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1 # Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE)
2
3 Contributors: qriouslad
4 Donate link: https://bowo.io/asenha-sp-rdm
5 Tags: enhancements, tweaks, optimizations, tools
6 Requires at least: 4.6
7 Tested up to: 6.4.2
8 Stable tag: 6.2.3
9 Requires PHP: 5.6
10 License: GPLv2 or later
11 License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
12
13 ![](.wordpress-org/banner-772x250.png)
14
15 Duplicate post, post order, image resize, email via SMTP, admin menu editor, custom css / code, disable gutenberg and much more in a single plugin.
16
17 ## Description
18
19 Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) helps you to **easily enhance** various admin workflows and site aspects while **replacing multiple plugins** doing it.
20
21 **Pro version** with Lifetime Deal (LTD) is available at [](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webwww.wpase.com](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web).
22
23 Here's First Look at ASE Pro by David McCan.
24
25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdbl-Ao_1Xc
26
27 Here's a review of ASE Pro at v6.0.6 by Albert Tan.
28
29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZjGCcmJ3xw
30
31 On using ASE as part of your WordPress optimization toolkit.
32
33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d1k3saNgak
34
35 Here's a review at v6.0.7 by Michal Magneter in Polish.
36
37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nonc05qvRD0
38
39 Here's a review at v5.7.1 by Buxbaum Barna in Hungarian.
40
41 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHo1x3ITs8E
42
43 Here's a review at v5.7.0 by Tiziano Fogliata in Italian.
44
45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKTLi24KpXQ
46
47 Here's a review at v5.4.1 by Chiara Costa in Portuguese.
48
49 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpjKvWUcJlk
50
51 Here's a review at v5.2.9 by Alexis FH of WP Made Simple.
52
53 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPBEx1vHwuY
54
55 Here's a review at v5.1.0 by Paul Charlton of WPTuts.
56
57 [youtube https://youtu.be/V-_4TnjGloE]
58
59 Here's a review at v5.0.2 by Imran Siddiq @websquadron.
60
61 https://youtu.be/Ja8GxOPGqKY
62
63 Here's a quick review at v5.0.1 by Nathan Wrigley @wpbuilds.
64
65 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwaWL6znuZg&t=3242s
66
67 Here's a walkthrough of the plugin at v4.8.2 by Nathan Ingram.
68
69 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qXGDEBfMp0&t=2984s
70
71 ### What Users Say
72
73 _"**Every single thing works as expected**."_ ~[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwaWL6znuZg&t=3242sNathan Wrigley @wpbuilds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwaWL6znuZg&t=3242s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwaWL6znuZg&t=3242s)
74
75 _"**I’m replacing so many plugins with this!**"_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-replacing-so-many-plugins-with-this/@instadesign](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-replacing-so-many-plugins-with-this/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-replacing-so-many-plugins-with-this/)
76
77 _"**This is the best plugin I’ve installed in 2023!**🙂 It replaced several existing plugins and added some really useful extra functionality on top."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-essential-plugin-3/@steve1215](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-essential-plugin-3/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-essential-plugin-3/)
78
79 _"**So many useful features** it blows my mind, as well as enabling me to **ditch so many other plugins!**"_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-plugin-2441/@simonclay](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-plugin-2441/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-plugin-2441/)
80
81 _"**A must have plugin for most sites**. So many useful features. along with a great developer who is open to suggestions."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-plugin-2443/@akgt](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-plugin-2443/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-plugin-2443/)
82
83 _"This plugin is simply amazing. It **easily replaces a dozen or more plugins I install on every website project**. It is **super lightweight**, easy to use, and support has been wonderful and responsive. Highly recommended!"_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-must-have-plugin-2/NetzzJD](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-must-have-plugin-2/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-must-have-plugin-2/)
84
85 _"**...it replaces many single purpose plugins which bloat up the site and the admin area**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replaces-a-lot-of-single-purpose-plugins/@tageins](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replaces-a-lot-of-single-purpose-plugins/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replaces-a-lot-of-single-purpose-plugins/)
86
87 _"**Full of useful features, works without problems**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-of-useful-features-works-without-problems/Krzysztof Płaneta](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-of-useful-features-works-without-problems/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-of-useful-features-works-without-problems/)
88
89 _"**Great plugin! Clear, useful, and a joy to use**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-clear-useful-and-a-joy-to-use/Todd](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-clear-useful-and-a-joy-to-use/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-clear-useful-and-a-joy-to-use/)
90
91 _"One of those plugins that feels like it **should be part of the [WordPress] core, lots of useful features without the bloat**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-contribution-5/@mohobook](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-contribution-5/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-contribution-5/)
92
93 _"It is great how many small things are all included in this one plugin. **Definitely makes things feel a lot simpler**."_ ~[@kenmundell
94 ](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-multi-purpose-plugin/)
95
96 _"**This plugin is what I have been waiting for to see for years!**"_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-swiss-army-tool-for-wordpress/@AlexGraphicD](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-swiss-army-tool-for-wordpress/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-swiss-army-tool-for-wordpress/)
97
98 _"Great job! **Saved me lots of time to add lots of plugins** to get ready for my work. It's a relief to have **everything streamlined and ready to go**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-2817/Tao Sheng](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-2817/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-2817/)
99
100 _"I’m already in love with this plugin... **It will make my WP-life a lot easier**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-allready-in-love-with-this-plugin/@medieskolen](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-allready-in-love-with-this-plugin/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-allready-in-love-with-this-plugin/)
101
102 _"I really love how this plugin incorporates **so many small fixes or tweaks** that are needed with WordPress - I can now get rid of many other plugins."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fantastic-plugin-replacing-many-other-plugins/Dale Reardon](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fantastic-plugin-replacing-many-other-plugins/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fantastic-plugin-replacing-many-other-plugins/)
103
104 _"This plugin allows you to install and maintain **one plugin instead of a host of smaller ones**. My tests were all successful and I was happy to simplify my maintenance with fewer plugins."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replaced-4-plugins-worked-well-a/Vic Drover](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replaced-4-plugins-worked-well-a/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replaced-4-plugins-worked-well-a/)
105
106 _"With this plugin, I can remove tons of plugins to **reduce the possibility of plugin conflicts**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-powerful-tool-13/@chiehliniceday](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-powerful-tool-13/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-powerful-tool-13/)
107
108 _"**It’s worth 10 stars (or more)**. This plugin eliminates the need to install many other plugins and also **makes functions.php smaller** since I have to insert fewer code snippets."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/its-worth-10-stars-or-more/Angelika Reisiger](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/its-worth-10-stars-or-more/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/its-worth-10-stars-or-more/)
109
110 _"Excellent and **very well-supported plugin**; saves me a lot of work! Admin Site Enhancements has made my list of 'must install' plug-ins, since **it makes so many other tasks much easier**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-and-very-well-supported-plugin-saves-me-a-lot-of-work/@grizdev](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-and-very-well-supported-plugin-saves-me-a-lot-of-work/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-and-very-well-supported-plugin-saves-me-a-lot-of-work/)
111
112 _"**I was super skeptical** that this plugin could do so much without any problems, **but I was wrong... 100% recommended!**"_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-all-in-one-plugin-you-need-in-your-arsenal/@scarlywebs](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-all-in-one-plugin-you-need-in-your-arsenal/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-all-in-one-plugin-you-need-in-your-arsenal/)
113
114 _"Normally, I tend to steer clear of “all-in-one” plugins; however, I believe that the **selection of tools** incorporated into this plugin has been astutely deliberated, given that it **nearly aligns entirely with the options I typically apply to each website**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-features-selection/@cvladan](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-features-selection/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-features-selection/)
115
116 _"There are so many little **wordpress tweaks** that we all have to do which either requires **a bunch of small plugins or added code snippets**. This is a great step in **consolidating them into a well organized spot, without polluting the admin screen with nags and menu items and other junk**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-clear-useful-and-a-joy-to-use/Todd](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-clear-useful-and-a-joy-to-use/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-clear-useful-and-a-joy-to-use/)
117
118 _"**ASE has been a game-changer for us**... we were able to remove numerous duplicate plugins, reducing clutter and improving efficiency. ASE's enhanced admin dashboard, improved site performance, and robust security features have truly transformed our website management... It's a must-have plugin for anyone looking to optimize their WordPress site and streamline their workflow."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-has-reduced-my-plugin-list-by-6-7/@tomhung](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-has-reduced-my-plugin-list-by-6-7/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-has-reduced-my-plugin-list-by-6-7/)
119
120 _"I love the **modular approach**. And I love that the whole plugin - with all its potential functionality - is **smaller in file-size than some of the plugins that it replaces**, which do only one of these things. Thank you for the great work!"_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-useful-swiss-army-knife/Dave](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-useful-swiss-army-knife/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-useful-swiss-army-knife/)
121
122 _"Thank You for **killing the dashboard SPAM!**"_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-is-what-freedom-tastes-like/@happyfrank73](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-is-what-freedom-tastes-like/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-is-what-freedom-tastes-like/)
123
124 _"Great compilation of settings and options. **It had quickly become one of my essential plugins**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-useful-3276/@unapersona](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-useful-3276/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-useful-3276/)
125
126 _"**Incredibly powerful and well organized**. It’s a real accomplishment to put this many features into a plugin and still make it easy to navigate."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/holy-cow-this-is-excellent/Nathan Ingram](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/holy-cow-this-is-excellent/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/holy-cow-this-is-excellent/)
127
128 _"\[This\] is a Swiss Army Knife in terms of features that will **keep your WordPress clean and optimal**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/there-are-no-words-just-amazing/@samirhp](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/there-are-no-words-just-amazing/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/there-are-no-words-just-amazing/)
129
130 _"**Has noticeably improved performance on many of my sites**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-replacing-so-many-plugins-with-this/@instadesign](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-replacing-so-many-plugins-with-this/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-replacing-so-many-plugins-with-this/)
131
132 _"**...everything is clear, fast, consistent and lightweight**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-job-premium-functions-in-free-plugin/Peter](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-job-premium-functions-in-free-plugin/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-job-premium-functions-in-free-plugin/)
133
134 _"**Greatest plugin ever**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/greatest-plugin-ever-11/@angelaustr](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/greatest-plugin-ever-11/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/greatest-plugin-ever-11/)
135
136 _"**p.s. There are bugs**. This is software development after all and **I'm the developer (as well as user)**. [](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/admin-site-enhancements/Please report](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/admin-site-enhancements/](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/admin-site-enhancements/) if you found one, and **I'll try to fix the next chance I get**. Thanks!"_ ~[](https://bowo.io/bowoio-asenhaBowo](https://bowo.io/bowoio-asenha](https://bowo.io/bowoio-asenha)
137
138
139 ### Content Management
140
141 * **[[](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webPro](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web)] Custom Content Types**. Conveniently register and edit custom post types and custom taxonomies without writing a single line of code. Optionally enable the creation of custom field groups.
142 * **Content Duplication**. Enable one-click duplication of pages, posts and custom posts. The corresponding taxonomy terms and post meta will also be duplicated. [](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webASE Pro](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web) enables full support for WooCommerce product duplication, which will reliably duplicate product data, e.g. variations.
143 * **Content Order**. Enable custom ordering of various "hierarchical" content types or those supporting "page attributes". Useful for displaying them in the desired order in wp-admin and on the frontend. [](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webASE Pro](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web) enables toggling taxonomy terms and / or excerpt on the ordering page.
144 * **[[](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webPro](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web)] Media Categories**. Add categories for the media library and enable drag-and-drop categorization of media items. Categories can then be used to filter media items during media insertion into content.
145 * **Media Replacement**. Easily replace any type of media file with a new one while retaining the existing media ID, publish date and file name. So, no existing links will break. [](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webASE Pro](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web) allows replacing media from the grid view of media library as well.
