Sunshine Photo Cart – Client Photo Gallery & Photo Proofing for Photographers

3.6.5

• Fix: Regenerated images not re-uploaded to cloud storage after watermark changes
• Fix: Product categories created via the block editor not appearing on the taxonomy management screen
• Fix: Single product mode not triggering multi-image product image selection UI
• Fix: Redundant product database queries causing lock contention on high-traffic sites

3.6.4 – March 19, 2026

• New: Privacy setting to automatically delete galleries a specified number of days after they expire
• Fix: Google address autocomplete not working for address fields at checkout
• Fix: Tax calculated on pre-discount subtotal when discounts are applied before tax
• Fix: Package image selection showing blank when switching source dropdown on second or later items

3.6.3 – March 13, 2026

• Enhancement: Migrated image keywords to dedicated meta key for significantly faster search performance on large sites
• Fix: Image keyword search not returning results due to incorrect post status filter and metadata escaping
• Fix: How it checks for Imagick during watermarking process to really be sure it is available before trying to use it
• Fix: Optimized private gallery lookup query that could cause slowdowns on sites with many images

3.6.2 – March 6, 2026

• Security: Added nonce verification and access control checks to multi-image select AJAX handlers
• Fix: “Always collect an address” fields not reloading state/province options when country changes
• Fix: Tax rates not applied when using customer address fields instead of shipping address
• Fix: Automatically show address fields at checkout when tax rates require a specific location
• Fix: Stripe hosted checkout not including gateway fees in line items
• Fix: Stripe hosted checkout creating unnecessary duplicate payment intent
• Fix: Stripe hosted checkout compatibility with Accounts v2 (pass customer ID)
• Fix: Stripe hosted checkout overriding order status set by other plugins (e.g. digital downloads auto-ship)
• Fix: Stripe statement descriptor suffix failing when order number contains only digits
• Fix: Stripe payment failures for zero-decimal currencies (HUF, ISK, etc.) on accounts with older Stripe API versions
• Fix: Fatal error when guest adds or removes favorites with Analytics addon active
• Fix: Empty autocomplete attribute rendered on form fields when no value is set
• Fix: Share favorites not working for guests even when guest favorites are enabled
• Fix: Watermarked images now respect EXIF orientation data, preventing incorrectly rotated output
• Fix: Guest favorites not merging into account after logging in or registering

3.6.1 – March 3, 2026

• Add: Setting to enable or disable guest favorites
• Fix: Image search query causing database lockups on sites with large posts/postmeta tables due to unconstrained joins
• Fix: Stripe inline checkout orders not updating to paid status when using webhooks

3.6 – March 2, 2026

• Add: Caption option added to Thumbnail Content setting (from EXIF metadata)
• Add: Option to show image caption under single image view
• Add: Admin Gallery Navigator – Easier gallery management with lots of galleries and hierarchy
• Add: Guest Favorites – Users can add images to favorites for single session without account
• Add: Selection Tray – Show current favorites in a persisent floating section while viewing Sunshine galleries
• Add: Quickly add all favorites to cart
• Add: Delay gallery upload image processing so uploads can happen faster
• Add: Stripe – Hosted Checkout
• Add: Stripe – Additional customization options
• Add: Galleries pagination – paginate the main galleries list with numbered pages, load more button, or infinite scroll
• Add: Separate display settings for galleries list (columns, pagination style, per page) and images (columns, pagination style, per page)
• Add: Honeypot spam protection on login, signup, and password reset forms
• Add: Compatibility with Imagify, ShortPixel, and Image Optimizer (Elementor) plugins to prevent gallery image optimization
• Enhanced: Directly to single product details if only one product is available
• Enhanced: Settings now allow setup to set validation comparisons to other fields
• Change: Disable image sharing also disables sharing in Favorites
• Change: If a gallery has both sub-galleries and images, it will show sub gallery list first and then images below
• Fix: Do not rely on gallery/image, allow price level to be passed during add to cart from modal for General products
• Fix: Stripe properly handle zero-decimal currencies
• Fix: Fallback image dimensions for gallery images when they are not available as they should in rare situations
• Fix: Toggle email on/off and clicking save button reverted email status
• Fix: Order profit calculation was not taking into account line item discounts
• Fix: Infinite scroll pagination now properly waits for DOM to load
• Add: Privacy system – New Privacy settings tab with account erasure request handling, bulk personal data removal from orders, and configurable data retention periods for inactive accounts and orders
• Add: WordPress core “Erase Personal Data” and “Export Personal Data” integration for customer and order data
• Add: New “duration” settings field type (number + time unit)
• Fix: Search input fields being stripped out when included in a gallery description
• Add: Log files now use randomized filenames for improved security
• Add: New “Enable PHP error logging” option to capture PHP notices, warnings, and fatal errors to a separate log file
• Add: Log files are now downloaded through authenticated admin routes instead of direct file access
• Security: Block direct web access to log files via .htaccess
• Fix: Automatically prevent Yoast SEO and Rank Math from redirecting Sunshine gallery image pages when media pages are disabled

