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Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) Pro changelog

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Latest 7.8.10.1 40 versions Since Jun 2023

Undated 19 versions

7.8.10.1 13 new17 improved31 fixed3 security16 changed

New

Added Datetime field and integrate with Oxygen Classic, Bricks, Breakdance and Elementor. Props to Pradnya T.P. for suggesting this improvement.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager: added "device type" conditional for CSS/JS/HTML snippets, which allows you to choose on which device(s) to load a snippet in, i.e. desktop / tablet / mobile. Props to Sreelal G. for prompting this improvement.
Added new/improved translation for:
Added option to select code editor theme between dark and light. Props to Jim W. for suggesting this improvement.
Added new/improved translation for:
Implemented code snippets export and import via ASE settings page's "Export | Import" panel. Props to Philippe G., Tanguy, Nicolas M., Dennis M., Jeremy L., Yasuyoshi T., Daniel, Simon and Hoang Hxn for suggesting this improvement.
Added custom CSS for email templates. Props to Mathijs v.d.B. for prompting this improvement.
Added new error message for the upload field when the PHP tmpfile() function is disabled / not available, which will cause uploads to fail. Props to Eric L. for propmting this improvement.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types: added a warning message when rendering the [post_cf_form] shortcode in edit mode but no post ID has been set.
Added new/improved translation for:
ASE Pro: Added advanced options section to set custom label for password field and submit button. Props to Sébastien B. for propmpting this improvement.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Utilities >> Maintenance Mode: added an option to insert custom <head> code, which is useful, for example, to load custom web fonts, e.g. Google Fonts. The font can then be used in the Custom CSS section for styling the text on the maintenance page. Props to Bent F. for prompting this improvement.
Added new/improved translation for:

Improved

[IMPROVED in Pro] Utilities >> Form Builder: improve accessibility by adding label for attributes for the email, website/URL, phone, text, textarea, number, range slider, spinner, star, NPS, dropdown, checkboxes, radio buttons, image select, date and time fields. This should also help improve Pagespeed Insights' Accessibility score for pages that has an ASE form in it. Props to Jakub X. for pro...
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Enhance List Tables & Admin Columns Manager: the featured image column will now have the post thumbnail linking to the post edit screen. Props to Domenico M. for suggesting this.
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Bar: add a notice in the module settings that says "The settings above will override the ‘Toolbar’ settings in the user profile edit screen.". This should help clear up confusion on which settings will take precedence when the Hide Admin Bar module is enabled. Props to Matt H. for reporting the issue.
ASE Free: updated Vietnamese, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Chile), Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, Indonesian, Dutch, Chinese (Taiwan).
ASE Pro: updated Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Polish, Vietnamese.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager:
[IMPROVED in Pro] Disable Components >> CAPTCHA Protection >> Comment Form: make sure CAPTCHA assets are not loaded when commenting is allowed on an individual post while disabled for the entire post type via the Disable Comments module.
ASE Free: updated Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Spanish (Chile), Spanish (Spain), Slovak, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, Norwegian, Indonesian, Dutch, Chinese (Taiwan).
ASE Pro: updated Romanian, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, Vietnamese.
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Utilities >> Password Protection:
[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Groups:
[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Media Categories: the categories tree state are now saved and will be shown upon reopening the media library or after drag-and-dropping media items to a category / sub-category. Props to Jeroen, Nicola and Ramyt I. for prompting this improvement.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Utilities >> Form Builder: form scripts and styles will now only be loaded on pages where a form is being shown. Props to Mathijs v.d.B. for prompting this improvement.
ASE Free: Updated Vietnamese, Spanish (Spain), Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, Norwegian, German, Dutch, Danish.
ASE Pro: Updated Vietnamese, Hungarian.
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Enhance List Tables: the Last Modified column will now use the date and time format set in Settings >> General. Props to @st3phan5 for suggesting this.
Improve the [[cf]] shortcode for gallery field when using the grid output so each thumbnail now links to the full size image URL. Props to Synapse A.I. S.L. for propmting this improvement.

Fixed

[FIXED in Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager: fixed PHP fatal error on sites with PHP 7.4 that occurs since the addition of the PHP MobileDetect library in v7.8.10. Props to Pierro B., Lee H. and Courtney V. for immediately eporting the issue.
[IMPROVED, CHANGED and FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types:
Fixed date field display inaccuracy in Bricks builder when the WP site language is set to non-English. Props to Daniel B. for reporting the issue with a screencast, which helped identify the root cause and the fix.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Wider Admin Menu: fixed an issue where Gravity Forms form edit screen's layout was shifted partially to the right. Props to Marv D. for repoerting the issue and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Content Duplication: fixed a PHP fatal error that occurs in a certain scenario when ASE custom field group is attached to a post. Props to Wilbert S. for reporting the issue.
[IMPROVED and FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Content Order:
Fix PHP warning in a certain scenario involving 404 error pages. Pros to David B. for reporting the issue.
[IMPROVED and FIXED in Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager:
Fixed snippet filtering not working when CSS type is selceted. Props to Jim W. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Redirect After Login: fix a redirect issue when the target URL is an HTML page with .html extension. THe slash (/) suffix will no longer be appended, which will break the URL / redirect. Props to @hyzwar for reporting it.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control: fix PHP warnings that occurs in a certain scenario. Props to @johnwebman for reporting the issue complete with the error log entries.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Enhance List Tables: fixed an issue where showing the excerpt column can break the layout of WooCommerce products list (or any list) when the excerpt contains some HTML that gets improperly truncated. Props to @adminfongyuan for reporting the issue.
Fixed an issue where PHP snippets that contains certain code was being truncated upon saving. Props to Markus F. for reporting the issue and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
Fixed an issue where PHP snippets that contains certain code was being malformed upon saving, causing the snippet to churn out an error. Props to Emile V. for reporting the issue and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
Fixed an issue where snippet description editor is not loaded properly in the snippet edit screen. Props to Jim R. for reporting the issue and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
Fixed a JS error when editing PHP snippet.
Fixed PHP warning that occurs when saving a JS snippet with certain options
[IMPROVED and FIXED in Free and Pro] ASE Settings:
ASE Pro: Fixed an issue where settings can not be imported when Admin Menu Organizer module is not enabled. Props to Hoang Hxn. for reporting the issue.
ASE Pro: Fixed an issue where translations are not properly loaded when the Form Builder module is enabled. Props to Hoang Hxn. for reporting the issue.
[IMPROVED and FIXED in Pro] Utilities >> Form Builder:
Fixed an issue where form preview are devoid of any styling after v7.8.7 release. Props to John E. for prompting the fix.
Fixed an issue where form inserted with the form block in the block editor is devoid of any styles. Props to John E. for prompting this fix.
Fixed PHP warnings when sending test emails.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Change Login URL: fixed a conflict with Gravity Forms causing the file upload field, when set to upload multiple files, to fail with a JS error. Props to Henry R. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] ASE Settings Export / Import will now include the settings for the Admin Menu Organizer module after recent change where the module settings has moved into it's own admin page. Props to Hoang Hxn for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: fixed an issue where sortable Meta Box columns were not shown as sortable due to recent changes in how Meta Box AIO started including the Meta Box framework. Props to David D. for reporting the issue and facilitating troubleshooting.
[FIXED in Pro] Utilities >> Display System Summary: added potential fix to prevent error when calculating varioius folder sizes. Props to @jh for reporting the issue and facilitating troubleshooting.
[FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Show Custom Taxonomy Filters: fix an issue where search is broken for posts while filter(s) for non-hierarchical taxonomies are enabled. Props Grzegorz K. for reporting the issue.
[IMPROVED and FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types:
Added integration of the repeater field into Elementor Pro. This is done via the Loop Builder widget and the Loop Item template. View documentation for more details. Please test and open a support ticket if you see any bugs / issues.

Security

[SECURITY FIX in Free and Pro] Custom Code >> Insert <head>, <body> and <footer> Code fixed Stored XSS vulnerability reported by @ha1s3nb3rgg.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Change Login URL: fixed a bug where uploading a file on the frontend in Gravity Forms by a non-logged-in user fails due to recent security fix in Change Login URL. Props to Bernd for reporting the issue with sufficient technical details.
[FIXED in Pro] Security >> Email Address Obfuscator: fixed an issue where email address was not automatically obfuscated in an Elementor text widget. Props to Linda H. for reporting the issue.

Changed

Changed date picker library froom bootstrap-datepicker to flatpickr. This is the same library used for the new datetime field, so, it streamlines assets requirements and UI/X.
[TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now being translated into 32 languages:
ASE Free: Vietnamese, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, Norwegian, Indonesian, French, Dutch.
ASE Pro: Danish, Czech, Norwegian, Hungarian
When enabling content ordering for ASE code snippets, the 'View' button will no longer be shown as there is no frontend view for code snipepts, so, clicking on it would've shown a 404 error page. Props to Jim W. for prompting this change.
Trashed snippets will now be deactivated properly. Props to Jim W. for suggesting this improvement.
[TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now being translated into 31 languages:
ASE Free and Pro: Implement modules live search, so you can more easily and quickly get to the module settings you need. Props to wpman, Todd, Max Z. and Nathan I. for prompting this improvement.
[CHANGED in Free and Pro] Translations: make sure that translations are always loaded from the included .mo files. Props to Hoang Hxn for prompting this improvement.
[TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now being translated into 31 languages:
ASE Pro: Color of the "View Content" button will now follow the one set in the Login Page Customizer module. Props to Sébastien B. for propmpting this improvement.
ASE Free and Pro: Error messages are now internationalized, i.e. translatable. Props to Sébastien B. for propmpting this improvement.
Date field format will now be honored when displaying a date field in Breakdance builder. Props to Radoslaw B. for the detailed reporting of the issue which includes environment data, current vs expected behaviour, technical details and steps to reproduce the issue.
"Line Break" label when a line break field is inside a repeater will no longer show up in the edit screen.
The 'Instructions' option when editing a "Line Break" field will no longer be displayed.
[TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now being translated into 31 languages:

7.8.1.1 15 new18 improved24 fixed8 security15 changed

New

ASE Pro: Added an option to exclude certain routes from being disabled.
Added a link to the haikei app when choosing 'Pattern' as the login page background. This is where you can generate your own pattern with a color scheme that match the branding of the site you are working on. Props to Wence W. for prompting this improvement.
Added an option to choose login button color. Button hover color and button text color will automatically adjust to the chosen color. You can always customize in detail with the Custom CSS option. Props to Wence W. for prompting this improvement.
Add a Plain (no header image) email template. Props to Mathijs v.d.B. for suggesting this.
Added new/improved translation for:
ASE Pro: added Turkish (partial). Updated Czech, Vietnamese, Romanian, Portuguese (Brazil).
Added new/improved translation for:
[IMPROVED in Pro] Utilities >> Maintenance Mode: added an option to exclude certain URLs from the maintenance mode. This could be useful if you have a custom login page created outside of ASE. Props to Miriam M. and Julian S. for prompting this improvement.
Added automatic image dimension detection and image ratio preserver when using media library image. Props to Max Z. for prompting this improvement.
Added links to external tools to get image dimension and calculate smaller dimension when using external image URL.
Added new/improved translation for:
Add an option to use a column as the default sort (ascending / descending), so that when visiting the View All Posts/Pages/CPT posts, the list table will be sorted accordingly. Props to Justin B., Matt B., Lynette C. and Patrick K. for prompting this improvement. Your patience is also appreciated.
Add an option to disable horizontal scrolling, which might be useful in certain scnearios where another plugin is not expecting the .wp-list-table to be wrapped in a div. Props to Klemen T. for reporting a related issue that prompted this improvement.
Added new/improved translation for:
Added 'Order' button in posts list tables of post types where Content Order module is enabled for. Useful for when the 'Order' submenu can not be added to the parent menu that contains the link to the post type list table, e.g. LearnDash courses.

Improved

[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Disable Components >> Disable REST API:
[IMPROVED in Pro] Log In/Out | Register >> Login Page Customizer:
Address field: change zip subfield to be of the type text (previously it was number) to accomodate for various types of zip codes around the world
ASE Free: updated Vietnamese, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, Norwegian, German, Dutch, Chinese (Taiwan)
Free: Updated Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish and Norwegian
Pro: Updated Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian
[IMPROVED amd FOXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager:
Improved mechanism to load original column title when an applicable column is set as such.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Log In/Out | Register >> Login Page Customizer:
Changed logo image options to site icon, media library (image) or external (image) URL. Should work with your existing settings.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control: add an option to set the JPG quality during conversion/upload of BMP, PNG and JPG files. Props to John D. for prompting this improvement.
Free: update Norwegian, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Taiwan), Indonesian
Pro: update Indonesian, Hungarian, Polish
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: the notices counter in the admin bar will now be updated as you clear notices from inside the notices drawer. There will be a slight delay, about 2 seconds, to compensate for the various ways different plugins clear their notices and how long that might take. Props to Elmira T. for prompting this improvement.
Free: update Norwegian, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Taiwan), Indonesian
Pro: update Indonesian, Hungarian, Polish
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Content Management >> Content Order:
[IMPROVED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: improv rendering of the post list table when this module is enabled. Props to Jake K. for prompting this improvement.

