Changelog

2.3.1

• Fixed: Text and video slides could not be inserted.

2.3.0

• Refactored the slideshow plugin’s backend codebase to prepare for a larger backend rewrite.
• Removed backwards compatibility on inserting images with pre-3.5 versions of WordPress.
• Slideshows now work on infinite scroll and single page websites through the “Enable lazy loading” option.
• Fixed: YouTube thumbnail image disappeared after clicking the slideshow’s navigation buttons.

2.2.25

• Changed localization domain to match the plugin’s slug in order to support language packs.

2.2.24

• Compatible with WordPress 4.3.
• Widget constructor no longer uses deprecated PHP 4 style constructor.
• Fixed: Mismatch between session ID and settings ID.
• Fixed: Unescaped data in slideshow editor.
• Fixed: Resizing issues.
• Added Ukrainian translation and updated Russian translation, thanks to Coupofy.

2.2.23

• Fixed: Despite default stylesheets now loading through static file again, admin-ajax.php was still being called.
• Fixed: Invalid HTML in the shortcode inserter. Thanks to Iazel.
• Fixed: HTML5 validation issue when loading stylesheets in the head of the document.
• Fixed: Slideshows now load their settings by slideshow ID, instead of the variable session ID.
• Updated Spanish translation, thanks to Manuel Ballesta Ruiz.

2.2.22

• Compatible with WordPress 4.2.
• Default stylesheets are no longer dynamically loaded through admin-ajax.php.
• Fixed: Security vulnerability in the SlideshowPluginSlideshowStylesheet class.
• Fixed: An issue with admin-ajax.php when the frontend uses HTTP, while the backend uses HTTPS. Thanks to Chris Scott
• Fixed: A bug that caused the previous slide button and the navigation bullets to malfunction on “Cross Fade” setting.
• Fixed: Slideshow container calculation now uses the JavaScript round function instead of the floor function.
• Fixed: Separated assignment of $sessionID and increment of SlideshowPlugin::$sessionCounter.
• Added Norwegian translation by A. Nonymous.
• Updated Persian translation by W3Design.
• Updated German translation by A. Nonymous.
• Updated Brazilian Portuguese by A. Nonymous.

2.2.21

• Compatible with WordPress 3.9.
• Added “Cross Fade” option to the animation settings.
• Updated the API to support retrieving the direction of the animation on the animation event.
• Fixed: Slideshow moving to next slide on keyboard navigation. By Ben Wetzel
• Fixed: HTML5 validation issue.
• Fixed: Permission check that checked for “edit_post” instead of “edit_slideshow”.

2.2.20

• Compatible with WordPress 3.8.
• Accessibility improvements by Ben Wetzel
• Title and description element types can now be set from backend and anchor tags are omitted when no URL is set.
• Improved functional stylesheet.
• Post published/updated message doesn’t show a link to a non-existant page anymore.
• New tags are available for custom stylesheets: %site-url%, %stylesheet-url% and %template-url%
• Fixed: When the slideshow would not have any height, slides would not hide outside of the slideshow.
• Added Serbo-Croatian translation by Webhosting Hub.
• Updated Persian translation by W3Design.
• Updated Chinese translation by Leo Newbiesup.
• Updated Swedish translation by Wilhelm Svenselius.

2.2.19

• Slideshows can now detect when their stylesheet isn’t loaded and load their own when this is the case.
• The functional stylesheet should now provide a more stable base for all slideshows.
• Fixed: Uploading images through the WordPress 3.5 uploader on a slideshow’s edit page would return an error.
• Fixed: Images with a ‘max-width: 100%;’ style rule would size wrongly on responsive websites.
• Fixed: The randomization method returned error messages.

2.2.18

• Added option to select whether or not search engines should follow a slide’s link.
• Improved filter avoiding mechanism.
• Disappearing settings now have a more apparent animation.
• Fixed: First slide of a slideshow wouldn’t show when the slideshow’s content had no size on page load.
• Added Brazilian Portuguese translation by Piero Luiz.
• Updated French translation by Romain Sandri.

2.2.17

• Fixed: Images disappeared when their width was larger than the slide’s width and image behaviour was set to ‘Natural and centered’

2.2.16

• Inserting images can now be done using the WordPress 3.5 uploader.
• Images can now fill up an entire slide without losing their dimensions, using the ‘Zoom to fit’ option.
• Fixed: Descriptions came up and stayed up on fly-over.
• Fixed: Image calculations failed in a few because of a ‘jQuery.outerWidth()’ bug.
• Fixed: Control panel wasn’t correctly initialized when slideshow was set to automatically slide to the next slide.

