As dedicated Wix users, our deep involvement with Wix Studio allows us to constantly bring innovative ideas to life. Our daily practice with the editor not only drives our creativity but also provides valuable insights that contribute to the platform’s development. This makes the Wix Open Studio event—a quarterly showcase of exciting updates and future developments—highly anticipated by us. We eagerly await these announcements, ready to explore the new features and share them with our followers and community. Here are the most thrilling and important Wix Studio updates from the latest event (August 2024).
Workflow Enhancements
Notification Preference Dashboard
Finally, Wix allows set notification preferences in bulk. This means greater flexibility and personalisation for your workflow. Each team member can tailor their alerts to stay informed about what matters most to them, minimising distractions from unnecessary notifications.
Favorites
The new Favorites feature allows users to bookmark pages directly in the site dashboard. This long-awaited functionality makes navigating projects easier and more efficient. Users can quickly access their most important pages, keeping their workflow streamlined and productive.
Studio Tab
The new Studio Tab Chrome extension helps users stay on top of everything Wix Studio. This handy tool provides seamless integration with your workflow, ensuring that you never miss an update or important detail. From project management to real-time notifications, the Studio Tab keeps you connected and informed, making your Wix experience even more powerful and convenient.
Advanced Design Capabilities
Blend Effects
Elevate your designs with the new Blend Effects feature. Apply it to text or images, and they will seamlessly merge with the underlying layer, creating stunning new color combinations wherever they overlap. This tool enhances your creative potential, allowing you to produce visually dynamic and engaging designs with ease.
Glass Effect
Add a touch of elegance to your elements with the forthcoming Glass Effect. This feature will give your elements a frosted glass appearance, complete with transparency and blur, adding depth and intrigue to your designs—all without any coding required. It’s perfect for achieving a modern, sophisticated look.
Sticky Position for Repeaters
This allows stick cards to remain fixed in place as users scroll, even when the Repeater is connected to the CMS. It’s an excellent way to keep crucial content visible and engage your audience effectively.
Improved Site Navigation
New Hamburger Menu
The revamped Hamburger Menu now offers greater design flexibility and ease of use. It’s simpler to work within and scroll through the expanded menu container. Additionally, these menus are more accessible and SEO-friendly, with menu content now indexed by Google.
Mega Menu
This feature allows adjustment of the layout and hierarchy of all submenus in a single panel under the main menu’s data. Plus, Mega Menus automatically converts into Hamburger Menus on mobile, ensuring seamless navigation across devices.
AI Tools for Enhanced Productivity
Speed Up Your Workflow with New AI Tools
Regenerate Existing Images
Transform an existing image with a simple prompt while maintaining its core essence. Whether you want to introduce new elements or refresh its style, this tool gives you the flexibility to innovate effortlessly.
Create New Images from Existing Ones
Soon, users will be able to generate entirely new images based on their existing ones. This feature will expand creative possibilities, allowing users to build on what they already have and explore new visual directions.
Make Quizzes for Online Programs
Engage your users by turning content from your online programs into interactive quizzes. This tool helps you create quizzes that test knowledge and keep users engaged, enhancing the learning experience.
Generate FAQ Sections for Site Pages
Simplify the process of creating FAQ sections with our new AI tool. It automates the repetitive task of compiling FAQs, ensuring that visitors’ common questions are thoroughly addressed, saving time and effort.
Business Solutions
Wix has introduced several notable updates to enhance its business solutions across various domains.
Wix eCommerce
The revamped Slider Gallery now offers mobile settings and better design control over navigation, allowing for visually stunning presentations on any device.
Additionally, Wix has made it possible to apply Buy X Get Y discounts, expanding promotional capabilities for users. To add more dynamism to product pages, new UI slots for widgets have been added across product, category, and checkout pages.
Wix Bookings
Wix has launched an omnichannel sales solution with its native Retail POS, providing a seamless shopping experience across various channels. The improved email capabilities for Bookings ensure better communication with clients, and soon, users will be able to send a wider variety of SMS notifications.
Additionally, managing team payments has become more efficient with the introduction of a native Payroll calculator app.
Wix Events
Creating recurring events has been simplified with an improved setup process that allows users to create them in one go. In the near future, Wix users will also be able to embed rich content into event descriptions, enhancing engagement and the information provided to attendees.
CMS
Content management on Wix has become more intuitive with the ability to edit and manage CMS collections directly from the live site using the new Manage Item page. Moreover, CMS Expressions now allow users to combine static text and dynamic values seamlessly, creating complex strings of text without any coding.
Online Programs
Wix has made it easier to add multimedia content to courses by allowing users to upload videos directly to Online Programs from Wix Video, thus enhancing the engagement of online programs.
Analytics
Tracking key statistics is now more straightforward with the new Analytics Highlights page, which provides a clear overview of performance metrics and helps users make informed decisions to drive their business forward.
These updates highlight Wix's commitment to enhancing user experience, fostering creativity, and improving business operations.
Stay tuned for more exciting developments as Wix continues to evolve and innovate.
