New Features:

  • Released the BD Butler, an AI assistant integrated directly into the Admin to help create and edit widgets, landing pages, and email templates.

  • Added a new Advanced Setting called Front-End Optimization: Convert User-Uploaded Images to WebP Format. This setting allows the system to automatically convert uploaded images to WebP format. The new setting also includes a slider to control the level of optimization to apply to uploaded images.

  • Added Kosovo as a country by default and "Albanian (Kosovo)" as an option to the Default Website Language setting. 

  • Released the BD Butler Website Knowledge Graph. Admins can now chat with BD Butler to get insights about their site's Members, Revenue, and Categories. 
  • Added a new permissions system for API Keys in the Admin area. Admins can now enable or disable access to specific API endpoints for each API Key, with a "Select / Deselect All" option for convenience. All existing API Keys retain full access by default.

  • Released a new self-service Website Dashboard tool for website management, allowing the transfer of Business Data credits and VIP Add-Ons between websites, as well as viewing resource limits directly from the Website Dashboard page in the Admin.


Enhancements / Fixes: 


  • The action of deleting a member’s profile photo, logo, or cover photo image is now logged in the Activity Tracker.

  •  next to the billing cycle of each transaction when it was processed using the system's test Stripe credentials as the Payment Gateway.
  • Updated the Email Templates page in the Admin to display the Email Template ID for each template and allow searching by this ID.

  • The actions of publishing, updating, or deleting a post comment are now logged in the Activity Tracker.

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the system from saving the content of email templates in the Admin in some cases.

  • Added a Revision History to the Widget Manager page in the Admin. Users can now roll back custom widgets to the 10 previous saves.

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the system from sending email notifications when manually matching members with leads using the users_to_match parameter with the Create Leads endpoint of the Brilliant Directories API.

  • Released a new UI for the Member Profile Analytics Add-On in the Member Dashboard. 

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the “Cancel” button from working properly in the warning modal displayed when uploading small member profile images in the Member Dashboard. 

  • Fixed an issue that caused the system to duplicate the website signature when composing emails in the Admin in some cases.

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the system from correctly truncating review descriptions in the Recent Reviews sidebar widget in some cases.

  • Fixed an issue that caused the system to send an email notification after publishing a post comment that requires Admin validation when a member had enabled email notifications for post comments.

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the Member Profile Analytics Add-On from tracking member post views when the “Enable Profile Statistics” Membership Plan Setting was set to “Enable Only For Admin”.

  • Fixed an issue that affected the ability to add “Brooklyn, NY” as a service area on the Member Dashboard in some cases.


  • Fixed an issue that caused the system to display an extra "Continue To Next Section" button after a member successfully purchased a digital product in the frontend. 

  • Added keyword search functionality when using the “Browse” feature to insert or replace images with the Froala WYSIWYG editor in the Admin.

  • Updated the error validation messages when uploading member profile, logo, cover, reviews and post images on the frontend. 

  • The Send Newsletter page in the Admin is now compatible with the BD Butler. 

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the “Actions” dropdown from displaying correctly on the Email Templates page in the Admin. 
  • Deprecated the Shareasale Affiliate Program integration for new users as Shareasale is no longer accepting new users.

  • Fixed an issue that affected the display of the Preview Email feature when using the Compose Email modal on the Member Account Details page in the Admin.

  • Updated the Froala WYSIWYG Editor to the latest version available. 

  • Updated the display of long-format dates (EG "June 1, 2026") to be compatible with the Date Format setting.

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the One-Click Facebook and Google login buttons from aligning correctly on mobile devices in some cases.

  • Fixed an issue that caused the system to display the variable name instead of the field name in the Admin Dashboard and the Member Dashboard when using a dropdown for the Post Title field of posts. 

  • Fixed an issue that caused the system to display the www version of the domain in some areas of the Admin when the site was configured to use the non-www version.

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the unsubscribe link from working properly in emails sent using the Compose Email feature in the Admin in some cases.

  • Fixed an issue that caused the Domain Manager in the Admin to display an incorrect subdomain for CNAME records.

