Changelog for Premium plugins
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Akira Zabala
Currently WP Umbrella won't show the changelog for any pro plugin, but somehow the other platforms like ManageWP can show those changelogs. That being said, it would be really cool to be able to show those changelogs seamlesly (don't know the changelog source but it just works).
Find attached an example of how ManageWP is showing the Pro version changelog.
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Gabriel
More than a year has passed since then...no progress, not yet integrated.
The lack of changelogs is appointing and time consuming. Instead of that, a lot of things in reports are planned or are in progress. I don´t use reports at all.
Dusin Dauncey
Plugins like FlyingPress and WS Form won't load currently in WP Umbrella. Hoping these get added for changelog support. :-)
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Gabriel
Dusin Dauncey I've been waiting for a long time for the feature that Umbrella takes the changelog data from the WordPress backend like Manage WP does. This shouldn't be difficult and I don't understand why there are many other things in "Planned" status that are much less important for efficient maintenance management. It is very time-consuming when I have to go to the backend of every WordPress site to view the changelog for some plugins! How do other Umbrella users do it? Do they just update the plugins without knowing the changelog? That seems absolutely unrealistic to me.
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Gabriel
Still no progress on this topic (and still not in the "planned" roadmap), although it is obiously not that difficult to implement, but annoys me every day before updating plugins, because I have to go in the WP backend or search in internet for the changelog. Unfortunately other not neccessary features have been priorised (e. g. domain expiry which isn´t available in some countries at all or SSL expiry, which is announced automatically by hosting providers etc. etc.). The most important thing before plugin updates is to read the changelog!
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Gabriel
Unfortunately, nothing has happened on this topic for 8 months, especially since other less important things are on the planning or "in progress" list. The implementation of the changelog display is in my opinion easier than many things there.
And for me, one of the most time-consuming and cumbersome processes is having to search externally for the changelogs for countless plugins every time.
Why not simply pull the content of the link from the provider's plugin update link in the WordPress admin area and place the text in Umbrella?
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Gabriel
Hopefully the topic "changelog for all plugins" request makes it in the "planned" or "in progress" cue, because thats one of a few things, why I still have to log into ManageWP to check it and that´s very annoying;-) I find this task more important than some others on the list.
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Gabriel
I know how ManageWP does it and I already forwarded it to the development team of Umbrella for further investigation and hopefully integration as soon as possible. It´s not atom physics, furthermore it looks relatively simple how ManageWP and others do it: They pull the changelog of all plugins directly from the URL out of the WP admin "dashboard>plugins" of each website account, which means it is the same content as you click on the link "view version X.X.X details" or "show details" in the backend plugins menu under the description of the plugin in the second column!
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Akira Zabala
Gabriel Awesome! I was sure there should be an efficient and clever way to do it, thanks for contributing to this noble cause.
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Gabriel
Akira Zabala Would be good if more users vote for it, because in my opinion this must be important for a lot of users? As user "Barnabas" said, many go to the ManageWP dashboard and check the changelog for those plugins, for which Umbrella does not provide changelogs. And I plan to avoid using ManageWP futurely, but at the moment it is not possible because some crucial features for an efficient workflow are missing in Umbrella (e. g. Safe Update, Changelog for Pro Plugins etc.). There are a lot of "would be nice"-features on the wishlist, but some "must have" should be implemented in order to switch to Umbrella completely.
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Akira Zabala
Gabriel totally agree, same here using managewp for those little but important things. Wanting to ditch it for good.
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Gabriel
Akira Zabala Yes, but as you see, it is still not planned and it takes up my time.
Aurelio Volle
Guys, this has to be done on a manual basis as Pro Plugin doesn't use the universal URL of WordPress. Could you please send us a ticket at support@wp-umbrella.com with the plugins that are missing so we can add them?
Thank you! :)
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Gabriel
Aurelio Volle I don´t know how ManageWP does it, but it works for almost all Premium Plugins. I don´t think they are researching all info manually for all premium plugins?
For example (these are really very popular Pro / Paid Plugins with thousands of installations)
Premium Addons Pro
Download Manager Pro
Checkout Field Editor for WooCommerce Pro
Elementor Pro
Duplicator Pro
Flexible Shipping Pro
Germanized for WooCommerce Pro
German Market for WooCommerce
and many others...
Luther Harrity
Aurelio Volle I've done this twice now I think and didn't hear back from anyone. Looking for the crocoblock changelog to be added.
Barnabas
Absolutely.. Always I abandon the wp-umbrella platform to go and check the changelog of those premium plugins and then end up updating using the wp dashboard. No one who is serious updates without reading changelogs.
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Gabriel
Barnabas I told Umbrella how Manage WP does it a long time ago, but this feature doesn´t seem to be that important. A year has passed and this absolutely important feature is still not in the "Planned" status!
Barnabas
Gabriel I sent them a list of all my plugins last month with the link of the changelog of each plugin and they added all the links I asked them for within a day. It must have helped other users who have the same plugins as well.
In an email I wrote them for example:
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Gabriel
Barnabas There are 60.000 Plugins for WordPress available in the world and I think this is not the efficient method to do it (give them a list to implement it), but a temporary workaround. At the moment I have minimum 10 Plugins without changelog available in my update list. And I only use the most popular plugins which have thousands of installations. Manage WP and other management tools have the changelog directly in their backend administration like Umbrella has it momentarly only for free plugins.
Louise
Or even the power for us to set changelog URLs for missing plugins for ourselves. Currently, I email support so they can add it.