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Today we are proud to introduce the Joomla Website Builder Gridbox 2.5.8 with the Gridbox Author manager and the plugin Author Box, that will change the view and perception of your blog.
With these new features, you can not only add authors to the Blogging App but also display information about the author in a blog post, sort all articles by author and even follow the authors in the social networks. Let's start!
Gridbox Blog Author Manager allows you to add, configure and delete authors for Gridbox Blogging App.
Gridbox Blog Author Manager can be visited by clicking on the icon "Authors" in the sidebar menu.
In the "Gridbox Author Manager" a new author can be added by clicking on the icon "Add New Item", in the opened modal window you'll need to enter the author name and assign Joomla User.
Note, that for one Joomla user can be assigned only one author.
Author's settings can be opened with the right click on the author, from the context menu select "Settings".
Author settings allow you to rename author, set the alias for author listing page, reassign Joomla user, set the author profile picture, description for the author Bio and links to social profiles.
Settings in Tabs Media and SEO allows you to set info for the Author Listing Page.
In order to assign an author for already created blog post, you need to open the blog post settings, go to the authors field and select the author from the drop-down list.
Gridbox supports the ability to add multiple authors to a blog post.
To display the author info at the end of the blog post, we have created a new plugin "Author Box".
The plugin "Author Box" allows you to display author profile picture, name, info from the field description and social links.
The plugin "Author Box" can be added and displayed only in the Blog post layout.
As an any other Gridbox plugin, the plugin "Author" comes with a wide range of options which allows you to configure Author Box layout easily.
To make the blog more attractive and informative, we have added the option which allows displaying the author profile picture and author name in the post info.
To start displaying author info in the post info, open plugin settings and enable option "Author". The Author info can be displayed in the next blog plugins: category list, search results, post navigation, recent posts, post slider, related posts, post intro.
By clicking on the author name or profile picture you’ll be redirected to the "Author Posts" page with all author posts.
The style and layout of the "Author Posts" page is inherited from the category list page.
Gridbox Author Manager is not all for today's update! Also we have improved the UX for Gridbox plugins. As you know such plugins as accordions, tabs, slideshow, carousel ets. has own items. One tab it's an item of the plugin tabs, one slide it's an item of the plugin slideshow.
In the Joomla Website Builder Gridbox we have added a "Copy" options for plugin items.
This option will save you time. Suppose you created a tab with nested rows and columns, to create a new tab with the same structure, you need just to make a copy.
v.2.5.8 - 24/10/2018