Changelog

V 1.8.21 – 2026-01-18

• FIX – CORE – Some columns can’t be enabled
• FIX – CORE – Columns manager – long lists are not showing all the columns
• FIX – CORE – Toolbar dropdowns are not showing all the items when there are too many items
• FIX – CORE – Some columns are not being generated

V 1.8.20 – 2026-01-06

• CHANGE – CORE – UI improvements
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve performance
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve the extensions installer
• FIX – CORE – General bug fixes

V 1.8.19 – 2025-07-11

• CHANGE – CORE – UI improvements
• FIX – CORE – Compatibility issue with WP-Stateless for Google Cloud

V 1.8.18 – 2025-05-23

• CHANGE – CORE – UI improvements
• FIX – CORE – General bug fixes

V 1.8.17 – 2025-01-28

• CHANGE – CORE – Minor UI improvements
• CHANGE – CORE – Updated freemius sdk

V 1.8.16 – 2025-01-07

• FIX – CORE – A dropdown used by Gutenberg is not working

V 1.8.15 – 2024-10-26

• CHANGE – CORE – Performance improvements

V 1.8.14 – 2024-08-01

• CHANGE – CORE – General bug fixes
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve the search tool
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve the handling of date values
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve RTL compatibility

V 1.8.13 – 2024-03-28

• FIX – CORE – Minor issues

V 1.8.12 – 2024-03-28

• FIX – CORE – Minor issues

V 1.8.11 – 2024-03-27

• FIX – CORE – Minor issues

V 1.8.10 – 2024-03-22

• CHANGE – CORE – General improvements
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve compatibility with PHP 8.2
• CHANGE – CORE – Performance improvements

V 1.8.9 – 2024-01-26

• CHANGE – CORE – General UI improvements
• FIX – CORE – Small bug fixes

V 1.8.8 – 2023-12-13

• FIX – CORE – General bug fixes

V 1.8.7 – 2023-11-02

• FIX – CORE – Small bug fixes

V 1.8.6 – 2023-09-13

• CHANGE – CORE – General improvements

V 1.8.5 – 2023-07-23

• CHANGE – CORE – General improvements
• FIX – CORE – General bug fixes

V 1.8.4 – 2023-07-13

• CHANGE – CORE – General improvements
• FIX – CORE – Some sheets initialized with the wrong columns

V 1.8.3 – 2023-07-06

• CHANGE – CORE – Performance improvements
• CHANGE – CORE – General improvements

V 1.8.2 – 2023-04-13

• FIX – CORE – Several bug fixes

V 1.8.1 – 2023-02-03

• CHANGE – CORE – Several improvements
• FIX – CORE – Several bug fixes

V 1.8.0 – 2022-12-15

• NEW – CORE – Allow to change column backgrounds
• CHANGE – CORE – Performance improvements
• FIX – CORE – Small bug fixes

V 1.7.21 – 2022-11-11

• CHANGE – CORE – Improvements to the columns manager
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve the usability of some popups
• FIX – CORE – Small bug fixes

V 1.7.20 – 2022-09-29

• CHANGE – CORE – Improve performance
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve popups navigation
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve the handling of locked values
• FIX – CORE – Sanitization issue that was breaking some Gutenberg blocks

V 1.7.19 – 2022-08-19

• CHANGE – CORE – General improvements
• CHANGE – CORE – Performance improvements
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve the sorting of rows

V 1.7.18 – 2022-07-31

• FIX – CORE – Several bug fixes

V 1.7.17 – 2022-06-23

• FIX – CORE – Bug fixes

V 1.7.16 – 2022-05-25

• FIX – CORE – Small bug fixes

V 1.7.15 – 2022-04-19

• CHANGE – CORE – Code refactoring and more sanitizations

V 1.7.14 – 2022-04-06

• CHANGE – CORE – Bug fixes
• CHANGE – CORE – Allow to activate licenses network wide
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve the saving of taxonomy terms

V 1.7.13 – 2022-03-02

• CHANGE – CORE – Small improvements
• CHANGE – CORE – Upgraded Freemius SDK to v2.4.3

V 1.7.12 – 2022-01-26

• CHANGE – CORE – Added support for PHP 8
• FIX – CORE – Small bug fixes

V 1.7.11 – 2021-12-08

• CHANGE – CORE – Small bug fixes

V 1.7.10 – 2021-10-20

• FIX – CORE – Small bug fixes

V 1.7.9 – 2021-09-10

• FIX – WC Products – Small bug fixes

V 1.7.8 – 2021-08-18

• CHANGE – CORE – Minor changes

V 1.7.7 – 2021-07-14

• CHANGE – CORE – Improve the handling of special characters
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve the wpml workflows
• CHANGE – CORE – Minor changes

