Changelog – PBJ.Tech

PBJ Studio Sync 3.0 — guided dashboard with Sync by Type and Full Copy

Every PBJ Plugin Now Explains Itself — Studio Sync 3.0, Google Tools in PBJ SEO, and Guided Admin Everywhere

Written by j z on July 11, 2026. Posted in Changelog. No Comments on Every PBJ Plugin Now Explains Itself — Studio Sync 3.0, Google Tools in PBJ SEO, and Guided Admin Everywhere

Every PBJ plugin got a release this week, and they all share one idea: the admin should explain itself. Setup checklists that show green ticks and red triangles, numbered how-to walkthroughs, and a plain-English “what it does” line on every setting — across the whole lineup. Two releases go further: Studio Sync 3.0 rebuilds its entire admin, and PBJ SEO 3.3 builds Google Analytics and Search Console straight into WordPress. Studio Sync 3.0 — Sync by Type and Full Copy The deployment plugin’s admin is now a guided, per-sync-type UI. A new Sync by Type tab gives every...

Studio Sync 2.11.0: Page Trees Arrive Intact, Big Commits Stop Failing

Written by j z on July 10, 2026. Posted in Changelog. No Comments on Studio Sync 2.11.0: Page Trees Arrive Intact, Big Commits Stop Failing

PBJ Studio Sync 2.11.0 is out, and it fixes the two most annoying things we’ve ever caught it doing — both discovered the hard way while pushing a client site full of brand-new pages to production. Page trees now arrive intact Studio Sync has always upserted content by slug, because numeric IDs never survive a sync — the receiving site assigns its own. The gap: a page’s post_parent is a numeric ID, and it was never translated. Push a new section like /service-area/ with fifteen child pages under it, and every child landed on live as a top-level page — URLs collapsed from...

PBJ SEO 3.3 — site checklist and page-by-page audit

Plugin Updates: SEO Moves to the Sidebar, Geo Viewer Adds Wildcard IP Blocking

Written by j z on July 4, 2026. Posted in Changelog. No Comments on Plugin Updates: SEO Moves to the Sidebar, Geo Viewer Adds Wildcard IP Blocking

A round of updates just landed across three of our WordPress plugins — a friendlier home for the SEO dashboard, a much better country picker plus IP-level blocking in Geo Viewer, and clearer sync reporting. Here’s what changed. PBJ SEO 3.0.1 — the dashboard moved to the sidebar The SEO dashboard we introduced in 3.0.0 was tucked under Settings → PBJ SEO, which made it easy to lose. It now lives as its own top-level SEO item in the admin sidebar, one click from anywhere. Nothing else changed — same checklist, options, robots/sitemap tools, and 404 redirect manager. PBJ Geo...

PBJ License Manager 1.2 — Keys tab with getting-started checklist

PBJ License Manager Changelog (v1.2.0): How Selling Works, Explained on Every Tab

Written by j z on July 4, 2026. Posted in Changelog. No Comments on PBJ License Manager Changelog (v1.2.0): How Selling Works, Explained on Every Tab

PBJ License Manager turns any WordPress site into a license server for plugins and themes you sell: issue keys, track per-key site activations, serve WordPress-native update manifests to valid keys, and sign download links so package URLs can’t be shared. A bad key or an unreachable server never breaks a customer’s plugin — it only means no update is offered. Here’s the release history. Version 1.2.0 — how selling works, explained on every tab Getting-started checklist on the Keys tab: products registered, current-release package uploaded, email delivery configured,...

PBJ Essentials — seven free modules on the Modules screen

PBJ Essentials Changelog (v1.0.1): Walkthroughs on Every Tab

Written by j z on July 4, 2026. Posted in Changelog. No Comments on PBJ Essentials Changelog (v1.0.1): Walkthroughs on Every Tab

PBJ Essentials is our free WordPress toolbox: seven small, complete site tools in one plugin, each switched off by default — no lock icons, no nags. Every module is a working feature on its own, and each one has a full PBJ plugin available when you outgrow it (the module automatically stands down when its bigger sibling is active). Version 1.0.1 — walkthroughs on every tab Clearer in-admin walkthroughs everywhere: plain-English intros and numbered how-to steps on the Forms, Sync, Traffic, License, and Settings tabs, plus a one-line “what turning this on does” summary on...

