Gene Scroll Hero – Video Background Hero that Plays as You Scroll

3.6.1

• Pro: in the free-placement timeline, buttons are now their own items — a call-to-action gets its own spot and its own appear/leave timing, separate from any heading. Turn free placement on and an older heading that carried a button splits into a heading and a button automatically; turn it off and the button folds back under its heading.
• Pro: chapters can now be arranged by dragging. Drag each heading (or button) straight onto the chapter to place it, and trim when it appears on the track below — the same hands-on editor the single hero already had, now per chapter.
• Fixed: timeline buttons now sit centered on the spot you placed them (they could drift to the left before), and the Desktop/Phone switch in the editor is now readable on its dark toolbar.

3.6.0

• One plugin, two tiers. The Pro features now unlock right here with a license — no separate plugin to install. The free tier is unchanged: a background, a heading, and the scroll-scrub still work exactly as before with no license.
• New finale: with a video background, the frozen last frame can break into glass shards that scatter as visitors keep scrolling — scroll back and it reassembles. Free. Pro adds a split-apart style and control over how long the break lasts.
• Headings can now carry call-to-action buttons; only the heading currently on screen accepts clicks.
• Pro: place headings anywhere on the hero and set when each appears and leaves as visitors scroll — a free-placement timeline, with a frame-synced editor for video backgrounds.
• Pro: add several headings that swap one after another as you scroll, and fine-tune the scroll length.
• Pro: chapters — chain several background videos; each plays with the scroll, then its last frame breaks apart to reveal the next. Only the current and next chapter ever load, and each chapter can place its headline somewhere new (bottom left, centered, or bottom right).
• Pro: a separate phone video — small screens load a lighter portrait clip instead of the desktop one, for the hero and for each chapter.
• The scroll-scrub and chapters now run on phones too, not just desktops.
• The editor shows a weight gauge for background videos, with plain advice when a clip is heavy. Nothing is re-encoded without you.
• New design controls: color the heading and the buttons (free), and pick a font preset or a button shape (Pro). System fonts only — nothing loads from outside.
• The editor and the plugin’s admin pages now speak Japanese when WordPress is set to Japanese.

3.5.0

• New focus: the plugin is now a single Scroll Hero block — a full-screen background video (or image) that plays as visitors scroll, with your headline over it.
• Heads-up for people upgrading from the earlier gallery/carousel motion blocks: those blocks have been retired. Pages that used them keep their saved content, but the blocks are no longer editable in this version.
• Headline placement (centered or bottom-left), an editorial uppercase headline, an editable heading color, and a lighter default dim overlay.
• On reload, the page now loads at the top instead of restoring the scroll deep inside the hero.
• Renamed the plugin to “Gene Scroll Hero”.

3.4.2

• Added a built-in Getting Started guide on the plugin’s admin page.
• Added Community (Discord) and review links to the admin page. No functional changes to the block.

3.4.1

• Clearer listing so the plugin is easier to find. No functional changes.

3.4.0

• New direction, built around a single, focused block for the block editor.
• The previous “Complete Site” generator was retired. Pages you already generated are native core blocks and keep working.