Download Ultimate Member – Social Activity v2.4.0

List of improvements in Ultimate Member – Social Activity version 2.4.0

• = 2.4.0: December 02, 2025 =
• **IMPORTANT: THIS VERSION HAS BACKGROUND DB UPGRADE. PLEASE MAKE SITE’S BACKUP BEFORE UPDATE**
• **Enhancements**
• Tweak: Updated posting Activity 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 activity 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_activity_after_wall_post_published` arguments.
• *Updated action hooks `um_activity_after_wall_post_updated` arguments.
• *Updated action hooks `um_activity_after_wall_comment_published` arguments.
• *Updated action hooks `um_activity_after_wall_comment_reply_published` arguments.
• *Updated action hooks `um_activity_after_wall_comment_updated` arguments.
• *Updated action hooks `um_activity_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 friends/followers mention in the social activity wall.
• *New filter hooks `um_activity_insert_post_args` and `um_activity_update_post_args` for parsing mentions in the activity posts. Deprecated old `um_activity_insert_post_content_filter` and `um_activity_update_post_content_filter` filter hooks.
• *New filter hooks `um_activity_insert_comment_args` and `um_activity_update_comment_args` for parsing mentions in the activity post comments.
• *New action hook `um_activity_new_mention` is used for sending Real-time Notification after users mention. Deprecated `um_followers_new_mention` and `um_following_new_mention` and `um_friends_new_mention` action hooks they were merged to the new one for better performance.
• Added: Edit Activity Post Edit link to wp-admin.
• Added: Background DB upgrade for the old posts/comments. Since update to 2.4.0 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: user-wall.php partially migrated to the new template single.php that has a legacy version for old activity posts in the `templates/legacy/single.php` path.
• Tweak: WPCS enhancements.
• **Bugfixes**
• Fixed: Recalculate and assign/un-assign the hashtags during the activity post/comment update/deletion.
• Fixed: `shorten_string` function to make the Activity post excerpt when words count truncation setting is enabled.
• **Templates required update**
• clone.php
• comment.php
• comment-reply.php
• comments.php
• user-wall.php
• **Deprecated**
• Deprecated: Displaying activity post content in wp-admin for better performance.
• Deprecated: `um_activity_insert_post_content_filter` and `um_activity_update_post_content_filter` filter hooks.
• Deprecated: Using unsecure HTML tags in the post content. It’s only possible to use the tags allowed via `wp_kses_post()` function.
• Deprecated: Obsolete scripts and functions.
• Deprecated: Old functions to handle the post/comments content, but they are still there to handle the old posts that until upgrade to the new content displaying in DB.
• Finally deprecated: Obsolete ‘safe_style_css’ because requires at least >= 6.2.
• **Cached and optimized/minified assets(JS/CSS) must be flushed/re-generated after upgrade**
• = 2.3.9: April 25, 2025 =
• Added: Filter hook `um_activity_content_remove_links` that can avoid the removing embedded links from the content text.
• Added: accept HTML argument to the uploader field.
• Fixed: Customizing of the file upload size limitation handling. Use this hook for customizing `um_activity_upload_images_stream_maximum_file_size`.
• Fixed: Comment time displaying.
• Fixed: Image handling logic and possible fatal errors.
• Tweak: Removed legacy `do_shortcode` fallback across plugins.
• **Templates required update**
• edit-post.php