Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE)

Changelog

Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) v1.0.0 was released on October 17, 2022. Since then, there have been 57 point releases (e.g. 1.1.0 ) and 46 patch releases (e.g. 4.9.1).

Each point release usually corresponds with the addition of one new module/feature. Each module/feature usually is the equivalent of one (or more) single-purpose plugin. Each patch release usually contain one or more bugfix or improvement to existing modules/features.

“Reported a bug yesterday, it was fixed today. Can’t ask for better than that..” ~Greg Mount

“Simply the best! Still looking for the sixth star for you. Don’t stop developing… We are supporting you!“ ~@springbreak

Kindly Consider Sponsoring Ongoing Development and Maintenance

If this plugin has been useful for your personal project(s), paid dev work, client site(s) and or agency’s workflow, please kindly consider sponsoring from as little as USD 1 (monthly or one-time).

This helps ensure you’re going to continue seeing new features and/or fixes, hopefully for years to come. Thank you!

“Amazing job – premium functions in free plugin.” ~Peter

“I will definitely support it’s development because I know it will save me time and frustration on all of the websites I set up.” ~Todd

“A very very useful plugin. I have made a little sponsorship and encourage other users to do the same as it is so much deserved. Thank you Bowo!” ~@pgrand83

More than 250 hours of dev time have been spent on developing and mantaining this plugin. At v5.7.1 (released on September 12, 2023) and 10,000+ active installs, there have been 6 monthly sponsors and 45 one-time sponsors. You can be one today!

USD 1 monthly or one-time is all it takes for you to start sponsoring ASE. Thank you!

5.7.1 (2023.09.12)

• [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 (2023.08.30)

• [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!

• [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] Move Enhance List Table module inside Admin Interface tab and reorganize modules in that tab for better logical grouping / sequencing.

5.6.2 (2023.08.25)

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

5.6.1 (2023.08.24)

• [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 (2023.08.14)

• [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.

• [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 (2023.08.09)

• [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.

• [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.

• [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!

• 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 (2023.08.07)

• [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.

• [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.

• [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.

• [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 (2023.08.04)

• [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.

• [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~~, ~~Bricks~~, ~~Cwicly~~ and/or ~~JetEngine~~ that you’d like to donate to my test site, please get in touch.

5.4.1 (2023.07.31)

• [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 monthly sponsors. 🙂

• [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.

5.4.0 (2023.07.25)

• [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.

• Checked compatibility with WordPress v6.3 RC1

5.3.2 (2023.07.15)

• [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.

• [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 (2023.07.14)

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

• [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.

5.3.0 (2023.07.08)

• [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 (2023.07.05)

• [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 (2023.06.30)

• [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 (2023.06.27)

• [FIXED] Log In | Log Out >> 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 (2023.06.26)

• [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 (2023.06.26)

• [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.
• [IMPROVED] Log In | Log Out >> 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] Disable Components >> Disable Gutenberg: Fixed PHP warning when saving a CPT post where gutenberg has been disabled. Props to @gregmount for reporting it.
• [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. 🙂

5.2.6 (2023.06.24)

• [FIXED] Security >> Limit Login Attempts: Fixed PHP warning issue. Props to @tomo55555 for reporting it.

5.2.5 (2023.06.22)

• [FIXED] Utilities >> Password Protection: Fixed the issue that causes the password protection form/page to have no styling after v5.2.4 patch release. Props to @gregmount for reporting it.

5.2.4 (2023.06.21)

• [FIXED] Disable Components >> Disable Dashicons: Fixed PHP warning when executing WP CLI commands. Props to @tomhung for reporting it.

• [RESOLVED] Unable to Save Changes in ASE: This is caused by plugin conflict which happens when WP STAGING – Backup Duplicator & Migration is active. Props to @kilimats for reporting it and to @allbutone for liasing with the developer of WP Staging to fix things on their end.

5.2.3 (2023.06.18)

• [FIXED] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control: fixed a small code error that prevented image resizing from actually happening. Props to @matija80 for reporting it.

• [FIXED] Admin Interface >> Disable Dashboard Widgets: fixed “array offset on value of type bool” error. Props to @grizdev for reporting it.

