Good feedback, guys. Thank you. My hope is that up-and-coming web technologies like CSS Grid will be something we can phase in incrementally. We still need to maintain backward compatibility with existing BB sites and that always makes shifting to new technologies more of a challenge. That said, it’s something we’re looking into as well! 🙂

I would second this and add that with CSS Grid support in all modern browsers it’s not going to be long before it becomes a necessity (if it isn’t already).

As an added benefit I would hope we would seen a leaner code base dropping the extra div’s in the mark up and therefore making it easier to read and style.

The free version is still available. Are you using GoDaddy? They have some additional features that may not be available if you change plans or change hosts? Otherwise, everything should be the same.

Right on! Thanks, Daniel! 🙂

Hey Mel! Long time. Good to hear from ya. 🙂

We tend to take a case-by-case approach to feature development. We prioritize stability and keeping a lean core codebase. We’ve learned a lot from the WordPress project itself and tried to adopt a similar approach. Features that cater to a specific niche or vertical would go into add-ons (like extended module options, templates, etc) and features that benefit everyone go in core (like inline editing, undo/redo).

To your point, I would love to see some of the 3rd party add-ons make their products more modular. And we’re hoping to take a stab at more add-ons and niche features through our labs push.

We don’t maintain a voting system and, honestly, our public roadmaps tend to get stale pretty quickly. We could improve there. There’s a lot more competition than when we first started, so we don’t get to talk quite as much about our future plans and ideas. The voting board was nice in the beginning, but as it grew..the top 5 or so most-requested features got all the attention. We shifting more towards surveys and spending more time talking with customers (and with that, thanks again for your comment. It’s super helpful).

I’m curious how you decide to implement features that could drastically improve BB vs let a 3rd party dev handle it. I understand you want to be friendly to the BB community, but sometimes wonder if you see a cool solution, if you would implement it in the base code or leave it as a plugin in order to not piss off the creator -e.g. this inline editor. I would wish to just this be native one day, and not have to install yet ANOTHER plugin, further slowing down my sites. UX is really important, and hope great ideas/features aren’t left out for the sake of politics. 😉

Is there a place for the community to vote on new features? I too would love to see a public roadmap that includes community participation too.

Updated video tutorials would also be really great!

Good points. We deliberately avoided doing video work last year because of the big UI change that was coming in 2.0. This year we’re hoping to do a lot more there.

I personally struggle with how much time to spend on social media, but we want to create more content around BB.

Regarding nested columns, we do have that feature! See here for details:

http://kb.wpbeaverbuilder.com/article/46-column-layouts-overview

Thanks for the comment and the feedback!