Changelog

3.8.17 | June 06, 2026

• Tweak: WordPress 7.0 compatibility
• Fixed: Minor security issue
• Fixed: Improved module activation/deactivation

3.8.16 | April 06, 2026

• Minor tweaks & fixes

3.8.15 | March 10, 2026

• Fixed: Minor security issue
• Fixed: Several UI inconsistencies
• Fixed: HTML rendering issues
• Fixed: Contact form fields stripped by wp_kses_post

3.8.14 | February 27, 2026

• Fixed: Possible memory exhaustion on sites with many users
• Fixed: Default welcome panel content is broken when saving settings
• Fixed: Broken output in Custom CSS fields as certain characters are converted

3.8.13 | February 25, 2026

• Minor tweaks

3.8.12 | November 08, 2025

• Update BFCM deal details

3.8.11 | October 30, 2025

• Fixed: Backwards compatibility with Ultimate Dashboard PRO

3.8.10 | October 27, 2025

• Fixed: Removed a MailerLite API key that was mistakenly included in the plugin package
• Fixed: PHP notice in WordPress 6.7 related to early translation loading — text domains are now loaded at the proper hook
• Improved: Added additional data sanitization and proper output escaping throughout the plugin

3.8.9 | June 05, 2025

• Tweak: Allow shortcode in HTML widget
• Tested up to WordPress 6.8

3.8.8 | March 15, 2025

• Fixed: Issue where relative path URLs were broken in icon widgets
• Fixed: Security vulnerability (CVE-2025-2276) that allowed users with limited capabilities to enable/disable modules via AJAX
• Fixed: Security vulnerability that allowed users with limited capabilities to access AJAX across modules

3.8.7 | March 12, 2025

• Fixed: Issue where links weren’t saved in text widgets

3.8.6 | March 3, 2025

• Fixed: XSS vulnerabilities in the edit widget and edit admin page screens
• Tweak: Additional security enhancements

3.8.5 | November 22, 2024

• Fixed: BFCM notice wasn’t dismissible

3.8.4 | November 15, 2024

• Tested up to WordPress 6.7
• Fixed: Issue where custom login page logo won’t show after the release of WordPress 6.7

3.8.3 | September 30, 2024

• New: Onboarding Wizard
• New: Hide admin bar for specific user roles

3.8.2 | August 14, 2024

• Tested up to WordPress 6.6

3.8.1 | July 24, 2024

• Fixed: Fatal error in the WordPress admin area if “Howdy”-text was changed due to recent WordPress core update (6.1.1)

3.8 | June 19, 2024

• New: Dark Mode (PRO)
• New: Move sub-menu items across top-level menu items in the Admin Menu Editor (PRO)
• Tweak: Overall improvements to the Admin Menu Editor (PRO)
• Tweak: Overall UI/UX improvements
• Fixed: Performance issues related to the Admin Menu Editor

3.7.14 | May 10, 2024

• Tested up to WordPress 6.5

3.7.13 | January 09, 2024

• Fixed: “Add New” text in the WordPress admin menu for adding new widgets & admin pages

3.7.12 | December 30, 2023

• Fixed: Minor security issue

3.7.11 | December 11, 2023

• Fixed: Minor security issue

3.7.10 | November 22, 2023

• Fixed: Bug where BFCM notice was not dismissible

3.7.9 | November 22, 2023

• Update BFCM deal details

3.7.8 | November 07, 2023

• Minor security tweaks

3.7.7 | August 27, 2023

• Tested up to WordPress 6.3

3.7.6 | May 21, 2023

• Tweak: Minor security fix

3.7.5 | May 11, 2023

• Tweak: Improve export/import functionality
• Tweak: Allow source tag in HTML widget
• Fixed: Fatal error with Google SiteKit

3.7.4 | February 07, 2023

• Tweak: Updated logo

3.7.3 | January 30, 2023

• Tweak: Wording

3.7.2 | December 05, 2022

• Fixed: Issue with password protected pages & login redirect feature

3.7.1.5 | October 04, 2022

• Minor tweaks & improvements

3.7.1.4 | July 20, 2022

• Tweak: Wording

3.7.1.3 | July 19, 2022

• Tweak: Open link in a new tab

3.7.1.2 | July 16, 2022

• Fixed: Wording

3.7.1.1 | July 1, 2022

• Minor tweaks

3.7.1 | July 1, 2022

• New: Field to replace the block editor logo (Ultimate Dashboard PRO)

3.7 | June 15, 2022

• New: Improved Login Customizer with features such as Background Image, Background Overlay, Form Box Shadow, etc.
• Fixed: Issues when configuring Admin Menu Editor for specific users

3.6.3 | May 13, 2022

• Tweak: Further improved Admin Menu Editor functionality

3.6.2 | May 10, 2022

• Fixed: Some menu items didn’t appear in the Admin Menu Editor (for instance Yoast SEO)
• Fixed: Admin Menu Editor & Admin Bar Editor are not responsive

3.6.1 | May 04, 2022

• Tweak: Changed plugin header information, updated images & footer links
• Fixed: Some sub-menu items won’t loade in the Admin Menu Editor, for instance in the WooCommerce Analytics section. If you still don’t see certain menu or sub-menu items appear, please try resetting the Admin Menu Editor for all or specific user roles.

