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 6.1. 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 great new features and functionality, all tested for maximum performance and compatibility with WordPress version 6.1 (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 3.5. Changes include:

  • Adds filter hook, bbq_alert_date
  • Fixes bug with default_ips filter hook
  • Removes curl from Advanced User Agent patterns
  • Adds support for BBQ_PRO_LICENSE via wp-config.php
  • Improves message/details sent in email alerts
  • Improves loading of BBQ options and patterns
  • Improves handling $allowedposttags variable
  • Adds custom footer text to plugin settings
  • Updates EDD_SL_Plugin_Updater script
  • Improves text/content of email alerts
  • Improves contextual help information
  • Improves plugin settings styles
  • Improves plugin documentation

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 2.7. Changes include:

  • Removes WPSimpleNonce functionality
  • Removes function banhammer_armory_date()
  • Resolves banhammer-process_ log entries
  • Fixes bug: PHP Uncaught TypeError: count()
  • Fixes bug with date formatting in Tower
  • Increases timeout for banhammer_get_geo()
  • Increases timeout for banhammer_get_response()
  • Adds support for BANHAMMER_LICENSE via wp-config.php
  • Adds filter hook banhammer_get_response_timeout
  • Adds filter hook banhammer_file_get_contents_timeout
  • Adds filter hook banhammer_curl_connecttimeout
  • Adds filter hook banhammer_curl_timeout
  • Adds missing image for unknown geoip lookups
  • Improves logic of banhammer_get_response()
  • Improves function banhammer_armory_bulk()
  • Improves UI/details of Banhammer settings
  • Adds custom footer text to plugin settings
  • Updates EDD_SL_Plugin_Updater script

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 3.2. Changes include:

  • Fixes bug with incorrect hook names
  • Fixes bug with Geo shortcodes in custom alerts
  • Adds options for daily or weekly email reports
  • Adds [ip_lookup] to custom email alerts
  • Refines logic and content of email alerts
  • Adds new filters for email alert functions
  • Adds more variables to email alert filters
  • Adds action hook, blackhole_reset_options
  • Adds action hook, blackhole_reset_badbots
  • Adds action hook, blackhole_delete_bot
  • Adds action hook, blackhole_add_bot
  • Adds action hook, blackhole_log_bot
  • Adds filter hook, blackhole_alert_ip_lookup
  • Adds support for BLACKHOLE_LICENSE via wp-config.php
  • Updates EDD_SL_Plugin_Updater script
  • Improves sanitization of email settings
  • Adds custom footer text to plugin settings
  • Improves plugin settings UI and details

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 2.4. Changes include:

  • Adds support for GAPRO_LICENSE via wp-config.php
  • Deprecates Universal Analytics analytics.js (learn more)
  • Updates various plugin links to latest Google documentation
  • Updates EDD_SL_Plugin_Updater script
  • Fixes bug with disable post IDs not working
  • Adds custom footer text to plugin settings
  • Improves plugin settings UI and details
  • Improves contextual help information
  • Improves plugin documentation
  • Updates “More from” panel

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 1.4. Changes include:

  • Updates EDD_SL_Plugin_Updater script
  • Adds option to display input field or textarea
  • Adds shortcode to display number of chat messages
  • Adds support for SACPRO_LICENSE via wp-config.php
  • Improves handling of $allowedposttags variable
  • Improves validation of custom content settings
  • Adds custom footer text to plugin settings
  • Improves contextual help information
  • Improves plugin documentation

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 4.3. Changes include:

  • Adds PHP constant USP_PRO_URL
  • Adds check for existing PHP constants
  • Adds optional post_id attribute to usp_image
  • Fixes but with Google reCaptcha (v3) timing out
  • Fixes bug with list output of [usp_pro_display_posts]
  • Adds filter hook, usp_get_email_vars to filter email headers
  • Adds filter hook, usp_filter_ip_address to block ip addresses
  • Adds support for USP_PRO_LICENSE via wp-config.php
  • Adds custom footer text to plugin settings
  • Updates EDD_SL_Plugin_Updater script
  • Improves plugin settings stylesheet

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