SP Page Builder 4.0 Is Here to Redefine Your Joomla Page Building Experience
The vision behind SP Page Builder 4.0 was to utilize the full potential of the product and make it the ultimate all-in-one page builder for creating the perfect site in no time! And today, it feels surreal to finally be able to share with you what we’ve been pouring our heart and hard work into.
SP Page Builder 4.0 Changelog:
Demo: try.sppagebuilder.com/index.php/edit/1
Please follow the following steps for a smooth transition to SP Page Builder 4:
Note! Once you update to SP Page Builder 4.x from SP Page Builder v3.x, you can not roll back to SP Page Builder 3.x version. Make sure to test the page builder on a staging site and see if everything works as it should.
Note! If you have overridden or made custom addons using the early versions of SP Page Builder 3.x, please test your addons on a staging site before updating to SP Page Builder 4. If you face any issues, follow the structure of the current addons of SP Page Builder 4 to fix the issues.
The vision behind SP Page Builder 4.0 was to utilize the full potential of the product and make it the ultimate all-in-one page builder for creating the perfect site in no time! And today, it feels surreal to finally be able to share with you what we’ve been pouring our heart and hard work into.
Redefine Your Page Building Experience
SP Page Builder is lightweight, feature-rich, and fully visual to shoot your productivity through the roof. It comes with tons of new features and changes to ease your page-building experience. Have a look at the changelog below to find out what it has in store.SP Page Builder 4.0 Changelog:
- New: Brand new system design
- New: Intuitive front-end dashboards with filter functionality
- New: 4 new functional addons
- New: Freedom to upload and use custom icon packs
- New: Adjust the look of your content with 6 different viewports
- New: Customize anything at any stage with Layers
- New: Resize and configure column width by dragging the column boundary
- New: Revamped Media Manager
- New: Added page layout export feature
- New: Added copy, paste, and duplicate feature for nested addons from the context menu
- New: Added inline edit functionality for Accordion addon, and Tab addon item title
- New: Added Google fonts disable option
- New: Added custom column generator feature
- New: Added a clear button to remove the selected font from the Typography font select box
- New: Added the option to save customized addon from the inline editor for addon reuse
- New: Option to add images from external URLs
- New: Added Multi-language support for sidebar editor and Saved Items section (Lite version)
- New: Two Scrolling options - Viewport and Full-page are added in Interaction settings
- Update: Added CSS variable and RGBA support in Color Picker
- Update: Improved the editor authentication
- Update: Improved the URL routing system
- Update: Dropped the admin menu module
Demo: try.sppagebuilder.com/index.php/edit/1
Please follow the following steps for a smooth transition to SP Page Builder 4:
- Make database backup.
- Update template to last stable version, if it's based on Helix3 / Helix Ultimate - make sure that framework was updated as well.
- Update JCE editor to the last stable version (2.6.29+).
- Download the last stable version of SP Page Builder Pro - v3.8.x if you have an older version than 3.1.3
- if you had installed the 2x series - update to 2.5.4 first then test pages, then download the last stable version of SP Page Builder Pro v3.8.x.
- Download the latest SP Page Builder 4 version from JoomShaper’s website.
- Install the downloaded file like you would install any other Joomla extension.
- Update SPPB Pro to the last stable version of 4.x.
- Clear browser cached files.
- Clear Joomla cached files.
- Check pages from the Dashboard and front-end view.
Note! Once you update to SP Page Builder 4.x from SP Page Builder v3.x, you can not roll back to SP Page Builder 3.x version. Make sure to test the page builder on a staging site and see if everything works as it should.
Note! If you have overridden or made custom addons using the early versions of SP Page Builder 3.x, please test your addons on a staging site before updating to SP Page Builder 4. If you face any issues, follow the structure of the current addons of SP Page Builder 4 to fix the issues.