2.2.15

• The image dimension calculation algorithm now uses a more stable and more efficient way to determine the size of images.
• Added slideshow API.
• Fixed: WP Color Picker (Iris) adds a hashtag to color codes. As slideshow does this as well, text slides didn’t display color properly.

2.2.14

• Fixed: Slideshow didn’t show because of a JavaScript error when calculating an unstretched image’s dimension.

2.2.13

• The SlideshowPluginAjax.php has been re-added to SVN.

2.2.12

• Compatible with WordPress 3.6.
• Complete javascript revision to be better manageable with the help of the Prepros tool.
• Related videos can now be enabled or disabled on YouTube videos.
• YouTube API now is only loaded when a video slide needs to be shown.
• Re-arranged the ‘General Settings’ page to have a ‘General Settings’ tab that contains overall system settings.
• Added option to choose the loading location of the stylesheets, as IE8 and older don’t always allow in-body styling.
• Implemented a new algorithm for randomizing slides.
• Slideshow can now wait for a slide to load before showing it.
• Fixed: The ‘Enable responsiveness’ setting disappeared when disabling the ‘Show title and description’ option.
• Added Turkish translation by İlker Akdoğan.
• Added Polish translation by Wicher Wiater.
• Added Finnish translation by an anonymous supporter.
• Updated French translation by Romain Sandri.
• Added Portuguese translation by Filipe Catraia.
• Added Persian translation by W3Design.
• Added Italian translation by Tecnikgeek.
• Added Japanese translation by Michihide Hotta.

2.2.11

• Fixed: The slideshow script loaded the YouTube API twice.
• Fixed: Floating the slideshow resulted in it having no width, therefore being invisible.
• Fixed: Sites that don’t support URL data weren’t able to load a slideshow’s stylesheet correctly.
• Fixed: Slideshow randomly disappeared in Internet Explorer 8 when absolute positioning was used.
• Added Swedish translation by Åke Isacsson.
• Added Hebrew translation by Eli Segev.

2.2.10

• Fixed: Auto margin combined with a fixed width will no longer break slideshow’s responsiveness.
• Updated Russian translation, thanks to Dmitry Fatakov.

2.2.9

• Fixed: Descriptions didn’t show when ‘Hide descriptions’ was set to ‘No’.
• Fixed: Title was given wrong size by CSS.

2.2.8

• Fixed: Images that have a, to WordPress, unknown size weren’t able to show on all websites.
• Fixed: Images in the image inserter popup were being skipped over when loading more results because of a faulty query.
• All stylesheets are now loaded at the page’s bottom to validate in HTML checkers and be cached by the visitor’s browser.
• Improved the handling of description boxes. Description boxes will no longer be ‘jumpy’ nor will they pop up on fly-over.
• Errors in jQuery’s ‘ready’ method no longer stop the slideshow from showing. However, JavaScript errors should always be resolved.
• Text slides can now have transparent backgrounds by leaving the ‘Background color’ field empty.

2.2.7

• Fixed: Slideshow control buttons were placed behind the slideshow.
• Fixed: Image slides doubly inserted after having clicked on ‘Load more results’
• Included width and height attributes on all image elements.

2.2.6

• Fixed: Theme’s that set image heights affected the slideshow’s image dimensions.
• Fixed: Compatibility with the ALO EasyMail Newsletter plugin.
• Fixed: Image’s ‘alt’ values didn’t show when no image title was set.

2.2.5

• Fixed: Slideshow settings nonce prevented 3.4 and older WP users from saving their slideshows.

2.2.4

• Fixed: Video slideshows will now work on mobile devices supported by YouTube.
• Fixed: Removed multi-line element tags to prevent WordPress from adding ‘
  ‘ tags into them.
• Fixed: Quick editing a slideshow deleted its content.
• Image files can now be found by their file names.

2.2.3

• Fixed: A ‘console.log();’ message presumably caused Internet Explorer to have problems when inserting slides.
• Fixed: Slideshows that are hidden on page’s load now wait to become visible before calculating their size.

2.2.2

• Fixed: Float and size bugs caused by the maximum width element.
• Fixed: PHP errors were showing in ‘Delete slide’ links.
• Live width calculations have been halved to improve performance.
• Default settings have been tuned to cater better to most users.
• Added Czech translation by Edhel.

