What's new in SureDash

With the new release of SureDash 1.3.2, we are introducing some new features, improvements, and compatibility enhancements as requested by you.

Here is the entire changelog for this release. Let’s dive in:

Core Changelog

• New: Login Block – Added a centralized Form Texts section in the block for easier customization of all text options, including new texts for lost password and reset forms.
• New: Added Breakdance page builder compatibility for SureDash Spaces.
• New: Introduced an option to remove the uploaded profile photo.
• Improvement: Portal managers’ validation now only allows users with administrator or editor roles.
• Improvement: Refined the space creation modal for a better user experience.
• Improvement: Commenting options dropdown UI updated for better user experience.
• Improvement: Displaying all user comments in the user detail view. Previously, only a limited number of comments were shown.
• Improvement: Introduced ‘suredash_community_post_slug’ and ‘suredash_community_content_slug’ filters for updating URL slug for SureDash Posts and Community Content, respectively.
• Fix: When a SureDash user role user tags someone, the mentioned user’s name is not getting highlighted.
• Fix: Fixed Breakdance conflicts with SureDash portal routes.
• Fix: Browser tab title now shows correct page names for Profile and Bookmarks pages instead of “Portal Space – SureDash”.
• Fix: Portal Identity Block – When elements’ visibility is set to both as “Title + Logo”, then the title is not visible on the frontend.
• Tweak: Mentioned user tag highlight color was not linked to the global color palette.

Premium Changelog

• New: Introduced a custom extended media uploader for the resource library.
• Fix: Course thumbnail images look broken in the course overview page, in rare cases.
• Fix: Single lesson-resource view content is still visible even if it is restricted by the SureMembers plugin.
• Fix: Collection Space’s item link leads 404 error when the WP admin URL is customized.

In the upcoming 1.4.0 release, we are excited to introduce the Events Space feature, allowing you to manage & showcase your events to your community members. Stay tuned with us!

In the recent release of SureDash 1.3.0, we delivered a new Resource Library Space feature. Please get to know more about it from here.

Here are the changelog points mentioned for reference about this supportive release:

Core Changelog

• Improvement: Color Switcher block added by default to Classic and Modern portal patterns.
• Improvement: Post dates are now displayed in the relative time format (e.g., “2 days ago”, “2 weeks ago”) for better readability.
• Improvement: On user’s view page, posts are now shown in reverse chronological order.
• Fix: After instant update from 1.2 to 1.3 the post submit button is not visible on the discussion posts.

Premium Changelog

• Improvement: Refined the resource quick view popup UI, when a resource post having resource links but without any content.
• Fix: PHP error: Uncaught Error: SureDashboardPro\Inc\Utils\Resources\Attachment::replace_attachment_image_src(): Argument #2 ($attachment_id) must be of type int, string given.
• Fix: PHP error: Having conflict with cache plugin while setting up resource posts for Resource Library space.
• Fix: Restore the course details section to the course index page for improved utilisation of the space editor.
• Fix: When the default color mode is Dark, the lesson-resource post editor content is not visible.
• Fix: Resources post’s featured image is missing on the frontend layout.
• Tweak: Bookmarks trigger appears for logged-in users only.
• Tweak: Course – Responsive view of the lesson page now appears with minimal header layout.
• Tweak: Resource name and other details UI improved inthe resource quick view popup.
• Tweak: Resource history items will now open in a new browser tab.

We’re thrilled to announce that the 1.3.0 release of SureDash has been rolled out with a brand new Resource Library space type, Colour Switcher block, Intuitive Course Layout, and so many new things & improvements.

👉 For existing users, there are some compatibility cases mentioned here. Make sure to take a look.

Now, let’s see the detailed points for this update:

