Beaver World

First up is a host of useful plugins from developer Chinmoy Kumar Paul. Chinmoy released a number of new plugins and modules, most notably his new Checkerboard module that allows you to create cool checkerboard style post archives. Find out more about Checkboard on our product review page.

Hot off the press is Chinmoy’s new Beaver Lister that adds useful information to the WordPress admin page and post lists telling you if the Beaver Builder page builder is active and which modules are included on the page. Super useful! Chinmoy is adding new products all the time, solving some of the problems community members face when developing in Beaver Builder.

Hot off the press is Chinmoy’s new Beaver Lister that adds useful information to the WordPress admin page and post lists telling you if the Beaver Builder page builder is active and which modules are included on the page. Super useful! Chinmoy is adding new products all the time, solving some of the problems community members face when developing in Beaver Builder. Check out the Beaver World products pages here.

CobaltApps

Next up is the new Beaver Extender plugin from CobaltApps. Eric Hamm has been a long time developer in the Genesis community and his Genesis extender plugin is a popular utility used by Genesis developers and designers. His ‘port’ of the extender plugin over to the Beaver Builder Theme comes at a time when many Genesis developers are looking to take the BB Theme on full time. Beaver Extender adds enormous power to your theme customisation capabilities – check out the video from Eric Hamm here and read more about the plugin on our product page.

BeaverAddons

BeaverAddons released a set of 10 contact form CSS presets to add a little pizzaz to the standard Beaver Builder forms. Add the relevant CSS classes in the advanced tab of your form modules, add the CSS provided by BeaverAddons and see your forms magically turn into unique and stylish elements. Happily, these work on the Contact and Subscribe form modules for Beaver Builder. Get them here.

Beaver Brains

Whilst we’re on Modules, have you seen our new modules page? Every Beaver Builder module is listed along with great examples of how you can achieve unique looks with each of them. We’ll be adding PowerPack and Ultimate Addons modules too. Check out the module page here.

Ultimate Beaver

Thierry Pigot, the developer behind Ultimate Beaver products has released a new plugin called Custom Post Type Template which allows you to create re-usable templates for custom post types. The plugin makes it possible to drag and drop standard WordPress fields along with Advanced Custom Fields to build up powerful single and archive page templates for custom posts. It’s a very powerful solution and by the looks of things, very simple to implement. We’ll be adding our review soon.

Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder

Coming this week (today perhaps?) is Ultimate Addons‘ awesome collection of Cloud Templates. This is a hugely anticipated update to the Ultimate Addons suite and will include over 30 page templates, all hosted in the cloud and ready to download at the touch of a button. lead Developer, Sujay Pawar has released a video showing the feature over on his YouTube channel.

That’s all for this week, folks! I hope these additions to the Beaver Builder community will give you super power web design strength!

New versions of out Toolset plugins are now out! Go and check the great new features! https://t.co/FHGepbhRwr #WordPress

— Toolset – WordPress Development For Non-Coders (@ToolsetPlugins) August 25, 2016

This new version of the plugin brings a whole lot of power to designers using Toolset and Beaver Builder, combining both plugins into a powerful design suite that extends the usage of standard Beaver Builder templates. Toolset recently announced a similar integration with Visual Composer and this new update brings the same great features for Beaver Builder users.

Using the plugin

Check out this video from Diane Laidlaw – Diane published this video recently using the beta version of the Toolset plugin and shows just how powerful this new update is for Beaver Builder users.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJBn6q0fRo8

Dragging WordPress and ACF fields in Beaver Builder to create a custom single post template.

Displaying Fields

The plugin will make it a simple task of displaying Wordpress and Advanced Custom Fields on your layouts using ‘Field WP’ and ‘Field ACF’ modules added to the page builder. Simply drag and drop Field WP modules onto your layout and select available fields from the dropdown and for a completely customised solution, drag the ‘Field ACF’ module and select your custom field by partial type to select.

Selecting Templates

Once your single template is set up, it’s just a matter of selecting it in the new ‘Template’ tab in the Beaver Builder admin settings. Not to be confused with Beaver Builder’s own ‘Templates’ tab, the new tab allows you to select custom templates for your post types. An extremely elegant and simple solution.

One of the challenges I always face with using custom fields is the need to hard code child theme templates for use in custom post types. Having these fields available within the Beaver Builder page builder is an exciting option and opens up a wide range of possibilities for designing complex databases and layouts quickly. How ACF repeater and relationship fields would work is not yet known but I am sure that it will be just as elegant a solution as the standard fields demonstrated.

An archive template is in the works too so you’ll be able to display custom post archives with just as much elegance.

Watch the full video on YouTube.