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What's new with Turbo Admin The Changelog

v1.18.0 - 27th October 2024

Improvements

  • New command search algorithm. (Does not apply to content/API searches). This should be faster and better and hopefully it won't break anything. 🤞 In particular, it now does "fuzzy" matching, so "anpl" gets you to "Add New Plugin".

Bug fixes

  • Fix bug where palette search results were one step behind the user. Sorry about that one.

v1.17.1 - 27th October 2024

Improvements

  • Active/inactive indicators on plugin results.

Bug fixes

  • Fix fatal error with menu hiding.
  • Only show user and plugin search items when user has access to use them.
  • Fix duplicate search entries on front-end.
  • Fix for Edit Post not showing - and general logged-in state improvements.

v1.17.0 - 17th August 2024

Features

  • Plugin activate/deactivate actions.

Bug fixes

  • Fix issue with sub-menu actions.

v1.16.0 - 13th August 2024

Features

Bug fixes

  • Fix bug with meta key presses when palette is open. (Thanks Phil Kurth!)

v1.15.3 - 22nd July 2024

Improvements

  • Makes keyboard navigation work on plugin list.
  • Neyboard navigation now scrolls the current item into view.

Bug fixes

  • Fix list table keyboard shortcuts bugs.

v1.15.1 - 19th July 2024

Improvements

  • Add localhost to dev sites.

Bug fixes

  • Fix list table keyboard shortcuts on plugins screen.
  • Fix annoying issue with login links on LocalWP.

v1.15 - 18th July 2024

Features

Improvements

  • Added stg., .wpenginepowered.com, .bigscoots-staging.com and .azurewebsites.net as dev/staging URLs.

v1.14 - 15th July 2024

Features

  • The “Auto-remove block editor welcome screen” feature now hides the pattern selector on the new page screen, and the welcome page on the dashboard.

Improvements

  • Show search modes in the command palette.

Bug fixes

  • Restore the input state after a search action.
  • Firefox bug fix in the plugin code.

v1.13.2 - 30th May 2023

Improvements

  • Improvements to notice hiding.
  • Fix and improve Barkepper feature.
  • Always show the shortcut key in uppercase in the settings.
  • Improvements to internal storage.

v1.13.1 - 25th May 2023

Improvements

  • Just a version bump for a Firefox build.

v1.13.0 - 25th May 2023

Improvements

  • Extension now uses "Manifest v3" which is a new extension format. Hopefully nothing is broken but PLEASE report any issues.
  • Speed improvements in some situations (cache post types collected from the API).
  • Improvements to list-table keys (more list-table key nav improvements coming).
  • "stagingX" (e.g. staging1.somedomain.com) now recognised as a staging domain.
  • Other behind-the-scenes improvements and preparations for other new features.

Bug fixes

v1.12.1 - 25th May 2023

New features

  • Adds a debug mode and hides non-essential logging when it's turned off.

Improvements

  • Make adding new settings robust by merging defaults into existing settings.
  • Make API startup and discovery more robust.

Bug fixes

  • Fix errors when starting up the barkeeper feature.

v1.12.0 - 17th December 2022

New features

  • The Big One: Search modes! (See the usage guide)
  • Plugin search.
  • User search.
  • WooCommerce order and customer search.

Improvements

  • Better settings panel UI.
  • Much-improved API error handling.
  • Add Cloudways URLs to dev/staging environment detection.
  • Big rewrite to allow an internal plugin architecture.

Bug fixes

  • Fix duplicate live/dev site labels (I think).
  • Fix submenu scrolling.

v1.9.1 - 4th December 2022

Bug fixes

  • Fix an issue that caused settings not to load on startup.

v1.9.0 - 9th March 2022

New features

  • Option to put the command palette in the admin bar as a little search bar. Nice!
  • Optional "Barkeeper" that hides a bunch of stuff in the admin bar. Pairs really nicely with the admin bar change.

v1.8.1 - 27th February 2022

Bug fixes

  • A tiny bug fix. You're welcome!

v1.8.0 - 27th February 2022

New features

  • Free trial!

Minor Improvements

  • Better post type detection in the command palette

v1.7.1 - 27th February 2022

Minor Improvements

  • MUCH improved full-screen editor killer and editor welcome screen remover (using mutation observer, if you're interested)
  • Detect dev/staging sites on WP Engine (props to Greg Burnison and Erik Teichmann for reporting and helping test!)
  • Fix links in the settings popup on Chrome (props to Nathan Wrigley for reporting).
  • Improved live/staging/dev site notice handling (hopefully fixes the "(DEV) (DEV) (DEV)" issue if you ever saw that, but I couldn't reliably replicate it)

v1.7.0 - 6th February 2022

New Features

  • Re-designed notice hiding (experimental). Read more.
  • Live/dev site labels (experimental). Read more.
  • List table keyboard navigation (experimental). Read more.
  • Oxygen builder support.

Minor Improvements

  • MUCH improved content search with better debouncing and caching
  • Icon for dark mode
  • Improved login URL discovery and remembering
  • Improved palette startup time

Under the hood

  • Started using JSDoc-based static analysis

v1.6.0 - 11th August 2021

Big New Features

Minor Improvements

  • Allow space to be used in the key combo

v1.5.1 - 18th July 2021

Version bump to enable publishing.

v1.5 - 17th July 2021

PLEASE NOTE: This version requires new permissions, due to an added copy-to-clipboard feature. Chrome/Edge/Brave browsers will disable the updated extension until you give it this new permission

Big New Features

  • Content search! Search for (public) content on your sites, and any detected WordPress site with the REST API enabled.
  • Cached menu items to make them available on the front end.
  • Prevent block editor full-screen mode
  • Automatically dismiss block editor welcome screen

Minor Improvements

  • Meta/Ctrl + Click/Enter opens the selected item in a new tab
    Note: This requires browser "pop-ups" to be enabled for each site you use it on.
  • Extension icon now indicated when Turbo Admin is active on a site
  • Improved palette styles
  • Improved login detection URL
  • Improved key combo detection
  • Improved mouse hover behaviour
  • Better browser checks for licensing

v1.4 - 23rd July 2021

Initial release with basic functionality