Recent Feature Updates and Changes

Taking a quick break from feature development to let you know what we've been up to lately. Your feedback helps us set the direction of Articulation, and we love to hear from you!

 Themes, Templates & Visual Editing

• Themes gained real configurability: global page-level options, a site-wide input color/background control, and the choice to hide blogs from search engines all landed mid-November.
• A brand-new Daedalus theme debuted alongside big Serene and Summit refreshes (updated nav, search, pagination, header shadows, text colors), plus splash-page templates for Starter and Prism.
• Designers can now drag-resize logos across every core theme, we've added even more fonts to help you find the perfect look, and fine-tune heading colors and italics without touching CSS.
• Page templating is far more flexible with switchable category and page templates, Serene’s new header layouts, and per-theme nav breakpoints.
• Component polish: copyright block, gallery zoom toggle, responsive tabbed boxes, richer accordion/FAQ classes, resized feature list imagery, wider import layout support, and keyboard-friendly option panels.

Commerce & Catalog

• Merchants can now edit every product variant from a single screen and even tab through option values with new keyboard controls, making large catalog updates dramatically faster.
• Downloadable products feel more polished thanks to custom filenames, fixes for digital asset previews, and automatic copying of options/variants when duplicating items.
• Category pages picked up customer-friendly touches: on-page sort controls, a “show all products” variant of the Featured Products component, sortable featured products, and better mobile/category templates across Serene and Starter.
• A dashboard for all Product Reviews, breadcrumb navigation, and the ability to list all viewable private pages to logged-in members help shoppers find what they need more easily.
• Checkout quality-of-life boosts include storing the last cart item for “continue shopping,” limiting overly long cart descriptions, and preventing accidental double clicks while pages load.
• Alt text support for product images, and improvements to automatic image resizing for published site product pages.

 Editor & Workflow UX

• Building pages feels smoother: component options moved to the right, panels auto-close when dropping content, there’s a direct link to full page settings, and Recent Components to help you find your favorites.
• Designers can save/restore full design settings, exclude new pages from nav automatically, and focus text editing with a trimmed toolbar and hidden side panel.
• The upgraded code component now supports better syntax highlighting, scrollable blocks.
• Forms improved with multiple recipient support, emails now show previews regardless of CAPTCHA settings, security and anti-spam updates submissions, and smarter reply-to handling.

 Analytics, SEO & Growth

• Growth-minded teams get richer insight: exportable traffic, selectable date ranges, and bot/file/404 filtering reshape the stats area.
• Sharing and partnership improvements with per-site ads.txt management, automatic OpenGraph image selection from uploaded logos, refreshed metadata defaults, and additional share-to-social network support.
• Membership and communication workflows gained invite messaging tweaks, performance notes in image uploads, and better status indicators across the dashboard.

 Shipping, Access & Misc

• Shipping admins can now toggle all countries at once, limit methods to specific regions, and see clearer copy around those settings.
• Private content workflows improved with full lists of member-accessible pages and the option to hide blogs from search engines.
• Audio blocks stop previously playing tracks when a new one starts, newsletter forms scale properly on mobile.