Changelog

Released

New Template - Scalar

Jun 30, 2025

Rob Austin

Founder

Released

New Feature - Private Shadcn Registry

Jun 11, 2025

A highly anticipated and requested feature, All our Pro blocks are now available via the Shadcn registry.

Click the npx shadcn add button on any block page. This generates a CLI command with your unique auth token already appended.

Rob Austin

Founder

Released

Payblocks v2.1.0

Jun 1, 2025

Minor Changes

  • b51a0fb: integrated cta6 and feature57 with payload cms
  • 23a2d4c: Adding blog29 with dynamic data fetching

Patch Changes

  • 062a94f: Version bump nextjs and payload cms

Jannik Zinkl

Payblocks Product Lead

Released

New Product - Sanity CMS Boilerplate

Jun 1, 2025

Introducing our next CMS integration. A brand-new Sanity CMS + Next.js Boilerplate, a powerful foundation designed to transform how teams build dynamic marketing websites with Sanity CMS.

✨ Highlights of This Release:

Dynamic Page Builder in Sanity Empower non-technical users and marketers to create flexible, beautiful pages directly in Sanity. Choose from 70+ pre-built blocks, add, remove, and reorder components to craft unique landing pages — all without writing code. Includes 7+ prebuilt landing page demos to jumpstart your projects.

Next.js + Sanity CMS Boilerplate A production-ready starter kit built with Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Shadcn UI, and TypeScript. Deploy effortlessly to Vercel. Structured as a monorepo for clean separation of your Sanity Studio and Next.js frontend.

Beautiful Studio Experience Enjoy a polished Sanity Studio, featuring custom navigation via structure.ts, intuitive tabbed editing for complex documents, and a smooth editorial workflow tailored for marketers and content teams.

Rob Austin

Founder

Released

New Template - Sonic

May 30, 2025

Rob Austin

Founder

Released

Payblocks v2.1.0

May 27, 2025

Major Changes

  • df2e714: Upgraded Tailwind to v4.1.6

Minor Changes

  • 97c3148: Adding blogContent 20+18 and dynamic rendering structure to support posts. This is the first of several updates coming for blogs

Jannik Zinkl

Payblocks Product Lead

Released

Payblocks v1.10.0

May 23, 2025

Minor Changes

  • 3153929: Adding a fully dynamic navbar4 component that can be configured with a dynamic block structure

Jannik Zinkl

Payblocks Product Lead

Released

New Feature: shadcn/ui Themes

May 16, 2025

New Feature: Shadcn Themes — a powerful theming system that brings instant visual customization to your projects built with Shadcn UI and Tailwind CSS.

Seamless Theme Integration All blocks are constructed using Shadcn UI's official theme variables, ensuring that applying a new theme is as simple as updating your CSS.

Tailwind CSS v4 Compatibility With Tailwind CSS v4, theming is streamlined. Just replace the :root and .dark variables in your stylesheet to switch themes effortlessly.

Access to Professional Themes Choose from a curated collection of themes designed by top editors and generators, including: Shadcn Official, Tweakcn, StyleGlide and any editor that exports to the standard shadcn css variable format

Instant Visual Customization Apply any theme to your project instantly, giving you the flexibility to match your brand or experiment with new styles without extensive code changes.

Themes Overview

Rob Austin

Founder

Released

New Product - Admin Kit

May 16, 2025

Introducing the Shadcn Admin Kit — the professional dashboard starter for anyone building admin panels, SaaS apps, or internal tools with Shadcn UI and Tailwind CSS.

Complete Admin Dashboard Pages Dozens of fully designed pages ready to go — dashboards, user management, settings, billing, analytics, and more. Built with real shadcn/ui components to match your production codebase.

Complex UI Patterns Done For You Includes advanced data tables with filtering, sorting, pagination, bulk actions, context menus, and modals. Save weeks of dev time and focus on what matters.

Charts, Metrics, and Visualizations Pre-built chart components and KPI widgets designed for SaaS and admin interfaces. Visualize data clearly and consistently right out of the box.

Modern Tech Stack Built with Next.js 15, React 19, shadcn/ui (canary), and Tailwind CSS v4 — ensuring you’re using the latest and greatest tools.

