Sentio Widgets for Elementor

2.0.6 — 2026-07-23

New free widget: Mortgage Calculator.

• Feature: New Mortgage Calculator widget (Advanced Components) — a live monthly-payment estimator with principal & interest plus optional property taxes, insurance, HOA fees, and auto-applied PMI when the down payment is under 20%. Includes a percent/amount down-payment toggle, loan-term presets with optional custom entry, a cost-breakdown donut chart, a collapsible year-by-year amortization table, an optional call-to-action button, and a configurable disclaimer. All calculations run locally in the browser and on your server — the widget contacts no external services.

2.0.5 — 2026-06-25

Ken Burns alignment, breadcrumb structured-data, and Elementor editor preview fixes.

• Fix: Ken Burns hero — CTA buttons now follow the content Text Alignment control.
• Fix: Breadcrumbs — item URL property now emits correctly (was stripped by an incorrect escaper).
• Fix: Breadcrumbs — structured-data position now emits (was silently dropped).
• Fix: Widget styles now preview correctly in the Elementor editor.

2.0.4 — 2026-06-16

Reliability fix so Sentio’s widget categories register correctly alongside other Elementor add-ons, plus first-run and dashboard refinements.

• Fix: Sentio widget categories now register reliably when other Elementor add-on plugins that register their own categories early (for example event/calendar or all-in-one widget add-ons) are active. Sentio now subscribes to Elementor’s category-registration step earlier, so its panel categories no longer fail to appear.
• Fix: The welcome screen now opens immediately on first activation, instead of only after navigating to a Sentio page later.
• Fix: Third-party admin notices no longer display inside the Sentio dashboard or welcome header banner; they now appear in WordPress’s standard position above it. No notices are suppressed or hidden.
• Feature: Added a dismissible “leave a review” invitation in the dashboard’s LITE comparison card.

2.0.3 — 2026-05-30

This release removes all admin notice suppression code per the WordPress.org plugin review.

• Removed 231 lines of code that suppressed third-party admin notices on Sentio admin screens via remove_action() calls on admin_notices, in_admin_header, and related hooks. Standard WordPress notice behavior is now restored across all Sentio admin pages.
• Removed CSS rules that hid third-party plugin notice elements (Freemius, Jetpack, Yoast, etc.) when they appeared inside Sentio admin layouts. Foreign notices now render normally at their natural injection points.
• No replacement suppression mechanism added. Users will see standard WordPress admin notices from core, security plugins, and other addons as designed.

2.0.2 — 2026-05-20

This release addresses the inline block finding from the WordPress.org plugin review.

• Refactored admin page CSS into a single registered stylesheet enqueued via wp_enqueue_style() on Sentio admin screens, replacing prior per-page conditional enqueueing that did not handle JavaScript-driven tab navigation correctly.
• Extracted inline style attributes from the Locked Widget render output to a dedicated stylesheet (assets/css/widgets/locked-widget-notice.css), registered as a Sentio handle and auto-enqueued via Elementor’s get_style_depends() pattern. Render output now uses BEM-style class names instead of inline style attributes.
• Improved CSS class name escaping by using sanitize_html_class() for class identifiers per WordPress canonical patterns.

2.0.1 — 2026-05-13

This release addresses all feedback from the WordPress.org plugin review.

• Replaced 73 instances of output requiring escaping with canonical wp_kses(), tag_escape(), and esc_*() patterns. Escaping now happens at every output site, not at variable construction, per the “escape late” principle.
• Added per-field sanitization for the AJAX POST settings handler in the Posts widget. Each of the ~40 settings fields now receives context-appropriate sanitization (absint, sanitize_key, tag_escape, in_array whitelist) at the JSON-decode boundary.
• Refactored four direct database queries to use WordPress core APIs: comment counting now uses get_comments(), WooCommerce product enumeration uses wc_get_products(), and The Events Calendar venue/organizer lookups use get_posts().
• Replaced one variable-based translation argument with static literal __() calls via a translation lookup table, so translation tooling can extract strings correctly.
• Added nonce verification before processing form data in admin pages, including refactoring the admin page router to use get_current_screen() instead of $_GET parameters.
• Prefixed file-global variables in admin templates with the sentio_ prefix per WordPress naming conventions.
• Removed phpcs:ignore suppression comments throughout the plugin and addressed each underlying issue with real code changes rather than suppression.
• Removed the debug_log() development helper from production code paths.

2.0.0

• 53 free widgets organized across content, marketing, posts and dynamic content, navigation, media, and tools.
• 99 additional PREMIUM widgets shown as locked stubs in the Elementor widget panel; clicking a locked widget opens an upsell card.
• Per-widget CSS and JavaScript asset loading — assets are loaded only on pages where the widget is actually placed; no global frontend bundle.
• WCAG 2.1 AA compliance across newly-authored widgets (keyboard navigation, ARIA landmarks, focus indicators, live-region announcements, prefers-reduced-motion respect). Pre-existing widgets are being retroactively audited.
• Consent-gated daily telemetry phone-home — opt-in at activation, one-click opt-out at any time from Sentio → Version. See External services above for full data-field disclosure.
• Updates delivered through the WordPress.org core updater.
• Translation-ready: all UI strings localizable via the sentio-widgets-for-elementor text domain.