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Getting Started

Requirements

  • WordPress 3.9+
  • At least PHP 5.5 with cURL extension
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If you are not sure which PHP version your website is running or if the cURL extension is enabled, install the WordPress phpinfo() plugin.
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Running PHP 7.x will increase the loading performance of the plugin and your site in general. Check your web host configuration panel if it is possible to upgrade your php version!

Plugin Installation

The Out-of-the-Box installation doesn't differ from any other plugin installation process, so you might be familiar with this process already. If not, please follow instructions below.

  1. Login to WordPress Admin Dashboard on your website
  2. Go to Plugins -> Add New
  3. Click on the "Upload" button
  4. Browse to the plugin's zip file (it is the same archive you've downloaded from CodeCanyon) and choose that file.
  5. Click on the "Install Now" button
  6. Wait while plugin is uploaded to your server
  7. Click "Activate Plugin" button

Plugin Activation

After you have installed the plugin, it is necessary to activate your copy. This allows you to have direct access to the latest updates and to get support. In order to activate the plugin please follow these steps:

  1. Go to Out-of-the-Box -> Settings in the WordPress Admin Dashboard on your website
  2. Click on the "Activate" button
  3. A new window will open and you will be redirected to Envato
  4. Click on the "Approve" button to activate the plugin
  5. Wait while the activation is processed
  6. Done!

Receiving Updates

The plugin offers an automatic WordPress update mechanism. To use the automatic update option you must have license for the plugin and the plugin should be activated. When new version of the plugin will be available, you should click "Update now" link under the plugin on the WordPress Admin Dashboard - Plugins page.

It is also possible to update Out-of-the-Box manually, to perform it please follow these steps.

  1. Go to our Updates Page
  2. Insert your purchase code, select the right plugin and press the "Download" button
  3. Login to WordPress Admin Dashboard on your website
  4. Go to Plugins page, deactivate the plugin and press uninstall. (your settings will be temporarily stored in the WordPress Database)
  5. Follow the Plugin Installation instructions to install the new version
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Licensing

Regular License is the most common type of licensing for Out-of-the-Box. The regular license allows you to use the item in one single end product which end user is not charged to access or use. You can acquire regular license for your own website, or if you are a developer - for one client by transferring the license to your client when the project is finished. In order to read more about Regular license please visit CodeCanyon.

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Usage

Shortcode Builder

Adding Out-of-the-Box has never been easier! Although it has an impressive number of options, even beginners will manage to implement the plugin to their wishes with our intuitive workflow

  1. Create a new Page/Post or edit an existing one.
  2. To open the Shortcode Builder, press the first Out-of-the-Box button in the toolbar of the Page Editor. If you are not seeing the button, make sure that you are in the 'VISUAL' mode of the Page editor.
  3. Adjust the shortcode in the Shortcode Builder via all the controls and options
  4. Press the "Insert Shortcode" button, to add an instance to your Page
  5. Publish or Update the page and you are finished!



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When you are using a 3rd party Page Editor, adding a simple Text Component will in most cases give you access to the default MCE Editor with the plugin Shortcode Builder.
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For performance reasons, keep the number of plugin instances less than 5. More instances can drop the loading performance of the page depending on your server.

Embed Documents

To embed to your documents, follow these steps:

  1. Create a new Page/Post or edit an existing one.
  2. Press the last Out-of-the-Box button in the toolbar of the Page Editor. If you are not seeing the button, make sure that you are in the 'VISUAL' mode of the Page editor.
  3. Navigate to the File which you want to embed
  4. Check the checkbox of the file and press "Embed Files"
  5. Publish or Update the page and you are finished!

Advanced Features

Private Folders

Private Folders Front-End

You can easily and securely share documents via Dropbox with your clients with the Private Folders feature. This feature allows your clients to preview, download and upload documents to their own private folder.

There are two ways you can use the 'Private Folders' feature: Manually and Automatically

In the Manual mode, you will link your WordPress Users to their own folder on your Dropbox by hand. This is can be useful in cases when you are already using client folders on your Dropbox, or if you want multiple users to use the same client folder.

To use the Private Folders feature in this mode, follow these instructions:

  1. Go to Out-of-the-Box -> Private Folders in the WordPress Admin Dashboard
  2. Link your users to their folder on your Dropbox via the Link to Private Folder button
  3. Go to the Page Editor and open the Out-of-the-Box Shortcode Builder
  4. Go to Folders panel and enable the Use Private Folders setting in the Smart Client Area section
  5. In the same section set the Mode to I will link the users manually
  6. Configure any other settings you need and press the "Insert Shortcode" button
  7. Done!

