What's New in SureDash

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:

Core Changelog

• Fix: Added compatibility for WordPress 6.9.
• Fix: Updated Portal ‘Remember Me’ to store cookies for 14 days instead of session-only.
• Fix: Fixed issue where email notification status was not updating.
• Fix: Resolved missing first/last name in Portal Google registration and login flow clearing user names.
• Fix: Fixed Quick View modal content height issue in Zen Browser.
• Fix: Improved Breakdance compatibility for the Space Editor.
• Fix: Fixed button alignment issue in Classic Layout header where it was incorrectly aligned to the left.

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 Changelog

• New: Added “Preserve HTML in Excerpts” option in Community Settings to maintain formatting (bold, italic, links, line breaks) in post excerpts. Enabled by default for new installations. ( https://suredash.com/docs/preserve-html-formatting-in-excerpts/ )
• Improvement: Post likes are available with tooltip support in the Quick View post modal.
• Fix: Post author badges are displaying twice in the Quick View post modal.
• Fix: SureMembers Compatibility – The protected media URL from SureMembers was redirecting to a discussion space in some edge cases.

Premium Changelog

• Improvement: Improved Quick View stability by disabling the modal header when resources are unavailable.

Core Fixes:

• Quick View post modal was not working for SureDash User role users.
• Duplicated. More options menu is visible on single post view.
• Reverted “Preserve HTML in Excerpts” option due to compatibility issues, until next update.

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:

Core Changelog

• New: Introducing Notifications for portal users for various purposes. ( https://suredash.com/docs/notifications-system-in-suredash/ )
• New: Introduced the Badges system for community gamification.
• New: Administrator users can also be listed from Users > User Roles filter, for assigning badges to admin portal managers.
• New: Introducing emoji support for space icons to enhance visual communication and express emotions more effectively.
• New: Introducing “Reset” ability for Light-Dark color palettes to get back to the default configuration.
• New: Added “Preserve HTML in Excerpts” option in Community Settings to maintain formatting (bold, italic, links, line breaks) in post excerpts. Enabled by default for new installations. ( https://suredash.com/docs/preserve-html-formatting-in-excerpts/ )
• New: Introduced “Website” & “Headline” fields under user profile settings.
• New: Introducing Social links for the user profile to showcase on the user view page. ( https://suredash.com/docs/add-social-links-to-your-profile/ )
• New: Introduced a “Thumbnail Image” option for link space for showcasing on the home page view.
• Improvement: Improved the design UI for like-comment-share trigger buttons under spaces and posts for better responsive handling and user interaction.
• Fix: Private community now redirects users back to the originally requested portal space URL after login.
• Fix: Log out from the portal now redirects to the portal login page instead of the main site URL.
• Fix: Flushing rewrite rule after post type registration, causing 404 for portal posts.
• Tweak: The Comment box with a big-sized image now has a scroll to reach the end.
• Tweak: The Quick View post modal no longer has a fixed height.
• Tweak: Allowed all space types to be selected in SureCart integration.
• Tweak: Previously, a large-sized image upload in the comment box was causing a scrolling UI glitch.
• Tweak: When navigating from a space edit screen back to the spaces list, the view now automatically scrolls to the recently edited space instead of staying at the top.
• Tweak: All portal templates adjusted for better mobile responsiveness. ( https://suredash.com/docs/suredash-portal-template-patterns/ )

Premium Changelog

• New: Introducing the Notifications system for the portal with various triggers. ( https://suredash.com/docs/notifications-system-in-suredash/ )
• New: Introducing filters support to customize lesson-resource-event slugs from the URLs. ( https://suredash.com/docs/customize-community-content-post-slugs/ )
• Fix: Resource downloads now work correctly with offloaded media files. ( https://suredash.com/docs/media-offloading-in-suredash/ )
• Fix: Single event view content is accessible even if it is restricted by the SureMembers.

