Creative Elements 2.13 : PrestaShop 9 Support, New Page Builders and More

Creative Elements 2.13: Expanding Horizons with PrestaShop 9 Support, New Page Builders, and More!

We are thrilled to announce the release of Creative Elements 2.13, a landmark update packed with exciting new features, expanded compatibility, and a host of enhancements designed to elevate your PrestaShop store-building experience. This version introduces full support for PrestaShop 9 and the new Hummingbird theme, alongside powerful new page builders for Brands, Suppliers, and CMS Categories. We've also added a suite of new widgets and dynamic tags to give you even finer control over your store's design and functionality.

Seamless Compatibility: PrestaShop 9 & Hummingbird Theme Support

Creative Elements 2.13 is now fully compatible with the latest PrestaShop 9, ensuring you can leverage the newest features and improvements of the PrestaShop platform. Additionally, we're excited to announce full support for the modern and fast Hummingbird theme, allowing you to build stunning, high-performance storefronts with ease.

Hummingbird with Creative Elements

Introducing New Page Builders: Brands, Suppliers & CMS Categories

Expanding on our comprehensive suite of page builders, version 2.13 brings you even more control over your store's specialized content pages.

  • Brands Page Builder: Create unique and engaging landing pages for each brand you carry. Showcase brand stories, highlight best-selling products, and design layouts that reflect each brand's identity.
  • Suppliers Page & Supplier Listing Page Builder: Craft detailed suppliers page and an organized supplier listing page. This is perfect for marketplaces or stores wanting to provide transparency about their suppliers.
  • CMS Category Page Builder: Take control of your CMS category pages. Design custom layouts to present your content pages (like blog categories or help sections) in a more user-friendly and visually appealing manner.
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Jewelry – Left Sidebar
Jewelry – Highlights
Jewelry – Left sidebar
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Simplified Blogging and Enhanced Trust with CMS, Brands & Suppliers Pages

We know that not every store needs a full-featured blogging engine or publishes new content every week. That's why the enhanced CMS Category Page Builder and new widget suite are especially useful for merchants who want to keep content simple, timeless, and effective.

CMS as a Lightweight Blog Alternative

If you're in a field where updates are infrequent—or you simply don’t have the time to write new blog posts every month—your PrestaShop CMS system can be a surprisingly powerful solution. While it doesn't automatically display an article's author or publication date, this can actually be a benefit:

When older content appears with outdated timestamps, it can wrongly suggest a neglected site—even when you're actively maintaining it. By using the Pages, Articles, and CMS Categories widgets in Creative Elements 2.13, you can build elegant, timeless layouts that highlight your knowledge and content without drawing attention to age-sensitive details.

This makes it easier than ever to create attractive resource pages, help sections, simple blog listings, or evergreen content hubs—without needing a complex blogging platform.

Build Trust Through Transparency

For stores that work with brands and suppliers, the new page builders and widgets open the door to meaningful transparency.

Customers trust stores that show expertise and care. By offering well-designed, informative pages for your suppliers and brand partners, you communicate professionalism and build credibility. Whether it’s supplier details, brand stories, or curated product lists, these dedicated pages help reinforce your authority and reliability.

With Creative Elements 2.13, you’re not just customizing layouts—you’re shaping trust.

Powerful New Widgets for Enhanced Content Display

To complement the new page builders and enhance existing functionalities, we've introduced a set of versatile new widgets:

  • Articles Widget: This central widget is a true powerhouse, capable of dynamically showcasing a wide range of content from across your store. Use it to display CMS pages (like blog entries or news), product categories, brands, suppliers, or even CMS content categories. It features flexible layouts (grid, masonry, inline) and offers deep customization for images, titles, sub-titles (such as meta-data or read time), excerpts and call-to-action buttons, ensuring a perfect fit for your design needs.
  • Brands Widget: Purpose-built to elegantly feature your store's brands. This widget simplifies the display of brand logos and names, making it easy to create appealing brand showcases that link directly to their respective pages.
  • Suppliers Widget: Ideal for stores wanting to highlight their suppliers. This widget is designed to dynamically present supplier information, such as names and logos, and can link to detailed supplier pages, enhancing transparency and trust.
  • Subcategories Widget: Enhance your store's navigation by clearly listing subcategories. This widget is perfect for guiding customers deeper into your product offerings on category pages.
  • Pages Widget: Provides a straightforward way to list CMS pages. A key use case is on CMS Category pages, where it can automatically display the CMS pages belonging to the current category, creating organized and context-aware content listings.

These new widgets provide essential tools for populating your new Brands, Suppliers, and CMS Category page layouts, and for adding richer, more structured content to any page on your PrestaShop store.

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Brands page - Logos with names
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Enhanced Scrolling: Unified Design & Dynamic Control

Creative Elements 2.13 brings significant improvements to how users interact with scrollable content, focusing on both visual consistency and enhanced functionality:

Unified Scrollbar Design

We've standardized the appearance and behavior of scrollbars across several key widgets, including Quick View, Tabbed Section, Filters, Active Filters, Shopping Cart, Category List, and the Image Gallery. This unification provides a cleaner, more consistent user experience throughout your store.

New Dynamic Scroll Tag for Advanced Navigation

A powerful new dynamic tag has been introduced, unlocking advanced scrolling capabilities. This tag allows you to:

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Laundry
Dining
Kitchen
Bathroom

These scrolling enhancements are designed to refine the user journey on your site, making content interaction smoother, more intuitive, and visually harmonious.

Backoffice Enhancements for a Smoother Workflow

We're continually looking for ways to improve your experience in the PrestaShop backoffice:

  • Overview Dashboard Widget: Get a quick glance at Creative Elements news and recently edited contents directly on your PrestaShop dashboard.
  • Quick Edit Icons in Theme Settings: Jump directly into editing your templates with convenient new quick edit icons, saving you time and clicks.
Quick Edit Icons in Theme Settings

Key Enhancements and Optimizations

Beyond the major new features, Creative Elements 2.13 includes numerous tweaks and improvements for better performance, user experience, and design flexibility:

  • Video & Image Optimization: Benefit from new preload options for self-hosted videos and the first image in background slideshows, plus lazy loading for background videos to improve page speed.
  • Enhanced Widgets: The Image Gallery widget now features Scroll Snap, while Filters and Shopping Cart widgets get new box shadow options. The Shopping Cart widget also receives Sidebar Width & Summary Position options.
  • WEBP Support: Product, Category and Brand Images dynamic tags now support the modern WEBP image format for better quality and compression.
  • New Dynamic Tags: Utilize the new Supplier Name and Supplier URL dynamic tags for even more content flexibility.

These are just a few of the many refinements in this release designed to make Creative Elements more powerful and intuitive.

Creative Elements 2.13 empowers you to build even more comprehensive and customized PrestaShop stores, now with the assurance of PrestaShop 9 and Hummingbird theme compatibility. Explore the new page builders, leverage the new widgets and dynamic tags, and enjoy a smoother, more efficient design process.

Dive in and experience the enhanced capabilities of Creative Elements 2.13 today! Click here to view the full changelog.

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