• [FIXED] Admin Interface >> Wider Admin Menu: fixed an issue where wider admin menu pushed WooCommerce page header content to shift right and be cut-off from the screen. Props to @malaga16 for reporting it.

• [FIXED] Utilities >> Password Protection: fixed PHP Warning. Props to @gregmount for reporting it.

5.2.2 (2023.06.14)

• [FIXED] Security >> Limit Login Attempts: fixed redirection loop that happens when custom login URL is enabled and user has reached the allowed failed login attempts count. Props to @allbutone for reporting it and narrowing down the steps to replicate the issue reliably, which helps with troubleshooting.

5.2.1 (2023.06.13)

• [FIXED] Disable Components >> Disable Comments: Fixed an issue where a JS alert saying “Are you sure you want to do this? The comment changes you made will be lost.” popups when trying to update a page / post / post type where commenting has been disabled. Props to @dagaloni for thoroughly reporting it with screenshots and steps to replicate the issue.

• [FIXED] Utilities >> View Admin as Role: Provide a simple and secure method to regain administrator access when something goes wrong while switching to non-administrator role. This occasionally happens when the login session ended and you’re being logged out by the system. Instruction on how to regain administrator access has been added to the settings section for the module. Props to @cebuss for thoroughly reporting it and providing a way to regain access via direct changes to the database.

• [SECURITY] Utilities >> View Admin as Role: Make sure only users performing role switching can access the role switcher admin bar menu. This ensures that non-administrator users logging in normally won’t see the menu and prevent them from performing role switching.

5.2.0 (2023.06.10)

• [ADDED] Admin Interface >> Wider Admin Menu. Give the admin menu more room to better accommodate wider items. Props to @dvaer and @kilimats for suggesting this.

5.1.0 (2023.06.04)

• [ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Block-Based Widgets Settings Screen. Restores the classic widgets settings screen when using a classic (non-block) theme. Props to @ruralinfo and @dvaer for suggesting this.
• [FIXED] UTILITIES >> SMTP Email Delivery: fixed an issue where ‘from’ email is using WP default wordpress@site.com instead of the email defined in module settings. Props to @scarlywebs for reporting it and the continued help in testing.
• [ENHANCED] UTILITIES >> SMTP Email Delivery: added option to force the usage of the FROM name/email defined in module settings. Suggested by @scarlywebs.
• [FIXED] Custom, right-side footer text now only shows on the plugin’s main settings page.

5.0.2.4 (2023.06.01)

• [FIXED] Utilities >> SMTP Email Delivery: fixed an issue with encoding / decoding of stored password that prevented proper functioning of this module. Please re-enter your password and save changes.
• [FIXED] Utilities >> Password Protection: fixed an issue with encoding / decoding of stored password that prevented proper functioning of this module. Please re-enter your password and save changes.

5.0.2.3 (2023.05.25)

• [FIXED] Log In | Log Out >> Change Login URL: URLs that start with the custom login slug no longer redirects to the login page. Props to @netzzjd for reporting it.

5.0.2.2 (2023.05.24)

• [FIXED] Log In | Log Out >> Change Login URL: URLs for lost password flow, i.e. password reset flow, are now accessible when this module is enabled. It will no longer redirect to the not_found (404) page. Props to @scarlywebs for reporting it and help with testing all the way.

5.0.2 (2023.05.09)

• [FIXED] Utilities >> View Admin as Role: is now only accessible / usable for administrators.
• [ENHANCE] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: improved description and UI for better clarity.
• [POLISH] General code polish to resolve several PHP warnings.

5.0.1 (2023.04.29)

• [FIXED] WordPress Newsboard link in footer showing up on all wp-admin pages. Now will only show up on the plugin’s main page.

