Change Logs

Check our changelogs below to see how frequently our plugins are updated! We practice customer-driven development, so if there’s something you want to see in our plugins come tell us about it on our Discord server!

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Every release of every plugin, newest first. Pick a plugin above for its full changelog.

90 releases without an exact date are not listed here; each plugin’s own changelog still has them.

Scalability Pro 4.84 12 July 2022

Added new index on wp_posts (post_title) – discovered this is required for Smart Coupons to stay scalable on large websites. Covered in this article: https://www.wpintense.com/2022/07/07/how-to-use-query-monitor-to-analyse-wordpress-performance-problems/
Fixed bug which was constantly showing that 1 more index is required to be created if you don't have WP All Import installed (we add 5 indexes for WPAI)

Scalability Pro 4.84 in its changelog

External Images 2.73 8 July 2022

Update to fix broken image on Affiliate Coupons plugin when External Images was activated. This may fix other plugins if they also requested thumbnails in the same way. https://www.wpintense.com/question/external-images-doesnt-work-with-affiliate-coupons-plugin/

External Images 2.73 in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 4.14 Beta 7 July 2022

Fixed attributes with enable archives so that they obey the SEO rules for max total attributes and max values per attribute
Added beginnings of experimental option for showing single variations as an option – e.g. users will be able to choose if a specific attribute is filtered on that the individual variations for THAT attribute should be shown (typically colour)

Super Speedy Filters 4.14 Beta in its changelog

External Images 2.72 2 July 2022

Fixed missing call to defines.php – this meant the new option was behaving like it was always on, as well as producing an error. If the previous version fixed your featured image appearing in the gallery, and this version does not, please see the info in the previous versions readme about updating your wp-config.php file

External Images 2.72 in its changelog

External Images 2.71 1 July 2022

Fixed issue with external image URLs not being produced correctly in wp-admin pages – e.g. in edit product attributes, if you were using external images here the preview was not working
Added new definition – add define('EI_ADD_FEATURED_IMAGE_TO_GALLERY', true); to wp-config.php if you have a theme which excludes the featured image from your gallery
Altered the Image Quick Fix setting so that it only affects archive pages – a user had reported this working to fix archives, but at same time breaking detail page
Updated JS script to load based on version 2.71 (was previously reloading JS every time)

External Images 2.71 in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 4.13 Beta 29 June 2022

Fixed warning about missing option 'stockcheck_variations' – now checks properly for existence before trying to access
Fixed Existing filters admin form – clear text and clear search text fields now properly display after save – they were saving, and displaying properly on front end, but the widget form was not showing the changes
Fixed issue with thumbnail removal on edit terms page – it was removing before if you hit save, but this was not being shown visually
Added tie-breaker to orderby clauses – tie breaker of ordering by ID eliminates possibility of subsequent loads of same pages showing different results. This can also present as if there are duplicates on page 2 etc if the order changed.

Super Speedy Filters 4.13 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 4.12 Beta 15 June 2022

Fixed inline filters bug on Elementor builder and probably other visual builders when previewing since there is no global $product

Super Speedy Filters 4.12 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 4.11 Beta 14 June 2022

Fixed Link class hasUsableFilters to treat stock check properly – only returns true if user has applied a filter to change the default for stock check. This fixes some cases when SSF was adjusting breadcrumbs/titles when it shouldn't.
Fixed active filters so sorting does not display the active filters.
Fixed range filter bug that wasn't allowing the slider to extend past 100
Fixed range filter bug for step – was not being applied in JavaScript

Super Speedy Filters 4.11 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 4.10 Beta 8 June 2022

Fixed Popout button so it doesn't move items below it, i.e. it now popsout OVER the content, doesn't push content down
Added hover effect to lists to alter background colour slightly (not checkboxes or radios or labels)
Updated on sale filter to include new advanced options including popover group titles etc
Fixed button above archive to show labels left to right in float
Removed reference to taxorder for building query for tax filters – it now just uses getFilters()
Removed use of WHERE EXISTS for tax queries, now using INNER JOIN – found if > 5 WHERE EXISTS, it causes massive statistics jobs to run on certain MySQL configs!
Added new shortcode [ssf_inline_filters] which admins can put onto any page where a global $product variable exists, e.g. product detail page, and it will display the inline filters there too rather than just on the archive pages
Fixed postmeta range html dropdown – JS was missing to spot the range dropdown being changed. Added to spot this and change URL to the value of the dropdown.
Added new option for 'Above products' widget area – you can now choose to hide the filters in this widget area behind a button only on small screens < 720px

Super Speedy Filters 4.10 Beta in its changelog

Scalability Pro 4.83 7 June 2022

Added optimisation for sites with lots of media files – two expensive queries that occur on every page load of wp-admin are now cached for 1 day. These queries just fetch the month/year for available media files. On client site with 300,000 products and related media, this eliminates 10s from wp-admin.
Added optimisation for WooCommerce onboarding where they continuously check for existence of something in the database, but for some reason they sort the results. I removed the sort operation to make this return instantly, no need for caching. On foundthru, this eliminates 70s from wp-admin.
Added optimisation for bulk editing items – now defer term counting is switched off for bulk editing – may potentially add further optimisations here – e.g. to queue up actions added to save_post such as third-party server based stuff like CRM, email, updating stock on Amazon etc

Scalability Pro 4.83 in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 4.09 Beta 7 June 2022