Core Changelog

• New: Compatibility of Resource Library Space with the SureDash premium plugin. (https://suredash.com/docs/setup-resource-library/)
• New: Introducing the Default Colour Palette, Light-Dark Colours setting under the Customize Portal. (https://suredash.com/docs/global-color-palette-explained/)
• New: Introducing Colour Switcher block to allow user to switch between light and dark color modes. (https://suredash.com/docs/fix-global-color-palette-missing-message/)
• New: Introducing “Enable Like & Share Buttons” space-level option to control the visibility of like and share buttons for a frontend space view.
• New: Introducing “Custom CSS” settings in the dashboard to allow users to add custom CSS for the portal.
• New: Added “Show Hidden Spaces” option in the dashboard, allowing users to restore spaces they previously hid for a cleaner and more concise listing view.
• New: Introduced a new Feeds Icon for the Feeds Page in the side navigation.
• Improvement: Adjusted the entire portal with SureDash default colours for better consistency with light-dark modes.
• Improvement: Updated the single post/page space editor flow fora better user experience.
• Improvement: Excluded portal login & registration pages from WordPress home page display settings to avoid conflict.
• Improvement: Introduced new filters ‘suredashboard_uploads_base’, ‘suredash_user_avatar_markup’, ‘suredash_inserting_default_post_status’ for better customization.
• Improvement: Updated responsive side navigation icon for a better visual experience.
• Fix: Bricks Compatibility – Themify, Font Awesome icon showing broken on the space frontend view.
• Fix: Link Space – Resolved 404 error when opening Link Space in a new tab from the admin dashboard.
• Fix: Notifications – New registered users are getting notifications since the beginning of the portal instead of the registered date.
• Fix: Elementor Pro compatibility: Page transitions causes user logout issue when visiting profile or bookmarks sub-page.
• Fix: Resolved issue where newly uploaded Profile Photo and Cover Image were not showing correctly.
• Fix: Reset password emails now correctly use the updated login page slug/URL instead of always defaulting to portal-login.
• Fix: PHP Error – “Uncaught TypeError: array_key_exists(): Argument #2 ($array) must be of type array, bool given”.
• Fix: Single post preview and portal content now correctly use space-specific layout settings instead of global layout settings.
• Fix: Modern Layout – Notification count showing double count.
• Tweak: Removed bookmark icon for Space for non-logged-in users.
• Tweak: Improved the dynamic tags drag-drop behaviour to copy the shorthand properties flow.
• Tweak: Smoothen the Portal manager selection & removal workflow from User Roles settings.

Premium Changelog

• New: Introducing the Resource space type to add and showcase resources effectively. (https://suredash.com/docs/setup-resource-library/)
• New: Improved the new course layout for a better user experience.
• New: Introducing Hidden Space additional settings to control space visibility as per access group ruleset.
• New: Link Space – Introducing Hidden Space options to have a hidden link space and use further in the collection space.

In the last SureDash 1.2.0 release, we rolled out the new Collection Space feature. Read more about it here.

With this 1.2.1 update, we are addressing some quick bug fixes for better compatibility & improving stability. Here are the key points listed:

Core Changelog

• Improvement: Default Reset Password mail template updated with the new {{password_reset_url}} variable.
• Fix: Removing “Space Thumbnail Image” still be visible in the space collection frontend.
• Fix: Opened image Lightbox able to scrolls beneath portal view.
• Fix: “Login to Contribute” CTA notice visible for non logged-in users even if post comments are disabled.
• Fix: User Profile – Updating profile from the portal frontend fails due to a console error.
• Fix: SureCart Compatibility – Customer dashboard areas are not rendering for ‘SureDash User’ role users.
• Fix: Kadence Compatibility – Global theme palette vars not loading on the portal frontend.

We’re excited to introduce Collection Spaces in SureDash 1.2.0! This new space type lets you showcase your spaces in Grid, List, or Stacked layouts – perfect for creating organised hubs or an all-courses space for your community members.

We’ve also enhanced comment management with new controls for copying URLs, editing, and deleting comments, giving you better control over your community discussions.

Also, this update addresses security & code quality enhancements. Make sure to keep your SureDash portals up-to-date.