5.0.0 (2023.04.29)

• [ADDED] Content Management >> Content Order. Enable custom ordering of various content types. Useful for displaying them in the desired order in wp-admin and on the frontend. e.g. projects, services, FAQs, team members, etc.
• [FIXED] Utilities >> Password Protection: Fix PHP Warning error. Props to @cvladan for reporting it.
• [CHANGED] Content Management >> Page and Post Duplication module has been renamed to “Content Duplication”.
• [ADDED] Translate link on plugin page’s header and in the .org plugin description page. Please consider helping to translate the plugin description (a.k.a. README). There are about 100 strings/sentences in it. This will help expand the reach of Admin and Site Enhancements into people who read/speak your language. Special props to Angelika Reisiger
  , General Translation Editor for Deutsch (German) #de_DE, for tackling translation of the plugin description into German and German (formal).
• [ADDED] Link to WordPress Newsboard in plugin page’s footer. This is another thing I created back in 2014 and is still working to aggregate the latest news, articles, tutorials, podcasts and videos from 100+ WordPress-centric sources.

4.9.3 (2023.04.22)

• [FIXED] Disable Components >> Disable REST API: fix for error when trying to save edits in Gutenberg editor when Disable REST API module is turned on. Props to @alexgraphicd for reporting it.

4.9.2 (2023.04.22)

• [FIXED] Disable Components >> Disable Comments: fix for certain scenarios where comment form is still shown despite commenting being disabled on the post type. Props to @crazyserb for reporting it, providng temporary admin access, as well as screenshots to help with troubleshooting!

4.9.1 (2023.04.19)

• [ENHANCEMENT] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices. LearnDash pages was showing up notices below header. This fix will now move them into the hidden, toggleable notices panel.

4.9.0 (2023.04.16)

• [ENHANCEMENT] Content Management >> External Permalinks. The rel=”noopener noreferrer nofollow” attribute will now be added to external permalinks for enhanced security and SEO benefits.
• [ADDED] Content Management >> Open All External Links in New Tab. Force all links to external sites to 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.

4.8.3 (2023.04.15)

• [FIXED] Content Management >> Content Duplication: fixed isses when duplicating pages built with Oxygen and Bricks builder. May also solve similar issues with other page builders. Please try this on your page builder installation and report in the forum if you’re still experiencing issues.

4.8.2 (2023.04.03)

• [FIXED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: fix for some menu items missing / being hidden in the menu item sortables. Props to @chrisplaneta for reporting.

4.8.1 (2023.04.03)

• [FIXED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: now hides notices on some plugins’ pages where an extra div exist above the notice divs.
• [FIXED] Log In | Log Out >> Change Login URL: fix an issue where sometimes successful login would redirect to /not_found/ URL.
• [ENHANCEMENT] Content Management >> Media Replacement: added browser cache busting via jQuery to ensure the new image is shown on the media/attachment edit page after performing replacement. Elsewhere on wp-admin and on the front end, a hard reload is still needed to flush out browser cache for the old image.

4.8.0 (2023.04.02)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Multiple User Roles: Enable assignment of multiple roles during user account creation and editing. This maybe useful for working with roles not defined in WordPress core, e.g. from e-commerce or LMS plugins.

4.7.4 (2023.03.05)

• [ADDED] Content Management >> Enhance List Tables >> Show ID in Action Rows: on the list tables for pages, all post types, all taxonomies, media, users and comments. Props to @cvladan for the feature suggestion.

4.7.3 (2023.03.03)

• [FIXED] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control: “Unexpected response” error in the media uploader when uploading non-JPG files.

4.7.2 (2023.02.25)

• [FIXED] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components >> Disable Emojis now properly disables emojis in admin pages.

4.7.1 (2023.02.24)

• [CHANGED] Utilities >> Maintenance Mode. When maintenance mode is enabled, an admin bar icon is shown as an indicator.
• [CHANGED] Utilities >> Password Protection. Change background color of admin bar status icon from green to red, to better indicate that the site is (currently) inaccessible to the general public.

4.7.0 (2023.02.24)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Maintenance Mode. Show a customizable maintenance page on the frontend while performing a brief maintenance to your site. Logged-in administrators can still view the site as usual.
• [CHANGED] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components >> Disable Dashicons CSS and JS now excludes the login page. This ensures the login page CSS styles is correctly loaded.
• [CHANGED] Utilities >> SMTP Email Delivery. Slight improvement to copy/description for improved clarity.

4.6.0 (2023.02.22)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> SMTP Email Delivery. Use external SMTP service to ensure notification and transactional emails from your site are being delivered to inboxes.