3.5.7.3

• Security: Add permission check on image data ajax request

3.5.7.2

• Security: Add capability check on upgrade functions

3.5.7.1

• Security: Add permission check/nonce on upgrade functions

3.5.7

• Add: Work with new text product option
• Add: New email template tag to show galleries in the purchase for admin orders
• Enhancement: FTP upload errors will show which image had an error while uploading
• Enhancement: Image assigned to gallery later in upload process to better ensure no processing errors happened first
• Enhancement: Regenerating images now prompts user on how to handle image watermarks before processing
• Fix: Dashboard stats calculations
• Fix: Option pricing added twice when showing order line items
• Fix: PayPal Legacy not properly including line item discounts
• Fix: PayPal Legacy not setting order status to new in webhook

3.5.6.2

• Fix: Overzealous escaping caused issues in various places, take 2

3.5.6.1

• Fix: Overzealous escaping caused issues in various places

3.5.6

• Fix: Address Autocomplete at checkout
• Fix: Not saving line item discount amount to database, so not showing in receipts/admin
• Fix: Tons of escaping functions and other changes to meet Plugin Check guidelines
• Fix: Fix saving customer notes during checkout to customer meta and clearing out customer notes from usermeta as it is unnecessary data
• Fix: Only run the update processes for the versions that are needed, also run if versions may have been skipped
• Update: Translations

3.5.5

• Fix: Further refinements to line item subtotal calculations
• Fix: FTP import existing image check to be case insensitive
• Enhancement: Stripe – Improved order recovery for users who refresh or do weird things while payment is processing that interrupts the normal flow
• Enhancement: Stripe – Improved indicator that payment fields are still loading to help with slow connections
• Add: Allow 3 character currency code to be displayed along with all prices

3.5.4.2

• Fix: Further refinements to line item subtotal calculations
• Fix: Square charge wrong total that go directly to payment section on Checkout

3.5.4.1

• Fix: Subtotal display not giving proper total when line item has discounts and no tax is set for current cart

3.5.4

• Enhancement: CSS updates in add to cart to improve buttons and mini cart
• Enhancement: CSS updates for general store product list items, entire product line clickable
• Enhancement: Show discounts in all cart/checkout/emails before/after tax based on settings
• Change: PayPal – disable inline card form, users can still pay with card within PayPal popup
• Fix: [sunshine_galleries] shortcode in page content returns true for is_sunshine()
• Fix: Require a valid order ID on init order to continue to payment processing
• Fix: Cart line item sub total display when discounts are applied
• Fix: Better organize prices internally when prices are entered with tax
• Security: Add nonce to Stripe disconnect process

3.5.3

• Add: Custom label/description for Pickup delivery method
• Fix: Stripe reusing customer ID during guest checkout
• Change: Stripe – set custom payment description
• Change: Adjust gallery search to also consider Access Type for parent galleries
• Enhancement: Justified gallery/image layout CSS