PBJ Access Control 2.4 — setup checklist and settings

PBJ Access Control Changelog (v2.4.0): A Setup Checklist That Shows Your Gaps

Written by j z on July 4, 2026. Posted in Changelog. No Comments on PBJ Access Control Changelog (v2.4.0): A Setup Checklist That Shows Your Gaps

PBJ Access Control gates WordPress pages behind login, blocks WooCommerce for logged-out visitors (with an optional escape hatch for the registration form), customizes the restricted-content message, and adds an admin-approval workflow for new registrations — capturing each signup’s IP address and location so admins can triage from the User Approvals screen or straight from the notification email. Here’s the release history. Version 2.4.0 — a setup checklist that shows your gaps Setup checklist at the top of Settings → Access Control: live status rows (green tick / red...

PBJ Studio Sync Changelog (v3.0.0): Sync by Type, Full Copy, and a Guided Setup

Written by j z on July 4, 2026. Posted in Changelog. No Comments on PBJ Studio Sync Changelog (v3.0.0): Sync by Type, Full Copy, and a Guided Setup

PBJ Studio Sync is our deployment tool for WordPress Studio: a one-way push from a local Studio (SQLite) site to a live (MySQL) site, with backup-to-file on live and a backup importer on Studio. Content moves over the WordPress REST API as native WordPress objects, so the SQLite-to-MySQL differences are handled by WordPress itself. It’s also our most actively developed plugin — here are the release notes, with recent versions in full and earlier milestones summarized. Version 3.4.0 — a hook for the moment a push lands Released July 14, 2026. New pbj_sync_after_commit hook...

PBJ Site Essentials Changelog (v1.2.0): Four MU-Plugins, One Package

Written by j z on July 4, 2026. Posted in Changelog. No Comments on PBJ Site Essentials Changelog (v1.2.0): Four MU-Plugins, One Package

PBJ Site Essentials is the site plugin that carries everything specific to PBJ.Tech itself — the pieces too site-specific for our shared plugins. It consolidates what used to be four separate must-use plugins into one deployable package. Update: as of PBJ SEO 2.0.0, this entire plugin has been merged into PBJ SEO and the standalone version is retired. Version 1.2.0 below is its final standalone release; everything it did now ships inside PBJ SEO. Version 1.2.0 (current) What the plugin handles today: 2026 shortcode — always-current copyright year in the footer. Legacy and...

PBJ SEO 3.3 — Google Tools tab: GA4 and Search Console setup

PBJ SEO & Security Changelog (v4.0.0): Firewall, Malware Scanning, and Two-Factor Login

Written by j z on July 4, 2026. Posted in Changelog. No Comments on PBJ SEO & Security Changelog (v4.0.0): Firewall, Malware Scanning, and Two-Factor Login

PBJ SEO is our lightweight, first-party SEO plugin — a single-file replacement for heavyweight suites like Yoast or Rank Math. It outputs document titles, meta descriptions, canonical URLs, robots directives, Open Graph and Twitter Card tags, JSON-LD structured data, and sitemap <lastmod> dates, all with zero third-party dependencies. Here’s what has shipped in every version. Version 4.0.1 — hardening the security modules Released July 22, 2026. A robustness and security pass over the 4.0.0 modules — everything still ships off by default. Fail-proof...

PBJ Geo Viewer 1.5 — guided five-step country blocking settings

PBJ Geo Viewer Changelog (v1.5.0): Five Guided Steps to Country Blocking

Written by j z on July 4, 2026. Posted in Changelog. No Comments on PBJ Geo Viewer Changelog (v1.5.0): Five Guided Steps to Country Blocking

PBJ Geo Viewer makes a WordPress site view-only for visitors outside the countries you allow. Everyone can still browse every page — great for SEO, since crawlers always see the full site — but visitors from non-allowed regions can’t purchase, submit forms, comment, or register. Here’s the full release history. Version 1.5.0 — Settings becomes a five-step walkthrough Geo-blocking has real footguns — lock the wrong country and you lock out your customers; misread “unknown country” and you block your own CDN. 1.5.0 reworks the Settings tab into a guided five-step...