This release brings some of our most requested improvements yet, making it easier to share, organize, and collaborate in Makeswift. From shareable preview links and design system organization to our new early access updates to the pages sidebar, these features are designed to help your team work faster and more seamlessly.

Shareable preview links

The latest version of the Makeswift runtime, 0.25.0, now allows you to create and share preview links of your site with both internal and external stakeholders. Clicking the new "Share" button at the top of the builder will immediately create a new preview link and open a dialog to copy and configure the link.

Recipients of the link will be able to view and navigate the latest draft state of your site directly on the site’s domain, without any changes needing to be published. When creating a preview link, you can also set it to be public. This allows the link to be viewed by anyone, regardless of whether they are a member of your workspace.

Along with sharing the current draft state of your site, you can also share preview links for scheduled publishes and past publishes. Learn more about using and sharing preview links.

Design system organization

You can now completely customize how your site colors and text styles are organized. The Design tab in the left sidebar now supports dragging these design tokens to create a custom sort order. How you sort your design tokens will be exactly how they’re displayed within all color and text style pickers within the builder.

You can also easily group colors and text styles into folders when naming them. For example, naming a color swatch “Brand / Primary” and another “Brand / Accent” will automatically create a folder labeled “Brand” which can be toggled open and closed to display the “Primary” and “Accent” colors.

Teams now have full control to place more commonly used colors and text styles first, eliminating the need to browse through long lists when searching for specific design tokens. Learn more about organizing your design system.

Component and element descriptions

The latest runtime version now includes the ability to add descriptions to any custom component and custom control. These descriptions are displayed as visually rich popovers where your developers can add images, headings, text, and links to provide detailed information to marketers and designers. Learn more about adding descriptions to your custom components.

Early access features

Try out upcoming Makeswift features before they’re fully released by enabling them in the new “Early access” section of Settings. Experiment, share feedback, and help shape the future of the platform.

Pages sidebar updates

Our first early access feature is a major update to the pages sidebar. The pages sidebar has been redesigned to make navigation simpler and more intuitive. Pages are now automatically sorted by their URL, giving you a clearer view of your site’s structure without needing to manually organize them by name. In addition, pages with the same path prefix (e.g. /about/locations and /about/team) are automatically grouped into folders, similar to colors and text styles.

The new pages sidebar doesn’t use Collections, which is why we’ve released it as an early access feature. Opt in whenever your team is ready to make browsing and managing your content easier as your site grows.

Cross-site copy and paste

We’ve added an improved workflow when copying content from one Makeswift site to another, allowing you to easily re-map site resources like links, images, colors, text styles, and global elements. When you paste your content into a different site, you’ll be shown a dialog displaying each resource being copied, grouped by type. You can select how to import each resource into the destination site.

This solves the issue of resources still being connected and mistakenly changed from the original site. It also makes it much easier and less tedious to remap copied resources. Learn more about copying and pasting across sites.

Improvements and fixes

• Decreased loading time when navigating between pages in the builder.
• Added more granular controls for text properties. Font size, line-height, and letter spacing can now use decimal values of 0.01 instead of just 0.1.
• The sidebar toggle button was redesigned to better integrate it into the builder toolbar.
• Fixed an issue where if a user collapsed the the left sidebar and reloaded the browser, the sidebar would initially load opened, and then close.
• Added more visual affordance when hovering over the right edge of the left sidebar, letting the user know it could be dragged.
• Show SSO option when signing up or logging into Makeswift via an invite.
• Fixed a styling issue in the left sidebar tabs when the sidebar width was made small.
• Fixed focus ring showing on click for modal close buttons.
• Fixed timeout issue when opening a site with many localized pages in the builder.