Tag: dashboard

Payment Gateway Stats 3.1 – More accurate stats

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Payment Gateway Stats 3.0 and newer works with modern WooCommerce versions again. Meaning WooCommerce version 5 and newer.

Version 3.1, this update, has been tested in WooCommerce 10.4 and fixes a the discovery query for Payment Methods. A number of payment gateway plugins combine several payment methods into one option in WooCommerce. For example – the PayPal plugin I use combines Paypal, Venmo, Apple Pay and Google Pay into one payment option. All of these methods would show up as “PayPal” in Payment Gateway Stats.

As a quirk, if the first found transaction happened to be through, say, Apple Pay. All PayPal payments would show up as Apple Pay. This causes confusion for you as a user. It certainly did for me when I found this out today. So an immediate fix was needed.

Now, with the new query, these are split out into their ‘sub titles’ and the plugin relies a bit more on the parsed title for splitting up payment methods. Apple Pay is Apple Pay, and PayPal is Paypal, even if they’re paid for through the same payment method. Simple as that.

Changes in Payment Gateway Stats

  • Update – Payment gateways accepting various methods on one gateway are now shown accurately
  • Tested – WooCommerce 10.4

Download

The update is available for WordPress and Classicpress. Please update Payment Gateway Stats today. The update is available through automatic updates in your dashboard, or via direct download in your profile on this website if you bought the plugin within the last year. If you do not have Payment Gateway Stats yet, you can buy a copy below.

AdRotate Pro 5.25 – An all new dashboard

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AdRotate Pro 5.25 introduces the same renewed dashboard as AdRotate Banner Manager got last month. Including a few refinements. All data passing through the dashboard options is better santized and better checked for valid inputs as well. The dashboard is now responsive, making the usability on smaller devices much much better.

Exporting and Importing adverts is made better with more reliable code and better checks for the data entered through a CSV file. If you were using this method to get adverts into the system, make a new template file. Simply export 1 configured advert to make a new template file.

The importer will check for the exported version and refuse older files as they are not longer compatible. The new import code better checks which column belongs where and what data goes in it, but it remains ‘dumb’ CSV. So make sure your files are up-to-date and compatible. Notable changes are that more settings are now included in the files, making for a more complete export and a better import.

Similarly the Portability hash got an update as well, improving the format of the hash, but also by including more advert settings.

Please report issues

The bug fixes in this update are made possible thanks to good feedback and information provided by you, the users! If you see something isn’t right with the plugin, even stupid things like typo’s. Please report them. AdRotate Pro users can use the ticket system for that. The primary contact form is available through your dashboard, but you can also use the contact form on my website.

Without your reports, suggestions or insights I can’t improve the plugin. So please send in your suggestions and report issues, bugs and quirks as soon as possible. Providing some insights on why software doesn’t work for you is very important for developers to improve their products.

Changes in version 5.25

  • Update – Dashboard now works better on smaller devices (responsive)
  • Update – All advert settings now included in CSV exports
  • Update – All new import/export routines for CSV files
  • Update – Improved portability hash generation
  • Update – All dashboard settings pages refreshed
  • Update – Much improved sanitization for dashboard inputs
  • Update – Support dashboard page refreshed
  • Update – Removed unused CSS from dashboard.css
  • New – All new import adverts dashboard
  • Change – Import adverts is now located in the Manage Adverts dashboard
  • Fix – Auto disabling of ads not working
  • Fix – Non-existent/new sessions no longer give a deprecated warning

Download

The update is available now, you can update through automatic updates in your dashboard or via direct download in your dashboard. Or if you do not have AdRotate Pro yet, get your copy today through the product pages below.

AdRotate 5.17 – Bugfixes and dashboard updates

AdRotate Banner Manager 5.17 is the second in a few updates to overhaul the dashboard. In this release the new dashboard introduced a few versions ago gets a few more tweaks and some of the styles and related code gets refinements so it works even better. Dashboard buttons and switches are now better aligned and all of the blocks/widgets in the dashboard are now in a responsive grid. This should massively improve the usability of AdRotate Banner Manager on mobile devices.