In the Automatic mode, you let the plugin automatically manage the Private Folders. The plugin will automatically link a user to its own Private Folder and it will create the Private Folder if needed in the by you seleted top-level folder. The advantage of this method is that you don't have to manage the folders manually. In this mode you can even select a template folder to fill the Private Folder with some starting material when it is created.

To use the Private Folders feature in this mode, follow these instructions:

  1. Go to the Page Editor and open the Out-of-the-Box Shortcode Builder
  2. Go to Folders panel and enable the Use Private Folders setting in the Smart Client Area section
  3. In the same section set the Mode to Let the plugin automatically manage the Private Folders for me
  4. Configure any other settings you need and press the "Insert Shortcode" button
  5. Done!



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When you want to prefill newly created Private Folders, enable the Template Folder setting (Shortcode Builder -> Folders -> Smare Client Area).
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 You can control how the plugin is managing the Private Folders. Just take a look at the look at the Private Folders’ tab on the main plugin settings page (Out-of-the-Box -> Settings).



Private Folders in Admin Dashboard

The Private Folders feature can also be used in the File Browsers in the WordPress Admin Dashboard. To enable this, go to the tab called 'Private Folders' on the main plugin settings page (Out-of-the-Box -> Settings). The behavior of the File Browsers in the Admin section can be changed via the setting "Private Folders in Back-End".




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Via the User Permissions tab in the Shortcode Builder, you can always select what kind of actions (e.g. upload or delete documents) are allowed by your client.

Statistics

Would you like to see some statistics about your files? Out-of-the-Box can send all download/upload events to Google Analytics. To enable this feature, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the main Out-of-the-Box settings page
  2. Click on the Statistics tab
  3. Enable the Google Analytics setting
  4. Save the changes via the button "Save settings" on top

If you enable this feature, please make sure you already added your Google Analytics web tracking code to your site. In most themes you will have a Custom Script box where you can add your Google Analytics code

All events in the plugin are registered in Google Analytics as 'Events'. So, in your Google Analytics Dashboard you will find this under 'Behavior' -> 'Events' -> 'Overview'


Supported Integrations

WooCommerce Integration

Out-of-the-Box integrates nicely into WooCommerce and it allows you to serve your Digital Downloads directly from Dropbox! To add a Digital Product from your Dropbox, follow these instructions:

  1. Create a new WooCommerce Product (Products -> Add New) or open an existing one
  2. In the Product Data section, tick the Downloadable checkbox
  3. On the General tab in the same section, click on the "Choose from Dropbox" button
  4. In the new window that opens, click on the File that should be added to your product
  5. Wait till the File is added to your product
  6. Done!


Upload integration

Out-of-the-Box allows you to create products where your customers can directly attach their Documents after purchasing. The plugin can create a Order specific folder on the linked Cloud Account and it will add a customizable Upload Box to the order page and the Thank You page. In order to enable the Upload Box for your products, follow these instructions

  1. Create a new WooCommerce Product (Products -> Add New) or open an existing one
  2. In the Product Data section, tick the Uploads checkbox
  3. On the Upload to Cloud tab that appears, enable the "Upload to Dropbox" checkbox
  4. Set in the Title Upload Box the title which should appear above the Upload Box.
  5. Create your own Upload Box via the Build your Upload Box button, or edit the shortcode manually.
  6. In the Upload Folder Name field, set the template which should be used for the Order Specific Folders*.
  7. Save the product!


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* In order to use the Order Specific Folders, make sure that the Private Folder feature is enabled in the Shortcode. You can find this settings on the User Folders tab.


Contact Form 7 Integration

Do you want more flexibility than the Upload Form that is included? Out-of-the-Box seamlessly integrates into the free Contact Form 7 plugin allowing you the create the perfect Form! To add Out-of-the-Box to Contact Form 7, follow these instructions:

  1. Create a new Contact Form (Contact -> Add New) or open an existing one
  2. Click on the Out-of-the-Box button to open the configuration panel of the field
  3. Click on the "Build your Out-of-the-Box shortcode" button
  4. In the Shortcode Builder that opens, create the shortcode that you need
  5. Press "Insert Shortcode" to update the shortcode
  6. Insert the Form Field by pressing the "Insert tag" button
  7. Done!
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You can use the available input fields in your Contact Form to name the upload folder based on user input. To do so, just add the outofthebox_private_folder_name to the Class attribute of your input field (i.e. [text* your-name class:outofthebox_private_folder_name]).


