Hey everyone! Here’s a look at what dropped last week:
This update brings a redesigned AI website builder, more ways to build with your content and products, and improvements to editing, previews, and publishing.
Site Editor
- Lighter site search: Rebuilt the published Search block with vanilla JavaScript and CSS, with fixes for search icons and overlay styling. Making the search block's JavaScript from 130 KB to 10 KB.
AI website builder
- A redesigned workspace. Build with clearer project controls, a collapsible chat panel, improved dark mode, and a responsive layout with larger touch targets.
- Clearer progress and conversations. Follow build activity as it happens, see what the AI is working on, and read formatted responses with headings, lists, links, and code. Completion messages reflect finished work.
- PDF and full-quality image attachments. Add PDFs to your brief and upload reference images without the previous quality reduction.
- More useful version history. Preview saved versions, restore an earlier version, or send a new prompt from an older version to create a new version while keeping later work available.
- A better preview experience. Desktop previews fill the available canvas. Fullscreen controls are easier to reach, Escape works from inside the preview, and opening a preview again reuses its existing tab.
- Better recovery. Improved recovery after a dropped connection or page reload, fewer blank previews after a build, and a “Fix with AI” action for preview errors. Longer builds are no longer cut off by the browser’s previous timeout.
- More reliable saves. Fixed cases where work could disappear during generation, preview state could affect saved source, or valid dynamic pages could be rejected when saving.
Content, forms, and commerce
- Build with editable content. The AI builder can create and update structured collections for blogs, portfolios, teams, events, and other content. AI websites now have a dedicated CMS entry in the dashboard.
- Create connected storefronts with AI. Build product catalogs and custom shop, product, cart, checkout, and order-status pages using Grigora Commerce. Products remain manageable in your store, with cart and checkout handled by the Commerce SDK.
- Keep your storefront’s design when publishing. Publishing preserves custom storefront and shopper pages instead of replacing them with default layouts, and avoids duplicate buying controls on SDK-powered pages.
- Build your store before connecting payments. Products and cart pages can be prepared first. Checkout displays “Unavailable” until a payment gateway is connected in Commerce settings.
- Improved mobile checkout and styling. Checkout works better on smaller screens, respects site-defined accent styling, and initializes correctly when store elements load before the SDK.
- Connected forms. AI-generated forms are instructed to capture submissions in Grigora, with improved handling of submission addresses in previews and published sites.
- Optional buyer newsletter signup. A new Commerce setting adds buyers to your newsletter after a completed paid order. It is off by default and respects previous unsubscribes.
Visual editor
- Search block settings. Find controls from the settings panel, with consistent padding and margin inputs across blocks.
- More linking options. Point buttons directly to a site page and make blog, directory, product, category, and product-collection cards clickable from their own Link settings.
- Image lightboxes. Enable a lightbox directly on an individual Image block.
- Better section controls. Collapse section tools, open block settings more easily, and see which content is preventing an inner section from becoming shorter.
- Improved block settings and layouts. Added missing settings groups for Search, Header, and Site Title & Logo; improved numeric size entry and color-picker layout; and corrected default layouts for dynamic pages.
Published sites and reliability
- Closer editor-to-site consistency. Fixed tablet and mobile spacing, container wrapping and alignment, frame widths, Tab block sizing, inner-section height, logo styling, and linked collection-card layouts.
- More responsive interactions. Published blocks and animations initialize when the document is ready. Cards in dynamic blocks trigger their entrance animations individually.
- More dependable publishing. Fixed missing AI-site blog and directory content, improved publish-completion notifications, and added clearer failure feedback in the post editor. Publishing also handles service restarts more safely.
- Improved writing and SEO tools. Updated readability calculations, passive-voice detection, metadata extraction, keyword-intent labels, and date-sensitive keyword suggestions. Several writing tools now better respect the selected language, tone, length, and audience.
- Better website and image analysis. Improved content extraction from JavaScript-rendered pages, domain-availability error handling, and image-compression ratings, including local image uploads and format-aware comparisons. Accessibility scans now include the supported checks from earlier WCAG versions alongside 2.2 checks.