April brought a fresh wave of enhancements to The Plus Addons for Elementor! From exciting new features to expanded design effects, we’ve focused on making your website-building process faster and more flexible.
Take a look at what’s been added and improved to level up your Elementor experience:
New Features Added
- WPML Compatibility – String Translation XML: Multilingual sites are now easier to manage with full WPML support, allowing seamless string translation and better localization.
- Interactive Animations Control: You now have full control to enable/disable effects like Continuous Animation, Magic Scroll, Tilt 3D Parallax, Mouse Move Parallax, and Overlay Special Effects directly from the dashboard.
- Wishlist Lazy Load Support in Product Listing: Improved user experience with faster loading of wishlist items without page refresh.
- Tooltip Widget & WooCommerce Enhancements: Add tooltips easily and enjoy new controls in Woo Single Pricing, such as swatch size customization and heading alignment for better product presentation.
- Extension Management Made Easy: Added a global switch to disable unused extensions, helping boost performance and streamline your workflow.
UI & UX Improvements
- Advanced Shadow, Equal Height, Glass Morphism, and Section Scroll Animations: We’ve cleaned up the UI for features like Advanced Shadow, Equal Height, Glass Morphism, and Section Scroll Animations so everything looks sharper and feels more seamless to use.
- Column Customizations: Now it’s easier to tweak things like mouse cursors, media widths, and even column order and sizing, giving you more control over how your layouts behave and look.
- Wrapper Link & Event Tracker: Wrapper Link and Event Tracker just got a visual upgrade, making it simpler to add interactions and track user actions with style.
- Display Conditions: Fine-tuning when elements appear (or don’t) is now more intuitive, letting you build dynamic pages without hassle.
For all the changes, check out the complete changelog here.
Also, exciting new features are on the way to help you build websites faster, smoother, and with even more creativity. Stay tuned! You won’t want to miss what’s coming next!
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🗞️ — WordPress & Tech Bytes
- WordPress released version 6.8, “Cecil,” on April 15, 2025, honoring jazz pianist Cecil Taylor. This update brings notable improvements in performance, stronger password security, and a more streamlined, accessible editing experience.
- WordPress.com launched a free AI-powered website builder that creates complete websites based on a simple text prompt. It generates layouts, images, and content instantly, helping users quickly build personal or business sites, though it’s not yet suited for e-commerce or advanced features.
- Elementor has introduced Editable Blocks and AI-Generated Logos to help users quickly build websites. These tools allow easy drag-and-drop customization and generate unique logos based on brand details, streamlining the design process.
- Elementor updated its Hello Biz theme, introducing a new Contact Widget with built-in map layouts, Visual Layout Presets for faster design, and integrated Form Submissions (via Elementor Pro) to streamline lead management.
- WooCommerce released version 9.8.3, addressing two key issues: it prevents duplicate scheduled actions for product transients and fixes a validation bug with hidden postcode fields in the Checkout block.
- Google enhanced its AI Mode in Search by introducing image-based queries, allowing users to upload photos and ask questions about them. This multimodal feature combines Google Lens with Gemini AI and is now available to more users in the U.S.
- Google’s Danny Sullivan stated that adding new topics to a website won’t hurt rankings but may initially confuse its systems. Over time, Google will assess whether the new content aligns with the site’s quality and focus.
- Google’s Danny Sullivan warned that mass content generation, whether through AI or automation, can lead to penalties for low-quality, spammy content. Google now focuses on demoting such content to maintain high-quality search results.
- Google’s John Mueller explained that a minimal landing page can rank for e-commerce queries if it inherits authority and backlinks from a previous domain, even after a redirect.
🔥 — Tool of the Month
Icegram Express is a powerful, all-in-one email marketing and newsletter plugin for WordPress. It’s designed to build and manage email lists, send engaging newsletters, and automate email campaigns, all without needing third-party email marketing services.
This tool is perfect for bloggers, small business owners, and creators who want to grow and engage their audience with a self-hosted email solution, with no need for third-party platforms.
🗣️— Word of the Month
Great range of widgets and excellent support
We’ve been using The Plus and The Plus Pro for the past 4 years – we always manage to find a widget in their toolbox to meet our needs. We recently experienced an issue with WPML translations of The Plus widgets on our multilingual website. The support team were very open, responsive and dedicated to fixing the issues across all the widgets. Thanks to all involved!
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