Fixed

[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Content Order:
Fixed a bug introduced in v7.8.1 where all post types on the frontend are ordered by menu_order when the "Use custom order on frontend query..." checkbox are checked, disregarding the post types selection in the module settings. Props to Mitchel v.E. for reporting the issue.
Fixed PHP warning related to applying custom ordering on frontend next/previous post navigation. Props to Richard B. for reporting the error with the complete error log entry.
[FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: fix PHP warning in a certain scenario. Props to Dave C. for reporting the issue in detail and even suggesting the code fix as well, which has been tested and implemented.
[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Content Order: fix an issue where custom order is not being applied on taxonomy term archive page using the (WP) core Query Loop block. Props to Greg F. for reporting the issue in detail and working together to find a fix for it. Much appreciated!
[FIXED and IMPROVED in Pro] Utilities >> Form Builder:
Email notifications and auto-responder: ensure field tags work, i.e. properly replaced with the corresponding field value on email delivery. This also fixes the issue where auto-responder were not being delivered properly.
Dropdown field: fixed builder preview for dropdown field becoming empty when adding a new option
Matrix of Uniform Dropdown field: fix an issue where the first option is not being shown in the dropddown.
[ADDED in Pro] Utilities >> Form Builder: Enable the creation of various types of forms on the frontend to collect information from site visitors or users or members. This module should be stable enough but please perform some tests before using it on production sites or mission critical tasks. If you find any bugs / issues, please open a support ticket for it.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Log In/Out | Register >> Login ID Type: when login ID type is set to "email address only", logging in with an email address that contains an uppercase does not work. This is fixed now. Props to Martin H. for noticing the issue and reporting it.
[FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: fix a fatal error in a certain scenario when displaying the default Date column. Props to Alberto P. for reporting the issue with the error stack trace.
[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Content Order: fix PHP warning that occurs in a certain scenario. Props to Dominik K., Simon S., Benjamin O., Sander d.V., betaplus, William L., @mmjaeger and Rick H., for reporting the issue along with the relevant error/debug log entry.
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: fix for notices still showing on Hash Form form builder screen.
Fixed a conflict with PublishPress Revisions plugin causing fatal error when viewing the revisions queue page. Props to Adam for reporting the issue with a screenshot and the error stack trace, which helped in quickly resolving the issue.
[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Content Order: fixed an issue where adjacent posts navigation (Previous / Next) is not being displayed when the Content Order module is enabled for post types that does not include the post type where such navigation is added to. Props to Glenn W. for reporting the issue in detail and facilitated the troubleshooting process.
[FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Logo: fix admin bar logo link not linking to the homepage as it should when viewed in the backend / wp-admin. Props to Max Z. for reporting the issue.
[IMPROVED and FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager:
Fixed WPML's language column not showing the correct language flag when switching language in the admin bar. Props to S. H. for reporting the issue in detail and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Various Admin UI Enhancements >> Display Active Plugins First: fix a PHP error in a certain scenario. Props to betaplus for reporting the issue along with the error call stack, which helps with troubleshooting.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Disable Components >> Disable Gutenberg: fix for frontend block styles / CSS files not being properly disabled. Props to Stijn V. for reporting the issue and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
[FIXED in Pro] Utilities >> Email Delivery: fix an issue that may cause fatal error in some scenario when trying to log email deliveries. Props to Martin H. for reporting the issue in details (with an error stack trace).
[FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: fix an issue where in Gravity Forms main dashboard, menu item(s) that are set to always be hidden for all user roles are not being properly hidden. Props to Robert D. for reporting the issue in detail and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
[FIXED in Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager: fix styling issues when select2 JS and CSS files are also loaded by LearnDash and Hash Form plugins on the snippet creation and editing screens.

Security

[IMPROVED in Pro] Security >> CAPTCHA Protection: when CAPTCHA Protection is enabled on WooCommerce login form, also enable on the login form in WooCommerce checkout page. Ensure that after successful login, the customer/user is redirected back to the checkout page. This will override the settings added to the Redirect After Login module. Props to @betaplus for prompting this improvement.
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Security >> Limit Login Attempts: improved mechanism to validate IP addresses. Props to Ivan C.d.A. and @denisgomesfranco for prompting this improvement.
[ADDED in Pro] Security >> CAPTCHA Protection: add CAPTCHA protection to WordPress default login, password reset, registration and comment forms and WooCommerce login, password reset and registration forms. Support ALTCHA self-hosted version (GDPR-compliant, open source, free), Google reCaptcha v2 and v3, and Cloudflare Turnstile.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Security >> Limit Login Attempts: fix IPv6 addresses not being properly detected. Props to Mathijs v.d.B. and Jon B. for reporting the issue.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Security >> Email Address Obfuscator: added a 'text' parameter to the obfuscator shortcode that allows for showing a custom text instead of the human-readable email address. This, combined with the 'link' and 'class' parameter, allows for showing the obfuscated and linked email address as, for example, a "Contact Us" button. Props to Antoine L. for suggesting this improvement.
[SECURITY FIX in Free and Pro]:
Security >> Limit Login Attempts: fix Bypass via IP Spoofing vulnerability as responsibly disclosed by Bob, a security researcher for WPScan and Jetpack.
Utilities >> Password Protection: fix Password Protection Bypass vulnerability as responsibly disclosed by Bob, a security researcher for WPScan and Jetpack.

Changed

ASE Pro: CAPTCHA Protection >> ALTCHA widget now works properly when Disable REST API is turned on. Props to Ivan C.d.A. for reporting the issue.
ASE Free and Pro: Contact Form 7 now works properlywhen Disable REST API is turned on. Props to Ivan C.d.A. for reporting the issue.
The link to the privacy policy page will now have the same color as registration and password reset links. Props to Wence W. for prompting this improvement.
Made default field input background color white
Website / URL field: improve URL validation method
Upload field: modification to frontend styles
Choice field presets: update to options for the Importance preset for better clarity / less ambiguity
Choice and Matrix fields: the options are now immediately draggable upon adding the field.
Textarea field: line breaks are now preserved in email notification and entry preview
[TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now being translated into 31 languages:
[TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now being translated into 31 languages:
[TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now being translated into 29 languages:
Enable custom date time format for the default 'Date' column. Props to Julian W. for prompting this improvement.
[TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now being translated into 29 languages:
When WPML plugin is active, the content ordering page will now only show posts from the chosen language. Props to Stijn V. for prompting this improvement.

7.6.2.1 15 new19 improved25 fixed2 security19 changed

New

Added new/improved translation for:
[TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] Added Spanish (Chile) and completed Chinese (Taiwan) for ASE Free. ASE is now being translated into 29 languages:
Added new/improved translation for:
Free: added Spanish (Chile), updated Spanish (Spain), Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Serbian, Swedish, Vietnamese, Chinese (Taiwan)
[ADDED in Free and Pro] Log In/Out | Register >> Registration Date Column: implement the ability to show registration date column in the users list table. Pro version makes the column sortable. Props to Bas B. for suggesting this feature.
Added new/improved translation for:
Added new/improved translation for:
Added new/improved translation for:
Added new/improved translation for:
[IMPROVED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Various Admin UI Enhancements: added an option to add username to the body class. Useful for when you need to modify the admin area only for certain user(s).
[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Public Preview for Drafts: added public preview button/link in gutenberg editor.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Login Page Customizer: added an option to load an external CSS using the full URL of the CSS file. Props to Yann S. for prompting this improvement.
[TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] Added translation for Russian (partial). ASE is now being translated into 28 languages:
Added new/improved translation for:
[ADDED in Pro] Content Management >> Public Preview for Drafts: Enable public preview for draft posts from some or all public post types. Props to Jan K. for suggesting this.

Improved

[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Groups: text field now supports oEmbed output when the "URL / oEmbed" sub-type is selected and the value of the field is a URL from one of the supported oEmbed providers, e.g. YouTube. Documentation for the text field has been udpated to include this output type. Props to Konstantinos K. for suggesting this improvement.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Email Delivery: add an option to store 10, 25 and 50 emails in the email log. Props to Sarah A. for the suggestion.
Free: updated Indonesian, Albanian, Chinese (Taiwan)
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Log In/Out | Register >> Change Login URL: improved code to account for login attempts done via a POST request not originating from the custom login URL/page. Props to ken0429ng for reporting the issue and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Custom Code >> Manage robots.txt:
Update robots.txt online validation tools. Now uses websiteplanet.com and seositecheckup.tools. Props to David S. for reporting that one of the previous validators was no longer available.
Pro: updated Slovak.
Pro: updated Slovak.
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Utilities >> Maintenance Mode: make sure the site icon is included in the maintenance page. This should ensure browser tabs also displays the site icon. Props to @tanasi for reporting the issue.
Free: updated Arabic, Polish, Slovak, Albanian.
Pro: updated Arabic, Hungarian.
The gallery field type now has an option to display the gallery in grid mode using the native [gallery] shortcode. Props to Han L. for suggesting this and providing the code snippet to base it upon.
Free: updated Spanish, Korean, Norwegian, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Swedish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
Pro: updated Portuguese (Brazil), Vietnamese
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] ASE Settings: number input fields now has appropriate min / max values. e.g. Revisions Control module's revision limit has a minimum value of 1 and maximum value of 100.
Free: Updated Spanish, Korean, Norwegian, Dutch, polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Slovak.
Pro: Updated Spanish, Norwegian, Brazilian Portugal, Slovak, Vietnamese.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Terms Order: will now also allow ordering hierarchical taxonomies of non-public post types. Props to Matthias E. for prompting this change.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: taxonomy columns are now sortable by default. To apply this change, please visit the Manage Columns page for each post type and then view the posts list table/page. Props to Satoshi F. for suggesting this improvement.

Fixed

[FIXED in Pro] fixed a fatal error introduced in v7.6.2 in certain scenarios. Props to Marco M.J. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] ASE settings: fix an issue where the settings page is broken when the Assets Cleanup plugin is active. Props to George N. for reporting the issue with a screencast for clarity and assisting with troubleshooting.
[FIXED in Pro] Log In/Out | Regisger >> Login Page Customizer: fixed an issue where page background color and logo sizing is being / can be overridden by CSS from theme child. Props to Christian for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Enhance List Tables: fix PHP warning in certain scenario when Last Modifield column is being shown. Props to R. József G. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Logo: fixed a layout issue where admin menu logo still shows and overlaps wp-admin content area at certain screen width range. Props to Andresen for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: fix an issue causing the Posts >> Tags submenu item not hideable for any user roles. Props to Antonio A. for reporting the issue with a screenshot for clarity.
[FIXED in Pro] Utilities >> Display System Summary: fixed fatal error when open_base_dir restriction is in effect for a particular file path when trying to calculate the various main folder sizes. Props to Christian for reporting the issue with the full error log entry and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
[FIXED in Pro] Content Mangement >> Custom Content Types >> Options Pages: fixed an issue where a custom field in a newly created custom field group for an options page can not be displayed in Bricks and Elementor. They were shown in the custom field selection menu, but the value was not displayed on the preview and frontend. Props to Aleš S. and Ian W. for reporting the issue and facilitating...
[FIXED in Pro] Utilities >> Display System Summary: fixed fatal error that occurs when the file path is too long. Props to Maziar E.S. for reporting the issue in details with the error log entry and the WordPress environment details.
[FIXED in Pro] Content Mangement >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Group: get_cf() will now use GMT/UTC timezone when outputting a date field to avoid issues where the output has a one-day difference for sites configured to use certain timezones, e.g. an American timezone. Props to Jonathan J. for reporting the issue and providing screenshots as well as the WordPress environment info to h...
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Log In/Out | Register >> Site Identity on Login Page / Login Page Customizer: fix login logo reverting to default WP logo on WP v6.7 instead of using the site icon. Props to @kimu, Greg M., Aleš S. and @havidz for reporting the issue here and here.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components >> Disable plugin and theme editor: fix fatal error that occurs in certain scenario. Props to Darren L. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager:
Fixed fatal error in a certain scenario. Props to Francois G. for reporting the issue.
Fixed number of views being duplicated in the Views column of posts listing tables from Independent Analytics plugin. Props to Andreas K. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Group:
Fixed Oxygen builder integration issue where the ASE Field selection button is not shown, or it's shown but not all ASE fields were listed upon clicking it.
[IMPROVED in Free] Log In/Out & Register >> Change Login URL: failed login on non-default login form, e.g. WooCommerce account login page, will now redirect back to that custom login form / page and no longer redirect to the custom login URL set in ASE. Props to @vanektomas for reporting this.
[IMPROVED and FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Groups:
Display of WSYIWYG field on the frontend will now properly render paragraph breaks via get_cf() and also in Oxygen and Breakdance. Props to Gabriel A. and Matija Z. for reporting the issue and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: fixed an issue where notices are not hidden on WS Form edit screen. Props to Solomon A. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control: fixed fatal error in a rare scenario. Props to Darren L. for reporting the issue and helping with the troubleshooting process.
[FIXED in Pro] Utilities >> Email Delivery: fixed entries order and sorting issue in the email delivery log. Props to Mathijs V.D.B for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Utilities >> Multiple User Roles: fix PHP warning. Props to Bob G. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Disable Dashboard Widgets: fix PHP warning. Props to Richard E. for reporting the issue.

