Ashbi Mega Menu

Changelog

1.2.10

• Editor: keep newer edits during saves and recovery, protect drafts across tabs, and keep previews in sync when switching views or moving items.
• Storefront: coordinate Classic and Ashbi menus on the same page and clean up replaced headers.
• Migration and recovery: preserve concurrent edits, retain failed restores for retry, and protect archived menus and recovery points.

1.2.9

• The editor has your menu items and settings on the left, and the preview on the right.
• The preview is shorter, so you see the menu bar and the settings together without scrolling.
• Nothing changes for visitors. Narrow screens work as before.

1.2.8

• Finish switching from Easy Mega Menu with one button, then delete it. A backup is saved first, and you can undo it.
• Old [easy_mega_menu] codes keep working with no setting to manage, so a missed one never shows as text.
• Deleting this plugin now keeps your menus, unless you turn on “Delete all data when the plugin is deleted” in Tools.
• Saving a menu clears NitroPack’s cache, and the save status says so.
• Empty backups are no longer made or listed, and can’t be restored.
• Site look moved to Advanced settings, in plain words, and asks first when a menu is on your site.
• A tap on the phone menu button before the page has loaded now also works on headers that stick to the top of the page.

1.2.7

• A tap on the phone menu button before the page has finished loading now opens the menu when it is ready, instead of being lost.
• A label can have no link on purpose. Tick the option, and the checklist stops asking for a link.

1.2.6

• A simpler editor. Four steps replace the tabs: Content, Design, Place and Check. Presets come first, and everything else sits in one closed Advanced settings section that names what you changed.
• New dropdowns start on Simple columns, History brings saved versions and backups together, and a short optional guide helps new users.
• The Classic desktop preview now shows the real Classic look.
• Visitors get small fixes: rotating a phone with the drawer open no longer leaves the page stuck on sticky headers, and the phone button shows a tap at once.

1.2.5

• Visitors: easier hover and tap behaviour in both menu styles, phone drawers that close on link taps and reach every link, and keyboard, high-contrast and screen-reader fixes.
• Editor: clearer placed and needs-attention status, saved versions per menu, safer archive, delete and Easy Mega Menu import, and warnings before leaving with unsaved changes.

1.2.4

• Classic menus: phone menu sections open on sites whose scripts reset menus that measure zero wide.

1.2.3

• “Edit mega menu” now shows in the toolbar on themes that print the toolbar before their header, such as Hello Elementor.

1.2.2

• While Easy Mega Menu is active, classic menus on test pages match how they will look after the switch.
• The Easy Mega Menu import screen lists the menus your pages actually use.

1.2.1

• Warning when Easy Mega Menu is inactive and content still uses its [easy_mega_menu] shortcode, which would show as text.
• Product navigation: the block has a “Use page product navigation” setting, and the product name can link to the main product page.
• The classic widget is named “Ashbi Mega Menu (classic widget)”, so it is not confused with the block or the Elementor widget.
• Copies made by importing are numbered like duplicates; clearer counts in import, archive and snapshot messages.
• The block’s Wide and Full width alignment (and extra CSS classes) now apply on the site.
• Simple-column links can have a short description, shown under the link.
• Choose the logo from the Media Library.
• The checklist flags featured-card link text that has no link (the text is hidden on the site), and an item about one dropdown opens that dropdown’s editor.
• Undo and redo no longer switch the chosen style preset to Custom.
• While a dropdown’s content is edited, the preview stays in view above it.
• Screen readers announce a row’s new name as soon as it is renamed.
• Placement help explains that a narrow column shows the phone menu.
• Smaller wording and layout fixes in the editor.

1.2.0

• Fonts: use your site’s font or a custom one, with sizes and weights for the menu bar, categories, links and descriptions.
• Dropdown height: default, grow to fit, cap and scroll, or fixed.
• Elementor widget with Elementor typography and colour controls, so global fonts apply.
• “Edit mega menu” toolbar link on pages that show a menu.
• Undo and redo in the menu editor.
• Menus that don’t use the new settings render exactly as before.

