VentraConnect Changelog
Track how VentraConnect is evolving — from simple social login to a complete passwordless authentication system for WordPress.
Built to reduce login friction, improve security, and increase user conversion across your WordPress site.
Recent Highlights
The most impactful improvements across the latest Free and Pro releases.
Passwordless login is now free — no extra setup required
Magic Link & Email OTP work out of the box on every free install — directly on WordPress login and registration screens.
Redesigned email templates for better login success
Cleaner Magic Link and OTP emails reduce confusion and lift login completion rates across your audience.
Stronger redirects that prevent edge-case login failures
Hardened validation eliminates silent failures on sites with non-standard host or URL configurations.
Smarter guardrails enforced across Pro login flows
Account creation rules now apply consistently across Social Login, Magic Link, OTP, and WooCommerce integrations.
Full Changelog
Unified Free & Pro timeline — most recent first.
Improves email clarity and increases successful login completion for Magic Link and OTP users.
- Redesigned email templates deliver a polished, trustworthy login experience for both Magic Link and Email OTP — reducing confusion and abandoned logins.
- Magic Link emails now display a prominent sign-in button alongside a visible raw-link fallback, so users always have a way to complete login.
- OTP emails use a focused code layout that minimises misreads and failed verification attempts.
- Pro users can now apply their logo, brand accent color, and custom footer text to all transactional login emails.
- Fixed an incorrect version number shown on the Support & Resources tab — so you always know exactly what's installed.
- Improved translation coverage for provider labels in the admin sidebar, benefiting non-English site owners.
- General internal cleanup with no changes to plugin behaviour.
Users can now log in without passwords, reducing friction and improving conversion rates — at no cost.
- Magic Link and Email OTP passwordless login are now fully available in the free plugin — on WordPress core login screens, registration pages, and shortcode-based forms.
- Each passwordless method supports its own redirect destination: same page, referring page, homepage, or a custom URL — so your post-login flow stays intact.
- Redirect validation has been significantly tightened, preventing open redirect vulnerabilities and silent failures on complex hosting setups.
- Plugin UI and documentation updated to clearly communicate what's available for free and what's exclusive to Pro.
Free now owns the core passwordless engine, while Pro focuses on advanced integrations and control.
- Core Magic Link and Email OTP engines moved into the free VentraConnect plugin — making passwordless login accessible to all users without Pro.
- Pro now extends passwordless login with advanced redirect modes, integrations, and platform-specific controls beyond what's available for free.
- Magic Link and OTP now use the same secure redirect resolver across Free and Pro, ensuring consistent, predictable login behaviour.
- Plugin headers and documentation updated to clearly reflect the new Free vs Pro capability split.
- Account creation rules now run through a single, consistent check — eliminating edge cases where social login bypassed your site's registration restrictions.
- The ventraconnect_sl_can_create_user filter is now evaluated once, at the right point, making developer customisations more predictable and reliable.
- Guardrail logic refactored to cleanly support Pro-only passwordless login methods without requiring separate configuration.
Pro login flows now follow the same account-creation rules across WooCommerce, LMS, and membership integrations.
- Magic Link and Email OTP now fully respect account guardrails across all supported Pro login screens — no more bypass edge cases.
- Existing-user-only rules now behave consistently across Social Login, Magic Link, and OTP — what you configure applies everywhere.
- Magic Link and OTP no longer send login emails to new addresses when account creation is blocked by your guardrail settings.
- Duplicated guardrail checks reduced while keeping WooCommerce checkout behaviour intact.
- VentraConnect Pro is live — built on top of the free plugin's social login foundation.
- Establishes the Pro foundation for advanced integrations, platform-specific redirects, and extended passwordless login capabilities.
View older Free releases (1.0.0 – 1.0.5)
- Tightened input validation, output escaping, and capability checks across all social login flows and settings screens.
- Debug output significantly reduced to prevent accidental information exposure in server logs.
- Sensitive data is no longer logged by default, protecting user information across all hosting environments.
- Code quality improvements aligned with WordPress.org plugin review standards.
- Plugin listing and readme rewritten to more clearly explain what's included in Free vs Pro, making it easier to evaluate before installing.
- No changes to plugin functionality.
- New guardrail setting to allow or block account creation on core WordPress login and registration screens when using social login.
- Automatic email notifications for both admin and the new user when an account is created via social login.
- Admin settings layout refreshed for clarity and easier configuration.
- Confirmed full compatibility with WordPress 6.9.
- Fixed a rare fatal error on certain hosting environments where the Facebook provider class failed to load, preventing social login from breaking silently.
- The shortcode redirect_to parameter now works correctly after social login.
- Login and registration redirect URLs are now applied in the correct order after a successful social login.
- Redirects are now reliable across sites where HOME and SITEURL differ, or where www and non-www hosts are mixed.
- OAuth callback and state handling hardened to prevent CSRF and replay vulnerabilities.
- VentraConnect is live — social login, Magic Link, and Email OTP for WordPress in one unified plugin.
Upgrade your WordPress login in minutes
Add social login, Magic Link, and Email OTP without complex setup or plugin stacking.
Used by WordPress site owners to simplify login and reduce spam registrations.