Roadmap and Focus for 2023  [[3. Resources/Readwise/Full Document Contents/Articles/Roadmap and Focus for 2023|Full Document Contents]] ## Document Notes point: 1. Strategic Priorities: The document outlines three strategic priorities for 2023: leveraging technology, creating a superior customer experience, and empowering employees for success. a. Leveraging Technology: The document proposes incorporating digital tools and analytics to increase efficiency and improve decision-making. b. Creating a Superior Customer Experience: The document outlines strategies to expand customer service and provide a better overall customer experience. c. Empowering Employees for Success: The document emphasizes the importance of providing employees with the resources, skills, and support needed to succeed. 2. Goals and Objectives: The document outlines a set of goals and objectives to guide 2023 initiatives. a. Enhancing Productivity: The document proposes increasing productivity and efficiency by leveraging technology and automation. b. Streamlining Processes: The document outlines strategies to streamline processes and reduce costs associated with operations. c. Improving Communication: The document proposes improving communication between departments, customers, and stakeholders to increase collaboration and productivity. 3. Resources: The document outlines the resources required to achieve the goals and objectives outlined. a. Financial Resources: The document proposes investing in technology, tools, and resources to support the 2023 initiatives. b. Human Resources: The document outlines strategies to improve the recruitment, retention, and development of employees. c. Technical Resources: The document proposes investing in digital tools and resources to support the 2023 initiatives. This document outlines the roadmap and focus for 2023 with the goal of improving our platform and accelerating user success. It details new features currently being developed, including Global Community content manager, developers, feature requests, custom icons, pop-ups, widgets, custom layouts, and more. It also explains how users can share feature requests and what elements will be improved, such as server response time, marketing tools, forums, customization, and Woocommerce. Lastly, it discusses the introduction of a new UI to provide users with the best experience. 1. What new features are being introduced in 2020 and beyond? 2. What type of customizations are available for the widgets and icons? 3. What is the timeline for the new UI and how will it improve the user experience? > [!note]+ Document Notes > point: > > 1. Strategic Priorities: The document outlines three strategic priorities for 2023: leveraging technology, creating a superior customer experience, and empowering employees for success. > a. Leveraging Technology: The document proposes incorporating digital tools and analytics to increase efficiency and improve decision-making. > b. Creating a Superior Customer Experience: The document outlines strategies to expand customer service and provide a better overall customer experience. > c. Empowering Employees for Success: The document emphasizes the importance of providing employees with the resources, skills, and support needed to succeed. > > 2. Goals and Objectives: The document outlines a set of goals and objectives to guide 2023 initiatives. > a. Enhancing Productivity: The document proposes increasing productivity and efficiency by leveraging technology and automation. > b. Streamlining Processes: The document outlines strategies to streamline processes and reduce costs associated with operations. > c. Improving Communication: The document proposes improving communication between departments, customers, and stakeholders to increase collaboration and productivity. > > 3. Resources: The document outlines the resources required to achieve the goals and objectives outlined. > a. Financial Resources: The document proposes investing in technology, tools, and resources to support the 2023 initiatives. > b. Human Resources: The document outlines strategies to improve the recruitment, retention, and development of employees. > c. Technical Resources: The document proposes investing in digital tools and resources to support the 2023 initiatives. > > This document outlines the roadmap and focus for 2023 with the goal of improving our platform and accelerating user success. It details new features currently being developed, including Global Community content manager, developers, feature requests, custom icons, pop-ups, widgets, custom layouts, and more. It also explains how users can share feature requests and what elements will be improved, such as server response time, marketing tools, forums, customization, and Woocommerce. Lastly, it discusses the introduction of a new UI to provide users with the best experience. > > 1. What new features are being introduced in 2020 and beyond? > 2. What type of customizations are available for the widgets and icons? > 3. What is the timeline for the new UI and how will it improve the user experience? ## Highlights - Chapter 1: : Introduction to the Elemental Roadmap and Focus Event •The Elemental roadmap and focus event is the first of a series planned for 2023. •The Next Generation editor has been improved to create more stable and efficient releases faster. •The positive changes in the latest releases are evident and the platform is committed to continuously improving. •Quarterly roadmap events will be held to keep users updated on progress and gather feedback for feature requests. •The Elemental Community has grown by 12% in the past year to 158,000 members and hosted over 160 community-held events in 2022. •A team of community-facing experts will be active throughout the year to help users achieve their goals. •Key community members will be actively engaged and available to help users achieve their goals. •Customer experience is an important topic and it is Elementor's duty to ensure that their experience is nothing short of exceptional. •Tier 2 customer experience Engineers are in place to support and strengthen the community. •The overall satisfaction rating for the last year was 4 out of 5 with 7 excellent experiences for every 10 customers. •There are plans to bring customer experience closer to the community and social media to Chapter 2: : The Importance of WordPress Relations •Miriam, the newly appointed head of WordPress relations, has been involved in the WordPress community since 2007 and has a passion for the community. Her role is to further strengthen the relationship between Elementor and the WordPress community. •There