OnPoint Plugins

Advanced Sidebar Menu – Changelog

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


PRO

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 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 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 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 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 admin
  • Implement new actions and filters
  • Improve performance
  • Open up more extendability possibilities
  • Drop support for Advanced Sidebar Menu version 6

2.4.0

  • Add Custom Taxonomy support
  • Autoload support
  • New widget options structure defined

2.3.0

  • Code improvements
  • Debugging support
  • Add Custom Post Type support
  • Support using page titles for link titles until a value is changed
  • Exclude pages performance improvements
  • Improve security in meta box

2.2.0

  • Code improvements
  • Add support for keep entire accordion menu closed including parent
  • Add support for including parent menu item in accordions
  • Add Visual Composer support

2.1.0

  • add keep accordion menu closed ability
  • add accordion support to categories

2.0.0

  • add block styling support
  • add accordion icon color support

Basic

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 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

6.4.0

  • Code improvements
  • Performance improvements via shared child retrieval

= 6.3.0
* Improve category class handling for pro version accordion support

6.2.0

  • Improve sorting of categories

6.1.0

  • Improve page list view
  • Add advanced_sidebar_menu_list_pages_args filter

6.0.0

  • Remove legacy template support
  • Restructure plugin
  • Introduce ‘advanced_sidebar_menu_template_part’ filter

5.1.0

  • Convert query over to get_posts() to allow for more extendability
  • Implement object caching to improve performance for environments using external object caches
  • Begin modernizing the naming conventions of methods and improving PHPdocs

5.0.0

  • Greatly improved performance
  • Improved code structure