Changelog

7.6.11 (2025.02.17) - ASE Free and Pro

• [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.
• [IMPROVED and FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager:
  • 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.
  • enable custom date time format for the default 'Date' column. Props to Julian W. for prompting this improvement.
  • 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.
• [TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now being translated into 29 languages:
  • Added new/improved translation for:
    • Free: update Norwegian, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Taiwan), Indonesian
    • Pro: update Indonesian, Hungarian, Polish

7.6.10 (2025.02.10) - ASE Free and Pro

• [IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Content Management >> Content Order:
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
• [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 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 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 in Free] Security >> Limit Login Attempts: IP detection from a preferred header, e.g. HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR, is now also available in the free version of ASE.
• [FIXED in Free and Pro] Content Management >> External Permalinks: fixed a compatibility issue that causes BeTheme template builder failing to load on singular template of post types that has External Permalinks enabled for. Props to PJ for reporting the issue and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
• [CHANGED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Logo: Admin bar logo link will no longer open in new browser tab by default. Props to Henry R. for suggesting this change.
• [FIXED in Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager: fix an issue where in a particular scenario, code snippets are not being properly stored as files to load/execute from. Props to Jhay B. for reporting the issue and facilitating the troubleshooting.
• [TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now being translated into 29 languages:
  • Added new/improved translation for:
    • Free: update Norwegian, French, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Persian
    • Pro: update Polish, Vietnamese, Portuguese (Brazil)

7.6.9 (2025.02.03) - ASE Free and Pro

• [IMPROVED in Free and Pro] Security >> Disable XML-RPC: added additional things being disabled related to XML-RPC, namely, the 'X-Pingback' header in HTTP response headers, closing pings and pre-emptively remove several XML-RPC methods. Props to David M. for prompting this improvement.
• [IMPROVED in Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager: added the missing Pages as part of selection in the "Single Page/Post/CPT" conditional for loading CSS/JS/HTML snippets on the frontend. Props to Killian H. for reporting the issue.
• [FIXED in Free and Pro] Utilities >> View Admin as Role: fix PHP fatal error in a certain scenario. Props to Dale R. for reporting the issue in detail along with the error log entry.
• [FIXED in Free and Pro] Content Management >> Media Replacement:
  • Free and Pro: added mechanism to prevent browser cache busting URL parameter being added twice when performing replacements.
  • Pro: fix an issue where in the grid view, media replacement is not working properly in Firefox / Zen browsers. Props to Justin for reporting the issue in detail and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
• [FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: fix date column showing 1 day difference with frontend displayed date. Props to Jonathan J. for reporting the issue and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
• [FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: fix an issue where submenu item's Hide / Options is not toggling the sub-options when clicked. This is caused by a conflict with the Float Menu plugin. Props to Christian for reporting the issue and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
• [FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Content Order: fix an issue with LearnDash where enabling content ordering for Courses will not add the 'Order' submenu item. Props to Bas B. for reporting the issue and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
• [TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now being translated into 29 languages:
  • Added new/improved translation for:
    • Free: update Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil) and Slovak
    • Pro: updated Slovak

7.6.8 (2025.01.27) - ASE Free and Pro

• [IMPROVED in Pro] Email Delivery >> Email Log: make sure info on attachments in email delivery is properly logged, and also displayed when viewing the details of entries in the email log.
• [FIXED in Free and Pro] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control: fix PHP warning/error that occurs in a certain scenario. Props to DJABHipHop for reporting this with the error log entry.
• [FIXED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Various Admin UI Enhancements >> Display Active Plugins First: fix PHP warnings in PHP 8.3. Props to Bjorn S. for reporting this.
• [FIXED in Free and Pro] Security >> Email Address Obfuscator: fix an issue where the obfuscated email address where there are hyphens in the domain name, will show a word in the domain name being reversed when viewed in iOS Safari browser. Props to Thorsten S. for reporting the issue.
• [FIXED in Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager:
  • fix layout issue on frontend conditional's select2 input when a second select2 CSS is loaded by another plugin.
  • fix for missing Code Snippets menu in a certain scenario (roots.io Trellis setup). Props to Tim P. for reporting the issue in detail and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
  • fix for "Single page/post/CPT" conditional not properly loading the searchable list and allowing for selection of post(s). Props to Kilian H. for reporting the issue.
• [FIXED in Pro] Pro version activation when the free version is still active will now correctly show a message with a link back to the plugins page on a sub-folder WP install. Props to Florian G. for reporting the issue, where the link was missing the /sub-folder/ in the link.
• [TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now being translated into 29 languages:
  • Added new/improved translation for:
    • Free: updated French, Hungarian, Albanian, Swedish, Vietnamese, Chinese (Taiwan)
    • Pro: updated Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Vietnamese

7.6.7.1 (2025.01.20) - ASE Free and Pro

• [FIXED in Free and Pro] fixed a fatal error introduced in v7.6.7. Props to @cck23 and @aguilar1181 for quickly reporting it.

