Plugin changelog

September, 2023

Version 1.7.2 — September 18th, 2023

For this update, we worked with a few of our largest customers to pinpoint edge-case bugs and scalability. It feels great to have Solid Affiliate running live on sites that are tracking tens of thousands of referrals. These sites accelerate the maturation of Solid Affiliate. A big thanks to all the customers involved with this update. Numerous additional updates and tweaks for optimal performance. We’re confident you’ll appreciate this update!

  • Dozens of improvements and a few rare bug fixes: We worked with a few of our largest customers to pinpoint edge-case bugs and scalability. It feels great to have Solid Affiliate running live on sites that are tracking tens of thousands of referrals. These sites accelerate the maturation of Solid Affiliate. Numerous additional updates and tweaks for optimal performance. We're confident you'll appreciate this update!
  • Admin Notification Emails: Fixed an edge case which prevented disabling of certain admin notification emails
  • New Customer's Only referrals: The 'new customers only' setting will now properly prevent 'existing customers' from generating a referral in the instance that they are a _guest_ by using the email address to match.
  • Store Credit system update: Improved the way Store Credit is handled with respect to WooCommerce coupons. Now, significantly less coupons will be created in the background. This will help keep things organized, performant, and robust.

July, 2023

Version 1.6 — July 24th, 2023

In perhaps our most useful update of the year, we’re introducing a 🔍 global search bar to the top of Solid Affiliate admin pages. You can use this to find nearly anything within Solid Affiliate: settings, documentation, pages, affiliates, etc. 

  • Global Search: Easily find anything within Solid Affiliate. Search across all settings, pages, affiliates, documentation, and more.
  • Improved Pay Affiliates Tool: Will now make it clear which affiliates are excluded due to minimum payout amounts.
  • Deep performance improvements: Our team took a very deep dive (thanks qcachegrind + New Relic) into further optimizing Solid Affiliate performance. This was mainly a passion project that turned out successful and valuable.
  • Like literally 50 small improvements: Constant polish and improvement, code cleanup, quality of life improvements, translation improvements etc. There are too many to keep track of, just trust us this is a good update.

June, 2023

Version 1.5 — June 1st, 2023

In this version, we’ve made significant performance improvements, and added support for WooCommerce when orders are created via the WooCommerce API or Blocks. Additionally, we’ve added new reports and filters to better understand your affiliate program’s performance. 

  • Speed and performance improvements: Engineering efforts were focused on performance for this update.
  • WooCommerce API / Blocks: Solid Affiliate will now properly function when orders are created via WooCommerce API or Blocks
  • New Coupon Reporting: We have added a new Reports > Coupons tool, and included the number of referrals to the Commission Rates > Active Coupons table. These updates give you more insight into your affiliate program's performance.
  • Updated Translations: We added 🇭🇺 Hungarian (hu_HU) and 🇨🇿 Czech (cs_CZ) translation files, and improved the 🇨🇳 Chinese Traditional (cn_tw) translation.

April, 2023

Version 1.4 — April 11th, 2023
This update includes several improvements to Solid Affiliate, such as better integration with Mailchimp API, Traditional Chinese translation, enhanced multisite compatibility, performance optimization, bug fixes, and a new developer filter for customizing Affiliate Portal tabs. Additionally, there are dozens of small refinements and improvements that enhance the overall performance and quality of Solid Affiliate
  • Mailchimp API Improvements : Better error messages.
  • Traditional Chinese Translation: A huge thanks to our customers in Taiwan who helped create an excellent translation file, now included with the plugin.
  • Multisite compatibility : Improved compatibility with multisite environments.
  • Performance Improvements: Affiliate registration during keyless free trials, and overall performance.
  • Bug fix: Improvements to how Solid Affiliate handles settings internally, resolving an issue where one of our add-ons would not work properly on a new site.
  • Developer Filter: Added the "solid_affiliate/default_affiliate_tabs" filter so that anyone can change the order of Affiliate Portal tabs.

February, 2023

Version 1.3 — February 13th, 2023

The highlight feature of this update is the addition of a free trial. We’re confident that the onboarding of Solid Affiliate is the best of any plugin, and we’re making this free trial change to get Solid Affiliate into the hands of more businesses.

  • Free Trial: A free trial flow has been added to the plugin to give more businesses the opportunity to experience of setting up Solid Affiliate. This should significantly increase our customer base, which in the long run will provide resources to accelerate development of Solid Affiliate. Thank you to all the existing customers!
  • Onboarding Experience Improvements: We've added a better empty dashboard, as well as made several updates to improve the overall onboarding experience, including cleaning up the license key step in the setup wizard.
  • Performance Improvements: Our team has made various updates to improve the overall performance of Solid Affiliate, including a fix for affiliate registration during keyless free trial.

