Feature Requests

Dear Breakdance Team, I'd like to submit a feature request regarding a much-needed enhancement to the Loop Builder: the ability to assign native facets directly within Breakdance – without relying on third-party solutions like GridBuilder or FacetWP. Why This Matters Breakdance already has an excellent Query Builder and includes a basic Filter Bar. However, the Filter Bar feels more like a nice bonus than a fully realized feature. It works smoothly and includes pleasant animations, but its functionality is extremely limited – almost as if it was added and then never touched again. And that’s a shame, because the foundation is already there. The Problem with Third-Party Plugins Styling limitations: Tools like FacetWP or GridBuilder often don't integrate seamlessly with Breakdance’s styling system. Matching their UI to a Breakdance site requires extra work and often still feels "off." Functional conflicts: Particularly with GridBuilder, we've noticed incompatibilities when working with Breakdance's advanced query and dynamic content tools. Loss of native experience: The smooth animations and intuitive UX of Breakdance’s built-in filter system are missing in these third-party tools – unless we start writing custom scripts, which defeats the purpose of using a visual builder. What We Need We’d love to see first-class native facets support within Breakdance, tightly integrated with the existing Query Builder and Loop Builder. Ideally, this would include: Support for filtering by taxonomy, custom fields, post types, etc. Multiple filter types: dropdowns, checkboxes, sliders, search fields, etc. Ajax-based filtering with no reloads. Full visual styling control within Breakdance. Conditional logic and dynamic filtering combinations. The Result A native facets system would elevate Breakdance's Loop Builder to a new level, enabling complex, dynamic content filtering without compromising on design, compatibility, or user experience. It would also reduce reliance on third-party plugins, making Breakdance a more complete, reliable solution out of the box.

I can set a filter to show posts from taxonomy and fixed date. Would be gold if I could set more dynamic date such as < 2 months from publish date.

Better and more complete docs for Element Studio, with a step by step guide in layman's terms. More YouTube examples to create different kinds of Elements. There's so much basic information about the plugin missing. You assume that everyone watching your videos are devs

Consider Relume AI sitemap/wireframe type functionality or integration allowing for rapid prototyping.

It could be great if Breakdance notify when someone is editing the page you open, like Wordpress does with posts. This would help teamwork in a good way.

I would like to suggest to the Breakdance team to add functionality related to adapting websites to WCAG requirements, in the context of the upcoming European Accessibility Act. It's possible that it won't be long before customizing sites with this in mind will be mandatory. It would be worthwhile for Breakdance to offer tools that allow users to easily comply with these new EU regulations on digital accessibility. Full customization of Breakdance is certainly a gamechanger! An example of such a solution is Ally Web Accessibility, which has already been implemented by Elementor: https://elementor.com/products/ally-web-accessibility/ . I believe that this type of functionality could significantly increase the value of Breakdance and ensure that sites created with your software are compliant with the upcoming EU regulations. If the regulations come into force and affect most industries, this feature is essential. Here is the information in the Polish version: https://portal.faktura.pl/biznes/poradnik-przedsiebiorcy/nadchodzi-regulacyjna-burza-unijne-regulacje-moga-zmiazdzyc-twoj-biznes/

For proper tracking, it is necessary for forms to trigger a global event. Right now, Breakdance is not doing that, which makes it impossible to track for example with Independent Analytics Pro.

Please add formatting options to success and error messages in forms. Or at least allow html without crashing the layout. Right now, when I add a <strong> it doesn't show in the frontend and when I enter <br> as a line break it directly jump to the end of the message. H-Tag works but the layout looks like on the screenshot attached. Also adding an icon would be nice-to-have.

Breakdance can be themeless but I always end up using a theme (Breakdance zero) because I want to be able to add stuff in functions.php. It would be nice if you can add this in Breakdance itself so you don’t have to use a theme and can always use the theneless mode.

It would be great to be able to add thumbnails to the Adjacent Posts element. I used OxyExtras to achieve this in Oxygen previously but haven't seen it from any of the Breakdance addon devs.