We are excited to release our latest Thrive Themes update, which will provide a significant speed boost to any pages on your site containing images. And the best thing is: this feature is fully automated and despite how much of a difference it can make, you'd be hard pressed to ever notice it.

Exclusively for theme club members, Thrive Themes now automatically optimize every uploaded image, using the web's best image optimization and compression engine.

In the latest update to our themes, we've added a new social sharing feature. It adds a set of mobile responsive social media buttons to your site.

At first glace, that's neat, but nothing special. But there's more to this feature than meets the eye. What you get with this feature isn't just any old collection of social sharing buttons:

Today, I'm happy to announce an update release for all our current themes (FocusBlog, Luxe, Ignition & Minus). The update includes a series of fixes, several new features that we added based on user feedback and two new short codes that give you even more flexibility for creating post and page layouts.

Watch the video below for a quick tour through all the new features:

A few weeks ago, we asked you to send in examples of pages you created using the pre-release version of Thrive Content Builder - and you delivered!

This post is to celebrate what we found the be the most interesting pages, offer you some inspiration for your own website and of course, name the winner of the contest.

Let's get right on with it:

As an early customer of Thrive Content Builder, you've undoubtedly noticed that we've added new features and new elements at a rapid pace. This unfortunately led to some problems with the editor interface. As pretty as it was, there was just not enough space for all the buttons and controls we kept adding.

To remedy this issue, we created a completely new design for the editor. And while we were at it, we looked through all of the suggestions we'd received, with your suggestions about how to make the editor better and implemented as many improvements as possible.

Today, we are proud to present the result:

We've just added a new feature to Thrive Content Builder and you'll love this one if you create sales pages and landing pages!

The purpose of the new element is to give you a way to display an array of features (or feature/benefit combinations) in a very compelling manner. If you look around at the most beautiful sales pages on the web, you almost always come across something like this.

Here's a video, showing exactly how the new feature works: