aurora-wordpress-admin/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to Aurora Admin are documented here, one entry per version bump. Starts at 2.1.0 — earlier history (the theming rebuild, window chrome/taskbar, Site Editor support, etc.) lives in git log and PROJECT_STATUS.md, not reconstructed here.

[2.4.2] - 2026-07-04

Fixed

• Admin Notices only ever showed on the Aurora Dashboard — everywhere else, admin_notices fired normally, but on the Dashboard specifically the notice was invisible: DashboardTakeover hides #wpbody entirely there (to hide the native dashboard, not our own), and that's exactly where WordPress prints admin_notices output. Notices now render directly inside the Aurora dashboard frame instead on that one page. Along the way, also worked around a separate WordPress core behavior (common.js unconditionally relocates every .notice element to right after the page's <h1>) using core's own documented below-h2 opt-out class, since without it the notice would've just been silently moved back into the hidden #wpbody by that script regardless of where it was placed server-side.

[2.4.1] - 2026-07-04

Fixed

• Dashboard scrolling was broken — content below the first ~1500px (Server Health, Media Analytics, etc.) was completely unreachable. .aurora-dashboard-frame never got the height cap + internal scroll treatment #wpbody-content got in an earlier fix; combined with html/body being locked to overflow: hidden (to fix a phantom scrollbar on a different page), there was no scroll mechanism left at all for the dashboard specifically. Mirrored the same max-height/overflow-y treatment onto .aurora-dashboard-frame.

[2.4.0] - 2026-07-04

Added

• Settings > Menu's "Menu search" toggle now actually does something — previously had no implementation at all. Shows a real search box at the top of the sidebar that filters both the WP-native menu list and the Aurora nav section by title, auto-expanding every section with a match.

Fixed

• Settings > Dashboard's "Custom dashboard" toggle now actually gates the dashboard takeover — previously the Aurora dashboard always replaced the native one regardless of this setting, with no way to turn it back off.
• Settings > Plugins' "Modern plugins page" and Settings > Comments' "Modern comments page" toggles now actually gate their respective takeovers/redirects the same way — previously both ran unconditionally regardless of these settings.

Removed

• Settings > Posts' "Modern posts table" and Settings > Users' "Modern users page" toggles — both described a custom management interface that was never built. Shipping a checkbox with nothing behind it is worse than not having the checkbox; removed rather than left as dead UI. Their categories are removed too, since they had no other fields.

[2.3.1] - 2026-07-04

Fixed

• Sidebar accordion now treats the "Aurora" branded nav section as part of the same single-open accordion as the WP-native menu list, instead of being the one exception that stayed open regardless of what else was expanded. Expanding any native section now collapses Aurora too, and vice versa.

[2.3.0] - 2026-07-04

Added

• Settings > Media's "Allow SVG uploads" toggle now actually does something — previously existed in the UI with no implementation behind it, so every SVG upload was rejected. Fixes both of WordPress's default blocks (the upload_mimes allowlist and the real-mime sniff that nulls out the file type for SVGs specifically), plus a PHP warning (wp_get_missing_image_subsizes() reading undefined width/height metadata keys that SVGs never had) that could otherwise corrupt the upload response on environments with warnings displayed inline. Also does basic sanitization on upload (strips <script> tags, inline event handler attributes, javascript: URIs) since SVG can carry executable content.

[2.2.0] - 2026-07-04

Added

• Settings > Login's "Style login page" and "Login logo" fields now actually do something — previously they existed in the UI with no implementation behind them at all. Styles wp-login.php with a dark theme (background, card, inputs, button) and swaps in the configured logo image in place of the WordPress logo, linked to the site's home URL instead of wordpress.org.

[2.1.1] - 2026-07-04

Fixed

• Image fields (Logo, Dark mode logo, Login logo, Admin favicon) now open the real WordPress media library picker. wp_enqueue_media() was never called, so wp.media was undefined client-side and every image field silently fell back to a plain URL prompt instead.

[2.1.0] - 2026-07-04

Added

• Free/paid feature gating: Role Editor, Activity Log, Database Explorer, Analytics, White Label, and the remote site switcher are now Pro features. Menu Creator, Admin Notices, Comments, Plugins, and the core shell/theming stay free. Locked pages show an upgrade prompt instead of the real feature; the sidebar shows a lock badge on locked items.
• Real license validation against the auroraplugins.com license server (validate/activate/deactivate), replacing the earlier placeholder that treated any non-empty key as active. Status is cached for 12 hours and re-checked immediately on a license-key change. The Settings page shows a live status line (active/invalid/unreachable) under the License key field.
• File-integrity tamper protection: if the code implementing the license gate has been modified, every paid feature re-locks regardless of an otherwise-valid license — makes stripping the check out of a redistributed copy not actually unlock anything.

Fixed

• Role Editor's REST endpoint 500'd when hit via the REST API — it called get_editable_roles(), which WordPress only auto-loads for normal wp-admin page requests, not REST requests.