Gravity Forms Integration

Do you want more flexibility than the Upload Form that is included? Out-of-the-Box seamlessly integrates into Gravity Form allowing you the create the perfect Form! To add Out-of-the-Box to your Gravity Form, follow these instructions:

  1. Create a new Gravity Form (Forms -> New Form) or open an existing one
  2. Open the Advanced Fields tab
  3. Drag the Out-of-the-Box form element to your form
  4. Open the details of the newly added form element
  5. Click on the "Build your Out-of-the-Box shortcode" button
  6. In the Shortcode Builder that opens, create the shortcode that you need
  7. Press "Insert Shortcode" to update the shortcode
  8. Save the Form by pressing the "Update Form" button
  9. Done!


Gravity Forms - Gravity PDF Integration

The free GravityPDF plugin allows you to automatically generate, email and download PDF documents with Gravity Forms. Out-of-the-Box extends this plugin and allows you to store the generated PDFs directly on your DRopbox.

  1. Download and Install the GravityPDF plugin
  2. Head to Forms -> Forms and select the Gravity Form you want integrated.
  3. From the form editor page, hover over the Form Settings menu item and select PDF from the sub-navigation. Finally, click the Add New button to create a PDF.
  4. Edit the created PDF template, and go to the Advanced Tab
  5. Set the [DROPBOX] Export PDF to "Yes"
  6. In the [DROPBOX] Path field, set the full path where you want to store the generated PDF forms
  7. Press "Update PDF" to save the settings
  8. Done!



Translations

The plugin is multi-language ready, but it doen't have much translations yet. However you can quite easily translate the plugin by yourself. The plugin decides based on the language setting of your WordPress site, which translation it will load.

An easy way to translate the plugin is by using special WordPress Plugin: Loco Translate.


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Part of your purchase costs are gladly refunded in case you send in new translation files. Those new translations will be checked and added in the package for other customers.

Support

Policy

The purpose of the Help Center is to provide you with the right answers at the right time. Our support is provided only for direct product buyers. While applying at our Help Center you will be asked to provide valid purchase code of our products. Our Help Center is the only official support handling mechanism for this plugin. Questions sent using other channels may be ignored without notice. According to Envato rules, support mechanism is not mandatory for marketplace authors - we provide support because of good will and want to offer our customers best service possible. We keep rights not to provide support due to abuse or any other reasons that are against this policy.


What You Can Expect From Our Support?

There are certain things that you can expect from our Help Center:

  • We always have bug-related and technical support in priority
  • We respond to questions or problems regarding the plugin and its features
  • We are happy to receive proposals and ideas
  • Tiny custom requests can be served (low priority, depending on workload and good will)

What You Can Not Expect From Our Support?

There are certain things that are out of scope and will not be handled:

  • Generic WordPress questions
  • Issues related to 3rd party plugins
  • Customization requests
  • Any tickets that contain abuse or violence

Thank you for finding time to read this policy and remember that we are here to help you out.
Best wishes!

Pre-Support Actions

Before asking your question, please make sure:

  • You have read the documentation provided
  • Searched the answer within our FAQ articles and the comment section of the product page
  • Make sure you have the latest version installed.
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Opening Support Ticket

In order to get response in reasonable time we are kindly asking you to provide following information while opening support ticket:

  • Always insert your purchase code for non-presale questions
  • A link to the page where you are having trouble
  • A temporarily(!) WP admin login when you encounter bugs or need help to integrate the plugin in your website. Double check the login credentials before submitting! Seriously.
  • A clear description of the problem and how to reproduce it
  • Screenshot of the problem
  • Add your WordPress Debug Log if you are encountering unexpected issues with the plugin.
  • Any other information that you find useful

All information provided is confidential and will not be provided to any third party.

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Release Notes

We are constantly working on a new features and improvements for Out-of-the-Box in order to keep your site and your business at the top. In this section you can find information on latest updates we created during lifetime of this plugin.

