What's new in Portfoliobox 4

New Caption Placements for Gallery Images

^2023-03-08

New style for Dropdown Lists

^2023-03-08

New features

^2023-02-16

New feature: gradients background for elements

^2023-02-16

New styles for forms

^2023-02-14

We now have the option to apply different styles to forms.

Update: New style on inputs in forms

^2023-02-14

New blog feature: Next / Back on blog posts

^2023-02-14

• Left arrow: go to the previous blog post
• Right arrow: go to the next blog post
• Hamburger: go back to the first page of your blog

New features: Email Subscription Form

^2023-02-06

Collect email addresses with the new Email Subscription Form. Find it under Add New Element → Form → Email Subscription.

1. When your visitor clicks that button, a popup will show.
2. A confirmation email will be emailed to the address when the visitor submits the form.
3. The visitor must click the confirmation email within 12 hours to be added to the mailing list.

Style improvements

^2023-02-02

• Style: All popups in front are improved and can be closed on the background.
• Style: Smooth transition on scroll-to-top and scroll-to-section links.
• You can now add bullet points in a CV description.
• Style: 4 new Hover Effects were added for gallery images (shadow 1 & 2, opacity, overlay).
• Submenu has a new, more modern style:
  • The submenu is aligned with the item above. 
  • All submenu styles are fixed.
  • Shadow was removed.

Mobile improvements 

^2023-02-02

• Mobile preview: The Mobile/desktop preview leads to the current page.
• Mobile Menu Icon: The default style is improved, and four templates have been added. Find them under Global styles → Mobile → Menu Style → Menu icon style.
  
• You can now add a Mobile Logo for all Logo elements on your website.

Improvements for e-commerce

^2023-02-02

• A Low inventory notice is sent when fewer than 5 products are in stock and you track stock.
• An option to show the cart even if it's empty was added.
• If you use Google Analytics, a gtag event is sent when a product is added to the cart. You can use this data for Google Ads retargeting.
• You can now add alt-tag to product images (SEO title)

Improvement: Better order management

^2023-02-02

Here is what's new: 

• The list can be filtered by payment status, delivery status, payment method, and item type.
• You can search for a customer's name or order ID.
• You can easily view the status of the payment & the shipping.
• You can set a payment status of an order: Pending, Paid, Refunded, or Cancelled.
• You can set a shipping status: as Pending or Shipped.
• You can delete an order. 

Learn more about order management.

New: SEO guide in your admin panel

^2023-02-23

Follow the guide in your admin panel to optimise your website for Search Engines. Click the icon in the bottom right-hand corner of your admin panel.

New: inventory validation on checkout

^2022-12-14

The system checks the inventory of the product before the checkout is completed. Suppose a customer adds the product to the cart, which gets sold out before the order is completed. In that case, the customer will see a message inviting him to contact the seller to verify the product availability. 

As the seller, you will also receive an email informing you that the checkout failed, with information about the customer.

New: Digital product & Digital download

^2022-12-05

You can now upload, share, and sell digital files in your portfolio: ebooks, audio files, tutorials, courses, Lightroom presets, character designs, Photoshop brushes, zip files, or other digital files. 

Your customers are sent a secure download link with a time limit. They will be redirected to a download page on your website. 

Learn more about Digital files

Update: product button

^2022-11-18

We updated the product button so that you can now change the button's text, and choose to open the checkout directly without adding the product to the cart first. 

New checkout interface

^2022-11-16

• The discount code field is in the checkout view
• Terms and Conditions are accepted by submitting
• It's possible to close the popup by clicking the background
• Legacy "manual order" was removed. You can choose invoice payment instead.
  
  

New: dropdown lists 

^2022-10-21

FAQ and general lists now have a dropdown style. Edit the style under Styles → Sizes → Type of lists. This allows you to hide and show the content of the lists. 

