BrikPanel: WooCommerce Dashboard, Abandoned Cart Recovery, Google Sheets Sync, Inventory Management & Bulk Editor

Changelog

3.2.8 (2026-07-10)

• New: Rename the “Site management” heading in the sidebar. A new “Section heading label” field under WooCommerce > Settings > BrikPanel > Navigation lets you replace the “Site management” label above the lower group of menu items with your own wording. Leave it blank to keep the default label, which stays fully translatable.
• Fix: The WooCommerce > Settings > BrikPanel screen no longer crashes when WooCommerce Composite Products is active. To detect which extra tabs your product editor offers, BrikPanel briefly runs WooCommerce’s product-data-tabs hook; Composite Products’ handler expected a real product in that moment and hit a fatal error, which took down the whole settings page. That hook is now run safely, so a tab from any plugin that misbehaves is ignored and the page loads normally. Other plugins’ tabs are still detected as before.
• Fix: The product Categories, Tags, Brands and Attributes screens no longer leave a large empty area on the right. With the modern sidebar hidden, these screens pinned their content to the left and left the rest of the page blank on some themes. The layout now centres correctly whether the modern sidebar is shown or hidden.

3.2.6 (2026-07-09)

• Fix: The Appearance > Menus screen no longer crashes on some sites. On stores where another plugin left an unexpected entry in WordPress’s admin menu, opening Appearance > Menus (and a few related admin screens) could hit a fatal error. BrikPanel’s sidebar now safely skips any such entry, so those pages load normally again.
• Improvement: Every value of a large product attribute is now reachable while editing a product. When adding values from a global attribute that has many terms (for example a “Color” attribute with 40 colours), the suggestion list only showed the first ten and hid the rest, even after you typed to filter it. It now offers up to fifty matching values in a scrollable list, so you can pick any of them. Works on both simple and variable products.

3.2.5 (2026-07-09)

• Fix: The dashboard catalog summary (products, variations, sellable items) now updates the moment your catalog changes. It could previously keep showing the earlier totals for a few minutes after you added or removed variations, or trashed a product, because the figures were cached too aggressively. They now refresh immediately whenever a product or variation is added, published, trashed, restored or deleted. The “sellable items” total is also now exact for variable products that have no purchasable variations yet (they no longer inflate the count). (This was never related to legacy vs High-Performance Order Storage: product counts always read from the same place.)
• New: Control who sees each embedded WordPress dashboard widget. The dashboard widgets you pull into the BrikPanel dashboard (under WooCommerce > Settings > BrikPanel > Dashboard) can now each be limited to Everyone, Admins only, or hidden from specific roles, just like the top bar controls. This is handy for keeping the “Site Health Status” widget, which exposes server and security details, away from staff. Administrators always see every widget so you can never lock yourself out.
• Fix: The “More” sidebar menu no longer lands on a 404. When the “More” group’s first item was a custom link, clicking the “More” label itself opened a “page not found” error instead of the link’s real address. The “More” header now points at a valid destination, and an empty “More” group (with nothing left inside it) is hidden entirely rather than shown as a broken link.
• Improvement: The generic WordPress “Help” tab is now hidden across the whole admin. That top-right “Help” button only ever showed generic, non-store help, so it no longer appears on any screen: the orders list, the product and order editors, settings, and every core WordPress screen. “Screen Options” is left untouched, so you can still choose which columns a list shows.

3.2.4 (2026-07-08)

• New: Schedule a product to go live later. The status menu in the product editor gains a Scheduled option that WooCommerce’s own editor does not offer: pick it, choose a future date and time, and the product is held back and published automatically the moment it arrives. It is on by default and can be switched off under WooCommerce > Settings > BrikPanel > Products. Scheduled products also appear in the BrikPanel products list with their own Scheduled tab, a blue badge and their go-live date, and can be scheduled or unscheduled from Quick Edit too. Works on both simple and variable products
• New: See your catalog size at a glance on the dashboard. A small line under the Low Stock heading now shows how many products and variations your store holds, plus the number of sellable items, the real count of purchasable units once each variable product is counted by its variations rather than as a single line. This makes the true size of your store clear even when many products use variations. Works with simple and variable products alike
• Improvement: Remove a variation image in one click. Hover a variation that has an image and a small X appears in the corner of the thumbnail; click it to clear the image without opening the media library. The change now sticks after saving and reloading, and a variation with no image of its own no longer falls back to showing the parent product’s featured image