January, 2023

Version 1.2 — January 31st, 2023

This update features a major improvement to affiliate registration, making it easier and more intuitive for users to become affiliates on the site they already have a WordPress/WooCommerce account. There are also several bug fixes and performance improvements have been made to ensure the continued stability and efficiency of Solid Affiliate.

  • Improved Affiliate Registration: The affiliate registration process has been significantly improved to increase affiliate registration rates and make it more intuitive for users who already have a WordPress/WooCommerce account on the site.
  • Bug Fixes: Several bugs affecting the performance and stability of the plugin have been fixed, including issues with the license check code and a fix for infinite pings from the licensing status-check.
  • Performance Improvements: Our team has made various updates to improve the overall performance of Solid Affiliate, including a fix for affiliate setup issues with a large number of users.
  • Translation Improvements: We are proud to announce that we have made a large translation improvement, adding over 300 translated sentences/words for each of our existing supported languages.
  • Miscellaneous Updates: We've made a range of smaller updates and improvements to Solid Affiliate to enhance your experience.
Version 1.1 — January 17th, 2023

This update includes a much better setup wizard and overall onboarding experience. There is now a built in step which will optionally create affiliate accounts for all existing customers; also, a step which will create a coupon template to apply to all future affiliates.

  • New setup wizard.
  • Affiliate links with UTM parameters: Affiliate links now support UTM parameters, allowing users to track the performance of their affiliate campaigns.
  • New short-codes: We've added a new short-code that displays the affiliate name on the page if an affiliate link is used.
  • More detail notes for rejected referrals: We've added more detailed notes for rejected referrals and refunded orders, providing users with more information about why a referral was rejected.
  • Translation improvements.

December, 2022

Version 1.0.35 — December 17th, 2022

The most significant update in this release is the improved “Pay your Affiliates” tool. It has been completely redesigned to be more efficient and user-friendly. With the new minimum payout amounts setting, you can set a threshold for when affiliates receive their earnings. Additionally, you can now include or exclude specific affiliates, referrals, or affiliate groups when making payouts.

  • New and vastly improved Pay your Affiliates tool: Completely redesigned to be more efficient and user-friendly, with the added ability to set minimum payout amounts and include or exclude specific affiliates, referrals, or groups.
  • Additional controls over affiliate portals: You can now choose to hide certain tabs from affiliate portals, while still being able to preview all tabs as an admin.
  • Security updates: We've made improvements to ensure that your data is safe and secure on Solid Affiliate.
  • Performance updates: We've made various updates to improve the overall performance of the platform.
  • Miscellaneous updates: We've made a range of smaller updates and improvements to Solid Affiliate to enhance your experience. Trust us, much more went into this update than these notes portray! <3

November, 2022

Version 1.0.34 — November 10th, 2022

This update super charges the affiliate portals that each and every affiliate (and admin when in admin preview mode) interacts with! The portals now load instantly when clicking around. A much anticipated feature that our team is proud of delivering to everyone. Thanks to all the customers who were there for us and beta tested this version.

  • Major speed improvements to the affiliate portals. The portal will now load nearly instantly, and affiliates will be able to click through each section of their portal without reloading the page. This makes for a modern, fast experience which should further build trust amongst our users' affiliates.
  • Significantly improved translations. Added multiple languages and 300+ translated sentences/words for each of our existing supported languages.
  • Adding "this order was referred by an affiliate" icons and tooltips to the WooCommerce > Orders table.
  • Improved functionality of affiliate registration on sites with caching enabled. Removes an entire setup step for the majority of our new users.
  • Very substantial performance improvements to the entire plugin, rooted in a more intelligent Settings module beneath the hood.
  • Reversing order of referrals in the Affiliate Portals
  • Changing randomly generated codes from 8 to 4 characters for the Auto Create Affiliate Coupons functionality.

October, 2022

Version 1.0.33 — October 12th, 2022
  • New filter to exclude a specific affiliate from receiving referral email notifications
  • Fix: There was a rare bug where guest checkouts were incorrectly crediting affiliates when Lifetime Commissions are enabled. This is all fixed, please update ASAP if you are using the Lifetime Commissions functionality within Solid Affiliate.
  • Translation pass to update existing docs and localize missing strings.

September, 2022

Version 1.0.31 — September 21st, 2022

This release sets Solid Affiliate apart from every other affiliate solution for WordPress. The dashboard built into Solid Affiliate is now a modern, next-generation type interface. The interface is beginning to reflect the true quality of the hidden internals of Solid Affiliate.

