Dirigible Blocks Extended changelog

Latest release: 1.2.87, 2026-10-08.

1.2.87 2026-10-08

Changed

  • Pages the final run converts to native blocks keep their last-modified date, so the conversion doesn't make them look freshly edited to visitors and search engines.

1.2.86 2026-10-06

Changed

  • An Overlay Grid or Lookbook block that carries its own custom CSS keeps the old block, since the CSS was written for the old markup, and the dry run says so.

Fixed

  • The final run no longer leaves a post unconverted because it holds a block with custom CSS (WordPress 7's per-block Additional CSS); the CSS stays exactly as it was.

1.2.85 2026-10-06

Changed

  • The final run now converts Overlay Grid and Lookbook blocks whose saved settings include a leftover style or class value the old blocks never showed. The page looks the same, and nothing new is added.

1.2.84 2026-10-05

Changed

  • A post in the trash whose blocks the final run can't convert no longer keeps Blocks Extended active.

Fixed

  • The final run no longer leaves a post unconverted when WordPress or ACF would tidy other parts of it on save, for example text pasted from Word or another ACF block in the same post. Only the converted blocks change.

1.2.83 2026-10-05

Changed

  • The final run now converts a Before and After set to "center" (as alignment None, which looked the same) and a Slideshow Slide set to full width (it keeps its full-width class). Both used to keep the old block.
  • When the final run can't convert a block, the dry run now says which setting or field stopped it (field names only, never content).

1.2.82 2026-10-01

Fixed

  • Lookbook's Wraparound, Autoplay and Autoplay Interval controls are back on sites that also run Dirigible Artworks (the two plugins shared a field group key, and ACF kept only the Artist block's).

1.2.81 2026-10-01

Added

  • The final run converts Before and After blocks too: both images carry over and the divider starts in the middle as before.
  • The final run: a job Dirigible Studio starts per site that converts every Blocks Extended block in saved content to its Dirigible Blocks version. Only the block comments change, each converted page keeps an exact copy for rollback, and blocks it can't convert are reported and left alone. When nothing is left, the plugin deactivates itself, and the Dirigible theme (5.31.72 or later) removes its files 30 days later; reactivating it in that time cancels the removal. Nothing happens until Dirigible Studio runs it.

1.2.80 2026-10-01

Changed

  • With Dirigible Blocks 4.10.119 or later, the inserter offers only the new Dirigible Blocks versions of Header Banner, Breakout Grid, Featured Content Hero, Diagram, Storyboard Slider, Quote Slider, Slideshow, Photo Block Slider, Lookbook and Overlay Grid. Existing Blocks Extended blocks keep showing and editing, and convert later.
  • Animated Slider and Animated Slide are handed over to Dirigible Blocks 4.10.119 or later, keeping their names, so existing sliders keep working with their settings in the standard block sidebar. With an older Dirigible Blocks nothing changes.

Fixed

  • Photo Block Slider: the photo fills its half again when the text beside it is taller, instead of leaving an empty strip under it.

1.2.79 2026-10-01

Changed

  • With Dirigible Blocks 4.10.118 or later, the inserter offers only that plugin's Before and After and Logo Carousel blocks. Existing Blocks Extended Before and After and Logo Carousel blocks still show and edit, and Logo Carousels become the new block when their page is opened.

1.2.78 2026-10-01

Added

  • Autoplaying Quote Sliders, Lookbooks, Photo Block Sliders, Slideshows and Animated Sliders show a small pause button at the bottom right on hover and keyboard focus (always visible, smaller, on touch screens), so visitors can stop the motion. Needs Dirigible theme 5.31.64 or later; with older themes nothing changes.

1.2.77 2026-10-01

Fixed

  • Photo Block Slider shows its photos again. Since 1.2.76 the gallery could appear blank.

1.2.76 2026-09-30

Changed

  • Before and After works with the keyboard and screen readers (Tab to the slider, then arrow keys, Page Up/Down or Home/End; click or tap anywhere on the image to move the divider), and no longer needs jQuery or a third-party library (about 18 KB less per page). If the After image's proportions differ, it's cropped to the Before image's shape.
  • Quote Slider, Storyboard Slider, Lookbook, Slideshow, Photo Block Slider, Animated Slider and Logo Carousel run on the Dirigible theme's built-in slider: every slide is as tall as the tallest and shorter slides sit centred, so the page below no longer jumps. Visitors swipe, scroll sideways on a trackpad, or use the arrows, dots or keyboard; dragging with a mouse no longer moves slides. Pages with these sliders load about 6–7 KB less JavaScript.
  • Blocks register from a prebuilt list instead of reading each block's settings file on every uncached request.
  • Update checks use the Dirigible theme's license handling, so a plugin with no license key no longer sends an empty one.