3.5.2

• Add: sunshine_favorites_file_names_separator to better customize how file names for favorites are displayed
• Change: Help ensure session garbage cleanup is run regularly
• Fix: Rounding errors when tax is included in price
• Fix: Showing proper subtotal when tax is included in price
• Fix: Tax + Discount calculations in set_tax for cart
• Fix: Conflict with Elementor for order filter by gallery
• Fix: Clean up translations

3.5.1

• Change: Minor tweak to checkout submit element to better work with add-on gateways
• Change: PayPal Legacy always clear cart on return
• Change: Remove logging of metadata during checkout flow
• Fix: Stripe – Don’t run on init_order when Stripe not selected
• Fix: private get_mode() for payment methods causing errors with outdated gateway add-ons

3.5

• Enhancement: Under the hood checkout flow process
• Enhancement: Improved search results to handle multiple keyword searches
• Enhancement: Translations updated
• Add: Orders can be filtered by gallery
• Add: Help link to Sunshine admin menu
• Add: Link to view all comments from a customer
• Add: Option to disable invoices with orders (Settings > Checkout > Orders)
• Add: Conditional needs_delivery() for all products so this section can be disabled at checkout if allowed based on cart items
• Add: Email receipt template tags for receipt/invoice link/url
• Add: Custom CSS for emails in Settings > Design > Customizations
• Add: More currencies
• Add: Check during gallery image upload that images meet the size requirements, shwo error if they do not
• Add: Gallery option to enable Open Graph data to be used for gallery/image pages (your SEO plugin may already be doing this though)
• Add: WhatsApp to gallery/image sharing options
• Change: In multi-image selector sources, only show galleries with images
• Change: Cover theme hides cover photo when in store view
• Change: Hide main galleries link also hides the return to parent gallery link
• Enhancement: JS passing more data for product show details event for add-ons to hook into
• Enhancement: Filters on discount data
• Enhancement: Admin order details page, add link from line item thumbnail to image details screen
• Enhancement: sunshine_get_gallery_descendant_ids optimized for query speed
• Enhancement: Improved Order Summary on checkout page for mobile
• Fix: Square gateway works with cards requiring SCA
• Fix: During image upload, do our own EXIF exploration to get the true created_timestamp and not rely entirely on WP
• Fix: Confirm data format for gallery emails before adding new one to prevent fatal error
• Fix: Discount calculation use subtotal when checking for minimum order amount
• Fix: Assigning/unassigning favorites and adjusting quantities in multi-image select view
• Fix: Custom email template check
• Fix: Show payment method fees on order details page
• Fix: Do not remove favorites when local image URL not found as they could be hosted at S3
• Fix: Shipping as Billing feature in checkout (currently only used with Square)
• Fix: Calculate tax on discounted amount for items
• Fix: PayPal refund in admin handle “pending” status when showing result message
• Fix: Include fees on order invoice template
• Fix: Tracking latest login time
• Fix: Restore order count to main admin menu
• Fix: Selecting images from other source galleries beyond original during store add to cart flow
• Fix: Mobile styling in store add to cart modal

3.4.12

• Fix: Security Fix: admin password could be reset via customer account password reset if admin user_login is known

3.4.11

• Add: Product minimum quantity (per cart line item)
• Fix: Discount variable typing for allowed galleries removed as caused slowness in rare instances
• Fix: Add error checking during watermark process to prevent fatal error when watermark PNG file is not valid
• Fix: Watermarking work with more file formats: jpg, gif, webp
• Fix: Security vulnerability around unused Stripe webhooks

3.4.10

• New shortcode: sunshine_cart_quantity
• New shortcode: sunshine_mini_cart
• Fix: Line item subtotal function in receipt emails
• Fix: Cart line item to properly show image file name when using “filename” image name setting
• Fix: Show all discount names in receipt emails when multiple discounts are applied
• Fix: Process price_level in add to cart via URL
• Fix: Remove existing items from cart if the product pricing has since been removed
• Fix: is_sunshine_page() special condition check for checkout to see if we are actually on receipt page
• Update: Add additional code for EWWWW compatibility so it does not affect watermarks from their recent updates