7.6.7 (2025.01.20) - ASE Free and Pro

• [IMPROVED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: add support for Meta Box Lite plugin.
• [IMPROVED in Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager: add conditional logic to set on which part of the frontend CSS / JS / HTML snippets should be loaded. Conditionals include type of page, post type, single page/post/CPT, URL, taxonomy, taxonomy term, login status and user role.
• [FIXED in Free and Pro] Content Management >> Open All External Links in New Tab: fix an issue where links added via Elementor are not being opened in new tabs. Props to Stijn V. for reporting the issue.
• [TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now being translated into 29 languages.
  • Added new/improved translation for:
    • Free: updated Turkish, Spanish (Spain), Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian
    • Pro: updated Portuguese (Brazil)

7.6.6 (2025.01.13) - ASE Free and Pro

• [IMPROVED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Logo:
  • add option to show the admin menu logo in the backend and show the admin bar logo in the frontend. Props to Max Z. for suggesting this.
  • add option to link the admin bar logo to the dashboard when it is shown on the frontend. Props to Max Z. for suggesting this.
• [IMPROVED and FIXED in Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager:
  • add option to execute PHP snippet via a secure URL.
  • add option to set the load / execution priority / order for all snippet types.
  • improved reliability of mechanism to record error when creating / updating PHP snippets
  • fixed fatal error when creating non-PHP snippet in a certain scenario
• [IMPROVED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Various Admin UI Enhancements: add an option to open all admin page links in new tab. Useful for people who prefer this workflow by default, instead of pressing the Ctrl or Command button while clicking on a link. Props to Rick A. for suggesting this improvement.
• [FIXED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: fixed notices being displayed on Pods plugin's admin screen.
• [FIXED in Pro] Utilities >> Display System Summary: fix fatal error in a certain scenario when trying to load the dashboard widget. This has to do with a symlinked directory present in the WP root folder that links to a destination not defined in open_basedir. Props to Rado R. for reporting the issue in details and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
• [FIXED in Pro] ASE Settings >> Export | Import: fixed a bug where export was not working as expected. Props to David R. for reporting the issue.
• [TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now being translated into 29 languages:
  • Added new/improved translation for:
    • Free: updated Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazil), Albanian
    • Pro: updated Czech, Spanish (Spain), French, Hungarian, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Vietnamese

7.6.5 (2025.01.06) - ASE Free and Pro

• [CHANGED in Pro] ASE Settings >> Import | Export is now available on all Pro plans (SOLO, TEAM, AGENCY).
• [FIXED in Free and Pro] Utilities >> View Admin as Role: fixed PHP warning that occurs in a certain scnenario.
• [FIXED and IMPROVED in Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager:
  • add option to execute PHP snippets on page load (always) or on demand (manually). Props to Theo v.d.S. for the prompting this improvement.
  • add option to execute PHP snippets everywhere, only in the admin or only on the frontend. Props to Gergo F. for prompting this improvement.
  • add option to execute PHP snippets via shortcode. Also add the shortcode in the snippets list's "Options" column.
  • fixed PHP warning introduced in v7.6.4. Props to Yoshihiro T., Mark K. and jman for reporting the issue with the relevant error/debug log entries.
• [FIXED in Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager: fix an issue where if ACF select and radio fields are set to return an array, the admin columns for them are not showing any value. Props to A. Remut for reporting the issue.
• [FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Media Categories: fixed a fatal error that occurs in a certain scenario when opening the "Appearances >> Menus" page. Props to Ivar S. for reporting the issue along with the debug/error log entries and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
• [TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now being translated into 29 languages:
  • Added new/improved translation for:
    • Free: updated Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Ukrainian.
    • Pro: updated Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Vietnamese