Changelog

Dev – Draft posts no longer automatically generate custom permalinks, but users may set them manually if necessary, or they will be generated when the post is published
Fix – Duplicated REST API calls from Gutenberg JS functions are now ignored when custom permalinks are generated
Fix – The ‘High-Performance order storage (COT)’ declaration for the WooCommerce has been fixed

Dev – The function that adds the “Permalink Manager” button via ‘get_sample_permalink_html’ filter has been updated
Dev – The function that controls permalink trailing slashes has been refactored and improved
Dev – When WPML is enabled, Permalink Manager uses “term_taxonomy_id” instead of “term_id” for language mismatch functions to avoid compatibility issues
Dev – To avoid problems with other 3rd party plugins, the function that places the “Permalink Manager” button below the title editor field in Classic Editor mode no longer overwrites the whole HTML
Enhancement – The plugin interface’s text descriptions and label names have been simplified for readability
Enhancement – Added new section “Exclusion settings” with a field to manually enter IDs of posts/terms to be ignored by Permalink Manager
Fix – The compatability problem that caused “fatal error” for some RankMath users has been resolved

Dev – Improved custom permalink detection function
Dev – Minor code improvements for the breadcrumbs filter function
Dev – Minor CSS changes
Dev – New filter added – ‘permalink_manager_excluded_element_id’
Dev – New filter added – ‘permalink_manager_duplicate_uri_policy’
Dev – Now users may select in “WPML/Polylang fix language mismatch” settings field between loading translation or triggering the canonical redirect to the detected item
Dev – Support for WooCommerce ‘High-Performance order storage (COT)’ declared
Fix – The RankMath redirection function is disabled if custom permalink is detected to prevent redirect loop
Fix – The “Exclude drafts & pending posts” setting field has been changed to allow for greater control in generating and editing custom permalinks for draft and pending posts

Dev – Hotfix for “Quick Edit” URI editor

Dev – Bulk tools (“Regenerate/Reset” and “Find & replace”) and “Quick Edit” code was refactored
Dev – Minor code improvements
Dev – New filter field – ‘permalink_manager_ate_uri_editor’
Dev – Improved compatibility with WPML’s Advanced Translation Editor
Fix – The /feed/ endpoint returns 404 error if ‘feeds’ in rewrite property of requested post type object is set to false
Fix – The canonical redirect is no longer forced for LearnPress front-end pages

Dev – For improved readability, the plugin’s code has been reformatted and more comments have been added to match WordPress PHP Coding Standards
Dev – To simplify the codebase, redundant functions and variables were removed
Fix – The post/term titles in Bulk URI Editor are protected from XSS (Cross-site scripting) attacks by sanitizing the displayed titles
Fix – Improved compatibility with Groundhogg plugin
Fix – Improved compatibility with BasePress plugin
Fix – Minor improvements for WPML compatibility
Fix – The bug that caused the message “You are not allowed to remove Permalink Manager data!” to show up randomly in the admin dashboard has been fixed

Fix – The “URI Editor” for individual term pages is now called later to ensure that all custom taxonomies are registered
Dev – The “nonce” field has been renamed for clarity
Dev – New filter added – ‘permalink_manager_get_language_code’

Fix – A nonce field has been added to debug tools code for increased security
Fix – The “Fix language mismatch” function now functions exactly the same way in Polylang as it does in WPML

Fix – Security fix for BAC vulnerability found in the debug function that allowed unauthorized removal of single URIs

Fix – The URLs with duplicated slashes (eg. example.com/sample-page////) are now handled correctly and forwarded to the canonical URL
Fix – The redirect problem was resolved with WPForo versions after 2.0.1
Dev – Improved compatibility with the WP All Import plugin functions
Dev – Improved compatibility with Polylang plugin
Dev – Better support for ACF Relationship fields
Dev – The plugin no longer (by default) supports custom post types & taxonomies that do not have the “query_var” and “rewrite” properties
Enhancement – In “Exclude drafts” mode, the URI Editor field in the “Quick Edit” section becomes “read-only” for the “Draft” posts

Dev – New filter added – ‘permalink_manager_pre_sanitize_title’
Fix – The old slugs are saved in the ‘_wp_old_slug’ meta key even if the native slugs are changed in the URI Editor in the Gutenberg mode.
Fix – Extra security check in the “Debug” section to prevent unauthorized users (CSRF) from removing the plugin’s data.

