VendBoard – Vendor Dashboard for WooCommerce

Changelog

1.2.1

• Saving a product now returns the vendor to the page of the list they came from, keeping any search or stock filter. Previously they were sent back to page one, which meant clicking through the pages again.
• Added a “Go to page” box and a “Page X of Y” label below the product list, and more page numbers are shown at once.
• Vendors can choose to show 20, 50 or 100 products per page. The choice is remembered on their account.

1.2.0

• The options and variations sections on the vendor edit screen are now collapsible, with counts in each heading, so a product with many options is easier to work through.
• Added a setting (Vendor Dashboard > Branding) for choosing which product attributes vendors may use, so attributes that are not relevant to them can be hidden without removing them from the store.
• Renamed the “YouTube link / Short Description” field to “Short Description”.
• Security: vendors are now always kept out of wp-admin. Previously, if the Vendor Dashboard page was missing or unpublished, vendors were let into wp-admin, and a URL parameter documented only in the source code let any vendor skip the redirect.
• The Vendor Dashboard page is recreated automatically if it has been deleted, and administrators see a notice if it has been unpublished.
• Vendors are taken straight to their dashboard when they log in.
• Fixed products created by vendors having no category. WooCommerce files every product under the default category, and without one some themes could not display the product page. Existing products without a category are filed under the default category the first time an administrator opens wp-admin after updating.
• A product’s price, SKU and barcode now apply immediately, without admin approval. Prices are saved through WooCommerce, so an active sale price is no longer overwritten. New products and changes to titles, descriptions and images still require approval.
• Added a stock status filter to the vendor product list, so vendors with large catalogues can show only out of stock (or in stock, or on backorder) products. Works together with search and pagination.
• Vendors can now manage product variations from their dashboard: stock, price and SKU for each variation, plus switching individual variations on and off.
• Vendors can create many variations at once: every missing combination of the product’s options is listed, and vendors tick the ones they sell and fill in price, stock and SKU. New variations go live immediately, without admin approval.
• Vendors can remove variations. Removal is permanent and asks for confirmation.
• When creating a product, vendors can make it a product with options and tick which of your global attribute values it comes in. The type can be changed until an administrator first approves the product; option values stay editable afterwards.
• Vendors cannot create attributes or attribute terms, and cannot change a product’s type once it has been approved. Both stay with the administrator.
• All variation changes apply immediately, without admin approval: stock, price, SKU and availability.
• Fixed the product price field on variable products. It previously saved and was approved but had no effect, because WooCommerce derives a variable product’s price from its variations rather than the parent. The field is now replaced with a pointer to the variations section.

1.1.1

• Fixed the product barcode being stored under two different meta keys. The WooCommerce product screen wrote _vendboard_barcode while the vendor dashboard saved and approved to _barcode, so a barcode entered by an administrator showed as blank on the vendor edit form, and a barcode approved from a vendor never appeared anywhere afterwards.
• All barcode reads and writes now use _vendboard_barcode, falling back to any existing _barcode value so nothing already saved is lost.
• Fixed products with an administrator-entered barcode being flagged for approval on every vendor save, even when nothing had changed.

1.1.0

• Security: fixed a broken access control issue where the product save endpoint did not verify that the submitted product belonged to the vendor’s assigned brand. A signed-in vendor could edit products outside their own brand. All vendors should update.
• Security: added nonce and capability checks to the branding preview endpoint, and a nonce to the onboarding dismissal endpoint.
• Added product search on the vendor dashboard, matching name, description, SKU and barcode.
• Added pagination to the vendor product list. Previously the list was capped at 50 products with no way to reach the rest.
• Vendors can now publish or unpublish their own products and set catalog visibility. These apply immediately; products never approved by an administrator still cannot be published by a vendor.
• Approving pending edits no longer republishes a product the vendor deliberately unpublished.
• Added five more color themes: teal, indigo, pink, orange and slate.
• Fixed missing slash removal on submitted text, which could accumulate backslashes in titles, SKUs and barcodes.
• Fixed a possible fatal error on the branding preview when an unrecognised theme was stored.
• Removed a debug log call from the image upload path and restored the site locale after vendor saves.

1.0.7

• Added stock management for vendors: vendors can now edit stock quantity and stock status for their own products from the frontend dashboard.
• Stock changes are applied immediately rather than queued for approval, so an approval can never roll the stock level back over orders placed in the meantime. All other fields still require admin approval.
• Vendor dashboard product list now shows the stock quantity next to the stock status.
• A stock-only save no longer sends the product to the admin review queue, since there is nothing left to approve.
• Added a purple option to the predefined color themes.
• Updated “Tested up to” for WordPress 7.1.

1.0.6

• Fixed vendor product update issue.
• Improved styles.

1.0.5

• Removed inline scripts and styles, implemented proper WordPress enqueue.
• Escaped all shortcode outputs using proper WordPress escaping functions.
• Removed automatic demo user creation and weak password logic.
• Improved overall security and coding standards compliance.

1.0.4

• Fixed product save issues where changes were not reflected in the list due to meta key mismatch.
• Standardized _vendboard_edited meta key across the plugin for consistent pending product tracking.
• Fixed brand assignment logic to support legacy meta keys (VendBoard_assigned_brand, vd_assigned_brand).
• Resolved “Access Denied” errors on the edit page by improving brand checking.
• Improved admin review workflow to properly clear pending flags on approval or rejection.
• Reverted decorative color changes to respect user branding settings.

1.0.3

• Fixed WordPress.org review issues.
• Improved i18n translator comments.
• Updated plugin name to VendBoard – Vendor Dashboard for WooCommerce.

1.0.2

• Fixed WordPress.org review issues.
• Improved i18n translator comments.
• Updated plugin name to Vendify – Vendor Dashboard for WooCommerce.

1.0.1

• Fixed WordPress.org review issues.
• Improved i18n translator comments.
• Updated plugin name to Managed Vendor Access for WooCommerce.

1.0.0

• Initial release.