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the system from respecting the Lead Price By Category Add-On when a member accepted a lead, causing the Price to Purchase Leads Membership Plan Setting to be used instead in some cases.

  • Fixed an issue that caused the "View More" button to overlap the event date text in the Recent Events widget on the homepage in some cases. In addition, the calendar icon for recurring event dates has been added to match the display of non-recurring events.

  • Fixed an issue that caused the Sub Category and Sub-Sub Category dropdowns to not be populated when returning to the homepage using the browser's back button in some cases.

  • Updated the workflow when creating new widgets in the Admin. 

  • Fixed an issue that caused expired events to appear in search results when filtering by a specific date range if the events did not have an End Date selected in some cases.

  • Fixed an issue that caused email templates to display the variable name instead of the label for checkbox and multiple choice fields in form notification emails in the frontend. 

  • Fixed an issue that prevented email notifications from being sent to matched members when using the Match Leads API endpoint.

  • Fixed an issue that prevented video embeds from rendering in the Froala Editor when the "Lazyload iFrame Embeds" Advanced Setting was enabled.

  • Added the ability to move and clone tables in the Froala Editor within the Design Settings page in the Admin. 

  • Improved the "Min/Max Characters", "Numerical Value Range" and "Greater Than/Less Than" field validation options in the Form Manager to only accept integer values. 

  • Fixed an issue that caused the "Total Entries" count to display twice when viewing the Web Page Builder in the Admin.

  • Fixed an issue that caused the action menus to appear as hidden within the container when managing posts in the Member Dashboard. 

  • Fixed an issue that caused the Login Modal to display a double scrollbar and fail to redirect after a successful login when triggered from the Contact Member form in the frontend. 

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the bulk action to publish all posts at once from working properly on the Manage Posts page in the Admin.

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the Web Page Builder page from functioning correctly in some cases when the "Disable Screenshot Previews" Advanced Setting was enabled for the Web Page Builder in the Admin.

  • Fixed an issue that caused a duplicate copy of an image to be created in the Media Manager when replacing the image via URL in a Froala editor when editing an Email Template in the Admin.

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the "+" icon from displaying in front of the phone number on Member Profile pages when using the "Phone Number + Country Code" field type. Additionally, resolved an issue that caused the country code to be saved twice when re-submitting the Contact Details form in the Member Dashboard. 

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the system from tracking unsubscribe form submissions in the "Form Submitted" filter on the Search Members page in the Admin. 

  • Fixed an issue that prevented Smart Lists from updating dynamically when member profiles changed. Prior to this change, scheduled Newsletter Campaigns could include members that matched the Smart List criteria at the time the campaign was scheduled, but no longer matched at the time the campaign was sent.

  • Fixed an issue that caused the API to return an "invalid key" error on sites hosted on server 74.

  • Fixed an issue that caused location searches to fail when using strict postal code matching for countries with hyphenated zip codes (e.g., Poland, Japan, Portugal, Brazil, South Korea). Also resolved a related issue that caused the system to incorrectly filter city-level searches by partial zip codes in location searches.

  • Fixed an issue that caused excessive wait times when logging in on websites with the CAPTCHA verification enabled in some cases.

  • Improved the API to support searching by multiple values simultaneously when using the GET protocol. Admins can now filter by multiple fields using AND/OR operators in a single API request.

  • Updated the Member Profile pages with modern UI styling improvements across various CSS elements.

  • Fixed an issue that caused email previews to display differently from actual sent emails in the Admin Panel due to additional styling being loaded in the preview window.

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the "Actions" dropdown menu from displaying correctly on the Payment History table on the Billing page in the Member Dashboard.

  • Fixed an issue that caused the bookmark counter number to be invisible when a listing was bookmarked by a member in some cases. 

  • Fixed an issue that prevented photos from displaying in photo album search results on mobile devices. 

  • Fixed an issue that prevented changes from being applied to a customized post type form when the form name variable was modified on the Form Manager page in the Admin.

  • Fixed an issue that caused the system to duplicate the website email signature when sending emails from the Admin in some cases.

  • Fixed an issue that prevented YouTube Shorts videos from displaying on video post detail pages. 

  • In all, over 90 feature enhancements and software updates were released this month.