Fix – JS conflict fixed (“Cannot read properties of null (reading ‘isSavingMetaBoxes’)”)

Fix – The term custom permalink is now returned in the correct language
Fix – In Gutenberg mode, the custom permalinks are saved correctly and are not changed back to the default format (“URI Editor” is now only reloaded once the post has been saved and the metaboxes have been refreshed)
Enhancement – Old URIs are saved as “extra redirects” if content is updated with WP All Import
Dev – Additional minor improvements in code (including changes to make it work with PHP 8.1)

Fix – JS conflict fixed (“Cannot read property ‘isSavingPost’ of null”)

Fix – The “permalink_manager_filter_permastructure” filter can now also be used before the “Permastructure” settings are saved in the database
Enhancement – Improved support for RankMath breadcrumbs
Dev – License notification function has been improved (Permalink Manager Pro)
Dev – Additional minor improvements in code

Fix – Permalink Manager supports WPML’s “Post Types & Taxonomy Translation” settings and returns the permalink of the fallback post/term with the correct language code
Fix – When the auto-update mode for categories is disabled, the manually adjusted permalinks are no longer overwritten by the default ones
Enhancement – Permalink Manager now allows you to rewrite just chosen articles and terms while leaving the rest untouched (See ‘”Auto-update” permalinks’ settings field)
Enhancement – Improved support for SEOPress breadcrumbs
Enhancement – “Auto-update permalinks” setting is now replaced with “URI update mode” to give users better control on how Permalink Manager generates and saves the custom permalinks
Dev – Additional minor improvements in code

Enhancement – Improved support for “Primary category” feature included in Yoast SEO
Enhancement – Added support for Avia/Enfold breadcrumbs filter
Enhancement – Further optimisation and improvements for Permalink_Manager_Core_Functions->new_uri_redirect_and_404() function
Fix – Permalink Manager now recognises the “Explore” listing page in MyListing theme properly

Fix – “Regenerate/reset” tool works correctly again in Permalink Manager Lite

Enhancement – UI Improvements for Regenerate/reset tool
Dev – WPML_URL_Filters->permalink_filter() hook is also used by Permalink Manager to filter custom permalinks
Enhancement – wp_make_link_relative() function is used to prevent redirect loops in new_uri_redirect_and_404() (suggested by mgussekloo)
Fix – Adjustments to the debug function’s security to prevent XSS injection

Dev – Improvements for Permalink_Manager_Core_Functions::control_trailing_slashes() function
Dev – Minor codebase improvements
Fix – Hotfix for “Automatically fix broken URIs” function
Fix – Underscores are now by default allowed in the custom permalinks
Enhancement – Better support for GeoDirectory plugin
Fix – ‘permalink_manager_allow_new_post_uri’ & ‘permalink_manager_allow_update_post_uri’ filter replaced ‘permalink_manager_new_post_uri_’ and ‘permalink_manager_update_post_uri_’

Enhancement – Improvements for Gutenberg Editor
Dev – Tippy.js (by atomiks) updated to version 6.3.2
Fix – From now on, the user role selected in “URI Editor role capability” is respected in “Quick Edit” box hooks (reported by @lozeone)
Dev – Further security improvements inside WP-Admin dashboard (reported by Vlad Vector)

Dev – Minor security improvements inside WP-Admin dashboard
Fix – Allow canonical redirect for default language if “Hide URL language information for default language” is turned on in Polylang settings
Enhancement – New settings field – “Primary category support”
Enhancement – “Force 404 on non-existing pagination pages” works now with archive pages

Dev – New filters added – ‘permalink_manager_excluded_post_ids’ & ‘permalink_manager_excluded_term_ids’
Dev – Additional minor changes in the codebase
Fix – Canonical permalinks for blog pagination is now correctly filtered (if Yoast SEO is used)
Fix – Better support for ‘private’ posts & pages

Fix – The function that automatically removes the broken URIs is no longer triggered when WP Rocket is turned on and non-logged-in user tries to access the broken URL.

Enhancement – New settings field – “Copy query parameters to redirect target URL” & “Extra redirects (aliases)”
Enhancement – UI improvements in settings section
Dev – Improved support for WPML’s Classic Translation Editor
Dev – Additional minor changes in the codebase