CMS version 4.9.1.

Version 4.9.1 of WebBox CMS was released on 14th December 2017 with the following changes:

Notable features

  • Implemented LinkedIn for user authentication and registration.
  • Pages can now be previewed before saving.
  • Search improvements:
    • Better sorting decisions.
    • Support for blog results.
    • Support for multiple keywords.
    • Support for searching a specific type of results (page, blog, or product), which allows for enhanced entity-specific logic. - This requires its own type template.
    • Page searching: Count the number of occurrences each keyword appears in the plain text description and sort according to this.

Admin (CMS)

  • Fixed some flash messages not appearing properly until you visited the front end.
  • Implemented browser detection warning from the front end.

Front

  • Added accessibility widget.
  • Added styling for social media authentication buttons.

Blog

  • Wall can now show posts from all categories by using a wildcard '*' category name.
  • Implemented lazy loading on the wall view.
  • Search improvements:
    • Added support for multiple keywords instead of a flat string.
    • Better sorting decisions.

Commerce

  • Products CMS: Fixed being unable to remove product options, discounts, images, and related that were already saved.
  • Search improvements:
    • Added support for multiple keywords instead of a flat string.
    • Better sorting decisions.

Email

  • Contact messages:
    • Added category for website feedback.
    • If a template for the category exists it will be used in favour of standard ones.

Media

  • Fixed an error with the media manager when trying to make a JPEG thumbnail from an SVG image.
  • Implemented colour picker widget for forms.

Page

  • Store a plain text copy of description, used for searching.
  • Expose published date to data types.
  • Pages can now be previewed before saving.
  • Search improvements:
    • Added support for multiple keywords instead of a flat string.
    • Better sorting decisions.
    • Count the number of occurrences each keyword appears in the plain text description and sort according to this.

Taxonomy

  • Use root specific view if viewing a root taxonomy.

User

  • Show password complexity requirements in registration and account forms before the user fails validation.
  • Social media authentication:
    • Implemented LinkedIn integration.
    • Reliability updates.