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Changelog

All notable user-facing changes to SyteHero are documented here. Uses Keep a Changelog format with Added / Changed / Fixed / Removed buckets.

v1.0.047 — 2026-04-18​

Added​

  • Pre-packaged overlay scaffold for the Elementor widget — dropping the SyteHero Hero Slider widget onto a page now produces the Text Area 1, Text Area 2, and CTA overlay automatically. No separate Heading/Button widgets required and no CSS-class scaffolding to remember. Content still comes from SyteHero → Custom Heroes (or the Featured Products slider); empty source fields hide the matching overlay element.
  • Style tab on the Elementor widget — per-placement controls for text colour, font size, font weight, line height, and alignment on each of Text Area 1, Text Area 2, and CTA, plus a layout "gap between elements" control. Values cascade on top of the global SyteHero Settings defaults.

Changed​

  • Shared scaffold subsystem introduced under Syte\Hero\Integrations\Scaffold (StyleSchema, StyleTokens, ScaffoldRenderer). The Elementor widget is the first consumer; the Gutenberg block (v1.0.048) and Avada/Divi elements (v1.0.049) will reuse the same building blocks.

v1.0.046 — 2026-04-18​

Added​

  • Elementor widget: SyteHero Hero Slider — drop a "SyteHero Hero Slider" widget onto any Elementor page and pick either the Featured Products slider or a saved Custom Hero from a dropdown. Rotation, Text Area 1 / Text Area 2 / CTA overlays, license gating, and theme styling are inherited from the existing shortcode path, so there is no duplicate content to manage. Per-instance view variant (desktop/tablet/mobile) and an optional wrapper CSS class are exposed.
  • Settings → Tab access → Enable Elementor widgets toggle — lets admins turn the widget off globally without affecting existing shortcode placements.

v1.0.045 — 2026-04-16​

Fixed​

  • Fatal error on admin pages — added missing use import for AiProviderAjaxHandler in AdminJsConfig after the AJAX namespace refactor. The class moved to Admin\Ajax but the reference was not updated, causing a fatal "Class not found" error on every admin page load.

v1.0.044 — 2026-04-16​

Fixed​

  • Uniform hero height — product, custom/page, and fallback slides now all render at the same configured height. Previously, custom slides with large images could push the hero beyond the set viewport height.
  • FlexSlider smoothHeight — no longer fights the hero height constraint inside the slider background.
  • Supplemental slide auto-save — editing text, margins, modes, or glow on custom/page slides now auto-saves via AJAX. Previously these changes were lost because the save was never triggered.
  • Push View persistence — the Push View button now persists changes for supplemental and fallback hero text editors.

v1.0.043 — 2026-04-15​

Fixed​

  • Straico AI provider — migrated from v1 API (which returned HTTP 522) to the OpenAI-compatible v2 API. Straico now uses the same request format as OpenAI and OpenRouter.
  • Straico model picker — filters to chat models only, excluding image, video, and audio models from the text-provider dropdown.

Changed​

  • AI chat completion timeout — increased from 30 seconds to 60 seconds to accommodate slower LLM providers and aggregator services.
  • OpenAI-format token limit — requests now send both max_completion_tokens and max_tokens for broad compatibility with OpenAI-compatible providers.

v1.0.042 — 2026-04-15​

Fixed​

  • Admin-bar launcher reliability — removed a hard script dependency (media-editor) that could silently prevent the launcher from loading, causing admin-bar AI Studio items to stop responding to clicks.
  • Modal media picker diagnostics — media picker guards now log a visible console warning when wp.media is unavailable, replacing the previous silent no-op.

Changed​

  • Launcher script hardening — script loader now tracks already-loaded assets to prevent duplicates, scopes click handling to the admin bar, and logs errors on script load failure.

v1.0.041 — 2026-04-15​

Fixed​

  • AI Studio admin-bar modals on every page — Generate, Transform, Remove Background, Upscale, Extend to Fit, Image to Video, and AI Copy now work when launched from the admin bar on any admin page (Dashboard, Posts, Users, Plugins) or on the frontend for logged-in admins. Previously the modals opened but buttons inside were inert because their scripts didn't receive the full SyteHero config or the WordPress media picker.

