Divi Ghoster Changelog

Note: In addition to the changes listed here, there may be other minor fixes and improvements that are not noted. For more information about this product, visit the Divi Ghoster product page.

Version 5.0.57 June 7, 2024

• Fix: Divi Cloud sidebar box in Insert Module dialog wasn't hidden in the backend builder and theme builder

Version 5.0.56 February 22, 2024

• Fix: If there is an error setting the custom theme image during theme update, simply remove the theme image instead of causing the update to fail
• Add some additional text ghosting
• Add some additional logging messages

Version 5.0.55 December 27, 2023

• Hide Divi Ghoster from active plugins list in Site Health

Version 5.0.54 November 30, 2023

• Fix: Divi Ghoster custom image features may not work with a custom uploads directory path

Version 5.0.53 November 22, 2023

• Fix: PHP warnings with custom login slug

Version 5.0.52 October 21, 2023

• Fix: Custom colors weren't working in theme options or role editor

Version 5.0.51 October 10, 2023

• Fix potential JavaScript error in the Divi Builder when Ghoster is enabled

Version 5.0.50 September 15, 2023

• Ghost Divi Cloud text.
• Hide Divi Cloud element
• Hide ET upsell button

Version 5.0.49 March 18, 2023

• Add ghosting for "divi" in the IDs of some inline <style> elements that weren't previously ghosted

Version 5.0.48 December 23, 2022

• Fix: Ultimate Ghoster's Hide Traces option may cause page resource tag(s) to be missing the closing >, resulting in invalid markup that may cause CSS to be output in the page body, or other issues

Version 5.0.47 November 26, 2022

• Potential issue fix: preg_replace function has missing delimited

Version 5.0.46 October 12, 2022

• Custom Builder Colors: added support for global modules, updated CSS selectors

Version 5.0.45 September 28, 2022

• Potential JS issues due to improved Ultimate Ghoster script tag ghosting
• Rebrand to WP Zone

Version 5.0.44 September 21, 2022

• Fix: CSS code may be visible at the top of the page when Ultimate Ghoster is enabled

Version 5.0.43 August 26, 2022

• Fix: When changing the theme image, the image does not update if the previous image was in PNG format and the new image is in JPG format

Version 5.0.42 August 24, 2022

• Fix: Masking enqueued CSS tags may result in styling issues

Version 5.0.41 July 28, 2022

• Added options to the Ultimate Ghoster tab: "Don't mask enqueued JS tags" and "Don't mask enqueued CSS tags", which can be used to disable features that may be problematic when optimization plugins are active

Version 5.0.40 July 8, 2022

• Fix potential issue with theme copying on Windows
• Fix PHP notice on WordPress admin plugins page
• Remove custom module credits when Divi Ghoster's Ultimate mode is enabled
• Update theme name and author name if changed while Ultimate is enabled

Version 5.0.39, July 5, 2022

• Hide default WordPress info when the welcome widget is displayed
• Some third party modules are not ghosted
• Fix: WP Theme Detector is detecting ghosted Divi

Version 5.0.38, May 13, 2022

• Fix: Export tab was not visible in import/export (portability) popup
• Fix: The premade layouts feature was not being hidden in some version(s) of Divi
• Hide various Divi Cloud related elements when the option to hide premade layouts is enabled in Ultimate mode: sign in button and move to Divi Cloud button / menu item in the Load from Library dialog, Save to Divi Cloud right-click menu item, and Divi Cloud toggle in the Add to Library popup
• Fix: Help button was visible in the Load from Library dialog even when the option to hide the product tour was enabled in Ultimate mode

Version 5.0.37, April 11, 2022

• Fix issue with Role Editor portability not being available

Version 5.0.36, February 15, 2022

• Fix: Welcome Dashboard - styling issues with WordPress 5.9.0

Version 5.0.35, February 1, 2022

• reCAPTCHA is not working for Divi 4.10.8 and higher when "Ultimate Ghoster" enabled

Version 5.0.34, January 24, 2022

• Fix PHP error : call to undefined function symlink

Version 5.0.33, December 2, 2021

• Remove unnecessary folder from plugin files

Version 5.0.32, November 4, 2021

• Fix: Custom builder colors may be overridden by Divi Builder stylesheet, so they may not be applied consistently
• Fix: Changes to custom builder colors may not be reflected immediately due to browser caching

Version 5.0.31, November 2, 2021

• Fix: Meta generator tag may have allowed some theme detector(s) to identify the theme with Ultimate Ghoster > "Hide Traces of..." enabled
• Dynamic Assets integration should now only run on frontend requests

Version 5.0.30, September 24, 2021

• Fix: Theme update may result in empty theme directory
• Add support for ghosting stylesheets added by Divi 4.10 (e.g. style.min.css), which may be loaded inline

Version 5.0.29, September 11, 2021

• Fix: Styling breaks under Divi 4.10 with Ultimate Ghoster enabled
• Fix: The Ultimate Ghoster "Hide Product Tour and Help Links" option results in a JS error if jQuery is loaded in the page footer