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:

Core 1.4.3

• New: Introducing integration with OttoKit to manage your portal with automation. ( https://suredash.com/docs/integrate-ottokit-with-suredash/ )
• Improvement: Introducing some helpful developer hooks to extend SureDash core functionality by custom or third-party app owners. ( https://suredash.com/docs/ottokit-hooks-reference/#suredash-core-hooks )
• Improvement: Introduced ‘suredash_customize_portal_link’ filter to allow customization of the portal link.
• Improvement: SureForms compatibility has improved.
• Fix: The Thumbnail Image option for the space setting was not synced properly with the post featured image option.

Pro 1.4.1

• New: Supporting OttoKit with Core integration for premium features. ( https://suredash.com/docs/integrate-ottokit-with-suredash/ )
• Improvement: Introducing some helpful developer hooks to extend SureDash premium functionality by custom or third-party app owners. ( https://suredash.com/docs/ottokit-hooks-reference/#suredash-pro-hooks )
• Fix: Events – Getting “Unsaved changes” pop-up even if there are no working changes in a space.

In the latest SureDash 1.4.0 release, we released the new Events Space feature. Read more about it here.

In the quick updates 1.4.1, 1.4.2 releases, we have patched a few things to make the 1.4.0 release more stable.

Note: These updates are only from the Core plugin side. Here are the key points listed:

Core 1.4.1

• Fix: Authors are unable to edit posts if the “Allow Members to Post” option is disabled from the Discussions space.

Core 1.4.2

• Fix: Fatal error when the settings page is accessed if the Bypass WordPress Interactions option is disabled.
• Fix: Login-Register page is misaligned with the Kadence theme after the 1.4.0 update.

The wait is over, we are excited to announce that the most-awaited Events Space feature is live now! With this new feature, you can now organize and manage your events with ease.

Along with the Events Space, we’ve added several other exciting features to enhance your portal experience.

The ‘Name Initials Avatar’ support has been added to replace the default avatar, helping you create a more personalised experience for your members. The Posts Extended Options feature allows authors to ‘Edit’ and ‘Delete’ posts, which will make your portal even more user-friendly.

We’ve also introduced 2-column login and registration block patterns, which will help you to create a more visually appealing portal.

Let’s take a look at the detailed changes:

Core Changelog:

• New: The “Enable Like & Share” option has been separated into two individual settings: “Enable Like Button” and “Enable Share Button”.
• New: Introduced 2-column layout patterns for Login and Registration form blocks.
• New: SureCart Integration – You can now select a space in SureDash settings to link with SureCart’s Customer Area page. Customers will be automatically redirected to this selected space after their purchase.
• New: Portal Identity Block – Added dark mode logo support with separate logo upload options for light and dark themes.
• New: Blank avatar gets replaced with the user’s initials for users without avatars, for a more personalized experience.
• New: Introducing “Edit” functionality for posts, allowing authors to edit the post.
• New: Introducing “Delete” functionality for posts, allowing authors to delete their own post.
• New: Administrator users can also be listed from the Users > User Roles filter, for better filtering.
• Improvement: Hardened the security of the plugin.
• Improvement: Added support for the profile block under the responsive navigation flyout, if it’s being used on the desktop portal-sidebar version.
• Improvement: Improvised the SureDash post editing flow from the space editor to make it more user-friendly.
• Improvement: Private community space links now redirect users back to the originally requested space URL once they log in.
• Fix: Resolved blank screen issue on Portal login & registration pages caused by a conflict with Breakdance.
• Fix: Spectra block editor icons conflict with SureDash, and block-level icons are not visible in the editor.
• Fix: Fixed incorrect post count in admin users list after post type change to ‘community-post’.
• Fix: Logging out from the portal now redirects to the portal-login page instead of the main site URL.
• Tweak: Link space single view now automatically redirects to the assigned custom URL.
• Tweak: Lesson name gets encoded from SureDash Pro, and some misc adjustments.

Premium Changelog:

• New: Introducing the Event space type to organize events for your community. ( https://suredash.com/docs/how-to-setup-a-event-space-in-suredash/ )
• New: Introducing text labels options for Section-Lesson titles on the course index page.
• Improvement: Improvised the lesson-resource editing flow from the space editor to make it more user-friendly.
• Fix: Draft lesson/resources are not visible in the admin dashboard spaces.

👉 Update to SureDash 1.4.0 to grow your community by organizing Events & with some new surprises.

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: 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.