What's New in SureDash

We’ve released an important update that addresses a security issue reported responsibly by the Wordfence team. We sincerely appreciate their responsible disclosure and collaboration in helping us keep SureDash secure.

We strongly recommend updating to the latest version as soon as possible to ensure your website remains protected.

Core Changelog

• Fix: This update addressed a security bug. Props to Wordfence for reporting it responsibly to our team. Please make sure you are using the latest version on your website.

This release focuses on making everyday community interactions more seamless while giving developers greater flexibility to extend SureDash. Members can now access notifications more quickly on mobile, and the onboarding experience has been refined to help new communities get started with ease.

For developers, SureDash Pro introduces new hooks and helper functions to manage member points and badges programmatically, making it easier to build custom gamification workflows and integrations. We’ve also improved the experience for dripped content by clearly indicating when lessons and spaces are scheduled to unlock.

Core Changelog

• Improvement: On mobile, the bottom bar notification bell now opens your notifications in a popup right above the bar instead of loading a separate page, matching the in-place Search and Post overlays. The active bottom bar tab is also highlighted.
• Improvement: Polished the onboarding flow with interface and behavior refinements and updated starter space templates.
• Fix: Fixed errors that could occur when liking a post or adding a comment.
• Fix: Fixed plural labels for lessons, quizzes, threads, and modules so their spacing and wording stay correct in translated languages.

Premium Changelog

• Improvement: Added developer hooks and helper functions to award or deduct member points and assign or revoke badges, plus a filter to customize the points awarded for reactions.
• Improvement: Improved support for dripped (scheduled) content. Dripping lessons and spaces now appear locked with a clock icon until they become available, instead of showing as unlocked or with a generic lock icon.

Keeping your community secure is one of our highest priorities. SureDash Core 1.10.2 is a maintenance release that fixes a responsibly disclosed security issue affecting your community and its content.

We recommend updating to this version as soon as you can. No other action is needed on your side once the update is complete.

Thanks to Patchstack for reporting this issue responsibly to our team.

Core Changelog

• Fix: Resolved a security issue. Reported responsibly by Patchstack.

We’ve released an important update that addresses a security issue reported responsibly by the Wordfence team. We sincerely appreciate their responsible disclosure and collaboration in helping us keep SureDash secure.

We strongly recommend updating to the latest version as soon as possible to ensure your website remains protected.

Core Changelog

• Fix: This update addressed a security bug. Props to Wordfence for reporting it responsibly to our team. Please make sure you are using the latest version on your website.

Managing member access should be simple, predictable, and secure. This SureDash update makes content restrictions work more accurately across your community and makes it much easier to bring your existing LearnDash courses into SureDash.

SureDash now fully supports SureMembers Exceptions. This means specific lessons, events, resources, or discussions can stay open to everyone, even when a broader restriction is applied to the rest of your portal or content type. You get more flexibility to share select content publicly, without changing your overall access rules, and it works exactly the way SureMembers behaves on the rest of your site.

For example, you can keep a full learning portal restricted to paying members, but still make one introductory lesson or welcome resource open to everyone. Or you can share a public event or discussion to attract new members, without opening up the rest of your premium content.

We’ve also reworked how SureDash checks SureMembers’ access across community spaces, listings, and notifications. Restricted content now shows up clearly as locked cards with a helpful message, and access is checked more accurately everywhere on the platform, so each member only sees what they’re actually allowed to see.

On the Premium side, SureDash now supports LearnDash Course Migration. You can bring your existing LearnDash courses, including lessons and quizzes, straight into SureDash. Whether you’re moving to SureDash for a better community learning experience or just consolidating your course platform, this makes the switch much easier.

Core Changelog

• New: SureDash now fully supports SureMembers Exceptions (excluded content). When you exclude a lesson, event, resource, or discussion from a Membership, it now stays open to everyone, even when a broader portal-wide or content-type restriction applies. This matches how SureMembers already behaves across the rest of your site.
• Improvement: Reworked how SureDash checks SureMembers restrictions across every community space, listing, and piece of sub-content. Restricted items now show up as locked cards with a clear access message, and access is re-checked correctly wherever content appears.
• Improvement: Tightened access checks so notification emails and community listings check each recipient’s SureMembers access individually. Restricted post titles and excerpts now only show to members who are allowed to see them.
• Improvement: The user picker in widget settings now supports type-ahead search, so finding and selecting members is faster.
• Fix: The member “since” date now follows your site’s date format and locale, instead of a fixed format.
• Fix: Fixed icon alignment on the Login form fields.
• Important: This release significantly improves how SureDash follows SureMembers access rules. If you use SureMembers to restrict community content, we recommend reviewing your locked spaces, lessons, and posts once after updating, just to confirm the right content is visible and any Exceptions you’ve set up are working as expected. [Read more]

Premium Changelog

• New: Added the ability to migrate existing LearnDash courses, including their lessons and quizzes, into SureDash. [Read more]
• Improvement: Locked lessons now respect community-wide restrictions in course listings, hiding or locking sub-content a member isn’t allowed to access.
• Improvement: Tightened security around user notifications, so reply, comment, and mention emails respect each recipient’s SureMembers access to the referenced post.

