Wbcom Essential 4.7.0 - EDD 3.7 checkout, translation ready, updates on every install

Fixes the EDD checkout after Easy Digital Downloads 3.7, keeps license screens inside the account dashboard, and turns on updates for every install.

• New - Four checkout section blocks (Progress, Trust Badges, Social Proof and Recommendations) that sit inside EDD's own Checkout block and can be edited, reordered or removed.
• New - Product Catalog renders its first page of products in the page HTML, so search engines and visitors without JavaScript see real products.
• New - Customers can update the payment card on a subscription from My Account, on gateways that support it.
• Improve - Every visible string is now translatable, including Elementor widget options, block editor labels, carousel and catalog messages, block patterns and the admin dashboard.
• Improve - Every trust badge can be switched off and reworded, and the support badge is off by default.
• Improve - The money-back guarantee badge defaults to 30 days with generic wording you can edit to match your refund policy.
• Improve - The trust badge no longer claims "powered by Stripe", and payment method icons start switched off until you choose the cards you accept.
• Improve - Trustpilot reviews, rating and count start empty, and the section stays hidden until you add your own reviews.
• Improve - Product Catalog no longer requests its first page again after loading, saving one request on every visit.
• Improve - The account sidebar now reads "Submit Ticket" and opens the ticket form directly.
• Fix - Checkout offers login, registration and guest checkout as separate choices instead of stacking the login prompt on the account fields, and existing checkout pages are converted automatically.
• Fix - Personal Info fields on checkout render at one consistent width, so the Email field no longer truncates the address.
• Fix - License Upgrade and Manage License open inside the account dashboard instead of replacing the page with an unstyled table.
• Fix - Upgrade Plan on a subscription now opens the prorated upgrade view, keeping credit for what the customer already paid.
• Fix - Changing a payment card keeps the customer on the Subscriptions tab and confirms the change.
• Fix - A payment card can be changed more than once in the same browser session.
• Fix - The checkout trust badges fill the row without a gap when a badge is switched off.
• Fix - The checkout progress indicator no longer tells screen readers a step is upcoming while it is on screen.
• Fix - Product Catalog reports a failed load with a Retry button instead of saying no products matched your filters.
• Fix - Restored the payment icon checkboxes in the Trust Badges block.
• Fix - The "Account Dashboard" option on the EDD discount screen lines up with the other settings.
• Fix - The Forums and Forums Activity widgets no longer print a PHP warning for topics with no replies.
• Fix - The hover Border control on the WooCommerce Product Tab and Universal Product widgets styles the hovered tab, not the active one.
• Fix - Pagination bullet size on the Post Carousel and Team Carousel widgets now follows the size setting.
• Fix - The avatar size control on the Forums widget sets the avatar size, not only a maximum width.
• Fix - The Site Logo widget keeps its default link value.
• Fix - Team Carousel animations set to "none" no longer raise a deprecation notice on PHP 8.1 and later.
• Fix - Translations in the plugin's own languages folder now load; they were bundled but never loaded.
• Fix - Animation options on the Posts Carousel, Posts Ticker and Posts Revolution widgets showed fade-out, bounce-out and zoom-out as "In" effects.
• Fix - Updates now download on sites that installed Wbcom Essential from the store zip or a manual upload, with no license key to enter.
• Fix - The license screen's script and styles load on hosts where the plugin folder is a symlink or sits outside the document root.
• Fix - Deleting the plugin with its data also removes the stored license status, usage-tracking choice and activation state.
• Security - Password-protected downloads are no longer listed by the Product Catalog block, its public products endpoint, or the account dashboard's What's New, Free Plugins and Recommended sections.
• Security - A password-protected free download can no longer be claimed into a customer's library without its password.
• Security - The Login Form widget only redirects within your site after login, so a crafted link can no longer send members to another website.
• Security - The Product Catalog's embedded product data escapes HTML characters, so a product title cannot break the rest of the page.
• Dev - New wbcom_essential_edd_free_plugins_top action fires above the grid on the account dashboard's Free Plugins tab.
• Dev - New wbcom_essential_upgraded action and a version-gated upgrade runner, so migrations run on plugin update and not only on activation.
• Dev - New wbcom_essential_wp_cron_disabled filter for sites that set DISABLE_WP_CRON but run a real system cron.
• Dev - Updated the bundled licensing library to 1.0.3, matching BuddyNext, including a fix for a PHP 8 fatal on the plugin details screen.
• Dev - The legacy EDD Enhanced Checkout block is hidden from the inserter and kept only so pages the migration has not reached still render.
• Dev - Removed 17 unused Elementor files and the static analysis configuration from the package.
• Dev - The Header Notification Area widget is documented as requiring the Reign theme.
• Dev - The plugin passes Plugin Check with no errors, and the translation template includes the block editor and front-end script strings.
• Dev - Coding standards and static analysis now block the build, and dependency audits run on every push.
• Compat - Tested with Easy Digital Downloads 3.7.1.1, Recurring 2.13.13, Software Licensing 3.9.7, Stripe 3.0.2 and Elementor 4.2.3.

Full changelog: https://wbcomdesigns.com/release-notes/wbcom-essential/