Blueprint

Explore our vision for the year ahead—key milestones, upcoming features, and the innovations shaping Amplify. Stay informed as we build a better experience for your organization and others.

In 2026, we’re focused on helping organizations turn their content into conversations. Our work this year centers on AI-powered tools for WordPress that make it easier for audiences to explore an organization’s knowledge—and for editors to work more efficiently within Amplify.

  • AI Conversations: Tools that allow visitors to ask questions and have meaningful conversations with your site. By indexing an organization’s content, Amplify enables AI to respond with answers grounded in their research, expertise, and published work.
  • AI-Powered Search & Summaries: Support for siloed, topic-specific searches enhanced with AI-generated summaries. These experiences help users quickly understand complex topics while still providing clear paths to the underlying source content.
  • Internal AI Tools for Editors: New internal tools that help editors and teams ask questions about the Amplify framework itself—surfacing documentation, best practices, and answers directly inside their workflow.
  • Animations & Storytelling: Continued investment in digital storytelling with a new Animation block, offering more flexible, powerful tools for creating motion-driven narratives and interactive moments.
  • Core Blocks & Authoring Enhancements: Ongoing improvements to Amplify’s core blocks, including new format options and usability enhancements that make authoring faster, clearer, and more flexible.

As we continue to build, we’re also keeping a close eye on developments in WordPress and Gutenberg to maintain long-term compatibility and future-proof the platform.

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2026

In Progress

AI Knowledge Hubs

Our AI tools allow audiences to ask questions and receive clear, contextual answers grounded in an organization’s own pages, research, media, and PDFs. These experiences extend beyond traditional search, offering AI-powered summaries and guided chat interactions that help users understand complex topics more quickly.

  • Chat – Tools for building guided chat experiences that evolve over time, building on previous questions and answers to create more intentional, narrative-driven interactions.
  • Search – Support for siloed, topic-specific searches enhanced with AI-generated summaries. These experiences help users quickly understand complex topics while still providing clear paths to the underlying source content.
  • Documentation & Support – New internal tools that help editors and teams ask questions about the Amplify framework itself. Surfacing documentation, best practices, and answers directly inside their workflow.

In Progress

Storytelling Animations

Amplify continues to invest in tools that help organizations tell clearer, more engaging digital stories. Building on our existing storytelling blocks, we’re introducing a new Animation block alongside expanded motion and interaction options that give teams more control over how content unfolds.

  • In View Block – Add a class to elements when they appear on the page so individual animations, like fade in or out, can be applied.
  • Color Swap – Change the site’s background color and text color when scrolling from section to section.
  • Text Animations – Animate a word or phrase with effects like typewriter, fade-in, fade-out, and more.

In Progress

Theme & Plugin Dashboards

We’re introducing a new set of dashboards across our theme and plugins to give users a centralized place to manage their tools. These dashboards will surface helpful information about your theme, make it easier to update settings, and streamline how you manage everything in one place. With a unified design system across all dashboards, the experience will feel seamless, consistent, and intuitive.

  • Theme Dashboard – A centralized hub to view theme details, manage settings, and keep everything up to date in one place.
  • Event & Teams Dashboard – An easy-to-use dashboard for managing events, team members, and related settings with a consistent, unified experience.

In Progress

Layout Enhancements

We’re refining Amplify’s core blocks to make authoring faster, more flexible, and more intuitive. These updates focus on improved formats, smarter defaults, and expanded customization options that help teams publish consistent, high-quality content with less effort.

  • Tooltips – New tooltip formatting allows authors to add inline context and explanations without interrupting the flow of content.
  • Container Queries – Support for container queries enables more responsive layouts that adapt to their parent container, not just the viewport.

2025

Completed

Enhanced Events

We’re making powerful updates to our events plugin to give users more flexibility and efficiency when managing events. The next iteration will allow users to separate date and time, making it possible to schedule events with or without a time association. Additionally, event locations will be seamlessly integrated with Google and Apple Maps, providing one-click directions for attendees. Lastly, we’re introducing recurring events, enabling users to create an event once and have it automatically repeat—streamlining event management like never before. 