In conjunction with AdRotate Pro this version also improves the export capabilities for ads. For AdRotate Banner Manager this mostly means the Portability Hash works better. The hash is better formed and includes more settings from ads, along with better checks for missing or incorrect data.

Please report problems

Thanks to useful user feedback all recent bugs have been quickly addressed and received fixes for within days, sometimes even hours. You can help out too! If you see that something isn’t right with the plugin, even stupid things like typo’s. Please report them. AdRotate has a support forum on wordpress.org for that. But if you feel the issue is important enough you can always email me with your question or concern.

Without your reports, suggestions or insights I can’t improve the plugin. So please send in your suggestions and report issues, bugs and quirks as soon as possible. Providing some insights on why software doesn’t work for you is very important for developers to improve their products.

Changes in version 5.17

  • Update – Dashboard now works better on smaller devices (responsive)
  • Update – Improved portability hash generation
  • Update – All dashboard settings pages fine-tuned
  • Update – Support and AdRotate Pro dashboard pages refreshed
  • Update – Removed unused CSS from dashboard.css
  • Fix – Removed remaining multisite code causing warnings/errors for some people
  • Fix – Removed unused licensing code from the support form

Download

The update is available for WordPress and Classicpress. Please update AdRotate today, available through automatic updates in your dashboard, via direct download through this website and Github. If you do not have AdRotate or AdRotate Professional yet, get started with ads today through the product pages below.

AdRotate 5.16 – Dashboard overhaul

AdRotate Banner Manager 5.16 is the first in a few upcoming updates to overhaul the dashboard. It struck me that in the last 15 or so years the dashboard has remained pretty much unchanged. While that is fine, stable and predictable, a bit of updating isn’t back.

So to start for all settings pages the look has been updated to include backgrounds, rounded corners and the ‘ugly’ banner at the bottom of each page has moved to a sidebar in settings. I’ve also re-added the RSS feeds so people can actually see blog updates – Including this post – if they want to.

I’m not entirely sure what to do with the management dashboards, but they’ll likely see some updates in the coming few updates as well. Clear your browser cache if the new dashboards look misaligned or like they’re missing bits and pieces.

Another thing brought to my attention were some inefficient queries for stats. These have been fixed and updated as well. On average, on my tiny test site, these queries are now at least twice as fast. And in searching for other queries to improve I found a few typos and quirks that have been fixed as well.

Please report suggestions and issues

If you see something isn’t right with the plugin, even stupid things like typo’s. Please report them. AdRotate has a support forum on wordpress.org for that. But if you feel the issue is important enough you can always email me with your question or concern.

Without your reports, suggestions or insights I can’t improve the plugin. So please send in your suggestions and report issues, bugs and quirks as soon as possible. Providing some insights on why software doesn’t work for you is very important for developers to improve their products.

Changes in version 5.16

  • Performance – Faster queries for loading certain stats
  • Performance – Added faster INDEX for stats and stats_archive tables
  • Change – Database version 75
  • Change – Moved action links to plugin meta text
  • Fix – Widget title no longer converts to a slug
  • Update – All dashboard settings pages refreshed
  • Update – Support dashboard page refreshed
  • Update – Notification texts and footer banner
  • Update – Block code

Download

The update is available for WordPress and Classicpress. Please update AdRotate today, available through automatic updates in your dashboard, via direct download through this website and Github. If you do not have AdRotate or AdRotate Professional yet, get your started with ads today through the product pages below.

Analytics Spam Blocker 4.1 – Updated dashboard and translations

Analytics Spam Blocker improves the dashboard with updated text, translation strings and new action links. This is a small update to ensure the plugin works well with modern WordPress.

Changes for Analytics Spam Blocker version 4.1

  • fix – Translation domain not defined correctly
  • change – Dashboard tweaks
  • update – Action links
  • i18n – Added missing translation strings

The download for Analytics Spam Blocker should pop up in your dashboard shortly. Or you can download the plugin here: https://ajdg.solutions/product/analytics-spam-blocker-for-wordpress/