  • Completely new dashboard interface, cementing Solid Affiliate as the next-generation affiliate plugin for WooCommerce.
  • Historical Feed of your affiliate program events such as Referrals Created, Affiliates Created, Payouts sent, etc.

August, 2022

Version 1.0.30.1 — August 30th, 2022

The much requested Lifetime Commissions feature is here and as always it’s Solid. This update consists of a month of hard, focused work from our team. The highlights include Lifetime Commissions, performance improvements, advanced settings, and a greatly improved licensing system. The video below shows of the new Lifetime Commissions feature. Highly recommended to update to this version asap.

  • Lifetime Commissions feature with built-in settings. Completely built-in, no add ons necessary.
  • Improved the performance of manage your affiliates tables.
  • Added a setting to select which WooCommerce core order statuses should trigger a referral in Solid Affiliate.
  • Added a setting to select which referral statuses to show your affiliates in their portal.
  • Improved license API : More efficiently check for plugin updates.
  • Added custom hook on referral creation do_action"solid_affiliate/purchase_tracking/referral_created"
  • Improved designs and functionality of licensing related messaging throughout the plugin.
  • Easy-to-use User / Customer selects throughout the plugin. Replace and improve upon "User ID" fields.
  • Dev: Overhauled CSS files. Improved organization and more intelligent asset loading.
  • Improved navigation within Solid Affiliate > Affiliates > Edit.
  • Removing the phrase "WordPress" from some affiliate facing screens, because it's irrelevant to affiliates that your program is on WordPress. Thank you to our customers for suggesting this tweak.
  • Update: Order description within email notifications now includes the site url of the store which the purchase was made from
  • Fix: Registration Note tooltips are now properly rendering on the affiliates admin table

July, 2022

Version 1.0.29 — July 28th, 2022
A large and exciting new update featuring dozens and dozens of improvements and new features. The star of the show for this update is the Store Credit feature, you can now reward your affiliates with store credit! The video below distills the most important parts of this update.
  • Video going over this update: https://youtu.be/tvWyQzw7cus
  • Star of the show: Store Credit - Reward your Affiliates with Store Credit.
  • Enabled the ability to set $0.00 or 0% commission rates for any commission rate strategy (Affiliate-specific, Product-specific, Affiliate-Product-specific, etc).
  • Improved Mailchimp integration and documentation. Settings now have links to documentation.
  • New Feature: You can now disable referrals entirely for orders which use a particular coupon.
  • New Feature: WooCommerce Coupons will now show an affiliate icon for any coupon that has an affiliate associated with it.
  • Update to Registration form ReCaptcha. It is now more resilient to javascript namespace interference'
  • New Feature: WooCommerce template tags have been added to our email notifications. You can now add Customer information to affiliate and affiliate manager email notifications, pulling straight from the WooCommerce order. For example: customer email, customer phone, customer shipping address, etc.
  • New Feature: Preview all email notifications within Solid Affiliate with the click of a button. You can also resend notification emails to your affiliates when needed.
  • New Feature: Optionally display customer information alongside each referral within the affiliate portals.
  • Improved manually creating referrals: the form now has a searchable field for coupons. This is should save ample time over needing to find and paste in the coupon ID.
  • Improved Affiliate Portal styling. Is now also more resilient to theme style conflicts.
  • New Feature: An easy to use hide/show columns button for all our admin tables. Better default hidden columns.
  • Plugin wide styling improvements. CSS beauty. Significant improvements to the admin Affiliate > Edit page.

June, 2022

Version 1.0.28 — June 11th, 2022
  • Major optimization to visit tracking performance. The JS tracking script will now detect if it should not make a request to the server. This leads to immediate page load improvements across all our users.
  • Updated Portuguese translations within the affiliate registration form.
  • Styling improvements to the commission calculation tooltips.
  • Improvements to the pay affiliate tool. Now starts the custom date range selector at current month
  • Show localized timestamp for referrals created_at in both affiliate portals and admin interface.
  • Add a coupon column row to notification email: Affiliate Account Approved notification.
  • Improvements to the affiliate portal including CSS updates for more flexibility and browser support; creatives copy embed code rendering improvements.
  • PayPal Integration: New currency warning if admin has an incompatible PayPal currency configured in WooCommerce. Improvements to our documentation for this as well, making for an overall more robust experience with the Solid Affiliate PayPal integration.
  • Improvements to Affiliate Portal > Edit Setting. When there are no settings available for affiliate edit, render a helpful message. See Custom Affiliate Form.
  • Added a "solid_affiliate/affiliate_portal/custom_slugs_section" filter to help a customer meet their desired Affiliate Portal design.

