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What's New in 2.2.0

New Extension: Show Notes in Dashboard

A dashboard widget that surfaces your post/page notes right from the WordPress admin home screen — no more hunting through individual posts.

Animation Controls — Major Overhaul

Significantly expanded with a dedicated frontend script for smoother, more reliable scroll-triggered animations.

Swiper Block Updates

Momentum mode controls and UI improvements, plus new block.json options for finer-grained Swiper configuration.

Query Exclude — Now Supports Terms Query

The "Exclude Current Post" extension now also works on the Terms Query block. Enable the new "Exclude Current Term" toggle in Advanced settings to hide the current taxonomy/category/tag from its own archive listing.

Other

• Added Settings link to the plugins list page for quicker access
• Minor fixes to Render SVG block functions

Swiper Free Mode & Creative Effect Improvements

A round of fixes and improvements to the Swiper block's free mode throwing behaviour and creative effect transitions.

Changes

• Fixed creative effect opacity not animating — missing CSS import added
• Fixed marquee (autoplay delay 0) linear transition conflicting with free mode throw — now switches to ease-out on drag and restores linear when autoplay resumes
• Set default momentum ratio and velocity ratio to 0.5 for a smoother out-of-the-box throw feel
• Added help text to Momentum Ratio and Momentum Velocity Ratio sliders explaining what each controls
• Added missing thumbs CSS import

Bug Fix — Swiper Creative Effect Opacity

Fixes opacity not animating correctly when using the Creative effect on the Swiper block.

Changes
mello-block-extensions.zip

Added missing effect-creative CSS import so opacity transitions animate properly in creative effect mode

Security Patch

This release removes a hardcoded GitHub access token from the plugin and improves settings sanitization. All sites running this plugin should update.

Changes

Removed GitHub authentication token from plugin code — the repository is now public so no token is required
Added input sanitization to the extensions settings page, ensuring only valid extension slugs can be saved

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Swiper Block

• Updated to Swiper v12
• New Navigation Icon toggle — opt-in to use the built-in Swiper SVG arrow, centered inside the button (backwards compatible with existing custom button content)
• New Loop Additional Slides control (up to 20) — extra slides rendered before/after loop for smoother infinite scrolling
• Mousewheel controls moved into the Navigation panel
• Creative effect: CSS filter support (blur, brightness, etc.) via filter input on prev/next slides
• Autoplay delay 0: slides now correctly use linear timing function for a smooth marquee effect

Button Icon Extension

• New Icon Position toggle — place the icon before or after the button text (default: before)
• Live editor preview — icon now renders inside the button in the block editor, not just on the frontend
• Default icon type when enabling is now Font Awesome (removed redundant "None" option)

Button Up — buttons get smarter, things get tidied

What's New

New Extension
Buttons: Allow Additional Blocks — Allows additional blocks (e.g. a Paragraph) to be inserted inside the Buttons block alongside Button blocks. Useful for adding introductory text inline with a button, e.g. "Want to know more about sausages? [Learn More]"

Swiper Block
Fixed navigation, pagination, and scrollbar visibility — controls now properly hide when not in use
Synced Navigation/Pagination/Scrollbar toggles with inner block visibility

Admin
Improved organisation of the extensions settings page
Post Type block moved to Deprecated — this functionality is now available natively in WordPress core

Core/Query and Feature Video Block updates

Big updates to the performance of how Featured video is rendered

• Pauses when not in view
• Only allows two videos to be played at once
• Depreciated the query toggle and created a seperate 'featured video' block

Updates to core/query block

• Query with ACF fields
• Query with matching Taxonomies - shows the relvants results first, then fills in the remaining query spaces with the same post type.

Enable core/accordion for child animation

Enable core/accordion for child animation

Add core/gallery to allow child animation of images

Add core/gallery to allow child animation of images

Parallax smooth out and Parent child animation fix

• Fix to allow a block to run both parent, and child stagger animations
• Added a transition to the initial load of parallaxed elements to smooth out page load.