OnPoint Plugins

Advanced Sidebar Menu – Changelog

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

PRO

8.6.1

  • Simplify the widget names.
  • Simplify the meta box name.
  • Tested to WordPress version 5.8.3.
  • Improved unit testing.

8.6.0

Full release notes.

  • Exclude hierarchical posts from category widgets set to exclude in page meta box.
  • Improve PHPDocs for Title class.
  • Added excluded pages to debug information.
  • Fixed CSS classes for current_page_parent and current_page_ancestor.
  • Removed dangling ADVANCED_SIDEBAR_MENU_PRO_OPTIONS_DIR constant.

8.5.2

  • Support accordions in Elementor popups.
  • Improved category order by "Created" handling.
  • Removed deprecated text/css for <style> tag.
  • Fixed doubling of accordion icons in Elementor editors.
  • Gracefully handle no longer registered taxonomies.

8.5.1

  • Sync styles between classic, block, and customizer widgets.
  • Improved color picker styles.
  • Improved widget interactions.
  • Fixed "Click to show styles" buttons in customizer.

8.5.0

Full release notes.

  • Support WordPress version 5.8.
  • Support Gutenberg widgets screen.
  • Requires basic version 8.6.0+.

8.4.0

Full release notes.

  • Support clicking menu links to open/close accordion sections.
  • Improved accordion accessibility with outlines.
  • Reorganize widget columns to make them more even when expanded.
  • Partially modernized the accordion's JavaScript.
  • Improved default accordion settings handling.
  • Fix conflict with WPML return types.
  • Require basic version 8.5.0+.
  • Tested to WordPress 5.7.2.

8.3.1

Full release notes.

  • Improved translation documentation.
  • Improved update endpoint version handling.
  • Tested to WordPress 5.7.0.

8.3.0

Full release notes.

  • Added translations for French (fr_FR).
  • Added translations for Spanish (es_ES).

8.2.2

  • Introduce advanced-sidebar-menu/menus/navigation/is-displayed filter.
  • Improved handling of excluded pages in navigation menus.
  • Support filtering of navigation menu title.

8.2.1

  • Fully support auto-update system.
  • Fix grandchild indents when using blocked styling and set number of levels.

8.2.0

Full release notes.

  • Add support for hover styles.
  • Add support for border widths.
  • Greatly improved widget labels, descriptions and styles.
  • Improved accordion icon placement.
  • Improved accordion icon widget interactions.
  • Support blocked styling borders on all levels.
  • Improved Beaver Builder and Elementor styles.
  • Make all references to post type of taxonomy match widget settings.

8.1.4

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

8.1.3

  • Improved 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

Full release notes.

  • 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.

Full release notes.

  • 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

Full release notes.

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

3.11.4

  • Fix error when update endpoint fails.
  • Improved the case of widget option labels.
  • Introduced 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.
  • Improved current page handling when "Display Everywhere" is checked.
  • Fix notice level errors when retrieving current page.

3.11.1

  • Improved 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

Full release notes.

  • Improved excluding of pages from navigation menus.
  • Introduced advanced-sidebar-menu/menus/navigation/objects/excluded filter.
  • Improved the navigation menus "Display the current item's parents only" functionality.
  • Introduced 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

Full release notes.

  • Enable accordion previews when editing via Beaver Builder.
  • Greatly improved 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.
  • Improved 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

Full release notes.

  • 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.

Basic

8.7.1

  • Fine tune widgets styles for WordPress 5.9.
  • Tested to WordPress 5.9.

8.7.0

  • Use Webp extension for preview images.
  • Simplify the Widget names.
  • Introduce Utils::array_map_recursive method for deep sanitization.
  • Support multidimensional arrays in debug overrides.
  • Tested to WordPress 5.8.3.
  • Required PRO version 8.5.0+.

8.6.4

  • Introduced advanced-sidebar-menu/debug/print-instance filter.
  • Improved FAQ information.
  • Remove dangling reference to old built in styles from FAQ.

8.6.3

  • Fix issue with CSS classnames on the current page’s children.

8.6.2

  • Assured consistency for levels of page menu’s CSS classes.
  • Converted category get the highest parent logic to get_ancestors.
  • Gracefully handle invalid taxonomies in Category widgets.
  • Gracefully handle widgets without ids.
  • Fixed color pickers in Elementor.
  • Fixed color pickers in Beaver Builder.

8.6.1

  • Improved widget interaction handling.
  • Synced styles between block, classic and customizer widgets.
  • Fixed customizer widget buttons.

8.6.0

  • Support WordPress version 5.8.
  • Support Gutenberg widgets screen.
  • Minimum required version for PRO 8.5.

8.5.0

  • Introduce Utils class for shared non specific functionality.
  • Introduce is_checked method for determining checkbox state from anywhere.
  • Make Widget_Abstract::set_instance public for external use.
  • Complete preparations for PRO version 8.4.
  • Minimum required version for PRO 8.4.

8.4.0

  • Introduce new Category Walker to increase extensibility.
  • Support data-level on all widgets.

8.3.4

  • Support widget fields with array values.

8.3.3

  • Introduce data-level on all page menu levels for specific targeting.
  • Tested to WordPress 5.7.2.

8.3.2

  • Fully compatible with PHP8.
  • Tested to WordPress 5.7.1.

8.3.1

  • Add readme for translations.
  • Tested to WordPress 5.7.
  • Require WordPress core 5.2+.
  • Improved PHPCS configuration.

8.3.0

  • Improved plugin headers.
  • Added translations for French (fr_FR).
  • Added translations for Spanish (es_ES).
  • Expose Category::is_tax method for public filters.
  • Improved type casting and PHPStan static type checking.
  • Fix tense in readme.txt words.

8.2.0

  • Improved widget labels, descriptions and styles.
  • Support blocked styling borders on all levels.
  • Improved Beaver Builder and Elementor styles.
  • Improved info panel.

8.1.1

  • Improved 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

  • Improved 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

  • Introduced 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 improved widget styles and UI when using Elementor.
  • Overall third party page builder improvements.
  • Move scripts and styles into new Scripts class.
  • Introduced a 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.