Changed​

  • Admin-bar launcher moved to enqueued assets — the launcher script and styles previously printed inline in each admin page now load from cacheable sytehero-admin-bar-launcher.js and .css files. No user-facing difference beyond slightly smaller page HTML.

v1.0.040 — 2026-04-15​

Fixed​

  • AI provider tokens-refresh button — the refresh button next to Max Tokens on the AI Image provider card now syncs only the tokens value from the selected model. It no longer refetches the models list. If the models haven't been loaded yet, click Refresh models first.
  • Admin-bar AI modals — modals launched from the top SyteHero → AI Studio → [modal] menu (AI Copy, BG Removal, Upscale, Outpaint, Image-to-Video) now render with the same styling as the AI Studio Generate modal. Previously, opening them outside the AI Studio page loaded only the base modal stylesheet, leaving drop zones and AI Copy-specific layout unstyled.

v1.0.039 — 2026-04-15​

Changed​

  • AI Copy modal styling — reference tiles, inputs, suggestion chips, and status states now use the same dark modal surface styling as the other AI Studio modals.
  • Transform modal footer layout — action groups now keep a cleaner responsive structure as space tightens, with more consistent button alignment across desktop and mobile.

v1.0.038 — 2026-04-15​

Changed​

  • Prompt Enhancement — now routes through the shared AI text-provider system. Fal is registered as a text provider so existing Fal-only setups keep working without any extra configuration. Saved Fal API keys carry over automatically.

Removed​

  • Legacy AI image shims — sytehero_fal_* AJAX action aliases, the sytehero_fal_settings option, and the FalAiSettings / get_fal_service transitional helpers from the v1.0.036 AI provider refactor have been removed. Any integrations still calling the old names must update to sytehero_ai_image_*.

v1.0.037 — 2026-04-15​

Changed​

  • AI Studio — Integrations tab — AI image providers now render as separate card-style blocks with a shared save flow, making multi-provider configuration faster and less error-prone. Per-provider connection testing is preserved.
  • Documentation — Integrations docs updated to describe the refreshed card layout and shared save workflow.

v1.0.036 — 2026-04-15​

Changed​

  • AI Studio — Fal AI is now implemented as the first adapter in a pluggable AI image/media provider system. Each capability (Generate, Transform, Remove BG, Upscale, Extend to Fit, Image-to-Video) can be independently routed to different providers. Existing Fal API key and settings migrate automatically on upgrade.
  • Prompt Enhancement — now available as a function area on the Integrations tab; when configured with a text provider (Claude, OpenAI, etc.) prompts are enhanced via that provider instead of Fal's built-in model.

v1.0.035 — 2026-04-09​

Changed​

  • FluentCart detection — recognizes FluentCart and FluentCart Pro using broader class and constant signals when WooCommerce is not installed

Fixed​

  • Plugin activation — no longer fatals when the ecommerce gateway is unavailable; featured-tag setup runs when the store is ready

v1.0.034 — 2026-04-09​

Added​

  • Integrations refresh — refresh actions for the AI model list and max-tokens fields on the Integrations card

Changed​

  • AI Providers card — three-column layout, Browse Models links, clearer dropdowns, and visual polish
  • Maintenance — uninstall cleanup, FluentCart-related fixes, and modularization from the comprehensive review

Fixed​

  • Fal balance capture — fast models record post-generation balance and cost data more reliably
  • AI integrations — Straico and Gemini model loading, integrations refresh behavior, badge contrast, and max-tokens synchronization

v1.0.033 — 2026-04-08​

Added​

  • AI Studio modal — new dark-themed modal for text-to-image and image-to-image generation, accessible from any admin page
  • Admin bar launcher — a ✨ icon in the WordPress admin bar opens the AI Studio modal from any admin screen without navigating to the AI Studio page
  • AI media manager — dedicated AI Media tab to browse and delete AI-generated images, with usage detection to protect in-use assets

Removed​

  • Unused Media Scanner — AI Studio's Tools tab and all underlying scan/delete/export functionality has been removed.

Changed​

  • Admin background — Plugin admin pages now use a neutral slate-gray page canvas (#f8fafc) so white cards visually lift off the background.

Fixed​

  • Countdown modal save — Clicking "Save Settings" in the countdown modal now immediately persists settings via AJAX. A second manual save of the schedule form is no longer required.
  • Analytics click tracking — CTA clicks are now tracked at click time via a rate-limited AJAX beacon. Previously, "clicks" only recorded at completed checkout.

