Changelog

Version 3.9 - January 10, 2024

  • New: Gutenberg support for Custom Admin Pages
  • New: Divi support for Custom Admin Pages & Page Builder Dashboard

Version 3.8 - January 03, 2024

  • New: Breakdance support for Custom Admin Pages & Page Builder Dashboard

Version 3.7.0.1 - February 13, 2023

  • Hotfix: Error with newly introduced Bricks support for Custom Admin Pages.

Version 3.7 - February 10, 2023

  • New: Bricks Builder support for Custom Admin Pages & Page Builder Dashboard

Version 3.6.4 - July 02, 2022

  • New: Change the WordPress block editor logo
  • New: Added support for Oxygen 4.0

Version 3.6.3 - June 15, 2022

  • Tweak: Login Customizer adjustments

Version 3.6.2 - May 13, 2022

  • Tweak: Further improved Admin Menu Editor functionality

Version 3.6.1 - May 04, 2022

  • Fixed: Deleting users didn't work in Admin Menu Editor
  • Fixed: Some sub-menu items won’t loade in the Admin Menu Editor, for instance in the WooCommerce Analytics section. If you still don’t see certain menu or sub-menu items appear, please try resetting the Admin Menu Editor for all or specific user roles.

Version 3.6.0.1 - April 26, 2022

  • Fixed: Rare fatal error when Admin Menu Editor is disabled under Modules

Version 3.6 - April 25, 2022

  • New: Refactored import/export functionality to allow for more granular control when exporting settings
  • New: Placeholder tags to display information dynamically in Admin Bar & Admin Menu Editor
  • Fixed: Build Admin Menu Editor only when a specific role is clicked instead of loading them all at once (in a row). This was causing performance issues & was interpreted as a security issue by some installs.
  • Fixed: Sub menus disappear when parent menu URL was changed (Admin Menu Editor)

Version 3.5.2 - February 11, 2022

  • New: Filter to allow 3rd parties to add styles & scripts where we generate the content for admin pages & page builder dashboard (udb_pro_output_builder_content)
  • Fixed: SVG menu items (Admin Menu Editor) don't work properly
  • Fixed: Foundation icons won't load properly on page builder dashboard with Beaver Builder

Version 3.5.1 - September 07, 2021

  • Fixed: Brizy support for Admin Pages & Page Builder Framework feature

Version 3.5 - August 19, 2021

  • New: Oxygen support for Admin Pages
  • New: Oxygen support for Page Builder Dashboard feature
  • New: Change WordPress' Howdy text (multisite support)
  • New: Change WordPress login URL (multisite support)
  • New: Login Redirect feature (multisite support)
  • New: Redirect yoursite.com/wp-admin/ for non logged-in users (multisite support)
  • New: Add overlay to Login Customizer background images
  • Tweak: Improved assets rendering if Beaver Builder is used with custom Admin Pages
  • Fixed: PHP warning when 3rd party dashboard widgets are removed
  • Fixed: Bug in Login Customizer output if subsite is set to be blueprint
  • Fixed: Some 3rd party menu items did not appear in the Admin Menu Editor
  • Fixed: Some 3rd party menu items did not appear in the Admin Bar Editor
  • Fixed: Settings link on the plugin screen links to non-existent page
  • Fixed: Remove data on uninstall on multisite installations
  • Fixed: Issue with Elementors new Admin Bar & Ultimate Dashboard PRO's modern layout

Version 3.4 - June 22, 2021

  • New: Advanced White Label settings

Version 3.3.4 - June 8, 2021

  • New: WordPress admin body classes on multisites: udb-network-admin, udb-is-main-site, udb-is-subsite, udb-site-{site-id}
  • New: Multisite support for our new Welcome Panel feature
  • Tweak: Move Page Builder Dashboard feature to its own metabox
  • Fixed: Rare fatal error with Brizy
  • Fixed: Admin menu doesn't apply to super admin if configured specifically for that user in the Admin Menu Editor

Version 3.3.3 - June 1, 2021

  • New: Remember Users/Roles tab when saving in Admin Menu Editor
  • Tweak: Execute Admin Menu changes late to affect all 3rd party plugins
  • Tweak: Notices for super admins that changes made to the Admin Bar and Admin Menu Editor won't apply to them
  • Tweak: Exclude super admin from Admin Bar Editor output
  • Tweak: Include senders email address in contact form widget email
  • Fixed: Issue with sub-menu item order with LifterLMS and other 3rd party plugins if Admin Menu Editor is configured