146 * **SVG Upload**. Allow some or all user roles to upload SVG files, which will then be sanitized to keep things secure.
147 * **[[](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webPro](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web)] AVIF Upload**. Enable uploading AVIF files in the Media Library.
148 * **External Permalinks**. Enable pages, posts and/or custom post types to have permalinks that point to external URLs. The rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" attribute will also be added for enhanced security and SEO benefits. Compatible with links added using [](https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-links-to/Page Links To](https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-links-to/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-links-to/).
149 * **Open All External Links in New Tab**. Force all links to external sites to open in new browser tab via target="\_blank" attribute. The rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" attribute will also be added for enhanced security and SEO benefits.
150 * **Allow Custom Navigation Menu Items to Open in New Tab**. Allow custom navigation menu items to have links that open in new browser tab via target="\_blank" attribute. The rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" attribute will also be added for enhanced security and SEO benefits.
151 * **Auto-Publish Posts with Missed Schedule**. Trigger publishing of scheduled posts of all types marked with "missed schedule", anytime the site is visited.
152
153 ### Admin Interface
154
155 * **Clean Up Admin Bar**. Remove various elements from the admin bar. [](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webASE Pro](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web) removal of admin bar items from other plugins.
156 * Remove WordPress logo/menu
157 * Remove customize menu/link
158 * Remove updates counter/link
159 * Remove comments counter/link
160 * Remove new content menu
161 * Remove 'Howdy' text
162 * Remove the Help tab and drawer
163 * **Hide Admin Notices**. Clean up admin pages by moving notices into a separate panel easily accessible via the admin bar.
164 * **Disable Dashboard Widgets**. Clean up and speed up the dashboard by completely disabling some or all widgets. Disabled widgets won't load any assets nor show up under Screen Options.
165 * **Hide Admin Bar**. Hide admin bar on the frontend for all or some user roles. [](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webASE Pro](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web) also allows hiding the admin bar on the backend for all or some user roles.
166 * **Wider Admin Menu**. Give the admin menu more room to better accommodate wider items.
167 * **Admin Menu Editor / Organizer**. Customize the order of the admin menu and optionally change menu item title or hide some items. [](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webASE Pro](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web) enables always hiding menu items for some or all user roles and reorder submenu items.
168 * **[[](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webPro](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web)] Admin Columns Manager**. Manage and organize columns in the admin listing for pages, posts and custom post types.
169 * **Enhance List Tables**. Improve the usefulness of listing pages of various post types by adding / removing columns and elements.
170 * _Show the featured image column_: in the list tables for pages and post types that support featured images.
171 * _Show the excerpt column_: in the list tables for pages and post types that support excerpt.
172 * _Show the ID as a column or in the action rows_: in the list tables for pages, all post types, all taxonomies, media, users and comments.
173 * _Show custom taxonomy dropdown filter(s)_: on the list tables of all post types for taxonomies that are hierarchical like post categories.
174 * _Remove the comments column_: in in the list tables for pages, post types that support comments, and also media/attachments.
175 * _Remove the post tags column_: in the list table for posts.
176
177 ### Log In / Log Out
178
179 * **Change Login URL**. Make the login URL more memorable and secure by customizing it. [](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webASE Pro](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web) adds compatibility with login process during WooCommerce checkout.
180 * **Site Identity on Login Page**. Use the site icon and URL to replace the default WordPress logo with link to wordpress.org on the login page.
181 * **Log In/Out Menu**. Enable log in, log out and dynamic log in/out menu item for addition to any menu.
182 * **Last Login Column**. Log when users on the site last logged in and display the date and time in the users list table.
183 * **Redirect After Login / Logout**. Set custom redirect URL for all or some user roles after login / logout.
184
185 ### Custom Code
186
187 * **[[](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webPro](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web)] Code Snippets Manager**. Conveniently add and manage CSS, JS, HTML and PHP code snippets to modify your site's content, design, behaviour and functionalities
188 * **Custom Admin CSS**. Add custom CSS on all admin pages for all user roles.
189 * **Custom Frontend CSS**. Add custom CSS on all frontend pages for all user roles.
190 * **Insert <head>, <body> and <footer> Code**. Easily insert <meta>, <link>, <script> and <style> tags, Google Analytics, Tag Manager, AdSense, Ads Conversion and Optimize code, Facebook, TikTok and Twitter pixels, etc.
191 * **Custom Body Class**. Add custom <body> class(es) on the singular view of some or all public post types. Compatible with classes already added using [](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-custom-body-classCustom Body Class plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-custom-body-class](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-custom-body-class).
192 * **Manage ads.txt and app-ads.txt**. Easily edit and validate your ads.txt and app-ads.txt content.
193 * **Manage robots.txt**. Easily edit and validate your robots.txt content.
194
195 ### Disable Components
196
197 * **Disable Gutenberg**. Disable the Gutenberg block editor for some or all applicable post types. Optionally disable frontend block styles / CSS files for the selected post types.
198 * **Disable Block-Based Widgets Settings Screen**. Restores the classic widgets settings screen when using a classic (non-block) theme.
199 * **Disable Comments**. Disable comments for some or all public post types. When disabled, existing comments will also be hidden on the frontend.
200 * **Disable REST API**. Disable REST API access for non-authenticated users and remove URL traces from <head>, HTTP headers and WP RSD endpoint.
201 * **Disable Feeds**. Disable all RSS, Atom and RDF feeds. This includes feeds for posts, categories, tags, comments, authors and search. Also removes traces of feed URLs from <head>.
202 * **Disable All Updates**. Completely disable core, theme and plugin updates and auto-updates. Will also disable update checks, notices and emails.
203 * **Disable Smaller Components**. Prevent smaller components from running or loading. Make the site more secure, load slightly faster and be more optimized for crawling by search engines.
204 * Disable the **generator <meta> tag** in <head>, which discloses the WordPress version number. Older versions(s) might contain unpatched security loophole(s).
205 * Disable **version number** on static resource URLs referenced in <head>, which can disclose WordPress version number. Older versions(s) might contain unpatched security loophole(s).
206 * Disable the **Windows Live Writer (WLW) manifest <link> tag** in <head>. The WLW app was discontinued in 2017.
207 * Disable the **Really Simple Discovery (RSD) <link> tag** in <head>. It's not needed if your site is not using pingback or remote (XML-RPC) client to manage posts.
208 * Disable the default **WordPress shortlink <link> tag** in <head>. Ignored by search engines and has minimal practical use case. Usually, a dedicated shortlink plugin or service is preferred that allows for nice names in the short links and tracking of clicks when sharing the link on social media.
209 * Disable loading of **dashicons CSS and JS files** on the front-end for public site visitors.
210 * Disable **emoji support for pages, posts and custom post types** on the admin and frontend. The support is primarily useful for older browsers that do not have native support for it. Most modern browsers across different OSes and devices now have native support for it.
211 * Disable **jQuery Migrate** script on the frontend, which should no longer be needed if your site uses modern theme and plugins.
212
213 ### Security
214
215 * **Limit Login Attempts**. Prevent brute force attacks by limiting the number of failed login attempts allowed per IP address. [](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webASE Pro](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web) adds IP whitelisting, which is also useful to unblock users.
216 * **Obfuscate Author Slugs**. Obfuscate publicly exposed author page URLs that shows the user slugs / usernames, e.g. _sitename.com/author/username1/_ into _sitename.com/author/a6r5b8ytu9gp34bv/_, and output 404 errors for the original URLs. Also obfuscates in _/wp-json/wp/v2/users/_ REST API endpoint.
217 * **Email Address Obfuscator**. Obfuscate email address to prevent spam bots from harvesting them, but make it readable like a regular email address for human visitors. [](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webASE Pro](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web) enables shortcode option to output the email address as a mailto: link and also adds an option to auto-obfuscate email addresses found in post content.
218 * **Disable XML-RPC**. Protect your site from brute force, DOS and DDOS attacks via XML-RPC. Also disables trackbacks and pingbacks.
219
220 ### Optimizations
221
222 * **Image Upload Control**. Resize newly uploaded, large images to a smaller dimension and delete originally uploaded files. BMPs and non-transparent PNGs will be converted to JPGs and resized. [](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webASE Pro](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web) enables conversion to WebP instead of JPG and allow you to set custom conversion quality.
223 * **Revisions Control**. Prevent bloating the database by limiting the number of revisions to keep for some or all post types supporting revisions.
224 * **Heartbeat Control**. Modify the interval of the WordPress heartbeat API or disable it on admin pages, post creation/edit screens and/or the frontend. This will help reduce CPU load on the server.
225
226 ### Utilities
227
228 * **Email Delivery**. Set custom sender name and email. Optionally use external SMTP service to ensure notification and transactional emails from your site are being delivered to inboxes. Send a test email to check if configuration works as intended.
229 * **[[](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webPro](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web)] Local User Avatar**. Enable usage of any image from WordPress Media Library as user avatars.
230 * **Multiple User Roles**. Enable assignment of multiple roles during user account creation and editing. This maybe useful for working with roles not defined in WordPress core, e.g. from e-commerce or LMS plugins.
231 * **View Admin as Role**. View admin pages and the site (logged-in) as one of the non-administrator user roles.
232 * **Password Protection**. Password-protect the entire site to hide the content from public view and search engine bots / crawlers. Logged-in administrators can still access the site as usual. [](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webASE Pro](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web) adds IP whitelisting and bypassing via URL parameter.
233 * **Maintenance Mode**. Show a customizable maintenance page on the frontend while performing a brief maintenance to your site. Logged-in administrators can still view the site as usual. [](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webASE Pro](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web) adds option to use an image or a solid color as the background of the maintenance page.
234 * **Redirect 404 to Homepage**. Perform 301 (permanent) redirect to the homepage for all 404 (not found) pages.
235 * **Display System Summary**. Show quick summary of the system the site is running on to admins, in the "At a Glance" dashboard widget. This includes the web server software, the PHP version, and the database software.
236
237 Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) will include more enhancements, tweaks and useful features in future versions. Please [](https://bowo.io/feedback-asenhagive feedback](https://bowo.io/feedback-asenha](https://bowo.io/feedback-asenha) on must-have plugins or code snippets you enable on sites that you manage, and the functionalities will be considered for inclusion as well.
238
239 ### ASE Pro
240
241 **Pro version** with Lifetime Deal (LTD) is available at [](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webwww.wpase.com](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web).
242
243 ### Give Back
244
245 * [](https://bowo.io/asenha-rvw-dsc**A nice review**](https://bowo.io/asenha-rvw-dsc](https://bowo.io/asenha-rvw-dsc) would be great!
246 * [](https://bowo.io/asenha-fdbk-dsc**Give feedback**](https://bowo.io/asenha-fdbk-dsc](https://bowo.io/asenha-fdbk-dsc) and help improve future versions.
247 * [](https://bowo.io/asenha-trnslt-dsc**Help translate**](https://bowo.io/asenha-trnslt-dsc](https://bowo.io/asenha-trnslt-dsc) plugin description on this page into your language.
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249
250 ### Check These Out Too
251
252 * [](https://wordpress.org/plugins/system-dashboard/System Dashboard](https://wordpress.org/plugins/system-dashboard/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/system-dashboard/): Central dashboard to monitor various WordPress components, processes and data, including the server.
253 * [](https://wordpress.org/plugins/debug-log-manager/Debug Log Manager](https://wordpress.org/plugins/debug-log-manager/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/debug-log-manager/): Log PHP, database and JavaScript errors via WP_DEBUG with one click. Conveniently create, view, filter and clear the debug.log file.
254 * [](https://wordpress.org/plugins/variable-inspector/Variable Inspector](https://wordpress.org/plugins/variable-inspector/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/variable-inspector/): Inspect PHP variables on a central dashboard in wp-admin for convenient debugging.
