Sidcraft documentation

What you can do

• Open a page or post and choose Edit with Sidcraft, or use the same link in the WordPress admin bar.
• Drag units such as Heading, Image, Button, Container, and Grid onto the page, or onto Drag widget here at the bottom. A unit dropped there is wrapped in a new container (one Undo removes both). Container, Grid, and Inner Section are placed directly. The same drop works in Firefox. The top bar also inserts XEditor elements: Div Block, Flexbox, Grid, Heading, Paragraph, Image, and Button. Each of those prints one HTML element.
• Switch the canvas between desktop, tablet, and mobile. Extra sizes can be turned on under Design System. Style → Items sets flex direction, justify, align, gaps, and wrap on containers and widgets.
• Open the AI Chat Bot next to XEditor and describe a change. You get a plan to preview on the canvas, then apply as one undo step. Upload or paste HTML to turn it into native layout, with no AI needed. See AI Chat Bot.
• Save reusable templates, then place them with a shortcode, a WordPress block, a Sidcraft Template unit, or a sidebar widget.
• Protect forms and the Login unit with Cloudflare Turnstile under Settings → Integrations. The submit or log-in button stays off until the visitor passes the check. Form submissions are kept under Sidcraft → Form Entries, even when the notification email fails.
• With Sidcraft Pro, rebuild a screenshot or mockup as a native page in the AI Chat Bot, and design a header and footer, popups, Loop Grid and Loop Carousel, shop layouts (when WooCommerce is installed), and payment forms. Pro’s Login & Register and Payment Form units can require Turnstile.
• Sidcraft Pro also adds the SCB widget set: 40+ more units in the PRO group, such as Advanced and Fancy Heading, Info Box, Modal Popup, Posts skins, Business Hours and Reviews, FAQ and HowTo schema, Instagram and X feeds, form stylers, and WooCommerce widgets. Turn them on or off under Settings → SCB Widgets. See SCB widget set.

These pages describe Sidcraft Page Builder 1.2.4 and Sidcraft Builder Pro 1.2.3, as named in the plugin files. Sidcraft Pro is the short name for the Sidcraft Builder Pro plugin. WordPress 6.9 or newer and PHP 7.4 or newer are required. The readme lists testing through WordPress 7.1. MySQL 5.7 or MariaDB 10.3 or newer is listed as a minimum. Pro loads only when Sidcraft Page Builder is active and at least version 0.14.1. The AI Chat Bot needs Sidcraft Page Builder 1.2.1 or newer, and chatting with AI in the free plugin needs WordPress 7.0 or newer.

What changed in these versions

Sidcraft Page Builder 1.2.4

• AI Chat Bot (1.2.1). The AI Chat Bot button next to XEditor opens a chat panel docked beside the canvas. Describe a change and get a plan. You can preview it on the canvas, untick steps, apply it as one undo step, and revert it later. See AI Chat Bot.
• WordPress AI Client (1.2.3). The chat uses the AI Client built into WordPress 7.0 and later, with the provider connected under Settings → Connectors. Sidcraft Page Builder no longer contacts AI providers itself or stores an AI API key. A key saved by 1.2.1 or 1.2.2 is deleted. On WordPress 6.9 the chat explains that it needs WordPress 7.0.
• HTML import (1.2.1, 1.2.4). Upload or paste HTML and CSS to get native XEditor layout. Flex and grid layouts are kept. CSS classes and custom properties become XEditor classes and design variables. Works without AI. From 1.2.4, outline and text-style buttons keep their original colors.
• Form Entries (1.2.1). Form unit submissions are kept on your site even when the notification email fails. Choose how many to keep per form. Exporting and erasing personal data works through the WordPress privacy tools. See Form Entries.
• Loop preview (1.2.1). Without Sidcraft Builder Pro, a page with an XEditor Loop shows a three-item sample in the editor.
• Top bar (1.2.1). Adding a unit no longer squeezes a second row of buttons into the top bar. Export, Import, Breakpoints, A11y, Lock, Assets, and Design System are in the ⋮ menu. XEditor buttons with a link take their class text color instead of the page link color.

Sidcraft Builder Pro 1.2.3

• AI Chat Bot engine (1.2.1 to 1.2.3). With a provider saved on AI Connectivity, Pro answers the editor chat with that provider instead of WordPress Connectors. Every chat provider on that screen works. Perplexity can’t call tools, so it returns its plan as JSON text, which the chat applies the same way.
• Image to layout (1.2.1). Attach screenshots, wireframes, or mockups (PNG, JPG, or WebP) and the chat rebuilds them as native layout, with brand colors as variables and repeated styles as classes. Needs OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, or Azure OpenAI.
• Safer saves (1.2.1). The admin-bar assistant no longer loads inside the page editor, which has its own chat. The save_layout tool refuses to overwrite a page that someone has open in the editor.
• Duplicate units (1.2.1). SCB units that duplicate a Pro unit are labeled in Units Manager. After the update, duplicates that no saved page uses are turned off once. Pages that use them keep rendering, and any of them can be turned back on.
• One submissions log (1.2.1). While the license is active, Sidcraft Page Builder’s Form Entries leaves storage to Pro’s Submissions log, so entries are not saved twice.

Earlier: Sidcraft Page Builder 0.15.4 and Pro 0.13.5

• Drag widget here (0.15.1 to 0.15.4). A unit dropped at the bottom of the canvas is wrapped in a new container in one undo step, in every browser including Firefox. Add dnd_debug=1 to the editor URL to log drag events.
• Navigator (0.15.0). The Navigator can collapse, expand, rename, hide, and lock units. Locked units can’t be selected, moved, edited, or deleted.
• Readable fallback (0.15.0). Saves write a clean core-block copy into the post content. See Readable fallback content.
• Elementor review (0.15.0). Conversions wait under Sidcraft → Review Conversions until you accept them.
• Two copies (0.15.4). A second copy with a different folder name stays idle instead of stopping the site.
• Licensed Pro updates (Pro 0.13.2). Pro checks canvasly.pro for newer builds when an administrator logs in to wp-admin. See Update Sidcraft Builder Pro.
• SCB hooks (Pro 0.13.3). Custom code needs the sidcraft_ prefix, for example sidcraft_scb_js_localize.