Essentials by Digital Creatings

2.0.0

• New: Modern admin UI compatible with WordPress 7.0
• New: Self-hosted admin CSS/JS (removed external Bootstrap CDN dependency)
• New: Unified navigation and card-based settings layout
• Improved: Dashboard welcome screen with feature overview
• Improved: SMTP and Custom Scripts admin experience
• Maintained: All existing option names, hooks, and front-end behavior for sites already using the plugin

1.4.3

• Tested compatibility with WordPress 7.0
• Updated minimum PHP requirement to 7.4 (aligned with WordPress 7.0)
• Improved admin asset loading on all plugin settings screens

1.3

• Added: SMTP Email Configuration (SMTP settings for outgoing emails)
• Added: Test Email Functionality (Send test emails from the admin panel)
• Added: Login Security (Customize login URL)
• Added: Disable RSS feeds, REST API links, and self-pingbacks
• Added: Remove jQuery Migrate, shortlink, RSD link, and embeds
• Improved: Performance optimizations for WordPress sites

1.2.2

• Added: Option to disable XML-RPC
• Added: Option to remove WordPress version information
• Improved: Security enhancements and settings page UI

1.2.1

• Initial stable release with essential security and performance features.