Changed​

  • AI Studio checkboxes — Custom checkbox styling with proper checked state and focus indicator replaces the native browser rendering.

v1.0.032 — 2026-04-01​

Added​

  • AI hero image generation powered by fal.ai — select a source image from the media library, write a prompt, pick a model (with cost indicators), and generate a new hero image directly in the WordPress admin
  • New fal.ai integration card on the Integrations tab for API key management and connection testing
  • "Generate with AI" buttons on the product metabox, Heroes tab, and Schedules tab

v1.0.031 — 2026-04-01​

Changed​

  • FluentCart release workflow: clearer logging and documentation for the x-sytehero-release WAF header (including guidance when the same Cloudflare zone also fronts SyteOps)

v1.0.030 — 2026-04-01​

Changed​

  • Release automation can optionally publish the plugin ZIP to SyteWide FluentCart product downloadables when repository credentials are configured (no change required for sites that only install updates from SyteWide)

v1.0.029 — 2026-04-01​

Fixed​

  • Video and iframe content now displays correctly in analytics hover preview when a slide uses video media

v1.0.027 — 2026-04-01​

Added​

  • Persistent slide labels in the analytics dashboard — label your slides for easy identification
  • Hover preview tooltip showing the slide image or video in analytics Card and Table views

v1.0.026 — 2026-03-31​

Added​

  • "No-track" bookmark link in analytics settings for quickly toggling tracking on and off

v1.0.025 — 2026-03-31​

Fixed​

  • Countdown timer now correctly respects tablet device visibility toggle

v1.0.024 — 2026-03-31​

Added​

  • Analytics fallback labels for slides without explicit names
  • Reset button for analytics data
  • Option to exclude admin users from analytics tracking

Fixed​

  • Hero rotation order now preserved when schedules add or remove slides

v1.0.010 — 2026-03-30​

Added​

  • Sale countdown timer overlay — display a live countdown on hero slides tied to sale end dates, with configurable position (top strip or below CTA) and per-slide visibility toggles
  • Slide performance analytics dashboard — track slide impressions with Card and Table views, date-range filtering, and a visual analytics tab in the admin

Changed​

  • SyteWide branding applied to admin page header
  • Analytics tab repositioned for better workflow

v1.0.009 — 2026-03-30​

Fixed​

  • Email footer logo now renders at correct size with shared branding helper

v1.0.007 — 2026-03-30​

Changed​

  • Updated to transparent PNG logos across admin and email branding

v1.0.004 — 2026-03-30​

Fixed​

  • Email report cron scheduling now fires reliably
  • Corrected shortcode tag names after rebrand

Added​

  • Cron diagnostics in admin for troubleshooting scheduled emails

v1.0.000 — 2026-03-28​

Added​

SyteHero launches as the successor to SyteSlyders, carrying forward all features under a new name and unified codebase:

  • Featured product hero slider with drag-and-drop ordering, per-slide scheduling, and pause controls
  • Hero text overlays with per-view (desktop/tablet/mobile) customization, glow effects, and CTA buttons
  • Custom heroes — add page, category, or custom URL slides alongside products
  • Sales scheduling — start/end dates, retain-after-expiry, and banner sync
  • Banners — rich-text announcement banners tied to sale schedules
  • Custom CSS — cross-theme CSS editor scoped to hero wrappers
  • Shortcodes — embed featured and custom sliders anywhere via shortcode
  • Slider engines — choose between FlexSlider, Swiper, or Splide
  • Multi-theme support — Avada, Divi, and Elementor integrations with theme-aware injection
  • Multi-ecommerce support — works with both WooCommerce and FluentCart
  • Google Calendar integration — two-way sync of sale schedules with Google Calendar
  • Shippo shipping integration — tracking info and shipping label costs in sales summary emails
  • Sales summary reports — periodic and real-time order notification emails with dark mode support
  • Backup & restore — full settings export/import
  • License activation — first-run setup with EULA consent and SyteWide license validation
  • Set Defaults modal — configure master hero text defaults and push to individual slides
  • Admin preview — responsive browser-style preview with desktop/tablet/mobile breakpoints
  • Documentation tab — in-plugin docs with configurable demo video