3.2.3 (2026-07-07)

• Fix: The WooCommerce > Settings > BrikPanel screen could crash when the modern sidebar was switched off. With the modern navigation turned off, opening BrikPanel’s settings (and a few other admin screens) could hit a fatal error. This is fixed, and verified with the modern sidebar both on and off.
• Fix: Custom sidebar links no longer land on a 404 on some managed hosts. A custom link added in the navigation editor renders with the correct address everywhere, but on hosts that draw their own admin menu from the raw menu slug (such as WordPress.com / Atomic) clicking it could reach a “404 / not allowed” page. Those links now resolve to their real destination, whether that is an external URL or another admin page.

3.2.2 (2026-07-07)

• New: Message a customer on WhatsApp straight from an order. Orders with a phone number now show a green WhatsApp icon in the orders list, just before the order number (and hideable from Screen Options), and a “Message on WhatsApp” button under the billing address on the order screen. Clicking it opens WhatsApp Web on desktop or the app on mobile, with the number formatted for the customer’s billing country. Works on classic and High-Performance Order Storage, and on simple and variable product orders
• New: Show or hide each top bar item by role. Every top bar control (the live counter, search, quick-create, notifications, “View store” and the rest) can now be set to Everyone, Admins only, or specific roles. This lets you keep administrative notifications and alerts away from your clients while managing many sites. Administrators (and network super admins) always keep access, so you cannot lock yourself out
• New: Hide new menu items by default. A new option under WooCommerce > Settings > BrikPanel > Navigation keeps any menu item added by a newly installed plugin hidden from the sidebar until you have reviewed it. New items show in the navigation editor with a “New” badge, ready to switch on when you are happy with them. It is off by default, so nothing changes unless you turn it on
• Fix: Importing order statuses from another plugin no longer looks like it failed. After clicking “Import selected”, the browser could show a “Leave site? Changes may not be saved” warning; if you chose to stay, the page did not refresh and the imported status did not appear, even though it had already been saved. That warning is now suppressed for the intentional refresh, so the imported status shows straight away
• Fix: Administrator-only areas stay closed to a store manager who was granted “manage options”. If a shop manager’s role had been given the “manage options” permission with a role editor, several administrator-only areas (the settings lock, the top bar settings link, hiding Screen Options from non-administrators, and the welcome tour) opened up to them. Access to these is now decided by role, so only real administrators (and network super admins) get in

3.2.1 (2026-07-06)

• Docs: expanded the readme with the new cart abandonment / cart recovery feature and clearer WooCommerce sales report wording, and refreshed the screenshots (added the Abandoned Carts screen). No functional or code changes in this release.

3.2.0 (2026-07-06)

