We're thrilled to announce uiXpress 1.2.16, our biggest release yet with powerful new search capabilities, Google Analytics 4 integration, advanced font customization, and comprehensive WooCommerce customer insights.

Admin Menu Search - Find Anything Instantly

Navigate your WordPress admin faster than ever with the new Admin Menu Search. This powerful search functionality lets you find any admin page in seconds, searching through all menu items by name, URL, or ID.

Key features:

• Real-time filtering as you type with highlighted matching text

• Full keyboard navigation - use arrow keys to navigate, Enter to select, Escape to close

• Smart sorting - exact matches first, then name matches, then URL matches

• Context awareness - shows parent menu information for submenu items

• Auto-selection - first result is automatically selected for lightning-fast keyboard navigation

• Always accessible - search input is always visible when enabled (no button required)

The search seamlessly integrates into your admin menu with a refined UI that matches the existing design system and full dark mode support. Enable it in Settings > Menu > Enable Admin Menu Search and experience a faster way to navigate WordPress.

Google Analytics 4 Integration

Connect your Google Analytics 4 properties directly to uiXpress Analytics and view all your analytics data without leaving WordPress. This seamless integration brings the power of Google Analytics into your unified admin dashboard.

What you get:

• Service account authentication with encrypted credential storage for security

• Automatic property detection from your Google Analytics account

• Complete data integration - overview stats, page views, devices, countries, referrers, and geographic data

• Seamless provider switching between uiXpress built-in analytics and Google Analytics

• Error handling with clear, user-friendly messages for authentication issues

• OAuth-style connection flow with easy disconnect functionality

All your existing dashboard cards automatically work with Google Analytics data. Configure your connection in Settings > Analytics > Analytics Provider with a Google Analytics service account that has Viewer access to your GA4 property.

Custom Font Selector - Typography Control

Take complete control over your admin interface typography with the new Custom Font Selector. Choose from over 1000 Google Fonts, upload your own font files, or use custom font URLs - all with real-time preview.

Font options include:

• Google Fonts - browse and search 1000+ fonts with live preview, select multiple weights (400, 700, custom)

• Upload fonts - support for .woff, .woff2, .ttf, and .otf files with automatic font-face generation

• Custom URLs - enter external font service URLs

• System fonts - use default WordPress fonts

The visual selector makes it easy to find the perfect font, with real-time preview showing exactly how it will look in your admin interface. Configure your custom font in Settings > Theme > Custom Font.

WooCommerce Customer Insights

For WooCommerce users, we've added comprehensive customer data integration directly into the user details view. Get instant access to customer analytics and order history without leaving the user management interface.

Customer insights include:

• Order analytics - total orders, total spent, average order value, and total items purchased

• Order status breakdown with color-coded visual badges

• Recent orders list showing the last 5 orders with status and totals

• Complete billing and shipping addresses with company, email, and phone

• Paying customer status badge for easy identification

• Customer lifecycle dates - creation and modification timestamps

All data is fetched using WooCommerce's REST API and displayed in a beautifully styled interface that matches the existing dark mode design system.

Unified Notification Center

WordPress native notifications are now integrated into uiXpress's unified admin notices panel. All your notifications - both WordPress core and custom admin notices - appear in a single, elegant notification center for better organization and visibility.

The new system uses smart count tracking that prevents notifications from disappearing, with improved polling that only checks for new notifications without resetting your existing count.

Enhanced User Management

Create User Form Improvements:

• Generate Password button for instant strong password creation

• Password visibility toggle to show/hide password text

• Real-time password validation dropdown with visual indicators (green ticks) for each requirement:

  • Minimum 8 characters

  • Uppercase, lowercase, number, and special character requirements

• Validation appears automatically when you focus the password field

User Details View:

• Updated user details dropdown with Shadow DOM isolation for better style consistency

• Smooth animations for dropdown menu transitions

• Improved hover handling with reliable show/hide behavior

• Better positioning with proper gap spacing

User Details Components API

We've created an extensible component registration system for the user details view, allowing external plugins to add custom components and categories. The API supports both Vue.js 3 and React components with capability-based visibility control.

Components can be registered to specific tab categories (Details, Activity, Commerce, or custom) and automatically receive userId, userData, appData, and id props. This follows the same pattern as our Dashboard Cards API for consistency across all extensibility features.

Improved Menu Cache System

The menu cache system now uses rotating cache keys for better multi-user support. When you clear the cache, all users automatically see fresh menu data. A new "Clear Cache" button in the menu list view makes cache management effortless, and the menu automatically refreshes when saved or deleted for real-time updates across all users.

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed hidden submenu items still showing in main menu - items marked as hidden in menu creator are now properly filtered

• Fixed submenu toggle not working when top-level item isn't active - submenus can now be toggled open/closed regardless of active state

• Fixed layout conflicts with Fluent Cart plugin

• Fixed shadow rendering on login page

• Fixed user flyout menu sometimes getting cut off in the sidebar

• Updated all translation files for multilingual support

Update now from your account dashboard to experience these powerful new features. This release represents months of development focused on making uiXpress more powerful, more extensible, and more beautiful.

Admin Menu Search alone will transform how you navigate WordPress. Combined with Google Analytics integration, custom fonts, and WooCommerce insights, this is our most feature-rich release ever.

Test on a staging site first for production environments, then enjoy the future of WordPress admin management.