August 2025 – Monthly Changelog

Updated Sep 4, 2025 By Brilliant Directories
https://www.brilliantdirectories.com/blog/august-2025-monthly-changelog
August 2025 – Monthly Changelog

New Features:

  • Added a "Create" dropdown in the Admin to quickly create members, posts, subscriptions and coupon codes from any page in the Admin area.
  • Created a new Design Setting for the Website Announcement Message Add-On called "Show Close Button". When enabled, site visitors can close the announcement message on the frontend.
  • Released a new UI for the Admin Dashboard.
  • Updated the Admin Dashboard UI to display New Members Signups,Recent Logins, Top Profile and Post Views, and the Total Engagement Overview for sites that have the Member Profile Analytics Add-On active.
  • Added the ability to create custom "Business Toolkit" offers on the Mange Offers page in the Admin.
  • Added the ability to create a secondary hero section on the homepage, allowing users to easily include additional content next to the Hero Title without custom coding. Use the new feature here: Admin >> Settings >> Design Settings >> Homepage >> Secondary Hero Content (Optional) section
  • Created a new Design Setting called "Header Menu Item Alignment". This new settings allows the Top Header Mini Nav Menu to support dropdown menu items.

Enhancements / Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the "Featured Blog Articles Slider Hover/Active Background Color" Design Setting from working properly in some contexts on the frontend.
  • Updated the help text description for form fields when creating Menus in the Admin.
  • Released a set of minor fixes for the new Universal Search in the Admin.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the "Respect Membership Plan Search Priority?" Post type Setting from working properly on Event Search Results when the Auto-Recurring Events Add-On was active.
  • Implemented performance optimizations and bug fixes for the Import Business Data tool in Admin.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the Advanced Setting keyword search from returning accurate results in some cases.
  • Updated the "Clone Account" feature on the Search Members page in the Admin to also clone member profile images along with the member's data.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented changing the status of member reviews on the Member Reviews page in the Admin in some rare cases.
  • Fixed an issue that affected the ability to send individual emails from the Admin in some cases.
  • Updated the API to ensure creating, updating, or deleting widgets through the Brilliant Directories API are reflected on the site immediately.
  • Sidebar Settings are now displayed on the Web Page Builder page in the Admin when the Page Type Setting is set to "Member Search Results" or "Post Search Results".
  • Improved the Google Maps integration to ensure accurate results are returned when saving location data across the platform.
  • Created a new email variable called "Link To Profile" that includes the member profile link in email templates.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the category dropdown in the "Website - Lead Form - Get Matched" form from respecting the "Default Category Sort Order" setting in some cases.
  • Fixed an issue that affected the ability to submit the "Website - Lead Form - Get Matched" form in some cases.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the system from clearing category dropdown selections when manually matching members with leads in the Admin.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the system from loading the version history module on Web Pages and Edit Post Settings pages in the Admin in some cases.
  • Improved how member sub and sub sub categories are saved in the Member Dashboard to ensure data consistency.
  • Addresses in Germany and Latvia will now be saved with the street number after the street name when fetched from Google Maps.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the "Menu Item Inline Attribute" and "Outer <li> Inline Attribute" Menu Settings from working properly on the frontend in some cases.
  • Implemented a security update to the Private Member Chat Add-On.
  • Updated the Admin modal pop-up to display in full-screen when using the new Quick Create action buttons.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Newsletter Campaigns feature in the Admin to display an error message when calculating qualifying recipients in some cases.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Search Members logic to store the company name in the last_name variable when the member's listing type is set to "Company" in some cases.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the Google Sitemap Generator Add-On from generating sitemap files properly in some cases.
  • Fixed an issue with the Billing Date Format Setting not changing correctly when the Date Format Setting on the General Settings page in the Admin is updated.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the Account Menu from toggling when viewing the Private Member Chat page on the Member Dashboard from a mobile device in some cases.
  • Updated the Bootstrap Theme - Category Groups - Member Categories widget to include a keyword search field. Also added support for filtering top and sub-categories by using the category parameter in the URL (e.g., /categories?category=Keyword).
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the system from respecting the Billing Email Settings when creating an invoice using the "Quick Create" action buttons in the Admin.
  • Fixed an issue that caused discrepancies between individual invoice amounts and the Daily Admin Report email sent to the Admin of the site each day.
  • Added support for selecting Billing Cycles without enabling the "Email Member" setting when editing the Billing Email Settings in the Admin.
  • Updated the Main Title Text and Sub-Title Text Homepage Design Settings > Primary Hero Content Section to support using widget shortcodes for rendering widgets on the frontend.
  • In all, over 50 feature enhancements and software updates were released this month.
Source: https://www.brilliantdirectories.com/blog/august-2025-monthly-changelog

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