3.6 | April 25, 2022

• New: Allow rendering shortcodes in the WordPress welcome panel
• New: Allow rendering shortcodes in the Ultimate Dashboard widget titles
• New: Refactored import/export functionality to allow for more granular control when exporting settings
• New: Placeholder tags to display information dynamically in widgets & welcome panel
• Tweak: Rewrite URL’s when exporting & importing settings to a different WordPress install
• Fixed: PHP Warning: Undefined array key “path” (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-message-php-warning-undefined-array-key-path/)
• Fixed: Build Admin Menu Editor only when a specific role is clicked instead of loading them all at once (in a row). This was causing performance issues & was interpreted as a security issue by some installs.
• Fixed: Reliability & accuracy of the Admin Menu Editor has been improved

3.5.3 | March 02, 2022

• New: Added support for WordPress’ new language switcher on login screen
• Updated description

3.5.2 | February 03, 2022

• Tested up to 5.9
• Tweak: Updated texts
• Fixed: Fatal error in WordPress’ tools section
• Fixed: Content of Custom CSS fields on settings page appear empty until clicked

3.5.1 | November 11, 2021

• Tweak: Updated admin notice

3.5 | August 16, 2021

• New: Change WordPress’ Howdy text
• New: Change WordPress login URL
• New: Redirect yoursite.com/wp-admin/ for non logged-in users
• New: Login Redirect feature
• Tweak: Show review notice only to admins
• Tweak: New tabbed layout on Settings page
• Fixed: Some 3rd party menu items did not appear in the Admin Menu Editor
• Fixed: Some 3rd party menu items did not appear in the Admin Bar Editor
• Fixed: Only load FontAwesome in the WordPress admin if an admin page exists
• Fixed: Settings link on the plugin screen links to non-existent page
• Fixed: Remove data on uninstall on multisite installations

3.4.1 | July 26, 2021

• Fixed: Welcome panel cannot be removed

3.4 | June 22, 2021

• New: Advanced White Label settings

3.3.4 | June 8, 2021

• New: WordPress admin body classes (udb-user-{nicename}, udb-role-{current-user-role})
• New: Settings to change the WordPress welcome panel

3.3.3 | June 1, 2021

• New: Remember Users/Roles tab when saving in Admin Menu Editor (PRO)
• Other minor tweaks & improvements

3.3.2 | May 22, 2021

• New: Add separators to your admin menu with the Admin Menu Editor (PRO)
• Tweak: Remove Theme Options tab from custom Admin Pages
• Fixed: Some sub menu items can’t be removed with the Admin Menu Editor (PRO)
• Fixed: Conflict with 3rd party plugins where not all roles were loaded in the Admin Menu Editor (PRO)
• Fixed: On multisites, all menu items are shown no matter what role is selected (PRO)

3.3.1 | May 18, 2021

• New: TablePress support for Admin Menu Editor (PRO)
• New: Admin notice that kindly asks you to leave a review
• Tweak: Pave the way to implement Brizy support for Custom Admin Pages (PRO)

3.3 | April 13, 2021

• New: Admin Bar Editor (PRO)
• New: Add custom CSS to the WordPress login screen
• Fixed: Cannot redeclare retrieve_password (Fatal error)
• Fixed: Export/import issue with user roles (dashboard widgets & admin pages)
• Fixed: Export/import functionality for “Modules” were missing
• Fixed: All widgets were active/inactive after import, even though if they were active/inactive on the original website

3.2.1 | March 04, 2021

• Fixed: Module switcher no longer working

3.2 | March 04, 2021

• New: Improved & cleaned up admin & settings page design
• New: Admin Menu Editor – Change the admin menu for specific user roles (PRO)
• New: Admin Menu Editor – Add custom menu items to the WordPress admin menu (PRO)
• Tweak: Admin Menu Editor – Changed sub menu name from Admin Menu to Admin Menu Editor to be more precise
• Fixed: Widget & admin page user roles are not imported properly (PRO)
• Fixed: Login Customizer – Border color styling
• Fixed: Admin Menu Editor – Rare case where the admin menu was broken after using the Admin Menu Editor feature (PRO)
• Fixed: Login Customizer – Box-width setting doesn’t work (PRO)