Security

[SECURITY/FIXED in Free and Pro] Content Management >> SVG Upload: fixed a Stored XSS security issue responsiblly disclosed by Francesco Carlucci via Wordfence. This allowed adding/uploading malicious SVG image via the /media endpoint in the REST API. Sanitization has now been added in that upload route.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Security >> Limit Login Attempts: fix PHP fatal error and warnings in a certain scenario. Props to Oliver S. for reporting it.

Changed

[CHANGED in Free and Pro] Content Management >> Content Order: the required user capability to be able to order content has been changed from edit_pages to edit_others_posts. This preserve how things already work, i.e. administrators and editors can perform content ordering, but allows for scenarios where an editor / an editor-level custom role does not have the edit_pages capability but needs...
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[TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now being translated into 29 languages:
Pro: Indonesian, Czech, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Vietnamese
[CHANGED in Free and Pro] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control: changed the max height value from 3,840 pixels to 10,000 pixels to account for use cases where tall screenshots of a page is being uploaded. Props to @jessejfisher for reporting this.
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[CHANGED in Free and Pro] ASE Settings: the "Log In | Log Out" category has been renamed to "Log In/Out | Register".
Make sure robots.txt content being set in ASE is honored in the actual output on certain scenarios
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[TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now being translated into 28 languages:
Free: Spanish, Albanian, Chinese (Taiwan).
[TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now being translated into 28 languages:
Free: Spanish, Albanian, Chinese (Taiwan).
Add grid view option for gallery field in Oxygen builder.
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[TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now being translated into 28 languages:
[YEAR END SALE] Get 20% discount by the end of the year on new Pro license purchase and upgrades.
[TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now being translated into 28 languages:
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7.4.3 1 new1 improved2 fixed3 changed

New

Added new/improved translation for:

Improved

[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Content Order: adjacent posts (next and previous posts) are now correctly reflecting the custom order. Props to Antoine L. for suggesting this improvement.

Fixed

[FIXED in Pro] Disable Components >> Disable REST API: fix an issue, where in some scenarios, wp-admin and/or the ASE settings page was not accessible when this module was turned on. Props to Stijn V. and Matt B. for quickly reporting the issue and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Change Login URL: fix an issue where visiting the custom login URL while logged-in returns a 404 Not Found error. Props to Nadja v.M. for reporting the issue.

Changed

[TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now translated into 22 languages:
Free: Spanish, Indonesian, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Pro: Vietnamese

7.4.1 12 new10 improved20 fixed3 security1 removed34 changed

New

[ADDED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Enhance List Tables:
Add an option to show a sortable, last modified column. Props to @nirmithamw for suggesting this.
Add an option to hide the date column. Maybe useful if you're showing the last modified column already.
Added new/improved translation for:
[ADDED in Free and Pro] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components: added an option to remove generator tag that contains WordPress version number in RSS feed. Props to Emmanue ATSÉ for suggesting this.
Added new/improved translation for:
Added new/improved translation for:
[TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] Added Indonesian and Romanian translation. ASE is now translated into 22 languages:
Added new/improved translation for:
[NEW in Free and Pro] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components >> Disable Lazy Load: Disable lazy loading of images that was natively added since WordPress v5.5. Props to @boxhamster and @masvil for suggesting this.
Added new/improved translation for:
Added new/improved translation for:

Improved

[IMPROVED in Pro] Disable Components >> Disable REST API: add an option to disable REST API access for some or all authenticated / logged-in user role(). May be useful if you have a membership or ecommerce site and would like to limit access to the REST API for admins only. Props to Yurkee for suggesting this improvement.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Redirect After Login and Logout: add option to redirect to separate URL for each user role.
Updated for ASE Free: Spanish, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Updated for ASE Pro: Norwegian
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Content Management >> SVG Upload: will now properly display SVGs uploaded using another plugin, e.g. SVG Support. Props to @tomislo and @ingarb for reporting the issue which prompted this improvement.
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Content Management >> Content Order: will now work with non-public post types as well. Props to Robert G. for prompting this improvement.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Login Page Customizer: enable use of the site icon as the login page logo. Props to Ron R. for suggesting this improvement.
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Utilities >> Password Protection: password-protected pages will now be marked with noindex to prevent "duplicate – from user not as canonical set up" warning in SEO reports, e.g. by google. Props to Christian S. for suggesting this.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Groups: the number field now supports decimal values. Props to Philippe G. for prompting the improvement.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Logo: enable the use of an image URL hosted on another site as the logo image. Props to Bayley S. for suggesting this improvement.

Fixed

[FIXED in Pro] Disable Components >> Disable REST API: fix an issue where updating to v7.4.0 causes the REST API to be inaccessible for all authenticated / logged-in user roles. This for example, caused users not being able to load the Elementor editor. Props to Ron R. for quickly reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Disable Components >> Disable Gutenberg: fix an issue where frontend gutenberg CSS assets and styles were not properly removed in some scenarios when using Bricks builder / themne, even though it's been set to be disabled in ASE settings. Props to @thekendog for reporting this.
[FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Logo: fix styling issue when admin bar logo is enabled and shown in the admin bar on the frontend. Props to @lulech23 for reporting this.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Change Login URL: fix PHP warning as reported by @dakotadevelopers and Thibaut V.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: some notices were not properly hidden on Wordfence plugin's dashboard, which is now fixed and will be properly hidden in the notices panel. Props to @tomislo for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Logo: when admin logo is shown in the admin menu and the menu is collapsed, the logo will now be hidden instead of shown in the original size, overflowing the collapsed menu. Props to @myleslasco for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: properly hide notices on user deletion confirmation screen. Props to @tomislo for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Content Management >> Content Order: fix an issue where checks on non-public post types were not saved in the module settings. Props to Robert G. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Utilities >> Password Protection: fix an issue for WordPress subfolder install where entering the correct password does not work, i.e. does not remove password protection allowing to see the page content. Props to Manny C. and Markus F. for reporting the issue and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Content Management >> Content Order: fixed a bug where in a certain scenario, not all posts from a non-hierarchical post type is shown in the post ordering screen. Props to Henry R. for reporting the issue and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
[FIXED in Pro] Utilities >> Search Engine Visibility Status: fix an issue where on certain scenarios, search engine indexing was being disabled unintentionally. Props to Val J. and Andreas K. for reporting the issue and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Media Categories: improve the fix in in v7.2.1 for layout issue as reported by Marcellus J. Will now cover more scenarios.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: fix for notices coming from "Stock Sync with Google Sheet for WooCommerce" and "Stock Sync with Google Sheet for WooCommerce Ultimate" plugins not being hidden. Props to Manish S. for reporting the issue and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Media Categories:
Fix a conflict with WP to Buffer plugin causing the plugins list page to show hidden modals. Props to Riza A. for reporting the issue in detail.
Fix CSS layout issue with WP 6.6 and greater when viewing the media library. This happens when both "Clean Up Admin Bar >> Remove the Help tab and drawer" and "Enhance List Tables >> Show file size column in media library" are checked. Props to Marcellus J. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Clean Up Admin Bar: fixed 'Howdy' no longer being hidden since WP v6.6. Props to @wesleypeace, @lookazd, @colourstone, @verysiberian and Marco M.J. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Change Login URL: fixed a compatibility issue with User Switching plugin, preventing it to perform user switching. Props to George N. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: fix several PHP warnings. Props to Marco for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Groups: fixed PHP warning and deprecation notices in certain scenarios. Props to Leigh H. for reporting the issue in great details and facilitating the troubleshooting process.

Security

[IMPROVED in Pro] Security >> Email Address Obfuscator: add option to only auto-obfuscate email addresses in post content for site visitors, not for logged-in users. This is useful for when you need to enable users to export post content that contains email addresses. Props to Wence W. for suggesting this improvement.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Security >> Limit Login Attempts: fix PHP warning. Props to @malaga16 for reporting this.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Security >> Email Address Obfuscator: fix an issue where the obfuscated email address is not being output in human-readable form when the shortcode for it is used inside an ACF options page (WYSIWYG Editor) and rendered via a Bricks builder template. Props to Aleš S. for reporting the issue and facilitatiing the troubleshooting process.

Removed

[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Clean Up Admin Bar: when 'Howdy' is removed, the account menu item will now be positioned towards the right-most part of the admin bar. Props to Basil B. and Tony B. for reporting the issue.

Changed

[TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now translated into 22 languages:
Free: Spanish, Indonesian, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Slovak, Vietnamese
Pro: Hungarian, Norwegian, Vietnamese, Romanian
[TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now translated into 22 languages:
Free: Hungarian, Indonesian, Slovak, Swedish, Vietnamese
Pro: Italian, Vietnamese
[TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now translated into 22 languages:
Free: Arabic, Italian, Polish
Pro: Italian, Norwegian
Completed for ASE Free: Indonesian, Romanian
Completed for ASE Pro: Indonesian
[CHANGED in Pro] ASE Settings Export: the "live site URL" field value will be emptied when exporting ASE settings. This will prevent "Reading >> Search engine visibility >> Discourage search engines from indexing this site" from being auto-checked, since the site the settings is being imported into will likely have a different URL than the original live site URL. Props to Val J. for prompting t...
[TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now translated into 20 languages:
ASE Free: Arabic, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Slovak, Swedish, Vietnamese, Hungarian
ASE Pro: Danish, Brazilian Portuguese, Slovak, Vietnamese, German (formal), Hungarian
[TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now translated into 20 languages:
ASE Free: Hungarian, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Slovak, Vietnamese
ASE Pro: Hungarian, Brazilian Portuguese, Slovak, Vietnamese, Chinese
[NEW in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Logo: add custom logo to the admin dashboard. You can choose to show it on the admin bar, or at the top of the admin menu. Props to Rino D.B. and Matt B. for prompting the addition of this new module.
[TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now translated into 20 languages:
Chinese (China): ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to @bricksvip.
Portuguese (Brazil): ASE Free and ASE Pro (completed). Props to Dennis F., denisgomesfranco, Denison C. and @ofmarconi.
Hungarian: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to R. József G..
Vietnamese: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Hoang N.Q..
Italian: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Fabio P. et. al.
Dutch: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Toine R and Peter S. et al.
Korean: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to @chazmlab.
German (Formal): ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to @markussss, Bastian S. et al.
French: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Stéphan G., @jeanfrancoisdelvin, @srossignol, @lucashw, @skippy43, @anlip, @agencefacton, @injsbx et al.
Polish: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to @kosmity and Dariusz Z..
Norwegian: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Alf O.F..
Czech: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Jan S.
Spanish: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to @marcorubiol.
Slovak: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Dominik K..

7.0.1 9 new7 improved10 fixed1 security53 changed

New

[NEW in PRO] Log In/Out & Register >> Login Page Customizer: added new module to easily customize the design of the login page. Props to Nami, Max Z., Vijayanand and John S. for suggesting this feature.
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control: added a way to detect an invalid image that may cause errors. Props to Alberto O. Jr. for reporting the issue when importing Blocksy Child Starter theme that contains some demo content with an invalid image.
Translation updates: added new/improved translation for Danish, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Vietnamese, Hungarian, Italian and French.
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Change Login URL: add trailing slash suffix in the custom login URL input field, and make sure if a trailing slash is added in the input, it will be stripped. Props to Wence W. for reporting the issue with the trailing slash that prompted this improvement.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Utilities >> Search Engine Visibility Status: added an option to set the live / production site's URL, which will automatically prevent search engine visibility from being enabled on the development / staging site. Props to Gregory V. for suggesting this.
[TRANSLATION] French translation added. German translation completed. ASE is now translated into 15 languages:
Translation updates: added new/improved translation for Chinese, Vietnamese and Danish.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Utilities >> Display System Summary: added info on database, site, wp-content, plugins, themes and upload folders sizes. Props to @unrealnfs for suggesting this.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Utilities >> Email Delivery: added the option to specify a custom reply-to name and email address. Props to @designidit for suggesting this.

Improved

[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Content Order: media library items can now be custom ordered. Props to Ric M. for suggesting the improvement amd sharing their use case. Note: the custom order can only be previewed in the list view of the media library, and not in the grid view.
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Change Login URL: will now respect the Redirect After Login settings when a logged-in user is trying to open the custom login URL, i.e. will no longer redirect to the Dashboard /wp-admin/ and instead to the custom redirect URL for the user role. Props to Jacob O. for suggesting this improvement.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: implemented the option to add new separators. Props to Claudio P., Gabriel A. and Brandon Z. for suggesting this feature. Also implemented the option to hide submenu items. Props to Bengt R., Dana S., Steven Y., Andreas A. and Bill J. for suggesting this feature.
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: if the menu title for 'Posts' has been modified, the word 'Posts' will be changed as well throughout wp-admin. Props to @tinnyfusion for sharing the snippet this improvement is based upon.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: the 'Contact' menu item from Contact Form 7 can now be always hidden. Props to Wence W. for reporting the issue.
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Last Login Column: Date time format now uses the one set in Settings >> General. In ASE Pro, the last login column is now sortable.
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: allow renaming the Posts menu item. Some projects require renaming this to News, Articles, etc. Props to Simone S. for the sharing the use case and suggesting this.

