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Today we added a new theme called Canvas. The new theme is essentially a white canvas, just like the ones used for painting. With it, we give you the freedom to build a website without guidance or restrictions. Every element can be unique, but you can also share styles and content across the site. In fact, the shared content functionality we recently added will help you create a header and footer - if your site needs them.

The Canvas theme is very suitable for:

You can achieve similar results with the Universal theme, but with Canvas, your site will be lighter and faster to load (within milliseconds, as the platform is optimized for speed). But perhaps the biggest difference will be in how it feels to use. With Canvas, you focus on what to add, whereas with Universal, you need to consider what happens to the other pages if you hide something.

All the themes we offer have strengths and weaknesses. It’s best to choose a theme while planning your website, but as you know, on Bear CMS, you can change the design at any time and keep your content.

Until next week, when we'll surprise you with another new feature.

We are excited to introduce yet another new feature that will make working with Bear CMS even easier and will allow you to create even higher-quality websites.

Starting today, you can create custom blocks with elements that can be added in multiple places on your site. We call this feature "Shared Content". Every time you change the content of a block, that change will be visible everywhere the block is used.

Here are a few examples of how you can use shared content:

Perhaps you already have other ideas for where you can use this new feature. We would love for you to share them with us in the comments below this article.

You can create your first shared content block from the "Elemens sets" menu (next to the button for creating new elements).

Today we're introducing another improvement related to content management on your website.

You can now archive elements that you don't currently need. In the toolbar of each element, you'll see a new button that allows you to send the selected element to the archive. You can view the archive using the new "Elements sets" button located next to the button for creating new items.

The archive is also useful when you want to move elements between different pages.

Stay tuned for more improvements in the coming weeks.

The next improvement we are pleased to present is an alternative view of all elements on a given page. Through it, you can easily see the position of each element relative to those around it. You can access it from the button located next to the one for creating a new element (the one with the "+" sign).

This view is especially useful when you have a structural element like a Container, Columns, or Floating content with many elements inside it. It is also helpful when you've added elements with a fixed position and are not sure exactly where they are. When you click on an element in this list, you'll be taken directly to it.

Below the button for creating a new element, there is another button. We have moved the link to the list of deleted elements there. You may have guessed already, but more features will be appearing there very soon.

See you soon.

Now you have the ability to send deleted elements to the trash. Naturally, this gives you the option to restore them to a location of your choice.

After you click the delete button for an element, you'll see the options "Delete forever" and "Move to Trash".

When you click the button to add a new element, at the very bottom you'll see the option "Restore deleted element". A screen will open where you can see the elements you've deleted. Each element has a "Restore" button, allowing you to retrieve it and place it in a location of your choice on the current page.

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this new feature in the comments below the post.