May, 2022

Version 1.0.27 — May 2nd, 2022
  • Security update. Non-critical vulnerability detected and we released a patch immediately. A developer-only page which created a mock affiliate account (for development purposes) was exposed within the wp-admin panel of Solid Affiliate, leading to some customers accidentally creating a mock affiliate account. The fix is very simple, simply delete the mock affiliate account.

April, 2022

Version 1.0.26 — April 29th, 2022
  • New core feature - Custom Affiliate Slugs. A flexible and automatable custom slugs feature has been built into the core of Solid Affiliate. As an admin, you can enable automatic slug creation upon affiliate signup, create custom slugs for your affiliates, and/or allow your affiliates to create their own custom slugs.
  • Significant improvements to the Solid Affiliate <> WooCommerce Subscriptions integration. The integration is now much more robust, our internal test suite is more thorough, and it plays well with all the referral types within Solid Affiliate.
  • Admin Order helpers which display pertinent Affiliate and Referral information associated with each Order in your store. For example, Solid Affiliate will now track and explain why a referral was not created for any given order.
  • Thanks to our new Continuous Integration testing environment, a few hard to catch PHP and WP version compatibility bugs were caught and immediately squashed.
  • Improvements to our Custom Affiliate Registration Form feature. The form builder will now pre-validate your form and warn you of errors before submitting it. This prevents losing your progress by submitting an invalid form.
Version 1.0.25 — April 6th, 2022
  • Dynamic tooltips throughout the app now display additional information regarding Solid Affiliate statuses.
  • New Feature: Affiliate Landing Pages.
  • Improved translations. Custom registration form builder now translating.
  • Admin helper which renders above the affiliate registration form and affiliate portal when an admin is logged in. Designed to help admins with configuring their registration forms and portals.
  • Affiliate Portal - Admin Preview feature.
  • Ability to configure the Affiliate Portal word “Affiliate”.
  • Email templates will now translate affiliate status, referral status, referral source.
  • Fixed issue where WordPress notices were being rendered inside of Solid Affiliate components, instead of at the top of the page.

March, 2022

Version 1.0.24 — March 21st, 2022
  • Exporting a CSV of payout data through the Pay Affiliates tool will now export all custom fields as created through the Solid Affiliate custom affiliate fields builder. Significant improvement with regards to flexibility and usability of our Pay Affiliates tool with non-PayPal payout methods. Users can now export all their Pay Out data and upload the CSV through any platform of their choosing.
  • In-app documentation improvements to the Pay Affiliate flow, specifically for the PayPal integration.
  • Updated translation files.
  • WooCommerce Integration: Added styling to properly align Solid Affiliate sections within WooCommerce Product > Solid Affiliate and WooCommerce Coupon > Solid Affiliate. Also, sections are now easier to locate due to custom icons.
  • Improved PHP 7.2 compatibility.
  • Improved WordPress 5.2 compatibility.
Version 1.0.23 — March 10th, 2022
  • Added a tool on the manage visits page to delete old unconverted visits, this can be useful in saving space in your database for users with very large amounts of affiliate driven traffic.
  • Improved log in and registration experience for affiliates, including further integration with WordPress user management.
  • Improved error messages including added translations and more descriptive messages.
Version 1.0.22 — March 9th, 2022
  • Custom affiliate fields and registration form. Built-in form builder. See video: https://youtu.be/tLssSEWdy6k
  • Improved how referring URL is tracked for visit tracking.
  • Added 'solid_affiliate/settings/' developer filters.
  • Improved javascript chart rendering within the affiliate portals.
  • Large translation update. We now have over 900 translateable strings. Language included: https://solidaffiliate.com/supported-languages/.
  • Added a new "Prevent self-referrals" setting. Use this to prevent or allow affiliates from generating referrals on their own purchases.
  • Improved WooCommerce Subscriptions Integration. Refunded/canceled/trashed subscription renewals will now properly reject any underlying referrals. Interaction between auto-referrals and subscriptions improved.
  • Fixed: Heredoc issue for sites running PHP 7.2 and lower. Improved PHP compatibility checks and error messages.
  • Dozens of minor improvements, tweaks, and improvements to UX, performance, and stability.

