All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
- Fixed a security vulnerability that allows subscribers to send a support contact (CVE-2024-9583).
- Fixed a security vulnerability that allows subscribers to pause feed sources (CVE-2024-6621).
- The previous version introduced a bug that omitted the user-agent header from RSS feed requests.
- Some feeds were wrongly deemed to be invalid due to how cURL sends the user-agent string.
- Fixed a cross-site scripting vulnerability when an admin notice ID is invalid.
- Prepared notices and messages for the upcoming v5.0 update.
- Better error logging when a feed item fails to get saved.
- Compatibility with PHP 8.x versions.
- Compatibility with the "Widget Options" plugin.
- Media thumbnail images without a MIME type were not being properly detected.
- Error information is suppressed for feeds with local address URLs. This improves the previous fix for CVE-2024-0628.
- Error messages no longer reveal information about potentially inaccessible resources. (CVE-2024-0628)
- JavaScript code in feed item URLs is now properly sanitized and escaped. (CVE-2024-0630)
- Word trimming did not work correctly when posts had leading whitespace.
- The Templates page did not load properly on some websites.
- Black Friday offer links.
- Updated the "More Features" page.
- Disabled the deactivation poll.
- An important notice regarding the upcoming major update that will require PHP 7.4 or higher.
- Twig date translation can now be disabled using the
wpra/twig/use_translationsfilter.
- Some PHP 8 compatibility issues.
- Corrected how images are searched in the content and excerpt of an item.
- Fixed an error in the block that prevented it from being edited and previewed.
- New users can now sign up to receive a free starter guide.
- YouTube feeds now provide the video description, which is now imported into feed items.
- Links to the pricing page for premium plans have been replaced with links to a new "upgrade" page.
- Fixed a conflict with some themes and their front-end search capabilities.
- The on-boarding wizard now correctly shows up for new users only.
- Sorting feed items by date now works as expected.
- Images in RSS item excerpts are now properly detected.
- New
wpra/images/file_namefilter to change the filename of imported images.
- New filter to disable the scrolling animation when clicking on pagination links in templates. See docs.
- Code changes for PHP 8.0 compatibility.
- Code changes for partial PHP 8.1 compatibility. The plugin still triggers some warnings on PHP 8.1, but should work fine.
- Removed the Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotion banners.
- Removed the 2022 feedback survey.
- Promotion for Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2022 deals.
- Notification for the 2022 feedback survey.
- The custom feed was missing the
<published>date tag.
- YouTube embeds in the lightbox now begin playing automatically, if the browser allows it.
- An out-of-memory PHP error when importing items.
- Updated Twig to v1.42.2, to support PHP 8 or later.
- Optimized feed item date processing when an item is being imported.
- Permalink and GUID checks are now done across all feed sources when an item is being imported.
- Various PHP 8 errors and deprecations compatibility.
- The classic editor button was generating incorrect shortcodes.
- New option to use feed item GUIDs instead of permalinks to detect duplicate items.
- Small performance improvement when importing feed items.
- A warning about
get_headers()only working with URLs. - A warning about iteration over a non-array value.
- An AJAX XSS vulnerability on the Feed Sources page. Thanks WPScan!
- An error during cron schedule filtering.
- Not all image URLs in enclosure tags were being detected.
- Cleaned up the code significantly.
- Consistent permalink normalization between the preview and importing.
- Some plugin strings were not internationalized.
- Source information is extracted from feed items more reliably.
- Audio links in feed items are detected more reliably.
- Enclosure images in feed items are detected more reliably.
- HTML entities caused unique title checks to always fail.
- Some request data was not filtered and/or sanitized properly.
- Some plugin-generated content was not properly escaped for use in HTML.
- URLs added manually to the blacklist are now properly validated.
- Feed sources and feed items restored from the trash become "draft" since WordPress 5.6.
- More details are now logged when a fatal error occurs during an import.
- Using local versions of images and stylesheets.
- Importing would sometimes fail when trying to fetch the media:thumbnail image.
- Some request data was not filtered and/or sanitized properly.
- Some plugin-generated content was not properly escaped for use in HTML.
- Support for importing images from
<image>tags.
- Exceptions thrown during an import and caught and logged.
- Audio players no longer preload the audio file. Audio is now loaded only the play button is clicked.
- Pagination would sometimes cause the page to scroll upwards.
- Images were wrongly determined to be from Facebook and were being renamed incorrectly.
- Invalid cron schedules no longer cause a fatal error.
- The shortcode icon in the classic editor would sometimes not be shown.
- New filters to change the time limits during image downloads.
- Using a single store URL for addon license verification.