Date Version Features
1.13.4 17 July 2018
  • Fix: Email tag in Contact Form 7 notification not rendered when Upload Field is required
  • Fix: Adding new file to WooCommerce Product initated download
  • Improved: Browser handling when user tries to leave page while uploading files
1.13.3 5 July 2018
  • Fix: Plugin not always returning UTF8 valid characters breaking JSON encoding
  • Fix: Not able to use filenames with special characters
  • Fix: CSS issue when using the Media Player with Full screen
  • Fix: ZIP option visible in Shortcode Builder when server isn't able to generate ZIP files
  • Fix: Gravity Form entries not properly showing the list of uploaded files
  • Added: Direct embedding of single media files via the Shortcode Builder
1.13.2 23 June 2018
  • Fix: Full Event Report table is now using the default WordPress DB connection
  • Fix: Uploadform doesn't initate uploads in some situations
  • Added: Option to enable/disable Event Logs (Statistics -> Log Events)
  • Added: French Translation
1.13.1 19 June 2018
  • Fix: Bug when using the shortcode_set_options hook
  • Fix: Resetting Cache while cache folder isn't yet created/available
  • Fix: Events Dashboard Layout
  • Fix: Upload bug when multiple Upload Boxes are present on the same page
  • Updated: Translation files
1.13 6 June 2018
  • Added: Contact Form 7 integration
  • Added: New Report Dashboard to track user actions
  • Fix: Several minor bugs
1.12.3 4 June 2018
  • Fix: Preventing conflict with other Blueimp File UploaderHandler classes
  • Fix: Problems caused with multiple Media Player instances on the same page
  • Fix: Bug preventing you to swipe images in Lightbox
  • Fix: In some occassions the Video Player presented an expired download link
  • Fix: Thumbnails not working on some IIS7 servers
  • Fix: Bug not working search button events when another qtip library is present
  • Added: Follow URL shortcuts instead of downloading them
  • Added: New Shortlink services
  • Added: New 'Who can Share' permissions in Shortcode Builder
  • Updated: Awesome Font 5 library
1.12.2.2 23 April 2018
  • Fix: Plugin not submitting Gravity Form when custom submit button is used
  • Fix: Shortcode Builder creating shortcodes while no start folder is selected
  • Fix: Media Player not showing playlist properly with multiple instances on the same page
1.12.2.1 12 April 2018
  • Fix: Conflict with Awesomefont v5.0 svg loaders causing the popups to show up in the wrong place
  • Fix: Bug sending multiple notification emails when authorization has been lost
1.12.2 11 April 2018
  • Fix: Bug in the List/Grid view switch
  • Fix: Bug preventing to insert/embed files in the TinyMCE Editor
  • Fix: Bug hiding all checkboxes after unchecking the 'Check All' checkbox
  • Fix: Bug hiding the 'no access' container to show up
  • Fix: Bug preventing you to insert new downloadable files in WooCommerce Product
  • Improved: Modal Dialogs on mobile browsers
1.12.1 10 April 2018
  • Fix: Bug preventing upload of multiple documents in Gravity Form when upload is required
1.12 9 April 2018
  • Fix: Conflict with cache plugins occassionaly causes the plugin to crash
  • Fix: Bug preventing generating Gallery thumbnails for specific rowheight settings
  • Fix: Validation bug in the Gravity Forms integration
  • Added: Shortcode Builder is now accessible via the Admin Menu as well
  • Added: Shortcode setting to show/hide Upload Folder button
  • Added: Shortcode setting to crop images in Gallery mode
  • Added: Setting to disable nonce validation (causes issues in combination with some User Management plugins)
  • Improved: Complete revision of the main javascript file
  • Improved: Uploaded files will now be visible again in Upload Box after a Gravity Form submission fails
  • Improved: Increased loading performance by using LocalStorage
  • Updated: Awesome Fonts to version 5.0
1.11.4.2 22 March 2018
  • Fix: Bug preventing Gravity Form submission when no files are uploaded
  • Add: New filter outofthebox_sort_filelist_settings, outofthebox_sort_filelist to modify the file sorting
1.11.4.1 21 March 2018
  • Fix: Plugin not started for Private Folders selection
1.11.4 21 March 2018
  • Fix: WooCommerce Bug not setting download location properly
  • Fix: CSS issue of settings fields in FireFox
  • Added: Gravity Forms validation for Upload Box
  • Added: Gravity Forms only start uploads on submitting form
  • Added: outofthebox_gallery_entry_text filter to change the file and folder names in gallery
  • Improved: Plugin properly initating when it is loaded dynamically (AJAX)
  • Improved: Changed gzcompress() to gzencode()
1.11.3 13 February 2018
  • Fix: Search results on mobile devices not properly displayed
1.11.2 31 Januari 2018
  • Fix: Solved conflict with PHPThumb library