255 * [](https://bowo.io/asenha-wpn-dscWordPress Newsboard](https://bowo.io/asenha-wpn-dsc](https://bowo.io/asenha-wpn-dsc): The latest news, articles, podcasts and videos from 100+ WordPress-focused sources.
256
257 ## Screenshots
258
259 1. Content Management
260 ![Content Management](.wordpress-org/screenshot-1.png)
261 2. Admin Interface
262 ![Admin Interface](.wordpress-org/screenshot-2.png)
263 3. Log In | Log Out
264 ![Log In | Log Out](.wordpress-org/screenshot-3.png)
265 4. Custom Code
266 ![Custom Code](.wordpress-org/screenshot-4.png)
267 5. Disable Components
268 ![Disable Components](.wordpress-org/screenshot-5.png)
269 6. Security
270 ![Security](.wordpress-org/screenshot-6.png)
271 7. Optimizations
272 ![Optimizations](.wordpress-org/screenshot-7.png)
273 8. Utilities
274 ![Utilities](.wordpress-org/screenshot-8.png)
275 9. Admin Menu Organizer module
276 ![Admin Menu Organizer module](.wordpress-org/screenshot-9.png)
277 10. Email Delivery module
278 ![Email Delivery module](.wordpress-org/screenshot-10.png)
279
280 ## Frequently Asked Questions
281
282 ### Why build this plugin?
283
284 Hoping that this is useful in reducing the number of plugins we install the first time we set up a site.
285
286 ## Changelog
287
288 **Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) v1.0.0** was released on October 17, 2022. Since then, there have been **61 _point_ releases** (e.g. 1.1.0 ) and **60 _patch_ releases** (e.g. 4.9.1).
289
290 Each **_point release_** usually corresponds with the addition of one new module/feature. Each module/feature usually is the equivalent of one (or more) single-purpose plugin. Each **_patch release_** usually contain one or more bugfix or improvements to existing modules/features.
291
292 [](https://www.wpase.com/chnlg-to-web**Upgrade to ASE Pro**](https://www.wpase.com/chnlg-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/chnlg-to-web) now. Lifetime Deal (LTD) available.
293
294 ### 6.2.3 (2023.12.07) - ASE Free and Pro
295
296 * **[ADDED][Pro] Security >> Limit Login Attempts >> IP Whitelist**: this should also be useful to unblock a user. Props to Vijayanand V. for the suggestion.
297
298 * **[ADDED][Pro] Utilities >> Password Protection**: added IP whitelisting and bypass via URL parameter. Useful for your team to easily view a dev site or providing easy access to clients when reviewing a dev site. Please see module description for details. Props to Alf O.F. for the suggestion to add IP whitelisting.
299
300 * **[FIXED][Free][Pro] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components >> Disable Emoji Support**: fixed PHP fatal error for an edge case where DNS prefetch of emoji URLs does not return a string. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhung/@tomhung](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhung/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhung/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uncaught-typeerror-strpos/reporting and providing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uncaught-typeerror-strpos/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uncaught-typeerror-strpos/) the code fix.
301
302 * **[FIXED][Free][Pro] ASE settings page**: fixed an issue where for some screen size, the main settings section is overlapping with the WP side menu. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvaer/@dvaer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvaer/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvaer/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wider-admin-menu-causes-overlap-of-ase-interface/reporting this](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wider-admin-menu-causes-overlap-of-ase-interface/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wider-admin-menu-causes-overlap-of-ase-interface/) and also providing the CSS fix for it.
303
304 ### 6.2.2.1 (2023.12.05) - ASE Pro
305
306 * **[IMPROVED][Pro] Utilities >> Maintenance Mode**: improve loading of dependencies on media library and color picker assets.
307
308 ### 6.2.2 (2023.12.05) - ASE Free and Pro
309
310 * **[ADDED][Pro] Utilities >> Maintenance Mode**: add an option to use an image as the page background. Props to Vijayanand V. for the suggestion. Using a solid color is also possible now. Please expect to see this module improved further in future releases.
311
312 * **[IMPROVED][PRO] Admin Interface >> Clean Up Admin Bar**: changed algorithm to detect newly added admin bar items, e.g. from theme, plugins or snippets, both on the backend and also the frontend. Props to Jan K. for suggesting the improvement and providing tips on how to achieve it.
313
314 * **[IMPROVED][Pro] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control**: transparent PNG will now be converted to transparent WebP. Props to Laurent F. for the suggestion.
315
316 * **[IMPROVED][Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types**: added description on where to find links to create CPTs, custom taxonomies and custom field groups, which are under the Settings menu.
317
318 * **[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Disable Components >> Disable XML-RPC**: improve code to ensure link to xmlrpc script in <head> is properly removed. Props to Dorel Y. for reporting the issue and suggesting a snippet to do that.
319
320 * **[FIXED][Pro] Missing 'Configure' link** in plugin action links on the Pro version, which may make it difficult for users to find the settings page for ASE if they've never used the free version before.
321
322 ### 6.2.1 (2023.12.01) - ASE Free and Pro
323
324 * **[ADDED][Pro] Security >> Obfuscate Email Address**: added the option to automatically obfuscate email addresses inside post content. Props to Dorel Y. for the suggestion.
325
326 * **[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Content Management >> Content Order**: for enabled post types, newly created posts will now be placed at the bottom of the order. This removes the need to manually order after post creation. Props to Bengt R. and Darius for identifying the issue with new posts ordering and suggesting the improvement.
327
328 * **[IMPROVED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager**: added Post Parent and Menu Order columns in the Default (columns) section for hierarchical post types or those supporting page attributes.
329
330 * **[IMPROVED][Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Groups**: tidy up the appearance of TinyMCE toolbar in the WYSIWYG custom field input.
331
332 * **[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Disable Components >> Disable Comments**: this should be more reliable now with improved application of the comments_array filter hook for post types where comments are being disabled. Props to Dorel Y. for reporting the issue with a theme used on their site.
333
334 * **[GRAMMAR][Free][Pro] Admin Interface - Enhance List Tables**: remove unneeded dots from the end of the list items. Props to Sridhar K. for spotting that.
335
336 * **[FIXED][Free][Pro] Optimizations >> Heartbeat Control**: fixed a PHP Warning when wp-cron.php is triggered. Props to Avi R. and Christian G. for reporting the issue.
337
338 * **[FIXED][Free][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: certain plugins, e.g. GigPress and MemberPress, has parent menu items that were not able to be organized by the AMO module. This should now be fixed. Props to Nadja V.M. and Dana S. for reporting the issue.
339
340 * **[FIXED][Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Groups**: fixed a missing JS file error when using the block editor and having a WYSIWYG custom field loaded.
341
342 ### 6.2.0 (2023.11.27) - ASE Free and Pro
343
344 * **[ADDED][Pro] Utilities >> Local User Avatar**: New module to enable usage of any image from WordPress Media Library as user avatars. Props to Florian B. for the suggestion.
345
346 * **[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Security >> Email Address Obfuscator**: improve module description with clearer examples of how to use the shortcode. Props to jh@ for the suggestion.
347
348 * **[IMPROVED][Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types >> Custom Field Groups**: image field input will now render the 'medium' size image as a preview in the post edit screen, preventing cropping of images that is better shown uncropped, e.g. brand logo. Props to Simon for providing detailed feedback on this.
349
350 * **[FIXED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager**: prevent duplication of WooCommerce taxonomy terms in the product categories and product tags columns. Props to Philippe G. and Florian B. for reporting the issue.
351
352 * **[FIXED][Free][Pro] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control**: fixed an issue where subsequently uploading files with the same filename will result in the last upload overwriting the earlier uploads, i.e. all uploads ended up with the same filename. This includes scenarios when such images are copy-pasted into the block editor. Props to Manu H. reporting the issue in detail and help with ongoing troubleshooting.
353
354 * **[FIXED][Pro] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control**: in some scenarios, the default WebP conversion quality of 82 is not automatically applied upon enabling it. It should now be properly applied. Props to Matija S. for spotting the issue.
355
356 ### 6.1.3 (2023.11.23) - ASE Free and Pro
357
358 * **[ADDED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Bar**: added a Pro feature to (also) hide the admin bar on the backend for some user roles, which maybe desirable for certain types of membership sites.
359
360 * **[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Utilities >> View Admin as Role**: added a floating button to the right-bottom corner of wp-admin pages when viewing as a non-admin user role. In addition to the switcher on the admin bar, this should make it easier to switch back to the administrator role.
361
362 * **[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Utilities >> View Admin as Role**: add a warning for sites that has Ninja Firewall active to uncheck "Block attempts to gain administrative privileges" when this module is enabled to prevent being locked out of the admin account. Props to C de Groot for reporting the issue and suggesting to add a warning.
363
364 * **[IMPROVED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager**: the "Manage Columns" button will now be visible only to administrators. Thanks to Claudio P. for reporting the issue where non-admins can see it and clicking on it produces error messages.
365
366 ### 6.1.2 (2023.11.21) - ASE Pro
367
368 * **[ADDED][Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager**: added a description field to each code snippet and a column for it in the list view. Props to Simon (and another user whom I can't figure out who, sorry!) for suggesting this.
369
370 * **[IMPROVED][Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager**: when Content Order is enabled for code snippets, the 'Order' submenu item will properly be positioned at the end.
371
372 * **[IMPROVED][Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager**: reduce FOUC (Flash of Unstyled Content) on the add new & edit screens of code snippets.
373
374 * **[FIXED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: fixed an issue where for certain group of submenu items are not shown when this module is enabled and/or when saving changes with the module enabled. For example, this happened with WooCommerce >> Analytics and FakerPress submenu items. Props to @ubuntuproductions for reporting the issue.
375
376 ### 6.1.1 (2023.11.17) - ASE Pro
377
378 * **[FIXED]Pro] Content Management >> Content Order**: fixed PHP warning for newly added option to use custom order on the frontend. Props to Thomas B. for reporting.
379
380 ### 6.1.0 (2023.11.17) - ASE Free and Pro
381
382 * **[ADDED][Pro] Content Management >> Content Order**: added option to use custom order on frontend query and display of enabled post types. This is done via the pre_get_posts hook for post type archive pages and on secondary queries.
383
384 * **[ADDED][Pro] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control**: you can now set the WebP conversion quality, between 1 to 100. Default has been increased from 80 to 82. Props to Istvan for suggesting the improvement after seeing artifacts on blurry parts of certain images when converted to WebP with the default quality settings.
385
386 * **[IMPROVED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager**: newly registered custom taxonomies will now immediately show up in the Admin Columns Manager screen. Previously, you'll need to reset the columns first. Props to Simon for reporting the issue when adding a custom taxonomy with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), leading to the improvement made.
387
388 * **[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: styling of WooCommerce separator has been improved to match the other separators.
389
390 * **[FIXED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: fixed a bug where opting to always hide a menu item does not properlly work. Also added special treatment for Yoast SEO menu item that can not be always hidden due to how it is showing a special menu item for editors. Props to Chris for reporting the issue and helping with troubleshooting.
391
392 * **[FIXED][Free][Pro] Security >> Email Address Obfuscator**: further fix for Firefox browser, to correctly show the human-readable email address to site visitors. Props to Mark G. for reporting the issue (again!).
393
394 * **[FIXED][Free][Pro] Content Management >> Content Duplication**: fixed an issue with CSS variables used in the block editor not being properly duplicated, thus breaking the style of the duplicate post. Props to Tim H. for reporting the issue when working with blocks from GenerateBlocks. Props to Sami M. for reporting the issue.
395
396 * **[FIXED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager**: fixed an issue where saving changes resulted in an error in the admin-ajax.php call when 5G / 6G firewall rules is enabled in All in One Security plugin. Props to Joko Z. for reporting the issue.
