What's New in SureDash

This is one of the most requested features on the SureDash product ideas board. Collections can now show pricing for the spaces inside them. Visitors instantly know what’s free, what’s paid, and how to buy it, right from the collection view.

You can mark each space as Free or Paid, set a price and currency, and add a checkout link. If a visitor doesn’t have access yet, they see the price and a Buy Now button instead of a plain locked space.

This turns a Collection from a simple content organizer into a sales tool. For example, group a set of courses or communities into one collection, and clearly show which ones are free and which need payment. Visitors can compare their options and go straight to checkout, no extra digging required.

This release also improves discussion controls and comment visibility, so day-to-day community interactions work more smoothly.

Core Changelog

• New: Collections can now show Free and price tags on the spaces they list, with a Buy Now button for visitors who don’t have access yet. Requires the SureDash Pro add-on and SureMembers Core. [Read more]
• Improvement: Added a filter to control whether replies stay open on discussions submitted from the front end. This lets you keep replies working without turning on comments site-wide.
• Fix: Lesson, event, and resource pages now show all comments, not just the first two.

Premium Changelog

• New: Free and price tags for collection cards. Turn on Display Pricing for a collection, then tag each space as Free, or as Paid with a price, currency, and checkout link. Visitors who are locked out see the price and a Buy Now button instead of a locked card. Tag colors are set per collection.
• Improvement: Space cards in collections now show the space description. If no description is set, the space type shows instead.

This update makes the AI assistant in SureDash (the WordPress Abilities/MCP integration) work more smoothly and predictably. It also makes content management safer and improves how errors are handled when something goes wrong.

The AI assistant now checks information more carefully before saving anything, and it has a clearer picture of your spaces and groups. Creating events and quizzes through the AI assistant is also more accurate now. On top of that, we fixed a few bugs around saving content and showing errors when a request gets blocked.

Core Changelog

• Improvement: The AI assistant now checks requests more carefully. If something is incomplete or doesn’t match up, it will show a clear message instead of saving broken content.
• Improvement: The AI assistant now gets more accurate information about your spaces and groups, including spaces that aren’t part of any group.
• Fix: Content created using the AI assistant now saves properly every time and can be edited later.
• Fix: If a firewall or network issue blocks a post, profile update, or registration, you’ll now see an error message and can try again, instead of it failing quietly.

Premium Changelog

• Improvement: The AI assistant now checks event and quiz details more carefully. If a schedule is incomplete or a quiz is missing the correct answer, it will show a clear message instead of saving it.
• Fix: Removing a lesson from a course no longer deletes the lesson itself, unless you choose to delete it on purpose.

This release brings a better way to manage and deliver resource files, along with important improvements to content protection and the admin experience.

Store & Deliver Resources with Bunny.net

You can now connect Bunny.net cloud storage to the SureDash Resource Library and serve your files through Bunny’s global CDN.

This is especially useful if your portal contains videos, PDFs, documents, images, or other downloadable resources and you want to improve file delivery for users across different locations. You’ll need a Bunny.net account to use this feature.

With Bunny.net integration, you can:

• Connect your Bunny.net account directly from SureDash.
• Select your preferred storage region.
• Serve resources through Bunny’s global CDN for faster delivery.
• Protect downloads with secure, signed links.

This gives you a more scalable way to manage resource files while providing a better experience for your portal users.

Stronger Content Protection

We’ve also strengthened access checks across several SureDash features:

• Events: Protected events can no longer be accessed through public calendar URLs.
• Lessons: Course access is now verified before users can complete lessons.
• Resources: Download permissions are checked every time a resource is requested, even when the file is referenced from multiple posts.

These improvements help ensure that users only access content they are authorized to view.

Core Changelog

• New: Added a “What’s New” popup in the admin dashboard. It appears after every release, right after logging in, and highlights the latest features and improvements.
• Fix: Emojis added in the admin editors are no longer converted to images, so they are preserved correctly in email content.

Premium Changelog

• New: Bunny.net integration for the Resource Library. Connect your account, pick a region, and deliver files through Bunny’s CDN with secure signed links. [Read more]
• Improvement: Strengthened access checks across events, lessons, and resources. Protected events can no longer be fetched through public calendar URLs, lesson completion now validates course access, and resource downloads verify permissions on every post referencing the file.

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.

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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.