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Changelog
Updated
v1.6 – 1st October, 2021
- New: Keyword Search! You can now include a keyword search field by using the search=”” shortcode parameter. Documentation can be found here.
- Improved: AND/OR logic is now much more robust and should work better between multiple taxonomies and terms.
- Improved: All strings inside javascript files in the plugin are now translatable.
- Fixed: Elementor was triggering incorrect alerts when updating a post.
- Fixed: The Block Editor/Gutenberg plugin wasn’t triggering alerts when publishing a new post.
- Fixed: The ‘My Subscriptions’ page was being created for each plugin activation.
- Fixed: The ‘View Subscription’ link in the email that’s sent to admins after new subscription wasn’t valid.
- Fixed: A notice relating to deprecated array_key_exists when using PHP 7.4+.
- All documentation has been updated to cover the changes in this release.
v1.5.1 – 10th May, 2021
- Fixed: Uploading multiple image attachment via a front-end form would sometimes cause a fatal error.
v1.5 – 8th March, 2021
- New: You can now choose between AND/OR logic so that alerts are only triggered if one taxonomy matches, or multiple taxonomies match.
- New: Media updated/new media items can now be subscribed to.
- Potentially Breaking Change: Many filters have been removed and added as options to Settings > General for ease of use instead.
- Changed: Text on the Privacy Policy checkbox to be more compliant.
- All documentation has been updated to cover the changes in this release.
v1.4.2 – 18th December, 2020
- Fixed: The last name field was preventing the form from submitting, even if set correctly.
v1.4.1 – 17th December, 2020
- Added: Changelog link below the plugin in the All Plugins screen.
- Fixed: Some translatable strings weren’t set correctly.
- Fixed: CSS on the Select2 box when the WP Admin Bar was showing.
- Fixed: Some minor issues with the styling/layout in email alerts.
v1.4 – 16th December, 2020
- Please note: Content Notify now requires WordPress 5.6 and PHP 7.1.
- New: A user can now register using just their email address – name no longer required. Just use user_names=”false” in the cn_form shortcode.
- New: You can now hide the privacy policy checkbox for logged in users using privacy_policy=”false” in the the cn_form shortcode.
- New: Option to send the site admin an alert when a subscription is verified.
- New: Details of a subscription are now included in every alert.
- New: If a post has a featured image, it will now show in an alert email.
- New: Option to force the load of the plugin’s CSS/JS files to improve compatibility in certain situations.
- Improved: A spinner has been added to show when taxonomies are loading.
- Improved: Plugin CSS now loads more reliably in more situations.
- Improved: The form now has a maximum width set to avoid looking too wide.
- Fixed: Fields that should have been hidden based on shortcode parameters were sometimes shown.
- Fixed: My Listing theme was causing alerts to be sent out that didn’t exactly match subscriptions.
- Fixed: Adding/editing content with the My Listing theme was causing multiple alerts to be sent.
- Fixed: Adding/editing content with Elementor was causing multiple alerts to be sent.
- Merry Christmas & Happy New Year. Thank you for using Content Notify.
v1.3.4 – 25th November, 2020
- Added: Missing translatable strings to .pot file.
v1.3.3 – 23rd November, 2020
- Added: A new filter for overriding whether the plugin’s CSS is loaded or not loaded.
- Improved: Slightly better support for Elementor and Elementor Pro.
v1.3.2 – 19th November, 2020
- Fixed: An issue where a fatal error could occur if using Elementor and widgets.
- Fixed: An issue where the post title wasn’t showing as a link in emails.
v1.3.1 – 18th November, 2020
- Fixed: An issue where automatic plugin updates for Content Notify weren’t showing correctly in the WordPress Admin.
- Fixed: An issue where the plugin CSS wasn’t loading when a shortcode was used in a widget.
v1.3 – 13th November, 2020
- New: ‘My Subscriptions’ page. Logged in users can now see a list of subscriptions that correspond to their email address, and unsubscribe from each one, when viewing a page with the new shortcode.
- New: Subscribers can now see a list of subscriptions that correspond to their email address immediately after Unsubscribing from another subscription, and can unsubscribe from each one.
- New: Author column added to the All Subscriptions screen in the WP Admin.
- Improved: The first term of the first taxonomy associated with a post/page/custom post type can be auto selected and the field hidden by setting the shortcode parameter to ‘auto’.
- Improved: Taxonomies can now be hidden when setting the taxonomies shortcode parameter to ‘false’.
- Improved: User fields (First Name, Last Name, Email Address) can now be hidden when the user is logged in using the new user_fields shortcode parameter.
- Improved: Subscribers can now be alerted of Published AND Updated post/pages/custom post types under a single subscription.
- Improved: The plugin should now auto-update when new versions are released. You can enable or disable this behaviour in the WP Admin > Plugins screen.
- Added: New filter for showing empty terms for a taxonomy.
- Fixed: Content of newly published or updated posts/pages/custom post types that are password protected no longer show in emails.
- Fixed: The Site Icon wasn’t showing in emails, if set, when no logo was set in the plugin settings.
- Fixed: ‘Success’ messages are no longer persistently shown on pages, even after reloading the page.
- Fixed: Translations weren’t appearing within the plugin.
- All documentation has been updated to cover the changes in this release.
v1.2.1 – 16th October, 2020
- Added: Compatibility with the ‘My Listing‘ theme.
- Fixed: Fields were hidden when populated with a shortcode parameter with comma separated values.
- Fixed: An issue where alerts shown after form submission weren’t scrolled to on the page.
- Fixed: Added some more checks around if a page already exists.
- Fixed: Other various small fixes and improvements for new plugin installations.
v1.2 – 14th October, 2020
- New: HTML Emails! Content Notify now sends emails in HTML by default with an option to send them in plain text if you’d prefer.
- New: Sender Settings. Add your logo, business details, and other important information to emails to ensure emails are more legally compliant.
- New: A page is now used to display verify / unsubscribe information after clicking a link in an email. You may need to create this page manually – please see this page for details.
- New: Status shortcode parameter. Limit a Subscription form to ‘publish’ or ‘update’ post statuses.
- Improved: Where set, the post_types and authors shortcode parameters will now autodetect their settings and hide their fields.
- Fixed: Not filling out the last name field was causing the form to fail validation.
- Fixed: Post types with multiple taxonomies were only showing the first taxonomy.
- Fixed: A fatal error could occur if WordPress didn’t have a timezone set.
- Fixed: Other various minor bugs.
- All documentation has been updated to cover the changes in this release.
v1.1 – 17th September, 2020
- New: Content Notify now adds Bootstrap classes and styling for a much improved form layout and better compatibility with many, many themes.
- New: You can now subscribe to new/updated items from a specific author. This new field can be disable by setting authors=”false” on the shortcode.
- New: Disable plugin CSS styles from the Subscriptions > Settings menu.
- New: CSS and Javascript is only loaded on pages where the form has been added.
- New: The Subscription form can now auto-detect the post type that it’s embedded on when setting post_types=”auto” on the shortcode.
- Fixed: Unused post statuses have now been removed and used post statuses have more accurate labels.
- Fixed: A rare bug where the front-end form failed validation when attempting to subscribe to alerts for a custom post type.
- Fixed: Other various minor bugs.
- All documentation has been updated to cover the changes in this release.
v1.0 – 14th August, 2020
- Initial release.