397
398 * **[FIXED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices**: fixed an issue where "an unexpected network error has occurred!" notice was shown in the admin notices panel despite no apparent network error occurring. Props to Sebastian A. for reporting this.
399
400 * **[FIXED][Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager**: fixed an issue where last modified date time is inaccurate. Props to Greg F. for reporting the issue and helping with troubleshooting.
401
402 ### 6.0.8.2 (2023.11.13) - ASE Pro
403
404 * **[IMPROVED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager**: Fix issues with Rank Math SEO admin columns. Ensure they are properly manageable with ASE while retaining bulk-editability, and prevent duplicate values from being shown. Props to Benjamin P. for reporting the issue with detail and screenshots.
405
406 ### 6.0.8.1 (2023.11.13) - ASE Free and Pro
407
408 * **[IMPROVED][Pro] Content Management >> Media Categories**: frontend CSS previously (also) loaded for public visitors will only be shown to logged-in users when they work with the media library in page builders.
409
410 * **[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Content Management >> External Permalinks**: completely remove jQuery dependency so it no longer loads on the frontend. Previously the frontend JS was improved to no longer use jQuery, but the dependency was still there. Props to David M. for reporting the issue as he was working on his site using Bricks builder and wanted to optimize page load time.
411
412 * **[IMPROVED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager**: Further improvement to the handling of custom columns from plugins, prompted by report from Paul R. of an issue with columns from WooCommerce Product Retailers plugin.
413
414
415 ### 6.0.8 (2023.11.12) - ASE Pro
416
417 * **[IMPROVED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager**: Improved handling for custom columns from plugins, e.g. SEO plugins like Yoast SEO, All in One SEO (AIOS), Rank Math SEO and SEOPress. There's now a dedicated "Extra" section on the admin columns management page/UI. There's also a "Reset Columns" button that will allow for restoring columns to the initial state and re-listing available default, extra and custom field columns to choose from. Props to Benjamin P. and Tim for reporting issues with Rank Math and SEOPress which prompted the improvement.
418
419 * **[FIX][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: Fixed an issue where submenu items could not be re-ordered. Props to Bruze Z. for reporting the issue with WooCommerce Products submenu items.
420
421 ### 6.0.7 (2023.11.10) - ASE Free and Pro
422
423 * **[FIX][Free][Pro] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components >> Disable Dashicons CSS and JS**: Fix for scenarios where a custom login URL is set with another plugin, e.g. All in One Security (AIOS), and disabling Dashicons will mess up the styling of that login page. Thanks to Aleš for reporting the issue.
424
425 * **[FIX][Free][Pro] Security >> Obfuscate Author Slugs**: Fixed PHP warning "Undefined array key SERVER_ADDR" in certain scenarios where server IP is not detectable via that PHP server global. Thanks to Marco M. for reporting.
426
427 * **[FIX][Free][Pro] Log In | Log Out >> Change Login URL**: Fix for password-protected pages getting redirected to the /not_found/ 404 page even after entering the correct password. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vanektomas/@vanektomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vanektomas/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vanektomas/) and [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netzzjd/@netzzjd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netzzjd/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netzzjd/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-change-login-url-if-its-enabled-and-set/reporting this](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-change-login-url-if-its-enabled-and-set/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-change-login-url-if-its-enabled-and-set/).
428
429 * **[FIX][Free][Pro] Utilities >> Display System Summary**: Fixed PHP fatal error when mysqli_connect() fails to connect to the database. Thanks to Diaz X. and Simon for reporting the issue.
430
431 * **[FIX][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager**: Fixed PHP Warning "non-numeric value encountered". Props to Elon R. for reporting the issue in detail.
432
433 ### 6.0.6 (2023.11.05) - ASE Free and Pro
434
435 * **[ADDED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager**: Horizontal scrolling on the posts list table is automatically enabled when there are columns using custom width in pixels that have the combined width greater than the width of the list table. This is especially useful for post types with many custom fields and you'd like to show many / most of them in the list table.
436
437 * **[IMPROVED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager**: Ensure custom columns are shown correctly in the posts list table after performing Quick Edit on a post. Props to Benjamin P. for reporting the issue.
438
439 * **[FIXED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager**: Fixed several PHP Warnings when custom fields have no value assigned yet for a post.
440
441 * **[FIXED][Free][Pro] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices**: Connection error notices were shown immediately after enabling this module, regardless of whether there was an actual connection error. It will now be properly hidden and only shown as needed. Props to Sebastian A. for reporting the issue.
442
443 * **[FIXED][Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types**: The WYSIWYG custom field will now correctly insert the media when using the Add Media button/UI.
444
445 * **[FIXED][Free][Pro] Security >> Email Address Obfuscator**: Fixed an issue with Firefox browser not correctly showing the human-readable version of the email. Props to Mark G. for reporting the issue with helpful screenshots.
446
447 ### 6.0.5.1 (2023.10.31) - ASE Free and Pro
448
449 * **[FIXED][Free][Pro] Log In | Log Out >> Change Login URL**: Fixed an issue where correct login redirects to /not_found/ after latest changes in v6.0.5. Props to Gustavo F. and Ignacio C. for reporting the issue.
450
451 ### 6.0.5 (2023.10.30) - ASE Free and Pro
452
453 * **[IMPROVED][Free][Pro] Log In | Log Out >> Change Login URL**: Redirection of /wp-login.php and /wp-admin/ to the 404 /not_found/ URL works more reliably now. Props to Gustavo F. for reporting the issue where those URLs were not properly redirecting to /not_found/ on his sites and ongoing help with troubleshooting it.
454
455 * **[FIXED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: Missing submenu items should now be shown in the admin menu, as well as ASE Pro settings page's sortables. i.e. the module should more reliably show submenu items now. Props to Bruce Z for reporting this for an ACF Pro CPT menu item which had missing submenu items on his site.
456
457 * **[FIXED][Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types**: Fixed a PHP Warning error. Props to Sam E.B. for reporting.
458
459 ### 6.0.4 (2023.10.26) - ASE Free and Pro
460
461 * **[IMPROVED][Free] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices**: Removed broad-sweeping CSS rules that unintentionally affected notices that were not supposed to be hidden into the admin notices panel. Props to Ingo R. for reporting the issue with MainWP site connection error notice being hidden on page load.
462
463 * **[IMPROVED][Free] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components >> Disable version number**: will now only remove version number from static assets in the public view (non-logged-in) of pages. Props to Ingo R for reporting that ACSS auto-BEM feature in Bricks was missing it's button in the structure panel, and was caused by version number being removed from static assets.
464
465 * **[FIXED][Free][Pro] PHP Deprecation notice in PHP 8.1:** which showed up when `null` was unintentionally passed into `preg_replace()` during the rendering of some ASE setting fields. Props to Stewart R. for reporting the issue.
466
467 * **[FIXED][Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer:** now correctly shows all submenu items. Props to Henry R. for reporting an issue where several of Elementor's 'Templates' menu's submenu items gone missing when this module was enabled.
468
469 ### 6.0.3 (2023.10.18) - ASE Free and Pro
470
471 * **[FIXED][Free] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices**: Plugin description and update success message will now remain visible after plugin update process is completed on the Plugins listing page.
472 * **[FIXED][Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager**: CSS fixes for the activate / deactivate / publish / update box on each snippet.
473 * **[FIXED][Free] Utilities >> Display System Summary**: CSS fix to ensure system summary is displayed in alignment with other elements in the At a Glance widget
474
475 ### 6.0.2 (2023.10.17) - ASE Pro
476
477 * **[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager**: Will now render the value of custom fields added using default WordPress UI/metabox for managing custom fields. This is rendered using [](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post_meta/`get_post_meta()`](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post_meta/](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post_meta/). Props to Upekkha for reporting it.
478
479 ### 6.0.1 (2023.10.13) - ASE Pro
480
481 * **[FIXED] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager**: PHP Warning: undefined variable. Props to Michael S.P. for reporting it.
482 * **[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager**: PHP Warning: undefined array key 0. Props to Sam for reporting it.
483 * **[FIXED] Content Management >> Custom Content Types**: PHP Deprecation: creation of dynamic properties. Props to Steven for reporting it.
484 * **[FIXED] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control**: .jpeg files will now properly be converted to .webp. Props to Julian S for reporting it.
485
486 ### 6.0.0 (2023.10.11)
487
488 * **[ADDED] Log In | Log Out >> Site Identity on Login Page**: Use the site icon and URL to replace the default WordPress logo with link to wordpress.org on the login page. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cooper08/@cooper08](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cooper08/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cooper08/) and [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/julians3/@julians3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/julians3/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/julians3/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-login-wp-logo/suggesting this](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-login-wp-logo/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-login-wp-logo/) along with the code snippet.
489
490 * **[Pro] The Pro version of ASE is here. Lifetime Deal (LTD) is available.** Find out more at [](https://www.wpase.com/chnlg-to-webwpase.com](https://www.wpase.com/chnlg-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/chnlg-to-web).
491
492 ### 5.8.1 (2023.10.05)
493
494 * **[FIXED] wp_die error message** when updating to v5.8.0. Thanks to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/verysiberian/@verysiberian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/verysiberian/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/verysiberian/) for the prompt and detailed [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wsod-on-all-sites-after-update/report](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wsod-on-all-sites-after-update/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wsod-on-all-sites-after-update/) and [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wrlkd/@wrlkd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wrlkd/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wrlkd/), [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rockwildaz/@rockwildaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rockwildaz/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rockwildaz/) and [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amnwtritaly/@amnwtritaly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amnwtritaly/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amnwtritaly/) for helping out with troubleshooting.
495
496 ### 5.8.0 (2023.10.05)
497
498 * **[ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components >> Disable version number**: You can now hide version number which by default is part of static resource (CSS/JS) URLs in the <head>. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cooper08/@cooper08](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cooper08/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cooper08/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-smaller-components/suggesting this](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-smaller-components/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-smaller-components/) along with the code snippet.
499
500 * **[ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components >> Disable jQuery Migrate**: You can now disable the jQuery Migrate script from loading on the frontend. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blueoaks/@blueoaks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blueoaks/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blueoaks/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-disable-jquery-migrate/suggesting this](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-disable-jquery-migrate/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-disable-jquery-migrate/).
501
502 * **[CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices**: This is now limited to site admins only. Editors, Authors and other user roles will see notices as usual.
503
504 * **[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices**: Notices under each plugin that has an update in the Plugins list page now shows up normally where it was previously missing/hidden when Hide Admin Notices is active. Thanks to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/venkeyaccent/@venkeyaccent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/venkeyaccent/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/venkeyaccent/), [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmdeck/@dmdeck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmdeck/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmdeck/) and [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/computerbuddha/@computerbuddha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/computerbuddha/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/computerbuddha/) for reporting this issue [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-hide-admin-notices/here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-hide-admin-notices/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-hide-admin-notices/) and [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-admin-notices-issue/here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-admin-notices-issue/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-admin-notices-issue/).
505
506 * **[IMPROVED] Admin Interface >> Wider Admin Menu**: Now works when wp-admin is in Right-to-Left (RTL) languages. Thanks to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mehdimoradi7172/@mehdimoradi7172](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mehdimoradi7172/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mehdimoradi7172/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wider-admin-menu-rtl-issue/reporting the issue](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wider-admin-menu-rtl-issue/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wider-admin-menu-rtl-issue/).
507
508 * **[IMPROVED] Log In | Log Out >> Change Login URL**: Default lost password URL no longer accessible directly and must now include custom login slug. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/banijadev/@banijadev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/banijadev/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/banijadev/) for discovering the issue and [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-support-hidden-lost-password-path/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-support-hidden-lost-password-path/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-support-hidden-lost-password-path/).