V 1.7.6 – 2021-06-19

• CHANGE – CORE – Minor bug fixes

V 1.7.5 – 2021-06-03

• FIX – CORE – Improve the restrictions

V 1.7.4 – 2021-05-19

• CHANGE – CORE – Improve the taxonomies handling
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve currency handling

V 1.7.3 – 2021-04-21

• FIX – CORE – Fancy taxonomy selector doesn’t work well
• FIX – CORE – Sometimes the tinymce editor appears empty

V 1.7.2 – 2021-03-12

• CHANGE – CORE – Productivity improvements
• FIX – CORE – Small bug fixes

V 1.7.1 – 2021-02-24

• CHANGE – CORE – Add more advanced options
• FIX – CORE – Compatibility issue with WP Frontend Admin

V 1.7.0 – 2021-02-10

• NEW – CORE – Add spanish translations for latinamerica
• CHANGE – CORE – Add more advanced options
• CHANGE – CORE – Small automations
• FIX – CORE – Add compatibility with WPSolr Pro
• FIX – CORE – Small bug fixes

V 1.6.0 – 2020-12-19

• NEW – CORE – Improve the advanced settings
• CHANGE – CORE – Terms search should mention the slug
• CHANGE – CORE – Remove links from usage widget
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve saving
• FIX – CORE – Small fixes

V 1.5.8 – 2020-11-21

• CHANGE – CORE – Add more text to the status bar
• CHANGES – CORE – Improve handling of non-utf-8 characters
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve handling of images
• CHANGE – CORE – Simplify license activation
• FIX – CORE – Some columns are readonly by mistake
• FIX – CORE – Compatibility with WP Offload Media
• FIX – CORE – Edge cases with taxonomy terms
• FIX – CORE – Compatibility with WP Smart Import

V 1.5.7 – 2020-10-22

• CHANGE – CORE – Add more text to the status bar
• CHANGES – CORE – Improve handling of non-utf-8 characters
• FIX – CORE – Some columns are readonly by mistake

V 1.5.6 – 2020-10-11

• CHANGE – CORE – Add support for strange url images

V 1.5.5 – 2020-10-07

• Updated to CORE v2.21.1

V 1.5.4 – 2020-10-07

• CHANGE – CORE – Improve handling of extensions
• CHANGE – CORE – Add more columns
• CHANGE – CORE – Don’t use wpautop when saving content
• CHANGE – CORE – Allow to view column keys
• FIX – CORE – Improve performance on some cells

V 1.5.3 – 2020-09-08

• CHANGE – CORE – Improve the saving process
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve support for some devices
• CHANGE – CORE – Add support for modern jQuery
• CHANGE – CORE – Productivity improvements for some contextual menu actions
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve performance
• FIX – CORE – Sometimes sheets are not generated
• FIX – CORE – Add support for rare wp media settings
• FIX – CORE – Sometimes the media library modal doesn’t let you select multiple images
• FIX – CORE – Some cells are saving with wrong encoding

V 1.5.2 – 2020-07-22

• FIX – CORE – Save popup gets stuck when the changes are saved in < 350ms
• FIX – CORE – Sometimes columns dont appear in secondary dropdowns but they appear as visible columns
• FIX – CORE – Sometimes images aren’t found in the media library when using URLs

V 1.5.1 – 2020-06-26

• CHANGE – CORE – Improve performance when loading +800,000 cells at once
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve the handling of advanced settings
• CHANGE – CORE – Add shortcuts to menu
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve the handling of new fields
• FIX – CORE – Export doesn’t complete when the current user is not administrator
• FIX – CORE – Avoided memory leaks

V 1.5.0 – 2020-05-20

• NEW – CORE – Improve the handling of external images
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve the freezing of columns
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve the productivity while sorting columns
• FIX – CORE – Sometimes deleted columns also deleted similar columns by mistake
• FIX – CORE – Sometimes the save popup gets stuck

