What’s new in Dashify

This release of Dashify fixes 1 bug 🐞:

• Stripe Customer ID not showing in subscription edit for WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway by WooCommerce.

Today’s Dashify update brings compatibility improvements for a number of third-party plugins.

Improvements ✨

• Dashify’s floating bulk actions now supports all third-party plugins and languages.

• The admin menu icon and text, along with the order list action buttons, for WooCommerce PDF Invoices, Packing Slips, Delivery Notes and Shipping Labels by WebToffee was adjusted for a native appearance.
• Dashify’s admin menu was made compatible with WooPayments.
• We aligned the admin menu text for several third-party plugins.

Bug fixes 🐞

• Fixed PHP warning Uninitialized string offset 11.
• Fixed some WooCommerce menu items being out of place if WooPayments is missing.

This release of Dashify fixes 1 bug:

• PHP error: Call to undefined function is_plugin_active()

This release of Dashify brings 2 improvements and 5 bug fixes:

Improvements ✨

• Dashify’s navigation is now compatible with Admin Menu Editor by Janis Elsts. If Admin Menu Editor is enabled, Dashify’s custom arrangement of the menu items will be disabled, and the menu ordering in Admin Menu Editor will take effect.
• The “Clear filters” button in the order and product lists will turn red if at least one filter is applied, making it easier to find when you do want to clear filters.

Bug fixes 🐞

• “Order status filter applied” message showing inside an order if the “All” status was clicked when viewing the order list.
• Order date and status showing twice in the mobile order list after a recent WooCommerce update.
• “Filter by order type” showing without WooCommerce Subscriptions.
• Lack of padding and a blank button in the order list if the last order of a given status is removed.
• “Add order” button being too wide when viewing the order list for the first time, before a store has any orders.

This release of Dashify fixes 3 bugs:

• Rank Math menu items and icon not showing correctly in Dashify’s navigation.
• “Searching all orders” text also showing in subscription and product list tables.
• Broken order list table on mobile due to a recent WooCommerce update.

If your WordPress admin is set to a language other than English, you may have noticed that Dashify’s custom navigation didn’t fully support it. Some icons may have been missing, and the formatting may have been off.

With this release, Dashify’s admin navigation is now compatible with all WordPress languages. If you’re using the admin in another language, the menu items for WooCommerce—and any other plugin—will be in that language in Dashify’s navigation.

🐞 We also fixed a small bug where the “Add New Product” menu item wasn’t highlighted if using the new WooCommerce product editor.

Today we release an exciting addition to Dashify. Both free and Pro versions of Dashify get a new admin navigation menu—one that is designed for WooCommerce.

Without Dashify, WooCommerce appears as a menu item somewhere in the middle of the admin navigation, and many important links such as Orders are hidden inside a submenu. This makes sense for sites where the store plays a small part, but it doesn’t make sense for sites which are primarily ecommerce stores. Store managers have to ignore many of the menu items that are not relevant to them.

Now with Dashify, that problem is solved—in two different ways.

• First, all WooCommerce menu items are brought to the top, separating them from the rest of WordPress.
• Second, many important links—such as Orders, Subscriptions and WooCommerce Settings—which were previously hidden inside the WooCommerce submenu are now primary items, not under any submenu. This makes it easier to navigate to all parts of WooCommerce.

We designed this with compatibility in mind.

• If a third-party plugin adds menu items, they will appear as they did before.
• If a third-party plugin added its menu item to the WooCommerce submenu, it will now appear outside the submenu in the primary WooCommerce items at the top, making it easy to locate.
• If we don’t have a custom icon for a third-party plugin, it will use its original icon.
• The navigation sidebar collapses for smaller screen sizes like the original WordPress navigation.
• You can open a dropdown to reveal the submenu items.
• Notification badges (like number of orders) are displayed.

Lastly, you can turn off the Dashify navigation via a setting in WooCommerce Settings → Dashify if it doesn’t suit your store. The rest of Dashify will work as usual without it.

PHP 7.0 compatibility

As of August 2024, nearly 50% of WordPress sites are using PHP 7.4 or older.

