[Improvement] Enhanced overall code quality and strengthened security.
[Feature] Added a plugin deactivation feedback modal. Users are now prompted with a popup upon deactivation to select a reason, helping us collect valuable insights for further improvements.
2.8.8.4 Dec 23, 2025
[Feature] Added an onboarding Opt-In/Opt-Out screen on first plugin activation, allowing users to grant or deny analytics consent.
[Feature] Introduced GreyLayout for locked premium features, displaying all Gold features in the Free version as disabled/locked with clear labels.
[Improvement] Improved the initial setup flow to provide a clearer and more compliant user experience.
[Improvement] Refined the UI/UX to better distinguish between Free and Gold features.
2.8.8.3 Apr 23, 2025
[Improvement] Security: Restrict REST API access to file protection endpoints to admin users only.
2.8.8.2 Feb 26, 2025
[Bugfix] Resolved the developer tool alert issue for page builders.
2.8.8.1 Feb 17, 2025
[Bugfix] Fixed an issue with shortcut blocking and detection in developer tools prevention.
[Improvement] Enhanced security measures for generating unique strings.
2.8.8 Jan 28, 2025
[Improvement] Added customizable right-click alert with tooltip message.
[Improvement] Enhanced developer tools prevention with shortcut blocking and detection.
2.8.7 July 01, 2024
[Bug Fix] Resolved issues with Protection and Unprotection links for custom upload directories without year-month paths.
2.8.6.1 May 15, 2024
[Bugfix] Code improvements and optimizations
2.8.6 May 13, 2024
[Bugfix] Fixed Callback permission in rest api
2.8.5 September 11, 2023
[Improvement] Comprehensive code comment documentation has been added
[Improvement] Added text domains for strings in places where they were previously missing
[Improvement] Removed unnecessary commented-out code, ensuring a cleaner and more efficient codebase
[Improvement] The settings page sidebar has been revised to provide users with updated information and a helpful guide
2.8.4 April 07, 2023
[Fix] Free plugin not working if we have install premium plugin and activate the license and then deactivate the premium plugin
2.8.3 Dec 16, 2022
[Improvement] Disable right-clicks on iFrames
[Improvement] Show error messages when protecting deleted files
[Improvement] Show confirmation messages when protect/unprotect files under Media Library Grid View
2.8.2 August 25, 2022
[Improvement] Show alert messages when right-clicking on web pages
[Improvement] Disable more keyboard shortcuts
[Fix] Allow text input on Safari when disabling right-clicks
2.8.1 Jun 12, 2022
[New Feature] Restrict media files access to file’s authors only
[Improvement] Show warning messages on multisites
[Fix] Show non-latin characters in protected file names
2.8.0 April 20, 2022
[Improvement] Disable text selection and image drag-and-drop features
[Improvement] Disable content copy functions
[Improvement] Display alert message on mouse right click
2.7.10 February 9, 2021
[Refactoring] Secure input and output data
[Refactoring] Update Settings UI using WordPress built-in jQuery libraries
2.7.9 Jan 28, 2022
[New Feature] Provide an settings option to prevent right-clicking on all pages
[Improvement] Remove “Invite & Earn” submenu & UTM tags on the plugin author URI
2.7.8 December 6, 2021
Allow admins to access protected files whose FAP are “the file’s author” via a hook
Display success & error messages when saving IP Restriction settings
2.7.7 October 5, 2021
Allow protecting unlimited files with PDA Lite plugin
Improve UI: Remove disabled options
2.7.6 August 13, 2021
Update embedded documentation links in UI settings
Test compatibility with WordPress 5.8
Update GetResponse API 3.0
2.7.5 June 16, 2021
Provide hook to display PDF thumbnails in the Media Library
Fix error PHP log when updating a new PDA version
2.7.4 April 7, 2021
Show rewrite rules for IIS users
Improve UI: Hide PDA Gold features in the settings page
Remove error log
Show Configure pop-up under Media Library for all servers
2.7.3 February 10, 2021
Improve UI on settings page and show rewrite rules for Nginx users
Allow users to protect files under Media Library Grid View
2.7.2 December 18, 2020
Allow admin users to access protected files
2.7.1 August 24, 2020
Fix PHP notices with WP 5.5
2.7.0 June 16, 2020
PDA Gold requires PDA Lite
Un-protecting files don’t update _pda_protection value
Remove unused files & folders
Hide “upgrade to PDA Gold” notice if PDA Gold is active
Change the domain of translation
Do not support in multisite mode
2.6.0 April 3, 2020
Improve UI: compatible with WordPress 5.3
Allow the file’s author to access protected file by default
2.5.1.2 February 5, 2020
Improve UI: hide Like Plugin column in the settings page
2.5.1.1 November 16, 2019
Fix add_submenu_page PHP notice issue
2.5.1 November 7, 2019
Add feature “Prevent Image Hotlinking”
Prevent Google Indexing for private links
Fix file access permission when filename contains size
2.5.0.4 October 4, 2019
Improve UI under settings page
2.5.0.3 August 9, 2019
Update switch button under settings page
Show notification when saving settings successfully
2.5.0.2 May 16, 2019
Fix get lucky button
2.5.0.1 December 04, 2018
Fix typo
2.5.0 November 18, 2018
Revamp UI
2.4.0.1 August 10, 2018
Hot fix [] array declaration cannot work under PHP version < 5.4
2.4.0 June 14, 2018
Fix cannot remove rewrite rules when deactivate plugin
2.3.9 Tue, April 17, 2018
Fix “This plugin is not properly prepared for localization”
2.3.8 Thu, April 12, 2018
Apply localisation
2.3.7 Wed, February 28, 2018
Test WordPress 4.9.4
2.3.6 Wed, January 31, 2018
Fix undefined index when get option FREE_PDA_SETTINGS
2.3.5 Fri, January 26, 2018
Improve UI for settings page
2.3.4 Tue, January 23, 2018
Improve UI on settings page by revamping checkbox option
Integrate stop image hotlinking feature
Show information in order to know whether the file is protected
2.3.3 Mon, January 8, 2018
Revamp settings page
2.3.2 Wed, November 15, 2017
Fix wp::prepare warning messages when using in WordPress version 4.8.3.
2.3.1: Sat, November 4, 2017
Add warning messages when users are using a deprecated wp api plugin.
2.3: Thu, August 17, 2017
Protect files from search engine’s index
2.2: Wed, June 14, 2017
Add settings page
2.1.5: Thu, June 1, 2017
Notify users to upgrade to Gold version
Update plugin’s data after users remove media files
2.1.4: Mon, May 22, 2017
Change the way to get non-protected URL
Redirect to default 404 page if the file is protected
Support websites hosted on WP Engine
2.1.3: February 25, 2017
Tweak: Change the plugin’s logic to cater for those files that couldn’t be found in the _postmeta table
2.1.2
Fix Twitter, Google Plus and Facebook open graph issue
2.1.1
Fix .htaccess rules to recognize the special characters
Find in _postmeta table in case of cropped images via wordpress
