NEW – Add lazy_load parameter to shortcode for loading the admin content only when it’s visible in the page
NEW – Add support for MaterialWP from NextPress
CHANGE – Don’t show the quick settings when editing the page with elementor
CHANGE – Table columns manager – Remove columns using a different filter to make it compatible with all the plugins
CHANGE – Add class vgfa-full-screen-activated to the body tag so people can style the page differently when the full screen mode is activated
CHANGE – Show own posts module – Don’t apply the restrictions to requests from guests, logged in users who can’t edit posts, ajax, and cron requests to prevent issues
CHANGE – The “view on the frontend” link in the backend sometimes doesn’t have the html class so use the ID instead
CHANGE – Show the admin content only when it finished loading
CHANGE – Improve the “edit texts” tool to allow editing on mouseover, to make it work on metabox titles and buttons that open popups where we can’t select the element with a click
FIX – Edit texts tool – When you open the page with edited texts and save without changing anything, the text edits are lost
FIX – The login doesn’t work when using the Theme My Login plugin.
FIX – When we have a frontend page for a custom post type, and we try to view the “posts” post type on the frontend it shows the wrong custom post type
FIX – The /wp-admin/ url is detected as an empty path
1.8.1 – 2019-11-11
CHANGE – Allow to display custom page instead of the wp die page when users don’t have the right capabilities
CHANGE – Quick settings – Allow to hide wp-admin notices
CHANGE – Add support for Dokan access restrictions
CHANGE – Open the gutenberg editor full screen
CHANGE- wp-admin – logo should link to our website, not the checkout page
FIX – Position issue with the search input for posts on mobile
FIX – When scrolling up and down on iphone, the content jumps
FIX – Wrong url encoding in rare cases
FIX – Problem when loading the wp-login.php page from a redirection of a custom login page
INTERNAL – Add option to disable the friendly frontend message indicating the needed capabilities or roles “You need more permissions to view this page”
1.8.0 – 2019-10-11
NEW – Add advanced option to redirect users to create new post after publishing a post
NEW – Add option to disable the “move of frontend page to the main window”
NEW – Add option to edit texts in the frontend editor
NEW – Add option to replace the post edit/create screen with direct elementor editor
NEW – Add option to show any URL keywords as full screen
NEW – Add option to show posts created by the current user only
NEW – Add shortcode for showing the login form: [wp_frontend_admin_login_form redirect_to=””]
NEW – Added option to settings page to add custom JS for advanced customizations
NEW – Detect pages with lists of posts and allow to disable table columns in the frontend editor
CHANGE – Prevent errors when users use backward/forward quotes in the shortcode
CHANGE – When a login attempt fails, redirect to our custom login page instead of the wp-login page
CHANGE – When a user logs out, redirect to our custom login page (or home if the custom login page is not defined) instead of sending to the wp-login page
FIX – Allow frontend pages in iframes on wp-admin pages (don’t redirect them to the main window, only redirect frontend pages in iframes on frontend pages)
FIX – Improve the update of the admin content height when the content changes
FIX – Remove blank space below the admin content inherited from the admin css
FIX – The custom css doesn’t work when viewing the customizer in the frontend
FIX – The free version doesn’t allow the posts list when the shortcode URL is not “edit.php” exactly
INTERNAL – Added filter vg_admin_to_frontend/open_frontend_pages_in_main_window to control which pages are opened in the main window and which pages can be opened inside the iframe
1.7.0 – 2019-08-19
NEW – Add option to define the frontend dashboard URL
NEW – Add option to set login page and redirect to login page instead of showing inline login form
NEW – Automatically redirect direct wp-admin pages to the frontend dashboard equivalent
CHANGE – Allow to use the quick settings section on full screen pages
CHANGE – Automatically redirect the restricted pages to the frontend dashboard
CHANGE – Don’t apply access restrictions on the settings page of the plugin when viewed by administrators to let them change settings if they get locked out
CHANGE – Don’t show the “global pages” metabox for non-administrators
CHANGE – Don’t show the “view on the frontend” toolbar option for non-administrators
CHANGE – Open the wpforms editor full screen
