PeepSo Photos

Version 9.1.0.0 — 1 October 2026

• New PeepSo Posts can be marked sensitive in the postbox before publishing
• New Admin-set default avatars and covers for members, groups and Pages
• New Option to hide member counts on Groups and follower counts on Pages
• New Leaderboard block, sharing achievements to the stream, and new anniversary, birthday and feed-scrolling achievements (added as drafts)
• New New integration: directory listings and reviews on profiles, in the stream and in notifications
• New AI Moderation (BETA): OpenAI checks new posts, comments, photos, videos and Stories, then marks them sensitive, reports or unpublishes them
• New My Groups block and widget, listing the groups the logged-in member belongs to
• New Registration: blocked email domains get a clear “not permitted” error, and blocking mail.com no longer blocks gmail.com
• New The community toolbar folds into the menu on screens up to 1200px wide instead of crowding
• New Polls: on phones each answer uses the full width, with its percentage and vote count beneath
• New Redesigned deactivation dialog: updates, maintenance and site moves deactivate straight away, and you can always skip the questions
• New Moderation: “Automatically unpublish” now says it covers posts, comments and stories
• New Stream redesign: posts, comments, reactions, icons, timestamps, link previews
• Improved Performance: full-page caching for logged-out visitors, faster mentions and mutual friends, profiles no longer slow down over time, fewer database queries, and emails no longer delay pages
• New Optimized automatic updates flows
• New Approved join requests post the member’s own join notice, and group-join and Page-like notices read the same everywhere (their “Action text” settings are removed)
• Improved EDD, WooCommerce and AweCommerce profile tabs can be renamed, moved to a new address or turned off, and their sub-tabs reordered
• Improved Behavior consistency when acting as Page when showing posts, comments, reactions, notifications. Moderators can no longer act as Page
• New Member user ids removed from markup and links & other minor security fixes
• New Changing your password sends a confirmation email, and only members themselves can open their Account, Preferences and Notifications tabs
• Improved Comment and mention links in notification emails no longer break or lead to “Content Not Available”
• Improved Stream filters: improved logic for Friends and Following
• Improved Community actions no longer fail when the WordPress Address setting ends with a slash
• Improved Blog posts: link previews show the featured image and readable text, and posts an Editor publishes for someone else appear in the stream
• Improved Admin dashboard: open reports no longer count deleted members and posts, and join notices no longer show as raw placeholder text
• Improved Admin Manage screen: Groups and Pages lists keep their layout while the PeepSo menu shows a “NEW!” badge
• Fixed Removing a member’s WordPress Administrator role also removes Community Administrator
• Improved Age limits on Date profile fields accepted and refused the wrong ages on PHP 8
• Improved Post Backgrounds: no JavaScript error after posting where backgrounds are unavailable, and the option is hidden when none are published
• Improved Emoji search works in your site’s language, with or without accents
• Security Crafted requests could post as any Page, add anyone to any chat, open pending posts in secret groups, or reset all email templates
• Improved Group and Page owners who hide their profile now get join notifications, and {userfirstname} fills in the New Post in Group and Page emails
• New Sensitive photos and videos are blurred everywhere, shares keep the marking, and members can no longer undo a moderator’s marking
• Improved Re-cropping an avatar no longer posts an update, and avatar and cover posts no longer show a privacy menu
• Improved Settings: an empty Ban duration no longer blocks saving, other number boxes name their minimum, and settings that default to 0 show 0
• Improved PeepSo blocks no longer make the editor ask to “Review changes” when nothing was edited
• Improved Search boxes no longer cover their results with the browser’s list of previously typed entries
• Improved Fewer PHP notices and warnings in logs, especially from WP-CLI and cron
• Improved The achievement editor no longer fails on some MariaDB/MySQL servers
• Improved The EDD profile tab no longer crashes when both integrations are active
• Improved Page posts no longer show as Most commented, the activity minimum counts every post shown, and system accounts and members without an email are skipped
• Fixed Pages no longer break when a script-optimization plugin is active (“peepsodata is not defined”)
• New Membership changes no longer remove hand-assigned VIP icons, and an ended level removes its own icon
• Fixed Dokan products are announced when directly published, HPOS orders left in the stream, and removing Dokan or deleting a product no longer breaks it
• Fixed Adverts shown through blocks get Send Message and the author link back, guest adverts no longer show a member’s name, and the profile Classifieds tab stops erroring
• Improved Block Theme now supports custom presets: save, export and import your Site Editor styles, plus new Blue and Purple presets
• Improved Logo block – now “Custom Logo”: alt text, no more square cropping, an optional homepage link, and light/dark logos for all screen sizes
• Improved Dark mode settings moved to Styles > Dark mode in the Site Editor
• Improved Embeds of this site’s own posts follow the theme’s colors, fonts and dark mode (can be switched off)
• Improved Plugins that use classic page templates (e.g. Dokan store pages) get the theme’s header and footer
• Improved Performance: the licence check no longer runs on background requests such as Heartbeat, and sites that redirect guests load faster for logged-out visitors
• Improved MasterStudy LMS styles no longer override the theme’s colors and fonts
• Improved Icon search in the Icon, Button and Navigation Link blocks no longer shows the browser’s previously typed entries over the results
• Improved Performance: the licence check no longer runs on background requests such as Heartbeat, and sites that redirect guests load faster for logged-out visitors
• Improved Group and Page posts show the redesigned header, with the poster’s name and mood beside the time
• Improved Posts no longer expose their authors’ user ids in the page source, which could identify who wrote an anonymous post
• Improved Gecko Theme: Performance: the licence check no longer runs on background requests such as Heartbeat, and sites that redirect guests load faster for logged-out visitors
• Improved Gecko Theme: Group and Page posts show the redesigned header, with the poster’s name and mood beside the time
• Fixed Gecko Theme: Posts no longer expose their authors’ user ids in the page source, which could identify who wrote an anonymous post

Earlier versions

• 9.0.5.3 (16 July 2026): 1 new, 6 improved, 1 security
• 9.0.2.0 (12 May 2026): 4 new, 33 improved, 1 security
• 9.0.1.0 (29 April 2026): 5 new, 15 improved