With this update, Dashify is compatible with any site running a PHP version as low as 7.0.

Dashify for everyone!

Bug fixes 🐞

• Fixed order search and filter styling after a recent WooCommerce update.
• Fixed subscription revenue trend graph missing a flat line if 0 sales.

Previously, for non-HPOS sites, the default WooCommerce styles caused the Dashify custom fields, particularly the buttons, to look slightly different depending on whether the custom fields were in the main area or the sidebar.

Now, the look of the custom fields is the same no matter where it’s positioned.

Also in this release

🗑️ We removed a small message at the bottom of the custom fields about using the fields in themes, as it’s relevant only for theme developers.

🐞 Lastly, we fixed being unable to resize the value textarea in the custom fields.

This version of Dashify adds new time options to the order trend graphs. 🕑

Now, you can choose between Today, Last 24 hours, 7 days, and 30 days.

Previously, we had an option labeled “Today” that was actually the last 24 hours, leading to confusion. The new “Today” option will only show orders that happened after midnight of the current day.

We also fixed a few bugs! 🐞

• Order trend graphs — fixed an issue where the time zone offset might cause some orders to be excluded.
• Order trend graphs — fixed the graphs showing a blank space instead of a flat line if the value of a metric is 0.
• Subscriptions — fixed the add new subscription page missing Dashify styles when HPOS is turned on.
• Order & subscription lists — fixed the filters disappearing if 0 orders matched the filter.

In this small update of Dashify, we fixed a bug where “Filter by order type”, a WooCommerce Subscriptions-only filter, was showing in the order list even without the WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin.

A note about Dashify Pro

With this release, there’s also a new “Upgrade to Pro” link in the plugins page that takes you directly to the Dashify Pro features on our website, so if you’re curious about what’s been added to Dashify Pro recently, you can check it out.

Previously, Dashify had a layout for the order view that couldn’t be changed.

However, sometimes you may want to move a particular element above the customer information, or you have a custom layout that works better for you.

You can now change the layout of the elements in the order view, even with Dashify turned on, and your preferences will be saved. When you deactivate Dashify or turn it off from the screen options, the original layout for the WooCommerce order view will be restored.

Any troubles?

If you experience any issue with the layout after this release, try toggling Dashify off and back on through the Screen Options at the top of the page in WordPress. It should be good after that!

We made a mistake in some Dashify Pro-related code in the free plugin as we were preparing to soft launch it, and this mistake had the potential of causing a fatal PHP error.

It’s fixed—only minutes after the version containing the mistake was released! Please don’t download 1.2.6!

Improvements ✨

More intuitive order search

• While a search is active, the search and filter area of the order list will stay open, making it more clear that it’s currently showing results for a search.
• Clicking “Cancel” in the search is more intuitive—it will clear the search instead of just collapsing the search and filter area.

Bulk actions from other plugins are shown

• Previously, we only included the standard WooCommerce bulk actions so the floating ones don’t get too cluttered, but we’ve decided that it’s more functional to show all of them at the moment. If your store has many bulk actions, rest assured—an update is coming which will keep the convenience of floating actions, but will make it manageable if your store has a lot of them!

Bug fixes 🐞

• We fixed a possible issue with changing the time frame of the order trend graphs on stores with a custom WordPress admin URL.

Other

• Starting in WordPress 6.5, plugins can declare other plugins as dependencies. Dashify now requires WooCommerce before it can be installed or activated, since it’s only for WooCommerce.

Improvements ✨

This update focuses on improving the display of line items in the WooCommerce edit order view.

RD Order Modifier for WooCommerce compatibility

For users of RD Order Modifier for WooCommerce, Dashify applies styles so RD Order Modifier’s fields have a more uniform appearance with the standard price adjustment fields. This saves space and looks better.

Line item column labels restored

We’ve restored the header that labels the columns above the list of products in an order.

Line items more easily viewed on mobile

We changed how the line items area is implemented so that it can scroll left and right on small screens, just like in regular WooCommerce. We also made small adjustments for a better experience on mobile.