30 new templates

^2022-10-06

We implemented 30 new templates: 

• Gallery 
  • Horizontal Focus: where the active image is visible, and the others have a reduced opacity
  • Puzzle 2:  with an extensive image and two smaller ones on the side
• Text
  • Two Columns 3
  • Image Left 2
  • Image Right 2
  • Image Top 3
  • Image Bottom 3
    
  • Slideshow Left
    
  • Slideshow Right
• Cover
  
  • Large Header Left
  • Image Bottom 3
    
• Store
  • Horizontal Focus: where the active image is visible, and the others have a reduced opacity
  • Puzzle 2:  with an extensive image and two smaller ones on the side
• Link page
  • Parallax
  • Horizontal focus
  • Puzzle 2
    
• Sub-menu
  • Big Submenu
    
  • Menu Halfscreen
    
• Services
  • Grid portraits
  • Circles 2
  • Columns
• Team
  • Grid portraits
  • Circles 2
  • Columns
  • Grid Two Columns
    
• Logos
  • Circles 2
  • Align the Center Two Columns
• CV
  • Halfscreen CV
  • Two columns 3
  • Image Top 3
    
• Testimonials
  • Circles 2
  • Grid Portraits 2
    

Template clean-up

^2022-10-03

New template for forms

^2022-10-03

In the form, you can add a new field: “Two text fields on one row”. This input creates two fields on the same line.

Smaller feature updates

^2022-09-14

New: Copy / Paste styles 

^2022-09-14

You can now copy the style of an element and paste it into another element, even a different one. 

A new way to edit the mobile version

^2022-09-14

It’s possible to edit the mobile view by clicking the mobile preview icon. 

New: Link to help page from admin panel

^2022-09-14

A new Learn button is in the admin panel's lower right corner. You'll find tutorial videos and a link to our help page.

New: ready-made color & font combination

^2022-08-30

You can now use ready-made colour and font combinations. Click on Styles → Ready Combinations. Choosing a ready-made combination will reset all Global Colors and fonts of the site. 

New in global styles

^2022-07-25

Caption titles, Caption subtitles, Caption text and Caption button are added to global styles. It’s also possible to set hover colors on buttons.

New: Position of the button in a contact form

^2022-07-25

Improved interface for Product Settings, Store Settings, and Link Selector

^2022-06-14

We implemented side menues to Product Settings, Store Settings and Link Selector, instead of drop down.

New: Password Protected Pages

^2022-05-11

• You can set a password to Password Protected Pages
• You can share the page with your clients
• They can never be public, meaning that they can't be found in Google Search result.
• They don’t show up in the Page lists such as “Set as startpage”, “Link to Page”, “Duplicate section to page”
• You can’t duplicate sections from Password Protected Pages to Pages
• Password Protected Pages are not added to SEO (sitemap.txt) and there are no SEO settings

New link selector: Blog post

^2022-05-04

You can now link to a blog post in the link selector.

New settings for slideshows: Start randomly & Automatic.

^2022-05-04

We implement new settings for Slideshow templates:

• Automatic: the image will change every four seconds automatically. The timing can't be edited. The arrows are hidden. 
• Start randomly: the slideshow starts on a random image.

Find them under Edit images → Styles → Image Styles.

3 new Slideshow templates

^2022-05-04

We released 3 new slideshow cover templates.

New Fullscreen template for text pages

^2022-04-25

We released a new Fullscreen template for your text pages: Fullscreen 4. Find it under Manage Pages → Create New Page → Text and Contacts.

New templates for Services and Team

^2022-04-18

We released templates to display your services and team as lists: Grid 2, List, Columns, Half Screen.

New Element: Add to cart button

^2022-04-14

You can now add a button "Add to cart" to any page. This gives you an option to create a fully customized section or give your product some special attention.

New feature: Sample sections on Gallery and Link pages

^2022-04-05

When "Add sample sections" is toggled for Gallery and Link pages, your page will include sample sections in addition to your Gallery or Link section. Think of it as a full page template that you can edit and customize as you wish.

Default settings updated