Stackable’s roadmap give us and you guys an idea of where the product is headed. For us, roadmap are living documents that adapt with people’s feedback, needs and circumstances. We’ve solidified our direction and also updated our roadmap. Here are the things that have changed.
Direction of Stackable
We have had a number of fruitful chats with Stackable users and non-users during last WordCamp Asia 2025 where we were a sponsor (a retrospective article is still on the way). And we got to know people’s workflows, their preferences, reasons why they built custom blocks, why they used solutions, etc. Based from all of those discussions, we have made careful adjustments to our roadmap.
What we envision is that when you are creating a new website, usually the first step is to install/configure/create a block theme, and then immediately afterwards, Stackable can be there to help right away. This might be a simple statement, but this mindset would mean that we would need a few things:
- Full theme.json support – Stackable will inherit things from your block theme. When you add a Stackable button, it will look like a native button, but with more controls.
- A standardized and global design system – No more designing block-by-block. Just design once, and the rest of your blocks/site will have the same design.
- A more usable Design Library – We will be focusing on providing more “layout” and wireframe type of designs. Designs will not look alien from your site, it will adapt to what your site already looks like.
With the above, Stackable will no longer be just a mere provider of “more advanced blocks”. Instead, Stackable will be the essential companion for the Block Editor for building complete sites.
Now on to the roadmap changes!
Adjustments in the Roadmap
Where we left off
We left off the previous roadmap with the Repeater Block and Forms Block as the next items to be tackled. We were in the middle of developing the Repeater Block and were having some progress. However, the Repeater Block was posing to be quite a challenge to finish, and instead was actually hindering the development of other things we want to accomplish.
Because of this, we have decided to skip on the Repeater Block for now and pursue other things that we feel are more direly needed by the community.
This is not to say that we will no longer be doing these blocks anymore, we will still be exploring these, but we have just delayed them for now.
Other adjustments
We’ve gone ahead and pushed through with some of the new features which were further ahead in the previous roadmap. These are now finished:
- Granular Plugin Settings
- Icon Library (a new addition)
- Global Design System (a must read!)
- Global Color Scheme (a new addition, if you love class-based design, then you’ll love this one!)
In line with the direction above, we’ve added in a new entry for Theme.json Support – which at this time of writing, is currently undergoing QA and testing.
Check out the full roadmap here.