4.5.0 (2023.02.17)

• [ADDED] Admin Interface >> Clean Up Admin Bar >> Remove the Help tab and drawer.
• [ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components. Prevent smaller components from running or loading. Make the site more secure and load slightly faster. This includes disabling the generator <meta> tag, the Windows Live Writer (WLW) manifest <link> tag, the Really Simple Discovery (RSD) <link> tag and the WordPress shortlink <link> tag in <head>, as well as disabling dashicons CSS and JS files for site visitors, and emoji support for pages, posts and custom post types.

4.4.0 (2023.02.05)

• [ADDED] Custom Code >> Custom Body Class. Add custom <body> class(es) on the singular view of some or all public post types. Compatible with classes already added using Custom Body Class plugin.

4.3.1 (2023.02.05)

• [CHANGED] Content Management >> Media Replace option is no longer shown on the grid view of the media library. It will only show up on the attachment edit page which can be reached from both the list view via “Edit or Replace Media” link and the grid view media frame’s “Edit more details” link.

4.3.0 (2023.01.30)

• [ADDED] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control. Resize newly uploaded, large images to a smaller dimension and delete originally uploaded files. BMPs and non-transparent PNGs will be converted to JPGs and resized.
• [CHANGED] Revisions Control is now under the Optimizations category.
• [CHANGED] View Admin as Role is now under the Utilities category.
• [CHANGED] Improve title of features to be shorter and more consistent across categories.

4.2.2 (2023.01.24)

• [FIXED] Admin Interface >> Disable Dashboard Widgets. Fixed a fatal error issue when there’s a widget with priority ‘high’. Props to @samirhp for reporting it.

4.2.1 (2023.01.23)

• [FIXED] Admin Interface >> Disable Dashboard Widgets. Fixed missing dashboard widgets list when first trying to activate the feature. Also fixes PHP fatal error when trying to view the dashboard when the feature is activated under such scenario. Props to @samirhp for reporting it.

4.2.0 (2023.01.23)

• [ADDED] Admin Interface >> Disable Dashboard Widgets. Clean up and speed up the dashboard by completely disabling some or all widgets. Disabled widgets won’t load any assets nor show up under Screen Options.

4.1.0 (2023.01.16)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Enable Password Protection. Password-protect the entire site to hide the content from public view and search engine bots / crawlers. Logged-in administrators can still access normally.

4.0.1 (2023.01.12)

• [FIXED] Content Management >> Enable SVG Upload: Fixed a bug where uploaded, non-SVG media files does not have metadata generated when Enable SVG Upload is enabled.

4.0.0 (2023.01.04)

• [ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable All Updates. Completely disable core, theme and plugin updates and auto-updates. Will also disable update checks, notices and emails.

3.9.2 (2023.01.03)

• [FIXED] Custom Code >> Manage robots.txt. Fixed “Undefined variable” issue reported by kwbrayton. Also make this feature work on scenarios where an actual robots.txt file exists, not just the virtual one created by default, by WordPress. In such case, the robots.txt file will be renamed to robots_txt_backup_{timestamp}.txt when this feature is enabled. Vice versa, when the feature is disabled, the backup file will be renamed back to robots.txt, so it will be in use again as it were.

3.9.1 (2022.12.29)

• [FIXED] Content Management >> Enable External Permalinks. Fixed an issue where default WordPress permalink for a post loads white, empty screen when no external permalink has been set for the post.

3.9.0 (2022.12.29)

• [ADDED] Content Management >> Enable External Permalinks. Enable pages, posts and/or custom post types to have permalinks that point to external URLs. Compatible with links added using Page Links To.

3.8.0 (2022.12.27)

• [ADDED] Optimizations >> Enable Heartbeat Control. Modify the interval of the WordPress heartbeat API or disable it on admin pages, post creation/edit screens and/or the frontend. This will help reduce CPU load on the server.

3.7.0 (2022.12.25)

• [ADDED] Content Management >> Enable Revisions Control. Prevent bloating the database by limiting the number of revisions to keep for some or all post types supporting revisions.