1.1.0

• Import menus, product navigation and branding from Easy Mega Menu, read-only, with a preview and a list of anything not copied exactly.
• Imported menus keep Easy Mega Menu’s exact look, markup and site CSS (Classic look), including the site’s own icons.
• Optionally answer [easy_mega_menu] shortcodes and emm_render_menu() after Easy Mega Menu is deactivated, so headers need no edits.
• Optional fix so long phone submenus in classic menus scroll to the last link.
• Phone and tablet previews show classic menus as they look on the site.
• Menus created in Ashbi are unchanged.

1.0.4

• Keep a desktop mega menu open when it is clicked after opening on hover.
• Fix cramped reorder, icon size and category fields in the editor, and add the missing right margin.
• Show one clear set of create options on a new install.
• Make all menu editor text and the mobile menu’s screen-reader labels translatable.
• Keep the mobile drawer on screen when the menu sits low on the page, such as in a footer widget.
• Stop themes such as Twenty Twenty-One from repainting menu section buttons and drawer controls.
• Tell menus with the same name apart in the block and widget menu lists.
• Remove the widget’s saved settings when the plugin is deleted.
• Save reliably on every host: menu saves now use a per-site lock row instead of a MySQL advisory lock, which could block saves on shared or pooled databases.
• Redesign the dashboard: simpler welcome, one Tools panel and shorter text.
• Redesign the menu editor: three clear steps (Edit, Place, Check), a Place tab that always shows the shortcode, a lighter preview toolbar, tidier rows and folded icon styling.
• Bring Product Navigation, Navigation Coverage and Product Branding in line with the new look and use plainer wording throughout.
• Preview menus on a zoomable canvas at real desktop, tablet and phone widths instead of squeezing them into the editor.
• Flag links typed as plain text (such as “about”) and menu bar names that are too long, before you place the menu.
• Count shortcodes in pages when warning before a menu is archived.
• Show the real reason when an import file is rejected, and give repeated duplicates distinct names.
• Fix the editor preview for menus with several mega items, and open the drawer in tablet and phone previews.
• Refresh the desktop mega panel: rounded category rows, icon tiles, a clear “see all” link and a stable height between categories.
• Ship a fuller starter template with sample products, a site name and a button; the checklist counts sample links still to replace.
• Flag a logo with nothing to show, keep dark styles readable and stop a home link from looking current on every page with plain permalinks.
• Clamp negative number settings to their minimum and fix icon search.
• Start ordinary sites with neutral defaults and make contextual navigation an optional module.
• Generalize contextual navigation for products, services, departments, documentation and locations.
• Remove retained recovery drafts on uninstall and package third-party notices in a directory-compatible format.
• Preserve numeric menu IDs through imports, editing and placement.
• Verify export recoverability within bounded limits: 500 menus, 10 MiB total and 1 MiB per menu.
• Protect product profiles and branding from stale edits, concurrent writes and false save confirmations.
• Retain entered product fields after failures and normalize non-Latin profile IDs consistently.
• Add guided Create, Edit & save, Place and Verify steps with translated help and safe draft recovery.

1.0.3

• Verify product-branding save notices against the current administrator session.
• Ignore malformed notice values and add WordPress regressions for signed notices.

1.0.2

• Serialize menu collection changes and prevent imports when recovery backups fail.
• Add administrator backup export/restore with stale-state protection.
• Fix WP-CLI imports, readiness consistency and stacked URL controls.
• Remove the unpublished composition choice and improve placement/recovery help.

1.0.1

• Original Ashbi identity, branded admin screens and block icon.
• Improved sidebar link field sizing and preview control contrast.
• WordPress directory artwork and screenshots from the actual plugin.

1.0.0

• Initial independent open-source release; directory review pending.
• Optional enhanced mobile navigation and shared preview search.
• Generic sample content and public package isolation.