Fixed Attribute image selector to allow users to choose images for an attribute – was broken by my speed boost from 4.07. The speed boost has now been correctly applied into Scalability Pro to cache the media query.
Fixed highlighting of selected items in filters – was broken in 4.07. This also fixes moving these items to the top if you choose that option in the filter.
Fixed hiding Custom Range boxes (e.g. hide custom price boxes) – was a CSS issue

Super Speedy Filters 4.09 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 4.08 Beta 5 June 2022

Extra update for import fix – eliminated another call to the rebuild ancestors table

Super Speedy Filters 4.08 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 4.07 Beta 5 June 2022

Speed boost for wp-admin – found unused code to enqueue_media files which on sites with many media files was slowing down admin
Speed boost for imports – no more need to run table rebuild after wp all import run, tables are maintained, if users switch off do_action calls in wp all import, there is a function you should call to rebuild our tables after the import has been completed: fww_recalc_terms_after_wpallimport();

Super Speedy Filters 4.07 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 4.06 Beta 2 June 2022

Bug fix for flat taxonomy URL rewrites pagination

Super Speedy Filters 4.06 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 4.05 Beta 1 June 2022

Meta filters now work properly at /shop/ level, but my advice is to HIDE meta filters (advanced widget options) until at least a category has been selected for performance reasons. I will improve meta-filtering speed further in future.
Added missing translation texts to Existing Filters for 'in stock' text and 'on sale' text
Reworked URL rewrites – now it distinguishes between hierarchical taxonomies and flat taxonomies. If hierarchical, no need for extra rewrite rule since an open-ended rewrite already exists. (if you set to use our template, you can still override this).
Fixed bug with multiselect expand and the new wp-config optimisation when SSF_OPTIMISE_TAX_QUERIES set true
Fixed issue with price range or other meta ranges involving decimals, it now correctly takes into account the decimal. Previously if you set maxprice 10, it would include items priced at 10.90 etc, now it must be 10.00 or less.
Added filter dependency to all postmeta filters – e.g. don't show price filter until product_cat is selected
Disabled broken SSF_ISSUE_404_FOR_MISSING_URL_TERMS option – if you set this true in wp-config.php it will currently have no effect until a future fix
Fixed issue with narrow multiselect product counts – now product counts correctly reflect how many items will be shown if you narrow on this filter further

Super Speedy Filters 4.05 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 4.04 Beta 30 May 2022

Performance boost for URL Rewrites – makes a big difference on sites with numerous taxonomies and now correctly works by default with two taxonomies in place

Super Speedy Filters 4.04 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 4.03 Beta 30 May 2022

Fixed error occurring if no taxonomies exist – not sure how this can occur, but added code to prevent an error
Fixed some other warnings that happen when settings not yet initialised

Super Speedy Filters 4.03 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 4.02 Beta 30 May 2022

Fixed fatal error occurring with new users when no options were created yet

Super Speedy Filters 4.02 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 4.01 Beta 28 May 2022

Added meta param name config to settings page – once you save a meta filter, new parameters will be listed in settings where you can configure them
Re-added ability to rename URL parameters for attributes/taxonomy URL parameters (not for slugs, those can be renamed in normal permalink way)
Made existing price filters extend new range filter class – old price filter configs will be carried over, now with new options available from new range filter
Added new define SSF_LOAD_BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY_CSS – if you set this in wp-config.php to true, we will load the old Faster Woo Widgets CSS in addition to the new SSF CSS
Added new define SSF_MAKE_INLINE_FILTERS_DO_FOLLOW – if you set this true in wp-config, inline filters will all be DO FOLLOW links
Changed all CSS/JS to have proper version number attached rather than fetching fresh JS/CSS every page

Super Speedy Filters 4.01 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 4.00 Beta 25 May 2022

Added new define SSF_ISSUE_404_FOR_MISSING_URL_TERMS to check URL terms (not parameters) for existence, and if any don't exist, issue 404

Super Speedy Filters 4.00 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 3.99 Beta 25 May 2022

Fixed image inline filters so that if an image does not yet exist, it will use the term name instead

Super Speedy Filters 3.99 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 3.98 Beta 25 May 2022

Fixed broken dropdown option – not many people use this, but still some may – the HTML for it had been broken. Most people are using containers to create better looking options, but this HTML select/option dropdown is now fixed
Added bolding through class in JS to selected dropdowns – adding the class through JS allows the filter to be re-used in its entirety on certain pages
Fixed bug with Object Cache and caching 'remove filter' link – this is now handled completely through JavaScript. Previously, if the first page visited was /shop/ then afterards visiting /product-category/dogs/ and then clicking dogs in the filter would have kept user on the dogs page. It now correctly removes the dogs term while still being cacheable.

Super Speedy Filters 3.98 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 3.97 Beta 25 May 2022

Added new define to remove default sort order from main query (only if no URL sort parameter exists)
Added new define to remove catalog visibility check from tax/attribute filters
Added extra optimisation under SSF_OPTIMISE_TAX_QUERIES definition to handle stock check for main query
Optimised tax filter stock check (simple stock check) to use the bitflag on object_ancestors
Added bold font-weight to 'chosen' items in lists

Super Speedy Filters 3.97 Beta in its changelog

Scalability Pro 4.82 23 May 2022

Improved Optimise Group BY option so that it applies far more often and changes the query to SELECT DISTINCT instead of select X, …., GROUP BY posts.ID

Scalability Pro 4.82 in its changelog