OnPoint Plugins

Advanced Sidebar Menu – Changelog

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


PRO

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

8.0.0

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