Section Blocks – Landing Page Sections for the Block Editor

Changelog

1.3.0

• New: 12 element blocks — Advanced Heading, Icon Box, Button Group, Icon List, Image Box, Star Rating, Logo Cloud, Callout, Social Share, Author Box, Promo Banner and Shape Divider. 25 blocks in total.
• New: “Section Blocks – Elements” category in the block inserter.
• New: Promo video on the plugin page.
• Change: The plugin is now called “Section Blocks – Landing Page Sections for the Block Editor”.
• Fix: A button whose link is not a valid URL now renders as a plain button instead of an empty link.

1.2.9

• Fix: Features Section now shows the chosen number of columns (3–6) on desktop and tablet. It was always a single column.
• Fix: Pricing Tables and Newsletter Signup now respect wide/full alignment, anchors, additional CSS classes, Responsive Visibility and Custom CSS.
• Fix: Pricing Tables now stack into a single column on phones instead of squeezing three columns.
• Fix: Per-block Custom CSS now overrides the block’s default styles, even when other Section Blocks appear further down the page.
• Improvement: Removed the misleading “Tablet Preview” / “Mobile Preview” label from the Hero Section in the editor.
• Updated screenshots.

1.2.8

• Security: Per-block Custom CSS can now only be added or changed by users who can post unfiltered HTML (administrators and editors). Enforced on save; CSS an administrator already added is kept when other users edit the post.
• Security: Escaped output in all block templates, including a fix for unescaped attributes in the FAQ / Accordion block.
• Fix: Duplicating or copy-pasting a block no longer makes the copy share the original’s custom CSS.
• Fix: Custom CSS is now printed as a stylesheet in the page head instead of inside the content.
• Improvement: Responsive visibility and custom CSS settings are registered on the server, so they are always available in the editor.
• Improvement: Groundwork for upcoming blocks (shared components, separate Elements and Interactive inserter categories).
• Change: Requires WordPress 6.6 or later.

1.2.7

• Added: Advanced Container block — dynamic structural container with width modes (boxed/wide/full), max-width control, and background options (color, gradient, image with overlay opacity); supports inner blocks, anchor, spacing, and align controls
• Added: Responsive Visibility extension — per-block Hide on Desktop/Tablet/Mobile toggles (Inspector) that inject sb-hide-desktop/tablet/mobile classes via render_block_data and editor hooks
• Added: Per-block Custom CSS — scoped CSS field per block instance using sbBlockId + selector placeholder; inline
• Added: Block pattern library — Section Blocks category with Landing Page (Hero + Features + CTA), Pricing & FAQ, and About & Team patterns via includes/block-patterns.php
• Added: Anchor support across all section blocks — block.json supports.anchor enabled for direct linking / smooth scroll navigation
• Enhancement: Plugin bootstrap updated to load responsive-visibility, custom-css, and block-patterns includes; build config updated for new extensions

1.2.6

• Hotfix: resolve fatal error on activation

1.2.5

• Security: Sanitize all user-controlled colors via centralized hex validator
• Security: AJAX handler hardened with honeypot check, reCAPTCHA siteverify, rate-limit moved after validation
• Security: Strip Appsero license_key/pass/secret from telemetry data
• Security: Removed custom API endpoint exposure from newsletter front-end markup
• Security: Added capability check to newsletter settings save handler
• Security: Added rate limiting (5 submissions per IP per hour) to newsletter signup
• Security: Added direct-access (ABSPATH) guards to all block render templates
• Security: All AJAX input sanitized and unslashed consistently
• Accessibility: Add screen-reader-text labels to newsletter form inputs
• Accessibility: Replace span interactive elements with button (hero, pricing, newsletter)
• Accessibility: Add aria-hidden to decorative SVG icons (services, steps, features, pricing)
• Accessibility: Add aria-live to testimonials carousel slide announcements
• Accessibility: FAQ accordion uses proper ARIA roles (tablist/tab/tabpanel)
• Accessibility: Billing toggle labels in pricing table are now real button elements
• Responsive: Services section columns-3 tablet breakpoint at 992px
• Responsive: Features section columns-4 tablet breakpoint at 1024px
• Responsive: Pricing table columns-3 tablet 2-column layout
• Responsive: Steps timeline horizontal connectors hidden on mobile when stacked
• Responsive: Steps timeline zigzag layout geometry and connector sizing fixed
• Performance: Gate all JS-dependent animations behind @media (scripting: enabled)
• Performance: Use independent translate/scale CSS properties to prevent recommended plan scale conflicts
• Performance: Gallery portfolio pagination now filters correctly over filtered items
• Performance: Gallery portfolio lightbox with keyboard nav, focus trap, dialog role
• Performance: Testimonials CSS-var-driven grid with responsive breakpoints
• Performance: Team members overlay bio capped at 3 line-clamp
• Performance: Newsletter backdrop-filter fallback with -webkit- prefix
• Performance: Gallery portfolio aspect-ratio inline on items (replaces dead :has() selector)
• Fix: Video CTA block.json asset refs corrected (editor.css to index.css, style.css to style-index.css)
• Fix: Services edit.js stale-closure double-setAttributes fixed
• Fix: Testimonials edit.js image save &&-chain bug fixed
• Fix: Gallery portfolio console.log removed from edit.js
• Fix: Hero media select stores url/alt not raw WP media object
• Fix: Steps view.js id-guarded style injection, passive scroll, z-index stacking
• Fix: FAQ localStorage race condition (use page-stable key with 24h expiry)
• Fix: FAQ view.js trackView dead code removed
• Fix: Newsletter form method=post added explicitly
• Fix: Newsletter colors sanitized (background, text, button, input, overlay)
• Fix: CTA section colors sanitized, dead block_id removed
• Fix: CTA focus outlines use currentColor instead of hardcoded rgba
• Fix: CTA secondary button hover uses currentColor, removed !important overrides
• Fix: Features SVG icons switched to currentColor for proper color inheritance
• Fix: Team members social links use CSS var instead of hardcoded color
• Fix: Team members edit.js imageId synced when image is selected
• Fix: Team members bio limited to 300 characters in editor
• Fix: Team members render.php socialLinks array guard added
• Fix: Pricing billing toggle labels wired as clickable buttons in view.js
• Fix: Pricing icon map extended with heart, thumbs-up, awards, performance
• Fix: Pricing feature items guarded with isset and is_array checks
• Fix: Pricing render.php colors sanitized via centralized helper
• Fix: Pricing animation keyframes replaced with independent translate/scale
• Fix: Dead FAQ voting UI and view tracking removed (no server-side handler existed)
• Fix: uninstall.php multisite-aware (iterates all sites, cleans options and drops tables)
• Fix: Appsero filter strips license_key, pass, secret from source data
• Fix: DB upgrade check moved to proper transient check with admin_init fallback
• Tested up to WordPress 7.1