Admin Overview

Rob Austin

Founder

Released

Payblocks v1.9.0

May 7, 2025

Minor Changes

  • 28b9ea5: Feature114 added

Patch Changes

  • 920ab7c: upgrade payload to 3.34.0 and nextjs to 15.3.0

Jannik Zinkl

Payblocks Product Lead

Released

New Product - Figma Kit for Shadcn UI

Apr 15, 2025

We're excited to launch the Figma Kit for Shadcnblocks.com — the ultimate design companion for anyone building with Shadcn UI and Tailwind CSS.

Here’s what’s inside:

Base shadcn/ui Components All components from shadcn/ui are available as a Figma component. Stay in sync with your codebase and design with confidence.

Detailed Blocks, Pixel-Perfect 300+ of our blocks have been meticulously recreated in Figma — using real shadcn/ui components and variables. Includes responsive views for Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile.

Design System Ready Includes Tailwind’s color palette, shadcn theme variables, typography scale, spacing system, and tokens. Build consistent, scalable designs without reinventing the wheel.

Figma Overview

Rob Austin

Founder

Released

New Feature - Shadcn Registry

Apr 14, 2025

All our free blocks are now shadcn registry enabled. They are available via the shadcn CLI using the npx shadcn add URL command.

Visit any block page and click the npx button to generate the command.

  • Please note our Pro blocks are not yet registry enabled, our team is working on a solution to support authentication via the official Shadcn CLI

Rob Austin

Founder

Released

Payblocks v1.8.0

Apr 11, 2025

Minor Changes

  • 74d3634: Adding hero112 and the new design version preview for all existing heros

Patch Changes

  • fbb2aeb: Fixing the language switcher sizing by allowing it to be set similar to the button sizes
  • 70dc4c6: version bump to payload 3.32

Jannik Zinkl

Payblocks Product Lead

Released

Payblocks v1.7.0

Mar 30, 2025

Minor Changes

  • 2fb41fc: A new custom component to select the block design version in a visual way in a modal
  • 3ef049b: Adding Gallery5
  • d55d305: Moving design version preview to a drawer + using more official payload CSS classes to better support dark mode

Jannik Zinkl

Payblocks Product Lead

Released

Payblocks v1.6.0

Mar 21, 2025

Minor Changes

  • 31f7132: Adding functionality to the permissions system. This allows fine-granular access to certain payload functionality on group level.

Patch Changes

  • 1df4fcb: Hide the roles field in the create user screen
  • 59c5706: Version bump of all packages
  • 1fdbf1e: upgrading all packages, next, payload and deps to the most recent version

Jannik Zinkl

Payblocks Product Lead

Released

Feature - Astro Templates

Mar 19, 2025

✨ New: Astro Templates Now Available

We’re excited to announce that all of our premium templates are now available in Astro versions. Enjoy blazing-fast performance and modern web architecture with your favorite designs, fully optimized for Astro’s lightweight framework.

Templates

Rob Austin

Founder

Released

New Product - Payload CMS Boilerplate

Mar 4, 2025

Our team is super excited to announce one of our special projects. "Payblocks" - a Payload CMS Boilerplate integrated with hundreds of pre-built shadcn/ui blocks.

This release is the result of hundreds of hours of development, designed not just as a world-class Payload CMS starter, but as an innovative solution to the long-standing challenge of building flexible, "unstructured" landing pages in a Headless CMS.

Payload CMS

Rob Austin

Founder

Released

Feature - Tailwind 4 Upgrade

Feb 19, 2025

We've upgraded all our components to Tailwind 4.

  • Upgrade to Tailwind 4.
  • Upgrade to use latest shadcn/ui components from the npx shadcn@canary add command.
  • Provide example Tailwind 4 .css file in the docs.

Rob Austin

Founder

Released

Payblocks v1.5.0

Feb 19, 2025

Minor Changes

  • df51984: Move dump file to public folder and adapt to new backup version. Also add media seeding.
  • 4f859d5: update seed description and remove NEXT_PUBLIC_DEMO_DASHBOARD_CREDENTIALS from .env.example
  • 9db5bfa: Add functionality to backup media files

Patch Changes

  • 1040aef: patching static params for more efficient fetching and fixing split view item positioning to be centered

Jannik Zinkl

Payblocks Product Lead

Released

Payblocks v1.4.0

Feb 10, 2025

Minor Changes

  • b5f7bb4: Minor cleanup for users collection / access functions and making sure, that editor users can't edit other users.
  • 8509792: Adding changelog1 including functionality to fetch changelog items from github.
  • c305e1e: Adding FAQ5 and fixing the selection of faqs in the admin ui
  • 0be7bd1: Remove not implemented blocks from dropdown
  • df2be8a: Add language switcher to mobile navi 1 and 5
  • d301083: Add demo login user credentials