Version 3.3.2 - May 22, 2021

  • New: Add separators to your admin menu with the Admin Menu Editor
  • Tweak: Show warnings before resetting the Admin Menu & Admin Bar Editor
  • Fixed: Admin Bar Editor settings on non-blueprint sites (multisite) don't take effect.
  • Fixed: Some sub menu items can't be removed with the Admin Menu Editor
  • Fixed: Custom Admin Pages & Page Builder Dashboard template didn't update when the design was changed with Brizy
  • Fixed: On multisites, all menu items are shown no matter what role is selected
  • Fixed: Added missing license key mismatch notice to license page

Version 3.3.1 - May 19, 2021

  • New: Brizy support for Admin Pages & the Page Builder Dashboard feature
  • Tweak: License key mismatch detection & warning

Version 3.3 - April 15, 2021

  • New: Admin Bar Editor
  • Fixed: All widgets were active/inactive after import, even though if they were active/inactive on the original website

Version 3.2 - March 04, 2021

  • New: Change the admin menu for specific user roles (Admin Menu Editor)
  • New: Add custom menu items to the WordPress admin menu (Admin Menu Editor)
  • New: Added RTL support for default & modern layout (White Label)
  • Tweak: Remove unnecessary menu items from subsites (Multisite Support)
  • Tweak: Refactored "Login Customizer" CSS output
  • Tweak: Removed unnecessary customizer tabs & controls from non-blueprint subsites (Multisite Support)
  • Fixed: Rare fatal error when user tried to access a site that they aren't a part of (Multisite Support)
  • Fixed: Rare case where the admin menu was broken after configuring the Admin Menu Editor feature (Admin Menu Editor)
  • Fixed: Broken Gutenberg editor with modern layout (White Label)
  • Fixed: Modern layout admin bar was causing issues with 3rd party plugins (White Label)
  • Fixed: Long menu item titles flow into icons with modern layout (White Label)
  • Fixed: Glitch when switching layouts when form background color was applied (Login Customizer)

Version 3.1.3 - December 26, 2020

  • Fixed: Non-static method should not be called statically

Version 3.1.2 - December 26, 2020

  • Fixed: Issue with new "Modules" feature on multisite installations result in fatal error
  • Tweak: Show license page only on the main site of the network
  • Tweak: License page styling

Version 3.1.1 - December 09, 2020

  • Fixed: plugin updater issue

Version 3.1 - December 09, 2020

  • New: Load modules conditionally based on settings in the free version
  • Tweak: Updated & improved settings page UI
  • Tweak: Show "free version required" message to all users that can manage_options instead of only the main site of the multisite network to prevent it from being missed
  • Fixed: WooCommerce layout with "Modern" admin styling

Version 3.0 - October 27, 2020

  • Rewritten plugin from the ground up
  • Ultimate Dashboard PRO now requires & extends Ultimate Dashboard for better maintainability
  • New: Admin Menu Editor
  • Other tweaks & improvements

Version 2.11.5.1 - August 12, 2020

  • Fixed: Due to the new "Active" toggle, all existing dashboard widgets were hidden

Version 2.11.5 - August 12, 2020

  • New: Option to remove FontAwesome
  • New: Added super admin role to role settings
  • New: Activate/deactivate toggle for Ultimate Dashboard widgets
  • New: Multisite support for Custom Admin Pages
  • New: Added French translation
  • Fixed: WordPress 5.5 compatibility
  • Fixed: Login page styling
  • Fixed: Dashboard CSS doesn't take affect

Version 2.11.4 - May 26, 2020

  • Fixed: HTML widget strips out iframes

Version 2.11.3 - May 21, 2020

  • Maintenance release

Version 2.11.2 - May 9, 2020

  • Fixed: PHP Notice: undefined title
  • Fixed: Custom admin logo sits at the bottom of the admin area on subsites (Modern Layout)
  • Fixed: Custom admin bar logo URL doesn't work
  • Fixed: issue where blueprint settings were ported over to subsites (Multisite Support)

Version 2.11.1 - May 5, 2020

  • Fixed: Creating an admin page with page builder doesn't work
  • Fixed: Sanitizing CSS

Version 2.11 - May 5, 2020

  • New: Create Admin Pages
  • New: Filter to disable Login Customizer feature (udb_login_customizer)
  • New: Filter to change admin bar logo (udb_admin_bar_logo_image)
  • New: Use {home_url} inside the logo URL to dynamically fetch the current site's URL (Login Customizer, Multisite Support)
  • Tweak: Inherit the main site logo size by default (Login Customizer, Multisite Support)
  • Fixed: Display issues with Modern Layout & Gutenberg (White Label)
  • Fixed: Admin bar logo URL is missing from Modern Layout (White Label)
  • Fixed: Screen Options tab is removed by default on multisite installations
  • Fixed: Fatal error with WP Ultimo & our "Remove Help Tab" feature during signup
  • Fixed: Sanitization

