UI Overhaul, New Features & Performance Gains
This major update introduces a completely redesigned dashboard with a modern UI, powerful search, and helpful new features like keyboard shortcuts and toast notifications. We’ve also implemented extensive backend performance optimizations, smoother navigation, and a critical security fix to provide a faster, more secure, and enjoyable user experience.
- Revamped Dashboard UI with modern design system and quick stats
- Added Search functionality for Widgets and Features with real-time filtering
- Added Toast notification system for better user feedback on save
- Added keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+S to save, Ctrl+F to search)
- Added Antimanual and Jobus plugins to the recommended plugins list in the dashboard.
- System Requirements section with zebra striping and better visibility
- Sidebar navigation active states and hover effects
- Refined typography, spacing, and micro-interactions across the dashboard
- Dashboard page redesigned with enhanced UI and overall user experience.
- Dashboard now remembers and keeps the last opened tab active for smoother navigation.
- Admin classes now load conditionally to reduce unnecessary frontend overhead.
- Plugin installer optimized to avoid heavy filesystem scans and reduce load time.
- Removed unconditional Plugin_Installer loading on the frontend for better performance.
- Archive queries optimized by removing unbounded posts_per_page overrides.
- Extensive backend performance optimizations applied across core plugin components for faster execution and lower resource usage.
- XSS vulnerability in the image helper function by properly sanitizing attribute inputs.
- Logic issues resolved and internal documentation improved with WPCS coding standards compliance.
Enhanced Security & Dashboard Experience
This release significantly enhances security with crucial LFI protection, alongside numerous improvements to your dashboard experience. Navigate effortlessly with new submenu items, benefit from an enhanced RTL layout, and enjoy general UI and performance optimizations for smoother operation.
- Added submenu items for improved dashboard navigation
- Tab switcher functionality issue in the Spider Elements dashboard
- Minor UI enhancements and general performance improvements across the dashboard
- Enhanced RTL dashboard layout for better usability
- Freemius SDK updated to 2.13.0
- Implemented LFI (Local File Inclusion) protection to prevent unauthorized file access
Enhanced Security and Core Stability Fixes
This release significantly strengthens security by implementing nonce verification and proper sanitization for all form submissions. It also resolves critical bugs impacting widget rendering and display, alongside improving visual consistency and form handling throughout the application.
- Blog title function issue resolved to ensure proper display
- Nonce field name mismatch corrected in filters.php for secure form handling
- Missing Elementor Utils class import causing fatal error in Video Playlist widget rendering
- Video Playlist widget showing raw paragraph tags in description by replacing esc_html with wp_kses_post
- Adjusted alert margins in CSS for improved visual spacing
- Added nonce verification for form submissions to strengthen security
- Added proper sanitization in nonce verification for safer data validation
- Dashboard templates modified to maintain consistent field naming conventions
Enhanced Security & Widget Clarity
This update significantly enhances the software’s security by addressing critical vulnerabilities. We’ve also improved the user interface by removing the ‘SE’ prefix from Spider Elements widgets, alongside an upgrade to the Freemius SDK for better performance.
- Vulnerability issues
- Spider Elements widget prefix (SE) has been removed
- Freemius SDK updated to 2.12.2
Enhanced Blog Grid & Widget Stability
This update introduces powerful pagination and show/hide options for the Blog Grid widget, providing greater control over your blog layouts. We’ve also resolved several display and functionality issues across various widgets, including Testimonials and Tabs, to improve overall stability and user experience.
- Added pagination and show/hide options to presets 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the Blog Grid widget
- Free and Pro Widget and features checked issue on Dashboard
- Testimonials ratting issue layout 3,4 and 6
- Tabs widget dark mood issue
- Blog carousel nav arrow
- ID added in the sticky tabs
- SE prefix added before Widgets name
Improved Blog Grid & Dark Mode Compatibility
This update addresses a pagination issue in the Blog Grid widget, enhancing your blog’s user experience. We’ve also improved compatibility with Docy Dark Mode for a more seamless visual experience. Additionally, the Freemius SDK has been updated to its latest version for better stability.
- Resolved Pagination issue of Blog grid widget
- Compatibility with docy dark mode
- Freemius SDK updated to 2.12.0
Design Enhancements & Elementor Global Colors Integration
This release brings several design refinements, including an improved Alert widget and cleaner Tab items. We’ve also enhanced integration with Elementor Global Accent Colors for better theming consistency, alongside various bug fixes to improve stability and user experience.
- Testimonial widget preset 07
- Deprecation warning by wrapping constant in hook
- Changed the preset image of "Cheat Sheet & video playlist" widget
- Dynamic Accent color gets from Elementor Global Accent Colors settings
- Default icon removed from Tab item
- Alert widget design improved
UI Refinements & Stability Update
This update enhances your user experience with an improved dashboard design and a new quote icon for the testimonial widget. We’ve also addressed important issues, fixing link problems in the Icon box widget and resolving pagination for the Blog widget, ensuring greater stability and functionality.
- Quote icon added in the testimonial widget
- Link issue fixed in the Icon box widget
- Resolved pagination option in the Blog widget
- Dashboard design improved
Core Updates and Widget Control Fixes
This release focuses on enhancing widget reliability by resolving control issues in Accordion, Tabs, Alert Box, and Testimonial widgets. Additionally, it updates the Freemius SDK to 2.11.0 for improved stability and includes a minor rename for the video playlist widget.
- Resolved some control issue of Accordion, Tabs, Alert Box & Testimonial widget
- Rename the video playlist widget name
- Freemius SDK updated to 2.11.0
Performance & UI Enhancements
This release delivers significant performance enhancements through script optimizations and code cleanup, ensuring a smoother and more efficient experience. We’ve also improved the Dashboard design and a wide range of widgets, enhancing overall usability and visual appeal.
- Improved Cheat Sheet, Integration, List Item, Blog Grid, Accordion, Icon Box, Testimonial, Video Playlist, Alert, and Team Carousel widgets
- Updated script loading dependencies and removed unused files and code
- Improved Dashboard design
- Improved script performance
- Removed deprecated ionicons cnd and internal script
Enhanced Accessibility & Core Widget Stability
Version 1.5.0 introduces significant improvements with the addition of RTL language compatibility, enhancing global accessibility. This release also focuses on stability, addressing various content and style issues in key widgets and refining the overall Dashboard experience for better usability.
- RTL (Right to Left language) compatibility added
- Added documentation and demo links to the Dashboard widget list
- Resolved some content and style control issues in the following widgets: Accordion, Cheat Sheet, Tabs, Testimonial, Blog, Counter, Icon Box, List Item, Team Carousel, and Video Playlist
- Dashboard sidebar tab on active
- Remove some unused file and codes
- Dashboard design Improve
- Replace some preset image & widget icon
- Freemius SDK Updated
New Widgets and Core Improvements
This release introduces the versatile ‘Icon Box’ widget and enhances blog navigation with new pagination. Additionally, we’ve implemented important fixes for the Testimonial and Tabs widgets to improve overall stability.
- Added 'Icon Box' Widget
- Pagination added in the blog widget
- Testimonial Widget
- Left/right arrow in the tabs widget
Version 1.0.0
- Initial release