Fixed

[FIXED in PRO] Log In/Out & Register >> Login Page Customizer: fixed responsive styling. Props to Stewart R. for reporting the issue. Also removed customization to body tag from the interim login modal window.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer:
Fixed a PHP warning. Props to Tomas R., Francoies G., Susanne R., David D., Richard E., Benjamin O., Justin K. and Cameron C. for reporting it.
Fixed an edge case where custom menu order is not being respected because a theme was not returning true when hooking into custom_menu_order hook. Props to Paul B. for reporting the issue.
Fixed an issue where admin menu is cut-off at the bottom after clicking Show All, which may happen if there are a lot of menu items, e.g. from plugins. Props to Nguyen Q.H. for reporting the issue with a quick screencast.
[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types: fixed a conflict with WP Grid Builder causing it's settings pages to break. Props to Darren L. for reporting the issue and bridging troubleshooting with WPGB support.
[FIXED in Pro] Utilities >> Display System Summary: fixed fatal error when trying to get the total size of the wp-content folder in certain scenarios. Props to Marcellus J. for reporting the issue and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
[FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: fixed an issue where the option to hide submenu items did not appear on click of the 'Hide' checkbox. Props to Geoff L. for reporting the issue when The Events Calendar Pro is active, showing it's submenu items. Unfortunately, this fix introduces a breaking change, so, you may need to re-do the hide settings for your submenu items done wit...
[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: fixed fatal error when installing / updating to v6.9.13. Props to @timbre-design and Kenneth L. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: properly hide notices on WooCommerce and TranslatePress settings pages. Props to @designidit and Simon L. for reporting the issues.

Security

[IMPROVED in Pro] Security >> Limit Login Attempts || Security >> Password Protection: added detected user IP address along with the header it was detected from in the IP whitelisting section, to make it easy to whitelist your IP address. Also added a way to detect the real IP address of users/visitors if the site is behind Cloudflare proxy. Additionally, also added a way to define the preferre...

Changed

[CHANGED in Free and Pro] Content Management >> AVIF Upload: this has been moved from a Pro module into a free module as WP core increases support for handling AVIF images. This module may be phased out in the future.
[TRANSLATION] French translation completed. ASE is now translated into 15 languages:
Chinese (China): ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to @bricksvip.
Portuguese (Brazil): ASE Free and ASE Pro (completed). Props to Dennis F..
Hungarian: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to R. József G..
Vietnamese: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Hoang N.Q..
Italian: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Fabio P. et. al.
Dutch: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Toine R and Peter S. et al.
Korean: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to @chazmlab.
German (Formal): ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to @markussss, Bastian S. et al.
French: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Stéphan G., @jeanfrancoisdelvin, @srossignol, @lucashw, @skippy43, @anlip, @agencefacton, @injsbx et al.
Polish: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Dariusz Z..
Portuguese (Portugal): ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Ricardo C..
Ukrainian: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Irina.
Urdu: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Ayyaz A..
Swedish: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Robert M. and Tor-Bjorn F..
Danish: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Morten E.L., Helgi P. and Kurt M.A..
More strings have been internationalized. @Translators, please visit the respective project pages for the Free and Pro versions to translate the new strings, if you havent' done so already.
Interested to help translate or improve the translation? Please go to https://translate.wpase.com for more info.
Chinese (China): ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to @bricksvip.
Portuguese (Brazil): ASE Free and ASE Pro (completed). Props to Dennis F..
Hungarian: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to R. József G..
Vietnamese: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Hoang N.Q..
Italian: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Fabio P. et. al.
Dutch: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Toine R and Peter S. et al.
Korean: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to @chazmlab.
German (Formal): ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to @markussss, Bastian S. et al.
Polish: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Dariusz Z..
Portuguese (Portugal): ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Ricardo C..
Ukrainian: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Irina.
Urdu: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Ayyaz A..
Swedish: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Robert M. and Tor-Bjorn F..
Danish: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Morten E.L., Helgi P. and Kurt M.A..
French: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Stéphan G., @jeanfrancoisdelvin, @srossignol, @lucashw, @skippy43, @anlip, @agencefacton, @injsbx et al.
More strings have been internationalized. @Translators, please visit the respective project pages for the Free and Pro versions to translate the new strings, if you havent' done so already.
Interested to help translate or improve the translation? Please go to https://translate.wpase.com for more info.
[TRANSLATION] Korean translation has been completed. ASE has now been translated into 14 languages:
Chinese (China): ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to @bricksvip.
Portuguese (Brazil): ASE Free and ASE Pro (completed). Props to Dennis F..
Hungarian: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to R. József G..
Vietnamese: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Hoang N.Q..
Italian: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Fabio P. et. al.
Dutch: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Toine R and Peter S. et al.
Korean: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (completed). Props to @chazmlab.
Polish: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (in progress). Props to Dariusz Z..
Portuguese (Portugal): ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Ricardo C..
Ukrainian: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Irina.
Urdu: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Ayyaz A..
Swedish: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Robert M. and Tor-Bjorn F..
Danish: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Morten E.L., Helgi P. and Kurt M.A..
German (Formal): ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to @markussss et al.
More strings have been internationalized. @Translators, please visit the respective project pages for the Free and Pro versions to translate the new strings, if you havent' done so already.
Interested to help translate or improve the translation? Please go to https://translate.wpase.com for more info.

6.9.10.1 3 new5 improved13 fixed2 removed31 changed

New

[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Disable Dashboard Widgets: added an option to disable the Welcome to WordPress widget/panel. Props to @tinnyfusion for suggesting this and providing the snippet to base this on.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Content Duplication: added an option to choose on which post type(s) duplication is enabled. Props to Paul R. for prompting the improvement after reporting seeing double 'Duplicate' link on the ads listing of Advanced Ads plugin, which has it's own 'Duplicate' feature for their ads.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Utilities >> Redirect 404: added an option to redirect to a custom URL instead of the homepage.

Improved

[IMPROVED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Show Custom Taxonomy Filters: this has been disabled for ASE's Media Categories to prevent showing the filter twice on the list view of the media library.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control: WebP conversion now works on sites where the active editor for media handling is WP_Image_Editor_Imagick. Props to Konstantin T. for reporting the issue which prompted this improvement.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Groups: remove irrelevant CPTs from ASE, WooCommerce and page builders from the field group's Placement >> Post Types drop down list, and sort the list alphabetically.
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Content Management >> Content Duplication: will properly detect if a 'product' post type is registered by WooCommerce or not. If it's registered by WooCommerce, content duplication will use WooCommerce's native feature. If it's not registered by WooCommerce, e.g. by ACF, then ASE's content duplication feature will be used. Props to @rikhen for reporting the issue whic...
[CHANGED and IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Show Custom Taxonomy Filter: this has been taken out of Enhance List Tables module and is now it's own module. In ASE Pro, it's also possible to show additional filter(s) for non-hierarchical taxonomies, e.g. Post Tags.

Fixed

[FIXED in Pro] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control: fixed an issue with WebP upload as reported by Konstantin T, where the resulting upload is a broken image. Also made sure WebP upload will be resized to the maximum dimension defined in the settings.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: when trying to hide a menu item with the "Always hide for user role(s) >> all roles except" option for a certain role, e.g. Administrator, it will not work correctly if a user has that certain role and another role (e.g. Web Designer), which can be assigned via the Utilities >> Multiple User Roles module. Previously, the menu item will...
[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Groups: fixed an issue in WYSIWYG field where inserting an image with caption will output the plain shortcode in the editor with the image placed within the shortcode. Props to Jacob O. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Taxonomies: fixed PHP warning in custom taxonomies list table.
[FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: fixed empty value being returned for ASE hyperlink field in certain scenarios.
[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Content Duplication: fixed a bug where all user roles were selected after saving changes to ASE settings, despite unchecking several user roles before saving. Props to David M. for spotting and reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Media Categories: fixed CSS so filter bar items in the list view does not spill over to the second line.
[FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: properly output "Hide until toggle" text without raw PHP code.
[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Options Pages: fixed an issue where WYSIWYG field that is part of an options page will output the wrong content when rendered inside Breakdance builder's header. Props to Darren L. for reporting the issue with screencasts and facilitating troubleshooting further.
[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Groups: Fixed PHP warning in WYSIWYG field. Fixed true/false field not showing SVG icon in Elementor.
[FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: fix for Elementor Templates >> Types column having duplicate values. Props to Steven Y. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager: fix activate / deactivate toggle on snippets listing page not working properly, i.e. returning 'yes' / 'no' page instead of actually toggling and stays on the listing page. Props to Darren L. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: fixed PHP deprecation notice.

Removed

[CHANGED in Free and Pro] Utilities >> Search Engines Visibility Status: Removed visibility status notice. Admin bar status should be enough. Props to Marco R. for prompting the change.
[CHANGED in Free] ASE Settings: removed sponsorship ask/nudge. Simplify this nudge into an ask to add a review or share about ASE.

Changed

[TRANSLATION] ASE has now been translated into 12 languages:
Chinese (China): ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to @bricksvip.
Portuguese (Brazil): ASE Free and ASE Pro (completed). Props to Dennis F..
Hungarian: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to R. József G..
Vietnamese: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Hoang N.Q..
Italian: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Fabio P. et. al.
Dutch: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Toine R and Peter S. et al.
Polish: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Dariusz Z..
Portuguese (Portugal): ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Ricardo C..
Ukrainian: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Irina.
Urdu: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Ayyaz A..
Swedish: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Robert M. and Tor-Bjorn F..
Danish: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Morten E.L., Helgi P. and Kurt M.A..
More strings have been internationalized. Props to @cooper08 and Hoang N.Q. for pointing them out. @Translators, please visit the respective project pages for the Free and Pro versions to translate the new strings.
Interested to help translate or improve the translation? Please go to https://translate.wpase.com for more info.
Note: simply change the language in your user profile editing screen to see the translations in action.
[TRANSLATION] ASE has now been translated into the following languages:
Chinese (China): ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to @bricksvip.
Dutch: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Toine R et al.
Hungarian: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (completed). Props to R. József G..
Polish: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Dariusz Z..
Portuguese (Brazil): ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (completed). Props to Dennis F..
Portuguese (Portugal): ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Ricardo C..
Ukrainian: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Irina.
Urdu: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Ayyaz A..
Vietnamese: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (completed). Props to Hoang N.Q..
Interested to help translate or improve the translation? Please go to https://translate.wpase.com for more info.
[TRANSLATION for Free and Pro] ASE Free is now available in Dutch (props to Toine R. et al.) and Ukrainian (props to Irina), and ASE Pro is available in Hungarian (props to R. József G.) and Brazilian Portuguese (props to Dennis F.)! For ASE Free, once you switch your language to Nederland or Українська in your profile settings, please go to Dashboard >> Updates >> Translation and click on "Upd...
[INTERNATIONALIZATION] More strings have been internationalized, so they are available for translation into various languages.
[CHANGED in Free] Remove the nudge to donate in support of the development for the free version of ASE. This has been replaced with a simple ask to share about ASE with your communities, which is also a way to provide support. Overall, the support nudge at the top of ASE settings page has been simplified. So, if you find ASE has been useful on your sites and in your workflow, hopefully you will...
[TRANSLATE ASE] Are you interested to see ASE in your language?: ASE has been fully internationalized and ready for localization / translation. If you're interested to get involved, please head over to https://translate.wpase.com for more info. Props to Toine R. for leading the Dutch translation efforts and @radicsjg for the Hungarian translation.

6.9.6.2 1 fixed

Fixed

[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Content Order: fixed PHP warnings as reported by Yoshihiro T. and a developer at mez#####e.co.

6.9.6.1 8 new14 improved23 fixed5 security1 removed2 changed

New

[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Enhance List Tables: added the option to show file size column in the media library list view. Props to @tinnyfusion for suggesting this and providing the code snippet to base this upon.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Disable Components >> Disable Gutenberg & Disable Comments: added additional option to "Disable only on" or "Disable except on" the selected post types. This should make it easier to include or exclude only certain post types despite new post types being registered on the site. i.e. no need to continually check newly added post types to disable Gutenberg / comments on.
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Increase code modularity across all modules. One is by switching from autoloading vendor libraries using Composer to loading them when the corresponding modules are enabled. The other by breaking down module category classes, e.g. class-content-management.php, that has grown large as new features and modules are added to each category, into smaller ones, e.g. class-co...
[IMPROVED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Custom Admin Footer Text: added "Add Media" and "Visual | Text" switcher.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Utilities >> Maintenance Mode: enable WYSIWYG editor for heading and description, which allows for links, some custom HTML and custom styling if you need it. Also added ability to add custom CSS along with addition of a page overlay div element, which you can style to overlay the background image, e.g. make it darker or brighter to increase contrast with the maintenance message.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Content Duplication: added duplication link in the publishing section of post edit screen, both in the classic editor and block editor. Also added an option to choose on which locations to show the duplication link: list view post action row / admin bar / edit screen publish section.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types: added the ability to create Options Pages, which for example, you can use to allow clients to easily edit parts of the website, e.g. office address, organization mission statement, etc. This has also been integrated with Oxygen, Bricks, Breakdance and Elementor, i.e. you can see fields from options pages showing up as dynamic data so...
[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Groups: the WYSIWYG field now has a 'code' button to show the HTML version of content being added / copy-pasted. Useful for cleaning up from unwanted code, e.g. CSS classes, weird formatting, etc. Props to Michael S. for suggesting something similar.