Core Changelog

• New: Introducing “Copy URL” functionality for comments, allowing users to easily copy the URL of a specific comment.
• New: Introducing “Edit” functionality for comments, allowing users to edit the comment.
• New: Introducing “Delete” functionality for comments, allowing users to delete their own comments.
• New: Compatibility of Collection Space with the SureDash premium plugin. (https://suredash.com/docs/create-collection-space/)
• Improvement: The flow of space creation and setting up has been improved with better user experience.
• Improved codebase with best coding practices.
• Improvement: Separated the Space Title & Space Icon fields in the Space creation flow for better user experience.
• Improvement: Duplicated space name for Posts Discussion space type is restricted for avoiding same forum name conflicting issue.
• Fix: Compatibility for Presto Player for their future update to fix paginated posts with media blocks are not rendering properly on the frontend.
• Fix: Comments separator line not appearing properly in continuous comment threads.
• Fix: Duplicated SureDash post falls under the last paginated page of the post list.
• Fix: Google GSI login not working properly in the SureDash Login/Register block.
• Fix: Portal spaces & community content’s post comments are not appearing under the user profile view.
• Fix: Hidden space creation notification is suppressed.
• Fix: SureDash capability user unable to upload image/video from comment box.
• Fix: Query Monitor shows “Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly” error.
• Tweak: Updated “Failed to Save” error message when non portal-manager user tries to save the space settings.
• Tweak: A portal-manager user is deleted from the WordPress user list, then this user is removed from the portal manager list.
• This update addressed a security bug. Props to PatchStack for reporting it responsibly to our team. Please make sure you are using the latest version on your website.

Premium Changelog

• New: Introducing Collection Space integration to group and display multiple spaces together. (https://suredash.com/docs/create-collection-space/)
• New: Introduced Lesson Completed & Lesson Upcoming labels for better course management.
• Improvement: Added padlock navigation indicator if the lesson or entire course is protected.
• Improved codebase with best coding practices.

SureDash v1.1.0 brings new features, including Hidden Spaces, role-based user filters, and reset password support. It also improves performance, refines user experience.

Core Changelog

• New: Introducing “User Roles” filter for Users table in the admin dashboard to filter users based on their roles.
• New: Introduced “Override WordPress Registration Setting” option in the Login/Registration settings to allow registration even if the WordPress registration is disabled.
• New: Introduced new keyboard shortcut (CTRL+S / CMD+S) to save the space editor & space group settings.
• New: Added lost-password & reset-password support for the SureDash Login block.
• Improvement: Added better validation notices for images upload in the frontend post editor if image size exceeds the limit.
• Improvement: Introduced “Link” option for Reset Password email template setting to allow users to put a custom links in the email.
• Improvement: Refactored the code for dashboard app icon library for better performance.
• Improvement: Added support for searching posts and pages by their ID in the single space post search.
• Improvement: Improvised the flow of user profile form updating and saving process with better user experience.
• Improvement: Optimized dashboard application performance for better user experience with improved codebase.
• Fix: SureForms form CPT posts getting listed in single space post search results.
• Fix: Kadence compatibility: The scroll to top buttons appear weirdly on the portal frontend.
• Fix: Profile’s Save button isn’t working on Safari browser.
• This update addressed a security bug. Props to PatchStack for reporting it responsibly to our team. Please make sure you are using the latest version on your website.

Premium Changelog

• New: Introducing “Hidden Space” feature to hide the space from the public view.
• New: Introduced bulk selection option for course lessons to manage bulk lessons comments effectively.
• Improvement: Course – Only one course section expands at a time on the overview page to help users stay focused and manage long lists better.

We are releasing some quick fixes for SureDash, both free and pro, to improve stability. Here are those listed:

Core Changelog

• Improvement: Added settings notice for Login/Registration page if site’s User Registration is disabled.
• Fix: Profile photo’s “Upload” button wraps to the next line with word wrap.
• Fix: Like & Share buttons getting hidden if comments disabled for the single space.
• Fix: GIF posting always come aside to the description text.

Premium Changelog

• Fix: Course – Duplicated H1 tags in the course overview page.

We are excited to introduce SureDash 1.0.2 introduces a few new features as well as some important fixes from our v1 launch last week.

The highlights of this release are:

Cloudflare Turnstile Integration: Websites, including WordPress, have fallen victim to registration spam from bots. It happens. The most popular way to compabat this is by adding Cloudflare Turnstile to your login and registration forms, which is free and GDPR compliant. Its now natively added to SureDash, no 3rd party plugin required.

Date Column: SureDash has a beautiful way to see all the discussion posts in a discussion space, or all combined. However this post view lacked a way to see the date the post was made and to filter the post list by date. We are happy to report that now this is possible!

In addition to this, we are working swiftly to resolve any reported bugs following our v1 launch last week.

Core Changelog:

New:

• Introduced Date column for SureDash Posts with sortable support in the admin dashboard.
• Introduced Cloudflare Turnstile reCAPTCHA support for the login and registration forms.

Improvements:

• Search Block – Added default SureDash Contents & Posts search support.
• Introduced “suredash_searchable_post_types” filter to add custom post types support in the SureDash search block.

