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.
Aurelio Volle
You guys need to update the plugin to its latest version to enjoy this feature! :)
Poke @Gabriel
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Brandon
Aurelio Volle I keep seeing this message when trying to view the pro changelogs. A couple were showing a loading or progress bar but never loaded anything. Still, glad there's progress being made on this!
Aurelio Volle
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We've significantly improved the way we were fetching premium plugins.
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Gabriel
Aurelio Volle Basically fine, that was very fast, but what has changed? My premium plugins still don´t show a changelog - at least tested a few minutes ago with plugins from crocoblock, no changelog available and that´s a worldwide very popular toolkit for WordPress, Elementor and Bricks!
Umbrella says: "We could not find the changelog of this plugin. It is possible that this is a premium plugin."
BUT: the changelog is available in WordPress backend and on a external website too!
For another plugin you link to an external website. So this means you still don´t pull the changelog from the WordPress backend plugin page, because there it is always available. After so long time waiting for that this is very disappointing...
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Gabriel
I think the feature is still in development better to say there are still glitches, I will wait a few days...now it shows a "false"-error once I click on "Changelog".
Thomas Deneulin
Gabriel The changelog is fetched from your site and is not stored with us, so you'll need the latest version of the plugin (2.18.1 version)
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Gabriel
Thomas Deneulin I just updated to 2.18.1 a few minutes ago! I opened a ticket and attached a screenshot. "False"-Error.
Aurelio Volle
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We've started the active development of this feature and the release is expected next week.
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Gabriel
Aurelio Volle Thank you very much, I've been waiting for this for a long time and I'm very happy.
Dusin Dauncey
Aurelio Volle - Is there any ETA on this one? A lot of us are wanting to see changelog references for premium plugins. I know I've sent emails to you before with a few examples, but I don't see those added yet for the manual portion until the longer-term solution is in-place. This is a fairly basic feature to have in a tool like this, so I'm really hoping this is added in the near future. Please and thank you. :-)
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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.
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