509
510 * **[IMPROVED] Content Management >> Media Replacement**: media-replace-frontend.css no longer loads for site visitors. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cvladan/@cvladan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cvladan/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cvladan/) for discovering the issue and [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dont-load-media-replace-frontend-css-on-frontend/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dont-load-media-replace-frontend-css-on-frontend/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dont-load-media-replace-frontend-css-on-frontend/).
511
512 * **[SECURITY] Utilities >> Password Protection**: Patched a bypass vulnerability disclosed responsibly by security researcher Abu Hurayra via Patchstack, regarding the authentication cookie. It now uses wp_hash_password() and wp_check_password().
513
514 ### 5.7.1 (2023.09.12)
515
516 * **[FIXED] Disable Components >> Disable Gutenberg**: Fixed PHP Warnings. Thanks to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ysintos/@ysintos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ysintos/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ysintos/) and [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ofmarconi/@ofmarconi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ofmarconi/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ofmarconi/) for reporting this issue [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unable-to-upload-images-after-last-update-5-7-0/here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unable-to-upload-images-after-last-update-5-7-0/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unable-to-upload-images-after-last-update-5-7-0/) and [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-class-disable-components-php-on-line-238/here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-class-disable-components-php-on-line-238/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-class-disable-components-php-on-line-238/).
517
518 * **[FIXED] Custom Code >> Custom Admin / Frontend CSS**: Fix for escaped symbols being output on inlined stylesheets. Thanks to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d4niwp/@d4niwp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d4niwp/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d4niwp/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-admin-and-frontend-css-selector-is-converted-into/reporting this](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-admin-and-frontend-css-selector-is-converted-into/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-admin-and-frontend-css-selector-is-converted-into/).
519
520 ### 5.7.0 (2023.08.30)
521
522 * **[NEW] Refreshed UI for ASE admin page.** This is largely based off of the UI/X design work generously provided by [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rinodeboer/@rinodeboer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rinodeboer/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rinodeboer/). Thanks so much Rino!
523
524 * **[IMPROVED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices:** Handle additional notices which appears on an admin pages that have been encapsulated inside an additional div, which is sometimes done by plugins that modifies a WP core admin screen.
525
526 * **[IMPROVED] Refactored admin-page.js**, the main js file used to build out ASE's admin page. It's tidier and smaller now.
527
528 * **[CHANGED] Move Enhance List Table module inside Admin Interface tab** and reorganize modules in that tab for better logical grouping / sequencing.
529
530 ### 5.6.2 (2023.08.25)
531
532 * **[FIXED] JS error in admin-page.js.** Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andyguzman/@andyguzman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andyguzman/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andyguzman/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avif-jquery-breaking-the-settings-page/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avif-jquery-breaking-the-settings-page/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avif-jquery-breaking-the-settings-page/).
533
534
535 ### 5.6.1 (2023.08.24)
536
537 * **[FIXED] Content Management >> Media Replacement**: Fixed PHP Warnings. Thanks to Marco for reporting this issue.
538
539 * **[IMPROVED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices**: Fixed missing commas in JS file to target certain notice divs. Notices no longer 'flash' briefly now before being hidden inside the notices panel. Thanks to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cvladan/@cvladan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cvladan/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cvladan/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conflict-with-another-plugin-suggestion/suggesting the fix](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conflict-with-another-plugin-suggestion/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conflict-with-another-plugin-suggestion/).
540
541 ### 5.6.0 (2023.08.14)
542
543 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Display System Summary**: Show quick summary of the system the site is running on to admins, in the "At a Glance" dashboard widget. This includes the web server software, the PHP version, and the database software. Props to Keith for suggesting this.
544
545 * **[IMPROVED] Security >> Limit Login Attempts**: Improve SQL query for creating the failed logins log table so it is more compatible with a wider range of DB setups.
546
547 ### 5.5.2 (2023.08.09)
548
549 * **[IMPROVED] Disable Components >> Disable Gutenberg**: default WP post types (wp_template, wp_template_part, wp_global_styles, wp_navigation) are now removed from the Disable Gutenberg settings.
550
551 * **[IMPROVED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: when a hidden menu item is selected, i.e. the admin page for it is being viewed, the menu item will now remain visible along with it's sub-menu items. This makes for a better UX overall, reducing back and forth clicks of the "Show All" toggle. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhung/@tomhung](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhung/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhung/) and [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvaer/@dvaer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvaer/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvaer/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-show-all-menu-stay-open-when-on-closed-menu-item/suggesting this](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-show-all-menu-stay-open-when-on-closed-menu-item/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-show-all-menu-stay-open-when-on-closed-menu-item/).
552
553 * **[IMPROVED] Disable Components >> Disable Feeds**: the /feed/ page now will properly return 403 Forbidden response. It was previously showing 500 error when a site is inspected with [](https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/Sucuri malware and security checker](https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/](https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/). The code changes for this was produced by ChatGTP via [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ofmarconi/@ofmarconi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ofmarconi/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ofmarconi/)'s [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sucuri-error-500-disable-feed/#post-16957833prompt](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sucuri-error-500-disable-feed/#post-16957833](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sucuri-error-500-disable-feed/#post-16957833) as part of his [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sucuri-error-500-disable-feed/detailed report and investigation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sucuri-error-500-disable-feed/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sucuri-error-500-disable-feed/) on the issue. Thank you!
554
555 * **In-Kind Sponsorship**: If anyone has spare license for [](https://generateblocks.com/pro/GenerateBlocks Pro](https://generateblocks.com/pro/](https://generateblocks.com/pro/), [](https://blockstudio.dev/Blockstudio](https://blockstudio.dev/](https://blockstudio.dev/), [](https://www.lazyblocks.com/Lazy Blocks](https://www.lazyblocks.com/](https://www.lazyblocks.com/), [](https://cubewp.com/CubeWP](https://cubewp.com/](https://cubewp.com/) and/or [](https://wsform.com/WS Form](https://wsform.com/](https://wsform.com/) that you'd like to donate to my test site for ASE, please [](https://bowo.ioget in touch](https://bowo.io](https://bowo.io). Thank you!
556
557 ### 5.5.1 (2023.08.07)
558
559 * **[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer:** some plugins register their menu item with a super-late priority, e.g. 10000, so, ASE can not organize them properly. Changes have been made to accommodate such scenario. Props to [](https://github.com/gd4web@gd4web](https://github.com/gd4web](https://github.com/gd4web) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/features-request-and-issue-reporting/reporting this](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/features-request-and-issue-reporting/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/features-request-and-issue-reporting/) in detail.
560
561 * **[FIXED] Content Management >> Content Order:** Fix for PHP errors that appear if a post type has been de-registered while content ordering is still enabled for it in ASE.
562
563 * **[FIXED] Security >> Limit Login Attempts:** Fixed an issue for when 'sql_require_primary_key' is set in the DB, e.g. managed MySQL DB in DigitalOccean, ASE would churn out "Attempt to create or modify table without primary key" error. Props to [](https://github.com/gd4webGreg Mount](https://github.com/gd4web](https://github.com/gd4web) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attempt-to-create-or-modify-table-without-primary-key/reporting this](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attempt-to-create-or-modify-table-without-primary-key/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attempt-to-create-or-modify-table-without-primary-key/) in great detail and suggesting the fix.
564
565 * **[IMPROVED] Disable Components >> Disable Comments:** Add filter to prevent anonymous comment via XML-RPC. Props to [](https://github.com/bzosel@bzosel](https://github.com/bzosel](https://github.com/bzosel) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-was-added-although-comments-disabled/reporting an issue with disabling comment](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-was-added-although-comments-disabled/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-was-added-although-comments-disabled/) that prompted this improvement.
566
567 * **[NEW MONTHLY SPONSOR] Thank you @maeonian for being a new monthly sponsor at USD 2 / month!** ASE is now at 6 of 10 of the monthly sponsors goal. It doesn't take much to sponsor ASE for the time and effort savings you may have gained by using it on your sites. You can [](https://github.com/sponsors/qriousladbe one](https://github.com/sponsors/qriouslad](https://github.com/sponsors/qriouslad) today!
568
569 ### 5.5.0 (2023.08.04)
570
571 * **[ADDED] Security >> Email Address Obfuscator**. Obfuscate email address to prevent spam bots from harvesting them, but make it readable like a regular email address for human visitors. Props to [](https://github.com/nassukesso@nassukesso](https://github.com/nassukesso](https://github.com/nassukesso) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-address-obfuscating/suggesting this feature](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-address-obfuscating/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-address-obfuscating/).
572
573 * **[FIXED] In some scenarios, ASE settings page only shows the category tabs while not showing any of the actual modules settings**. Props to John B. for reporting this and facilitating troubleshooting. He also kindly provided licenses to premium plugins on my test site, that will help with ASE development and maintenance in the future. If you have spare licenses for [](https://elementor.com/pro/~~Elementor Pro~~](https://elementor.com/pro/](https://elementor.com/pro/), [](https://wpspectra.com/pro/~~Spectra Pro~~](https://wpspectra.com/pro/](https://wpspectra.com/pro/), [](https://bricksbuilder.io/~~Bricks~~](https://bricksbuilder.io/](https://bricksbuilder.io/), [](https://cwicly.com/~~Cwicly~~](https://cwicly.com/](https://cwicly.com/) and/or [](https://crocoblock.com/plugins/jetengine/~~JetEngine~~](https://crocoblock.com/plugins/jetengine/](https://crocoblock.com/plugins/jetengine/) that you'd like to donate to my test site, please [](https://bowo.ioget in touch](https://bowo.io](https://bowo.io).
574
575 ### 5.4.1 (2023.07.31)
576
577 * **[Fixed] Security >> Limit Login Attempts**. Fixed an error on sites with older version of MySQL / MariaDB that caused the failure of DB table creation to be used to log failed login attempts. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kwsim539/Ken Sim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kwsim539/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kwsim539/) for [](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/issues/4reporting this](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/issues/4](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/issues/4) in great detail, which made it much easier to fix. Ken has also kindly became a [](https://github.com/sponsors/qriousladmonthly sponsor](https://github.com/sponsors/qriouslad](https://github.com/sponsors/qriouslad) of my work. Thanks Ken! I'm now at 5 of my initial goal of [](https://github.com/sponsors/qriousladgetting 10 monthly sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/qriouslad](https://github.com/sponsors/qriouslad). 🙂
578
579 * **[IMPROVED] Content Management >> Enhance List Tables >> Show featured image column:** will now replace the default product thumbnail column on WooCommerce product listing page, and no longer show both columns. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/studio84digital/@studio84digital](https://wordpress.org/support/users/studio84digital/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/studio84digital/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-featured-image-column-woocommerce/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-featured-image-column-woocommerce/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-featured-image-column-woocommerce/) on the [](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/admin-site-enhancements/support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/admin-site-enhancements/](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/admin-site-enhancements/).
580
581 ### 5.4.0 (2023.07.25)
582
583 * **[ADDED] Content Management >> Allow Custom Navigation Menu Items to Open in New Tab**. Allow custom navigation menu items to have links that open in new browser tab via target="\_blank" attribute. The rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" attribute will also be added for enhanced security and SEO benefits. Props to [](https://github.com/tomhung@tomhung](https://github.com/tomhung](https://github.com/tomhung) for [](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/issues/4suggesting this feature](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/issues/4](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/issues/4) and providing the [](https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2567854code snippet](https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2567854](https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2567854) to base it upon.
584
585 * Checked compatibility with WordPress v6.3 RC1
586
587 ### 5.3.2 (2023.07.15)
588
589 * **[FIXED] Disable Smaller Components >> Disable the generator meta tag:** fixed PHP fatal error in some scenarios for PHP v8.0+. Props to [](https://github.com/swissspidy@swissspidy](https://github.com/swissspidy](https://github.com/swissspidy) for [](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/issues/4reporting it](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/issues/4](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/issues/4) on Github.