3.1.3 | December 20, 2020

• Tweak: Improved “Modules” feature
• Tweak: Improved “Login Customizer” CSS output
• Fixed: Admin email verification screen styling

3.1.2 | December 09, 2020

• Fixed: Wrong plugin dir for PRO plugin updater

3.1.1 | December 09, 2020

• Fixed: Broken plugin updater in PRO add-on

3.1 | December 09, 2020

• WordPress 5.6 compatibility
• New: Modules screen to turn on/off features
• Tweak: Updated & improved settings page UI

3.0 | October 27, 2020

• Rewritten the plugin from the ground up
• New: Enable/disable widgets on the “All Widgets” screen
• New: Updated to FontAwesome 5
• New: Improved icon picker
• Fixed: Admin Pages export/import functionality
• Other tweaks & improvements

2.8.3 | August 11, 2020

• Fixed: WordPress 5.5 compatibility

2.8.1 | March 4, 2020

• Fixed: CSS sanitization

2.8 | March 4, 2020

• New: Create admin pages & sub-pages
• Minor tweaks & improvements

2.7.2 | April 17, 2020

• New: Use {home_url} inside login customizer logo URL to dynamically fetch the site URL
• New: Filter (udb_login_customizer) to disable the Login Customizer feature entirely
• New: Filter (udb_login_logo) to change the login logo image. That will allow you to change the logo without having to upload it to your or your clients website
• Minor tweaks & improvements
• Fixed: HTML widget wouldn’t save

2.7.1 | April 4, 2020

• Tweak: We found a better way to implement the login customizer feature and were able to remove the auto-generated page.

2.7 | April 1, 2020

• New: Login Customizer
• New: Widget Color Settings
• New: Change Footer & Version Text
• New: HTML Widget
• New: Added support for Health Status widget
• Fixed: contextual_help_list deprecated notice
• Fixed: Long tooltips overlap icon widgets

2.6 | February 18, 2020

• New: Change dashboard headline
• New: Add custom admin CSS
• New: Remove “Help” tab
• New: Remove “Screen Options” tab
• New: Remove admin bar from the frontend

2.5.1 | January 3, 2020

• Fixed: Text decoration issue

2.5 | September 27, 2019

• Maintenance Release

2.4 | April 30, 2019

• New: Text Widgets
• New: Tooltips for Icon Widgets
• New: Import/Export Widgets & Settings
• New: Custom Dashboard CSS field
• New: Improved UX/UI

2.3.1 | January 28, 2019

• Tweak: cleaned up codebase
• Fixed: internationalization

2.3 | November 30, 2018

• Tweak: set required PHP version to 5.6
• Tweak: tested up to 5.0
• Tweak: highlighted pro link
• Fixed: internationalization

2.2 | August 1, 2018

• Tweak: Updated Settings Page UI
• Tweak: Updated Links & Descriptions under Widgets -> PRO

2.1.1 | 05/31/2018

• Fixed: Number of Dashboard Widgets is limited by the “Reading” settings under Appearance -> Reading

2.1 | 03/18/2018

• Maintenance release
• Added: Action Link
• Tweak: save deactivated dashboard widgets in a single array
• Fixed: wrong hook used to remove dashboard widgets

2.0.1 | 11-17-2017

• Minor Tweaks & Improvements

2.0 | 11-14-2017

• Rewritten the plugin from ground up
• Ultimate Dashboard now has its own, top-level menu in the WordPress Dashboard
• Tweak: metabox styling
• Tweak: embedded font-awesome instead of loading it from an external source
• Tweak: removed roboto as default font
• Tweak: minor security tweaks

1.3.1 | 10-28-2016

• Updated: Plugin Header & options page sidebar

1.3 | 10-06-2016

• Added: filter/search functionality for dashboard icons (Dashicons & Font-Awesome)

1.2.1 | 08-21-2016

• Fixed: The Plugin Generated xxx Characters of Unexpected Output During Activation message

1.2 | 08-21-2016

• Removed: Ultimate Dashboard PRO notification
• Added: Sidebar to Ultimate Dashboard options page
• Added: Custom Post Type columns (icon, link target)
• Tweak: Default plugin language is now english
• Added: German translation

1.1 | 07-20-2016

• Removed the limit of 5 dashboard widgets

1.0.3 | 07-07-2016

• Added: all WordPress Dashicons
• Tweak: new font for Dashboard Widgets (Roboto)
• Tweak: Added an accordion to sort icon groups

1.0.2 | 07-05-2016

• Moved the Ultimate Dashboard CPT from the main menu to Dashboard > Dashboard Widgets
• Added better descriptions while creating a Dashboard Widget for absolute and relative urls

1.0.1

Removed a bug that only allowed to create 1 Dashboard Widget.

1.0

Initial Release