We’re excited to announce the release of Voxel Toolkit 1.5.4, packed with powerful new widgets and features that expand what’s possible with your Voxel-powered websites. This update brings real-time messaging, visitor geolocation, SMS notifications, and much more.
Transform your site’s communication with our new social media-style floating chat widget. The Messenger Widget brings real-time, multi-chat functionality anywhere on your Voxel site, integrating seamlessly with Voxel’s native messaging system.
Users can now open up to 5 simultaneous chat windows, see unread message counts at a glance, and browse all their conversations with user avatars and message previews.
Every aspect is customizable—from the floating button’s size, position, and colors to chat window dimensions, message bubble styling, input areas, and the unread badge. The widget is fully responsive, automatically adapting to full-width chat windows on mobile devices.
Empower your community with the new Suggest Edits Widget. Users can now suggest edits to post fields, which go through an admin/author review system before being applied. This is perfect for directories, listings, and any community-driven content where accuracy matters.
The widget supports multiple field types including text, textarea, number, email, URL, phone, date, work hours, and location fields. You choose exactly which fields users can suggest edits for, and guest users can even submit suggestions with their email address.
A companion Pending Suggestions Widget displays the count of pending suggestions on the frontend, and a Voxel App Event triggers on new submissions for automated notifications.
Help users understand and manage their search filters with the new Active Filters Widget. This displays all active search filters as clickable tags that users can remove individually or clear all at once.
The widget automatically formats values in human-readable form (displaying “Price: $0 – $300” instead of raw URL parameters) and updates dynamically when Voxel’s AJAX filtering changes the URL—no page reload required. Choose between horizontal wrap or vertical stacked layouts, and customize every visual aspect from tag styling to the Clear All button.
Navigate your site hierarchy with the new Breadcrumbs Widget. It automatically detects and displays parent post/page chains, supports all content types including posts, pages, custom post types, taxonomies, archives, search results, and 404 pages.
SEO is built-in with JSON-LD schema markup (BreadcrumbList structured data), optional nofollow attributes, semantic HTML using nav and ol elements, and ARIA attributes for accessibility. Customize separators, visibility of home links and current page, maximum depth, and add optional prefix/suffix text.
Display your visitor’s location dynamically with the new Visitor Location feature. Choose between IP geolocation for automatic detection without user interaction, or browser geolocation for GPS-level accuracy (with user permission).
The IP detection mode queries three free services in parallel and uses a consensus algorithm to pick the best result. Browser mode leverages device GPS, WiFi, and cell towers for meter-level accuracy, with automatic fallback to IP geolocation if permission is denied.
Use the new dynamic tags anywhere on your site:
@site(visitor.location) – Full location (City, State for US / City, Country internationally)@site(visitor.city) – City name@site(visitor.state) – State/region@site(visitor.country) – Country name
Reach your users instantly with the new SMS Notifications feature. Integrate with Twilio, Vonage, or MessageBird to send SMS messages when Voxel app events occur.
Toggle SMS on or off per event directly in Voxel’s App Events page, use Voxel’s dynamic tags in your message templates, and send to users, admins, or custom destinations. The feature includes test SMS functionality and integrates with Admin Notifications to automatically send SMS to configured users.
We’ve added 8 new sharing options to Voxel’s share menu: Pinterest, Email, Threads, Bluesky, SMS, Line, Viber, and Snapchat. These integrate seamlessly using Voxel’s share-links filter and can be enabled via Voxel > Settings > Share menu.
Three powerful new dynamic tag modifiers expand your templating capabilities:
.sold() – Track total quantity sold for products with @post(id).sold().
.summary() – Generate email-friendly order summary tables with @order(id).summary(). Perfect for order confirmation emails, this outputs an HTML table with product names, quantities, prices, booking details, addon support, and grand totals.
.generate_qr_code() – Generate QR codes from URLs with optional logo overlay. Use in an Elementor HTML widget with full control over logo, colors, button text, quality (up to 3000px), and filename.
A new admin page at Voxel Toolkit > Tag Usage helps you track every dynamic tag across your site. It scans all Elementor data to detect @post(), @user(), @site(), @author(), and @current_user() tags—including those with modifiers.
Features include live search filtering, location display showing where each tag is used, one-click copy to clipboard, usage count badges, and direct edit links. Results are sorted by usage count so you can quickly see your most-used tags.
Display article voting statistics anywhere with four new dynamic tags:
@post(article_helpful_yes_count) – Number of “Yes” votes@post(article_helpful_no_count) – Number of “No” votes@post(article_helpful_total_votes) – Total votes@post(article_helpful_percentage) – Percentage of yes votesThe Review Collection Widget now includes comprehensive text alignment controls. Set responsive alignment (left, center, right, or justify) independently for post titles, star ratings, author sections, review content, and dates—with full support for desktop, tablet, and mobile breakpoints.
Voxel Toolkit 1.5.4 is available now. Update through your WordPress dashboard or download from your account. As always, we recommend backing up your site before updating.
Purchase the toolkit today and enhance your Voxel based site to the max!