Improved

[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Redirect After Login & Logout: make it possible to redirect to the homepage by leaving the redirection slug input blank. Props to @mateuszkalamarz for reporting the issue and prompting the improvement.
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Change Login URL: properly redirect /wp-login (without .php) to the /not_found/ URL. It was showing the login form on some scenarios. Props to Artur M. for reporting this and help with troubleshooting.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Content Order: it's now possible to enable custom ordering for post types that are not hierarchical and don't support page attributes, e.g. posts and WooCommerce products. Props to Kay L., Eirini Z. and Hampus E. for suggesting this improvement.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: Post Parent and Menu Order are now included in Default columns for all post types.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager: when disabling safe mode via the admin bar icon/toggle fails, a message is now shown that links to the documentation on how to disable it manually via wp-config.php. Props to Nelson T. for prompting the improvement.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Groups: you can now choose default value(s) for radio, select and checkbox fields. Props to Max F. for pointing out this missing option.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Media Categories: when in grid view, parent categories are now properly assigned when uploading new media files to a sub-category view, i.e. after clicking on a sub-category in the categories tree. Props to Alin T. for suggesting the improvement. Also simplified the UI by removing the "Media Categories" title above the categories tree.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Groups: "This is a required field" validation now works properly for File, Radio and Checkbox fields, while removing it from the True False field, as an empty checkbox is a valid value as well. Props to Michael S. for testing and reporting this.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Utilities >> Maintenance Mode: add an option to set the title of the maintenance page, which is visible in browser tab title. Props to Gálik J. for the suggestion. Also enabled wpautop() for the output of heading and description. i.e. line breaks now appear on the maintenance page.
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components >> Disable Emoji Support: will also now disable conversion of text emojis into picture emojis, a.k.a. smilies. Props to @ofmarconi for reporting the issue on their Elementor site.
[CHANGED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types: custom field groups and options pages creation is now enabled by default when Custom Content Types module is enabled. Also updated module description and settings to reflect this.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control: in previous version, BMP, PNG and JPG images will be converted first to WebP before being resized to the specified. Now, uploads will be resized first before conversion to WebP. This will result in even smaller file size while maintaining image quality. Props to Adryan for the astute observation and detailed reporting of the issue.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager: snippet description editor now has the Visual-Text tabs. Useful for cleaning up description from unwanted code, e.g. CSS classes, weird formatting, etc, when the description is copy-pasted from elsewhere. Props to Michael S. for suggesting this.
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Change Login URL: will now correctly output an error message on failed login: "Error: Invalid username/email or incorrect password.". This is a custom message that does not give away valuable info to potential hackers. e.g. does not indicate that the username is correct but password is wrong. Props to Sven K. for reporting the issue.

Fixed

[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Options Pages: fixed an issue where getting an option page's option value in the frontend returns empty value. Props to Darren for reporting this with a short but clear screencast that illustrates the issue in Breakdance builder.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Disable Components >> Disable Gutenberg: fixed an issue where the "Add Form" button from Gravity Forms is not present next to "Add Media" button in the post/page edit screen when gutenberg / block editor is disabled for a post type. Props to Kazam Creative for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types: in some scenarios, the WYSIWYG field is not responsive, and thus, not usable when editing a post using that field type with the block editor. This is now fixed. Props to Philipp Z. for reporting the issue and facilitating the troubleshooting.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] ASE Settings: fixed PHP warning reported by @osblaga in this thread.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Media Categories: css adjustment to fix toolbar items spilling over to the second line in the grid view on certain scenarios.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] ASE Settings: fixed an issue where TinyMCE Visual editor is not responsive / working in Firefox browser. e.g. in Custom Admin Footer Text and Maintenance Mode modules. Props to Michael S. for reporting the issue. Replaced Text tab/editor with a code button to perform raw HTML editing.
[FIXED in Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager: fixed an issue where TinyMCE Visual editor for snippet description is not responsive / working in Firefox browser. Props to Michael S. for hinting at the issue. Replaced Text tab/editor with a code button to perform raw HTML editing.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: fixed a PHP warning that occurs in certain scenarios.
[FIXED in Pro] Utilities >> Maintenance Mode: fixed an issue where background image is not properly loaded certain scenarios.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] ASE Settings: fixed an issue in some scenarios, of not being able to enter any value in the TinyMCE Visual editor. Props to Nelson T. who first reported the issue in the Custom Admin Footer Text module and being patient and supportive throughout the troubleshooting process. Additional props to Gustavo F. for reporting the same issue in the Maintenance Mode module and fac...
[FIXED in Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager: fixed an issue in some scenarios, of not being able to enter any value in the snippet description's TinyMCE Visual editor. Props to Michael S. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Change Login URL: fixed an issue where on some circumstances, after a successful login, redirection to the default / custom 404 page instead of the admin dashboard occurs. Props to Ignazio D.M. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Groups: fixed an issue with Elementor integration where Loop Grid widget is not showing the correct set of CPT content. Props to Thomas B. for reporting the issue in great detail (problematic URLs and annotated screenshots) and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Groups: fixed a couple of deprecation notices when in PHP v8.2 for creating dynamic property.
[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Groups: fixed an issue where custom field group's extra settings were not properly being saved.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: fixed missing settings panels in Loco Translate, e.g. Add New Language panel, as they are using divs with .notice class, which were hidden inside the Notices panel in the admin bar. These panels are now excluded from being hidden. Props to @inboundbe and @kirollosa for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Content Mangement >> Media Replacement: fixed an issue where on certain scenarios, when editing a page / post / CPT with the block editor, there were media frame layout issues when trying to change the featured image. Props to Philipp Z. for reporting the issue and facilitating troubleshooting, which includes recording a 43 seconds screencast of the issue.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Optimizations >> Revisions Control: fixed an issue when entering 0 revisions as the limit, after saving changes, it will revert back to the default 10 revisions. Props to @pressthemes1 for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Groups: fixed an issue where returning the value of a custom field inside a GenerateBlocks Query Loop returns an empty value after update to v6.9.1. Props to Arne O. for reporting the issue in details and patiently facilitating the troubleshooting process. This also fixed a similar issue with showing custom field values i...
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control: added checks to prevent PHP fatal error and warnings when uploading non-image files and WebP conversion is enabled. Props to Peter J. and Gilang R. for reporting the fatal error issue.
[FIXED in Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager: fixed missing "Snippet Categories" sub-menu item after the last release. Props to Herbert S. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Free] Utilities >> Maintenance Mode: properly hide the 'Image' and 'Color' background options in the free version. Props to Michael I. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Type: custom taxonomy key / slug was limited to 20 characters despite the UI / description saying it's limited to 32 characters, per the hard limit set by [register_taxonomy()(https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/register_taxonomy/). Props to Michael S. for reporting the issue.

Security

[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Security >> Limit Login Attempts: change input type for the limit numbers from text to number.
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Improve security: properly escape unescaped $variables on ASE settings page and in various modules.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Security >> Limit Login Attempts: Fixed an issue where sorting by date-time (Last Attempt On) in the failed login attempts log table did not work as expected. Going forward, the log table will by default be sorted by Last Attempt On in descending order. Props to a user whose name escapes memory at the moment!
[FIXED in Free and Pro] ASE Settings: prevent JS error when iThemes Security Pro / Solid Security Pro plugin is active.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Security >> Limit Login Attemtps: fixed an issue where under certain conditions, the login page would endlessly reload making it impossible to login. Props to eangulus, andreawriessnegger, eangulus, Max F. and Eric for reporting this patiently and in great detail in the wp.org support forum and via email.

Removed

[CHANGED in Pro] Content Management >> AVIF Upload: remove link to avif.io, which is no longer online. This module will likely be removed once WP v6.5 is released and is widely adopted, as built-in AVIF support will be included in WP core.

Changed

[CHANGED in Free and Pro] Disable Components >> Disable Block-based Widgets Settings Screen: is now moved under Disable Smaller Components module.
[CHANGED in Pro] Content Management >> Terms Order: custom terms ordering was previously limited to users with 'manage_options' capability, e.g. administrator, and now is available for users with 'manage_categories' capability, e.g. administrator, editor, shop_manager. Props to Marco R. for the feedback.

6.9.0.1 4 new2 improved1 fixed1 changed

New

[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Groups: added 4 new field types: number, radio, checkbox and (image) gallery. All of them works with the repeater field and have been integrated with Bricks, Breakdance, Oxygen and Elementor, and also fully supported in the Admin Columns Manager module.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Groups: added option to choose preview size for file (image) field type. You can choose between thumbnail (cropped/square) or medium (uncropped). Some users prefer the cropped version as it's smaller file size, while some other users prefer the uncropped version which for example, shows brand logos nicely.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Change Login URL: added option to choose which URL to redirect to when visitors try to access default WP login URLs/slugs (/wp-admin/, /admin/, /wp-login.php, /login/). Props to Igor P. for the suggestion.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Content Duplication: added option to choose which user role(s) the duplication feature is available for. Props to Igor P. for the suggestion.

Improved

[IMPROVED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: list table is now responsive, i.e. looks and works nicely on mobile. Props to Pablo R. for reporting the issue when vieweing on mobile.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Post Types: small usability tweak. Add a close icon in the icon picker of the custom post type creation / edit screen. Props to Steven Y. for the suggestion.

Fixed

[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Content Duplication: fixed a bug that can cause PHP warning or fatal error. Props to Benjamin P., Elon R., and Yoshihiro T. for reporting the issue immediately after the release of v6.9.0.

Changed

[NEW in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Custom Admin Footer Text: Customize the text you see on the footer of wp-admin pages.

6.8.3.1 8 new18 improved43 fixed5 security6 changed

New

[NEW in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types: added integration of ASE custom fields as Elementor builder's dynamic data provider All field types, except for repeater fields, can be displayed using the Text Editor widget. It's also possible to use compatible field types as data sources for URLs, files/media, colors, numbers, image and video.
[IMPROVEMENT in Free and Pro] Content Management >> Content Duplication: added an option to choose where to redirect after performing duplication of a post. Choices are the edit screen of the new/duplicate post, or the list view for the post type, e.v. View all posts. Props to @americancreativeconsulting for suggesting this improvement.
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Utilities >> Display System Summary: added server IP address. Props to Koen A. for the suggestion.
[IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types: added integration of ASE custom fields as Breakdance builder's dynamic data provider with full support for the repeater field. All field types can be output using a simple text element in Breakdance, and it's also possible to output compatible field types as URLs and be used in the image and video elements for further customization....
[IMPROVED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: added a column containing list of products being ordered for WooCommerce Orders listing page. Props to Jacob E. for the suggestion.
[IMPROVED[Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: added support for wp_block post type used for all user-created block patterns since WP v6.3. It will allow showing the sync status column added in the 'wp_pattern_sync_status' post meta. Props to Francois G. for suggesting this.
[NEW][Free][Pro] Utilities >> Image Sizes Panel: New module to display a panel showing and linking to all available sizes when viewing an image in the media library. Especially useful to quickly get the URL of a particular image size. Pro version adds a convenient button to copy the image URL on click.
[IMPROVED][Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager: added support for SCSS in CSS snippets. Props to Benjamin P. for the suggestion.

Improved

[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: mouse cursor now changes to a pointer (hand icon pointing upwards) when hovering on the 'Notices' menu in the admin bar. Props to @cvladan for suggesting this.
[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Custom Code >> Custom Admin CSS: change the hook in use to print custom CSS on page from 'admin_enqueue_scripts' to 'admin_print_footer_scripts'. This increases the chance that the custom CSS will override previously declared CSS.
[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Change Login URL: after resetting password, the "Log in" link in "Your password has been reset. Log in" will now link to the custom login URL. More generally, wp_login_url() will now return the custom login URL. Props to @timbre-design for reporting the issue.
[IMPROVED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: make WP core, ASE, ACF and Meta Box columns with values that are sortable to be automatically sortable, i.e. can be sorted ASC / DESC on clicking the column header. To enable this, please open the admin columns manager for the post types you have, and click Save Changes. Props to Julian S. and Uli L for suggesting a feature in this area.
[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: will now properly handle hiding notices on GenerateBlocks settings page. Props to @tpfoster for reporting this in great detail, which helped with troubleshooting.
[IMPROVED][Pro] Utilities >> Local User Avatar: make sure local avatar is used for get_avatar_url(). Props to Sunny T. for reporting that Cwicly Image block does not load local avatar when "Dynamic Data >> WordPress >> Author Profile Picture" is selected as the data source, @ardyan for reporting gravatar image was still loaded on their site.
[IMPROVED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: allow extra columns, e.g. from plugins like WPML and Yoast SEO, to use their original title, which sometimes are icons, e.g. language/country flag to signify language, or traffic light to signify SEO score. Props to Sebastian A. for reporting the issue with WPML language column needing to use the original title, which is the language/cou...
[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Disable Components >> Disable Comments: now will also block comment attempts via XML-RPC and REST API. Props to @jmentalist and Anders for reporting the issue and helping with troubleshooting.
[IMPROVED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: add "Reset Menu" link at the bottom of the organizer to reset menu order, titles and hidden status. Props to Francois G. for suggesting this.
[IMPROVED][Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager: add snippet categories to help organize your code snippets. Props to George N. for the feature suggestion.
[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Content Management >> Content Duplication: After clicking the duplicate link, redirects will now go to the edit screen of the duplicate content. Add admin bar link to duplicate content on the edit screen (wp-admin) and singular view (frontend).
[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: Prevent hidden notices from being moved into the notices panel and be made visible. Useful, for example, when plugins add hidden notices for showing action progress or errors when needed.
[IMPROVED][Pro] Content Management >> Media Categories: make the categories tree scrollable when there are many categories / sub-categories to make drag-and-dropping onto the tree more convenient. Props to Alin T. for suggesting the improvement.
[IMPROVED][Pro] Content Management >> Media Categories: when you assign a media item to a sub-category, it will automatically be assigned to the parent category and the counter on the parent category will be incremented as well. Props to Alin T. for suggesting the improvement.
[IMPROVED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: columns for post ID, menu order, publish date and last modified date are now sortable by default. Props to Hayato for suggesting the Last Modified Date column to be made sortable, which prompted the improvement.
[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Disable Components >> Disable Comments: Improve logic to ensure comment section is properly hidden, preventing empty gaps from appearing on the frontend. This was observed in GeneratePress theme. Props to Julian for reporting the issue with a detailed screencast / video recording.
[IMPROVED][Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types: "Show in REST" is enabled by default during creation of new custom taxonomy. This help ensure that custom taxonomies being created will work in the block editor right away. Props to Arne O. for hinting about the issue in a support ticket.
[IMPROVED][Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types: improve module description to emphasize that custom field groups are currently (only) supported for post types.