Fixes:

• Spectra editor assets conflicts with SureDash site-editor design setting controls.
• Single view of SureDash posts built with page builder are not appearing properly on the frontend.
• There is scroll conflicting jerk with sidebar navigation and content area.
• Button anchor link tags getting underlined with the portal styles.
• The portal homepage grid items are not center aligned on the responsive devices.
• The GIF submission in the comment section was failing.
• There was a jerk on hover transition for Home Grid card item description.
• Special and language characters were stripped from the space URL slug.
• Notification block – Drawer not opening properly on the frontend for the responsive devices.
• Opened Quick Post in new tab, refers to the improper “Back to” URL.

Premium Changelog:

New:

• Introducing translations for the Hindi, Dutch (Netherlands), Spanish, Belarusian, Swedish, French, Polish, Hebrew, and German languages.

Fix:

• SureDash Premium plugin’s logo not displaying on the core-updates page while updating the plugin.

We’re rolling out a new version of SureDash yesterday 1.0.0. This update addresses reported bugs associated with stable release. Below are the key changes:

SureDash Core Changelog

Fixes:

• Bricks compatibility: WordPress post/pages build with Bricks are not viewable inside the space content.
• Kadence compatibility: Theme styles overriding the portal styles which disturbs the portal frontend design.
• Under Login/Registration admin settings the reCAPTCHA secret keys were hidden.
• Prevent video shortcodes from rendering in lesson excerpts on the course page.
• Portal frontend styles conflicts with the page builder styles, which was causing the page builder built design to break.

SureDash Premium Changelog

Fixes:

• Page builder built course description not displaying in the course overview.

We’re thrilled to announce that the stable 1.0.0 release of SureDash is now live with brand new admin dashboard & with so many new things & improvements.

If you are an existing user, check out the migration process. Click Here to know more.

New:

• Admin dashboard completely revamped with better UI/UX and with lot of new features, improvements.
• Onboarding screens for easy setup.
• Introduced Enable Feeds community setting to showcase your latest posts.
• Tightening the SureMembers <> SureDash Integration.
• Introduced “Users” screen in the admin dashboard to check SureDash community users and their activities.
• Lesson URL is now cleaner than previous query sd-lesson parameter based URL.
• Layout width-style options like Normal, Full Width with Boxed, Unboxed styles.
• Introduced filter ‘suredash_portal_slug’ to change the ‘portal’ slug from frontend URL. (https://suredash.com/docs/customizing-the-portal-slug/)
• Flows of creation spaces, space groups, content posts generation has been simplified.
• “SureDash User” role introduced for the community.
• Lesson URL is now cleaner than previous query parameter based URL (?sd-lesson).

Improvements:

• Improved codebase with best coding practices.
• Enhanced accessibility in entire portal area.
• Admin bar enabled for admin user with SureDash quick menu links.
• Straight forward & clutter free 4 space types: Single Post/Page, Posts/Discussions, Course, Link.
• Design options like logo setting, colors, layouts are moved to site portal-template editor.
• Post submission popup improved, which gives extra room for the user to add content.
• Refined the UI of post like, comment, share options for better user experience.
• Refined admin settings, options & features for better user experience.
• New register user is getting “SureDash User” role assigned.
• Have ‘user-view/’ proper URL structure for user profile view instead of ‘user-view/?id=’.
• Design of Portal Register & Portal Login page has been improved. (https://suredash.com/docs/regenerate-default-suredash-pages/)
• Improved design UI of cover image & cover embed showcase in posts list frontend.
• Notification Block – Introduced a color option for the notification bell icon.
• Added “Edit in Full Screen” button in the post-space-lesson editor to open the post in the full screen editor, which will allow third-party page builder plugins to edit the post.
• Improved overall compatibility with Bricks theme builder, Divi, Elementor page builders.
• For commenting, sticky login notice for non-logged in users in post quick view modal for better user experience.
• Flows of creation spaces, space groups, content posts generation has been simplified.
• Getting rid of “Content” & “Topic” CPTs & completely relying on single CPT “Community Posts”, which reduces the complexity of the plugin & ease for users to create community posts.

Fixes:

• Astra compatibility – Blog archive Site Builder layout prevents loading of portal profile and bookmarks screens.
• Multiple UI tweaks & bug fixes.