3.4.9.1

• Fix: Left debug line showing file shoot time instead of file name in gallery admin
• Fix: Discount allowed galleries force check for array value

3.4.9

• Add: New filter – sunshine_product_max_qty
• Add: New setting – disable random strings in image file names for security
• Fix: Improved check for when to increase qty vs add new line item
• Fix: Order log use selected timezone time
• Fix: Line item subtotals when prices enter with tax and shown with tax

3.4.8.1

• Fix: Rename hook back to “sunshine_checkout_create_order” to fix compatibility with various add-ons

3.4.8

• Add: Product category descriptions shown in image add to cart modal
• Add: Filter ‘sunshine_order_email_search_replace’ to allow custom checkout fields to order emails
• Add: Automatically ignore optimization in EWWW Image Optimizer plugin for all Sunshine gallery images to prevent issues
• Update: Prices in cart always use most recent product pricing instead of when added to cart
• Update: Include product photo in Store if exists
• Fix: Button styling dark on dark in packages modal
• Fix: Default watermark state to true so it applies in other add-ons/areas as expected after adding new optional watermark setting
• Fix: Image/folder deletion on FTP import when successful if option is set
• Fix: Don’t redefine DONOTCACHEPAGE if already set
• Fix: Apply masonry properly to all instances of a gallery list on a single page

3.4.7.1

• Fix: User search bugs introduced in last update
• Fix: Watermark toggle at gallery upload now works with FTP import

3.4.7

• Fix: Prevent duplicates in customer/user search in meta user fields
• Fix: Regenerate images follows watermark setting for individual image at upload, fallback to default if not set

3.4.6

• Add: Ability to disable watermarks during drag/drop image upload process
• Update: Delete custom Sunshine gallery image folders after all it’s images have been deleted
• Fix: Not showing password reset screen when disable signup is enabled

3.4.5

• Fix: 100% discounts not applying to tax due to recent change that has been reverted
• Updated: translations
• Fix: Obey “Disable Signup” at checkout by not showing/requiring a password and effectively allow guest checkout
• Add: More granular capabilities for access to various areas such as reports, tools, customers, add-ons
• Fix: Classic theme CSS styles on mobile for search/password forms in header

3.4.4

• Fix: Double Before Content with Classic theme
• Fix: Classic CSS menu/header styling for mobile devices
• Fix: Sunshine Manager capabilities to edit gallery images
• Fix: Issues with watermarks not being applied after recent new enhanced image security features

3.4.3

• Fix: Orders paid with credits not moved to “new” status
• Fix: Bug hiding password field at checkout

3.4.2

• Update: New user sign up without password, new account email includes link to set password
• Fix: Stripe creating many pending payments
• Fix: Stripe not charging proper amount when credit is applied
• Fix: Change “sunshine_set_discounts” timing so rule application can happen after any are auto added

3.4.1

• Fix: htaccess rules to allow loading thumbnail in emails
• Fix: Order status setting fixed for all gateways during checkout flow
• Fix: Offline payment instructions included in email

3.4

• Add: Enhanced image protection via htaccess rules + file naming conventions
• Fix: Square order email sent before order status updated to “new” status
• Add: “notify” notice type styling

3.3

• New! Ability to set pricing on a per-image basis
• Fix: Wrong price level for imageless products when adding to cart from store
• Adjusted mobile modal styles
• Fix: Ajax powered galleries field to also include Direct URL access galleries
• Fix: Multi-image select only allows max qty 1 on digital products in store (and for packages)
• Fix: Handling async payment methods in Stripe
• Fix: Issues with action triggered emails sending to same person multiple times
• Fix: Do not send new account registration emails when admin is the one triggering it
• Fix: Add “products” as available settings field
• Fix: Classic theme CSS styles
• Enhancement: Better support for Yoast Open Graph images to use the sunshine-large size

