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Changelog — ReadNinja 1.1.0 & ReadNinja Pro 1.1.0

Release notes for ReadNinja 1.1.0 (Free) and ReadNinja Pro 1.1.0 — Gutenberg sidebar is now fully translatable, and two UI fixes land in the Pro settings page.

ChangelogApril 11, 2026

Changelog

Both the free plugin and ReadNinja Pro ship a 1.1.0 release today. Free focuses on fully wiring up translations for the Gutenberg sidebar panel, while Pro cleans up two small but visible UI issues in the settings page.

ReadNinja 1.1.0 (Free)

Internationalization

  • The Gutenberg sidebar panel ("Read Ninja — Reading Progress Bar") is now fully translatable. The missing wp_set_script_translations() wiring has been added, so every label, option and placeholder in the sidebar now picks up the active WordPress locale.
  • JSON translation files are shipped in /languages/ for English (en_US), French (fr_FR), German (de_DE), Spanish (es_ES), Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR), European Portuguese (pt_PT) and Italian (it_IT).
  • The read-ninja.pot file has been regenerated against the current source, and all per-language .po / .mo / .json files have been rebuilt from it.
  • A previously hard-coded placeholder in the custom-selector text field (.my-class or #my-id) is now properly wrapped with __() and translated.

Maintenance

  • Version bumped to 1.1.0 to align with Read Ninja Pro 1.1.0.

ReadNinja Pro 1.1.0

UI fixes

  • Threshold settings card is now white. The Threshold rows (Threshold %, Action, CSS selector) were previously rendered inside a nested table that escaped the settings card styling and showed the page background through the rows. The rows have been moved into the main Threshold form-table and now sit on the same clean white card as every other settings section.
  • "By FSE template" list is now on 2 columns. The list of Full Site Editing templates in the advanced display conditions used to stack one template per row, eating a lot of vertical space on theme libraries. It now renders as a two-column grid (collapsing to a single column under 782 px to match the WordPress admin breakpoint), matching the look of the existing Taxonomies list.

Maintenance

  • Version bumped to 1.1.0 across read-ninja-pro.php, RPB_PRO_VERSION and readme.txt.

Upgrading

Both updates are drop-in replacements — no database migration, no settings changes, nothing to reconfigure. Just update from the WordPress Plugins screen (or re-upload the zip for Pro) and the fixes apply immediately.

If you were running ReadNinja in a non-English WordPress install and wondered why the sidebar panel was still showing English labels even with a translated .po file, the 1.1.0 free update is the one you were waiting for.

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