What's new in Saddle
Every release of the Saddle plugins, newest first. Saddle needs WordPress 6.9 and PHP 7.4 or newer.
Saddle 1.7.2
9 November 2026
- Saddle Pro, Saddle Analytics and Saddle Rank activate when Saddle sits in a folder with another name, such as saddle-2 after a second upload.
- Get Premium shows the plans by sites: Free for one site, Go for one, Pro for up to 3 and Ultimate for up to 10.
Saddle 1.7.1
9 November 2026
- Saddle finds Divi 5 in any theme folder, such as Divi-2 after a second upload, so your AI agent gets its Divi tools.
- When your AI agent cannot use the Divi tools on a page, Saddle says why.
- Page check no longer calls Divi 5 presets and column widths ignored.
Saddle 1.7.0
6 November 2026
- Connect your AI agent two ways: all your sites through Saddle Cloud, or just this site at its own address.
- Run without asking, for an agent you trust to manage the site. It is off until you turn it on.
- Ask first is off by default. You choose which tools ask you first.
- Your AI agent can make a new menu and put it in the header or footer.
- Get Premium shows the four plans, each with unlimited sites.
- AI apps are now called AI agents everywhere.
Saddle Analytics 1.1.0
6 November 2026
- The AI crawlers card knows 24 AI bots, the same list Saddle Rank uses.
- Googlebot, bingbot and Applebot show by name under Search engines.
Saddle 1.6.3
1 November 2026
- Saddle's own records are no longer saved as published posts, so SEO plugins stop sending them to search engines.
Saddle 1.6.2
23 October 2026
- A simpler Saddle menu, with Overview and a Logs page for every change and undo.
- Connected agents show as cards on Overview.
- Analytics is always in the menu, and installs in one click.
Saddle 1.6.0
23 October 2026
- Set each tool to Allow, Ask first or Off, or apply the recommended set in one click.
- AI apps became Agent setup, with each agent's steps on the page.
- The welcome offers Saddle Analytics.
Saddle Analytics 1.0.0
18 October 2026
- First release: visitor stats without cookies, with visits from AI chats as their own channel.
Saddle 1.5.2
13 October 2026
- Your AI agent can install plugins and themes from WordPress.org, and update WordPress and its translations, each after a preview.
Older releases: the full history on WordPress.org.