Fixed

[FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: fixed an issue where column widths are not properly applied.
[FIXED in Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager: fixed PHP warning on login page. Props to Sunny L., Linda L. and Francois G. for reporting the issue along with the full error entry that helped with troubleshooting.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] ASE Settings Page: fixed incompatibility with US Weather Widget plugin (a plugin that's last updated 6 years ago) causing the settings page to load partially and become non-functional. Props to James B for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Content Management >> Media Replacement: fixed an issue where media replace is not working in non-English wp-admin. Also fixed an issue where the "Drop files to upload" blue overlay is not closing after drag-and-dropping a file in the media replacement modal window. Props to Andi P. for reporting these issues in details and with screencasts and also facilitating troubles...
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Last Login Column: fixed PHP warning when logging out of temporary account created with Temporary Login Without Password plugin. Props to Alex S. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Pro] Terms Order: fixed PHP notice and warning on certain scenarios. Props to Brian N. for reporting the issue with a copy of the error log entry, which helped with troubleshooting.
[FIXED in Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager: fixed an issue where users are not able to logout in certain scenarios when Code Snippets Manager is active. Props to HMDIA for reporting the issue and assisting with troubleshooting.
[FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: fixed an issue where columns of certain post type listings are showing empty cells / values. This was originally reported in detail with GeoDirectory's Packages listing by Martin K., which also helped with the troubleshooting.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] ASE settings page: fixed plugin conflict between ASE and WordPress Mentions Légales plugin causing ASE settings page to be blank and dysfunctional. Props to Gilbert G. for reporting and helping with troubleshooting.
[FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: fixed PHP fatal error when there's a product that does not have an SKU and the Products column is shown in WooCommerce Orders page. Props to Jacob E. for reporting the issue and helping with troubleshooting.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Content Management >> Content Duplication: fixed PHP warnings as reported by @webvizionph in details here.
[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Media Replacement: fixed an issue where the "Select New Media File" button does not work in the grid view of the media library when viewing a media item and trying to perform media replacement. Props to Stefan P. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Media Replacement: fixed an issue where the new image (for replacement) is not being shown in the frontend view of the site and in the block editor's Featured Image section. Props to David H. for their investigative work detailing the issues and the scenarios under which they appear, and also for helping with the troubleshooting process.
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: will now only be active in wp-admin pages and not on the frontend. Changed the hook used to load inline CSS styles that was causing the PHP warning issue of "headers already sent" when viewing the Customizer, as reported by @socialsparkmedia and @elonreynolds here and here. Additionally, when Breakdance builder is actively managing...
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Content Management >> Media Replacement: fixed a bug that occurs when an image of a different (mime) type than the image to replace is being used for the replacement. A check has been added that will output a warning when that happens, and will disable the Perform Replacement button until an image of the same type is selected. Props to David H. and Andi P. for reporting...
[FIXED in Free and Pro] Utilities >> Display System Summary: fixed PHP warning when there's an error getting database information via mysqli_connect(). Props to Val J. for reporting the issue and helping with troubleshooting.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Change Login URL: undo a change in v6.5.1 that was returning the custom login URL for wp_login_url(). This caused common login URLs like /admin, /wp-admin and /login to redirect to the custom login URL, thus making it pointless to have a custom login URL. With this reversion, those common long URLs will redirect to /not_found/ 404 error page. Props to...
[FIXED][Pro] Local User Avatar: fixed PHP warning when opening the block editor and in other scenarios. Props to Rio M. and Brian W. for reporting the issue.
[IMPROVED][Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types: added integration of ASE custom fields as Oxygen and Bricks builder's dynamic data provider. The repeater and relationship fields are fully supported in Bricks builder's Query Loop. Repeater field suport in Oxygen builder's Repeater module requires implementation from within Oxygen builder's plugin, so, if you'd like to see that happen...
[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Admin Interface >> Clean Up Admin Bar: when 'Howdy' is hidden and "Avatar Display" is disabled in Settings >> Discussion, the profile menu will also hide the default user avatar and the profile dropdown will no longer show empty space where the avatar was shown before. Props to Stijn V. for reporting the issue and providing the one-line code fix for it.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Change Login URL: when a user is logged-in and attempt to visit the custom login URL, the user was being logged out and redirected to the login page. Now, the user be redirected to /wp-admin/ and will stay logged-in. Props to @boah123 for reporting the issue with detailed steps to reproduce it.
[FIXED][Pro] Utilities >> Local User Avatar: fixed fatal error in certain scenario when $user object is not being returned.
[FIXED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: fixed an issue where /wp-admin/ (Dashboard) is not accessible upon successful login when this module is active. Props to John M. for reporting the issue and help with narrowing down the probably cause.
[FIXED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: fixed an issue with SureMembers Access Groups listing page not showing the group title and action links when Admin Columns Manager is active. Props to Volker D. for reporting the issue and facilitating troubleshooting.
[FIXED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: nothing is listed in the Custom Fields section when organizing columns for WooCommerce Orders (shop_order), including custom fields from ACF. Props to Jacob E. for reporting the issue and providing additional information to help troubleshoot the issue.
[FIXED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: fixed an issue where Screen Options toggle was not properly toggling RankMath's SEO Title and SEO Desc columns. Props to Sunny T. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: fixed missing column values from EDD Orders page. Props to Deborah S. for reporting the issue and helping with troubleshooting.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Optimizations >> Heartbeat Control: fixed PHP warnign. Props to Maek M. for reporting the issue along with the error log entry.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Disable Components >> Disable Comments: fixed PHP warning issue. Props to @ken0429ng for reporting the issue.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Fatal error on site migration: fixed a fatal error that occurred after migrating a site with ASE configured. Props to Bart van O. and JW for reporting the issue and helping with troubleshooting.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Admin Interface >> Hde Admin Notices: fixed another PHP warning.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Settings page: fixed plugin conflicts causing ASE settings page to go blank, i.e. does not work properly. This is usually caused by other plugins loading scripts on ASE settings page that causes some JS error. Two such plugins if active will no longer cause the issue.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Utilities >> Image Sizes Panel: fixed fatal error in a certain scenario when GamiPress plugin is enabled. Props to Peter J. for reporting the issue complete with the relevant error log entry, which helped with troubleshooting.
[FIXED][Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types: fixed PHP warning during sanitization of checkbox fields during CPT creation / editing. Also fixed PHP warning when trying to detect post type label for the admin column in the Custom Post Types listing page.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Admin Interface >> Hde Admin Notices: fixed PHP warning. Props to @cck23 and @joeysander for reporting this.
[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Wider Admin Menu: fixed layout issue in WooCommerce products listing page when viewed on mobile. Props to @inboundbe for reporting this, and with a screenshot.
[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Admin Interface >> Hde Admin Notices: fixed an issue where notices are not moved inside the notices panel after the last release. Pro version adds an option to also hide admin notices for non-administrators.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Padding issue around "Media (attachment)" checkbox in module options.
[FIXED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: fix for column header not being hidden when the corresponding Screen Options toggle is unchecked on the post listing table page. Props to David M. and Sunny T. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED][Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types: when there are multiple repeater fields for a custom field group, and in the post editing UI, fixed an issue with using the + sign on a repeater field row that may cause sub-fields from another repeater to be added instead. Props to Benjamin P. for reporting the issue in details (with screenshots and highlights added), which helped with r...
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Admin Interface >> Enhance List Tables >> Show additional filter(s): fixed PHP warning for undefined taxonomy-slug array key. Props to Christine M. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED][PRO] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Groups: fixed link to documentation on a field group edit screen's 'Tips' meta box.
[FIXED][Pro] Content Mangement >> Content Order: fixed an issue where secondary queries in GenerateBlocks Query Loop block were not able to be sorted as intended. Props to Arne O. for reporting the issue in detail and helping with troubleshooting.

Security

[IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Security >> Limit Login Attempts: improve detection of user's IP address, especially for cases where the user is behind a proxy server. Prevents locking out all users from that proxy server when one is being locked out. Props to Gunnar A. for detecting and reporting the issue and suggesting a solution to help fix that.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Security >> Limit Login Attempts: fixed an issue where lockout is not effecive after reaching the limit of failed login attempts and being shown the lockout screen. Reloading the lockout screen would simply show the login form again, even when lockout period is not over yet. This happens only when using default login URL at /wp-login.php. Props to @dywoo02 for reporting this...
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Security >> Email Address Obfuscator: fixed PHP warning on scenarios where user agent is not detectable.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Security >> Limit Login Attempts: fixed PHP warning errors that occurs in certain scenarios.
[IMPROVED][Pro] Security >> Email Address Obfuscator: fix for auto-obfuscation when email address is inside an HTML tag like <div> or <span>. Props to Julian S. for noticing the issue in Elementor Icon List widget, reporting in details with a screencast, testing further to ensure the_content filter applies there, and finally even suggesting code fixes including the improved regex pattern! Thank...

Changed

[NEW in Free and Pro] Log In Log Out >> Login ID Type: Restrict login ID to username or email address only.
[NEW in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Display Active Plugins First: new module to display active / activated plugins at the top of the Installed Plugins list. Useful when your site has many deactivated plugins for testing or development purposes.
[NEW][Free][Pro] Utilities >> Search Engines Visibility Status: new module to show admin bar status and admin notice when search engines are set to be discouraged from indexing the site, which is set through a "Search engine visibility" checkbox in Settings >> Reading. Props to David S. for suggesting the feature and providing the code snippet (generated with ChatGPT Plus) that this module was...
[NEW][Free][Pro] Content Management >> Media Library Infinite Scrolling: Re-enable infinite scrolling in the grid view of the media library. Useful for scrolling through a large library. Props to @benbaudart for suggesting this.
[NEW][Pro] Content Management >> Terms Order: Enable custom ordering of terms from various "hierarchical" taxonomies.
[CHANGED][Free][Pro] Optimizations >> Revisions Control: exclude bricks_template CPT from the list of post types to enable revisions control for. Bricks handle this via a custom constant as explained at this article. So, usage of a PHP code snippet via the Code Snippets Manager module is more appropriate to control revisions on Bricks templates. Props to Kenneth S. for reporting the issue in th...

6.2.6.1 3 new1 improved12 fixed2 security

New

[ADDED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: added support for ACF and Meta Box custom fields. This includes ACF repeater and flexible content fields as well as Meta Box cloneable group field.
[ADDED][Free][Pro] Utilities >> Email Delivery: added the option to bypass SSL certificate verification. While this would be insecure if mail is delivered across the internet, it could help in certain local and/or containerized WordPress scenarios. Props to Thijs E. for suggesting this feature and providing the code snippet for it.
[ADDED][Pro] Utilities >> Password Protection: added IP whitelisting and bypass via URL parameter. Useful for your team to easily view a dev site or providing easy access to clients when reviewing a dev site. Please see module description for details. Props to Alf O.F. for the suggestion to add IP whitelisting.

Improved

[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Content Management >> Content Duplication: exclude addition of 'Duplicate' link for WooCommerce products as there's already a native 'Duplicate' link from WooCommerce. Props to Claudio P. for reporting the issue.