Fixed

  • Blocks Extended no longer changes the ACF block version of blocks from other plugins and themes; a block that asks for an older ACF version now gets it.
  • Lookbook and Slideshow show one slide at a time again on desktop; since 1.2.58 they showed every slide stacked.

1.2.75 2026-09-30

Changed

  • Block stylesheet versions are kept in one saved setting and refreshed on updates, instead of a database read and a file check per block on every uncached page load.

1.2.74 2026-09-30

Fixed

  • Card images load a file sized for the card instead of a full-width one, so pages with cards download less.

1.2.73 2026-09-30

Fixed

  • Style fixes to blocks now show in the editor, and on pages that load block CSS as a file, right after an update. Browsers and the host's cache used to keep the old stylesheet for up to a year; each block's CSS now gets a new address only when it actually changes.

1.2.72 2026-09-30

Security

  • Updates come only from Dirigible: WordPress no longer matches this plugin to a WordPress.org listing with the same name.

Changed

  • The installable zip is smaller: build sources, source maps, right-to-left stylesheets and Markdown are no longer shipped. Nothing sites load changed.

Fixed

  • A visitor who lands while the plugin is being updated sees "This site is updating, refresh in a minute" instead of a critical error, and error replies never include server file paths.

1.2.71 2026-09-30

Fixed

  • Featured Content Hero no longer shows the title, link or image of a draft, private or trashed post; that slot behaves like an unpicked one.

1.2.70 2026-09-29

Changed

  • The Before After block's comparison library (Juxtapose 1.2.5) now ships with the plugin instead of loading from Knight Lab's CDN.

1.2.69 2026-09-29

Security

  • Block class names, ids, style values, image sources and links in every Blocks Extended block are escaped, and block ids used in CSS/JS selectors are limited to safe characters.

Fixed

  • Logo Carousel, Quote Slider, Animated Slider, Overlay Grid and Slideshow slides no longer break the whole page when an interval, spacing or padding field is left empty; they fall back to the default.

Changed

  • The installable zip leaves out development files (tests, build and editor config).

1.2.68 2026-09-23

Fixed

  • Lookbook: Autoplay now advances slides at the chosen Autoplay Interval. The timing was being added in the wrong place, so autoplay never started.
  • Lookbook and Slideshow: turning Wraparound off now stops the slider from looping. The setting was sent as the text "false", which the slider read as on.
  • Slideshow: turning Autoplay off now keeps slides still. It previously advanced every 3 seconds anyway.
  • Diagram: the Subtle label style now shows its faint outlined badge instead of looking the same as Badge.
  • Featured Content Hero: Background Origin only appears after you choose a BG Image, as intended.

1.2.67 2026-09-22

Added

  • Before & After docs: featured comparison video, refreshed editor showcase shots, and dedicated Before/After Settings sidebar screenshots.
  • Animated Slider docs: featured background-video clip and editor showcase screenshot.

Changed

  • Animated Slider slides: drop the separate BG Video Poster field; use the theme video cover image as the poster while the background video loads.

1.2.66 2026-09-22

Added

  • Accessible alt text on showcase screenshots in screenshots.json for Dirigible Support docs (screen readers; pipeline falls back to caption when needed).

1.2.65 2026-09-21

Changed

  • Recapture block Settings sidebar screenshots at 2× (retina) for Dirigible Support docs.

1.2.64 2026-09-16

Changed

  • Update blocks: animated-slider, before-after, breakout-grid, diagram, featured-content-hero, header-banner, logo-carousel, lookbook, and 5 more.

1.2.62 2026-08-20

Changed

  • Update blocks: animated-slider, before-after, breakout-grid, diagram, featured-content-hero, header-banner, logo-carousel, lookbook, and 5 more.

1.2.61 2026-07-20

Added

  • Add blocks: animated-slider, before-after, breakout-grid, diagram, featured-content-hero, header-banner, logo-carousel, lookbook, and 5 more.
  • Add files: .gitattributes, docs.config.json, overview.md.

1.2.60 2026-06-17

Changed

  • Update blocks: lookbook, overlay-grid, photo-block-slider, quote-slider, slideshow, storyboard.

