Gridbox Photo Filters And New Ways To Re-Order Blog Posts

05 September 2018

We are happy to introduce you the Joomla Website Builder Gridbox 2.5.5. The new version includes improvements for the Gridbox Photo Editor, we have added photo filters and the ability to adjust picture colors manually by moving sliders. We have added an ability to display Gridbox blog posts in the custom order and of course, we have fixed all knowing bugs.

Create Engaging Photos With Gridbox

If you just started building websites with Gridbox, we want to inform you that Gridbox includes built-in Photo Editor which allows to resize, compress, rotate and flip pictures. We decided to move forward and have added new features to the Gridbox photo editor - the ability to add pre-installed photo filters or (and) additionally adjust color palette manually. Using these tools you can adjust photos on your website in one color style.

Gridbox Photo Filters

In the Gridbox Photo Editor, you can find a new tab "Filter and Effects". 20 filters are available, using which you can adjust your images and make them more attractive.

In order to apply the selected style, do not forget to click the "Apply" button.

Configure Colors in Your Photos Manually

Improve your image style with manual adjustments. You can change the following parameters: Contrast, Brightness, Saturate, Sepia, Grayscale and Blur.

Blurred backgrounds look interesting, enjoy!

New Ways To Re-Order Blog Posts

By default, Gridbox orders blog posts based on the date and time that they were published. To change the order of the posts you need to change the post dates manually.

Today we want to introduce a new way to re-order blog posts - the custom order which allows you to re-order posts by simply dragging and dropping them in the admin panel.

First, you need to re-order posts in the admin panel. For that enable Drag and Drop ordering in the admin panel and sort them as you need.

After that, you need to visit a category layout editor, open category list settings and select "Sort by - Custom".

As you can see on the screen above, posts you can order and by "Popular", the most viewed posts.

What's Next?

It’s time to back to the Gridbox Blogging App. It would be a series of small updates with new features and improvements dedicated to the Blogging App. And the main word is "Simplification" - writing blog posts and configuring blog layouts - should be easier, faster and user-friendly.

Changelist

v.2.5.5 - 5/09/2018

• Added: Photo filters for the Gridbox Photo Editor;
• Added: Color manual adjustments for the Gridbox Photo Editor;
• Added: Sort by "Custom", Gridbox Blogging App;
• Added: Sort by "Popular", Gridbox Blogging App;
• Added: Clickable thumbnails for Blogging App Plugins;
• Fixed: Issues with a background parallax effect on mouse move;
• Fixed: The Issue with picture compression in the Gridbox Photo Editor;
• Fixed: The issue with an option Fullscreen for the plugin "Slideshow";
• Fixed: Issues with Triggers for the plugin "Lightbox" in the Google Chrome browser;
• Fixed: The issue with selecting Google Map theme in the Firefox browser;
• Fixed: Small issues with the Gridbox plugin "Menu" in the mobile editor;
• Fixed: Displaying titles of the Joomla modules;
• Fixed: The Issue with column sizes on mobile devices;
• Fixed: The issue with adding tables in the CKEditor;
• Fixed: The issue with text-align in the plugin "Simple Gallery";
• Fixed: The issue with adding pictures to the plugin "Simple Gallery";
• Fixed: The issue with an option "Fullscreen" in the Mega menu;
• Fixed: The issue with an option "Download" for buttons.

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