3.2.11

• Fix issue with conflicting settings: disable account vs no guest checkout. No guest checkout takes precedence.
• Fix issues showing main galleries page content in Classic/Cover themes
• Slight CSS style adjustments to action menu
• Add customer notes to order invoice
• Use wp_safe_redirect to ensure no malicious redirects to external sites happen
• Do not set first shipping method to default for cart unless there is only 1

3.2.10

• New ajax powered Products meta field
• Secure ajax powered meta fields with nonces
• New gallery image sort new to old for image shoot time
• Include gallery hierarchy in admin order email for each line item
• Revert max quantity for a product to be per line item, not entire cart
• Fixed security around tools
• Fixed security around connecting to Square/Stripe

3.2.9

• Fix tracking count query which used hardcoded database table prefix
• Fix child gallery password form when parent gallery requires password
• Fix mobile styling for Account > Orders
• Add URL query arg after entering gallery password or access code to help bust cache
• Fix issues around available delivery methods during checkout based on items in cart
• Fix security issue found by Patchstack allowing access to add-on toggling by customers
• Updated translations

3.2.8

• Better display on product details when product has a max quantity
• Properly limit cart line item quantity based on product max quantity
• Sunshine Manager role can update Sunshine settings again
• Sunshine Manager role can access Discounts
• Cart items can now have metadata when adding to cart
• Fix showing shipping on all order total screens when it is free
• Fix admin Emails table styling
• Properly send order receipt when doing refund and option checked for Stripe/Square
• Include refunds on all order total screens
• Invoice show gallery hierarchy

3.2.7

• Remove tax basis setting, not used
• Install/update process adds permissions to access order statuses for Sunshine Manager
• Above miraculously fixes issue with Sunshine Manager not being able to access Orders :shrug:
• Sunshine 3 upgrade process deletes all user carts to ensure we do not have old Sunshine 2 cart data
• Fix Square API calls to get locations
• Fix Square order total so it never has decimals
• Fix call to function to make cover image when cover theme is active

3.2.6

• Sanitize session data differently to allow special characters
• Fix admin meta conditional javascript function name to allow multiple conditions
• Notes field moved above payment field at checkout
• Filter for default category when saving product in admin
• Prevent duplicate image IDs in galleries
• Products in cart can require a customer create an account at checkout
• Fix XSS vulnerability found by Le Ngoc Anh/Patchstack

3.2.5

• Add new Product Type filter in products admin table
• Hotfix – Not logged in multi-image selection fix

3.2.4

• Remove Stripe/Square SDKs, use native functions to massively reduce overall file size of plugin
• Fix mobile image select for gallery image upload in admin
• Filter sunshine gallery images to not use Jetpack/WordPress.com Image CDN to prevent watermark issues
• Fixed and improved discount validation check rules and applying discount per line item
• Fix get product max quantity check function (remove version without filter)
• Update icons used for better UI consistency
• Fix and improve the multi image selection JavaScript
• Set lang strings to be passed to sunshine.js so they can be translated
• Translations updated

3.2.3

• Show ID in admin table list for galleries and products
• Update add to cart to allow empty gallery ID for general products

3.2.2

• Prevent ability to favorite images from private galleries current user does not have access to
• Translations updated

3.2.1

• Fix allowing free shipping with discount code + restrictions
• Fix add to cart permission checks to allow Sell Anything products with no image
• Updated order access check function
• Fix getting cart total as proper float value

3.2

• New! Drag and drop to set the order of payment methods
• New! Add new Stripe option to configure layout: tabs vs accordion
• New! Add-on category filters to make finding add-ons easier
• Adjust the Checkout payment options so the payment fields are closer to the selected payment option
• Checkout will auto select the first payment option even if multiple are available
• Fix [sunshine_gallery show_main_menu=”false”] does not show main menu
• Adjustment to cart_total_formatted()
• Add filter to customer gallery query args
• Style adjustments to mobile checkout
• Adjust checkout shipping/payment selection to make it more clear they are selectable options, default to first if none yet selected
• Fix resending order receipt email so it does not send to the admin