590
591 * **[IMPROVED] Content Management >> External Permalinks:** removed jQuery dependency on the front-end in public.js. Replaced script with pure JS version churn out by ChatGPT which was prompted by Marco M.J. So, yes... first AI usage in ASE code. Pretty cool. 🙂
592
593 ### 5.3.1 (2023.07.14)
594
595 * **[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Disable Dashboard Widgets:** fixed PHP warning. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mohobook/@mohobook](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mohobook/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mohobook/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-error-media-replacement-not-working/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-error-media-replacement-not-working/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-error-media-replacement-not-working/).
596
597 * **[IMPROVED] Content Management >> Open All External Links in New Tab:** will now exclude relative URLs which points to internal URLs from being opened in a new tab. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/francismacomber/@francismacomber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/francismacomber/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/francismacomber/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/open-all-external-links-in-new-tab-misidentifies-relative-urls-as-external/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/open-all-external-links-in-new-tab-misidentifies-relative-urls-as-external/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/open-all-external-links-in-new-tab-misidentifies-relative-urls-as-external/).
598
599 ### 5.3.0 (2023.07.08)
600
601 * **[IMPROVED] Utilities >> Email Delivery**: You can now send a test email to verify if your custom sender name/email and SMTP configuration work as intended. Props to many users for suggesting this in the support forum [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-test-email-delivery/here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-test-email-delivery/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-test-email-delivery/), [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/test-smtp-email-delivery/here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/test-smtp-email-delivery/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/test-smtp-email-delivery/), [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smtp-email-delivery/here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smtp-email-delivery/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smtp-email-delivery/), [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/check-smtp-by-sending-an-email/here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/check-smtp-by-sending-an-email/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/check-smtp-by-sending-an-email/) and [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-add-a-test-option-for-smtp/here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-add-a-test-option-for-smtp/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-add-a-test-option-for-smtp/).
602
603 ### 5.2.11 (2023.07.05)
604
605 * **[IMPROVED] Utilities >> Password Protection** This will now also work on non-HTTPS sites. Props to Sascha for reporting the issue via the contact form at [](https://bowo.iobowo.io](https://bowo.io](https://bowo.io) and providing great detail about what was done to try and troubleshoot it, and later on found the root cause of the issue, which made fixing the issue much simpler.
606
607 ### 5.2.10 (2023.06.30)
608
609 * **[IMPROVED] Utilities >> Email Delivery** Custom sender name / email can now be set and enforced independent of delivery via external SMTP service/account. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lcwilson18/@lcwilson18](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lcwilson18/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lcwilson18/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smtp-email-delivery/suggesting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smtp-email-delivery/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smtp-email-delivery/).
610
611 ### 5.2.9 (2023.06.27)
612
613 * **[FIXED] Log In | Log Out >> Redirect After Login** will now correctly redirect to an internal wp-admin page, e.g. wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page (View All Pages). Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhung/@tomhung](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhung/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhung/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-after-login-wont-redirect-to-internal-page/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-after-login-wont-redirect-to-internal-page/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-after-login-wont-redirect-to-internal-page/).
614
615 ### 5.2.8 (2023.06.26)
616
617 * **[IMPROVED] Front-end public.js** will only be loaded if relevant modules that use it are enabled. Props to Martin M. for reporting the issue via the contact form at [](https://bowo.iobowo.io](https://bowo.io](https://bowo.io) and Maxime D. via Facebook message.
618
619 ### 5.2.7 (2023.06.26)
620
621 * **[FIXED] Custom Code**: Possible fix for CodeMirror (code editor) JS error caused by jQuery not being explicitly set as a dependency. When this happens, ASE's admin page is rendered blank / useless. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarah-haruel/@sarah-haruel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarah-haruel/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarah-haruel/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-and-site-enhancements-ase-disabled-when-slideshow-se-activated/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-and-site-enhancements-ase-disabled-when-slideshow-se-activated/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-and-site-enhancements-ase-disabled-when-slideshow-se-activated/).
622 * **[IMPROVED] Log In | Log Out >> Change Login URL**: Improve module description to avoid confusion with renaming the entire /wp-admin/ as opposed to renaming just the login URL. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/max-ziebell/Maz Ziebell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/max-ziebell/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/max-ziebell/) for the suggestion.
623 * **[FIXED] Disable Components >> Disable Gutenberg**: Fixed PHP warning when saving a CPT post where gutenberg has been disabled. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregmount/@gregmount](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregmount/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregmount/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-gutenberg-throws-php-warning/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-gutenberg-throws-php-warning/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-gutenberg-throws-php-warning/).
624 * **[ADDED] A dismissible Sponsorship / Rating / Feedback nudge/notice** has been added to ASE's admin page (only), which will appear after every 10 consecutive clicks of the "Save changes" button. This is a way to try and gain additional support for ASE's ongoing development and maintenance. I hope you don't mind. 🙂
625
626 ### 5.2.6 (2023.06.24)
627
628 * **[FIXED] Security >> Limit Login Attempts**: Fixed PHP warning issue. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomo55555/@tomo55555](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomo55555/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomo55555/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-error-reported/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-error-reported/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-error-reported/).
629
630 ### 5.2.5 (2023.06.22)
631
632 * **[FIXED] Utilities >> Password Protection**: Fixed the issue that causes the password protection form/page to have no styling after v5.2.4 patch release. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregmount/@gregmount](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregmount/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregmount/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/v5-2-4-breaks-styling-on-password-protection/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/v5-2-4-breaks-styling-on-password-protection/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/v5-2-4-breaks-styling-on-password-protection/).
633
634 ### 5.2.4 (2023.06.21)
635
636 * **[FIXED] Disable Components >> Disable Dashicons**: Fixed PHP warning when executing WP CLI commands. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhung/@tomhung](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhung/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhung/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-warning-strpos-empty-needle-2/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-warning-strpos-empty-needle-2/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-warning-strpos-empty-needle-2/).
637
638 * **[RESOLVED] Unable to Save Changes in ASE**: This is caused by plugin conflict which happens when [](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/WP STAGING - Backup Duplicator & Migration](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/) is active. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kilimats/@kilimats](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kilimats/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kilimats/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-save-14/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-save-14/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-save-14/) and to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allbutone/@allbutone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allbutone/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allbutone/) for liasing with the developer of WP Staging to [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-conflict-prevents-saving/fix things on their end](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-conflict-prevents-saving/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-conflict-prevents-saving/).
639
640 ### 5.2.3 (2023.06.18)
641
642 * **[FIXED] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control**: fixed a small code error that prevented image resizing from actually happening. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matija80/@matija80](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matija80/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matija80/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-upload-control-resizing-doesnt-work/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-upload-control-resizing-doesnt-work/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-upload-control-resizing-doesnt-work/).
643
644 * **[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Disable Dashboard Widgets**: fixed "array offset on value of type bool" error. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grizdev/@grizdev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grizdev/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grizdev/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-dashboard-widgets-produces-array-offset-on-value-of-type-bool-error/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-dashboard-widgets-produces-array-offset-on-value-of-type-bool-error/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-dashboard-widgets-produces-array-offset-on-value-of-type-bool-error/).
645
646 * **[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Wider Admin Menu**: fixed an issue where wider admin menu pushed WooCommerce page header content to shift right and be cut-off from the screen. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malaga16/@malaga16](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malaga16/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malaga16/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-menu-sidebar-custom-with-problem/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-menu-sidebar-custom-with-problem/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-menu-sidebar-custom-with-problem/).
647
648 * **[FIXED] Utilities >> Password Protection**: fixed PHP Warning. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregmount/@gregmount](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregmount/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregmount/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-warning-on-password-protected-login/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-warning-on-password-protected-login/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-warning-on-password-protected-login/).
649
650 ### 5.2.2 (2023.06.14)
651
652 * **[FIXED] Security >> Limit Login Attempts**: fixed redirection loop that happens when custom login URL is enabled and user has reached the allowed failed login attempts count. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allbutone/@allbutone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allbutone/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allbutone/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-limit-login-attempts/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-limit-login-attempts/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-limit-login-attempts/) and narrowing down the steps to replicate the issue reliably, which helps with troubleshooting.
653
654 ### 5.2.1 (2023.06.13)
655
656 * **[FIXED] Disable Components >> Disable Comments**: Fixed an issue where a JS alert saying "Are you sure you want to do this? The comment changes you made will be lost." popups when trying to update a page / post / post type where commenting has been disabled. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dagaloni/@dagaloni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dagaloni/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dagaloni/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/are-you-sure-you-want-to-to-this-popup-for-updateting-page/thoroughly reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/are-you-sure-you-want-to-to-this-popup-for-updateting-page/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/are-you-sure-you-want-to-to-this-popup-for-updateting-page/) with screenshots and steps to replicate the issue.
657
658 * **[FIXED] Utilities >> View Admin as Role**: Provide a simple and secure method to regain administrator access when something goes wrong while switching to non-administrator role. This occasionally happens when the login session ended and you're being logged out by the system. Instruction on how to regain administrator access has been added to the settings section for the module. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cebuss/@cebuss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cebuss/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cebuss/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-avoid-locking-people-out-of-their-site/thoroughly reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-avoid-locking-people-out-of-their-site/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-avoid-locking-people-out-of-their-site/) and providing a way to regain access via direct changes to the database.
659
660 * **[SECURITY] Utilities >> View Admin as Role**: Make sure only users performing role switching can access the role switcher admin bar menu. This ensures that non-administrator users logging in normally won't see the menu and prevent them from performing role switching.
661
662 ### 5.2.0 (2023.06.10)
663
664 * **[ADDED] Admin Interface >> Wider Admin Menu**. Give the admin menu more room to better accommodate wider items. Props to [](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dvaer/@dvaer](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dvaer/](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dvaer/) and [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kilimats/@kilimats](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kilimats/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kilimats/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-wider-admin-menu/suggesting this](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-wider-admin-menu/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-wider-admin-menu/).
665
666 ### 5.1.0 (2023.06.04)
667
668 * **[ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Block-Based Widgets Settings Screen**. Restores the classic widgets settings screen when using a classic (non-block) theme. Props to [](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ruralinfo/@ruralinfo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ruralinfo/](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ruralinfo/) and [](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dvaer/@dvaer](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dvaer/](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dvaer/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-disable-gutenberg-for-widget-page/suggesting this](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-disable-gutenberg-for-widget-page/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-disable-gutenberg-for-widget-page/).
669 * **[FIXED] UTILITIES >> SMTP Email Delivery**: fixed an issue where 'from' email is using WP default wordpress@site.com instead of the email defined in module settings. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scarlywebs/@scarlywebs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scarlywebs/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scarlywebs/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smtp-from-not-working/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smtp-from-not-working/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smtp-from-not-working/) and the continued help in testing.
670 * **[ENHANCED] UTILITIES >> SMTP Email Delivery**: added option to force the usage of the FROM name/email defined in module settings. [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smtp-from-not-working/#post-16762588Suggested](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smtp-from-not-working/#post-16762588](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smtp-from-not-working/#post-16762588) by [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scarlywebs/@scarlywebs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scarlywebs/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scarlywebs/).
671 * **[FIXED]** Custom, right-side footer text now only shows on the plugin's main settings page.
672
673 ### 5.0.2.4 (2023.06.01)
674
675 * **[FIXED] Utilities >> SMTP Email Delivery**: fixed an issue with encoding / decoding of stored password that prevented proper functioning of this module. **Please re-enter your password and save changes**.
676 * **[FIXED] Utilities >> Password Protection**: fixed an issue with encoding / decoding of stored password that prevented proper functioning of this module. **Please re-enter your password and save changes**.