• New: Recover lost sales with the Cart Abandonment module. BrikPanel now captures the email of shoppers who start checkout but do not finish, and collects them on a new “Abandoned Carts” screen so no lead slips away. Emails are picked up from the checkout email field (classic shortcode and the newer block checkout, including custom pages), and from logged-in customers as soon as they add to cart. Every entry keeps a full snapshot of the cart, including the exact variation chosen (for example “Colour: Red”), quantity and total, and each cart moves through Active, then Abandoned, then Recovered once the shopper places the order, even if they check out with a different email. The screen has search, status, source and date filters, per-row product details, CSV and Excel export, and statistics cards
• New: An optional discount popup that hands out a personal coupon. Switch on the email popup and BrikPanel shows a clean, on-brand sign-up offer to your visitors. Anyone who subscribes is issued their own single-use percentage coupon (10% by default, and you set the rate), restricted to their email and valid for 30 days, shown right there with a one-click Copy button. Close the popup and it folds into a small floating tab so it is never in the way but is one click from reopening. You control the heading, message, button and success text, the delay before it appears, and the cooldown after it is dismissed
• New: Pick how the offer is revealed. The coupon in the popup can be revealed with one of six animated styles, choose the one that fits your store under WooCommerce > Settings > BrikPanel > Cart abandonment: Sealed envelope, Pocket card, Scratch card, Slot machine, Magnetic assembly or the Classic ticket. All of them respect the visitor’s reduced-motion preference
• New: Import an email list into Abandoned Carts. Already have a list of leads? The new “Import CSV” button on the Abandoned Carts screen reads a CSV of emails (with optional first name, last name and phone), auto-detects comma or semicolon separators, matches your column headings, skips duplicates and invalid rows, and reports exactly what was imported
• New: Spacers and spacing controls for the sidebar. The navigation editor can now add blank spacers and divider lines between menu items to group them how you like, and a new “Item spacing” setting (Compact, Comfortable or Spacious) sets how much breathing room each row gets
• New: Choose your sidebar icon style. A new “Sidebar icon style” setting under Appearance lets you switch the sidebar icons between Solid (the original filled look) and Line (a lighter outline style). Solid stays the default, so nothing changes unless you want it to
• Fix: “Copy all” on the store summary no longer times out on large stores. On stores with tens of thousands of orders and customers, the store summary could fail with a timeout while working out new versus returning customers. The query behind it has been rebuilt to use the right database indexes, so it now returns quickly while showing exactly the same figures

3.1.51 (2026-07-05)

• New: Send an automatic email when an order reaches a custom status. Each custom order status now has its own email settings under WooCommerce > Settings > BrikPanel > Order statuses. Switch it on and, whenever an order moves into that status, BrikPanel sends a message you have written, to the customer, your store admin, and any extra addresses you add. You choose the subject, heading and body, and can drop in placeholders such as the order number, total, items, customer name and a link to view the order. The emails are wrapped in WooCommerce’s own header and footer, so they carry your store’s email branding. Works the same on simple and variable product orders
• New: Import order statuses from another plugin. Moving to BrikPanel from another custom-order-status plugin? A new “Import from another plugin” card on the Order statuses screen finds statuses that other plugins have registered, and any “orphan” statuses left on your orders after a plugin was removed (which otherwise show as a raw code and drop out of filters and reports). Import the ones you want in a click and they become editable BrikPanel statuses, keeping their existing colour where it can be detected
• Improvement: Apply a custom order status to many orders at once. Your custom statuses now appear in the orders list “Bulk actions” menu (and in BrikPanel’s own bulk buttons), so you can select several orders and change them all to a custom status in one go, instead of opening each order. Works on both simple and variable product orders, on classic and High-Performance Order Storage
• Fix: The on/off switch can no longer be hidden from you by a store manager. The top bar’s BrikPanel power switch used to appear for anyone with the “manage options” permission, so a shop manager granted that permission could turn BrikPanel off for the whole store. Its visibility is now decided by role: administrators (and network super admins) always see it, and you can grant it to other roles from a new “Show the on/off switch to roles” setting under Access control

3.1.47 (2026-07-02)

• New: Filter the Products list by brand. A brand drop-down now sits next to the category filter, so you can narrow the list to a single brand in one click. It appears only when your store has a brand taxonomy (WooCommerce’s own product brands or a third-party one), and your choice is kept in the page URL
• New: A “Date” column for the Products list. You can now show each product’s publish date and time in the list, in your site’s own date format and time zone. It is off by default; switch it on from the “Columns” button. Handy if you re-date products to refresh them at the top of a category
• Improvement: Category cells in the Products list are now clickable. Click a product’s category and the list filters to that category straight away, just like the native WooCommerce list. Works on both simple and variable products
• New: More formatting in the description editors. The rich-text toolbar (long and short description, on simple and variable products) gains Heading 1, Heading 5 and Quote block styles, left/centre/right text alignment, and a text colour picker with an on-brand palette. Useful when your theme does not turn the product title into an H1 and you want one in the description for SEO
• Fix: The visible-sections checkboxes no longer flicker. The checkboxes under WooCommerce > Settings > BrikPanel > Products (which sections show in the editor) had a small visual jump when ticked; they now use a clean, static BrikPanel checkbox

