheritance for custom SVG icons via mask-image
• Added custom Element ID option to the Flex-box block (interaction-animation triggers re-point automatically)
• Added “Cover” image ratio to the Image Gallery for fullscreen (100vw/100vh) fill galleries
• Added Dynamic Link control to Post Grid item links -> override with a dynamic-data URL (falls back to the post permalink)
• Added Table of Contents responsive per-breakpoint children visibility, including a new “Hidden” mode
• Added spacing control -> link left/right and top/bottom sides independently instead of only all sides at once
• Added drag-to-reposition for absolutely positioned blocks via draw icon in block toolbar
• Added Editor -> dual-outline system, padding zone overlay, container color theming for row/column/flex-box
• Added Editor -> tab and panel active-state indicator dots across all blocks
• Added inline select option for popovers
• Added Unsplash indication for nectar images
• Added post-title visibility eye toggle in the editor canvas -> quick shortcut for the per-post “Hide Title” option
• Added block accessibility improvements -> accordion button roles, tabs keyboard navigation/ARIA
• Added forms floating labels + FluentForms support

Fixed

• Fixed HTML tags being included in small text inputs (strip on paste)
• Fixed Video block size field
• Fixed custom select editor flip position
• Fixed blending mode target on Divider block
• Fixed automatic flex wrap gap width calculation
• Fixed Text block auto margin in editor due to WP wrapper div
• Fixed Video block crash when dragged into editor
• Fixed ACF image rendering -> srcsets getting stripped, dynamic image placeholders
• Fixed “Cart” French translation
• Fixed active typography attributes
• Fixed text/link component deprecations
• Fixed plugin license PHP error
• Fixed Text block pasting link
• Fixed Carousel script import
• Fixed off-canvas menu open animation
• Fixed display direction for row/column/flex layouts—toolbar controls now match block flow direction
• Fixed post grid inherit query edge case
• Fixed defensive gradient creation for non-standard color slugs
• Fixed PHP warnings from unguarded null/undefined access across plugin
• Fixed color indicator boxes not updating when global colors change
• Fixed Parallax backgrounds to recalculate automatically when inner height changes
• Fixed flex-box block appender styles not applying in root context
• Fixed flex-box blend mode targeting block root instead of inner wrapper
• Fixed Image Grid display when nested in flexbox containers
• Fixed nested row with contained option
• Fixed ghost tab nav when removing Tab Section directly
• Fixed border radius control clipping
• Fixed text animation -> stagger option when using italic tag inline
• Fixed Header Builder / Nectar Navigation issues -> off-canvas trigger icon & open animation, morph dropdown positioning, first overlay click under delayed JS
• Fixed Ticker seamless loop -> clone-loop gaps, per-cycle jump, and child-item stagger
• Fixed Table of Contents -> scrollspy with a sticky-header offset, custom-id anchors, and preserved custom labels
• Fixed Image Gallery -> fade flash on load, editor double-init, and images without an id being dropped
• Fixed multiple carousels on one page sharing pagination controls
• Fixed Post Grid marking the post as unsaved when first opened
• Fixed WPML -> translated link URLs now apply to Flex-box, Column, Image, Icon, Icon List, Milestone, and Marquee blocks
• Fixed various theme demo import errors (baked demo URLs / notice HTML excluded from theme export-import)

Updated

• Updated Google Font list to latest
• Updated theme breakpoints to match plugin
• Updated dynamic theme CSS storage location to wp-content/uploads
• Updated third-party theme content width compatibility
• Updated all block previews for better performance and lighter footprint, including Lottie previews converted to HTML
• Updated spring-easing animation controls -> static preset icons, stable color easing, and popover polish
• Updated translations -> completed v3.0.0 strings across 12 languages