Check our releases and updates in Portfoliobox 4

New templates

^2023-04-20

We released 4 new templates for Contact Pages, 3 new & updated templates for CV Pages, and 2 new & updated templates for Testimonials Pages.

Update: Round single images

^2023-04-20

Single images can now be round.

Right-click the image.
Click on Styles
Under Make Round, choose Yes.

Round image

New: A library of 2000 icons

^2023-04-20

We've added a library of 2000 high-quality icons to our product to further enhance your website's visual appeal. These icons cover a wide range of categories and can be easily customised to match your website's style. Find them under Add new element → Media. Add the icon element to your site, then edit it to choose your icon.

Icon library

New: Create galleries directly from the Image Library

^2023-03-22

You can now create gallery pages directly from the Image Library.

Select images in the Image Library
Click Add the Images to a Page
Select an existing gallery or create a new one

New: tag images in the Image Library

^2023-03-22

You can now add tags to your images in the Image Library. This allows you to sort your images to search by tag. Tag images in the Image Library
To add a tag to an image:

Select images in the Image Library
Add a tag in the tag field
Save

Search by tag images in the Image Library
Search by tag in the Image Library.

New: Template size settings

^2023-03-16

You can choose a Template Size that will apply to all new pages on your site. You can select a template size (Small, Medium, Large), the default animations for images and the default hover effect for images. The template size will affect the following:

padding of sections
hover transition for images
animations for images
caption position for images
overall font size
font size for header and logo
image margins in galleries
image size in galleries

Find it under Styles → Global styles → Template settings.

New Text Template: Two Columns 4

^2023-03-08

We released a new template for text pages: Two Columns 4. This new text template allows two columns to be created on your page. You can customise them with headers, images, buttons, forms or other elements. Introduce your team, your newest product, or a project.

New text page template: Two Columns 4 - Portfoliobox

New: Horizontal hidden menu

^2023-03-08

When your menu is hidden, you can choose that your menu links display horizontally instead of vertically by default. The submenus will display under the associated menu item, creating columns.

Edit it under:

Edit menu
Styles
Size
Hidden Menu Style: Cover - Horizontal

Horizontal menu link for hidden menus - Portfoliobox

5 New Colour Overlay on Hover for Images

^2023-03-08

Choose new hover effects for images in your gallery under "Animations".

Edit images
Styles
Animations
Hover Effect: hover-overly-blue, hover-overly-red, hover-overly-purple, hover-overly-pink, hover-overly-turquoise, and hover-overly-random.

Colour overlay on hover for gallery images - Portfoliobox

New Caption Placements for Gallery Images

^2023-03-08

We implemented two new title placements for images in your galleries: Overlay & Overlay2, which will place the caption respectively on the image's top left and bottom right corner.

To edit the position of your title:

Click Edit images
Click Styles
Click Titles
Choose a Titles Placement in the dropdown menu

You can then adjust the padding and position of the title and subtitle.

New caption position for images in galleries - Portfoliobox
Overlay

Overlay 2 - New caption position for images in galleries - Portfoliobox
Overlay 2

New style for Dropdown Lists

^2023-03-08

The style for the List type Dropdown was updated.

The text isn't bold.
The + icon turns into a - icon when the list item is open.

Dropdown list style

New features

^2023-02-16

Duplicate sections to password-protected pages
Show/hides elements on mobile devices from Mobile styles

New feature: gradients background for elements

^2023-02-16

Introducing our latest addition: Gradient Colours! Now, effortlessly transform your website's background and selected text elements with stunning gradients to captivate your audience. Unleash your creativity and make a vibrant, seamless colour gradient statement!

Gradient colours for background and selected texts for your Portfoliobox website

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

The label moves to the top of the form when the input is focused.

New blog feature: Next / Back on blog posts

^2023-02-14

You can now go to the next or previous blog post with the icons below the blog post.

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.

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

You can see all email subscribers and export a CSV file under Settings → Email subscribers.

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.

Slideshow: Possible to edit the timing of the auto slide.
Lightbox: You can now hide the share icons.

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

We upgraded our existing templates by adjusting the margins, the filler content and other details in the layout.
We also extracted the contact pages from the text pages category. They now have their own category in the list of page templates.

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

It's now possible to have an overlay on a section background image
Lightbox has a height setting (if you want more text under the image, for example)
Social media share on products could not be hidden. This is fixed.
Duplicate page feature is directly accessible from the page list (it was under page settings before)

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

It is now possible to position the button of a form left, centre, right, or next to the form. The default position is next to the form.

Small updates

^2022-07-20

You can now change padding-x/y on buttons, both in global styles and in element style.
Padding top/bottom for sections is in vh instead of em
It's possible to clear color in color editor. This is usable for buttons, for example.
The buttons in the forms previously did not get the Overall Button Styles on hover. They now do.
Pdf in a text field now automtically open in a new tab.
The buttons hover colors are now consistent.
Logos have the correct margins in mobile.
Lists items Descriptions can be styled and have links.

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

Password Protected Pages are released. They are similar to regular pages, as you can use all templates and elements. The differences are:

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

^2022-02-16

Animations: All now have fade-in by default
Hover-transitions: No images have transitions by default
Letter-spacing: Default value is decreased a little
Mobile menu: Font size and line height is increased by default
Buttons: Slightly larger
Sections: Have font colour if you want to change all font colours of that section

New overlay colour for background images

^2022-02-16

Add an overlay colour to your background images and edit its opacity to make your text stand out.

Overly colour for background image

New list elements

^2022-02-10

Together with the new templates below, we have also added new list elements: Calendar list and General list. These two elements have a property called “List-type” which alters the design.

New templates: FAQ and Event

^2022-02-10

We have released 6 new Event & FAQ templates. Find them under in the page categories Event and FAQ, under Manage Pages → Create New Page. These templates make it simple for you to create a FAQ page or list events on your website.

Improved margins for templates

^2022-02-09

All templates now have the same default margins. This means that the section page should look nicer and tighter since elements are aligned. It is also better for mobile devices as the paddings are the same and sections align better.

Note that this does not affect existing pages/sections, it will apply to new pages or sections that you create.