Version 5.0.28, Aug 23th, 2021

• Fix: Divi 4.10 compatibility
• Fix: Issue with creating Ultimate mode theme copy on Windows

Version 5.0.27, Aug 6th, 2021

• Fix potential issues with Ultimate Ghoster on Windows-based servers
• Fix fatal error when enabling or disabling Ultimat Ghoster if the PHP exec() function is disabled
• When enabling Ultimate Ghoster, detect if the theme slug already exists in the themes directory and if so, fail with a specific log entry
• Add "Hide page creation options (including premade layout option)" checkbox in the Customization tab (allows this default Ghoster functionality to be disabled)

Version 5.0.26, May 4th, 2021

• Fix: The Customization > Show Welcome Page for All Users option made the welcome page appear on admin pages other than the dashboard (index.php) page
• Fix: In some cases, the Customization > Admin Dashboard Welcome Page setting may display a 404 error page instead of the intended page
• Improved security related to the Customization > Admin Dashboard Welcome Page setting

Version 5.0.25, April 27th, 2021

• Fix: Custom login styling for login form labels may not be applied
• Fix: Enable Login Page Customizer option may not save

Version 5.0.24, April 23th, 2021

• Fix: When Ultimate Ghoster is enabled with the "Hide Traces" option checked, the ghosted theme files may sometimes not be up to date. Symptoms include malfunctioning visual builder and/or a broken theme message in Appearance > Themes

Version 5.0.23, April 22th, 2021

• Fix: In recent version(s) of Divi, the Divi logo may appear in addition to the Divi Ghoster branding image in Theme Options
• Fix: Possible PHP error during plugin update

Version 5.0.22, April 15th, 2021

• Fix: PHP warning may appear in some cases
• Fix: In some cases, the custom dashboard welcome widget may be empty for some users
• Feature: Add option to show the custom dashboard welcome page for all users
• Fix: It may not be possible to disable the "Enable Login Page Customizer" option once it is enabled

Version 5.0.21, April 9, 2021

• Fix: Remove unnecessary debug code in ghoster-hide-premade-layouts.js
• Fix: JavaScript error in ghoster-hide-premade-layouts.js

Version 5.0.20, March 30, 2021

• Fix: Divi Ghoster may override body classes added by other code (in the admin and/or frontend)
• Fix: Adding links (and possibly other functionality) wasn't working in the WYSIWYG editor (TinyMCE) when editing layouts in the theme builder (for example, in text modules)

Version 5.0.19, March 27, 2021

• Fix: "Divi Settings" item in the Gutenberg menu wasn't ghosted
• Fix: Certain characters in the branding name could cause problems

Version 5.0.18, March 4, 2021

• Fix: Syntax error in some versions of PHP 7 and earlier

Version 5.0.17, March 2, 2021

• Added log feature to assist in troubleshooting when needed
• filter to help with third-party plugin compatibility (allows plugins to detect the actual parent theme name)
• Fix: The plugin may not correctly recognize the Extra theme if it is ghosted
• Fix: The "hide premade layouts" feature may be active even when Ultimate Ghoster is disabled, if the feature was previously enabled

Version 5.0.16, February 14, 2021

• Change default value for "Custom Child Theme Image" to empty (instead of "same") if the "Custom Theme Image" is empty (to avoid an error when saving settings)

Version 5.0.15, February 9, 2021

• Fix: Theme name is not ghosted after theme update

Version 5.0.14, February 2, 2021

• Fix: A custom post type used for the login customizer feature was incorrectly set to be publicly visible and may have been indexed by search engines. This post had fixed title and content values (possibly altered by language packs) and the author ID set to 0.

Version 5.0.13, January 22, 2021

• Fix: Image upload/selection buttons in the admin UI may populate the image URL into the wrong field

Version 5.0.12, January 21, 2021

• Improve masking of Divi Ghoster plugin presence from certain plugin detection website(s)
• Fix: Premade Layouts tab may not be hidden (including in the theme builder)
• Fix: Help links are displaying even when the Ultimate Ghoster setting to hide them is enabled

Version 5.0.11, January 19, 2021

• Fix: Incompatibility with Divi Mega Pro plugin
• Fix: Settings save ajax call may time out too quickly

Version 5.0.10, January 8, 2021

• Feature: Added a new setting to allow a different custom theme image to be set for child themes (one image applies to all child themes)
• Feature: Automatically bypass browser and server-side caching for the theme image on the Appearance > Themes page and on the WordPress Updates page (caching can result in delays in changes to the image)
• Feature: Automatically bypass browser and server-side caching for the branding image (caching can result in delays in changes to the image)
• Fix: Child themes may not be correctly ghosted after a child theme update is installed
• Fix: The custom theme image is cleared in certain circumstances such as when enabling and/or disabling Ultimate Ghoster
• Fix: The Custom Theme Image setting may be applied to themes other than the ghosted theme and its child themes
• Fix: Clearing the Custom Theme Image setting may fail to save.
• Miscellaneous improvements