V 1.4.2 – 2020-04-20

• CHANGE – CORE – Prevent data errors during imports
• CHANGE – CORE – Prevent memory issues
• CHANGE – CORE – Prevent confusion when the loading of rows is disabled
• CHANGE – CORE – Optimized performance when we have thousands of columns
• CHANGE – CORE – Facilitate the removal of many columns
• FIX – CORE – Advanced settings modal doesn’t save some options
• FIX – CORE – The pagination options don’t appear when we are in the middle of the spreadsheet and we reach the bottom
• FIX – CORE – Bulk Edit – Empty checkboxes are ignored
• FIX – CORE – Search – Empty checkboxes are ignored
• FIX – CORE – TinyMCE popup sometimes skips rows when using the navigation
• FIX – CORE – Non-hierarchical taxonomy terms should not have hierarchy
• FIX – CORE -Parent name is wrongly encoded sometimes
• FIX – CORE – Sometimes columns can’t be enabled
• FIX – CORE – Sometimes the columns manager can’t save changes

V 1.4.1 – 2020-03-17

• CHANGE – Small tweak to the display of advanced settings toolbar
• CHANGE – WC Products – Keyword search by sku should allow partial matches

V 1.4.0 – 2020-03-16

• NEW – CORE – Integrate with Elementor
• NEW – CORE – Improve the pagination
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve the handling of full screen mode
• CHANGE – CORE – Don’t delete the manually created columns when the plugin is uninstalled
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve the saving UI
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve the support for columns with autocomplete type in the search and bulk edit tools
• CHANGE – CORE – Allow to search by ID in all the dropdowns
• CHANGE – CORE – Improve the advanced settings interface
• FIX – CORE – When we open the tinymce editor and the cell has a value with line breaks, the visual editor removes the line breaks

V 1.3.0 – 2020-02-19

• NEW – CORE – Add support for custom post statuses
• CHANGE – CORE – Allow to disable the cell comments
• CHANGE – CORE – Allow to save taxonomy columns using a term slug
• CHANGE – CORE – Load author cells with ajax
• CHANGE – CORE – Reduce the memory usage when loading the spreadsheet page by reducing all the unnecessary output
• CHANGE – CORE – Add cell comment to hierarchical taxonomy columns to indicate the format for child categories
• CHANGE – CORE – When we save images on any field while editing a post type, automatically attach the image to the post if the image is unattached
• CHANGE – CORE – Allow to save a file name in the image columns and automatically save the first image from the media library matching the name
• CHANGE – CORE – External button cells – Don’t show a button when the value is empty
• CHANGE – CORE – FREE – Allow to edit custom post types with limited fields
• CHANGE – CORE – FREE – Remove formulas teaser from the toolbar and just link to it from the paragraph teaser
• CHANGE – CORE – FREE – Disable the post types teaser from the toolbar because the post types can be edited in the free version now
• CHANGE – CORE – FREE – Add a global teaser as paragraph in the header to better indicate the limitations and what’s premium
• CHANGE – CORE – Sort the list of spreadsheets in the form to display the available first, free extension second, and paid extensions finally
• FIX – CORE – When changing the post type of a post, from page to another, clear the page template meta key to prevent the “invalid page template” error thrown by wp core
• FIX – CORE – When using multiple free plugins, sometimes the upgrade links get mixed up and one plugin shows the upgrade url of the other causing incorrect purchases

V 1.2.0 – 2020-01-13

• NEW – CORE – Add option to “settings” menu to reset all settings
• NEW – CORE – Allow to delete rows using the context menu and delete the selected items
• NEW – CORE – Add option to scan DB to the settings dropdown to make it easier to find
• CHANGE – CORE – Indicate in import modal that changes are saved directly
• CHANGE – CORE – Allow to select in the advanced settings which fields use the new serialization handler
• CHANGE – CORE – Performance optimizations: The “post parent” column should not load all the titles, it should be a dropdown with ajax search
• CHANGE – CORE – Performance optimizations: Limit the usage of meta keys to 2500 columns, no one needs to search/edit more than 2500 keys and sites with +10000 meta keys are super slow
• CHANGE – CORE – Performance optimizations: When we rescan DB to find new columns, only scan once per page load
• CHANGE – CORE – Return the full SQL query as meta data of the ajax call when loading rows to help during tech support/debugging, do this only for administrator
• FIX – CORE – The post modified date is not being saved when edited in the cells
• FIX – CORE – When we freeze a column, it freezes the wrong column
• FIX – CORE – Sometimes cells are misaligned

V 1.1.4 – 2019-11-24

• FIX – CORE – When using a free plugin and a premium plugin, don’t initialize unsupported modules when using the free spreadsheet to prevent major issues
• FIX – CORE – the gutenberg editor can’t be opened when a post title contains double quotes