3.1.46 (2026-06-30)

• New: Traffic Sources in the dashboard. The “Visitors by Device” panel has a new “Sources” tab that breaks your visitors down into Direct, Organic Search, Social, Referral, Paid and Email, with a “Top Referrers” list showing which sites send you the most traffic. A lightweight tracker records each visitor’s referrer and landing page, one record per visitor per day, so the picture builds up over time
• New: Edit a product’s URL slug (permalink) from the editor. A new “Permalink (URL slug)” section in the product editor lets you set a custom URL for a product, with the storefront URL prefix shown for reference. Leave it blank and WooCommerce builds the slug from the title as before. It is off by default; switch it on under WooCommerce > Settings > BrikPanel > Products. Works on both simple and variable products
• New: Edit the sale price and cost straight from the Products list. Clicking the price of a simple product now opens a small popover with both the Regular and Sale price, and the Cost (COGS) column is editable inline too, so a quick change no longer means opening the editor. Variable products keep using the per-variation popup, where regular, sale and cost are already editable one by one
• New: Edit the legacy “Return Draft” and “Change” order statuses. These two built-in statuses used to be fixed and could not be removed; they now appear in your list under WooCommerce > Settings > BrikPanel > Order statuses, so you can rename or delete them like any other custom status. New installs start without them
• New: Search by GTIN in the command palette. The CMD+K search already matched product name and SKU; it now also matches a product’s GTIN, UPC, EAN or ISBN, on both products and variations, and shows the code in the result
• New: Network Admin link for multisite. On a multisite network, BrikPanel hides the WordPress toolbar, which was the only way back to the Network Admin. Network administrators now have a “Network Admin” item in the top bar’s user menu
• Fix: The “More” menu no longer breaks links to Coupons and custom order-status pages. Clicking Coupons, or a third-party page such as a custom order-status plugin, from the sidebar’s “More” group could land on a WordPress error page. Those links now point to the right place
• Fix: The “New customers today” notification now matches the dashboard. The top bar’s new-customer count only counted registered accounts and missed guest checkouts, so it could read zero while the dashboard’s Customer Types showed new customers. It now uses exactly the same source as the dashboard
• Fix: “Order updated.” and “Post updated.” confirmations are back. BrikPanel’s hiding of third-party admin notices was also swallowing WordPress and WooCommerce’s own confirmation bar after you saved an order or a post. The first-party message is now left alone
• Fix: The “Screen Options” and “Help” buttons now show on the classic (non-HPOS) order screen too, where WooCommerce’s own styles had hidden them. On the orders list they are back to WordPress’s standard buttons in their usual top-right place
• Fix: Your site name is no longer cut off in the top bar on wide screens. A long store name was being trimmed even when there was plenty of room; it can now grow with the window before it ever shortens

3.1.45 (2026-06-27)

• Fix: The “Screen Options” and “Help” buttons are no longer hidden on the orders screens. WordPress tucks those toggles into the very top-right corner, exactly where BrikPanel’s bars sit, so they ended up hidden behind them. On the single order screen they now live inside the sticky header next to the status and Save button; on the orders list they sit next to the “Add order” button. Either way they open the same panel as before, fully visible. On tablets and phones they shrink to compact icons so they stay reachable without crowding the bar. Works on both simple and variable product orders

3.1.40 (2026-06-27)

