1.2.0

What's Changed in 1.2.0 (#1)

✨ Highlights

• New full admin panel to configure notifications, email delivery, and security settings.
• Email notifications for Create / Edit / Delete events (admin UI + API flows).
• Dual delivery mode: PHP mail() or full SMTP (host, port, SSL/TLS, auth, custom sender).
• Debug mode with dedicated logging and automatic log rotation.

🔐 Security and Settings Access

• Added password protection for plugin settings.
• Progressive anti-lockout setup flow: password protection is enabled only after minimum safe prerequisites are met.
• New real-delivery verification for test emails: technical send success is not enough; a one-time confirmation link click is now required.
• If recipients change, test confirmation state is invalidated and a new send + confirmation is required.
• Admin password recovery via email with expiring one-time reset links.
• Improved auth persistence on shared hosting (stronger session/cookie fallback).

🛠️ UX and Maintainability

• Admin menu label updated to “Manage notifications” for clarity.
• Logout button made explicit: “Logout from Change Notifier”.
• Clearer test email status in UI: last send, confirmed delivery, pending/expired confirmation.
• Light refactor and modularization:
• main class moved to inc/class-yn-notify-mail.php
• admin assets extracted to assets/admin.css and assets/admin.js

Full Changelog: 1.1.0...1.2.0

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