PublishPress Revisions 4.2: Visual Compare Supports Elementor, Beaver Builder, Divi

This post is about a release of the PublishPress Revisions plugin. This plugin allows you safely manage changes to published posts in WordPress. You can approve all changes to posts and even schedule them to go live on a specific day.

PublishPress Revisions 4.2 is a practical workflow update with a standout improvement for Revisions Pro. The Visual Compare feature now works with Elementor, Beaver Builder and Divi 4. So if you’re using any of those page-builders, you’ll be able to compare what has changed when you update posts.

This release also makes everyday revision management clearer, with updated labels, better scheduling screens, improved preview reliability, and a broad set of accessibility fixes.

Visual Compare for Elementor, Beaver Builder, and Divi

Revisions Pro now has advanced support for Elementor, Beaver Builder and Divi 4. The Visual Compare feature is a new improvement inside WordPress. By default, the WordPress core gives you a visual comparison for changes in your content. In the Revisions Pro plugin you can now get that same feature for the Classic Editor plugin and your page-builders.

This screenshot below shows a post that was entirely built with Elementor. PublishPress Revisions Pro can clearly highlight all the suggested chanages in this revision. New content is marked in green. Deleted content is marked in red.

This next screenshot shows the revision to a post that was created with Beaver Builder. You can clearly see the proposed changes to your content.

Other improvements and fixes

• Page JavaScript in Visual Compare: Teams can enable page JavaScript behavior during comparisons, which can improve previews for interactive pages.

• Duplicate Posts terminology: The former Copy Posts actions and settings are now labeled Duplicate Posts, making the feature easier to recognize.

• More reliable revision reopening: Repeated revision creation now reopens the author’s existing revision instead of creating extra unsubmitted revisions.
• Better Scheduled Revisions lists: Scheduled Revisions now sort by upcoming publication date by default and use your WordPress date and time settings.
• Clearer revision workflow text: Submission, approval, publication method, and approver captions have been updated to better explain each step.
• Scheduling fixes: Schedule columns and cells are more reliable, including sites using legacy WP Cron scheduling or revisions created without Action Scheduler.
• More accurate schedule messages: Missed Schedule notices and Scheduled Revisions empty screens have been corrected around publication time and after completed or failed publications.
• Better previews and comparisons: Revision previews are less likely to miss page styles, and Visual Compare is less likely to match the wrong paragraphs after content is deleted.
• Editor cleanup: The release fixes repeated unsaved change prompts, JavaScript warnings, editor performance issues, WooCommerce button layout problems, and Decline Revision button styling.
• Accessibility and translation improvements: Keyboard access, focus indicators, tooltips, contrast, screen reader announcements, preview actions, editor controls, and Planner integration translations have been improved.

Developer improvements

• Visual Compare extension API: Revisions Pro now exposes an API intended for page builder integrations.
• WordPress action compatibility: The release corrects an argument type passed to the wp_after_insert_post action.
• SQL hardening: Preparation of revision status and ID lists has been tightened.
• Compatibility and packaging: User lookups are compatible with WordPress 5.5, plugin license headers are WordPress recognized, and ZIP package builds are supported through automated workflows.

This post provides an overview of the new features in this release of the PublishPress Revisions plugin. The complete changelogs for both Free and Pro versions are available in our Docs area.

Approve and schedule changes to your posts

PublishPress Revisions is the ultimate tool for making content changes in WordPress. This plugin offers a safe space for users to work on content updates.

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