Release v1.4.0
uiXpress v1.4.0
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uiXpress v1.4.0 was released on . uiXpress delivers effortless elegance and powerful functionality in a lightweight, high-performance admin theme. See the full changelog below and compare with the complete version history.
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- lmnFetch proactively refreshes stale nonces and retries once after security token failures
- Background timer and tab visibility checks keep long-lived admin sessions working without a page reload
- REST nonce refresh endpoint requires a matching Origin or Referer host, is rate-limited per user and IP, and returns Cache-Control: no-store
- Admin framework wp-admin redirect safeguard (beta)
- Users with the manage_options capability are never redirected from wp-admin to uix-admin
- The Administrator role and admin users are stripped from redirect settings on save and cannot be selected in settings
- Optionally retains the previous plugin version after updates for one-click rollback
- Automatically detects immediate fatal errors and restores the known-good version
- Covers manual, automatic, bulk, REST, and ZIP replacement update flows
- Emails the WordPress administrator when an automatic rollback is attempted
- Stores protected copies in private storage outside the public web root
- Installed plugin searches with no matches now offer to search the same term in the WordPress plugin directory
- Plugin repository opens in the main detail panel instead of a flyout drawer, matching the admin framework layout
- Repository search terms are preserved when opening plugin details and returning to results
- Dashboard, posts, media, users, comments, plugins, settings, Menu Creator, Activity Log, Database Explorer, Role Editor, and Admin Notices can switch without a full page reload
- Page scripts and styles are loaded on demand to keep the initial admin bundle lightweight
- Browser back and forward navigation, page titles, menu highlighting, and post-type context stay synchronized
- Native WordPress screens such as the block editor, Site Editor, and Customizer continue to use full page loads
- Reworked backend bootstrapping so admin, REST, AJAX, and cron services load only in the request contexts that need them
- Reduced the measured uiXpress frontend bootstrap memory by approximately 49%, while loading 77 fewer PHP files and classes
- Deferred WordPress plugin, theme, update, and list-table dependencies until their management features are used
- Reduced logged-in frontend toolbar work by skipping admin-only plugin scans, menus, post types, MIME types, theme settings, and capability payloads
- Activity logger services now load only when activity logging is enabled
- Successful analytics table checks are cached to avoid repeated database schema queries
- Preserved custom login routing, SEO metadata, frontend analytics, collaboration, admin framework routes, REST endpoints, and scheduled cleanup tasks
- Corrected Plugin Performance reporting and rankings
- Plugin rows no longer present the shared PHP process peak as memory owned by each plugin
- The overview reports the page process peak once instead of summing overlapping values
- uiXpress now records direct lifecycle checkpoints for autoloading, app construction, initialization, and asset enqueueing
- Memory diagnostics distinguish retained bootstrap growth, observed process growth, and PHP allocator-reserved memory
- Relative impact rankings now use a weighted share of execution time, attributed database queries, and delivered asset size
- Asset impact includes only queued or printed scripts, styles, and their dependencies instead of every registered asset
- Database queries now belong to one nearest plugin caller, excluding profiler and WordPress dispatch frames
- Query totals report the global post-plugins-loaded observation window instead of summing overlapping plugin counts
- Query fingerprints, source files, and originating hooks are available for more reliable diagnostics
- Reduced database query overhead
- Consolidated migration checks and cached settings reads with blog-scoped multisite isolation
- Reduced the measured warm public uiXpress bootstrap from three database queries to one without a persistent object cache
- Replaced repeated activity and analytics table checks with versioned schema readiness markers
- Batched activity writes in retry-safe chunks and converted analytics aggregation to transactional set-based queries
- Cached analytics settings per request and combined comparison, event, user, and media counters
- Reduced dashboard, user, media, and analytics counter queries while preserving existing response formats
- Replaced global object-cache flushes with targeted uiXpress repository invalidation
- Refined and standardised UI
Added
- automatic REST nonce refresh for the main admin app
- uixpress/v1/rest-nonce endpoint returns a fresh wp_rest nonce for the current session
- Plugin Update Protector
- faster navigation between modern uiXpress admin pages
- a subtle page-content transition with reduced-motion support
- a one-request admin framework bootstrap with automatic fallback to the existing endpoints
Improved
- plugins page search and repository browsing
- PHP performance and memory usage across frontend requests
Compatibility
- Requires WordPress
- 5.5
- Requires PHP
- 7.4