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Versions of Marte CMS

Version 16.1.0 (latest)

May 2025

New Features

  • 🌐 Advanced Multilanguage Management: Take your website to the next level with the new multilingual support! Activate and configure multiple languages from the new Global Settings > Multilanguage section. Define supported languages, add translations, and easily set your default language. We have added initial support for English, Catalan, and French!
  • 🐵 Direct Mailchimp Integration: Connect with your audience more easily! Add your Mailchimp API Key in the settings. New contacts who register through your Marte contact form will be automatically added to your Mailchimp list.
  • 💳 Stripe Buy Button in "Embed" Blocks: Easily integrate "Buy Now" buttons from Stripe directly into your pages using the "Embed" block.
  • New GitHub Icon: Added the GitHub icon to the available options for your social links and other elements.

Improvements

  • 🛠️ Consistent Language Selector: The dropdown to select the language within the editor now correctly reflects and uses the language configuration defined in the site's global settings.

Version 16

February 2025

New Features

  • ☑️🔗 Links, bold and italics in form questions.
  • 💳 New billing section in the editor sidebar.

Improvements

  • 🏎️ Marte Website Builder engine migrated to Next.js App Router for better performance.
  • (#) Easier to find out which anchor to use to navigate to a specific section within a page.
  • Changed the order of the buttons in the cookie pop-up to make Accept All easier.
  • Font list now in alphabetical order.

Fixes

  • Fixed a terrible bug that occasionally caused the browser tab to close when adding a button or image in a post or Content block.
  • Page header on mobile when the website title is very long.
  • Left-aligned text in buttons of the Tabs with Content block.

Version 15

January 2025

New Features

  • 🌠 New Recent Posts block with large image.
  • 🏞️📋 Ability to add an image to Form and Contact blocks.
  • 📉 Integrated support for GTM.

Improvements

  • If you have unsaved changes, a dialog will appear when you try to close the window to confirm.

Fixes

  • 🏎️ Fixed video performance issue through caching.
  • Fixed text in the WhatsApp widget that was always in English.

Version 14

December 2024

New Features

  • 🔍 For SEO optimization, for blog posts you can separately customize the meta title, the on-page title, and the text for the H1 tag.

Improvements

  • Added header and footer on the "Not Found" page.
  • Link preview shown in the editing sidebar in the page header.

Fixes

  • Fixed the canonical of post listing pages for a tag.
  • Improved alignment in Grid, Features, and Grid with Hover blocks.
  • Added some security measures to prevent errors in rich text fields.
  • Fixed error when navigating to an anchor link (#example) from the "Not Found" page.

Version 13

December 2024

New Features

  • 🔵 You can add buttons in the header navigation.
  • You can combine a link with a submenu in the header navigation.
  • 🔲 Added a new general style to all blocks with cards, making them transparent and borderless.
  • 📑 New block to display PDF documents.

Improvements

  • Long words in card titles are split into several lines with a hyphen, instead of overflowing the card, in blocks like Grid and Products.
  • ✔️ Improved the "SEO Checks" view with more useful information and links to sitemaps.

Fixes

  • The Countdown block now allows you to choose hours after noon.
  • Fixed a scrolling issue on mobile when using anchor-type links in navigation.

Version 12.1

November 2024

New Features

  • 💬 WhatsApp Widget

Improvements

  • The "Recent Posts" block now loads recent articles as soon as it is added in the editor, instead of having to reload to see them.
  • 🏎️ Pages with the "Recent Posts" block now perform better than before because they load less code.
  • Many changes in the global configuration are now instantly reflected in the editor, without having to wait. For example, activating/desactivating the blog, the URL of the blog, the analytics with Umami...
  • The changes in the configuration of the cookie banner can be previewed immediately, there is no need to wait 5 - 10 minutes as before.

Fixes

  • Removed incorrect restrictions on the image format for the page header and favicon.
  • Removed sections from the editor sidebar that did not work or did not add value (User management, Support, and Project Config).

Version 12

November 2024

New Features

  • 👜 Product pages! Similar to blog posts, but with a different default design focused on showcasing products, services, or success stories. Includes:
    • New Product Grid block to display all or some products on any page.
    • Product categories.
    • Product search.

Improvements

  • Added emojis in the editor to make navigation easier.
  • Added field of "Site URL" in the global settings, so you can customize it from the editor and not depend on the Marte team to configure it.
  • 🍪 The cookie banner is only shown if Google Analytics or additional cookies are used.

Version 11.1

November 2024

New Features

  • 🍪 Customize the cookie banner: whether it is shown or not, whether it blocks the page or not, custom cookies, and link to the privacy policy.

Improvements

  • Allow <link> tags in Custom Scripts and Embed blocks to add CSS from external widgets.

Fixes

  • 🍪📉 Google Analytics and Google Ads consent mode respecting user choices in the cookie banner.
  • 🍝 The Recipe Generator widget and other embeds with <script> tags did not load when navigating between pages of the same website.
  • Blog title centered and color linked to the chosen theme.