Version 5.0.9, December 21st, 2020
Fix: Setting theme or branding image may fail if something goes wrong with SSL verification when requesting the provided URL

Version 5.0.8, November 3rd, 2020

• Fix: An error message is displayed when importing settings that match the current settings, even when no error has occurred.
• Miscellaneous improvements

Version 5.0.7, September 21st, 2020

• Fix: Missing Divi submenu in the WordPress admin menu
• Also hide certain Help links in the Divi Builder when the Ultimate Ghoster "Hide Product Tour" option is enabled
• Remove unnecessary CSS file

Version 5.0.6, September 1st, 2020

• Fix Remove irrelevant message about htaccess / file permissions
• Fix: Non-ghosted Divi menu item may be visible for certain user roles
• Fix: Change required user capability for ghosted Divi menu item to match the Divi theme

Version 5.0.5

• Fix: Custom Dashboard Layout is not being displayed

Version 5.0.4 - August 12, 2020

• Fix: Fatal error during theme update if Ultimate Ghoster is disabled

Version 5.0.3 - August 11, 2020

• Fix URL used for license activation and automatic updates

Version 5.0.2 - August 10, 2020

• Fix: Divi Theme Options may not save correctly in some cases (non-ajax saves) when Divi Ghoster is overriding the theme slug. Affects Divi Switch license key setting (About & License Key tab).
• Fix: Unescaped string.

Version 5.0.1 - August 8, 2020

• Fix: Conflict with plugin(s) that override certain functions, such as wp_mail

Version 5.0.0 - August 4, 2020

• Fix: Plugins are not Ghosted at scanwp.net
• Fix: Deprecated hook ‘login_headertitle' used in custom-login.php
• Feature: Change the active theme screenshot and author
• Feature: Create custom widget library layout from the page
• Option to import and export plugin settings
• Feature: The ability to change the login link from default / wp-admin to your own
• CSS for the custom theme colors will be generated once on the save (for performance)
• Enable / disable login customizer
• Fix: Updater shows Elegant Themes URL
• Fix: Hide Divi logo on the theme builder page
• Hide “Premade layouts” tab in Load from Library in the visual builder
• Hide ERROR when Divi API is not correct and you try to update theme
• Prevent from critical error when Divi Theme is changed
• Fix: Saving the settings on the ghost page causes redirection
• Fix: after disabling Ghoster ‘broken themes' error appears
• Fix: duplicates of themes on the Themes page
• Fix: error “The parent theme is missing.” after slug change
• Added translations
• Styling improvements
• Split up Ultimate Ghoster settingsFixed isuue with duplicated string in theme options dropdown when Branding Name contains 'Divi xxx'
• Backwards compatibility with Divi Ghoster 4.0.0

Version 4.0.0 - February 15, 2020

• Additional color customizations for the Divi Settings page, Divi Editors Role page, Divi Theme Builder page
• Access Divi Ghoster with a shortcut
• Moving color customizations from Theme Customizer to colors pallette
• Hide admin menus (choose which specific WordPress, theme, child theme or plugin menu you want to hide from the admin area)
• Hide default widgets from WordPress dashboard
• Hide admin footer credit
• Hide WordPress logo from admin bar
• WP and Divi Icons Pro, Divi Rocket, Divi Overlays, Page Builder Everywhere, Divi Icon Party, WP and Divi Icons Pro
• Hide Child Themes settings from WordPress dashboard (WP Zone Child Themes)

Version 3.0.0 November 28th, 2019

• New Feature! Introducing the Divi Builder Customizer! Customize the colors of the Divi Builder to match your brand (only compatible with Divi 4.0+).
• Divi 4 Compatibility
• Various Bug Fixes

Version 2.2.0- January 10th, 2019

• Code restructuring
• Updated license key activation / plugin updater code
• Improve ghosting of parent theme name in child themes
• Fix "Divi" appearing in default filename for portability export in visual builder
• Fix broken image in on/off switch for Ultimate Ghoster
• Remove "Divi" next to Divi pages in Pages list
• Replace "Divi" and Divi icon in WordPress 5 editor ("Use Divi Builder" button and Divi placeholder block)
• New backend builder is required when Ultimate Ghoster is enabled; the old backend builder is no longer supported in Ultimate mode (option to use new backend builder is forced on and the editor link and theme option - to switch back are removed)
• Hide help videos in Divi
• Disable all Ghoster functionality on a multisite installation (plugin still activates; no error message displays)
• Add code to block WP Theme Detector
• Replace "Divi" on the Divi Theme Options page even when Ultimate Ghoster is not enabled

Note: In addition to the changes listed here, there may be other minor fixes and improvements that are not noted. For more information about this product, visit the Divi Ghoster product page.