v1.5.0 Latest
May 25, 2026
New 6 Improve 4 Fix 6 Security 2 Compat 1
New
- A third chart style on the Views tab. Polar area joins Line and Bar.
- Brand-new admin UI. Every settings screen rewritten as a clean card-panel layout with a sidebar, proper page header, and plain-English labels.
- "WB Plugins" hub. All Wbcom plugins now share a single top-level admin menu with a card-grid dashboard, keeping the WordPress sidebar tidy when running the full community bundle.
- Overview dashboard with live counts of total views, unique viewers, views in the last 24 hours, and members with at least one recorded view, plus a snapshot of the current configuration at a glance.
- Dedicated Overview, Members Views, General, Display, and License tabs. Each one focused on a single decision so admins don't hunt across screens.
- License tab inside Profile Views. Enter, activate, and check your license key without leaving the plugin admin page. Activated keys are masked in the UI.
Improve
- Members Views tab now renders a server-side top-100 leaderboard (7-day, 30-day, and total columns) cached for one minute. The 800KB ag-Grid bundle is no longer shipped to the admin area.
- Admin assets now load only on the plugin's own screens, reducing conflicts with third-party plugins.
- Plain-language labels across every settings screen. "How views are counted", "Recent visitors on member profiles", "Send a BuddyPress notification on each qualifying view".
- Settings are now validated through a typed sanitizer, bounding every value to its allowed range before saving.
Fix
- The "Show view count on members directory cards" setting now works. Previously the toggle existed but had no effect; it now renders a "N views" badge on each member card when enabled.
- The "Let members opt out of being tracked" setting now exposes a real control. With it on, members see a "Record my visits to other profiles" toggle on their own Views tab and can opt out with one click.
- Bot and crawler hits (Googlebot, Facebot, LinkedInBot, Pingdom, etc.) are no longer counted as profile views. Counts now reflect real human visitors.
- Major performance fix. The plugin previously read every user account on every page load to backfill the default tracking flag. On a community with a thousand members that was a thousand database reads per page. The backfill now runs once after activation and never again.
- PHP sessions no longer start on every public request. They start only when the "referer" view-counting mode actually needs them, eliminating conflicts with page-cache plugins and other session-using plugins.
- Admin Overview counts and the Members Views leaderboard now update immediately after a new view, instead of lagging up to 60 seconds behind.
Security
- Closed a data leak on the profile-views chart endpoint. An unauthenticated request without a security token previously slipped through and returned another user's view history. The endpoint now requires a valid token, an authenticated session, and verifies you can only fetch your own chart.
- License key activation and deactivation now require an admin user, not just a valid form token. Logged-in non-admins can no longer trigger license operations.
Compat
- Requires WordPress 6.0 and PHP 7.4. Tested against WordPress 6.9, BuddyPress 14.x, and PHP 8.4.