  • Date & Time Flexibility – Schedule events with or without a time association by separating date and time fields.
  • Integrated Maps & Directions – Add event locations linked to Google and Apple Maps for one-click directions.

Completed

Storytelling Animations

Our storytelling animations bring your content to life with dynamic, full-screen slides. Create layered animations that stack seamlessly or slide over one another for smooth, engaging transitions. Enhance interactivity by swapping images based on text as it moves across the screen, ensuring a visually compelling experience that adapts to your narrative. Whether you’re crafting immersive reports, presentations, or digital stories, these animations provide a powerful way to captivate your audience.

  • Float Motion Block – Create as series of slides that change backgrounds based on objects that float in and out of view.
  • Sync Motion Block – Create a series of pinned slides – vertical or horizontal – that appear in sync on scroll.

Completed

Team Member Enhancements

We’re expanding the capabilities of our team member plugin to provide more flexibility and connectivity. The next update will include support for additional social channels, making it easier to showcase team members’ professional profiles. Additionally, organizations will be able to link team members to posts or custom post types, allowing them to credit contributors to content—even if they aren’t website admins. These enhancements ensure better visibility and recognition for your team’s work.

  • Non-Admin Association – Credit team members for their work without requiring website admin access.
  • Content Attribution – Link team members to posts or custom post types to showcase contributors.
  • Expanded Social Channel Support – Add more social platforms to team member profiles.

Completed

Event Location Details

Easily add and manage event locations with seamless mapping integration. Our enhanced location features ensure attendees can find venues effortlessly while simplifying event setup.

  • Custom Venue Details – Add venue names, addresses, and additional location notes.

Completed

Amplify Documentation Guides

We’re excited to announce the upcoming launch of comprehensive documentation and training guides for Amplify’s theme, plugins, and blocks. These resources will be designed to help users navigate and maximize the full potential of Amplify, offering step-by-step instructions, best practices, and in-depth explanations. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced developer, our guides will provide clear, accessible content to support you in customizing, building, and optimizing your site with ease. With these tools, you’ll be able to confidently leverage the power of Amplify to create seamless and impactful digital experiences.

  • Organization Account – Each Amplify user will have access to an account page where they can submit support tickets and feature requests.
  • Newsletters – Organizations will be able to opt into Amplify newsletters.
  • Documentation – Guides for each major feature of Amplify’s toolkit. Only available to Amplify members.

2024

Completed

Blocks, Blocks, Blocks

We’ve developed several custom blocks to extend WordPress’s Gutenberg editor, enhancing the tools already available to organizations. These custom blocks are designed to offer more flexibility and functionality, allowing users to create dynamic, engaging content with ease. By integrating seamlessly into the Gutenberg interface, our blocks help organizations optimize their workflows and improve the overall content creation experience, empowering users to build visually compelling websites without needing to write any code.

  • Select Query – Allow site admins to select an individual post or custom post to display.
  • Related Post Query – Return post content that relates directly to the post being viewed. If no content can be found, fallback to a standard query result.
  • Carousels – Allow admins to create static carousels that align with Gridible. As well as, create a carousel that is created dynamically from post content.
  • Accordion – Allow admins to place content in an accordion block that allows users to toggle open and closed the content details.

Completed

Amplify Theme Release

We’re excited to announce the release of the first version of our Amplify theme, a WordPress theme that is both organization and style agnostic. Designed to be flexible and versatile, Amplify provides the essential tools and features needed to help organizations of all kinds effectively tell their story. Whether you’re a non-profit, business, or creative team, Amplify offers the foundation to build a compelling online presence that aligns with your unique goals and values.

  • Theme – WordPress starter theme that contains all of the useful plugins – basic and premium – needed to create an immersive digital story.
  • Pattern Library – Full pattern library to help ease the content creation process.

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