Plugin update time! WordPress 6.0 drops tomorrow, May 24th. All of our free and Pro WordPress plugins are updated and current with all the latest. 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 6.0 (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 3.4. Changes include:

  • Improves plugin License screen
  • Settings now available without license
  • Adds show support link on plugin settings page
  • Improves mobile styles on patterns screen
  • Improves evaluate_ip() function

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 2.6. Changes include:

  • Improves plugin License screen
  • Settings now available without license

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 3.1. Changes include:

  • Improves plugin License screen
  • Plugin settings now available without license
  • Adds show support link on plugin settings page
  • Improves UI for plugin settings page
  • Changes dashboard icon to shield
  • Adds filter hook blackhole_dash_icon

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 2.3. Changes include:

  • Disables “GA Pro” comment in HTML output
  • Improves logic of register settings functions
  • Adds %%username%% to get current user_login name
  • Plugin settings now available without license
  • Improves plugin License screen
  • Improves UI for plugin settings page
  • Updates contact URLs in documentation
  • Improves plugin documentation

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 3.3. Changes include:

  • Changes dashboard icons to email
  • Adds filter hook ses_dash_icon_email
  • Adds filter hook ses_dash_icon_settings
  • Plugin settings now available without license
  • Improves UI for plugin settings pages

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 4.2. Changes include:

  • Improves plugin License screen
  • Removes “Add Demo Forms” button from “Edit USP Form” screen
  • Plugin settings now available without license
  • Improves UI for plugin settings page

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 files to get changelog and other information for any plugin version.

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