We’ve just dropped a hefty update for Design Palette Pro that massively improves the UI and performance of the plugin. Here’s our favorite parts, with the full changelog at bottom.

New features and enhancements

For this release, our main goal was to improve efficiency and performance of the settings configuration and live preview area. The previous releases have showed some choppiness on certain systems, and conflicts with adjusting to different screen sizes. DPP 1.3.0 eliminates those issues and upped the sexiness of the UI with a layout change of the preview action bar and button/color picker improvements. Additionally, Design Palette is now 100% compatible with Genesis 2.1+ and has been updated to reflect the most current child theme defaults. For users not yet running Genesis 2.1+ or the most current child theme, backwards compatibility is provided where possible. After-Entry widget area support has been added for themes that make use of it. It can be enabled via filter.

How to install

If your license key is entered and active, you should see an update available in your WordPress Dashboard. Click to update to the latest version. If your license key is not entered… why? That’s how the magic happens! Alternatively, you can login to your account here, download the Design Palette Pro .zip file, and upload to your Plugins via your WordPress dashboard. As always, feel free to reach out via your support widget or email help@reaktivstudios.com if you run into any trouble updating.

What about the child theme support?

We know we promised that all StudioPress Pro child themes would be supported by July 30. Unfortunately, we realized we had to rewrite a lot of the plugin to improve the code base, and to account for changes in Genesis and child themes already supported. Now that the core of Design Palette Pro is good to go, and even better than before, we are back to work on knocking out child theme support as fast as possible. We do thank you for your patience and understanding! —

Full changelog for Design Palette Pro 1.3.0:

  • New: Improved UI. Huge performance increase on load and when scrolling. No more jumpy preview pane!
  • New: Genesis 2.1+ compatibility. The core plugin and all existing supported child themes have been updated to their latest defaults. Where possible we have provided backwards compatibility for users running older versions of Genesis or the child themes.
  • New: After Entry widget area section. Enable in child themes by adding the new function to a sections filter.
  • New: Support request via widget now includes Genesis theme version (parent or child) for debugging purposes.
  • New: New hooks to add your own child themes: ‘gppro_child_themes’ and ‘gppro_load_child_theme_extension_{$theme}’
  • Tweak: Remove header image settings. Use the Appearance > Header menu item instead.
  • Tweak: Remove rem units from all styles by default. Possible re-enable with a filter.
  • Tweak: Change font-size dropdowns to number inputs, no more limited dropdown menu.
  • Tweak: Don’t strip px/rem units from defaults.
  • Tweak: Ensure only allowed users can see DPP admin bar menu item.
  • Tweak: Favicon uploader now allows .ico, .gif and .png files.
  • Tweak: Add child theme version info to header of each child theme extension.
  • Tweak: Remove jQuery UI.
  • Tweak: Refactor CSS builder to reduce errors.
  • Tweak: Change .menu-primary and .menu-secondary selectors to .nav-primary and .nav-secondary.
  • Tweak: Admin assets are now minified.
  • Tweak: If key is not found for array_insert_* helpers, insert the section at the bottom.
  • Fix: Increase specificity on active nav items.
  • Fix: Image CSS builder now works with ‘none’ values.
  • Fix: Add missing focus selectors to hover styles.
  • Metro Pro: Updated for v2.0.1.
  • Metro Pro: Fix corrupted images.
  • Minimum Pro: Updated for v3.0.1.
  • Minimum Pro: Increase specificity for portfolio archive title weight. Increase range and set correct default for site tagline top margin.
  • eleven40 Pro: Updated for v2.2.1.
  • eleven40 Pro: Fix footer background color and increase range for post column footer top margin.
  • Executive Pro: Updated for v3.1.1.
  • Executive Pro: Change Home CTA content target to .three-fourths div.
  • Executive Pro: Add missing background color setting to .entry-comment-link.
  • Executive Pro: Add homepage slider content styles.
  • Executive Pro: Hide secondary nav drop down settings as the secondary nav is limited to one level.
  • Beautiful Pro: Updated for v1.1.