Hello from Plugin Planet! WordPress 5.9 now is available, and all of our free and Pro WordPress plugins are updated and current with the latest and greatest. 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.

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Overview

This round of updates is mostly testing on latest versions of WordPress and PHP to make sure everything is 100% compatible and running smoothly. Plus a few important bug fixes and some new features and functionality, all tested for maximum performance and compatibility with WordPress version 5.9 (and beyond). All of our plugins (free and pro) are developed and tested on the latest versions of PHP (currently testing on PHP 7.4, 8.0, and 8.1).

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.

BBQ Pro

BBQ Pro is updated to version 3.3. Changes include:

  • Updates license updater script
  • Improves loading of translations
  • Changes dashboard menu icon to shield
  • Adds filter hook bbq_dash_icon
  • Adds /.env to Request URI patterns
  • Adds /c99.php to Request URI patterns
  • Removes ahrefs from User Agent patterns
  • Removes zune from User Agent patterns
  • Removes REQUEST= from Query String patterns
  • Increases max width of hit count bars
  • Improves contextual help tab infos
  • Improves performance of plugin settings
  • Changes minimum required WP version to 4.6
  • Updates default translation template

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 2.5.2. Changes include:

  • Fixes bug with PHP date()
  • Updates license updater script
  • Improves loading of translations
  • Improves performance of plugin settings
  • Changes minimum required WP version to 4.6

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 3.0. Changes include:

  • Fixes issue with IP headers
  • Updates license updater script
  • Improves help tab documentation
  • Improves loading of translations
  • Improves performance of plugin settings
  • Adds option to choose the trigger location
  • Adds filter hook blackhole_trigger_location
  • Changes minimum required WP version to 4.6
  • Updates default translation template

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 2.2. Changes include:

  • Updates license updater script
  • Improves loading of translations
  • Improves performance of plugin settings
  • Adds exclude-ID option for all custom code
  • Fixes bug with custom tracking 4, 5, and 6
  • Adds filter hook gapro_tracker_object_universal
  • Adds filter hook gapro_tracker_object_global
  • Changes minimum required WP version to 4.6

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.

SES Pro

SES Pro is updated to version 3.2. Changes include:

  • Updates license updater script
  • Improves loading of translations
  • Updates some links to external resources
  • Changes minimum required WP version to 4.6

SES 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 4.1.1. Changes include:

  • Fixes error on PHP versions less than 8
  • Adds file attribute to [usp_image]
  • Improves plugin performance in Admin Area
  • Adds filter hook usp_dashboard_widget
  • Adds filter hook usp_add_glance_items
  • Updates plugin license updater script
  • Auto-generate forms now disabled by default
  • Improves loading of translations
  • Improves plugin settings information
  • Changes minimum required WP version to 4.6

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.

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

In addition to the improvements mentioned above, some further changes were made as part of my usual plugin update routine. Other changes include updating documentation as needed, regenerating default translation templates, and further testing on the latest version of WordPress (currently 5.9). As always, huge thank you to those who contribute with feature suggestions and bug reports! :)