WP Full Picture 11 is schedule for a release in June. This is a major release, with important updates, that will get us closer to introducing BIG new features in version 12.
This is a roundup of some the most important changes and improvements in this version.
Greatly improved management of event-tracking
Version 11 brings much needed improvements to managing tracking events. This means:
- no more guessing what a CSS selector points at
- tracking the same event in multiple tools will no longer require separate setup in each
Before version 11
This setup was confusing and hard to read. You had to remember what every selector pointed to and configure event tracking from scratch for every tracking tool.
Version 11 and newer
From version 11 onwards, you will be able to create events once, name them and hook them up to all tracking tools.
Major improvements to blocking 3rd party tracking tools
We re-wrote functions responsible for blocking 3rd party tracking tools. It is now:
- more accurate
- able to block scripts and other HTML elements loaded dynamically to the HTML of the website
Re-written and improved code
We re-wrote and improved front-end scripts and internal functions, to allow the introduction of new features in version 12. We updated:
- mechanisms of queueing events
- event tracking scripts (especially tracking clicks and when page elements show on screen)
- joined and optimized JavaScript files
Smaller changes
- Moved settings of visitor tracking to “shared tracking settings”
- Configuration controls for tracking scrolls and file formats is now in “Shared tracking settings” instead of separate controls in every tracking tool
- Improvements of admin scripts, styling and texts
- Bug fixes
- Removal of deprecated functions
- Improved compatibility with caching tools (file loading mechanism changed from “async” to “deferred” and some smaller changes)