2.3.1

What’s changed

• Starter Sites imports are more resilient to undeclared commerce content, unavailable layout units, media edge cases, and interrupted full-site runs.
• The starter composer now opens with the Full site preset, explains re-applying inline, shows useful feature tags, and offers clear next steps after a successful apply.
• Canonical plugin installs are preferred over renamed backups, and account/theme configuration stays safe during early WordPress bootstrap.

Full Changelog: 2.3.0...2.3.1

2.3.0

• New onboarding: an essentials-first Site Setup checklist can install or activate Anima LT, Style Manager, and Nova Blocks from one place.
• Design previews: Styles now shows live, site-specific color and typography previews that refresh with Style Manager changes.
• Companion extensions: new contributed sections for Styles and Setup, plus setup-readiness checks that participate in the overall status.
• Starter imports now repair missing media on re-import, skip unavailable optional taxonomies, and exclude locked WooCommerce content and settings while preserving server-side enforcement.

This release asset is the exact package currently served by WordPress.org.

2.2.0

• Fix: Anima LT is now recognized out of the box — the free WordPress.org build no longer comes up unrecognized, so starter sites, recommended plugins, and the setup wizard all work as intended.
• Style Manager now appears alongside Nova Blocks as a recommended companion, so the full free Pixelgrade LT stack sets up in one pass.
• New home: the whole experience now lives under Appearance → Pixelgrade Design — a calmer hub organized into Home, Design System, Starter Sites, Layouts, Page Patterns, Setup, Account, and Help.
• Starter Sites: pick a free Anima LT starter (Hive, Rosa, Mies, Felt, Julia, or Pile LT), preview it, and choose how much of it to apply.
• Layouts: browse and apply individual templates and parts with live previews, without importing a whole site.
• New: Page Patterns — add ready-made page designs to your site.
• Help & Docs: a redesigned Help tab and a floating documentation window that follows you across the dashboard and opens articles right where you are working — no new tabs.
• Account: optional, account-free by default; connect a free Pixelgrade account for support when you want it, and it coexists cleanly with Pixelgrade Care.
• Plenty of clearer, jargon-free copy throughout, plus performance and reliability improvements to previews and starter imports.

2.1.0 — Theme Help

Pixelgrade Assistant 2.1.0

• New: Theme Help — browse and search your theme's documentation right inside the WordPress dashboard, no account required.
• Finished moving account and license features out to the optional Pixelgrade Plus companion; the free plugin is now fully account-free.
• Added extension points so companion plugins can build on the dashboard cleanly (pixassist_loaded, localized Plus status).
• The starter content card now always shows, regardless of any leftover connection state.
• Fixes: bundled translations now load correctly; in-dashboard documentation resolves to the right theme; hardened starter-content downloads against unexpected sources.
• Under the hood: modernized the build toolchain (Node 20 LTS, Dart Sass) and cleared all dependency security advisories.

Also live on WordPress.org (trunk r3573470, tag 2.1.0 r3573471).

2.0.0 — Community-first rebirth

Pixelgrade Assistant 2.0.0 — reborn as the free, community-first companion for the Pixelgrade LT stack (Anima LT, Style Manager, and Nova Blocks).

Highlights

• No account, no license required — install the recommended free plugins from WordPress.org and import starter content right out of the box.
• Commercial code removed — the legacy in-dashboard support overlay, the external-plugin installer, and the account/license machinery are gone. Premium design tools now live in the optional Pixelgrade Plus companion.
• Calmer dashboard — the header reflects your theme's health, with no connection nags.
• Clear "External services" disclosure; usage data is strictly opt-in and off by default.
• Lighter, faster admin bundle. Now requires WordPress 5.9 and PHP 7.4.

The attached zip is the WordPress.org release package. Full details in readme.txt.

v1.3.5

Integrated the Classic Editor for better handling of themes that don't support the block editor.

v1.3.4

Add theme-dependent alteration of theme-supports.

v1.3.3

Fix some PHP warnings

v1.3.2

• Fixes for starter content (demo data) importing process.
• Minor styling and copy improvements.

v1.3.1

• Improvements and fixes to the theme update notice.
• Minor styling and copy improvements.