What's Coming in Craft 5.5

In this excerpt from the CraftQuest on Call livestream, Ryan demos the most impor­tant new fea­tures in the Craft 5.5 release.

Here are the fea­ture he covers:

Nest­ed Ele­ments Saved as Draft

From the changelog:

When sav­ing a nest­ed ele­ment with­in a Matrix/​Addresses field in card view, the changes are now saved to a draft of the own­er ele­ment, rather than pub­lished immediately. 

This address­es a fea­ture request that came in even before the Craft 5 release in Spring 2025. Pre­vi­ous­ly, the nest­ed ele­ments would be saved and pub­lished auto­mat­i­cal­ly upon creation. 

Replace Action in Ele­ment Selec­tion Inputs

A new action cre­ates a short­cut for remov­ing and then adding an ele­ment. Do note that the ele­ment is removed first, so if you can­cel out of the action, the ele­ment will already be removed (as part of the draft).

New Range Field

This new field offer a slid­er UI and some default set­tings for low end, high end and incre­ments. This was cre­at­ed as part of the new wp-import tool to have fea­ture par­i­ty with the Word­Press Advanced Cus­tom Field plugin.

Cus­tom Options for Set­ting Check­box­es and Radio But­ton Fields

In addi­tion to the options you set when you define the field, the author also add addi­tion­al options adhoc when cre­at­ing an ele­ment. This was cre­at­ed as part of the new wp-import tool to have fea­ture par­i­ty with the Word­Press Advanced Cus­tom Field plugin.

Show Label Fields

This anoth­er fre­quent fea­ture request for the Link field, which was intro­duced with Craft 5. This changes adds in a Label field and a ​“Open in new tab” option to the Link field. You can use this instead of cre­at­ing a plain text field for the link label.

Show Ele­ment Attrib­ut­es in Card Views

Now you can add any attribute from the ele­ment into your card reviews. A new check­box list is avail­able with all of the attrib­ut­es available.

From the changelog:

It’s now pos­si­ble to include ele­ment attrib­ut­es in card views, along­side cus­tom fields, via new ​“Card Attrib­ut­es” configurators.

Mark­down Field Lay­out UI Ele­ment Type

This change adds a lay­out UI ele­ment type that allows you to put Mark­down into it and place it any­where in a field lay­out. You can set it to be inline in the field lay­out or in a panel.

Set Entry Type Title Field as Required

This change moves the set­ting for mak­ing an entry type title field required from a lightswitch field to a con­tex­tu­al menu on the field itself.

Default View Mode for Ele­ment Sources

Set your default view mode for ele­ment sources to the table view or card view via a set­ting toggle.