1.2.59 2026-06-01

Changed

  • Update blocks: animated-slider, before-after, breakout-grid, diagram, featured-content-hero, header-banner, logo-carousel, lookbook, and 5 more.

1.2.58 2026-06-01

Added

  • Add blocks: before-after, featured-content-hero, logo-carousel, lookbook, overlay-grid, photo-block-slider, slideshow.

Changed

  • Update blocks: animated-slider, breakout-grid, diagram, header-banner, quote-slider, storyboard.

1.2.57 2026-04-28

Added

  • Add files: helpers.php.

Changed

  • Update blocks: animated-slider, before-after, diagram, featured-content-hero, overlay-grid, photo-block-slider, storyboard.

1.2.56 2026-02-20

Added

  • Add blocks: storyboard.

Changed

  • Update .gitignore.

Fixed

  • Fix(storyboard): take over Flickity init in script.js to guarantee order
  • Fix ada
  • Fix(storyboard): resolve aria-hidden focusable elements a11y violation

1.2.55 2025-12-16

Added

  • Add files: .prettierignore, flickety.min.js.

1.2.54 2025-12-05

Added

  • Add blocks: diagram.

Changed

  • Update blocks: breakout-grid.

1.2.53 2025-09-15

Changed

  • Update blocks: quote-slider.

1.2.52 2025-09-15

Changed

  • Version bump (1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)).

1.2.51 2025-09-15

Changed

  • Update README.

1.2.50 2025-09-15

Added

  • Add blocks: quote-slider.

Changed

  • Update README.

1.2.49 2025-07-16

Changed

  • Version bump (2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)).

1.2.48 2025-07-16

Changed

  • Version bump (1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)).

1.2.47 2025-07-16

Changed

  • Version bump (1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)).

1.2.46 2025-07-16

Changed

  • Version bump (2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)).

1.2.45 2025-06-06

Changed

  • Update blocks: logo-carousel, photo-block-slider, quote-slider, slideshow, storyboard.

1.2.44 2025-06-05

Changed

  • Update blocks: animated-slider.

1.2.43 2025-06-04

Added

  • Add blocks: animated-slider.

Changed

  • Update blocks: header-banner, lookbook.

1.2.41 2025-03-14

Changed

  • Version bump (2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)).

1.2.40 2024-09-30

Changed

  • Update blocks: lookbook.
  • Update README, config.

1.2.39 2024-08-02

Changed

  • Update blocks: before-after, breakout-grid, diagram, featured-content-hero, header-banner, logo-carousel, lookbook, overlay-grid, and 4 more.
  • Update config.

1.2.37 2024-02-14

Changed

  • Update blocks: storyboard.
  • Update README.

1.2.36 2024-01-23

Changed

  • Update blocks: header-banner.

1.2.35 2024-01-23

Changed

  • Update blocks: header-banner.

1.2.34 2024-01-22

Changed

  • Update blocks: header-banner.

1.2.33 2024-01-22

Changed

  • Update blocks: header-banner.

1.2.32 2024-01-16

Changed

  • Update blocks: breakout-grid.
  • Update README.

1.2.31 2024-01-15

Added

  • Add blocks: logo-carousel.

Changed

  • Update README, config.

1.2.30 2024-01-12

Added

  • Add blocks: breakout-grid, header-banner.

Changed

  • Update README, config.

1.2.29 2024-01-09

Added

  • Add blocks: storyboard.

Changed

  • Update blocks: storyboard.
  • Update README, config.

1.2.28 2023-10-11

Changed

  • Update blocks: overlay-grid.
  • Update README.

1.2.27 2023-10-05

Changed

  • Update blocks: overlay-grid.

1.2.26 2023-10-04

Changed

  • Update blocks: lookbook.

1.2.25 2023-10-04

Changed

  • Update blocks: lookbook.

1.2.24 2023-10-04

Changed

  • Update blocks: lookbook.
  • Update README, config.

1.2.23 2023-09-15

Added

  • Add blocks: lookbook.

Changed

  • Update blocks: lookbook.
  • Update config.

1.2.22 2023-04-07

Changed

  • Update blocks: photo-block-slider, quote-slider.
  • Update README, config.

1.2.21 2022-09-16

Changed

  • Update blocks: quote-slider.

1.2.20 2022-09-14

Changed

  • Update blocks: diagram.
  • Update config.

1.2.19 2022-08-24

Changed

  • Update blocks: diagram.

1.2.18 2022-08-24

Added

  • Add blocks: diagram.