V 1.1.3 – 2019-11-18

• CHANGE – CORE – blacklist columns with keys containing -wpfoof-
• CHANGE – CORE – When changing the settings to load > 300 rows per page, show a notification indicating that it may overload the server
• CHANGE – CORE – Prevent errors due to high number of rows per page – If the user defines rows per page >= 100 and it fails, automatically reset to 10 and retry
• CHANGE – CORE – Add advanced option to delete attached images when we delete a post
• CHANGE – CORE – When saving an external image into the media library, save the external URL and reuse the local image on future saves/imports to avoid duplicating the images on every import
• CHANGE – CORE – Make the Columns Manager wider to have space for columns with long names
• CHANGE – CORE – Columns manager – When hovering over the name of disabled columns, it doesn’t show the name of the column
• CHANGE – CORE – COLUMNS MANAGER – Don’t show columns that can’t be disabled
• CHANGE – CORE – Updated styles of the toolbar
• CHANGE – CORE – Fix the 2 toolbars during scroll, not just the main toolbar
• CHANGE – CORE – Increased columns limit from 310 to 410 to prevent good columns from not showing up
• CHANGE – CORE – COLUMNS VISIBILITY – When we rescan, automatically increase the limit, so they can rescan until the missing column shows up
• CHANGE – CORE – Blacklist columns that contain a word with +26 characters because they usually are system/private columns that shouldn’t be seen nor edited
• CHANGE – CORE – Indicate how to increase number of rows per page in the footer of the sheet
• CHANGE – CORE – Highlight row that we’re editing
• FIX – CORE – Sometimes the fixed header jumps/shakes during scroll
• FIX – CORE – COLUMNS VISIBILITY – when we scroll to the right, the notification saying “column missing?” is not showing up
• FIX – CORE – When many posts have exact same date, sometimes the database returns duplicate posts during pagination because they are sorted by date
• FIX – CORE – When saving taxonomy terms that contain + and there is a term with same name except +, the term with + is saved without +

V 1.1.1.1 – 2019-10-18

• CHANGE – CORE – Allow to define default settings for product attributes (is visible, used for variations)
• CHANGE – CORE – View Post column should use the real link for published posts
• CHANGE – CORE – Automatic column detection should take the columns limit into consideration (i.e. to avoid scanning thousands of fields if only 100 are allowed)
• FIX – CORE – Factory – On rare occasions, the taxonomies sheet shows columns as a post type
• FIX – CORE – Factory – Some columns were missing because the sheet initialized twice