February, 2022

Version 1.0.21 — February 8th, 2022
  • Added a new Auto Coupon Generation add-on.
  • Added a tool to export all your Solid Affiliate data.
  • Added an “affiliate portal” post-state to distinguish the affiliate portal page in the pages list table.
  • Register affiliate row action in Users.php
  • Added a setting to remove all Solid Affiliate data on uninstall.
  • Added a setting to disable referrals for WooCommerce Product Categories.
  • Fixed and improved database validations. Fixed issue with \ and ‘ in form fields.
  • Fixed affiliate net revenue preview calculation. They will now be automatically updated on any refunded or canceled orders.
  • Improvement. Solid Affiliate now loads admin assets more selectively, improving performance and compatibility with other plugins in the same environment.
  • Translation Files updated.
  • Improved styling of all Solid Affiliate settings.

January, 2022

Version 1.0.20 — January 17th, 2022
  • Improved UI for all Settings.
  • Introduction of the add ons menu within Solid Affiliate.
  • New Add on - Auto-register new users as Affiliates.
  • New Add on - Exclude payment gateway referrals.
  • Fix - Prevent duplicate Auto Referrals from being created.
  • Required fields in all forms are now properly indicated as being required.
  • Introduction of a few developer hooks, in preparation for a larger developer launch.
  • Affiliate Portal now only displays Unpaid and Paid Referrals. Draft and Rejected Referrals are no longer shown in the Portals.
  • Pay Affiliate tool - Export CSV no longer exports rows with a zero ($0.00) commission value. PayPal Mass Payouts (and other payout platforms) require these rows to be removed.
  • Improved - Performance improved on sites with large amounts of Users.
  • Allow higher precision commission settings, up to two decimal places.

December, 2021

Version 1.0.19 — December 19th, 2021
  • Improved email notifications and customization of email templates.
  • Admin search improvements. AJAX endpoints for Affiliate, User, and WooCommerce product searches.
  • Asset loading improvements. Solid Affiliate will now load only a tiny ~1kb file on the front end for redundant visit tracking and cache support.
Version 1.0.18 — December 14th, 2021
  • Improvements to the Pay Affiliates tool. Fixed issue of duplic
  • Fixed issue of duplicate referrals being generated for some WooCommerce orders
Version 1.0.17 — December 8th, 2021
  • New Referral fields in email notification.
Version 1.0.16 — December 1st, 2021
  • Internationalization of metadata.
  • Plugin is translation-ready.

November, 2021

Version 1.0.15 — November 24th, 2021

Compatibility with WordPress multisite environement.

Version 1.0.14 — November 11th, 2021

Improving admin affiliate registration.

Version 1.0.13 — November 7th, 2021
  • Updated support for popular caching plugins.
  • Better UI around referral rate settings.
  • Enhanced our PayPal Integration. Better error reporting.

October, 2021

Version 1.0.12 — October 30th, 2021

Affiliate Portal Upgrades : Improved rendering of Creative assets.

Version 1.0.11 — October 28th, 2021

Affiliate portal dashboard : Affiliate overview + charts

Version 1.0.10 — October 10th, 2021
  • Improving admin notifications
  • Improving PayPal integration : Disregarding 0.0 commissions.

September, 2021

Version 1.0.9 — September 28th, 2021
  • Affiliate Auto Referrals / Revenue splits. You can now configure an auto-referral whenever a product is sold.
  • Affiliate Product Rates. Can set specific commission rules on a per-product and per-affiliate level.
  • Deleting a WordPress user will now also delete any corresponding Solid Affiliate data.
Version 1.0.8 — September 21st, 2021
Performance improvements.
Version 1.0.7 — September 17th, 2021

Improving settings controls.

Version 1.0.6 — September 16th, 2021
Fixed plugin auto-update.
Version 1.0.5 — September 10th, 2021
  • Affiliate Groups have been added. Affiliates can now be assigned to groups, and those groups can be assigned custom commission rates.
  • Affiliate Groups supported by the solid_afffiliate_portal shortcode.

August, 2021

Version 1.0.4 — August 24th, 2021
Improved Affiliate Registration features. The affiliate registration form can now be further customized. Additional fields have been added, and a setting to hide the portal from un-approved affiliates has been added.
Version 1.0.3 — August 23rd, 2021
MailChimp Integration. Affiliates will automatically sync to your MailChimp account when they register to become an Affiliate.
Version 1.0.2 — August 18th, 2021
  • Affiliate Link Generator upgrades.
  • Support for only paying commissions for new customers.
  • Support for additional currencies when using the PayPal Payouts included integration.
Version 1.0.1 — August 11th, 2021
Affiliate portal login upgrades.
Version 1.0.1 — August 11th, 2021
Initial release of Solid Affiliate plugin.