Pomatio updates – Changelog – March 2026
General
- WordPress Updated
- Translation updates
- Third party plugin updates
- Updated Composer dependencies and Pomatio Framework files.
- Updated Docker, buildspec, appspec, deployment, and ECS support scripts.
- Improved AWS WAF infrastructure-level rules.
- Updated WooCommerce templates.
New Features
- Add background remover auto-dimension handling for target sizes in POM AI.
- Add new POM Translate hooks and cache invalidation tools.
- Improve POM Restaurant Menus templates.
- Add sticky stacked rows support.
- New PDF catalog tool.
- Add posts_split taxonomy archive mode with block pagination.
- Add a custom category checklist walker and improve category management UI.
- Add pom_markdown_to_html shortcode.
- Add a bulk tool to update wine images.
- Switch theme image lazy loading to native loading attributes.
- Add new appspec and deployment scripts for ECS deployments.
- Add Redis cache mu-plugin support.
- Add database postmeta cleanup functions to the WooCommerce and WordPress database update CLI script.
- Allow Pomatio Network to export multiple sites at once.
- Improve POM Restaurant Menus favorites functionality to avoid Ajax calls.
- POM AI – Add prompt template manager with reference images and per-image prompts for the image improver tool.
- Add a deployment health check focused on database connectivity.
- Replace the POM Inmotek mobile filters modal with an offcanvas panel.
Improvements
- Refactor WooCommerce NIF handling to improve order and user synchronization.
- Simplify language switcher toggle styles and improve menu layout.
- Migrate theme modifications to Pomatio Framework settings.
- Remove legacy allergen icon handling and simplify icon retrieval in POM Restaurant Menus.
- Re-minify POM Events CSS assets.
- Clean up non-minified production assets and vendor folders across modules.
- Remove deprecated pom_modules_enabled usage.
- Replace Flatpickr with Air Datepicker for better performance and maintenance.
- Optimize duplicate and orphan postmeta deletion queries in the WooCommerce and WordPress database update CLI script.
- Improve parameter handling and validation for color picker, column offset, row padding, and icon selector modules.
Fixes
- Fix plain video play button handling and restore POM LMS lesson frontend video rendering.
- Remove redundant checkout order saving in the checkout field editor.
- Localize admin preview links and resolve custom post type single pages by ID in POM Translate.
- Normalize punctuation in wine AI searches and show existing wine images in the AI bulk fill tool.
- Respect tax_position when redirecting empty parent taxonomy terms.
- Prevent the cookie notice script from incorrectly denying Google Analytics and restore persisted Google consent before tags load.
- Emit typed Flickity options from the slider shortcode.
- Restore images in default feed and single templates for Inmotek properties.
- Fix web_tabs sticky behavior.
- Fix the new customer tool.
- Harden feed, finder, archive, and listing template resolution and layout wrapping.
- Discover, deduplicate, and load reusable post CSS correctly in footer widgets and custom templates.
- Initialize masonry feeds without waiting for all images and reload masonry items after faceted search refresh.
- Fix category metabox handling in POM Restaurant Menus.
- Fix shop manager permissions for PDF catalog generation.
- Update cache folder paths and ECS deployment paths.
- Exclude wildcard subdomains from CDN distribution assignments in Pomatio Network.
- Fix network superadmin permission rules and WooCommerce CSS enqueue order in POM Theme.
- Reuse safe excerpt generation in custom feed layouts.
- Restore attachment image sizes attributes.
- Read stored code files before minifying and purge cache after CLI regeneration.
- Support gallery lightbox attributes in single template merge tags.
- Remove shared cross-domain login behavior causing 401 errors.
- Preserve traffic statistics for additional allowed hosts in multisite environments.
- Add CLI support to manually retry payments for pending orders.
- Add a CLI fix for incorrect SEPA subscriptions.
- Fix health-check.php 500 errors.
- Fix 403 errors when downloading contact form logs.
- Make prepend reusable block IDs translatable through pom_pll.
- Improve CIF/NIF billing field handling and validation.
- Load supported post type configuration in the Ajax save handler for bulk create and update operations.
- Improve WooCommerce carousel cell retrieval and variation image synchronization using full attribute selection.