Modernized AI backend: Otters AI features work with the native AI adapters in the WordPress 7.0 release with backwards compatibility for older versions.
AI content toolbar: Rewrite, summarize, expand, shorten, translate, change tone, fix grammar, and simplify from a new modal, plus custom user-defined actions.
AI page generation: Generate a section or full page from a prompt and insert it into the editor.
AI form autoresponders: Enrich autoresponder messages with personalized, AI-generated content.
New block patterns and page templates: 50 new free & 100+ premium block patterns plus 3 new free & 10 premium template packages for the Otter Design Library.
Smarter design library search: Better search over the Design Library, powered by rich descriptions and fuzzt search.
Better pattern categorization and tagging: Otter Design Library is now better categorized and tagged, making patterns easier to find.
Accent color selector for Design Library: Preview and insert patterns in your accent color, so they arrive on-brand.
Content Slider block: A lightweight slider that accepts any inner blocks as slides, not just images.
ACF Repeater support: Pull dynamic values from ACF Repeater fields, including sub-fields like images.
Archive title prefix toggle: Show a category name without the Category: prefix.
Cloudflare Turnstile: An alternative to reCAPTCHA for Form block spam protection.
Form reply-to: Set a configurable Reply-To address on the Form block.
Reworked Block Conditions design: Cleaner, less cluttered visibility Conditions panel.
Fixes
Slider duplication: No more error when duplicating a Slider block.
Maps block: Toggle scroll-zoom, plus fixes for duplicate markers, placement, and popups.
Button Group global options: Appearance, Letter case, and Line height now properly apply on the front end.
Custom CSS panel: No longer shows duplicated CSS textarea boxes on WP 7.0.
Keyboard navigation: Arrow-key navigation between blocks works again on WP 7.0.
Live Search warning: Fixed the Undefined array key cat PHP warning when no category is selected.
Required fields in emails: Multiple-choice values no longer show a stray asterisk.
Image alt text: Blocks with images now support alt attributes for EU accessibility compliance.
Modal close button: Added aria-labels for screen-reader users.
WooCommerce Builder: Hide placeholders to users that cant edit the product template if no user-facing content can be displayed.
Changes
Block API v3: Migrated all blocks to apiVersion: 3, removing editor deprecation warnings and fixing iframe compatibility.
Resilient form submissions: Entries save to the database before email, so mail failures no longer lose leads; errors are logged.
Removed CSS saving notice: Dropped noisy Saving CSS notices while still surfacing real errors.
Performance: Audited block loading and caching for editor and front-end speed.
Atomic Wind block names: Show meaningful names for Atomic Wind blocks in List View.
Atomic Wind icons: New icons for Atomic Wind blocks.
Atomic Wind CSS warmup: Added CSS generator warmup so the styles are already generated before the page is visited.
Uprefixed dynamic category name: Users can now display the category name dynamic value without a prefix.
Dependencies: Updated internal dependencies.
Security: General security improvements.
English typos: Corrected several English typos in form messages.
