Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE)

Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) v1.0.0 was released on October 17, 2022. Since then, there have been 87 major releases (e.g. 1.1.0 ) and 199 minor releases (e.g. 4.9.1), for a total of 286 releases.

Each major release usually corresponds with the addition of one new module/feature. Each module/feature usually is the equivalent of one (or more) single-purpose plugin. Each minor release usually contain one or more bugfix or improvements to existing modules/features.

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8.8.5 (2026.06.22) – ASE Free and Pro

• [IMPROVED/FIXED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Wider Admin Menu: fixed an issue where the wider admin menu is overlapping Fluent Support admin pages. Props to Diiamo for reporting this with a screenshot.

• [IMPROVED/FIXED in Free and Pro] Utilities >> Email Delivery: improved mechanism for encrypting SMTP password to no longer rely on WP salts, which can change in certain scenarios, causing silent email delivery failure. Props to someone from @rocket.ch for reporting the issue.

• [FIXED in Free and Pro] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: fixed several PHP warnings in PHP 8.4.

• [IMPROVED and FIXED in Pro] Utilities >> Site Backup and Migration:

  • Improved the reliability of database export during backups. Props to Uli L. for prompting this improvement.
  • Improved the reliability of how the “Download” button works for local and remote backup archives. Props to Dominik K. for reporting a related issue that prompted this improvement.
  • Storage folder (from the ‘Storage’ tab/feature) by default is no longer included when creating a backup archive. Props to Fellipe R.d.V. for prompting this change.
  • Added a new option in the module settings to include the storage folder in backup, restore and migration operations. May be useful if you want to have extra redundancy for the WP site you are using as a storage location for backing up your other WP sites. For example, in that storage WP site’s backup policy, you can opt to send a backup to Amazon S3, Dropbox, etc., thus creating redundancies for the backup archives of your other WP sites in one go.
  • Added backup archive note viewer inside the emergency restore script.
  • Fixed JS error related to the archive note when initiating manual backup.

• [FIXED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types: fixed PHP warning in PHP 8.4 related to the new WPML integration. Props to Niels S. for reporting the issue in detail.

• [FIXED in Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Redirect After Login: fixed a bug where 2FA is being bypassed when this module is enabled. Props to Danny V. for reporting the issue in detail, with screenshots and a screen recording.

• [TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now being translated into 38 languages:

  • Added new/improved translation for:
  • ASE Free: Updated Slovak, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, Norwegian, Dutch (Netherlands), Dutch (Belgium).
  • ASE Pro: Updated Greek, Polish, Slovak.
  • More strings have been internationalized. @Translators, please visit the respective project pages for the Free and Pro versions to translate the new strings, if you havent’ done so already.
  • Interested to help translate or improve the translation? Please go to https://translate.wpase.com for more info.
  • Chinese (China): ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to @bricksvip et al. Current status: 39 strings untranslated.
  • Portuguese (Brazil): ASE Free and ASE Pro (completed). Props to Valdemir M., Dennis F., denisgomesfranco, Denison C. and @ofmarconi. Current status: 0 strings untranslated.
  • Hungarian: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to R. József G. et al. Current status: 14 strings untranslated.
  • Vietnamese: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Hoang N.Q. et al. Current status: 0 strings untranslated.
  • Italian: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Fabio P. et. al. Current status: 36 strings untranslated.
  • Dutch: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Toine R and Peter S. et al. Current status: 0 strings untranslated.
  • Korean: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to @chazmlab et al. Current status: 8 strings untranslated.
  • German (Formal): ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to @markussss, Bastian S. et al. Current status: 63 strings untranslated.
  • French: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Stéphan G., @jeanfrancoisdelvin, @srossignol, @lucashw, @skippy43, @anlip, @agencefacton, @injsbx et al. Current status: 25 strings untranslated.
  • Polish: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Jaroslaw K., Dziubek and Dariusz Z. et al. Current status: 0 strings untranslated.
  • Norwegian: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Alf O.F. et al. Current status: 0 strings untranslated.
  • Czech: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Jan S. et al. Current status: 59 strings untranslated.
  • Spanish (Spain): ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to @marcorubiol et al. Current status: 34 strings untranslated.
  • Slovak: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to Dominik K. et al. Current status: 8 strings untranslated.
  • Indonesian: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to @pakacil, Wawan S. et al. Current status: 10 strings untranslated.
  • Portuguese (Portugal): ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Ricardo C. et al. Current status: 37 strings untranslated.
  • Ukrainian: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Irina et al. Current status: 23 strings untranslated.
  • Urdu: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Ayyaz A. et al. Current status: 135 strings untranslated.
  • Swedish: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Robert M. and Tor-Bjorn F.. Current status: 36 strings untranslated.
  • Danish: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Morten E.L., Helgi P. and Kurt M.A. et al. Current status: 23 strings untranslated.
  • Arabic: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (completed). Props to Mohammed J., Yaser M., et al. Current status: 10 strings untranslated.
  • Romanian: ASE Free (completed) | ASE Pro (partial). Props to Dan C., @ravishi and @catalinx777. Current status: 19 strings untranslated.
  • Turkish: ASE Free (completed). Props to @saeead, @serdaroztrk et al. Current status: 0 strings untranslated.
  • Chinese (Taiwan): ASE Free (completed). Props to @gordon168 and Hedula. Current status: 1 strings untranslated
  • Spanish (Chile): ASE Free (completed). Props to @srgio. Current status: 35 strings untranslated.
  • Serbian: ASE Free (partial). Props to Igor E. and @plug-n-play. Current status: 17 strings untranslated.
  • Albanian: Props to @algertpateqi. Current status: 34 strings untranslated.
  • Persian: ASE Free (completed). Props to @saeead et al. Current status: 0 strings untranslated.
  • Russian: ASE Free (completed). Props to @sergey369, @pfgr et al. Current status: 26 strings untranslated.
  • Bosnian: ASE Free (completed). Props to @plug-n-play et al. Current status: 76 strings untranslated.
  • Croatian: ASE Free (completed). Props to @plug-n-play. Current status: 81 strings untranslated.
  • Japanese: ASE Free (completed). Props to @zionote et al. Current status: 38 strings untranslated.
  • Catalan: ASE Free and Pro (completed). Props to @agendablanca, @lluishospital et al. Current status: 49 strings untranslated.
  • Bengali (Bangladesh): ASE Free (completed) and Pro (partial). Props to Ruhani R.. Current status: 37 strings untranslated.
  • Bulgarian: ASE Free (completed) and Pro (partial). Props to Svetoslav S.. Current status, 18 strings untranslated.
  • Greek: ASE Free (completed) and Pro (completed). Props to Stelio C.. Current status: 38 strings untranslated.
  • Dutch (Belgium): ASE Free (completed). Props to Pieterjan D.. Current status, 0 strings untranslated.
  • Azerbaijani: ASE Free (completed). Props to Saeid BGrn. Current status, 1 strings untranslated.
  • Estonian: ASE Free (completed) and Pro (completed). Props to Aleksander K.. Current status, 0 strings untranslated.

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