3.6.1 (2022.12.22)

• [CHANGED] Custom Code >> Manage robots.txt. Fixed an issue where code editor was not rendered properly upon clicking the Custom Code tab.

3.6.0 (2022.12.22)

• [CHANGED] Added “Log In | Log Out” and “Custom Code” categories. Recategorizes relevant features under these new categories.
• [ADDED] Log In | Log Out >> Enable Last Login Column. Log when users on the site last logged in and display the date and time in the users list table.

3.5.0 (2022.12.19)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Manage robots.txt. Easily edit and validate your robots.txt content.

3.4.0 (2022.12.16)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Enable Log In/Out Menu. Enable log in, log out and dynamic log in/out menu item for addition to any menu. Depending on the user’s logged-in status, the menu item will show up, disappear or change.

3.3.0 (2022.12.12)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Insert <head>, <body> and <footer> Code. Easily insert <meta>, <link>, <script> and <style> tags, Google Analytics, Tag Manager, AdSense, Ads Conversion and Optimize code, Facebook, TikTok and Twitter pixels, etc.
• [CHANGED] Utilities >> Manage ads.txt and app-ads.txt is now a single settings field.

3.2.0 (2022.12.12)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Manage ads.txt and app-ads.txt: Easily edit and validate your ads.txt and app-ads.txt content. Please backup existing ads.txt and app-ads.txt content and remove those files before copying the original content into the ads.txt and app-ads.txt manager in the Utilities tab. If no ads.txt / app-ads.txt files exist in the root directory of your WordPress installation, you can immediately add content for both files.

3.1.0 (2022.12.11)

• [ADDED] Content Management >> Enable Auto-Publishing of Posts with Missed Schedule: Trigger publishing of scheduled posts of all types marked with “missed schedule”, anytime the site is visited. Uses Transients API to reduce load to the DB on busy sites. Will only query the DB once every 15 minutes (at most).

3.0.6 (2022.12.08)

• [CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: Enqueue jQuery UI widget.min.js for WP version less than 5.6.0. This ensures the feature works for those WP versions.

3.0.5 (2022.12.08)

• [CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: Enqueue the minified version of jQuery UI scripts, as older versions of WP do not have the unminified version.

3.0.4 (2022.12.07)

• [CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: Substantially lower priorities of actions that handles rendering of custom menu order, custom menu title and hiding of menu items. This is so that menu items added late by active plugins and theme are handled properly.

3.0.3 (2022.12.07)

• [CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: Make sure menu item sortables reflect custom menu order saved in options, especially when this feature is re-enabled. Remove all HTMl tags and content inside them from menu item titles in the sortables.

3.0.2 (2022.12.07)

• [CHANGED] Hide stubborn notices appearing inside the admin page header (via CSS).

3.0.1 (2022.12.01)

• [CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: Make sure newer menu items added by newly installed plugins or activated theme are showing up towards the end of the admin menu and the menu item sortables. Comments and updates counters are now hidden. Sortables for menu separators have been faded out to make actual menu items stand out more.
• [CHANGED] Disable Components >> Disable Comments: Ensure trackbacks metabox is also hidden on edit screens of post types where commenting is disabled.

3.0.0 (2022.11.30)

• [ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Feeds: Disable all RSS, Atom and RDF feeds. This includes feeds for posts, categories, tags, comments, authors and search. Also removes traces of feed URLs from <head>.

2.9.0 (2022.11.30)

• [ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable REST API: Disable REST API access for non-authenticated users and remove URL traces from \<head>, HTTP headers and WP RSD endpoint.

2.8.3 (2022.11.29)

• [CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: Fix for missing Show All toggle in certain scenarios.

2.8.2 (2022.11.29)

• [CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: Allow customizing menu item title, for menu items added by plugins or the active theme, i.e. not from WordPress core.

2.8.1 (2022.11.28)

• [CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: Fixed the issue when menu items are no longer shown upon saving. This happened when Admin Menu Organizer was enabled and directly saved without making any changes to the menu order first.

2.8.0 (2022.11.28)

• [ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Gutenberg: Disable the Gutenberg block editor for some or all applicable post types. Optionally disable frontend block styles / CSS files for the selected post types.