Communities work best when everyone can read and write comfortably in their own language. SureDash Core 1.9.4 adds automatic right-to-left (RTL) support for languages like Arabic, Hebrew, and Urdu. Posts, comments, and the editor now display in the correct direction on their own, with no manual setup needed.

This means members can write naturally in their own language, even in posts that mix English with an RTL language. Whether you run an online course, a customer community, or a multilingual membership site, this makes the experience feel native for every member.

Alongside RTL support, we’ve also refreshed the WordPress Abilities (MCP) settings screen for a cleaner setup and strengthened security around community interactions and notification emails to better handle permission edge cases.

We’ve also fixed a few bugs in feeds, comments, profile navigation, and avatars, so things feel smoother overall.

Core Changelog

• Improvement: Added automatic text direction support so right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Urdu display and align correctly in posts, comments, and the editor.
• Improvement: Refreshed the WordPress Abilities (MCP) settings interface for a cleaner configuration experience.
• Improvement: Strengthened security and access controls across community interactions and notification emails to better handle edge cases and safeguard restricted content.
• Fix: Fixed an issue where feeds with pinned posts could show empty pages or stop loading more posts while scrolling.
• Fix: Fixed comment pages not loading correctly on individual posts.
• Fix: Fixed the Profile block navigation menu not applying its horizontal layout and sticky position on the frontend.
• Fix: Fixed avatar images not keeping their correct dimensions in the profile overlay.

Learning becomes more effective when members can apply what they have learned, test their understanding, and track their progress. With the latest SureDash Pro update, courses now become more interactive with the introduction of Quizzes.

Course creators can now add quizzes directly into their course content, giving learners a way to reinforce concepts and check their knowledge as they move through lessons. Whether you’re running an online academy, employee training program, certification course, or a community-based learning platform, quizzes help transform passive learning into an engaging experience.

For example, an instructor teaching a marketing course can add a quiz after a module on SEO strategies to help learners validate their understanding before moving ahead. Similarly, businesses can use quizzes in training programs to ensure team members have absorbed important processes and information.

Along with quizzes, admins now get better visibility into course performance with the new Course Analytics tab. This helps course creators understand member progress, monitor learning activity, and gain insights into how their courses are performing. Together, these improvements make it easier to create engaging courses while gaining a clearer picture of the learner journey.

Core Changelog

• Improvement: Improved navigation speed by prefetching portal links on deliberate hover, so pages load faster.
• Improvement: Enhanced the WordPress Abilities integration with clearer descriptions and consistent naming, while keeping older configurations supported for backward compatibility.
• Fix: Fixed an issue in the Course editor where a section could be dragged into another section’s lesson list, where it appeared as a blank lesson that could not be deleted.

Premium Changelog

• New: Introduced Quizzes for courses. Admins can add quizzes to course content, and members can take them as part of their learning. (Read more)
• Improvement: Refined event call-to-action buttons and badge styling on the event page.
• Improvement: Clarified the abilities integration API documentation. Space ID is now described as the WordPress post ID.

This SureDash update focuses on helping creators launch faster, run better events, and deliver a smoother experience for members.

The biggest improvements in this release are around events. Members can now add events directly to Google Calendar, Outlook, or Apple Calendar-compatible apps, making it easier to stay updated and improving attendance for webinars, coaching calls, workshops, and community sessions.

We’ve also improved event management with support for end dates and end times, along with host and location details to give members clearer event information before joining.

Alongside events, onboarding has been significantly improved with AI-powered and preset-based portal creation, helping users set up a complete portal in just a few minutes. We’ve also included improvements for Breakdance compatibility and cleaner excerpt formatting across portal content.

Smarter Event Experience for Members

Events are now more practical and user-friendly for both creators and members.