V 1.1.0 – 2019-10-01

• NEW – FORMULAS – Add placeholder: $random_date$
• NEW – WC Products – copy variations – Add option to copy individual variations
• NEW – WC Products – Allow editing the “download files” column as plain text
• NEW – WC Products – Allow copy pasting the “download files” column
• NEW – ACF – Add support for “file” fields
• NEW – POSTS TEMPLATES – Add “duplicate” option to the context menu to quickly duplicate rows
• NEW – CORE – Add contextual option to auto resize columns based on the content
• NEW – WC Products > Bulk Edit – Allow to activate/deactivate “is visible” for product attributes on all products at once
• NEW – WC Products > Bulk Edit – Allow to activate/deactivate “is variation” for product attributes on all products at once
• NEW – CORE – Added spanish translations
• NEW – WC Products – Add contextual menu to create variations for selected row, which opens the create variations modal and auto selects the product
• NEW – WC Products – Add contextual menu to copy variations from the selected row, which opens themodal and auto selects the product
• NEW – ACF – Add support for gallery field
• NEW – FILTERS – Add option to locate column
• NEW – CORE – Add contextual option: realign cells
• NEW – UNIVERSAL SHEET – IMPORT – Add advanced setting to skip the first N rows, so we can start imports from where we left off
• NEW – WC Products – Add “All” option to the dropdown global attributes columns, which automatically selects all the options in the dropdown while saving
• NEW – WC Products – Allow to edit the parent product of variations
• NEW – WC Products – Add the “product_variation” option to the post types column to convert any product into a variation
• CHANGE – CSV Import – Optimize the reading of CSV files to use less memory and read huge files
• CHANGE – CUSTOM COLUMNS – Allow spaces and () in the automatic column names
• CHANGE – WC Products – Free – Enable columns: ‘view_post’, ‘open_wp_editor’, ‘post_status’, ‘post_modified’, ‘post_date’, ‘_length’, ‘_height’, ‘_width’, ‘_weight’,
• CHANGE – CORE – When saving images from external URLs, limit the download time to 4 seconds to prevent timeouts when external servers are too slow, throttle, or block our requests
• CHANGE – FORMULAS – Don’t reduce the calls after every batch, do the same number of batches as initial defined because sometimes it only processed half the rows
• CHANGE – WC Products – Indicate why some cells are locked (i.e. columns for variations only or parent products only)
• CHANGE – CORE – Add links to tutorials/faqs in all the popups and pages
• CHANGE – UNIVERSAL SHEET – IMPORT – STEP 3 – Indicate that fields used for updating existing items must be imported in step 2
• CHANGE – UNIVERSAL SHEET – Upload csv – Detect when the file was uploaded successfully but it wasn’t read, and show a notification saying that it wasn’t read due to an encoding issue and ask them to verify that
• CHANGE – UNIVERSAL SHEET – When import fails, indicate possible solutions
• CHANGE – UNIVERSAL SHEET – IMPORT – When there is a data error and the import stops, indicate that the import was stopped and they need to correct the error and import again
• CHANGE – FORMULAS – Allow multi-line values in the bulk edits (set value, replace, etc.)
• CHANGE – CORE – Revert styles change of locked cells to experiment performance with/without the change
• Poner textos en español en el readme.txt de todos los plugins con frases comunes de búsqueda
• CHANGE – CORE – Free – make the pro columns more subtle, highlight the cell value
• CHANGE – CORE – Show “menu order” column for all post types because some post types use it for unorthodox purposes
• CHANGE – SPREADSHEET SETUP – Don’t allow to save new custom post types when the custom post types module is not available
• CHANGE – CORE – Added internal cache of conversion from friendly terms to IDs to speed up imports and savings
• CHANGE – CORE – Added internal cache of conversion from file URLs to file IDs to speed up imports and savings
• CHANGE – UNIVERSAL SHEET – Delete old csvs when the sheet loads because the cron job doesn’t run on rare server setups
• CHANGE – WC Products – When we add attributes and at least one is “allow for variations”, automatically set the product as variable
• CHANGE – POSTS TEMPLATE – when duplicating posts, don’t copy the post date, so the new posts have new dates
• CHANGE. UNIVERSAL SHEET. deactivate the rest api by default and add option to settings page to activate manually and add wp filter to activate programmatically
• CHANGE – UNIVERSAL SHEET – IMPORT – Add advanced option to auto retry failed batches
• CHANGE – UNIVERSAL SHEET – EXPORT – Add indications at the end of the process to answer questions like download didn’t start, where to find the file, when are the files deleted.
• CHANGE – UNIVERSAL SHEET – EXPORT – Optimize the download of large files to use less memory and start faster
• FIX – CORE – Allow saving images with spaces in the URL on the gallery columns
• FIX – CORE – Allow saving images from the /wp-content/uploads directory
• FIX – FILTERS – Keyword search should search on post title, content, and excerpt
• FIX – CORE – When importing terms with hierarchy, don’t html encode the hierarchy symbol
• FIX – CORE – Media columns – don’t attempt to show preview of files that aren’t images
• FIX – CUSTOM COLUMNS – Post types list doesn’t show sheets created with the Factory class
• FIX – WC Products > variations – When the “variation enabled” checkbox goes from unchecked to checked, it’s not saved
• FIX – COLUMNS VISIBILITY – The list of disabled columns didn’t show the current name of the columns, it showed the name the columns had when they were deactivated the first time
• FIX – CORE – Image cells – Allow to save images containing portuguese characters like “ção”
• FIX – WC Products – issue during cache clean up after saving when using WC copy variations – When saving meta data in the copied variations, unserialize to prevent double serialization from WP
• FIX – WC Products – Export – Some columns were excluded from the export, when it was a custom field used by variations
• FIX – WC Products – EXPORT – Some column headers when exporting attributes are missing because the first line of the file is not read properly
• FIX – CORE – SERIALIZED FIELDS – When the field contains a single level and subfields have integers as keys, it only shows the value of the first subfield in the cells and the other subfields appear empty
• FIX – WC Products – The internal caches of WC aren’t cleared after saving, causing changes not to appear when sites use aggressive cache like wp.com
• FIX – WC Products – when we edit global attributes in their own columns and change product type from simple to variable at the same time, automatically set the attribute as “used in variation”
• FIX – WC Products > create variations > create for every combination of attributes – PHP warning
• FIX – WC Products – When we delete a product completely, we remove the parent row but we should remove the child variation rows as well
• FIX – CORE – VIEW column has wrong link when viewing custom post types as draft
• FIX – GiveWP – It crashes the site if GiveWP is not installed
• FIX. CORE. delete all traces of the plugin on uninstall

—— V 1.0.17 – 2019-09-06 ——
Updated to CORE v2.14.0

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