2.7.0 (2022.11.27)

• [ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Comments: Disable comments for some or all public post types. When disabled, existing comments will also be hidden on the frontend.
• [CHANGED] Security >> Limit Login Attempts: Improved styling of empty datatable, i.e. when there is no failed login attempts logged.
• [CHANGED] Settings tab position is now saved to browser cookie, so it persists upon saving changes or revisiting it from elsewhere in wp-admin.
• [CHANGED] Some code refactoring to make logical separation and categorization of features clearer. CodeMirror and DataTables assets loading are also moved

2.6.0 (2022.11.19)

• [ADDED] Content Management >> Enable SVG Upload: Allow some or all user roles to upload SVG files, which will then be sanitized to keep things secure.

2.5.0 (2022.11.18)

• [ADDED] Security >> Limit Login Attempts: Prevent brute force attacks by limiting the number of failed login attempts allowed per IP address.
• [CHANGED] Security >> Custom Login URL feature has been made compatible with Limit Login Attempts feature.
• [CHANGED] Security >> Change Login URL now works with the interim login modal window, the one that pops up when user is logged out in the background.
• [CHANGED] Security >> Change Login URL adds another process to ensure user is redirected to the dashboard after successful login. It was redirecting to the /not_found/ (404) page in rare occasions as reported by @vdrover.
• [CHANGED] Utilities >> Redirect After Login will correctly override default login redirection by Change Login URL.
• [CHANGED] Improve code comments throughout.

2.4.0 (2022.11.10)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Enable Custom Frontend CSS: Add custom CSS on all frontend pages for all user roles.

2.3.0 (2022.11.09)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Enable Custom Admin CSS: Add custom CSS on all admin pages for all user roles.

2.2.0 (2022.11.09)

• [ADDED] Security >> Disable XML-RPC: Protect your site from brute force, DOS and DDOS attacks via XML-RPC. Also disables trackbacks and pingbacks.
• [ADDED] Expand/collapse toggle for feature settings that takes up longer vertical space, e.g. Admin Menu Customizer.
• [CHANGED] Refactor code around plugin settings page. Now uses separate classes for sections and fields registration, for sanitization of field values and for rendering the fields on the admin page.

2.1.0 (2022.11.08)

• [ADDED] Security >> Obfuscate Author Slugs: Obfuscate publicly exposed author page URLs that shows the user slugs / usernames, e.g. sitename.com/author/username1/ into sitename.com/author/a6r5b8ytu9gp34bv/, and output 404 errors for the original URLs. Also obfuscates in /wp-json/wp/v2/users/ REST API endpoint. Props to pull request from Wahyu Arief @wahyuief and functions from Smart User Slug Hider
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2.0.0 (2022.11.06)

• [ADDED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: Customize the order of the admin menu and optionally hide some items.

1.9.0 (2022.11.03)

• [ADDED] Admin Interface >> Hide or Modify Elements: Easily simplify or customize various admin UI elements, starting with the admin bar.
• [CHANGED] Content Management >> Enhance List Tables: this combines previously separate features related to list tables for various post types.

1.8.0 (2022.11.03)

• [ADDED] Admin Interface >> View Admin as Role: View admin pages and the site (logged-in) as one of the non-administrator user roles.

1.7.0 (2022.10.31)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Redirect 404 to Homepage: Perform 301 (permanent) redirect to the homepage for all 404 (not found) pages.

1.6.0 (2022.10.31)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Redirect After Logout: Set custom redirect URL for all or some user roles after logout.

1.5.0 (2022.10.30)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Redirect After Login: Set custom redirect URL for all or some user roles after login.

1.4.0 (2022.10.30)

• [ADDED] Security >> Change Login URL: allow for setting a custom login URL to improve site security.

1.3.0 (2022.10.29)

• [ADDED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Bar: Hide it on the front end for all or some user roles.

1.2.0 (2022.10.28)

• [ADDED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: Clean up admin pages by moving notices into a separate panel easily accessible via the admin bar.

1.1.0 (2022.10.22)

• [ADDED] Content Management >> Enable Media Replacement: Enable easy replacement of any type of media file with a new one while retaining the existing media ID and file name.

1.0.0 (2022.10.17)

• Initial stable release.