Bug fixes 🐞

• Fix an undefined array key warning when manually adding an order.
• WooCommerce Subscriptions: Fix broken pagination icons.
• WooCommerce Subscriptions: Fix the WooCommerce “rate us” message going into the subscription list.
• WooCommerce Subscriptions: Fix the subscriptions analytics graphs getting more data than is selected by the date range.

New features ⭐️

• WooCommerce Subscriptions edit pages get the Dashify theme! Now all subscriptions pages are styled in the Dashify way.

Improvements ✨

• The appearance of the action buttons in the order edit view has been improved on small screens.
• The line items in the order edit view are less likely to overflow on small screens.

New features ⭐️

• Using WooCommerce Subscriptions? The subscription list is now just as sleek as the order list! (Subscription edit page styling coming soon!)
• View key analytics about your subscriptions like revenue, sign ups, and cancellations over 1, 7, and 30 day periods.

Improvements ✨

• A slightly larger font size for the filters makes them easier to see.

Improvements ✨

• The WooCommerce Subscriptions “related orders” box gets Dashify styling in the order edit view. (Full subscriptions page styling coming soon!)

Bug fixes 🐞

• We fixed a few conflicts with other plugins and some WordPress environments.

Improvements ✨

• Improve the look of the action buttons in the order edit view.
• Improve the look of the products/shipping/fees/totals in the order edit view.
• The “what’s new” notice can be permanently hidden for all future versions of Dashify.

Bug fixes 🐞

• PHP warning about a null query parameter on the “add new order” page related to the order pagination buttons which don’t appear on this page.
• “What’s new” notice possibly not dismissing.

New features ⭐️

• Paginate to the next order of the same status! If an order status is selected in the order list and you click into an order, the order status filter is taken into account when using the next and previous order buttons. It will jump to the next or previous order of the same order status, allowing you to, for example, handle “Payment pending” orders one at a time. You can clear this filter at any time from the order view.

Improvements ✨

• The order date and time is entirely localized, including aspects like whether it should show AM/PM or use a 24-hour clock.

Bug fixes 🐞

• The order time was off by some hours if the WordPress time zone setting was set to anything other than UTC. Now, as long as the viewer of the order date/time is in the same time zone as the WordPress setting, it will show the correct formatted time for their region.
• K/J shortcuts going past the last/first order.
• A few JavaScript errors about null elements.

Skipping to the next and previous orders in WooCommerce is even easier with this update of Dashify. Keyboard shortcuts, support for legacy post storage, and more intuitive behavior.

Improvements ✨

• Order pagination buttons have tooltips and can be activated via keyboard shortcuts (K for next order, J for previous).
• Order pagination is available for non-HPOS WooCommerce.
• Order pagination will end at the newest/oldest order instead of paginating to the same one when on the newest/oldest order.
• Analytics range selection is saved.

Bug fixes 🐞

• Previously, order pagination could land on a trashed/deleted order and would show an error page. Now, it will skip these orders.

We fixed a couple bugs in this release! 🐞

• If any JS error happened, the page would be blank. Now, it will render the page even if errors are encountered along the way.
• Missing bulk actions and Empty Trash button in trash view have been restored.

By the way, if you’re wondering what happened why we skipped 1.1.1, it’s because there was a problem with WordPress.org and we had to push a new version with no changes.

Shopify has a nice graph of recent order analytics at the top of the order list. Now, you can have that in WooCommerce too!

This release of Dashify adds recent order analytics for 1, 7, and 30 day periods that display above the order list.

The graph allows you to see trends in refunds, total order count, and more.

Dashify, a WooCommerce extension for making the WooCommerce order dashboard look and function as good as Shopify’s, is now available for download on WordPress.org.

Having worked with both WooCommerce and Shopify stores, I can see that WooCommerce is behind in the user experience on the merchant side. The admin interface for orders is essentially the same as what’s used for blog posts in WordPress. It’s not optimized for ecommerce. But with Dashify, it can be.

Try it out and let me know what you think!