CHANGE – Update content height when window is resized
FIX – Access restriction option blocks all URLs when the site uses https
FIX – Added compatibility for formidable forms- open the form editor in full screen
FIX – Ignore weird tags found in the admin page title when generating the frontend page title
1.6.1 – 2019-07-13
NEW – Added option to hide all wp-admin notices on the frontend
CHANGE – Added compatibility with jQuery 3
CHANGE – Global pages – Clear elementor’s css cache after pages are copied
CHANGE – Hide admin bar on the frontend only for non-master users
CHANGE – Notify in the welcome page when the admin URL and frontend URL use a different protocol (https vs http) to prevent issues
CHANGE – Override the “edit post” link from the “wp user frontend” plugin to use our own frontend editor
CHANGE – Some wp-admin pages don’t load our backend.js file, so we automatically insert it from the frontend page in those cases
CHANGE – Replace the “edit” link in the frontend to edit elementor posts and pages with elementor in full screen mode
FIX – Multisite – When we activate the “hide admin bar” option, the frontend pages show an error 5xx
FIX – When using the frontend page, the tinymce plugins don’t insert content into the tinymce editor
FIX – When we view pages as admin, it creates duplicate “edit” pages when generating the “edit” link in the frontend
1.6.0 – 2019-06-26
NEW – Add option to auto scroll towards custom popups when the popups are opened
NEW – Add option to define whitelisted admin URLs and redirect the other URLs to the home
NEW – Add option to synchronize pages in multisite network
NEW – Added option “allow_any_url” to the shortcode to allow to display external pages or from other subsites or other frontend pages
NEW – Added option to define a demo account and auto login users with the demo credentials
NEW – Added option to hide system pages containing our shortcode to prevent normal users from editing them in the frontend dashboard
NEW – Added option use_desktop_in_mobile to the shortcode to use the desktop version on mobile devices when the admin page is not responsive
NEW – Automatically redirect frontend pages loaded from inside the iframe to the parent window
NEW – Multiste – Added option to use global settings from main site
CHANGE – Added fallback to the admin JS to load custom css from the frontend page when it’s available, to add compatibility to admin pages that don’t support query strings
CHANGE – ELEMENTOR – When using the elementor editor on the frontend, open it in full screen
CHANGE – Multisite – Automatically use the backend URL of the current site without having to update the shortcode
FIX – Error when viewing the post editor on a mobile device – content width was cut in half
FIX – When we upload files on the wp media page in the frontend, the loading indicator doesn’t appear when the url contains a query string
FIX – When we used the gutenberg editor in the frontend, the editor was 80px tall
FIX – When we view an admin page in the frontend, which requires higher permissions, the loading indicator never disappears
V 1.5.2 – 2019-04-15
NEW – Added compatibility with Elementor to create/edit pages in the frontend completely.
NEW – Added allow_single_post_edit parameter to the shortcode to allow to create a frontend page that edits a single post directly.
FIX – Sometimes tinymce urlencodes the url and it breaks the frontend load, so we use urldecode to prevent that
Other small tweaks.
V 1.5.1 – 2019-03-04
NEW – Added shortcode: [vg_display_edit_link] to display edit link on any post or page and open the frontend editor
CHANGE – Quick settings – Indicate what user roles and capabilities can view a page to facilitate the setup of user roles and capabilities.
CHANGE – Frontend page – When the user gets “You’re not allowed to view this page”, show instructions on how to setup the right capabilities and user roles because this page is being viewed by an admin.
CHANGE – Updated to freemius v2.2.4.
FIX – Minor PHP warning.
Other small tweaks.
V 1.5.0 – 2018-12-08
NEW – Quick settings – Add “Remove element” tool to hide elements from the admin page on the frontend by point-and-clicking
NEW – Added compatibility with wpforms > entries page
NEW – Added support for Cloudflare’s Rocket Loader
CHANGE – Updated plugin logo on wp-admin and wp.org
CHANGE – Allow to disable the quick settings bar
CHANGE – Display the quick settings as a left column so it looks better on any theme and simpler to use
FIX – When the admin page loads on the frontend, the admin menu/bar appears for a second
FIX – jQuery missing when the quick settings load before jquery loads