2.2.1

• Fixed: A bug in the width calculations caused slideshows in width-less elements to be hidden.
• Fixed: The functional stylesheet defined the last five header elements for the entire page, instead of just for the slideshow.
• Fixed: Pagination bullets were showing multiple times because of a CSS bug.
• Padding and margin in unordered lists set to 0 by default.
• Videos can now be played in full-screen.
• Functional stylesheet temporarily moved to the head section of the page until the stylesheets can be loaded beneath it.

2.2.0

• The slideshow script has been completely renewed, making it more lightweight, more versatile and responsive altogether.
• Slideshow now has a continuing loop.
• Pagination bullets can now be shown.
• Slide order can now be completely random, as can the animation type.
• Added new animations.
• Slideshow now pauses when a (YouTube) video is playing or when a mouse is hovering over.
• Fixed: Image title and description were wrongly filled with attachment’s content.

2.1.23

• Default settings can now be changed from the ‘General Settings’ page.
• Custom styles are now shared across all slideshows and endless customizations can be created.
• Added input fields to set separate titles and descriptions for shared images.
• Cleaned up the slides list’s layout, to reach a more WordPress-like look.
• Adapted the ‘Dark’ style to be more compatible with the WordPress TwentyTwelve theme.
• Changed ‘Insert Slideshow’ link to appear as a button.
• Empty settings won’t be shown at the end of the settings boxes.

2.1.22

• Added French translation.
• Added a “General Settings” page, containing user capability settings.
• Cleaned up unnecessary settings that were showing on page.
• Replaced the, in WordPress 3.5, deprecated function ‘wp_get_single_post’ with the ‘get_post’ function.
• Added an on-page error logger to be able to solve back-end issues faster. Nothing is shown when no errors exist, doesn’t affect SEO.

2.1.21

• Fixed: Adding new slides was made impossible by a faulty setting.
• Fixed: Image tag placed on multiple lines caused some sites to not display images correctly due to an inserted break character.

2.1.20

• Fixed: Query filters will no longer alter the output of the slideshow.
• Fixed: Images not always showing in image inserter popup.
• Compatibility with WordPress 3.5 confirmed.
• First back-end increment towards version 2.2.0, introducing a more efficient way to store and retrieve the slideshow’s settings and slides.

2.1.19

• Fixed: Slides are now always floated, despite any parent CSS settings.
• Fixed: Slideshow settings will no longer cloud any other posts with their post-meta.
• PHP snippet will now only be shown when the current user can edit themes.
• Videos in the slideshow will from now on depend on WordPress’ swfobject.js file.
• Changed slideshow’s script namespace from ‘slideshow_script’ to ‘slideshow-jquery-image-gallery-script’.
• Untitled slideshows in the widget form will now display as ‘Untitled slideshow’, instead of an empty field.

2.1.18

• Text slide descriptions are now displayed in text areas, making editing of long descriptions more convenient.
• Backgrounds of text slides can now be set to transparent by leaving the ‘Background color’ field empty.
• Settings are now loaded from a JavaScript variable, so (the major) search engines won’t read them as actual content.
• Widget title’s HTML tags are now discarded when no widget title is set.

2.1.17

• Fixed: Invalid argument being supplied for the foreach loop in SlideshowPluginPostType on line 352.
• Fixed: Undefined index being thrown by URL target setting on slideshow creation.
• Video slide now accepts YouTube URLs as well.

2.1.16

• Security update enabling HTML in slides again, but only allowing it in a very strict format without any scripts.
• Added shortcode editor, which provides a more convenient way of inserting slideshows in your posts and pages.
• Updated the way slideshows are retrieved. A faulty ID will no longer cause the slideshow to not show at all.
• Slideshows can now also be fetched by their slugs.
• The example shortcode’s ID on the slideshow settings page is now surrounded by quotes to prevent confusion.

2.1.15

• Fixed: Security issues.
• Added Chinese translation.

2.1.14

• Fixed: Text slide descriptions allow HTML again.

2.1.13

• Fixed: PHP security issues.
• Set order of images gotten in ‘Image slide’ pop-up to post date, descending.

2.1.12

• Moved slideshow activation to the footer script. Footer jQuery scripts are now supported.

2.1.11

• Fixed: Conflict with the Gravity Forms plugin.

2.1.10

• Fixed: Slideshow widget form now is compatible with older versions of PHP, that didn’t recognize a null value as a set value.

2.1.9

• Fixed: Not all admin themes support scripts in the admin footer, admin scripts are moved to the header.

2.1.8

• Option added to be able to control whether to use a filter, or to directly output on shortcode.

2.1.7

• Fixed: Slideshow in some cases unable to show next slide in fade animation.

