What's New in 1.1.7

This is a fix release. We ran a full audit of everything 1.1.6 introduced and closed the gaps it left: the media lightbox now acts on the post a photo belongs to, members billed through another plugin see the amount they were actually charged, and several admin screens stop misreporting what they are showing.

Note: BuddyNext free and BuddyNext Pro are released together. If you run both, update them at the same time so they stay in step.

The lightbox acts on the post, not a hidden copy

When you opened a photo in the media lightbox in 1.1.6, saving it and reacting to it quietly went somewhere other than the post the photo belongs to.

• Save now bookmarks the post the photo belongs to, so it lands in the same saved list as Save on the feed card. It previously saved to a separate WPMediaVerse Pro collection, and removed itself from the screen whenever that was unavailable.
• Reactions left in the lightbox now apply to the post, so they appear on the feed card and are counted once. They previously went to a separate media store and were visible only inside the lightbox.
• Photos added to a space album appear in the activity post again, instead of the post rendering as text only.

Members billed by another plugin see the real price (Pro)

When a membership is billed through Paid Memberships Pro or WooCommerce, the two systems do not keep their prices in step - so BuddyNext was showing its own plan price, not what the member was actually charged.

• A member billed through another plugin is now shown the amount actually charged. Where no recorded payment exists, the page names the billing provider instead of printing a figure it cannot vouch for.
• Those sales now reach the Orders list, in the billing plugin’s own amount and currency, dated when the payment was taken. Renewals and refunds are recorded too. Historical orders from before this release are not backfilled.

The coupon field is back on the pricing page (Pro)

A coupon field was only being shown when tax was enabled, which left the Coupons screen unreachable for members on a site with no tax. The field now appears whenever the site has a coupon that can be redeemed.

A profile section’s visibility is a ceiling, not a switch

The visibility control on a profile field group now states plainly what it does: it sets a ceiling. A field inside a group can be more private than the group, never more public, and setting a section to Public does not publish the fields inside it. Conditional profile fields also respond to multiselect and radio triggers now - the rule previously never ran for those field types, so a conditional field stayed visible whatever the member picked.

Admin screens tell the truth

• A space owner or moderator clicking a reported-content notification now reaches that space’s moderation panel instead of a 404. The emailed link is corrected too.
• Deleting a profile field or group opens a confirmation dialog instead of expanding the table row, which had made the “this permanently deletes stored member values” warning almost unreadable.
• The invite list on Members > Invites uses the full width of the screen and scrolls sideways when it needs to, instead of being squeezed into a narrow form column.
• The Realtime and Push settings section is hidden when neither feature is on. Webhooks moved to Platform, alongside Integrations and Tools.
• The Explore sidebar’s Browse card and the Insights daily-active tile render their icons instead of blank space.
• The settings save bar no longer sits flush against the section below it.
• Builder-generated CSS is kept on BuddyNext hub routes.

For developers

• New filter buddynext_can_view_explore gates the Explore deck before it is built.
• The icon gate reads array-key icon slugs and scans BuddyNext Pro, so a missing icon fails the build rather than rendering as nothing.