677
678 ### 5.0.2.3 (2023.05.25)
679
680 * **[FIXED] Log In | Log Out >> Change Login URL**: URLs that start with the custom login slug no longer redirects to the login page. Props to [](https://profiles.wordpress.org/netzzjd/@netzzjd](https://profiles.wordpress.org/netzzjd/](https://profiles.wordpress.org/netzzjd/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-login-url-redirects/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-login-url-redirects/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-login-url-redirects/).
681
682 ### 5.0.2.2 (2023.05.24)
683
684 * **[FIXED] Log In | Log Out >> Change Login URL**: URLs for lost password flow, i.e. password reset flow, are now accessible when this module is enabled. It will no longer redirect to the not_found (404) page. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scarlywebs/@scarlywebs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scarlywebs/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scarlywebs/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-reset-url-link/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-reset-url-link/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-reset-url-link/) and help with testing all the way.
685
686 ### 5.0.2 (2023.05.09)
687
688 * **[FIXED] Utilities >> View Admin as Role**: is now only accessible / usable for administrators.
689 * **[ENHANCE] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: improved description and UI for better clarity.
690 * **[POLISH] General code polish** to resolve several PHP warnings.
691
692 ### 5.0.1 (2023.04.29)
693
694 * **[FIXED] WordPress Newsboard link in footer** showing up on all wp-admin pages. Now will only show up on the plugin's main page.
695
696 ### 5.0.0 (2023.04.29)
697
698 * **[ADDED] Content Management >> Content Order**. Enable custom ordering of various content types. Useful for displaying them in the desired order in wp-admin and on the frontend. e.g. projects, services, FAQs, team members, etc.
699 * **[FIXED] Utilities >> Password Protection**: Fix PHP Warning error. Props to [](https://github.com/cvladan@cvladan](https://github.com/cvladan](https://github.com/cvladan) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minor-php-warning/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minor-php-warning/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minor-php-warning/).
700 * **[CHANGED] Content Management >> Page and Post Duplication** module has been renamed to "Content Duplication".
701 * **[ADDED] Translate link** on plugin page's header and in the .org plugin description page. Please [](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/admin-site-enhancements/consider helping to translate](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/admin-site-enhancements/](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/admin-site-enhancements/) the plugin description (a.k.a. README). There are about 100 strings/sentences in it. This will help expand the reach of Admin and Site Enhancements into people who read/speak your language. Special props to [Angelika Reisiger
702 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/la-geek/), General Translation Editor for Deutsch (German) #de_DE, for tackling translation of the plugin description into [](https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/de/default/wp-plugins/admin-site-enhancements/German](https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/de/default/wp-plugins/admin-site-enhancements/](https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/de/default/wp-plugins/admin-site-enhancements/) and [](https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/de/formal/wp-plugins/admin-site-enhancements/German (formal)](https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/de/formal/wp-plugins/admin-site-enhancements/](https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/de/formal/wp-plugins/admin-site-enhancements/).
703 * **[ADDED] Link to [](https://bowo.io/asenha-wpn-dscWordPress Newsboard](https://bowo.io/asenha-wpn-dsc](https://bowo.io/asenha-wpn-dsc)** in plugin page's footer. This is another thing I created back in 2014 and is still working to aggregate the latest news, articles, tutorials, podcasts and videos from 100+ WordPress-centric sources.
704
705 ### 4.9.3 (2023.04.22)
706
707 * **[FIXED] Disable Components >> Disable REST API**: fix for error when trying to save edits in Gutenberg editor when Disable REST API module is turned on. Props to [](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexgraphicd/@alexgraphicd](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexgraphicd/](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexgraphicd/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-save-edits-to-posts-or-pages-when-rest-api-is-disabled/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-save-edits-to-posts-or-pages-when-rest-api-is-disabled/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-save-edits-to-posts-or-pages-when-rest-api-is-disabled/).
708
709 ### 4.9.2 (2023.04.22)
710
711 * **[FIXED] Disable Components >> Disable Comments**: fix for certain scenarios where comment form is still shown despite commenting being disabled on the post type. Props to [](https://profiles.wordpress.org/crazyserb/@crazyserb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/crazyserb/](https://profiles.wordpress.org/crazyserb/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-comments-functionality-doesnt-work-either/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-comments-functionality-doesnt-work-either/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-comments-functionality-doesnt-work-either/), providng temporary admin access, as well as screenshots to help with troubleshooting!
712
713 ### 4.9.1 (2023.04.19)
714
715 * **[ENHANCEMENT] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices**. LearnDash pages was showing up notices below header. This fix will now move them into the hidden, toggleable notices panel.
716
717 ### 4.9.0 (2023.04.16)
718
719 * **[ENHANCEMENT] Content Management >> External Permalinks**. The rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" attribute will now be added to external permalinks for enhanced security and SEO benefits.
720 * **[ADDED] Content Management >> Open All External Links in New Tab**. Force all links to external sites to open in new browser tab via target="\_blank" attribute. The rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" attribute will also be added for enhanced security and SEO benefits.
721
722 ### 4.8.3 (2023.04.15)
723
724 * **[FIXED] Content Management >> Content Duplication**: fixed isses when duplicating pages built with Oxygen and Bricks builder. May also solve similar issues with other page builders. Please try this on your page builder installation and report in the forum if you're still experiencing issues.
725
726 ### 4.8.2 (2023.04.03)
727
728 * **[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: fix for some menu items missing / being hidden in the menu item sortables. Props to [](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chrisplaneta/@chrisplaneta](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chrisplaneta/](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chrisplaneta/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-of-useful-features-works-without-problems/#post-16620272reporting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-of-useful-features-works-without-problems/#post-16620272](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-of-useful-features-works-without-problems/#post-16620272).
729
730 ### 4.8.1 (2023.04.03)
731
732 * **[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices**: now hides notices on some plugins' pages where an extra div exist above the notice divs.
733 * **[FIXED] Log In | Log Out >> Change Login URL**: fix an issue where sometimes successful login would redirect to /not_found/ URL.
734 * **[ENHANCEMENT] Content Management >> Media Replacement**: added browser cache busting via jQuery to ensure the new image is shown on the media/attachment edit page after performing replacement. Elsewhere on wp-admin and on the front end, a hard reload is still needed to flush out browser cache for the old image.
735
736 ### 4.8.0 (2023.04.02)
737
738 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Multiple User Roles**: Enable assignment of multiple roles during user account creation and editing. This maybe useful for working with roles not defined in WordPress core, e.g. from e-commerce or LMS plugins.
739
740
741 ### 4.7.4 (2023.03.05)
742
743 * **[ADDED] Content Management >> Enhance List Tables >> Show ID in Action Rows**: on the list tables for pages, all post types, all taxonomies, media, users and comments. Props to [](https://github.com/cvladan@cvladan](https://github.com/cvladan](https://github.com/cvladan) for the [](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/issues/2feature suggestion](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/issues/2](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/issues/2).
744
745 ### 4.7.3 (2023.03.03)
746
747 * **[FIXED] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control**: "Unexpected response" error in the media uploader when uploading non-JPG files.
748
749 ### 4.7.2 (2023.02.25)
750
751 * **[FIXED] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components >> Disable Emojis** now properly disables emojis in admin pages.
752
753 ### 4.7.1 (2023.02.24)
754
755 * **[CHANGED] Utilities >> Maintenance Mode**. When maintenance mode is enabled, an admin bar icon is shown as an indicator.
756 * **[CHANGED] Utilities >> Password Protection**. Change background color of admin bar status icon from green to red, to better indicate that the site is (currently) inaccessible to the general public.
757
758 ### 4.7.0 (2023.02.24)
759
760 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Maintenance Mode**. Show a customizable maintenance page on the frontend while performing a brief maintenance to your site. Logged-in administrators can still view the site as usual.
761 * **[CHANGED] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components >> Disable Dashicons CSS and JS** now excludes the login page. This ensures the login page CSS styles is correctly loaded.
762 * **[CHANGED] Utilities >> SMTP Email Delivery**. Slight improvement to copy/description for improved clarity.
763
764 ### 4.6.0 (2023.02.22)
765
766 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> SMTP Email Delivery**. Use external SMTP service to ensure notification and transactional emails from your site are being delivered to inboxes.
767
768 ### 4.5.0 (2023.02.17)
769
770 * **[ADDED] Admin Interface >> Clean Up Admin Bar >> Remove the Help tab and drawer**.
771 * **[ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components**. Prevent smaller components from running or loading. Make the site more secure and load slightly faster. This includes disabling the generator <meta> tag, the Windows Live Writer (WLW) manifest <link> tag, the Really Simple Discovery (RSD) <link> tag and the WordPress shortlink <link> tag in <head>, as well as disabling dashicons CSS and JS files for site visitors, and emoji support for pages, posts and custom post types.
772
773 ### 4.4.0 (2023.02.05)
774
775 * **[ADDED] Custom Code >> Custom Body Class**. Add custom <body> class(es) on the singular view of some or all public post types. Compatible with classes already added using [](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-custom-body-classCustom Body Class plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-custom-body-class](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-custom-body-class).
776
777 ### 4.3.1 (2023.02.05)
778
779 * **[CHANGED] Content Management >> Media Replace** option is no longer shown on the grid view of the media library. It will only show up on the attachment edit page which can be reached from both the list view via "Edit or Replace Media" link and the grid view media frame's "Edit more details" link.
780
781 ### 4.3.0 (2023.01.30)
782
783 * **[ADDED] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control**. Resize newly uploaded, large images to a smaller dimension and delete originally uploaded files. BMPs and non-transparent PNGs will be converted to JPGs and resized.
784 * **[CHANGED] Revisions Control** is now under the Optimizations category.
785 * **[CHANGED] View Admin as Role** is now under the Utilities category.
786 * **[CHANGED] Improve title of features** to be shorter and more consistent across categories.
787
788 ### 4.2.2 (2023.01.24)
789
790 * **[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Disable Dashboard Widgets**. Fixed a fatal error issue when there's a widget with priority 'high'. Props to [](https://profiles.wordpress.org/samirhp/@samirhp](https://profiles.wordpress.org/samirhp/](https://profiles.wordpress.org/samirhp/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-with-new-update-6/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-with-new-update-6/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-with-new-update-6/).
791
792 ### 4.2.1 (2023.01.23)
793
794 * **[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Disable Dashboard Widgets**. Fixed missing dashboard widgets list when first trying to activate the feature. Also fixes PHP fatal error when trying to view the dashboard when the feature is activated under such scenario. Props to [](https://profiles.wordpress.org/samirhp/@samirhp](https://profiles.wordpress.org/samirhp/](https://profiles.wordpress.org/samirhp/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-with-new-update-6/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-with-new-update-6/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-with-new-update-6/).
795
796 ### 4.2.0 (2023.01.23)
797
798 * **[ADDED] Admin Interface >> Disable Dashboard Widgets**. Clean up and speed up the dashboard by completely disabling some or all widgets. Disabled widgets won't load any assets nor show up under Screen Options.
799
800 ### 4.1.0 (2023.01.16)
801
802 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Enable Password Protection**. Password-protect the entire site to hide the content from public view and search engine bots / crawlers. Logged-in administrators can still access normally.
803
804 ### 4.0.1 (2023.01.12)
805
806 * **[FIXED] Content Management >> Enable SVG Upload**: Fixed a bug where uploaded, non-SVG media files does not have metadata generated when Enable SVG Upload is enabled.
807
808 ### 4.0.0 (2023.01.04)
809
810 * **[ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable All Updates**. Completely disable core, theme and plugin updates and auto-updates. Will also disable update checks, notices and emails.