2.1.6

• Slideshow widgets are loaded using theme sidebar settings, making the widget more dynamic.
• Fixed: Slideshow widget title can now be set to an empty value.

2.1.5

• Fixed: WordPress intervened with the HTML output by the shortcode, this caused scripts to break.
• Fixed: Slideshow width isn’t affected by width-less elements anymore, instead it seeks the first div’s width.

2.1.4

• Fixed: Slideshows in posts are now longer broken by WordPress inserted ’em’ tags.
• Fixed: Image borders no longer fall off-slide.

2.1.3

• Fixed: Overflow container now adapts to its parent element correctly.
• Fixed: Internet Explorer now shows control panel (buttons etc.) on top of the Flash element.
• Fixed: Images are now loaded by the WordPress function, rather than being loaded from the database’s ‘guid’.

2.1.2

• WordPress media uploader link in image inserter pop-up now opens in a new window.
• Fixed: Image inserter pop-up CSS no longer pushes the ‘insert’ buttons off-screen.

2.1.1

• Fixed: Settings meta-box threw an unexpected ‘T_ENDFOREACH’ since a shorthand PHP tag was used improperly.

2.1.0

• Added Youtube video slides.
• Slide URLs can now be chosen to open in a new window.
• Added headers above settings, giving the user mover oversight.
• Endless scrolling is now available in the image inserter pop up.
• Images are now centered in their slides by default.
• Script is now activated on document ready, not window load.
• Hid slides in another element so that buttons could overflow the slideshow container.
• Fixed: Hide-away settings were influenced by their own settings fields.
• Fixed: Stretching was not always handled correctly.
• Fixed: Script counter made the first view show twice.

2.0.1

• Fixed: Version 1.x.x slides disappeared after updating to version 2.0.0. An automatic converter has been added.

2.0.0

• Complete sideshow script revision to support new features.
• The script now supports two kinds of animations: ‘Slide’ and ‘Fade’.
• Multiple images can be shown in one slide, instead of one.
• Text slides are available.
• Descriptions are more cooperative, they don’t overlap the entire image anymore. (Instead they hide or have a user-defined fixed height)
• Multiple slideshows can now be shown on one page.
• Play and pause buttons are now available, as is the option not to auto-play and/or loop the slideshow.
• Stylesheets no longer partially depend on the website’s stylesheet, except for the fonts.
• The script and its functional stylesheet are now compressed to save loading time.
• Added jQuery sortables script to sort slides.
• Images you’ve already uploaded and attached to other posts can now be loaded into the slideshow, saving disk space (and time).

1.3.5

• Fixed: Namespace complications found with the Slideshow widget, renamed all classes.

1.3.4

• Fixed: Custom width of the slideshow will no longer cause buttons to fall off-screeen.

1.3.3

• Extended compatibility to servers that do not support short php opening tags.

1.3.2

• Fixed: 1.3.1 Bugfix failed to work, fixed problem entirely after reproducing it.
• Added alternative way to load default css into empty custom-style box, so that users without ‘allow_url_fopen’ enabled aren’t influenced negatively by it.

1.3.1

• Fixed: Check if function ‘file_get_contents’ exists before calling it, some servers have this disabled. (This throws errors and messes up the plugin)

1.3.0

• Added Dutch translation.
• Custom styles for each slideshow are now available to be more compatable with every theme. (Black and transparent scheme)
• Encapsulated a css class so that it does not interfere with anything outside the slideshow_container.
• Moved slides list to the side, saving space on the slideshow specific settings page.
• Settings bugs completely fixed, finally. (Previous version deleted post-meta on auto-save)
• Moved Slideshow settings and images script to inside the slideshow_container, outputting a more coherent whole.
• Settings moved from multiple meta keys to a single one. (This resets everyone’s settings)
• Added a WordPress media upload button to the slides list, this simplifies attaching images to a slideshow.
• Better way of including the jQuery library is now being used.
• Fixed bug with the number of slides shown in the slideshow stuck at the default value of five.

1.2.1

• Fixed: Slideshow specific settings not saving.

1.2.0

• Slideshows can now be placed in posts as well, using shortcode [slideshow id=SlideshowPostId].
• Added a widget that can be loaded with an existing slideshow of choice.
• Tested up to version 3.4.

1.1.0

• Added jQuery library as WordPress websites don’t seem to load them by default.
• Slideshow script now depends on by the plugin enqueued jQuery script.

1.0.1

• Added documentary comments.
• Fixed error with directory paths causing Slideshows post type page to generate warnings.

1.0.0

• Initial release.