Patch Changes

  • a221118: Fix backups: move from json to bson. Sorting backups by uploadedAt.
  • d4b3feb: make the initial user / role creation more solid, printing the error logs better and giving payload more time to initialise the database before role creation and retry one time on failure
  • 26918cb: improve docs and move them to the shadcndocs project
  • 7d51afd: Fix icon usage and making it more safe to use for the future

Jannik Zinkl

Payblocks Product Lead

Released

Payblocks v1.3.0

Feb 5, 2025

Minor Changes

  • f8617b1: Adding contact2 with real contact form data adding the support for newlines in lexical editor, fixing font issue for faq1
  • 0e0bb7f: Move Seeding from Backups into own custom header
  • b2e98c5: upgrading pacakges and adding resend email adapter

Patch Changes

  • de04d5f: Updating nextjs and packages
  • 3187c97: Fix the redirect loop on 404 page by moving the not-found page to the root of the app.
  • d5c644d: The redirects where not used as we did throw a notFound before that. Redirects got some more explanation to improve the user UX as well

Jannik Zinkl

Payblocks Product Lead

Released

New Product - Shadcn Next.js Templates

Feb 1, 2025

We’re thrilled to unveil the next major product for shadcnblocks: Premium shadcn/ui templates, crafted with Next.js and the latest modern stack.

✨ What’s inside:

  • Built with Next.js 15 or Astro 5
  • Powered by Tailwind CSS 4
  • Running on React 19
  • Written in TypeScript and fully MDX-ready
  • Modern, responsive designs for any project

Original Figma files included for seamless customization

Available individually or as part of our Premium Plan

New Templates Released:

  • Mainline – A sleek, modern layout perfect for startups
  • Streamline – Clean and bold, built for high-impact storytelling
  • Charter – Elegant typography and spacious design for professional sites
  • Relative - Flexible, modular layout ideal for content-rich projects

Rob Austin

Founder

Released

Payblocks v1.2.0

Jan 31, 2025

Minor Changes

  • b2edb25: Adding support for the form builder to be added to a splitview (changing withoutWrapper to existing property disableContainer). Adding asterisks to required fields in form fields.
  • c3f3770: Adding multi-slug routing like /a/b/c with nested doc support.

In detail this adds the following features & fixes: Feat: multi-slug app routing Feat: multi-slug support in CMSLink Feat: multi-slug support in Breadcrumb Link Feat: multi-slug support in revalidatePage Fix: locales in revalidatePage Fix: breadcrumb locale Fix: breadcrumb next/link usage Feat: multi-slug support in lang switcher Feat: multi-slug support in generate static props Feat: multi-slug support in preview mode

Patch Changes

  • 0555e7a: moving the NEXT_PUBLIC_SERVER_URL generation out of next conf as this is not working reliably on vercel and is not so clean. Making sure, that the URL works both client and server side. Moving form submission to relative path.

Jannik Zinkl

Payblocks Product Lead

Released

Bug Fixes & Improvements

Jan 15, 2025
  • Minor layout and design updates to dozens of blocks
  • Refactored components to use named exports
  • Migrated more components to use Card, Button, Badge and Input as base components
  • Removed redundant utility classes
  • Resolved responsive layout issues in complex components
  • Fixed layout issues in Safari
  • Fixed scroll lock behavior in older browsers

Rob Austin

Founder

Released

New Blocks - Nov 2024

Nov 16, 2024
  • Added 50 new blocks, including 5 free blocks

Rob Austin

Founder

Released

New Blocks - Oct 2024

Oct 9, 2024
  • Added 50 new blocks, including 5 free blocks

Rob Austin

Founder

Released

New Blocks - Sep 2024

Sep 5, 2024
  • Added 100 new blocks, including 15 free blocks.

Rob Austin

Founder

Released

Bug Fixes & Improvements

Aug 23, 2024
  • General bug fixes
  • Change over to absolute images
  • Improve SVGs

Rob Austin

Founder

Released

Initial Launch

Aug 15, 2024
  • Released our first collection of 100 blocks, including 20 free blocks.

Rob Austin

Founder