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Custom Dynamic Menus and Widgets - FCA Widgets 1.0.7 (May 6 update)

Hi everyone,

Here's a big update to the FCA Widgets plugin - quite a few changes so please expect some bugs that hopefully you can all help iron out.

First word of warning - I have changed the way Sidebar Menus are saved which means any existing menus you have built will unfortunately be lost. Please keep a note of what you have already to avoid any upset! Sorry about that, but hopefully worth it. If it's a huge issue let me know and we can look at a solution.

If upgrading from 1.0.4 your existing menus should now be saved.

As a reminder, the core functionality of this plugin is:

βœ… Build bespoke sidebar menus that have multiple link types and of which visibility can be controlled based on user/role/space membership

βœ… Build custom widgets for your space sidebar

Main changes in 1.0.7:

πŸ†•Logged-out users available as a visibility option
πŸ†•Each group and menu item can be individually enabled
πŸ†•Added space/course/custom page lookup for easy adding of your links
πŸ†•Added SVG url/upload/code support for icons
πŸ†•Menu links now show as active when you're on that page (including custom links)
πŸ†•You can now completely disable the default menu groups and replace them with your own
πŸ†•Option added for open link in new tab
πŸ”§ Insert Button for Widgets improved and now shows styles in the editor
πŸ”§ FIXED: Widgets not showing after updating to 1.0.6 - now showing and loading faster
πŸ”§ FIXED: Menus being lost when upgrading from 1.0.4 - should now migrate sucessfully

I've done some light testing with this and would appreciate some more extensive checks and feedback and any bugs.

Download here

Ross FCA

New update to 1.0.7 to fix a couple of things you guys picked up on. Thanks for the support and patience!

Ross FCA

Still a couple of bugs around icons for menu items. I'm currently adding the option to use an image, and hopefully to pull in the space icon from the front end so you don't need to choose this twice.