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Hello fellow WordPress users! I am pleased to announce that all of our free and Pro WordPress plugins are updated and current with latest WordPress, version 6.2. 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.

Overview

This round of updates brings some new features, improved software licensing infrastructure, and many other “under the hood” improvements. Also thorough 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 lots of attention to the details. All plugins tested for maximum performance and compatibility with WordPress version 6.2 (and beyond). All of our plugins (free and pro) 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 3.6. Changes include:

• Adds filter hook bbq_date
• Improves settings page UI/styles
• Improves logic for dates and times
• Improves logic for enqueue functions
• Adds license status message to plugin pages
• Improves logic when calling get_current_screen()
• Improves handling of license activation
• Improves handling of license constants
• Improves admin notices functionality

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 2.8. Changes include:

• Improves settings page UI/styles
• Improves logic for dates and times
• Adds license status message to plugin screens
• Improves logic when calling get_current_screen()
• Improves handling of license activation
• Improves handling of license constants
• Updates font awesome icons and styles

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 3.3. Changes include:

• Improves settings page UI/styles
• Improves content of email alerts
• Adds support for multiple email addresses
• Adds filter hook blackhole_email_address
• Adds [login] shortcut for custom email alerts
• Adds $login variable to hook blackhole_alert_message
• Adds $login variable to hook blackhole_alert_custom
• Adds $login variable to hook blackhole_alert_default
• Adds $login variable to hook blackhole_alert_simple
• Fixes incorrect function name, blackhole_default_message
• Moves Reset Reports link to Email Alerts settings
• Removes require_once from blackhole_send_email()
• Improves logic when calling get_current_screen()
• Adds license status message to plugin screens
• Improves handling of license activation
• Improves handling of license constants
• Updates Help tab inline documentation
• Improves logic for dates and times

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 2.5. Changes include:

• Improves opt-out box UI/styles
• Improves settings page UI/styles
• Improves settings validation functions
• Reorders some opt-out settings for clarity
• Adds “After Opt-In” option to plugin settings
• Adds options to disable custom code if user opts out
• Changes setting “Disable Auto-Hide” to “Close Button”
• Adds support for optin link shortcodes in success messages
• Adds filter ga_google_analytics_pro_disable_custom
• Improves logic when calling get_current_screen()
• Adds license status message to plugin screens
• Improves handling of license activation
• Improves handling of license constants
• Updates Font Awesome fonts and styles
• Updates contextual Help tab information

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 1.5. Changes include:

• Adds support for “Reset Users” addon
• Improves .htaccess rules for export files
• Fixes bug: ctype_alnum(): Argument of type int
• Fixes bug: missing styles for custom user roles
• Fixes bug: table created only for admin users
• Fixes bug: exclamation points getting removed
• Adds Banned Phrases pattern %%email%%
• Adds Banned Phrases pattern %%any_character%%
• Adds Banned Phrases pattern %%any_characters%%
• Adds Banned Phrases pattern %%any_number%%
• Adds Banned Phrases pattern %%any_numbers%%
• Improves logic when calling get_current_screen()
• Adds license status message to plugin screens
• Improves handling of license activation
• Improves handling of license constants
• Adds note about $ip_keys filter hook
• Updates Font Awesome styles
• Updates plugin Help tab information

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 4.4. Changes include:

• Renames blank_or_zero function
• Improves logic for plugin_options_page()
• Improves logic for create_post_examples()
• Replaces get_page_by_title with WP_Query
• Moves License screen to its own settings tab
• Adds a hyphen to uspcontent id for RTE/Visual Editor
• Adds language translation support for “Add another file”
• Improves information provided on plugin settings screens
• Fixes bug PHP 8.2 “Creation of dynamic property deprecated”
• Adds usp-file-id custom field for submitted files
• Improves settings page content, markup, and styles
• Improves logic when calling get_current_screen()
• Adds license status message to plugin screens
• Improves handling of license activation
• Improves handling of license constants

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.

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 6.2). As always, huge thank you to those who contribute with feature suggestions and bug reports! :)