Fixed

[FIXED][PRO] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: fixed fatal error for sites where the NumberFormatter class is not present. Props to David M. for reporting.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Left-side footer area in wp-admin will no longer be blank. Props to C.J. Ezell for reporting the issue.
[FIXED][Free] Fixed PHP warning errors around the sponsorship nudge. Props to @banijadev for reporting the issue.
[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Change Login URL: fixed account registration URL going to the /not_found/ 404 page. Improved overall handling of login, registration and password reset flows. Props to @tedocweb for reporting the issue and prompting the improvement.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Admin Interface >> Wider Admin Menu: fix for when the admin menu is shown on a block editor screen (non-fullwidth), it would overlap part of the block editor. Props to Adrien R. for reporting the issue and pointing to the CSS fix.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Admin Interface >> Enhance List Tables: fixed PHP warning on the media library list view when "Show additional filter(s) for hierarchical, custom taxonomies" is enabled.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Change Login URL: fixed an issue where custom login URL redirects to 404 when the site has WPML configured to apply the directory pattern for the main site language. Props to Marcellus J. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED][Pro] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control: fixed an issue where if the PNGs being uploaded are 'paletter' images, the resulting WebP files are blank. Props to Marcellus J. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Admin Interface >> Enhance List Tables: fixed PHP deprecated error, "Constant FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING is deprecated", when "Show additional filter(s) for hierarchical, custom taxonomies" is enabled. Thanks to Alex @justsmilepeople for reporting this.
[FIXED][Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager: fixed PHP warning in WP subfolder installs due to non-dynamic definition of a folder in /wp-content/uploads/, which is used to store snippet files for execution. Props to Phil K. for discovering the issue and suggesting the fix.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components >> Disable Emoji Support: fixed PHP fatal error for an edge case where DNS prefetch of emoji URLs does not return a string. Props to @tomhung for reporting and providing the code fix.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] ASE settings page: fixed an issue where for some screen size, the main settings section is overlapping with the WP side menu. Props to @dvaer for reporting this and also providing the CSS fix for it.

Security

[IMPROVED][Pro] Security >> Email Address Obfuscator: added custom subject line for the obfuscate shortcode when mailto linking is enabled. Shortcode example added in module description. Props to Paul R. for the suggestion. Also improved mechanism to auto-obfuscate email addresses in post content so it does not interfere with manually added obfuscation shortcode, which contains an email address...
[ADDED][Pro] Security >> Limit Login Attempts >> IP Whitelist: this should also be useful to unblock a user. Props to Vijayanand V. for the suggestion.

6.2.2.1 7 new8 improved7 fixed2 security1 removed1 changed

New

[ADDED][Pro] Utilities >> Maintenance Mode: add an option to use an image as the page background. Props to Vijayanand V. for the suggestion. Using a solid color is also possible now. Please expect to see this module improved further in future releases.
[IMPROVED][PRO] Admin Interface >> Clean Up Admin Bar: changed algorithm to detect newly added admin bar items, e.g. from theme, plugins or snippets, both on the backend and also the frontend. Props to Jan K. for suggesting the improvement and providing tips on how to achieve it.
[IMPROVED][Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types: added description on where to find links to create CPTs, custom taxonomies and custom field groups, which are under the Settings menu.
[IMPROVED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: added Post Parent and Menu Order columns in the Default (columns) section for hierarchical post types or those supporting page attributes.
[ADDED][Pro] Utilities >> Local User Avatar: New module to enable usage of any image from WordPress Media Library as user avatars. Props to Florian B. for the suggestion.
[ADDED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Bar: added a Pro feature to (also) hide the admin bar on the backend for some user roles, which maybe desirable for certain types of membership sites.
[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Utilities >> View Admin as Role: added a floating button to the right-bottom corner of wp-admin pages when viewing as a non-admin user role. In addition to the switcher on the admin bar, this should make it easier to switch back to the administrator role.

Improved

[IMPROVED][Pro] Utilities >> Maintenance Mode: improve loading of dependencies on media library and color picker assets.
[IMPROVED][Pro] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control: transparent PNG will now be converted to transparent WebP. Props to Laurent F. for the suggestion.
[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Content Management >> Content Order: for enabled post types, newly created posts will now be placed at the bottom of the order. This removes the need to manually order after post creation. Props to Bengt R. and Darius for identifying the issue with new posts ordering and suggesting the improvement.
[IMPROVED][Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Groups: tidy up the appearance of TinyMCE toolbar in the WYSIWYG custom field input.
[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Disable Components >> Disable Comments: this should be more reliable now with improved application of the comments_array filter hook for post types where comments are being disabled. Props to Dorel Y. for reporting the issue with a theme used on their site.
[IMPROVED][Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Groups: image field input will now render the 'medium' size image as a preview in the post edit screen, preventing cropping of images that is better shown uncropped, e.g. brand logo. Props to Simon for providing detailed feedback on this.
[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Utilities >> View Admin as Role: add a warning for sites that has Ninja Firewall active to uncheck "Block attempts to gain administrative privileges" when this module is enabled to prevent being locked out of the admin account. Props to C de Groot for reporting the issue and suggesting to add a warning.
[IMPROVED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: the "Manage Columns" button will now be visible only to administrators. Thanks to Claudio P. for reporting the issue where non-admins can see it and clicking on it produces error messages.

Fixed

[FIXED][Pro] Missing 'Configure' link in plugin action links on the Pro version, which may make it difficult for users to find the settings page for ASE if they've never used the free version before.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Optimizations >> Heartbeat Control: fixed a PHP Warning when wp-cron.php is triggered. Props to Avi R. and Christian G. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: certain plugins, e.g. GigPress and MemberPress, has parent menu items that were not able to be organized by the AMO module. This should now be fixed. Props to Nadja V.M. and Dana S. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED][Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Groups: fixed a missing JS file error when using the block editor and having a WYSIWYG custom field loaded.
[FIXED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: prevent duplication of WooCommerce taxonomy terms in the product categories and product tags columns. Props to Philippe G. and Florian B. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control: fixed an issue where subsequently uploading files with the same filename will result in the last upload overwriting the earlier uploads, i.e. all uploads ended up with the same filename. This includes scenarios when such images are copy-pasted into the block editor. Props to Manu H. reporting the issue in detail and help with ongoing tro...
[FIXED][Pro] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control: in some scenarios, the default WebP conversion quality of 82 is not automatically applied upon enabling it. It should now be properly applied. Props to Matija S. for spotting the issue.

Security

[ADDED][Pro] Security >> Obfuscate Email Address: added the option to automatically obfuscate email addresses inside post content. Props to Dorel Y. for the suggestion.
[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Security >> Email Address Obfuscator: improve module description with clearer examples of how to use the shortcode. Props to jh@ for the suggestion.

Removed

[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Disable Components >> Disable XML-RPC: improve code to ensure link to xmlrpc script in <head> is properly removed. Props to Dorel Y. for reporting the issue and suggesting a snippet to do that.

Changed

[GRAMMAR][Free][Pro] Admin Interface - Enhance List Tables: remove unneeded dots from the end of the list items. Props to Sridhar K. for spotting that.

6.1.2 1 new2 improved1 fixed

New

[ADDED][Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager: added a description field to each code snippet and a column for it in the list view. Props to Simon (and another user whom I can't figure out who, sorry!) for suggesting this.

Improved

[IMPROVED][Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager: when Content Order is enabled for code snippets, the 'Order' submenu item will properly be positioned at the end.
[IMPROVED][Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager: reduce FOUC (Flash of Unstyled Content) on the add new & edit screens of code snippets.

Fixed

[FIXED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: fixed an issue where for certain group of submenu items are not shown when this module is enabled and/or when saving changes with the module enabled. For example, this happened with WooCommerce >> Analytics and FakerPress submenu items. Props to @ubuntuproductions for reporting the issue.

6.1.1 2 new2 improved5 fixed2 security

New

[ADDED][Pro] Content Management >> Content Order: added option to use custom order on frontend query and display of enabled post types. This is done via the pre_get_posts hook for post type archive pages and on secondary queries.
[ADDED][Pro] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control: you can now set the WebP conversion quality, between 1 to 100. Default has been increased from 80 to 82. Props to Istvan for suggesting the improvement after seeing artifacts on blurry parts of certain images when converted to WebP with the default quality settings.

Improved

[IMPROVED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: newly registered custom taxonomies will now immediately show up in the Admin Columns Manager screen. Previously, you'll need to reset the columns first. Props to Simon for reporting the issue when adding a custom taxonomy with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), leading to the improvement made.
[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: styling of WooCommerce separator has been improved to match the other separators.

Fixed

[FIXED]Pro] Content Management >> Content Order: fixed PHP warning for newly added option to use custom order on the frontend. Props to Thomas B. for reporting.
[FIXED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: fixed a bug where opting to always hide a menu item does not properlly work. Also added special treatment for Yoast SEO menu item that can not be always hidden due to how it is showing a special menu item for editors. Props to Chris for reporting the issue and helping with troubleshooting.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Content Management >> Content Duplication: fixed an issue with CSS variables used in the block editor not being properly duplicated, thus breaking the style of the duplicate post. Props to Tim H. for reporting the issue when working with blocks from GenerateBlocks. Props to Sami M. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: fixed an issue where "an unexpected network error has occurred!" notice was shown in the admin notices panel despite no apparent network error occurring. Props to Sebastian A. for reporting this.
[FIXED][Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager: fixed an issue where last modified date time is inaccurate. Props to Greg F. for reporting the issue and helping with troubleshooting.

Security

[FIXED][Free][Pro] Security >> Email Address Obfuscator: further fix for Firefox browser, to correctly show the human-readable email address to site visitors. Props to Mark G. for reporting the issue (again!).
[FIXED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: fixed an issue where saving changes resulted in an error in the admin-ajax.php call when 5G / 6G firewall rules is enabled in All in One Security plugin. Props to Joko Z. for reporting the issue.

6.0.8.2 3 improved1 fixed

Improved

[IMPROVED][Pro] Content Management >> Media Categories: frontend CSS previously (also) loaded for public visitors will only be shown to logged-in users when they work with the media library in page builders.
[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Content Management >> External Permalinks: completely remove jQuery dependency so it no longer loads on the frontend. Previously the frontend JS was improved to no longer use jQuery, but the dependency was still there. Props to David M. for reporting the issue as he was working on his site using Bricks builder and wanted to optimize page load time.
[IMPROVED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: Further improvement to the handling of custom columns from plugins, prompted by report from Paul R. of an issue with columns from WooCommerce Product Retailers plugin.

Fixed

[IMPROVED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: Fix issues with Rank Math SEO admin columns. Ensure they are properly manageable with ASE while retaining bulk-editability, and prevent duplicate values from being shown. Props to Benjamin P. for reporting the issue with detail and screenshots.

6.0.8 1 new3 improved15 fixed3 security2 removed

New

[ADDED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: Horizontal scrolling on the posts list table is automatically enabled when there are columns using custom width in pixels that have the combined width greater than the width of the list table. This is especially useful for post types with many custom fields and you'd like to show many / most of them in the list table.

Improved

[IMPROVED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: Improved handling for custom columns from plugins, e.g. SEO plugins like Yoast SEO, All in One SEO (AIOS), Rank Math SEO and SEOPress. There's now a dedicated "Extra" section on the admin columns management page/UI. There's also a "Reset Columns" button that will allow for restoring columns to the initial state and re-listing available d...
[IMPROVED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: Ensure custom columns are shown correctly in the posts list table after performing Quick Edit on a post. Props to Benjamin P. for reporting the issue.
[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Change Login URL: Redirection of /wp-login.php and /wp-admin/ to the 404 /not_found/ URL works more reliably now. Props to Gustavo F. for reporting the issue where those URLs were not properly redirecting to /not_found/ on his sites and ongoing help with troubleshooting it.

Fixed

[FIX][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: Fixed an issue where submenu items could not be re-ordered. Props to Bruze Z. for reporting the issue with WooCommerce Products submenu items.
[FIX][Free][Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Change Login URL: Fix for password-protected pages getting redirected to the /not_found/ 404 page even after entering the correct password. Props to @vanektomas and @netzzjd for reporting this.
[FIX][Free][Pro] Utilities >> Display System Summary: Fixed PHP fatal error when mysqli_connect() fails to connect to the database. Thanks to Diaz X. and Simon for reporting the issue.
[FIX][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: Fixed PHP Warning "non-numeric value encountered". Props to Elon R. for reporting the issue in detail.
[FIXED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: Fixed several PHP Warnings when custom fields have no value assigned yet for a post.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: Connection error notices were shown immediately after enabling this module, regardless of whether there was an actual connection error. It will now be properly hidden and only shown as needed. Props to Sebastian A. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED][Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types: The WYSIWYG custom field will now correctly insert the media when using the Add Media button/UI.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Change Login URL: Fixed an issue where correct login redirects to /not_found/ after latest changes in v6.0.5. Props to Gustavo F. and Ignacio C. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: Missing submenu items should now be shown in the admin menu, as well as ASE Pro settings page's sortables. i.e. the module should more reliably show submenu items now. Props to Bruce Z for reporting this for an ACF Pro CPT menu item which had missing submenu items on his site.
[FIXED][Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types: Fixed a PHP Warning error. Props to Sam E.B. for reporting.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] PHP Deprecation notice in PHP 8.1: which showed up when null was unintentionally passed into preg_replace() during the rendering of some ASE setting fields. Props to Stewart R. for reporting the issue.
[FIXED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: now correctly shows all submenu items. Props to Henry R. for reporting an issue where several of Elementor's 'Templates' menu's submenu items gone missing when this module was enabled.
[FIXED][Free] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: Plugin description and update success message will now remain visible after plugin update process is completed on the Plugins listing page.
[FIXED][Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager: CSS fixes for the activate / deactivate / publish / update box on each snippet.
[FIXED][Free] Utilities >> Display System Summary: CSS fix to ensure system summary is displayed in alignment with other elements in the At a Glance widget

Security

[FIX][Free][Pro] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components >> Disable Dashicons CSS and JS: Fix for scenarios where a custom login URL is set with another plugin, e.g. All in One Security (AIOS), and disabling Dashicons will mess up the styling of that login page. Thanks to Aleš for reporting the issue.
[FIX][Free][Pro] Security >> Obfuscate Author Slugs: Fixed PHP warning "Undefined array key SERVER_ADDR" in certain scenarios where server IP is not detectable via that PHP server global. Thanks to Marco M. for reporting.
[FIXED][Free][Pro] Security >> Email Address Obfuscator: Fixed an issue with Firefox browser not correctly showing the human-readable version of the email. Props to Mark G. for reporting the issue with helpful screenshots.

