This update focuses on security improvements along with a fix for the email notification.
This update improves layout flexibility and consistency across SureDash Core and Pro, including enhanced sidebar behavior, refined container spacing, and better feed context visibility. It also includes important fixes related to layout styling, event date display, Google OAuth permissions, and password validation to improve stability and user experience.
Continued improvements to deliver a smoother and more dependable experience.
Your community portal just got a major upgrade. With SureDash 1.6.0, we’re bringing you powerful new tools to create cohesive experiences, boost member engagement, and deliver content with precision, whether you’re running a small mastermind or a thriving membership empire.
A Unified Portal Experience
The new Portal Layout Template extends your branded portal experience beyond community spaces to every page on your site. Posts, custom post types, and standard WordPress content now inherit the same consistent styling, no more jarring transitions between your portal and the rest of your site. This means when members navigate from a discussion thread to a blog post or landing page, they stay immersed in your brand. For site owners, this eliminates hours of custom CSS work trying to make everything match.
Smarter Space Navigation
Navigating complex communities just got easier. The Space Sidebar provides quick access to relevant sections within any space, helping members find what they need without endless clicking. Discussion spaces now display unread post counts, so users never miss important conversations. These seemingly small touches add up to a dramatically improved user experience, especially for active communities where staying on top of discussions matters.
Leaderboards & Gamification
Turn engagement into a game. The new Leaderboard system lets you showcase top contributors and incentivize participation through user levels, a proven way to keep communities active and thriving. Whether you want to reward course completion, discussion participation, or resource downloads, leaderboards tap into intrinsic motivation that keeps members coming back.
Targeted Post Visibility
Not every message needs to reach everyone. With Targeted Post Visibility, you can restrict posts to specific users or SureMembers Access Groups. Perfect for coaching calls, VIP announcements, cohort-specific updates, or tiered content delivery. This feature alone transforms how you think about community segmentation, no more creating separate spaces for every subgroup.
Custom SVG Uploads
Your brand, your icons. Premium users can now upload custom SVGs to the Icon Library, extending beyond the default set to match your unique visual identity. Whether it’s custom category icons, branded navigation elements, or unique space identifiers, you have complete creative control.
Deeper SureMembers Integration
We’ve strengthened our SureMembers integration with two powerful additions:
This creates a seamless onboarding flow where new members land in exactly the right spaces from day one.
Polish & Stability
This release also brings thoughtful refinements: separated upload limits for profile and cover images give you finer control over asset management. Portal notifications now redirect directly to relevant comments instead of just the post. We’ve eliminated the dark mode flicker on page load, fixed social login button spacing, and resolved emoji selector issues on the frontend. ACSS compatibility improvements mean SureDash plays nicely with more WordPress setups out of the box.
Ready to level up your community?
Update to SureDash 1.6.0 today to unlock these powerful new features. Core users get the Portal Layout Template and Space Sidebar immediately. Ready for leaderboards, targeted visibility, and advanced integrations? Upgrade to SureDash Premium and transform your community into an engagement powerhouse.
Your members are waiting, give them the experience they deserve.
This update delivers multiple improvements along with important bug fixes across discussions, portals, localization, and integrations.
We’ve rolled out a new update with important fixes and improvements, including full compatibility with WordPress 6.9. This release focuses on compatibility updates, better user experience in the portal, and resolving a few reported issues. Here’s what’s included:
In the latest SureDash 1.5.0 release, we released many new features, improvements. If you missed that changelog, refer to it here.
With this Core + Premium release, we are providing stability fixes to run your portal smoothly.
Core Fixes:
We are super excited to announce that SureDash 1.5.0 introduces several new features designed to enhance how communities interact and manage content.
With a brand-new notifications system, keep your community engaged by notifying them of course completion, event announcements, post updates, and other triggers.
In this release, we are taking a step towards gamification with User Badges, let your community members gain badges & highlight them on their profile.
Another major thing from this update is a dedicated app-like layout we named “Application Layout”. This will bring a modern & techy touch to your community. Feel the difference on desktop+responsive views.
There are other new things as well, so let’s jump directly to the detailed changes:
Our most-awaited integration is now ready with OttoKit. Now, you can effortlessly connect your portal with OttoKit to get a full suite of tools to help you manage your portal through automations.
As SureDash is a WordPress plugin, you can easily manage a couple of things with OttoKit-WordPress Integration, but with this SureDash update, we are announcing that dedicated integration is live now, and the automation triggers list can grow continuously. Learn more about this integration from here.
Apart from this, we have some bug report fixes rolling out to make your portal experience smoother. Let’s have a look at the changelog points:
