Blocs for Mac 6.3 is Coming ๐Ÿ‘€

We have been very busy over the summer preparing the next update of Blocs for Mac, which has a great mix of new features that will make building websites faster and easier.

In the past we usually share our feature teaser drops on our social media channels, but starting with Blocs for Mac 6.3, we will be sharing them directly here in the forum as well.

Blocs 6.3 Featured Announced So Farโ€ฆ

  1. Year and Date Short Code
  2. Global Image Alt Tag
  3. Asset Manager List View
  4. Global Find and Replace
  5. Generate Image Tags with AI
  6. Generate Image Description with AI
  7. Generate Images with Image Playground
  8. Adapt Image with Image Playground
  9. Generate Page Descriptions with AI
  10. AI Assistant Apple Intelligence support
  11. New Preview Mode Customisation Settings
  12. Wordpress Secondary Menu Support
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Canโ€™t wait. Hope to see some WordPress additions too :wink:

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Feature 1
This one is small but useful! Weโ€™ve added a brand new short-code that displays the current year and automatically updates without having to re-upload your website. Perfect for copyright notices.

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Very useful indeed. Thanks :folded_hands:

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Feature 2
Setting the description alt tag for images is essential for better accessibility, but this task can be very time consuming.

In Blocs for #Mac 6.3 you can now set the alt description for an image once in the Asset Manager and update all instances of that image across your entire website instantly.

You can also still override the global image description and set a custom description if you need to as well. :sweat_smile:

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I recently implemented a similar feature on some of my websites using Custom Interactions, but this is even better! Thanks!

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Thank you! I have been asking for this for a long time! :clap::clap::clap:

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Feature 3

The re-designed Asset Manager in Blocs for Mac 6 has been a hit, itโ€™s packed with time-saving features and a super flexible UI.

In Blocs for #Mac 6.3 we are adding even more flexibility with support to display assets in a list layout.

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Oh yes, Iโ€™m a list man myself (even leaning to one side typing this!).
well done team.

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Hi Norm:

Would also like to see the asset panel retain my last settings.

Every day I have to change the default setting to โ€œName Ascendingโ€ and resize my asset group list so I have three column view in the main manager window.

Thank you

Rich the Weather Guy

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Feature 4

We are always making improvements to the productivity features of Blocs.

In Blocs for #Mac 6.3 we have made various improvements to the Find and Replace feature as well as adding support for replacing text across an entire site.

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You just made a whole lot of people quite happy :smiley:

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Excellent!

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This release canโ€™t come fast enough. I know I will be putting it to work with minutes once I update.

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Great work !!! this is brilliant.

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All sorted, no more setting the ordering and sidebar sizes in Blocs 6.3 for you @WeatherguyNH :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

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Feature 5

With Blocs for #Mac 6.3 we will be integrating AI and ML (Machine Learning) into Blocs in some small but meaningful and useful ways.

Using the Vision ML framework on your Mac, we have added the ability to generate descriptive tags for images, with a click :sparkles:

P.S. Tags are also auto generated when you add a new image to the Asset Manager.

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Just wow. Didnโ€™t see this coming but this is brilliant @Norm.

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Feature 6

Of course we didnโ€™t just stop at generating image tags :smirking_face:

Thanks to Apples new Foundation Models introduced in MacOS 26, you can now generate an image description with a click too.

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Keep em coming guys. These are one by one golden additions to an already amazing piece of software. :heart_eyes: :heart_eyes: :heart_eyes: :heart_eyes:

And maybe some WordPress love? Pretty please :folded_hands: :wink:

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