ZIP AI changelog and version history

202615 releases

1. ZIP AI 0.0.18Latest

   Nov 5, 2026
   • New: Settings and Import pages in the ZIP AI menu, with a slimmer account menu and a warning before leaving unsaved changes.
   • New: Custom styles for your own colours and words, tag search for fonts and styles, and style cards showing each style’s real look.
   • Improvement: The brief goes straight to the Look step once answered, and waits for every must-answer question.
   • Improvement: A cleaner loading card while each design builds.
   • Fix: Fonts on your published site match the preview exactly, weights and styles included.

2. ZIP AI 0.0.17

   Nov 3, 2026
   • New: Pick your colours, fonts and style in three quick steps, with palettes found by tag and a live preview of each style.
   • New: Countdowns tick while you edit a page, and count in your business’s timezone.
   • Improvement: The build card names the section it is crafting as it goes.
   • Improvement: Close leaves the editor and the preview in one step.
   • Fix: The editor stays open and steady during a restyle, with undo held until it ends.
   • Fix: The Edit with ZIP AI link no longer shows on page previews.

3. ZIP AI 0.0.16

   Nov 2, 2026
   • Fix: Security hardening. The site’s ZipWP access token no longer reaches the browser.

4. ZIP AI 0.0.15

   Oct 29, 2026
   • New: ZIP AI has its own admin menu, with Code Snippets inside and starter ideas to ask for one.
   • New: Edit any live page with ZIP AI, with short guided tours through the preview, editor and chat.
   • Improvement: The brief sheet is grouped into sections, with Redo, and Continue waits for every [bracket].
   • Improvement: Skip a single brief question, and a guess you keep counts as your answer.
   • Improvement: Photos match the design you pick, and Close editor returns to that design’s preview.
   • Improvement: The build card shows each stage with a step-by-step percentage.
   • Fix: The out-of-credits notice shows up reliably and stays closed once you dismiss it.
   • Fix: Snippets made in chat report exactly what was created or updated.
   • Fix: A design grid keeps building after a dropped connection or a sleeping tab.
   • Fix: Smaller fixes to tooltips, the image popup, ZipWP prompts and loading the ZIP AI screen.

5. ZIP AI 0.0.14

   Oct 12, 2026
   • New: One clear out-of-credits notice, with an Upgrade plan button, wherever a request is refused.
   • Improvement: The colour picker opens on the Hex field, so you can type a colour code straight away.
   • Fix: The page editor keeps your edits through reloads, restyles, a second tab or closing the page.
   • Fix: Vibe Editor edits apply once, only to the blocks you picked, never to shared patterns.
   • Fix: Undo works as expected while typing and after an AI edit.
   • Fix: Skip all ends the brief quiz, and an answer we guessed is marked “Our guess”.
   • Fix: Previews and uploads are locked down, keeping your admin session safe.

6. ZIP AI 0.0.13

   Oct 6, 2026
   • New: Refine button turns your description into a structured brief; the brief box is now resizable.
   • Improvement: The brief quiz asks only what you know, one question at a time, with suggestions filled in, example hints and a title matching your site type.
   • Improvement: ZIP AI and Import HTML / ZIP no longer carry a Beta label.
   • Fix: The brief no longer leaks skipped answers or sample text into the built site, shifts tiles while you type, or repeats text in a field.
   • Fix: Smooth hover effects on cards after their scroll animation.
   • Fix: Design cards and the style dock show each design’s own name and a preset’s label.

7. ZIP AI 0.0.12

   Sep 30, 2026
   • New: Restyle your whole site’s design in any look, right from the vibe editor.
   • New: Open the assistant full screen from the Appearance menu.
   • Improvement: A smoother website build flow: preview each design, pick one and vibe edit it before you build.
   • Improvement: The brief opens instantly, asks what a business like yours needs, and fills itself in.
   • Improvement: Hover any build step to see what it is doing and how far along it is.
   • Improvement: Bring-your-own AI models default to GPT-6 Luna Pro.
   • Fix: Selecting, typing or pasting in the editor no longer changes your design or hides your text.
   • Fix: Retry on a failed design preview always retries, or tells you why it can’t.
   • Fix: The brief sheet no longer flickers, and removing any tile works the first time.
   • Fix: Saving Settings > General no longer wipes ZIP AI’s settings.
   • Fix: Your chosen fonts apply again after you switch themes (needs Spectra 1.0.10).

8. ZIP AI 0.0.11

   Sep 21, 2026
   • New: Build a website from an editable brief sheet instead of one long description.
   • New: Design editor with a pages sidebar and previews, where you can add, delete or restore any page.
   • New: Pick a Look draws whole colour palettes for your site.
   • New: Lock a colour or type your own, and the palette is drawn around it.
   • New: Pick your site fonts and they apply across the whole site.
   • Improvement: Design cards paint the whole page, not only the hero.
   • Improvement: The build shows the step it is working on rather than a timer.
   • Improvement: Previews use your real header and footer, shown at actual size.
   • Improvement: Built and imported forms match your site’s own styling.
   • Fix: “Get more designs” brings you a fresh set, and the grid is sized for the designs coming.
   • Fix: Switching pages in the design editor keeps your editing context.
   • Fix: Undo and Redo dim while ZIP AI is editing, instead of looking available.
   • Fix: Hand edits keep their saved state when the history fills up.
   • Fix: Clear all chats now deletes the sessions it says it will.
   • Fix: The abilities layer no longer loads on every front-end page view.

9. ZIP AI 0.0.10

   Sep 3, 2026
   • New: A finished website build is celebrated with confetti and a “View my website” button.
   • Improvement: Branded confirm and alert dialogs replace the browser’s native pop-ups.
   • Fix: Imported pages keep their section spacing instead of collapsing edge to edge.

10. ZIP AI 0.0.9

    Aug 25, 2026
    • New: Pick a Look keeps every palette you generate per design, applies the whole color set when you switch, and Shuffle always returns fresh options.
    • New: Improve a single block inside a section, styled to match the section around it.
    • Improvement: UI improvements.
    • Fix: Clear Site Memory no longer removes your Personalized Memory.
    • Fix: Chat history is no longer cleared when a screen reloads.
    • Fix: The chat panel stays draggable on every screen, and its menus stay inside it.
    • Fix: Quick edits apply to the block you picked, on the page you have open.
    • Fix: Hand-picked brand colors are no longer replaced when the site is built.

11. ZIP AI 0.0.8

    Aug 17, 2026
    • New: Pick a Look — preview page designs and brand colors, adjust them, and choose before building your site.
    • New: Connect ZIP AI with external AI agents using MCP.
    • New: Support for SureRank, SureDonation, SureCookie, and SureMembers.
    • New: See live progress when making bulk changes.
    • New: Move the chat launcher, reset chat settings, and undo the last change.
    • New: Update outdated plugins with one click when needed for imports.
    • New: Imported headers and footers now work and remain editable on classic themes.
    • Improvement: Quick edits now apply to the correct page and location.
    • Improvement: Refreshed plugin theme — updated colors, icon, and overall UI.
    • Improvement: Stronger MCP security.

12. ZIP AI 0.0.7

    Jul 13, 2026
    • Improvement: UI improvements.

13. ZIP AI 0.0.6

    Jul 8, 2026
    • Fix: Issue regarding vendor files autoloading.

14. ZIP AI 0.0.5

    Jul 7, 2026
    • Public alpha release of ZIP AI.

15. ZIP AI 0.0.4

    Jul 2, 2026