Sticky Links

• Links in translated Elementor content, including Elementor Pro Theme Builder and Ultimate Addons for Elementor headers and footers, open the translation instead of the original.
• Links in page-builder shortcode blocks, such as a WPBakery text block in the Uncode theme, open the page in the visitor's language.
• Built and released together with WPML 5.2.0, with the same shared library version.

• Fixed links written in a page builder's shortcode blocks (such as a WPBakery text block in the Uncode theme) opening the original-language page instead of the page in the visitor's language when Sticky Links is active.
• Fixed Sticky Links leaving links in Elementor pages in their stored form on the front end instead of their current address.

• Links stored by WPML Sticky Links in their permanent `?page_id=` form inside Elementor content (including header/footer templates from Elementor Pro's Theme Builder or Ultimate Addons for Elementor) rendering as raw `?page_id=` URLs that open the original-language page instead of the translation.

This release covers everything since Sticky Links 5.0: it fixes how sticky links save and display, and keeps links to deleted pages in your content.

Sticky link reliability

• Saving a sticky link no longer triggers a fatal error when the linked widget's text content is an array.
• ID-based sticky links now render correctly on the frontend for Toolset Archives pages.

Links to deleted pages

• A link to a deleted page is hidden only where a visitor sees the page, so your saved content and its translations keep the link as you wrote it.
• "Revert links to permalinks" writes back a link to a deleted page as it was, instead of removing it from the content.

Security

• This release includes security hardening.

This release fixes two issues with how sticky links save and display, and includes general security hardening.

Sticky link reliability

• Saving a sticky link no longer triggers a fatal error when the linked widget's text content is an array.
• ID-based sticky links now render correctly on the frontend for Toolset Archives pages.

Security

• This release includes security hardening.

Fixes

• Toolset Archives — Restored ID-based link rendering on the frontend. Pages that use ID-based links to Toolset Archive items now resolve to the correct permalink again.
• Fixed a PHP warning in custom-fields handling on PHP 7.4 and newer.
• Refreshed the plugin's links and metadata in the WordPress plugin header.

• Fixed PHP 8.x deprecated notices.

Fixes

• Fixed calls to deprecated jQuery functions.

Fixes

• Processed custom fields during Scan and Revert procedures.

Fixes

• Added the ability to process custom fields during Scan and Revert procedures.

Fixes

• Converted links found in custom fields marked as convert_to_sticky.
• Converted sticky links to permalinks when displaying Content Templates created with Toolset Views.

Fixes

• Fixed the PHP 7.4 notice that happened with non-initialized settings of the Sticky Links plugin.

Fixes

• Limited the loading of JS resources only to the Sticky Links admin page.

Fixes

• Renamed the .mo file for Ukrainian language since we adjusted its locale to uk.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the Ukrainian .mo files.

Fixes

• Re-organised the WPML menu in order to allow changing the default menu item and the order of the items.

Fixes

• Re-organised the WPML menu in order to allow changing the default menu item and the order of the items.

Fixes

• Resolved a fatal error related to the AbsoluteLinks class.
• Implemented multiple security fixes.

Fixes

• Resolved fatal error with AbsoluteLinks class

• Removed dependency with WPML Page Builder, as is now merged into String Translation

• Removed dependency with WPML Page Builder, as is now merged into String Translation

• Removed dependency with WPML Page Builder, as is now merged into String Translation

• Removed dependency with WPML Page Builder, as is now merged into String Translation

• Updated some dependencies, to be compatible with the ones used in WPML-Core and add-ons

• Fix conversion to sticky link for custom taxonomies and custom post types
• Anchors are not lost when converting categories to plain links
• Remove Sticky Links functionality for strings
• Fix problem with RTL display in admin pages when plugin is activated network wide
• Fix message about WPML core not being enabled for a multisite install

• Resolved wpml-auto-loader.php issues