OnPoint Plugins

Advanced Sidebar Menu – Changelog

List of changes by version for the Advanced Sidebar Menu WordPress plugin.

PRO

8.1.4

  • Tested to WordPress version 5.5.3.
  • Improve code style.
  • Improve internal tooling.

8.1.3

  • Improve widget style settings position.
  • Provide widget excluding pages information.
  • Update endpoint improvements.

8.1.2

  • Fix conflict with Beaver Builder and WordPress 5.5.
  • Require WordPress version 5.0.0+.

8.1.1

  • Officially stop supporting PHP version 5.5 in favor of 5.6.
  • Support WordPress version 5.5.1.

8.1.0

  • Support changing link title on all supported post types.
  • Support excluding a page using a checkbox on all supported post types.
  • Extend "current page parent only" functionality to include grandchild levels.
  • Update labels and descriptions for "current page parent only" related options.
  • Tested to WP version 5.5.0.

8.0.2

  • Fix bug with widget options duplicating in front-end builders.

8.0.1

  • Fix bug with super old limit levels data.

8.0.0

Major version update. See migration guide if you are extending the plugin's functionality via action, filters, or calling plugin classes.

  • Entirely new code structure.
  • Require version 8.0.0+ of basic plugin.
  • Removed all deprecated code and filters.
  • Improved filter and action names.
  • Improved performance.

3.12.1

  • Add 'role="button" to accordion icons for screen readers
  • Set a default value for $menu_items to prevent warnings when it is empty
  • Tested to WP 5.4.2

3.12.0

  • Make accordion menus keyboard accessible.
  • Improve widget documentation links.
  • Improve Singleton codebase structure.
  • Tested up to PHP 7.4.

3.11.4

  • Fix error when update endpoint fails.
  • Improve the case of widget option labels.
  • Introduce Singleton Trait.
  • Exclude non-public post types from selection.
  • Convert Post_Type and Display_Everywhere classes to modern structure.
  • Support WordPress core version 5.4.

3.11.3

  • Fix "Display Siblings" options for the current parent only on some installs.
  • Improve current page handling when "Display Everywhere" is checked.
  • Fix notice level errors when retrieving current page.

3.11.1

  • Improve text "Display the current item's section only." to make it more intuitive.
  • Fix block style indentation for navigation menus.
  • Fix overzealous excluding of pages from navigation menus.

3.11.0

  • Improve excluding of pages from navigation menus.
  • Introduce advanced-sidebar-menu/menus/navigation/objects/excluded filter.
  • Improve the navigation menus "Display the current item's parents only" functionality.
  • Introduce advanced-sidebar-menu/menus/navigation/objects/parse-hierarchy action.
  • Create structure for deprecating non namespaced classes.
  • Deprecate the Advanced_Sidebar_Menu_Pro__Nav_Menu__Item class.
  • Deprecate the Advanced_Sidebar_Menu_Pro__Nav_Menu__Nav_Menu_Objects class.
  • Unify widget wrap attributes across all widget types.
  • Fix "Include the highest level parent in accordion" navigation menu accordion option.

3.10.0

  • Enable accordion previews when editing via Beaver Builder.
  • Greatly improve widget styles and UI when using Elementor.
  • Overall third party page builder improvements.
  • Bump the basic plugin required version to 7.7.0

3.9.3

  • Update endpoint version 4.
  • Support icons in plugin updates list.
  • Minimum required basic version now 7.6.6.
  • Improve the menu item title filters.
  • Improved actions for before/after widget output.
  • Fix show/hide of "Display siblings where there are no grandchildren" widget option.
  • Tested to WP Core 5.3.0

3.9.0

  • Support up to 10 levels of block styles.
  • Honor widget levels setting for block styling.
  • Officially remove support for PHP 5.2 in favor of PHP 5.4.

3.8.0

  • All new v2 plugin update and license system.

3.7.0

  • Exclude pages from navigation menus which are set to be excluded in the page settings.
  • Change title of navigation menu items which are set in the page settings.

3.6.0

  • Support all options including "Display the current page's parents only" when "Always display child pages" is checked
  • Use shared "Number of Levels" field.

3.5.0

  • Added support for selecting which levels of categories to display assigned posts under.

3.4.0

  • Added support for Beaver Builder

3.3.0

  • Brand new Navigation Menu widget which supports Appearance -> Menus

3.2.0

  • Introduce the ability to display assigned posts as well as custom post types under categories
  • Brand-new widget UI which replaces the basic version's

3.1.0

  • Introduce widget options to display widget everywhere
  • Introduce display siblings when using current page only widget options

3.0.0

  • Restructure the codebase to a more modern PSR4 structure
  • Improve cache handling
  • Improve verbiage in the admin
  • Implement new actions and filters
  • Improve performance
  • Open up more extendability possibilities
  • Drop support for Advanced Sidebar Menu version 6

Basic

8.1.1

  • Improve readme.
  • Tested to WordPress 5.6.0.

8.1.0

  • Restructure widget info panels.
  • Introduced new advanced-sidebar-menu/widget/page/before-columns action.
  • Introduced new advanced-sidebar-menu/widget/category/before-columns action.
  • Improved PHPCS exclusion declarations.
  • Improved CSS structure.
  • Improved JavaScript structure.

8.0.4

  • Improve styles when used with Beaver Builder.
  • Require WordPress version 5.0.0+.

8.0.3

  • Allow List_Pages::get_args() to be filtered on any level.
  • Make debugging functionality more stable.

8.0.2

  • Introduce new advanced-sidebar-menu/menus/category/get-child-terms filter
  • Support filtering the first level of categories.
  • Use is_excluded vs is_first_level_category in category view.

8.0.0

Major version update. See migration guide if you are extending the plugin’s functionality via action, filters, or calling plugin classes.

  • Entirely new code structure.
  • Removed all deprecated code and filters.
  • Improved filter and action names.
  • Improved performance.
  • Remove default plugin styling.

7.7.3

  • Fix widget info pane links.
  • Fix widget editing on mobile devices.
  • Tested up to PHP 7.4
  • Tested up to WordPress Core version 5.4.1

7.7.2

  • Tested to 5.3.3.
  • Change default “levels to display” to All.
  • Fix notice level errors when retrieving current page.

7.7.0

  • Enable accordion previews when editing via Beaver Builder.
  • Greatly improve widget styles and UI when using Elementor.
  • Overall third party page builder improvements.
  • Move scripts and styles into new Scripts class.
  • Introduce a new Singleton trait.

7.6.0

  • Elementor support for multiple widgets of the same type on the same page.
  • Automatically increment widget ids under any cases where they would duplicate.
  • Bump required WordPress Core version to 4.8.0.

7.5.0

  • Convert “Always display child pages” to use our List_Pages structure and support all widget options.
  • Bump required PHP version to 5.4.4.

7.4.0

  • Added support for Beaver Builder

7.3.0

  • Greatly improve category widget performance

7.2.0

  • New improved widget structure

7.1.0

  • Support Pro Version 3.0.0
  • Add German translations
  • Begin converting code formatting to strict WordPress standards

7.0.0

  • Restructure the codebase to a more modern PSR4 structure
  • Improve cache handling
  • Improve verbiage in the admin
  • Implement new actions and filters
  • Rebuild templates for improved stability and future changes
  • Improve performance
  • Kill conflicting backward compatibility with version 5
  • Open up more extendability possibilities