1.11.1 25 Januari 2018
  • Fix Buttons not using the right CSS styles
  • Fix: Shuffle mode causing plugins to stop responding
  • Fix: Corrupt WooCommerce download links
  • Added: New outofthebox_shortcode_set_options($options, $processor) hook to dynamicaly change the shortcode options
1.11 17 Januari 2018
  • Added: Grid/Thumbnail view for File Browser providing thumbnails for most common formats
  • Improved: CSS for mobile devices
1.10.3 15 Januari 2018
  • Fix: Thumbnail generation fails
  • Added: $processor variable to outofthebox_upload_file_name and outofthebox_upload_file_path hook
  • Added: Added Custom Class field in Shortcode Builder
1.10.2.1 11 Januari 2018
  • Fix: WooCommerce Template Folder Name
  • Fix: Showing Upload Box on WooCommerce Edit Order Page when not needed
1.10.2 11 Januari 2018
  • Fix: Thumbnail generation fails on some servers
  • Added: Description box for WooCommerce Upload field
  • Added: WooCommerce Upload field for Variable and Composite products
  • Added: Plugin license section so you can now manually add a purchase code or remove the license
  • Updated: The Auto Updater library is now using version 4.4
1.10.1 21 December 2017
  • Fix: Zip function not properly adding files to archive
1.10 14 December 2017
  • Fix: Unexpected initation of authorization when multiple plugins are using the same oAuth 2.0 Flow
  • Added: New Settings to change colors & loaders the plugin uses via main settings page
  • Added: WooCommerce Upload integration. Customers can now upload documents for bought products to the cloud
  • Added: Search Box mode
  • Added: Shortcode Option to show files names in Gallery mode
  • Improved: Restyled part of the plugin
  • Updated: The Auto Updater library is using version 4.3
1.9.5.1 20 November 2017
  • Fix: Bug in Authorization Flow when using your own App on a non-SSL site
1.9.5 15 November 2017
  • Added: Support for RTL
  • Added: Filters to control file name and file path during upload: 'outofthebox_upload_file_name' and 'outofthebox_upload_file_path'
  • Fix: Storing temporarily links after the expire date
  • Fix: Auto-updater not able to receive updates when plugin isn't located in the original folder
  • Improved: Responsiveness of Media Player
1.9.4 1 November 2017
  • Fix: Solving conflict in case upload script is already loaded by another plugin
  • Added: Possibility to manually link the root folder as Private Folder
  • Added: Extra settings to control the Private Folders in the Back-End
  • Added: Showing full Folder names on hover
  • Improved: Layout of Private Folders menu page
  • Updated: New documentation
1.9.3 12 October 2017
  • Bug Fix to hide the Prev and Next containers in the Lightbox in case the content of the page is smaller than the window
  • Bug Fix setting the right start folder in the Shortcode Builder
  • Bug Fix displaying file names with (') characters in the File Browser properly
  • Bug Fix disabling Gravity Form submit button when plugin is uploading
  • Bug Fix not updating the File Browser when adding a new Folder
  • Bug Fix for conflict when the Iris Color Picker is added to the Page Editor
  • Added Setting on the User Permissions tab in the Shortcode Builder to control if users should be able to preview files
  • Added outofthebox_zip_filename hook to allow developers to rename the created zip files
1.9.2 20 September 2017
  • Bug Fix Not showing error notice in case the cache folder isn't writable
  • Bug Fix Not showing error notice in case the plugin isn't able to create a public shared link when Dropbox global sharing permisions are set to 'Team Only' or 'Password'
  • Bug Fix Create multiple Guests Private Folders when uploading via File Browser
  • Bug Fix Show Playlist setting in the Shortcode Builder not correct setting Shortcode attribute
1.9.1 7 September 2017
  • Bug Fix Manually linking Private Folders
  • Bug Fix conflict with Event Manager Pro plugin
  • Bug Fix Guests uploading multiple files with the Private Folder feature enabled
  • Added GravifyPDF integration to allow direct upload of Gravity Form submission details as PDF to Dropbox
  • Added setting to restrict the number of uploads per session
1.9.0.1 31 August 2017
  • Bug Fix Not able to manually link Private Folders when there is a CSS conflict with the WordPress theme
1.9 28 August 2017
  • Added WooCommerce Integration for Digital Downloads. No shared links required.
  • Added New option to enable the User Folder feature in the Back-End as well
  • Added Social Share buttons
  • Improved the number of scripts that are being loaded by Out-of-the-Box
  • Improved the number of DB calls being made
  • Improved New Shortcode Builder and updated the Admin pages
  • Updated the Auto Updater library to version 4.2

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