Changed

  • Update blocks: lookbook.
  • Update config, scss.

1.2.17 2022-06-21

Changed

  • Update blocks: quote-slider.
  • Update config.

1.2.16 2022-05-06

Changed

  • Update blocks: overlay-grid.

1.2.15 2022-04-06

Changed

  • Update blocks: before-after.

1.2.14 2022-04-06

Changed

  • Update blocks: before-after.
  • Update README, config.
  • Update README.md
  • Update

1.2.13 2022-01-11

Added

  • Add files: licensing.php.

Changed

  • Update config, admin-min, admin, licensing-min, licensing, .editorconfig, and 38 more.

1.2.12 2022-01-11

Changed

  • Version bump (1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)).

1.2.11 2022-01-11

Changed

  • Version bump (1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)).

1.2.10 2022-01-11

Changed

  • Update README, config.

1.2.9 2022-01-06

Changed

  • Update blocks: quote-slider.

1.2.8 2022-01-06

Changed

  • Update blocks: quote-slider.

1.2.7 2022-01-06

Changed

  • Version bump (1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)).

1.2.6 2022-01-06

Changed

  • Update blocks: quote-slider.
  • Update config.

1.2.5 2021-12-21

Changed

  • Update blocks: lookbook, photo-block-slider, quote-slider, slideshow, storyboard.
  • Update README.

1.2.4 2021-12-20

Added

  • Add blocks: overlay-grid, photo-block-slider, slideshow, storyboard.
  • Add files: README.html, README.md.

Changed

  • Update blocks: before-after, featured-content-hero, lookbook, overlay-grid, photo-block-slider, quote-slider, slideshow, storyboard.
  • Update config.

1.2.3 2021-10-28

Changed

  • Version bump (2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)).

1.2.2 2021-10-15

Changed

  • Update blocks: lookbook.

1.2.1 2021-10-15

Added

  • Add blocks: lookbook.

Changed

  • Update blocks: slideshow.
  • Update config.

1.1.5 2021-10-09

Changed

  • Update blocks: slideshow.

1.1.4 2021-10-07

Changed

  • Update blocks: slideshow.

1.1.3 2021-10-06

Changed

  • Update blocks: before-after.

1.1.2 2021-10-01

Added

  • Add blocks: slideshow.

Changed

  • Update config.

1.1.1 2021-09-30

Changed

  • Update blocks: overlay-grid.

1.0.11 2021-09-29

Changed

  • Update blocks: overlay-grid.

1.0.10 2021-09-29

Added

  • Add blocks: overlay-grid.

Changed

  • Update blocks: before-after, featured-content-hero, photo-block-slider, storyboard.
  • Update config.

1.0.9 2021-08-19

Added

  • Add blocks: featured-content-hero.

Changed

  • Update blocks: storyboard.
  • Update config.

1.0.8 2021-06-30

Added

  • Add files: admin-min.js, licensing-min.css, licensing.css.

Changed

  • Update blocks: before-after, photo-block-slider, quote-slider, storyboard.
  • Update config, admin.

1.0.7 2021-06-23

Changed

  • Update blocks: photo-block-slider, quote-slider, storyboard.

1.0.6 2021-06-23

Changed

  • Update blocks: quote-slider.

1.0.5 2021-06-23

Added

  • Add blocks: photo-block-slider.

Changed

  • Update blocks: storyboard.
  • Update config.

1.0.4 2021-06-22

Added

  • Add blocks: storyboard.

Changed

  • Update blocks: quote-slider.
  • Update config.

1.0.3 2021-06-21

Added

  • Add blocks: quote-slider.
  • Add files: config.codekit3.

Changed

  • Update blocks: before-after.

1.0.2 2021-05-26

Changed

  • Update blocks: before-after.

1.0.1 2021-05-21

Changed

  • Update blocks: before-after.
  • Back to normal
  • Temporary licensing update

Fixed

  • Update DSBlocksExtended.php

1.0.0 2021-04-27

Changed

  • Update blocks: before-after.

0.0.2 2021-04-27

Added

  • Add files: .gitattributes, .prettierignore, CHANGELOG.md, README.html, README.md, and 6 more.

Changed

  • Update .gitignore, admin, .editorconfig, README, composer, puc-debug-bar, and 35 more.

Fixed

  • Roll ACF blocks back to blockVersion 2 and dedupe field keys across 13 blocks (animated-slider, before-after, breakout-grid, diagram, featured-content-hero, and 8 more).