Version 11

November 2024

New Features

  • 📈 Integrated support for traffic analytics with Umami, with dashboard visualization inside the editor.
  • 🏞️ ▶️ Add an image, slideshow, or video as a background in any block.
  • 🕶️ Add a translucent color layer (overlay) over the background of any block.
  • ↔️ Choose the maximum width of each block.
  • 💮 Added logo listing block, which can be used to display certification seals, clients, sponsor brands, etc.
  • 🍝 Added support for the Recipes Generator widget.

Improvements

  • Improved blue borders in the editor to indicate that a block or element is editable.
  • Changed the name of some blocks.
  • Allowed inserting <style> in Embed blocks and in <head> and <body>.
  • In the editor, only Light or Dark colors are shown when the site configuration only has one color scheme enabled.
  • Support for choosing "tint" color for the header and footer.
  • Improved the initial templates of blocks when adding them in the editor.

Version 10.1

October 2024

New Features

  • 🔗 Redirects now support URLs to external web pages.
  • 🧢🔝 New option to fix the header at the top when the user scrolls (sticky header).

Improvements

  • Embedded blocks and custom scripts now allow loading scripts from any domain.

Fixes

  • Fixed image sizes in article listings.

Version 10

October 2024

New Features

  • 🔗 Submenus in the page header.
  • 𝐀 Rich text editor in the texts of the Features block.
  • 🏞️ Images in the Features block can now be enlarged to the width of the column.
  • 💬💬 Support for multiple quotes in the Testimonial block using a carousel.
  • 𝐀 💬 Rich text editor for quotes in the Testimonial block.
  • 🗺️ Initial zoom on maps.
  • Added dropdown question type to the Form block.
  • Support for embedding HTML form tags in the Embed block.

Improvements

  • Improved the opening effect of the navigation menu on mobile.
  • Improved the back navigation button in the editor sidebar, to make its utility clearer.
  • Hid some interface buttons with little use or that were confusing.
  • Added progress indicator when navigating between pages, while the next page loads.

Fixes

  • Button alignment in the Hero block when alignment is right.
  • The "Tagline" in Hero blocks had unexpected margin when its background was transparent.

Version 9

October 2024

New Features

  • 👾 Option to enter HTML and JavaScript code for tracking pixels and widgets.
  • 🪧 All pages now have a title, which is used in the tab title and in the page list inside the editor.
  • 📆 Added support for Calendly embed.

Improvements

  • Simplified the page and article list view.
  • Added Spotify logo.
  • Updated Marte logo.

Fixes

  • 🏞️ Fixed that the blur on article photos was too large and overlapped the description.
  • 🌍 Small fixes in meta tags when using multiple languages.
  • 🌍 Fixed that the home page could not be edited correctly with multi-language.

Version 8.1

September 2024

New Features

Version 8

August 2024

New Features

  • 🔠 Support for 2 fonts: fonts for titles and for texts.
  • ↕️ Controls for 6 typography variants, allowing you to customize, among other things, line spacing and text size.

Improvements

  • Improved interface for choosing the active "color scheme", between ☀️ Light mode, 🌙 Dark mode, and 📱💻 Depending on the user's device.
  • 👞 Reduced footer spacing between sections and links.

Fixes

  • 💿 Fixed issue when saving that caused either global changes or changes to the current page to be saved, but not both at the same time.
  • Fixed annoying issue with changes in global properties not being reflected in real time in the preview.

Version 7.1

August 2024

New Features

  • 🏞️ Image block. A simple block to put an image on the page that looks good on desktop and mobile.

Improvements

  • Reviewed line spacing for all titles and subtitles.

Version 7.0

August 2024

New Features

  • 🏷️ Tags in blog posts.

Improvements

  • 📝 Updated the design of the utility bar in the rich text editor.

Fixes

  • Fixed error affecting load speed on pages with price or quote blocks with certain prices, such as €2,000.
  • Removed Image Size property in "content" blocks that no longer did anything.

Version 6.2

August 2024

New Features

  • Added Meta Pixel.

Version 6.1

August 2024

New Features

  • Added field to enter Google Site Verification code, which allows you to use Google Search Console and other Google tools with your website.
  • ⏱️ New countdown block.

Version 6

July 2024

New Features

  • 🪗 New Accordion block.
  • 🖼️ Custom images for icons, for features, hero, and carousel blocks.
  • Icon size.
  • New color option for icons: same color as the block text.
  • The features block can now be added inside a blog post.
  • 🏙️ 🌆 🌃 Slideshow background added to the video hero block.
  • Option to adjust the height of the video hero block.
  • Almost all sections now have an anchor for linking, generated with the section title joined by hyphens.

