Hello fellow WordPress people! I am excited to announce that all of our free and Pro WordPress plugins are updated and current with latest WordPress, version 6.5. Before diving in to the updates, I want to say Thank you to all of our customers, users, and everyone leaving great reviews, sharing on social media, reporting bugs, and such. Your support and feedback help to keep our WordPress plugins going strong.

Extension Updates! All Pro extensions and addons were tested against the latest version of WordPress and PHP. Good to go!
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Overview

This round of updates focuses on maintenance, bug fixes, and compatibility testing with the latest versions of WordPress and PHP to make sure everything is 100% compatible and running smoothly. All plugins (free and pro) are tested for maximum performance and compatibility with WordPress version 6.5 (and beyond). Also, all plugins are tested on the latest versions of PHP (currently testing on PHP 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2).

How to Upgrade

If your pro license is active, the plugins can be upgraded via one-click updates in the WordPress Admin Area. Or if you own the plugin but do not have it activated, you can log in to the Members Area to download and upgrade to the latest version. Any questions or feedback can be posted in the help forum or sent via our contact form.

Pro Plugin Updates

Here is a rundown of changes made to each of our pro plugins. For a summary of changes made to any of our free WordPress plugins, check out the changelog in the plugin readme.txt/docs. So without further ado, here are the latest changes for our pro plugins..

BBQ Pro

BBQ Pro is updated to version 3.7.1. Changes include:

  • Adds support for multiple alert addresses
  • Adds filter hook, bbq_alert_headers
  • Improves headers for email alerts
  • Updates Help tab information
  • Updates plugin settings page
  • Updates default translation template
  • Improves plugin docs/readme.txt

BBQ Pro documentation and tutorials also are updated with any important information pertaining to this update. See the plugin’s readme.txt file for complete Changelog and infos.

Banhammer Pro

Banhammer Pro is updated to version 2.9.1. Changes include:

  • Fixes bug with false positive pattern matching
  • Updates plugin settings page
  • Updates default translation template
  • Improves plugin docs/readme.txt

Banhammer Pro documentation and tutorials also are updated with any important information pertaining to this update. See the plugin’s readme.txt file for complete Changelog.

Blackhole Pro

Blackhole Pro is updated to version 3.4.1. Changes include:

  • Replaces gwhois.org with whois.com for whois lookups
  • Removes duplicate option from uninstall.php
  • Updates plugin settings page and help tab
  • Updates default translation template
  • Improves plugin docs/readme.txt

Blackhole Pro documentation and tutorials also are updated with any important information pertaining to this update. See the plugin’s readme.txt file for complete Changelog.

GA Google Analytics Pro

GA Pro is updated to version 2.6.1. Changes include:

  • Updates plugin settings page
  • Updates default translation template
  • Improves plugin docs/readme.txt

Important: notes about changes to Google Analytics:

  • Google renamed “Global Site Tag” to “Google Tag”
  • Google is deprecating Universal Analytics (learn more)

GA Pro documentation and tutorials also are updated with any important information pertaining to this update. See the plugin’s readme.txt file for complete Changelog.

Simple Ajax Chat Pro

SAC Pro is updated to version 1.6.2. Changes include:

  • Fixes bug with cookie timeout
  • Fixes bug with error: missing form data
  • Fixes bug with banned phrases
  • Adds filter hook sacpro_date_format
  • Updates plugin settings page
  • Updates default translation template
  • Improves plugin docs/readme.txt

SAC Pro documentation and tutorials also are updated with any important information pertaining to this update. See the plugin’s readme.txt file for complete Changelog.

USP Pro

USP Pro is updated to version 4.5.1. Changes include:

  • Adds ACF filter to enable the custom fields panel
  • Updates plugin settings page
  • Updates default translation template
  • Improves plugin docs/readme.txt

USP Pro documentation and tutorials also are updated with any important information pertaining to this update. See the plugin’s readme.txt file for complete Changelog.

Did you know? You can browse through all readme.txt and changelog.txt files to get information for any plugin version.
FYI: Addon sites may be purchased for any pro plugin license. Learn more »

Until next time..

In addition to the improvements listed above, some further changes were made as part of our usual plugin-update routine. Additional changes include updating documentation as needed, regenerating default translation templates, and further testing on the latest version of WordPress (currently 6.5). As always, huge thank you to those who contribute with feature suggestions and bug reports! :)