are key team members at Elementor who are already contributing to WordPress in various ways, such as contributing to core plugins, themes, and translations. •The relationship between Elementor and WordPress is important, and it is a big responsibility for Elementor as a big part of the WordPress ecosystem. •Miriam can be found at Work Camp Asia, speaking on a panel about building WordPress communities in your country. She can also be found on the Post Status Slack, the Make WordPress Slack, and Twitter. Her DMs are open, and she is approachable and a friendly face for the community. •Elementor is committed to providing proactive support with weekly posts on the most common questions and daily posts. Users can contact the dedicated team of Elementorists in various communities for assistance. •The Elementor Show of 2022 competition was a huge success with amazing websites submitted by talented web creators. There were five categories: portfolio, experimental, landing page, e-commerce, and content. Winners were announced, and the winning websites can be viewed on the Elementor website showoff page. The Elementor Show of 2023 competition is open for submissions, and the website of the month will be announced every month on the Elementor Instagram channel. •In 2022, Elementor was used on over 12.7 million live websites, with two and a half million of those being new websites built that year alone. Elementor had to work on building a stronger foundation, revisiting the code to make it more compatible with new features, and laying a new foundation for technologies that will accompany Elementor in the future. Elementor also focused on performance improvements, introducing over 10 new performance improvements to enable web creators to build websites that load faster. Finally, Elementor focused on more reliable releases and reevaluated its testing processes to ensure that releases don't break websites and are compatible with third-party add-ons Chapter 3: : Elemental Core Enhancements in 2023 •Aligning features and enhancing existing ones: To ensure consistency throughout all features and extend their capabilities, Elementor will be going back to basics and enhancing existing features, such as the ability to disable Google fonts for GDPR compliance, adding new custom options, expanding pop-ups, and providing a more consistent UI and functionality. •Fixing missing basic functionalities: To address missing basic functionalities, Elementor will introduce a 3-1-1 responsive background image selection and work on alignment issues for read more, add to cart, and icon list features. •Improving user experience: Elementor will continue to improve the user experience by introducing the ability to save as a default and copy-paste between domains in version 11. •Adding missing functionalities: Elementor will also add missing functionalities, such as dynamic content, custom icons, and more, to ensure consistency across all widgets and improve user experience. Chapter 4: : Introduction to Elementor's Performance Improvements •Performance is a top priority for Elementor, and they have been working hard to improve it in the past year. •There are two main pillars of performance: performance improvements that Elementor can implement in the editor, and best practices that web creators can implement when building a site. •Google Chrome team has introduced web vitals, and there are three main core files that measure the actual browsing experience: LCP, FID, and CLS. •Elementor plans to introduce post caching using CDNs and improve their infrastructure to serve better performance for their hosted websites. •They will also make additional improvements to how Elementor generates its output, such as improving asset loading, extending lazy loading performance experiments, and improving server response time. •To encourage web creators to utilize best practices, Elementor recommends activating performance experiments and using the Performance Lab plugin created by the WordPress performance team. •By following these best practices and activating these features, Elementor has seen significant improvements in LCP and TBT metrics in 2022. •They plan to continue improving performance in 2023 and enhance the product experience. Chapter 5: : Containers and Nested Elements •Flexible containers are a new layout structure in Elemento that allow for creating pixel-perfect responsive designs and advanced layouts quickly with less markup, reducing DOM output and improving performance. •Containers allow for nesting containers inside containers, enabling full design flexibility. •The move to containers from sections and columns is gradual and a huge change, with over 12 million users currently using section and columns. Therefore, the change needs to be done carefully to ensure readiness for this big change. •The container feature status is now beta, meaning it can be used freely on websites. •The nested elements empower users to place any element inside another widget, unlocking full design flexibility and enhancing what each widget is capable of doing. •The nested elements work with the containers, and revamping and creating new widgets with nesting capabilities will be done once the containers are stable. •The benefits of nested elements include improving design flexibility and creativity. •Tabs, or "necess tabs", will replace the current tabs widgets, allowing for complete freedom in designing and configuring each tab. •Tabs can be positioned on the top, bottom, either side, and justified, with additional responsive settings. •Each tab item can have an icon, with controls for positioning and size, as well as normal, hover, and active states for typography, colors, and more. Chapter 6: : Nested Elements and Loop Builder •The nested tabs widget allows you to define styles for a container that is carried across each tab, including adding borders, colors, and rounded corners. •You can change the text, icon, and content within each tab, giving complete control over design freedom. •The mega menu widget allows you to create a menu with nesting capabilities, including deciding where to enable a content area and placing any widget that fits your menu design within it. •The loop builder gives you full control over the layout and style of your archive page, allowing you to design the main item template and create custom post types. •The loop grid widget allows you to create a grid archive to populate with your post and style it the way you want, using dynamic content to present custom post types. •You can choose the sourc ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gtsb5mvjbfbtb58mcsaqaj6m))