1.2.3

• Security: Added CSRF nonce verification to the Newsletter Settings admin form.
• Security: Removed server-side use of client-supplied API endpoint (SSRF prevention); endpoint is now configured in admin settings only.
• Security: Fixed XSS vulnerability in Gallery Portfolio image attribute builder.
• Security: Fixed onclick injection vulnerability in Video CTA Section scroll buttons; replaced with safe data-attribute approach.
• Security: Added validation for base64 data URL images in Team Members block.
• Bug fix: Removed inline <script> tags from Pricing Tables, Testimonials, CTA Section, and Video CTA renders — scripts are now properly enqueued via view.js files.
• Bug fix: Removed leftover debug HTML comments from Pricing Tables render.
• Bug fix: Fixed fatal error on double-render — helper functions in Video CTA and CTA Section renders now use function_exists() guards.
• Bug fix: Fixed team member image upload in editor — now correctly saves {url, alt, id} object instead of raw media library object.
• Bug fix: Fixed masonry gallery layout breaking on repeated filter/sort calls — positions now reset before each recalculation.
• Bug fix: Fixed IntersectionObserver memory leak in Gallery Portfolio infinite scroll — observer now disconnects when all items are loaded.
• Bug fix: Fixed ResizeObserver memory leak in Video CTA Section.
• Bug fix: Fixed reCAPTCHA silent failure in Newsletter Signup — submission is now blocked if reCAPTCHA is required but unavailable.
• Bug fix: Fixed CTA Section buttons — empty URL now renders a semantic <button> element instead of <a onclick="return false">.
• Bug fix: Fixed Pricing Tables — all plans now render regardless of column count (no silent plan truncation).
• Improvement: Added plugin activation hook to create the newsletter subscribers database table on install.
• Improvement: Added uninstall routine to remove all plugin data (options and database table) on deletion.
• Improvement: Added “Settings” action link on the Plugins list page.
• Improvement: Testimonials carousel now pauses on hover and supports keyboard arrow navigation.
• Improvement: Added native loading=”lazy” to Team Members images.
• Improvement: Social icon aria-labels now use natural language (“Visit [Name]’s LinkedIn profile”).
• Improvement: Video caption tracks now use the WordPress site locale instead of hardcoded English.
• Improvement: Custom API endpoint moved to admin settings for security.

1.2.2

• Added analytics integration with Appsero for plugin usage insights.
• Updated minimum PHP requirement to 7.4.
• Improved plugin architecture for better maintainability.

1.2.1

• Added Services Section block with service cards and CTA buttons.
• Added Steps Timeline block with vertical, horizontal, and zigzag orientations.
• Added Video CTA Section block with YouTube, Vimeo, and self-hosted video support.
• Enhanced testimonials with autoplay and animation effects.
• Improved responsive design across all blocks.

1.2.0

• Added cover image and logo to plugin assets.

1.1.0

• Added Newsletter Signup block with Mailchimp integration and WordPress native storage.
• Added Gallery Portfolio block with masonry/grid layouts and lightbox.
• Added FAQ/Accordion block with schema markup.
• Added Team Members block with four layout styles and social media links.
• Added Hero Section block with background image and overlay controls.
• Added Features Section block with responsive grid and Dashicons.
• Added Testimonials Section block with star ratings.
• Added Pricing Tables block with feature comparison.
• Added Call to Action block.
• Created custom “Section Blocks” category in the Gutenberg editor.

0.1.0

• Initial release — plugin scaffolding and basic structure.