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Goodbye, Kirki

David Vongries | Posted on April 26, 2023 |

Dear Kirki Users, It is with a heavy heart that we announce the sunsetting of the Kirki WordPress plugin. I have made the difficult decision to discontinue the development and support of Kirki. When I first acquired Kirki in early 2020, I had big plans for it. Although we were able to execute on step […]

Individual packages vs bundled plugin? Feedback wanted!

David Vongries | Posted on November 30, 2022 |

Hey everyone, David here with Kirki. We are currently discussing if it’s worth keeping Kirki as individual packages (that can be built using Composer) – or – if we should switch back to the idea of serving Kirki as a single, standalone plugin. I would love your thoughts on this in the comments below. Let […]

Kirki PRO is now live! 🚀

David Vongries | Posted on March 7, 2022 |

I’m excited to let you know that Kirki PRO is now live! 🥳 In this post I will go over the all the individual extensions that are now available in Kirki PRO. PRO Extensions All Kirki extensions are available as standalone packages that can be used on an unlimited amount of themes & plugins. There […]

Kirki 4 is now available

David Vongries | Posted on December 29, 2021 |

The day has finally come! I’m happy to let you know that Kirki 4 is now live on wordpress.org. What a tough ride this was. First of all, I want to thank Ari again for trusting us with this project and allowing us to take over Kirki in early 2020. Another big shoutout to Bagus, […]

Breaking Change in Kirki 4

David Vongries | Posted on November 25, 2021 |

We are going to release Kirki this month (November, 2021) and I want to bring one breaking change to your attention. If you have custom controls registered with Kirki, the following change needs to be implemented asap. Usually, when registering a custom control with Kirki, you would do something like this: This needs to be […]

Kirki 4 will break your Theme… 😕

David Vongries | Posted on November 3, 2021 |

…or at least there is a high chance for it to happen if you don’t test the current Beta right now! Now that I have your attention, Kirki 4 – Beta 2 is now available! 🥳 We’ve spent the past few weeks fixing issues reported in our Facebook group (please join!). Join the Conversation & […]

Kirki 4 is now in Beta

David Vongries | Posted on October 5, 2021 |

Hey everyone, I’m super excited to let you know that Kirki 4 is now in public Beta! In this article, I quickly want to highlight how to test Kirki 4, where to provide feedback and what the next steps are. Get involved – Test Kirki 4 To test Kirki 4 in your project, please download […]

Kirki 4 is in the works

David Vongries | Posted on September 9, 2021 |

Hey everyone, I’m happy to let you know that we have just started to work on Kirki 4! Ari Stathopoulos has left us with a great foundation and things are coming together nicely so far. Roadmap We are working on Kirki in stages. Currently, we focus on all the individual controls. Here is a list […]

The Current State of Kirki

David Vongries | Posted on December 17, 2020 |

Hey everyone, David here 🙂 For those who don’t know me, I’m the founder of MapSteps and the developer of the Page Builder Framework theme, Ultimate Dashboard, WP Swift Control and a few other WordPress plugins that help agencies & freelancers all around the world to build fast websites & provide their customers with the […]