What we shipped, Pattern Paste Canonical: https://patternpaste.com/changelog/ Latest: plugin 0.44.0, 26 September 2026 # What we shipped, release by release. Designed Patterns arrive a few at a time. Every release updates itself on your sites, and everything here is included in both plans at no extra price. - Plugin 0.44.0 26 September 2026 ## What changed - The free Core Patterns are in the inserter as soon as the plugin is active, as they were with Pattern Paste Free: no download step. Core Patterns in the inserter turns them off and on. - The pattern library is now the Library tab of Settings → Pattern Paste, with no separate switch; the old Appearance → Pattern Paste address opens it. The tab says plainly what is already in your inserter and what adding a paid design costs. - Three inserter categories, the same as Pattern Paste Free's: Pattern Paste Core, Pattern Paste Styled and Pattern Paste Designed. - One design the catalogue cannot read is skipped instead of emptying the whole library, and variations that open on a finish (such as rounded corners) can be added. - Activating Pattern Paste says that Pattern Paste Free was switched off, even when Free was installed from a renamed folder. - Images copied into the Media Library get readable titles, such as "Dried flowers" and "Orbisk logo". - Plugin 0.43.5 25 September 2026 ## What changed - Step Inside: the laptop's screen is now a Cover block with a background photograph, and the section starts unlocked, so you can change its layout freely. Over the photo the text keeps your theme's strongest colour pair in any section colour. - The laptop's 3D model downloads only on a site with an active Pattern Paste licence. A model already installed keeps working; without a licence the block settings say so and link to the licence settings. - Open Door is retired: its enquiry form only prepared an email draft. The Core contact patterns remain for contact pages. - Impact Report is withdrawn for now. - Plugin 0.43.4 25 September 2026 ## What changed - Postcard Reels in Use my theme: the outline button keeps your theme's own border (or none, if your theme draws outline buttons without one) and takes only its colour from the section's text. - Plugin 0.43.3 25 September 2026 ## What changed - Form Library Wall is retired; Isometric Project Wall remains as the isometric wall. - Plugin 0.43.2 25 September 2026 ## What changed - Postcard Reels in Use my theme: the outline button ("See the routes") is now always drawn in the section's own text colour on a clear fill, so it reads under every section style and theme button colour. - Plugin 0.43.1 25 September 2026 ## What changed - Two more Designed Patterns are retired, each now a Styled Core Pattern that needs no plugin: Studio Index and Quiet Retainers. - Plugin 0.43.0 25 September 2026 ## What changed - Eighteen Designed Patterns are retired, each now a Styled Core Pattern that needs no plugin: Before You Join, Guest Notes, Help Desk, The Working Agreement, Good to Know, Open Book, Product Team Roster, The Reading Room, Open Studio, The People Behind It, Contact Sheet, Website Care, Flagship Offer, Signal Field, Product Workbench, Editorial Hero, Good Company and The Written Reply. - Plugin 0.42.1 25 September 2026 ## What changed - Step Inside no longer prints a model credit on your page. Its sidebar gives the credit text for the 3D model, to add to your own credits page. - Step Inside's scroll prompt now sits behind the laptop as quiet text, and the opening lid covers it. - Plugin 0.42.0 24 September 2026 ## What changed - Each Designed Pattern is now its own block, and a page loads only the scripts and styles for the patterns it uses, as modern script modules. The same look and motion from a smaller plugin. - An update to one Designed Pattern can no longer change another: each one keeps the exact version of every effect it was built with. - In the editor a Designed Pattern appears already styled, never briefly unstyled while its stylesheet loads. - Plugin 0.41.0 24 September 2026 ## 2 new designs - Postcard Reels Call to action (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/postcards/) - Reveal Hero (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/reveal/) ## Also in this release - New Designed Pattern, Postcard Reels: columns of travel postcards drifting up and down, which leave page scrolling alone on touch screens. - Every Designed Pattern is in the block inserter, under Patterns, Pattern Paste Designed, with the same names as in Pattern Paste Free. A switch on Settings → Pattern Paste hides them if you would rather add them from the Pattern Paste site; pages that already use them keep working. - One settings screen, Settings → Pattern Paste, in cards with on/off switches: your connection and updates, Designed and Core Patterns in the inserter, the pattern library, image copying and 3D model downloads, and a status line with what the plugin has copied to your site. The library screen has the same look. A Settings link sits on the plugin's row. - A smaller download: Step Inside's 3D laptop model is no longer inside the plugin. It is copied once into your uploads folder when you first insert the pattern, or from its block settings, and pages that already use it get it automatically after the update. Until it is there the pattern shows its static layout. - Pattern images are copied into your Media Library when you insert or paste a pattern, so your pages show them from your own site with responsive sizes. An older page that still shows them from elsewhere offers to copy them when you edit it. - Deactivates the free plugin on activation, and pages built with it keep working. If a page still shows images from the free plugin's folder, a notice copies them into your Media Library before you delete it. - New Designed Pattern, Reveal: a full-width before and after photograph for interiors, renovation, landscaping and property, with an elastic seam and Before, Split and After choices. - Plugin 0.40.0 23 September 2026 ## What changed - Designed Patterns now animate with Anime.js (MIT) instead of GSAP: the same look and motion from a smaller download, about half the size. - Plugin 0.39.1 23 September 2026 ## What changed - Large headings in 20 Designed Patterns no longer split a word across lines or run past their column in any theme or screen width. Alliances now shows its partner cards two across. - Plugin 0.39.0 22 September 2026 ## What changed - Designed Sections are now Designed Patterns, and Core Sections are now Core Patterns. The block is now patternpaste/designed, titled Designed Pattern, and the library screen, settings and catalogue use the new names. - Plugin 0.37.4 22 September 2026 ## What changed - Added Open Door, a guided enquiry section that uses your existing form or helps visitors prepare an email draft. - Added protected form areas with native form block and shortcode controls, plus an easy return to the email draft. - Plugin 0.34.1 22 September 2026 ## What changed - The supported WordPress floor is now 7.0. Earlier versions are no longer verified. - Plugin 0.34.0 22 September 2026 ## What changed - Removed the eight archived standalone blocks (Before / After, Scrollspy Rail, Content Slider, Warp Reel, Isometric wall, Stack, Chapters, Marquee) and the editor and motion libraries they shared. Nobody bought one; they were already hidden from the inserter and are no longer supported. A page that still carries one shows its inner blocks as ordinary core blocks, exactly as deactivating the plugin always did. - Removed the site-wide motion kill switch that only those blocks answered to. Each Designed Section keeps its own Motion setting, and a visitor asking their browser for reduced motion is still honoured. - Designed Sections are unchanged, byte for byte. - Plugin 0.33.6 21 September 2026 ## What changed - A text colour or heading size you set on a Designed Section now reaches its labels, numerals and notes in 25 sections, in both appearances. Sections you have not restyled look exactly as before. - Fixed the pause button in the Signoff section, which was cut off and could not be tapped on a phone. - Secondary buttons in the Hosting, Credits and Support sections use the core Outline style, so your theme's outline button design applies to them. - Designed Sections sit on your theme's wide width, and a section's editor assets load only with that section. - Plugin 0.33.0 20 September 2026 ## 7 new designs - Selected Work Gallery (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/selectedwork/) - Isometric Project Wall Hero (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/projectwall/) - Customer Results Testimonials (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/resultstories/) - Product Walkthrough Features (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/walkthrough/) - Nightjar Studio Wall Hero (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/wallstudio/) - Ways of Seeing Gallery (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/wallarchive/) - Elsewhere Journal Gallery (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/fieldguide/) ## Also in this release - Added a drag interaction for Designed Section marquees and optional looping for content sliders, with touch scrolling, keyboard controls and saved editor settings. - Selected photo marquees and portfolio sliders demonstrate dragging and looping. Existing saved marquees retain hover steering; sliders remain finite unless looping is enabled. - Plugin 0.29.0 20 September 2026 ## What changed - Added a resettable speed control shared by all marquee Designed Sections. - Plugin 0.28.2 19 September 2026 ## 15 new designs - The Long Way Round Gallery (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/photoroll/) - The Print Room Gallery (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/printroom/) - Notes from the Table Testimonials (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/voices/) - The Reviews Testimonials (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/endorsements/) - Partner Assembly Logos (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/alliances/) - Studio Capabilities Features (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/capabilities/) - Working Disciplines Features (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/disciplines/) - Festival Bulletin Call to action (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/bulletin/) - Studio Openings Call to action (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/openings/) - Cross Currents Gallery (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/crosscurrent/) - Colour in Season Hero (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/season/) - Signoff Footer (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/signoff/) - Field Notes Features (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/fieldnotes/) - Atelier Chapters How it works (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/atelier/) - A Quieter Compass Features (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/wayfinder/) ## Also in this release - Let body copy use the full available width in all three image accordion sections. - Plugin 0.28.0 19 September 2026 ## What changed - Added three image accordion sections with native content editing, repeatable items and an image-side control. - Added optional marquee cursor feedback and pause controls. - Plugin 0.27.0 19 September 2026 ## What changed - Added fourteen editable marquee Designed Sections for galleries, testimonials, logos, services, announcements, heroes and footers. - Added continuous marquee loops with pointer-controlled rewind, hold and acceleration, click-to-pause rows, keyboard pause controls and reduced-motion fallbacks. - Plugin 0.26.0 19 September 2026 ## What changed - Made Designed Sections the plugin's public offer and kept their shared runtime available. - Archived standalone blocks from the inserter while retaining registration for existing content. - Kept the optional WordPress library aligned with the active Core and Designed Section catalogues. Next step ## Every release above is already in both plans. Browse the Designed Patterns they added, or install the plugin that keeps them updated. Browse Designed Patterns (https://patternpaste.com/designed-patterns/)Install the plugin (https://patternpaste.com/docs/install-pattern-paste/)