Update: SP Page Builder Brings Joomla 4 Compatibility, Major UI Enhancements, and More

13 November 2020

4 min read

Update: SP Page Builder Brings Joomla 4 Compatibility, Major UI Enhancements, and More

Great news for SP Page Builder users! Your favorite page building tool - SP Page Builder, both the Lite and the Pro versions got even better to deliver excellent performance! We all love SP Page Builder because of its advanced functionalities and drag & drop live site-building mechanism, but I’m sure you’ll love it even more after today’s update.

We are more than excited to release SP Page Builder v3.7.5 for you. With today’s update, you will get multiple new exciting features and performance improvements. These changes will surely enhance your website development experience with SP Page Builder.

Without further ado, let’s have a look at the changelog to see what you’re getting in this update.

SP Page Builder Pro v3.7.5 Changelog

New: Joomla 4 compatibility
New: Database maintenance script
New: Redesigned admin interface
New: Container width option
New: Column gap option
New: Page export & import (lite version)
Update: Optimized visual editor performance
Update: Frontend visual editor UX
Update: Faster activation and deactivation of integrations
Fix: All known bugs

Joomla 4 Support

Joomla 4 is right around the corner! It comes with a large functionality improvement along with a completely new admin interface and improved codebase. As Joomla 4 Beta 5 was just released on 27 October 2020, we’ve also been working to make our products compatible with them.

That’s why with this update we have made your favorite page building tool fully compatible with the newer builds of Joomla 4. You can now use SP Page Builder with any Joomla 4 build and enjoy the latest features.

New Database Maintenance Script

With the new update, there’s a maintenance script that will detect whether your database is up-to-date. If the database structure is not up to date, then the script will detect that and will give you an option to update the structure. All you have to do is click on the Update SP Page Builder Database to keep things running smoothly.

Note: Do not forget to take a backup of your old database before updating!

Completely Redesigned Admin Interface

SP Page Builder 3.7.5 comes with a completely redesigned admin interface to embed the modern look and make it more user friendly. It’s designed with improved UI & UX, and additional features like joining our community support, access to documentation and support team right from the About page to manage your Joomla site with ease.

Let's take a look at the redesigned About section of SP Page Builder v3.7.5.

Awesome, right? To conclude it now has a more improved structure that makes website maintenance more flexible and easier.

Container Width & Column Gap Options

Set the container width and gap between each column with the updated SP Page Builder Pro. We have added a Container Width option and a Gap Between Columns option to the Container Styling Settings so that you can easily tweak your site width & layout and view the changes live.

Page Export and Import in the Lite Version

This one is going to make the lite version users happy! We have added the page export and import functionality for the SP Page Builder lite version as well. Now you can export any page and save them for later use. It is going to save you a lot of time and work!

Other Notable Improvements

What’s so great about today’s update is it not only includes new features but also brings huge improvements to the already existing ones. We have optimized the visual editor performance, front-end visual editor UX, integrations, and fixed many known issues. You have to try yourself to see how massive the update is!

Hurry up! Update your favorite page building tool as soon as possible. Enjoy the finest experience of building websites with the mighty SP Page Builder v3.7.5, and let us know how you feel about it in the comments. Enjoy!

Note: Do not forget to take a backup of your old database before updating! Also, clear your browser cache after the update to prevent loading or formatting issues.

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Zareen Tasnim

Technical Content Writer

Zareen is a technical content writer at JoomShaper. She's a tech enthusiast, writer by day, programmer by night, and always a foodie at heart!

Aximmetry

3 years ago

sp page builder update after admin disappearing error :

500 JHtml draggablelist not found. :(

#11114

Kawshar Ahmed

Make sure that your Joomla version is up to date.

#11117

Joomla! 3.9.22

#11125

Got the issue. Will provide a hotfix.

#11127

Dmitry Goncharov

And where can I see all the fixes that have been fixed?

#11115

KE Comm

Nice work, BUT:

There are issues with the UI:
* Category view switches back to Joomla 3 UI
* Addon-Labels are overlapping: https://ibb.co/LSY2QnS and https://ibb.co/gdZSK8M

German translation of Headline is false: It should be Überschrift, not "Kopfzeile" (=Header).

#11116

Please make sure that you cleared all browser cache.

Thanks

#11118

I did that of course. At least the Category view issue persists

#11121

Please share your console screenshot.

Thanks

#11122

https://postimg.cc/HV1JpPKL

#11143

Guys! The update is cool. Nice interface. Now we need to improve the functionality. You're good.

#11119

Thanks very much. However, we are working on something cool for the last 8 months :)
We will share something by end of this year. Stay tuned.

#11120

Intrigued :)

#11123

Mark FL

Hi, impossible to install the Spanish translation, what can I do to solve the problem?
I am testing the update locally

#11124

Please share more details and that will help.
Thanks

#11128

happydancer

In this update, does the update kill the code generated that wants to connect to google fonts irrespective of non google fonts selected when editing fonts in pagebuilder? Or have a kill switch? Does this update have better generated (i.e. slimmer) code for faster page loading? I cant stress enough that with Google officially "killing" off back links in the latest webmaster guildes as a major component of SEO and the show in town is now all about speed (particularly mobile code) and audience engagement (however Google measure that, good content, great looking webpages, professional looking, reasons for users to come back to the webpage etc?!) all page builters must have this new rule book for Google SEO in mind. I'm almost at the stage when I will go back to hand coding html pages! :-) I want fast loading, great looking pages with no bloat or unnecessary code being generated as in sp-pagebuilder 3.7.3.

#11129

bergwerk

it's good to know, pagebuilder will be ready for joomla 4, but i also have to stress the issues happydancer brings up.
I think the admin interface of pagebuilder is/was near perfect, but in terms of SEO so many things could be integrated and improved - for example, every page still loads the entire "sppagebuilder.css" and "sppagebuilder.js" files and only very few addons load seperate styles/scripts when they really need to. This is something that could be integrated quite easily - at least for new templates. A huge Issue because of Google's "Unused Code" directive.
Another thing that lacks since years is a media manager that provides cropping and compressing of images which could increase pagespeed drastically (yes, lazy-loading is a great "work-around", but no real solution).
As a developer making a SPPB-website Google PageSpeed-Ready gets drastically harder every month, since Google gets pickier all the time...Manually doing it for every new site is no solution for the future...

thanks for taking at least some points of happydancer and me in consideration :-)

#11150

Tim v.d.w

Hello Joomshaper Team, first of all thanks for this nice update, in my case the frontend editor tools -> Pagesettings -> don´t show or don´t load the field SEO where i can edit the meta discription etc.

Bets wishes Tim

#11130

Please share a screenshot that will help a lot.
Thanks

#11134

Ianmag

500 JHtml draggablelist not found, any solution?

#11132

We will release a hotfix within the next couple of days.

Thanks

#11133

Version 3.7.6 has been released fixing the bug and some minor improvements.

Thanks

#11135

Thank you so much for the really quick fix!

#11136

You are welcome

#11141

issamjami

We thank you for your support and continuous updating of the system

I upgraded the tool, but I encountered a problem as the formatting of all my pages became unordered and all the formatting became to the left, and the admin screen also had a defect in formatting, I had to downgrade the old version.

I hope all options in the tool have been tested and to be stable before I upgrade it again.

#11137