Members can quickly add events to:

• Google Calendar
• Outlook
• Apple Calendar and other apps using .ics downloads

This is especially useful for communities running:

• Live coaching sessions
• Webinars
• Workshops
• Office hours
• Member meetups

We’ve also added:

• Event end date and end time support
• Event host details
• Flexible location options:
  • In-person
  • Online
  • To be announced

These improvements help members better understand event schedules and reduce confusion around attendance. https://suredash.com/docs/suredash-events-updates/

Faster AI-Powered Portal Setup

Getting started with SureDash is now much faster.

The new onboarding flow uses AI-powered and preset-based portal creation to help users build structured portals in just a few minutes instead of setting everything up manually.

This is especially helpful for:

• Course creators
• Membership communities
• Client portals
• Coaching businesses

Core Changelog

• New: Revamped the onboarding experience with AI-powered and preset-based portal creation, allowing users to set up their portal in just a few minutes.
• Improvement: Added Breakdance compatibility for the “Disable theme” option to prevent portal styling issues.
• Improvement: Enhanced excerpt handling to improve formatting and avoid unexpected text spacing issues.

Premium Changelog

• New: Added “Add to Calendar” for events — members can add an event to Google Calendar, Outlook, or download an .ics file for Apple Calendar and other apps.
• New: Events now support an explicit end date and end time, in addition to the start time.
• New: Added an event “Host” field and event location options (in-person address, online, or to be announced), shown on the event page.

This update includes a series of improvements and fixes across SureMembers Core and SureMembers Pro aimed at enhancing the overall user experience, improving compatibility, and refining platform functionality.

We’ve made several refinements to the search and portal experience, improved support for newer functionality, and addressed issues related to content visibility, navigation behavior, and embedded content rendering.

This release also includes updates aligned with the new SureMembers Core and Pro architecture, helping create a more polished and reliable experience across the platform.

As always, we’ll continue improving SureMembers with ongoing enhancements, stability updates, and new capabilities in future releases.

Core Changelog

• Improvement: Refined the SureMembers integration UI to reference the free SureMembers Core plugin instead of the premium version.
• Improvement: Refined the Search results with cleaner space result cards, and mobile dismiss button.
• Fix: Tightened access control in Search so results respect post and comment visibility — hidden or restricted content no longer appears.
• Fix: Fixed an issue where portal links — including the mobile bottom navigation (Notifications, Profile) and social login redirects — did not update after changing the portal URL slug.
• Fix: Resolved an issue where iframe embed code was not rendering properly inside community posts.

Premium Changelog

• Fix: Search now respects course and space restrictions, so restricted lessons and other protected sub-content no longer appear in results or tab counts.
• Fix: The course “Back to Portal” link now respects a customized portal URL slug.

We’re excited to roll out another powerful SureDash update focused on improving navigation, search experience, and community management inside your portal.

Whether you’re building a client portal, online community, course platform, or membership hub, these new improvements help make your portal feel more professional, organised, and easier to manage.

🔗 Create Cleaner & More Brand-Friendly Portal URLs

You can now customise portal endpoint slugs directly from the new Advanced Settings tab.

This gives admins full control over portal URLs, helping create cleaner and more branded navigation experiences for members.

Example Use Cases

• Change /bookmarks to /saved
• Rename /leaderboard to /community-ranking
• Create more client-friendly URLs for branded portals
• Match your organisation’s terminology and structure

This is especially useful for agencies, course creators, and membership communities who want a more polished and fully white-labeled experience.

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🔍 Redesigned Search Experience with Better Categorisation

The Search modal has received a major UI and UX upgrade.

Search results are now presented in a cleaner, more modern interface with improved categorisation and easier navigation — helping users quickly find discussions, courses, lessons, resources, events, and more.

Why This Matters

As your portal grows, finding content quickly becomes critical.

With the improved search experience:

• Members can discover content faster
• Communities become easier to navigate
• Course portals feel more organised
• Users spend less time searching and more time engaging

The updated design also delivers a smoother and more intuitive experience across devices.

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📩 Get Notified When Members Create New Posts

Portal admins and managers can now receive email notifications whenever a community member creates a new post.

Perfect For

• Moderating community discussions faster
• Keeping portal managers informed
• Responding quickly to member activity
• Monitoring engagement in active communities

This makes it much easier to stay connected with what’s happening inside your portal without constantly checking manually.

Core Changelog

• New: Added an Advanced settings tab to customise URL slugs for portal endpoints for cleaner, more brand-friendly URLs.
• New: Enhanced the Search modal with a modernised UI, improved functionality, and better categorised results for a smoother and more intuitive user experience.
• New: Added an option to notify admins and portal managers via email when community members create a new post.

Premium Changelog

• Improvement: Extended support for custom portal endpoints.
• Improvement: Extended support for the new search UI modal functionality.