811
812 ### 3.9.2 (2023.01.03)
813
814 * **[FIXED] Custom Code >> Manage robots.txt**. Fixed [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/undefine-variable-field_option_value/"Undefined variable" issue](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/undefine-variable-field_option_value/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/undefine-variable-field_option_value/) reported by [](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kwbrayton/kwbrayton](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kwbrayton/](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kwbrayton/). Also make this feature work on scenarios where an actual robots.txt file exists, not just the virtual one created by default, by WordPress. In such case, the robots.txt file will be renamed to robots_txt_backup_{timestamp}.txt when this feature is enabled. Vice versa, when the feature is disabled, the backup file will be renamed back to robots.txt, so it will be in use again as it were.
815
816 ### 3.9.1 (2022.12.29)
817
818 * **[FIXED] Content Management >> Enable External Permalinks**. Fixed an issue where default WordPress permalink for a post loads white, empty screen when no external permalink has been set for the post.
819
820 ### 3.9.0 (2022.12.29)
821
822 * **[ADDED] Content Management >> Enable External Permalinks**. Enable pages, posts and/or custom post types to have permalinks that point to external URLs. Compatible with links added using [](https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-links-to/Page Links To](https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-links-to/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-links-to/).
823
824 ### 3.8.0 (2022.12.27)
825
826 * **[ADDED] Optimizations >> Enable Heartbeat Control**. Modify the interval of the WordPress heartbeat API or disable it on admin pages, post creation/edit screens and/or the frontend. This will help reduce CPU load on the server.
827
828 ### 3.7.0 (2022.12.25)
829
830 * **[ADDED] Content Management >> Enable Revisions Control**. Prevent bloating the database by limiting the number of revisions to keep for some or all post types supporting revisions.
831
832 ### 3.6.1 (2022.12.22)
833
834 * **[CHANGED] Custom Code >> Manage robots.txt**. Fixed an issue where code editor was not rendered properly upon clicking the Custom Code tab.
835
836 ### 3.6.0 (2022.12.22)
837
838 * **[CHANGED] Added "Log In | Log Out" and "Custom Code" categories**. Recategorizes relevant features under these new categories.
839 * **[ADDED] Log In | Log Out >> Enable Last Login Column**. Log when users on the site last logged in and display the date and time in the users list table.
840
841 ### 3.5.0 (2022.12.19)
842
843 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Manage robots.txt**. Easily edit and validate your robots.txt content.
844
845 ### 3.4.0 (2022.12.16)
846
847 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Enable Log In/Out Menu**. Enable log in, log out and dynamic log in/out menu item for addition to any menu. Depending on the user's logged-in status, the menu item will show up, disappear or change.
848
849 ### 3.3.0 (2022.12.12)
850
851 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Insert <head>, <body> and <footer> Code**. Easily insert <meta>, <link>, <script> and <style> tags, Google Analytics, Tag Manager, AdSense, Ads Conversion and Optimize code, Facebook, TikTok and Twitter pixels, etc.
852 * **[CHANGED] Utilities >> Manage ads.txt and app-ads.txt** is now a single settings field.
853
854 ### 3.2.0 (2022.12.12)
855
856 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Manage ads.txt and app-ads.txt**: Easily edit and validate your ads.txt and app-ads.txt content. Please backup existing ads.txt and app-ads.txt content and remove those files before copying the original content into the ads.txt and app-ads.txt manager in the Utilities tab. If no ads.txt / app-ads.txt files exist in the root directory of your WordPress installation, you can immediately add content for both files.
857
858 ### 3.1.0 (2022.12.11)
859
860 * **[ADDED] Content Management >> Enable Auto-Publishing of Posts with Missed Schedule**: Trigger publishing of scheduled posts of all types marked with "missed schedule", anytime the site is visited. Uses Transients API to reduce load to the DB on busy sites. Will only query the DB once every 15 minutes (at most).
861
862 ### 3.0.6 (2022.12.08)
863
864 * **[CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: Enqueue jQuery UI widget.min.js for WP version less than 5.6.0. This ensures the feature works for those WP versions.
865
866 ### 3.0.5 (2022.12.08)
867
868 * **[CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: Enqueue the minified version of jQuery UI scripts, as older versions of WP do not have the unminified version.
869
870 ### 3.0.4 (2022.12.07)
871
872 * **[CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: Substantially lower priorities of actions that handles rendering of custom menu order, custom menu title and hiding of menu items. This is so that menu items added late by active plugins and theme are handled properly.
873
874 ### 3.0.3 (2022.12.07)
875
876 * **[CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: Make sure menu item sortables reflect custom menu order saved in options, especially when this feature is re-enabled. Remove all HTMl tags and content inside them from menu item titles in the sortables.
877
878 ### 3.0.2 (2022.12.07)
879
880 * **[CHANGED] Hide stubborn notices** appearing inside the admin page header (via CSS).
881
882 ### 3.0.1 (2022.12.01)
883
884 * **[CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: Make sure newer menu items added by newly installed plugins or activated theme are showing up towards the end of the admin menu and the menu item sortables. Comments and updates counters are now hidden. Sortables for menu separators have been faded out to make actual menu items stand out more.
885 * **[CHANGED] Disable Components >> Disable Comments**: Ensure trackbacks metabox is also hidden on edit screens of post types where commenting is disabled.
886
887 ### 3.0.0 (2022.11.30)
888
889 * **[ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Feeds**: Disable all RSS, Atom and RDF feeds. This includes feeds for posts, categories, tags, comments, authors and search. Also removes traces of feed URLs from <head>.
890
891
892 ### 2.9.0 (2022.11.30)
893
894 * **[ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable REST API**: Disable REST API access for non-authenticated users and remove URL traces from \<head\>, HTTP headers and WP RSD endpoint.
895
896 ### 2.8.3 (2022.11.29)
897
898 * **[CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: Fix for missing Show All toggle in certain scenarios.
899
900 ### 2.8.2 (2022.11.29)
901
902 * **[CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: Allow customizing menu item title, for menu items added by plugins or the active theme, i.e. not from WordPress core.
903
904 ### 2.8.1 (2022.11.28)
905
906 * **[CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: Fixed the issue when menu items are no longer shown upon saving. This happened when Admin Menu Organizer was enabled and directly saved without making any changes to the menu order first.
907
908 ### 2.8.0 (2022.11.28)
909
910 * **[ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Gutenberg**: Disable the Gutenberg block editor for some or all applicable post types. Optionally disable frontend block styles / CSS files for the selected post types.
911
912 ### 2.7.0 (2022.11.27)
913
914 * **[ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Comments**: Disable comments for some or all public post types. When disabled, existing comments will also be hidden on the frontend.
915 * **[CHANGED] Security >> Limit Login Attempts**: Improved styling of empty datatable, i.e. when there is no failed login attempts logged.
916 * **[CHANGED] Settings tab position** is now saved to browser cookie, so it persists upon saving changes or revisiting it from elsewhere in wp-admin.
917 * **[CHANGED] Some code refactoring** to make logical separation and categorization of features clearer. CodeMirror and DataTables assets loading are also moved
918
919 ### 2.6.0 (2022.11.19)
920
921 * **[ADDED] Content Management >> Enable SVG Upload**: Allow some or all user roles to upload SVG files, which will then be sanitized to keep things secure.
922
923 ### 2.5.0 (2022.11.18)
924
925 * **[ADDED] Security >> Limit Login Attempts**: Prevent brute force attacks by limiting the number of failed login attempts allowed per IP address.
926 * **[CHANGED] Security >> Custom Login URL** feature has been made compatible with Limit Login Attempts feature.
927 * **[CHANGED] Security >> Change Login URL** now works with the interim login modal window, the one that pops up when user is logged out in the background.
928 * **[CHANGED] Security >> Change Login URL** adds another process to ensure user is redirected to the dashboard after successful login. It was redirecting to the /not_found/ (404) page in rare occasions as [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-login-url-redirects-to-not-found/reported by @vdrover](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-login-url-redirects-to-not-found/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-login-url-redirects-to-not-found/).
929 * **[CHANGED] Utilities >> Redirect After Login** will correctly override default login redirection by Change Login URL.
930 * **[CHANGED] Improve code comments throughout**.
931
932 ### 2.4.0 (2022.11.10)
933
934 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Enable Custom Frontend CSS**: Add custom CSS on all frontend pages for all user roles.
935
936 ### 2.3.0 (2022.11.09)
937
938 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Enable Custom Admin CSS**: Add custom CSS on all admin pages for all user roles.
939
940 ### 2.2.0 (2022.11.09)
941
942 * **[ADDED] Security >> Disable XML-RPC**: Protect your site from brute force, DOS and DDOS attacks via XML-RPC. Also disables trackbacks and pingbacks.
943 * **[ADDED] Expand/collapse toggle** for feature settings that takes up longer vertical space, e.g. Admin Menu Customizer.
944 * **[CHANGED] Refactor code around plugin settings page**. Now uses separate classes for sections and fields registration, for sanitization of field values and for rendering the fields on the admin page.
945
946 ### 2.1.0 (2022.11.08)
947
948 * **[ADDED] Security >> Obfuscate Author Slugs**: Obfuscate publicly exposed author page URLs that shows the user slugs / usernames, e.g. _sitename.com/author/username1/_ into _sitename.com/author/a6r5b8ytu9gp34bv/_, and output 404 errors for the original URLs. Also obfuscates in _/wp-json/wp/v2/users/_ REST API endpoint. Props to [](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/pull/1pull request](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/pull/1](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/pull/1) from [](https://github.com/wahyuiefWahyu Arief @wahyuief](https://github.com/wahyuief](https://github.com/wahyuief) and [](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/smart-user-slug-hider/tags/4.0.2/inc/class-smart-user-slug-hider.phpfunctions](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/smart-user-slug-hider/tags/4.0.2/inc/class-smart-user-slug-hider.php](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/smart-user-slug-hider/tags/4.0.2/inc/class-smart-user-slug-hider.php) from [Smart User Slug Hider
949 ](https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-user-slug-hider/).
950
951 ### 2.0.0 (2022.11.06)
952
953 * **[ADDED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: Customize the order of the admin menu and optionally hide some items.
954
955 ### 1.9.0 (2022.11.03)
956
957 * **[ADDED] Admin Interface >> Hide or Modify Elements**: Easily simplify or customize various admin UI elements, starting with the admin bar.
958 * **[CHANGED] Content Management >> Enhance List Tables**: this combines previously separate features related to list tables for various post types.
959
960 ### 1.8.0 (2022.11.03)
961
962 * **[ADDED] Admin Interface >> View Admin as Role**: View admin pages and the site (logged-in) as one of the non-administrator user roles.
963
964 ### 1.7.0 (2022.10.31)
965
966 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Redirect 404 to Homepage**: Perform 301 (permanent) redirect to the homepage for all 404 (not found) pages.
967
968 ### 1.6.0 (2022.10.31)
969
970 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Redirect After Logout**: Set custom redirect URL for all or some user roles after logout.
971
972 ### 1.5.0 (2022.10.30)
973
974 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Redirect After Login**: Set custom redirect URL for all or some user roles after login.
975
976 ### 1.4.0 (2022.10.30)
977
978 * **[ADDED] Security >> Change Login URL**: allow for setting a custom login URL to improve site security.
979
980 ### 1.3.0 (2022.10.29)
981
982 * **[ADDED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Bar**: Hide it on the front end for all or some user roles.
983
984 ### 1.2.0 (2022.10.28)
985
986 * **[ADDED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices**: Clean up admin pages by moving notices into a separate panel easily accessible via the admin bar.
987
988 ### 1.1.0 (2022.10.22)
989
990 * **[ADDED] Content Management >> Enable Media Replacement**: Enable easy replacement of any type of media file with a new one while retaining the existing media ID and file name.
991
992 ### 1.0.0 (2022.10.17)
993
994 * Initial stable release.