shaunSocial 1.5.3 – Official Release

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We’re excited to announce the release of ShaunSocial 1.5.3, bringing new features, usability improvements, and important bug fixes to enhance your platform experience.

Key Features & Improvements

🛒 Marketplace Plugin (Major update)

  • Support for multiple product types (cars, houses, pets, services, etc.)
  • Flexible custom fields for different listing categories
  • Support for affiliate products
  • Search listings by location for better discovery
  • Nearby listings based on user profile location
  • Allow users to write reviews for listings
  • Enable real-time chat with sellers directly from listings
  • Social sharing to easily share listings with friends
  • Option to feature listings to increase visibility and stand out

💳 Stripe & PayPal Integration

  • Enable online payments via Stripe and PayPal
  • Supports membership upgrades, paid content unlocking, and featured business pages
  • Reduces reliance on eWallet-only payments

🔒 Permission & Moderation Enhancements

  • Regular members can no longer block admins or moderators
  • Admins/moderators can view paid post content (same as post owners)

🔞 Content Safety

  • Added 18+ content warning popup, it’s useful for 18+ social network site

👤 User Experience Improvements

  • Option to require profile picture during sign-up
  • Improved logo upload (no auto-scaling, displays original size)
  • Cleaner default watermark text (removed “https”)
  • Added missing language phrases
  • Added close button for profile subscription popup
  • Added option to customize frame border color

🐞 Bug Fixes & Stability Improvements

  • Fixed orphan files not being deleted when:
    • User accounts are removed
    • Comments are deleted
    • Uploaded comment images are not posted
  • Fixed language switching issues:
    • Unable to switch pages after language change
    • Date of birth not updating with selected language
  • Fixed comment sorting when accessed via notifications
  • Fixed missing upload progress bar in chat
  • Fixed Stripe & PayPal issues with unsupported currencies (e.g., Hungary)
  • Fixed “Show new post” button appearing incorrectly
  • Fixed multiple UI issues reported by users
  • Fixed paid image bug:
    • Images remained blurred after purchase
    • Prevented duplicate purchases
  • Fixed outdated broadcast documentation link in admincp
  • Fixed bookmarks showing posts from inactive users
  • Removed block option for admins and moderators
  • Added admin notification:
    • When a new group is created and requires approval

Next steps 

 Existing customers: 

  • New versions are available to download at client area
  • Mobile apps are not fully compatible with version 1.5.3 yet but it will work but the new features from 1.5.3 will not show on apps.
  • ShaunSocial cloud: Ready to upgrade. Contact us to request for upgrading. 
  • Rest api is updated at here

New customers: Try ShaunSocial 1.5.3 today and see how easy it is to launch your own social network.

DO NOT upgrade your live site and app until you have a full backup of your site’s files, database and have successfully performed a test upgrade on your development (test) site first.

Suggestions and bug report, please share at here

We do provide upgrading service, please purchase the service here if you’re interested

💡 We’d love your feedback as we continue shaping the future of ShaunSocial!

Happy exploring!

Regards,

shaunSocial Team