Download Ultimate Member – Groups v2.5.1

List of improvements in Ultimate Member – Groups version 2.5.1

• = 2.5.1: May 13, 2026 =
• **Enhancements**
• Tweak: Refactored group create/update forms.
• *Improved avatar upload handling with better mime type filtering.
• *Enhanced security with better input sanitization and validation.
• *Deprecated unused variables and cleaned up formatting for better maintainability.
• Tweak: Removed ability to change the group role by the user (group manager role) itself.
• **Bugfixes**
• Fixed: Misplaced `nl2br` calls to preserve content formatting. Moved the `nl2br` function call to ensure proper formatting of post content after embedding and auto-embedding processes.
• Fixed: Added User ID to the user card data for proper user actions in the members/invites group tabs.
• **Templates required update**
• discussion/legacy/single.php
• discussion/new.php
• discussion/single.php
• tabs/avatar.php
• tabs/single-group-tabs.php
• create-group-form.php
• **Cached and optimized/minified assets(JS/CSS) must be flushed/re-generated after upgrade**
• = 2.5.0: December 02, 2025 =
• **IMPORTANT: THIS VERSION HAS BACKGROUND DB UPGRADE. PLEASE MAKE SITE’S BACKUP BEFORE UPDATE**
• **Enhancements**
• Added: Group Discussion Posts/Hashtags list table in wp-admin.
• Added: Edit Group Discussion Post Edit link to wp-admin.
• Added: Background DB upgrade for the old discussion posts/comments. Since update to 2.5.0 version all your old posts/comments will be upgraded to the new content displaying but keep their original content in the postmeta/commentmeta.
• Added: Site Health information.
• Tweak: Updated posting group discussion wall posts and comments.
• *Using WordPress native oEmbed providers for the link that can be embedded. Deprecated `_shared_link`, `_video_url`, `_oembed`, `_video_oembed_data` postmeta for the group discussion posts.
• *Using WordPress native `the_content`, `the_excerpt` and `comment_text` filter hooks to prepare content for displaying.
• *Using UM core function `UM()->shortcodes()->emotize()` to convert old-style emoji, but for another use WordPress native `convert_smiles()` on the hooks above.
• *Updated hashtag parsing function to wrap the hashtags to proper UM links.
• *Updated action hooks `um_groups_after_wall_post_published` arguments.
• *Updated action hooks `um_groups_after_wall_post_updated` arguments.
• *Updated action hooks `um_groups_after_wall_comment_published` arguments.
• *Updated action hooks `um_groups_after_wall_comment_reply_published` arguments.
• *Updated action hooks `um_groups_after_wall_comment_updated` arguments.
• *Updated action hooks `um_groups_after_wall_comment_reply_updated` arguments.
• *Deprecated using unsecure HTML tags in the post content. It’s only possible to use the tags allowed via `wp_kses_post()` function.
• Tweak: Updated the group members mention in the group discussion wall.
• *New filter hooks `um_groups_insert_post_args` and `um_groups_update_post_args` for parsing mentions in the group discussion posts. Deprecated old `um_groups_insert_post_content_filter` and `um_groups_update_post_content_filter` filter hooks.
• *New filter hooks `um_groups_insert_comment_args` and `um_groups_update_comment_args` for parsing mentions in the group discussion post comments.
• Tweak: Integration with Ultimate Member Extensions_Updater class. Updated packages for integration with Action Scheduler.
• Tweak: user-wall.php partially migrated to the new template discussion/single.php that has a legacy version for old group discussion posts in the `templates/discussion/legacy/single.php` path.
• Tweak: WPCS enhancements.
• **Bugfixes**
• Fixed: Displaying hidden profiles in the “Send Invites” group tab.
• Fixed: Using Activity wall hashtags in groups. Changed taxonomy from `um_hashtag` to `um_groups_discussion_hashtag`. Don’t use `um_hashtag` in Groups anymore.
• Fixed: Recalculate and assign/un-assign the hashtags during the group discussion post/comment update/deletion.
• Fixed: `shorten_string` function to make the Group Discussion post excerpt when words count truncation setting is enabled.
• **Templates required update**
• discussion/clone.php