Removed

[IMPROVED][Free] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: Removed broad-sweeping CSS rules that unintentionally affected notices that were not supposed to be hidden into the admin notices panel. Props to Ingo R. for reporting the issue with MainWP site connection error notice being hidden on page load.
[IMPROVED][Free] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components >> Disable version number: will now only remove version number from static assets in the public view (non-logged-in) of pages. Props to Ingo R for reporting that ACSS auto-BEM feature in Bricks was missing it's button in the structure panel, and was caused by version number being removed from static assets.

6.0.2 1 fixed

Fixed

[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: Will now render the value of custom fields added using default WordPress UI/metabox for managing custom fields. This is rendered using get_post_meta(). Props to Upekkha for reporting it.

6.0.1 4 fixed

Fixed

[FIXED] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager: PHP Warning: undefined variable. Props to Michael S.P. for reporting it.
[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: PHP Warning: undefined array key 0. Props to Sam for reporting it.
[FIXED] Content Management >> Custom Content Types: PHP Deprecation: creation of dynamic properties. Props to Steven for reporting it.
[FIXED] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control: .jpeg files will now properly be converted to .webp. Props to Julian S for reporting it.

2023 21 versions

6.0.0 11 Oct 2023 1 new1 changed

New

[ADDED] Log In/Out & Register >> Site Identity on Login Page: Use the site icon and URL to replace the default WordPress logo with link to wordpress.org on the login page. Props to @cooper08 and @julians3 for suggesting this along with the code snippet.

Changed

[Pro] The Pro version of ASE is here. Lifetime Deal (LTD) is available. Find out more at wpase.com.

5.8.1 5 Oct 2023 1 fixed

Fixed

[FIXED] wp_die error message when updating to v5.8.0. Thanks to @verysiberian for the prompt and detailed report and @wrlkd, @rockwildaz and @amnwtritaly for helping out with troubleshooting.

5.8.0 5 Oct 2023 2 new3 improved1 fixed1 security1 changed

New

[ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components >> Disable version number: You can now hide version number which by default is part of static resource (CSS/JS) URLs in the <head>. Props to @cooper08 for suggesting this along with the code snippet.
[ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components >> Disable jQuery Migrate: You can now disable the jQuery Migrate script from loading on the frontend. Props to @blueoaks for suggesting this.

Improved

[IMPROVED] Admin Interface >> Wider Admin Menu: Now works when wp-admin is in Right-to-Left (RTL) languages. Thanks to @mehdimoradi7172 for reporting the issue.
[IMPROVED] Log In/Out & Register >> Change Login URL: Default lost password URL no longer accessible directly and must now include custom login slug. Props to @banijadev for discovering the issue and reporting it.
[IMPROVED] Content Management >> Media Replacement: media-replace-frontend.css no longer loads for site visitors. Props to @cvladan for discovering the issue and reporting it.

Fixed

[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: Notices under each plugin that has an update in the Plugins list page now shows up normally where it was previously missing/hidden when Hide Admin Notices is active. Thanks to @venkeyaccent, @dmdeck and @computerbuddha for reporting this issue here and here.

Security

[SECURITY] Utilities >> Password Protection: Patched a bypass vulnerability disclosed responsibly by security researcher Abu Hurayra via Patchstack, regarding the authentication cookie. It now uses wp_hash_password() and wp_check_password().

Changed

[CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: This is now limited to site admins only. Editors, Authors and other user roles will see notices as usual.

5.7.1 12 Sep 2023 2 fixed

Fixed

[FIXED] Disable Components >> Disable Gutenberg: Fixed PHP Warnings. Thanks to @ysintos and @ofmarconi for reporting this issue here and here.
[FIXED] Custom Code >> Custom Admin / Frontend CSS: Fix for escaped symbols being output on inlined stylesheets. Thanks to @d4niwp for reporting this.

5.7.0 30 Aug 2023 2 improved2 changed

Improved

[IMPROVED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: Handle additional notices which appears on an admin pages that have been encapsulated inside an additional div, which is sometimes done by plugins that modifies a WP core admin screen.
[IMPROVED] Refactored admin-page.js, the main js file used to build out ASE's admin page. It's tidier and smaller now.

Changed

[NEW] Refreshed UI for ASE admin page. This is largely based off of the UI/X design work generously provided by @rinodeboer. Thanks so much Rino!
[CHANGED] Move Enhance List Table module inside Admin Interface tab and reorganize modules in that tab for better logical grouping / sequencing.

5.6.2 25 Aug 2023 1 fixed

Fixed

[FIXED] JS error in admin-page.js. Props to @andyguzman for reporting it.

5.6.1 24 Aug 2023 2 fixed

Fixed

[FIXED] Content Management >> Media Replacement: Fixed PHP Warnings. Thanks to Marco for reporting this issue.
[IMPROVED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: Fixed missing commas in JS file to target certain notice divs. Notices no longer 'flash' briefly now before being hidden inside the notices panel. Thanks to @cvladan for suggesting the fix.

5.6.0 14 Aug 2023 1 new1 security

New

[ADDED] Utilities >> Display System Summary: Show quick summary of the system the site is running on to admins, in the "At a Glance" dashboard widget. This includes the web server software, the PHP version, and the database software. Props to Keith for suggesting this.

Security

[IMPROVED] Security >> Limit Login Attempts: Improve SQL query for creating the failed logins log table so it is more compatible with a wider range of DB setups.

5.5.2 9 Aug 2023 1 improved1 security1 removed1 changed

Improved

[IMPROVED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: when a hidden menu item is selected, i.e. the admin page for it is being viewed, the menu item will now remain visible along with it's sub-menu items. This makes for a better UX overall, reducing back and forth clicks of the "Show All" toggle. Props to @tomhung and @dvaer for suggesting this.

Security

[IMPROVED] Disable Components >> Disable Feeds: the /feed/ page now will properly return 403 Forbidden response. It was previously showing 500 error when a site is inspected with Sucuri malware and security checker. The code changes for this was produced by ChatGTP via @ofmarconi's prompt as part of his detailed report and investigation on the issue. Thank you!

Removed

[IMPROVED] Disable Components >> Disable Gutenberg: default WP post types (wp_template, wp_template_part, wp_global_styles, wp_navigation) are now removed from the Disable Gutenberg settings.

Changed

In-Kind Sponsorship: If anyone has spare license for GenerateBlocks Pro, Blockstudio, Lazy Blocks, CubeWP and/or WS Form that you'd like to donate to my test site for ASE, please get in touch. Thank you!

5.5.1 7 Aug 2023 1 new2 fixed1 security1 changed

New

[IMPROVED] Disable Components >> Disable Comments: Add filter to prevent anonymous comment via XML-RPC. Props to @bzosel for reporting an issue with disabling comment that prompted this improvement.

Fixed

[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: some plugins register their menu item with a super-late priority, e.g. 10000, so, ASE can not organize them properly. Changes have been made to accommodate such scenario. Props to @gd4web for reporting this in detail.
[FIXED] Content Management >> Content Order: Fix for PHP errors that appear if a post type has been de-registered while content ordering is still enabled for it in ASE.

Security

[FIXED] Security >> Limit Login Attempts: Fixed an issue for when 'sql_require_primary_key' is set in the DB, e.g. managed MySQL DB in DigitalOccean, ASE would churn out "Attempt to create or modify table without primary key" error. Props to Greg Mount for reporting this in great detail and suggesting the fix.

Changed

[NEW MONTHLY SPONSOR] Thank you @maeonian for being a new monthly sponsor at USD 2 / month! ASE is now at 6 of 10 of the monthly sponsors goal. It doesn't take much to sponsor ASE for the time and effort savings you may have gained by using it on your sites. You can be one today!

5.5.0 4 Aug 2023 1 fixed1 security

Fixed

[FIXED] In some scenarios, ASE settings page only shows the category tabs while not showing any of the actual modules settings. Props to John B. for reporting this and facilitating troubleshooting. He also kindly provided licenses to premium plugins on my test site, that will help with ASE development and maintenance in the future. If you have spare licenses for ~~Elementor Pro~~, ~~Spectra Pro...

Security

[ADDED] Security >> Email Address Obfuscator. Obfuscate email address to prevent spam bots from harvesting them, but make it readable like a regular email address for human visitors. Props to @nassukesso for suggesting this feature.

5.4.1 31 Jul 2023 1 improved1 security

Improved

[IMPROVED] Content Management >> Enhance List Tables >> Show featured image column: will now replace the default product thumbnail column on WooCommerce product listing page, and no longer show both columns. Props to @studio84digital for reporting it on the support forum.

Security

[Fixed] Security >> Limit Login Attempts. Fixed an error on sites with older version of MySQL / MariaDB that caused the failure of DB table creation to be used to log failed login attempts. Props to Ken Sim for reporting this in great detail, which made it much easier to fix. Ken has also kindly became a monthly sponsor of my work. Thanks Ken! I'm now at 5 of my initial goal of getting 10 month...

5.4.0 25 Jul 2023 1 security1 changed

Security

[ADDED] Content Management >> Allow Custom Navigation Menu Items to Open in New Tab. Allow custom navigation menu items to have links that open in new browser tab via target="_blank" attribute. The rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" attribute will also be added for enhanced security and SEO benefits. Props to @tomhung for suggesting this feature and providing the code snippet to base it upon.

Changed

Checked compatibility with WordPress v6.3 RC1

5.3.2 15 Jul 2023 1 fixed1 removed

Fixed

[FIXED] Disable Smaller Components >> Disable the generator meta tag: fixed PHP fatal error in some scenarios for PHP v8.0+. Props to @swissspidy for reporting it on Github.

Removed

[IMPROVED] Content Management >> External Permalinks: removed jQuery dependency on the front-end in public.js. Replaced script with pure JS version churn out by ChatGPT which was prompted by Marco M.J. So, yes... first AI usage in ASE code. Pretty cool. 🙂

5.3.1 14 Jul 2023 1 improved1 fixed

Improved

[IMPROVED] Content Management >> Open All External Links in New Tab: will now exclude relative URLs which points to internal URLs from being opened in a new tab. Props to @francismacomber for reporting it.

Fixed

[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Disable Dashboard Widgets: fixed PHP warning. Props to @mohobook for reporting it.

5.3.0 8 Jul 2023 1 improved

Improved

[IMPROVED] Utilities >> Email Delivery: You can now send a test email to verify if your custom sender name/email and SMTP configuration work as intended. Props to many users for suggesting this in the support forum here, here, here, here and here.

5.2.11 5 Jul 2023 1 improved

Improved

[IMPROVED] Utilities >> Password Protection This will now also work on non-HTTPS sites. Props to Sascha for reporting the issue via the contact form at bowo.io and providing great detail about what was done to try and troubleshoot it, and later on found the root cause of the issue, which made fixing the issue much simpler.

5.2.10 30 Jun 2023 1 improved

Improved

[IMPROVED] Utilities >> Email Delivery Custom sender name / email can now be set and enforced independent of delivery via external SMTP service/account. Props to @lcwilson18 for suggesting it.

5.2.9 27 Jun 2023 1 fixed

Fixed

[FIXED] Log In/Out & Register >> Redirect After Login will now correctly redirect to an internal wp-admin page, e.g. wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page (View All Pages). Props to @tomhung for reporting it.

5.2.8 26 Jun 2023 1 improved

Improved

[IMPROVED] Front-end public.js will only be loaded if relevant modules that use it are enabled. Props to Martin M. for reporting the issue via the contact form at bowo.io and Maxime D. via Facebook message.

5.2.7 26 Jun 2023 1 new1 improved2 fixed

New

[ADDED] A dismissible Sponsorship / Rating / Feedback nudge/notice has been added to ASE's admin page (only), which will appear after every 10 consecutive clicks of the "Save changes" button. This is a way to try and gain additional support for ASE's ongoing development and maintenance. I hope you don't mind. 🙂

Improved

[IMPROVED] Log In/Out & Register >> Change Login URL: Improve module description to avoid confusion with renaming the entire /wp-admin/ as opposed to renaming just the login URL. Props to Maz Ziebell for the suggestion.

Fixed

[FIXED] Custom Code: Possible fix for CodeMirror (code editor) JS error caused by jQuery not being explicitly set as a dependency. When this happens, ASE's admin page is rendered blank / useless. Props to @sarah-haruel for reporting it.
[FIXED] Disable Components >> Disable Gutenberg: Fixed PHP warning when saving a CPT post where gutenberg has been disabled. Props to @gregmount for reporting it.