Version 2.10.1 - April 6, 2020

  • New: Added support for health status widget
  • Tweak: Remove the auto-generated page - we found a better way! 🙂
  • Fixed: Deprecated udb_pro_remove_help_tab notice
  • Fixed: Left/right customizer layouts are now responsive

Version 2.10 - March 27, 2020

  • New: Login Customizer
  • New: Restrict widgets to user roles
  • New: Restrict widgets to specific users
  • New: Modern wp-admin layout
  • Tweak: Rewritten existing wp-admin layout from scratch
  • Tweak: Restructured options & sections
  • Tweak: Overall code improvements & improvements to the file structure
  • Fixed: Long tooltips overlay icons so they can't be clicked
  • Fixed: Widget order doesn't save

Version 2.9 - February 19, 2020

  • New: Page Builder Support - Create a custom WordPress dashboard with Beaver Builder & Elementor
  • New: Option to set custom Logo URL for login screen
  • New: Option to remove "Help" tab
  • New: Option to remove "Screen Options" tab
  • New: Option to change Dashboard headline
  • New: Field to add custom CSS to the entire wp-admin area
  • Tweak: White Label setting now has its own sub menu item
  • Tweak: improved admin settings page styling

Version 2.8.2 - January 3, 2020

  • Fixed: Text decoration issue

Version 2.8.1 - November 28, 2019

  • Minor tweaks & improvements
  • Tweak: Optimized license key activation process + added revalidate button
  • Fixed: Contact Form Widget logging doesn't work from subsites on a multisite installation

Version 2.8 - November 16, 2019

  • Maintenance Release
  • New: Hooks for developers to add custom widgets
  • Fixed: Make widget order apply to newly registered users
  • Fixed: Some Contact Form Widget features not working properly on multisites

Version 2.7 - September 5, 2019

  • New: Contact Form Widget

Version 2.6 - June 6, 2019

  • New: Import/Export Widgets & Settings
  • New: Improved UX/UI
  • New: Option to remove data on uninstall
  • Fixed: performance issue where the widget order setting caused an usermeta-update on every page load for all users

Version 2.5 - December 12, 2018

  • New: HTML widget
  • New: Custom Dashboard CSS field under Widgets -> Settings
  • Tweak: re-organized post columns
  • Tweak: proper messages for udb_widgets custom post type

Version 2.4.2 - October 12, 2018

  • Tweak: allow touch-action on widget headlines

Version 2.4.1 - October 4, 2018

  • New: license key activation notice
  • New: bail out if free version is active
  • Tweak: cleaned up code base & proper prefixing of all functions

Version 2.4 - September 11, 2018

  • New: exclude certain websites from the "blueprint" dashboard
  • New: custom admin bar logo URL
  • Tweak: fixed logic for footer & version text on subsites (subsite settings do now override blueprint settings)
  • Fixed: admin bar styling & admin bar logo settings don't apply to frontend
  • Minor tweaks & improvements

Version 2.3 - July 30, 2018

  • New: video widget
  • New: dashboard column setting
  • New: custom admin bar logo
  • New: widget headline color setting
  • New: widget icon/text color setting
  • Tweak: updated settings page UI

Version 2.2.4 - 05/31/2018

  • Fixed: Number of Dashboard Widgets is limited by the "Reading" settings under Appearance -> Reading

Version 2.2.3 - 03/20/2018

  • Fixed: dashboard widgets are not being removed from subsites

Version 2.2.2 - 03/18/2018

  • Fixed: some settings disappear after saving

Version 2.2.1 - 03/18/2018

  • Fixed: action link not showing up on non-multisites

Version 2.2 - 03/18/2018

  • maintenance release
  • Added: action links
  • Tweak: save deactivated dashboard widgets in a single array
  • Fixed: errors when debug mode is turned on
  • Fixed: wrong hook used to remove dashboard widgets

Version 2.1 - 01/04/2018

  • New: Branding options
  • Tweak: Branding options multisite compatibility

Version 2.0.3 - 12/07/2017

  • Fixed: curl & ssl issue

Version 2.0.2 - 11/21/2017

  • Fixed: backwards compatibility

Version 2.0.1 - 11/18/2017

  • Fixed: License key activation redirect

Version 2.0 - 11/18/2017

  • Initial Release

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