• Improvement: Marketplace sales now count in Revenue and Net profit. On stores that use BrikMarket, the headline Revenue, Total Sales, Cost of goods and Net profit now include your marketplace turnover (Trendyol, Hepsiburada and the rest) together with your website orders, so the dashboard reflects the whole business instead of showing your revenue as zero while the marketplace cards held all the sales
• Fix: The Profit section no longer shows a permanent loss after you add product costs. Cost of goods was counting your marketplace orders’ costs while Revenue did not count their sales, so the moment you filled in a product cost the store looked like it was losing money. Revenue and Cost of goods now cover exactly the same orders, on both simple and variable products, so profit and margin are correct. The Google Sheets profit report uses the same basis
• Improvement: Conversion rate and visitor stats stay website-only. Orders, average order value, conversion rate and visitors keep counting only on-site activity (marketplace orders have no website visit), so your conversion rate stays accurate even though the money figures now include the marketplace. A separate fix means marketplace orders are now reliably recognised for this split on High-Performance Order Storage stores
• Fix: Marketplace revenue is converted to your store currency. The per-marketplace sales totals are now converted to your base currency before being added up, matching the rest of the dashboard, so a store selling in more than one currency no longer mixes raw amounts together

3.1.39 (2026-06-26)

• New: Add images to the product description. The description editors (both the long description and the short description, on simple and variable products) now have an “Insert image” button that opens your media library. You can set the image’s alt text, its alignment (None, Left, Centre or Right) and its size (Small, Medium, Large or Full, that is roughly a quarter, half, three-quarters or the image’s natural width). Click an image you have already inserted to change its alignment, size or alt text, or to swap it for another. No more closing BrikPanel to add a picture with the classic editor
• New: Open description images in a lightbox. While inserting or editing an image, tick “Open in a lightbox when clicked” and that image opens in a clean full-screen overlay on the product page when a shopper clicks it (click to enlarge, then close with the backdrop, the X button or the Esc key). The small lightbox script only loads on product pages that actually use it, so storefront performance is unaffected
• Improvement: Keep typing straight after inserting an image. The cursor is now placed right after a newly inserted image, so you can carry on writing without having to click back into the editor

3.1.38 (2026-06-25)

• Fix: Google Sheets product sync no longer creates duplicate rows for variations (or any product). When a stock or price change was pushed but the plugin had lost track of which sheet row a product lived on, for example after a network hiccup dropped Google’s reply or an earlier full sync was interrupted, the next push could add a second row for the same item. The push now reconciles against the Product ID already in the sheet and updates that existing row instead of appending a duplicate. Variations and their parent product are protected the same way. Run “Sync now” once to clear any duplicate rows a previous version left behind

3.1.36 (2026-06-22)

• New: The product editor’s attributes and variations section was redesigned. The card now has a clean header (the “Variable product” title, a short description and the toggle) above a tidy body, matching the rest of the editor, instead of the previous stacked grey text. The plain attribute drop-down is replaced with a modern, searchable picker: click the field, type to filter your global attributes, and press Enter to add the match. The free-text “add a value” box and its Add button are now one joined input, and the “Size and Color” shortcut moved into a clear “Quick add” chip. Every action behaves exactly as before, on both simple and variable products
• New: Drag to reorder attribute rows. Each attribute row now has a drag handle, so you can reorder your attributes the way WooCommerce does. Because the order decides how variation names are built, reordering marks any already-generated variations as needing a refresh and prompts you to regenerate them
• Fix: WooCommerce’s “Customer history” and “Order attribution” boxes are back on the modern order screen. Both boxes carry useful native data and were being hidden by mistake; they now show with BrikPanel’s card styling. Only the raw “Custom Fields” box (already replaced by BrikPanel’s “Additional details” card) and the download-permissions box stay hidden
• Fix: The “Order actions” box no longer looks broken with the CURCY multi-currency plugin. CURCY adds a currency selector and a note to that box; the selector now sits on its own full-width row with the note as small helper text underneath, and the Trash and Update buttons line up correctly. Stores without CURCY are unchanged
• Improvement: Security and reliability hardening of the attributes and variations editor. The data the editor embeds in the page is now safely encoded so attribute or term names imported from elsewhere can never break out of the script, saving and the variation preview now run a per-product permission check, and creating a new term or global attribute is limited to users allowed to do so. Removing a taxonomy attribute from a product now cleans up its old term links, a sensible upper limit guards against a runaway number of variations, and several smaller fixes make the variation preview race-safe and stop duplicate attribute rows. Works on both simple and variable products

Earlier versions

For the complete release history (and all earlier versions), see changelog.txt bundled with the plugin.