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Aaand we’re back! I am excited to announce that all of our free and Pro WordPress plugins are updated and current with latest WordPress, version 6.4. 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 great new features, improved functionality, bug fixes, and other “under the hood” improvements, mostly fine-tuning and polishing. Also thorough testing on latest versions of WordPress and PHP to make sure everything is 100% compatible and running smoothly. All plugins tested for maximum performance and compatibility with WordPress version 6.4 (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 3.7. Changes include:

• Adds .msi to Advanced Request URI patterns
• Adds etc/hosts to Basic Query String patterns
• Adds etc/motd to Basic Query String patterns
• Adds etc/shadow to Basic Query String patterns
• Adds windows/win to Basic Query String patterns
• Improves font-icon CSS styles
• Improves localization function
• Improves bbq_license_status()
• Improves JavaScript on settings page
• Replaces DOING_CRON with wp_doing_cron()
• Adds custom notice on settings page
• Updates French translation (Thanks Ingrid Azéma)

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. Changes include:

• Improves plugin CSS styles
• Improves localization function
• Replaces DOING_CRON with wp_doing_cron()
• Improves banhammer_license_status()
• Fixes bug with Font Awesome styles
• Adds custom notice on settings page

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. Changes include:

• Improves font-icon CSS styles
• Improves localization function
• Improves action links function
• Improves JavaScript on settings page
• Improves blackhole_license_status()
• Adds message to Whitelist Bots setting
• Changes display of IP addresses in settings
• Replaces DOING_CRON with wp_doing_cron()
• Adds filter hook blackhole_whois_port
• Adds filter hook blackhole_whois_server
• Adds custom notice on settings page
• Improves plugin documentation in Help tab
• Improves plugin documentation/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. Changes include:

• Improves localization function
• Improves JavaScript on settings page
• Improves Opt-Out Box and font-icon styles
• Adds color-picker palettes to Opt-Out settings
• Adds centered overlay option to display Opt-Out Box
• Adds “Require Opt-In” option to “Disable Custom Code”
• Improves ga_google_analytics_pro_license_status()
• Changes “After Opt-In” also applies to opt-out
• Replaces DOING_CRON with wp_doing_cron()
• Streamlines custom callback functions
• Adds custom notice on settings page
• Adds two new custom code settings
• Updates contextual help tab info

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. Changes include:

• Improves font-icon CSS styles
• Improves localization function
• Adds custom notice on settings page
• Replaces DOING_CRON with wp_doing_cron()
• Improves simple_ajax_chat_pro_license_status()
• Improves JavaScript on settings page

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. Changes include:

• Fixes bug: Uncaught TypeError: strstr()
• Replaces DOING_CRON with wp_doing_cron()
• Improves enable/disable post-comments field
• Improves function usp_license_status()
• Increases default max image dimensions to 2500px
• Improves styles for plugin settings UI
• Adds custom notice on settings page
• Fixes bug with password open-eye icon

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