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Release notes for PapaThemes BigCommerce Widgets. Newest changes first.

2026-06-08

AI HTML Widget — Duplicate chatbot fix (v1.3.3)

  • No more duplicate AI buttons / stuck editors in Preview. On pages with several AI HTML widgets, Page Builder could leave behind extra hidden copies of the chatbot for each widget. Only one copy responded to the Design/Preview toggle, so the leftovers kept showing their AI button and stayed editable in Preview. The widget now removes any stale copy before mounting, so each widget has exactly one chatbot and Preview turns editing off everywhere.

AI HTML Widget — Preview fix (v1.3.2)

  • Editing turns off in Preview (now actually working). Switching Page Builder's Design / Preview toggle to Preview now fully disables the visual editor — clicking an element no longer makes its text editable or shows the floating toolbar. Links and buttons behave like the live storefront. Switch back to Design to edit again. (v1.3.1 shipped this but the Page Builder mode signal was being dropped; v1.3.2 reads it correctly.)

2026-06-05

AI HTML Widget — Visual Editor (v1.3.0)

  • Click to edit, no mode switch needed. Clicking any element in your AI-generated section now opens the Design panel for it straight away — you no longer have to turn on Design Mode first. Links and buttons still work as normal when clicked.
  • A floating toolbar on the selected element. Right on the element you have chosen, a small toolbar lets you Duplicate it, move it Up or Down among its neighbours, or Delete it — all without asking the AI.
  • Automatic saving + Restore (replaces Save / Discard). Every change you make in the Design panel is now saved on its own — there are no more Save changes / Discard buttons. A Restore button appears once you have made an edit; click it to roll all of your design-panel changes back to the original look of the current AI version.
  • Element path breadcrumb. The panel header now shows the path of the element you are editing, listing its parent elements. Click any parent in the path to jump up and select it. Very long paths tuck themselves away behind a … that you can expand.
  • Layout controls for flexible and grid sections. When the element you select arranges its children in a row, column, or grid, a new Layout section appears with clear, icon-based controls for direction, wrapping, row and column gaps, and alignment — much like a professional design tool. Each can be set separately for Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile.
  • Cleaner editing across multiple widgets. If a page has more than one AI HTML widget, selecting an element in one now closes the other's panel, so the two no longer overlap.

2026-05-29

CKEditor Widget (v0.1.4)

  • Fixed the stuck "Loading CKEditor library, please wait…" message. When a page had several CKEditor widgets, the loading notice could stay on screen forever. The editor now opens reliably even with many editors on the same page.
  • No more stray "Loading…" text saved into content. The loading overlay no longer gets captured into your saved content.
  • Lighter storefront pages. The editor only loads while you edit in Page Builder. Your live storefront and preview now render the content as plain HTML — no editor scripts, jQuery, or extra CSS — for faster page loads.

2026-05-27

AI HTML Widget — Visual Editor (v1.2.0)

  • Edit your AI-generated sections visually, without chatting. Click any element inside Page Builder to open a docked Design panel on the right. Adjust text, padding and margin, colors, typography, borders, and alignment with familiar controls — the page updates as you type.
  • Responsive per breakpoint. Switch between Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile to fine-tune styles for each screen size. The active breakpoint follows your live preview width automatically.
  • Class-based editing. Edits update the element's shared style class. When a class is reused across repeated elements (e.g. cards in a grid), a small badge tells you how many elements your change will affect.
  • Save / Discard. Changes preview live; click Save changes to publish, or Discard to revert. A confirmation prompt protects you from leaving with unsaved edits.
  • Chat ⇄ Design toggle in the chatbot sidebar lets you flip between asking the AI and editing by hand.

2026-05-04

AI HTML Widget

  • Max tier upgraded to Claude Opus 4.7 — the highest-quality AI model is now powered by Anthropic's latest Opus release for sharper code generation, better long-context reasoning, and improved instruction-following.

2026-04-28

Infrastructure

  • Faster widget delivery via jsDelivr CDN — 19 widgets now load from jsDelivr with automatic S3 fallback. Expect lower latency for storefront visitors worldwide. No action required.

2026-04-18

Stability

  • SMTP delivery hardening — welcome and renewal emails now retry transient failures automatically.
  • Credit promotion grant retry — improved resilience under DB contention.

2026-03-25

Dinosaur — Product Tags

  • Per-item style controls — set icon size, wave size, and wave color on individual product-tag items.

2026-03-17

AI HTML Widget

  • Compact conversation button — collapse long chat history into a summary to reduce API token costs while keeping context.

2026-03-09

Promotions

  • Free credit gift on first install — eligible new users automatically receive promotional credit. A one-time banner confirms the grant.

2026-03-07

AI HTML Widget

  • Image generation upgraded to Nano Banana 2 (Gemini Flash Image) — faster, higher-fidelity image generation for the chatbot's image-paste workflows.

2026-03-02

AI HTML Widget

  • Stop streaming + message queue — interrupt long AI responses mid-stream; queued messages send automatically when the current response finishes.

2026-02-24

AI HTML Widget

  • Claude Sonnet upgraded from 4.5 to 4.6 — improvements to the Standard tier: more accurate code, better instruction-following.
  • Streaming dots animation keeps animating throughout the response.
  • Version 1.0.1 — uses actual column values and floors slidesToScroll for correct layout on all breakpoints.

2026-02-16

AI HTML Widget

  • AI image generation in chatbot — generate images via prompt directly in the conversation.

2026-02-15

Section Templates

  • 22 new popup templates (263–284) — Page Builder compatible, with screenshots and API-compliant configuration.

2026-02-06

AI HTML Widget

  • Welcome modal for first-time users.
  • Starter prompt buttons for quick actions.
  • First-time tooltip + module-based refactor.
  • Usage insights — understand how the widget is used.
  • Store data access — generated content can securely use your store's data.
  • Cleaner output — only the finished design is applied to your page.
  • More reliable long responses — handles lengthy answers and reviews them automatically.
  • Safer scripts — generated code runs in a protected sandbox, so a faulty snippet won't break your page.

Documentation

  • SEO — meta descriptions and FAQ added across all widget docs.
  • AI HTML Widget guide — screenshot illustrations added.