Version 5

July 2024

New Features

  • 🦶🔗 Customize the columns and all links in the footer. Previously they were fixed.
  • 🦶🌐 Social networks in the footer customizable, no longer a fixed list of 5 options.
  • 👒 🌐 Links to social networks in the header.
  • 👒 Added several layout options to the header for how to place social network links and page navigation.
  • Added 18 new icons to choose from, including the most used social networks.

Improvements

  • 📱 Improvements in mobile navigation menu: larger buttons, show/hide animation.
  • Improved spacing between elements in the features block.
  • In the editor, the title of each block now appears in the block list of the page.

Fixes

  • Fixed that the "/blog" link appeared twice in the sitemap, and the home page was not present.

Version 4.1

July 2024

New Features

  • [H1] Added features to customize headings:
    • The titles and descriptions of all blocks allow you to choose the HTML tag they will use (h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p). The automatic mode is still available (the H1 is the title of the first block).
    • New "Heading (advanced)" element in rich text editors, allowing you to add a heading by choosing the HTML tag and its font size.
  • ✔️ Added SEO analysis plugin to the editor, showing the values of the main meta tags of the current page and all the headings with their HTML tag.
  • 🖼️ Added image size option for images inside rich text editors (such as in blog posts, content blocks, or hero blocks).
  • 🃏 Added image shape option in the grid block, allowing you to choose square, portrait, landscape, or original image proportions.

Improvements

  • 🏷️ The editor now shows the brand of the website being edited, in the favicon, the title, and the logo of the sidebar. Previously it was the Abogali or Marte brand.
  • 🏎️ Small performance improvement by loading icon code and some blocks asynchronously.
  • Blocks are now organized into categories, instead of being a long list with all available blocks.
  • When creating a new post, the autogenerated URL fragment will no longer contain uppercase letters or other confusing characters.
  • Increased the character limit for the website name. Previously it was 20, now it is 50.

Fixes

  • ⚙️ Fixed that it was possible to access the global settings collection from the collections list (which did not work well) and from the "Site" plugins list. Now it only appears in the "Site" plugins list.

Version 4

July 2024

New Features

  • 🖼️ 🔵 Any rich text now supports "embeds", allowing you to add images, buttons, embeds, and dates. Previously, this could only be done in posts.

Improvements

  • 🏎️ Initial blog load time improved. Previously, on pages with many posts, this view was slow to load.

Fixes

  • Fixed error with the "grid" block that always made its background white in day mode and without gradients.
  • Corrections in the recurrence text color in the pricing block:
    • It was always in English ("month", "day", etc.). Now it is automatically in the website language.
    • It was always gray. Now it will have the same color as the rest of the surrounding text.
  • Fixed error that made images not have a rounded border.
  • Fixed that the alt text could not be set for images inside blog post content.
  • Fixed internal editor error when accessing global settings from the pages or blog posts view.

Other changes

  • 🏷️ Changed the name Abogali to Marte in the editor. Marte is the new name.
  • 💬 Added "Help" in the editor menu, showing the version and email for support.

Version 3

June 2024

New Features

  • 📈 Added event tracking with Google Analytics for clicks on buttons, start, cancellation and end of a payment process, click on a social icon, contact form submission, blog post interactions, and team member search interactions.
  • 🌍 Added support for internationalization (for example, having the website in Spanish and English).
  • 🍽️ Added support for embedding the TableAgent reservation form, for hospitality websites.

Fixes

  • Fixed image resolution inside blog posts. They will no longer appear pixelated.
  • Fixed that bold text did not look sharp or thick enough.
  • Fixed a small visual bug in the post list when they had no image.
  • Fixed the image in the “grid” block on mobile, which previously appeared cut off and was especially annoying if the image had text.

Other changes

  • 📅 Added clarifying text when editing a post, stating that a Publication date is required for the post to appear in the blog.
  • 🧹 Removed the embed options from post editing for “Newsletter Signup” (did not work) and “Block Quote” (this quote format can be added without needing an embed option).

Version 2

June 2024

New Features

  • 📋 Deployed support for embedding reservations from GloriaFood through our Embed block.
  • 🖼️ Added control for blog post image size.
  • 🎠 Added new Carousel block.
  • 🔍 Enabled search for pages and posts in the editor.
  • 🏙️ Added support for putting a background image in the video hero, even to keep it fixed when scrolling.
  • 🪞Added the post photo in the recent posts block cards, and in the /blog view of all posts on mobile

Version 1.17

June 2024

Improvements

  • 🏎️ Performance greatly improved according to PageSpeed Insights through different techniques:
    • code splitting
    • loading only what is necessary
    • resource optimization
    • caching strategies optimization
    • use of CDNs

Fixes

  • Fixed the direction of background gradients for blocks and buttons, so there is contrast between blocks of the same type.
  • Prevent errors when a post references an author who has been deleted or renamed.
  • Fixed colors and other fields in rich text blocks.
  • Fixed link colors in the header and footer, so there is always contrast and interaction feedback.

Previous versions

We have a long history of 1.x versions, prior to the existence of this documentation.