- Increased the PHP execution time limits for image downloads.
- Licenses for the Templates addon could not be verified.
- The total import time is now recorded in the debug log.
- Omitting dev files from the plugin, reducing its size.
- Redesigned the "More Features" page.
- Feed items link to the original article when shown without a template and in RSS feeds.
- Allocating more PHP execution time for image downloads.
- Images with HTML entities in the URL resulted in broken images and missing featured images.
- The code that checks when a feed is saved no longer runs unnecessarily.
- Fixed styling issues with the "Save" button in the Templates edit page.
- The max title length option in the "Default" template was being applied in the "Feed Items" page.
- After updating the Templates add-on from v0.2, the add-on would be deactivated.
- Auto image detection is now able to find the feed channel image.
- SimplePie auto-discovery is turned off when the "Force feed" option is enabled.
- The Feed Source post type is no longer public.
- Meta box styling has been updated to match WordPress 5.3's updated styles.
- Removed referer header from feed requests, fixed importing for some feeds.
- Feeds that contain items without titles no longer only import just the first item.
- Cron jobs are properly added/removed when the plugin is activated/deactivated, respectively.
- Problems with the default template no longer trigger a fatal error.
- Disabled SimplePie's HTML sanitization.
- Updated jQuery code to be compatible with the upcoming update in WordPress.
- Images without an extension can now be imported.
- The image importing function now allows the image URL and local path to be changed via filters.
- Changed how item importing is logged in the debugging log. The log now shows what hooks can reject an item.
- WooCommerce Product type dropdown and accompanying options disappear while WP RSS Aggregator is active.
- Addressed notices about
register_rest_routebeing called incorrectly. - The "Validate feed" link did not work.
- Sites on a multi-site network would see an error about a function not existing.
- Errors would not be properly rendered for non-fatal notices and warnings.
- New HTML classes for pagination buttons.
- The featured image when using the Feed to Post add-on was not being saved.
- FeedBurner feeds no longer need to have "format=xml" at the end of the URL.
- A link in the New/Edit Feed Source page on how to find an RSS feed.
- The "Force feed" option turns off SSL verification.
- Improved wording on the Help page.
- Dates in templates can now be translated.
- The link to the article on how to find an RSS feed now links to an article from the plugin's knowledge base.
- The "Unique Titles" feed option can now be set to default to the global setting.
- Rewrite rules would always get flushed when plugins tamper with them, such as Polylang Pro.
- The "Delete All Imported Items" reset option was deleting all posts on the site.
- Image options would not show up when using Feed to Post to import Feed Items.
- A
gettextfilter that changes the text for saving feeds, for performance reasons.
- Now showing a case study of a site using the Pro Plan in the on-boarding wizard.
- Licenses are now managed by the main site. Child sites do not have access to the licenses page.
- The custom feed did not include items imported as posts or other post types.
- Temporarily disabled the "What's New" page.
- Removed the integration with Lorem on the "Help & Support" page.
- Removed the integration with Lorem on the "More Features" page.
- The default template is now created based on type, not slug.
- Templates could not be saved if the request contained extra form data.
- The default template would be copied multiple times if a post on the site had the "default" slug.
- Feed item title did not escape HTML entities correctly.
- Source name and link were sometimes incorrect in the custom feed.
- Undefined index during error handling.
- Better error messages when an error occurs.
- Updated code to fix deprecation warnings on PHP version 7.4 and later.
- Updated the Twig library to version
1.41.0to fix deprecation warnings on PHP version 7.4 and later. - Updated the default translation files to contain up-to-date text.
- Removed a false-positive error from the log.
- Localization in Twig templates did not work.
- When revisions are enabled, an error would prevent feed sources from being saved.
- Translations were being loaded from an invalid path.
- The default featured image in the New/Edit Feed Source page did not preview after saving the feed source.
- Missing space between the link
atag and thehrefattribute on PHP 7.4
- Removed warning when trying to blacklist a non-imported post.
- The error handler now includes the file and line where the error occurred.
- The obsolete "Link Source" option is now only shown when the Excerpts & Thumbnails add-on is active.
- The new "feeds" shortcode parameter only showed feed items for the first 10 feed sources.
- The new slug option was appearing on the edit pages for posts of all types.
- New "Tools" that replaces the "Blacklist", "Import/Export" and "Debugging" pages.
- New option to control whether items with future dates are scheduled or published with truncated dates.
- New "feeds" shortcode parameter to select feed sources by their slug names.
- New "1 week" update interval option to update feeds once every week.
- The "Edit Feed Source" page now allows the slug to be edited.
- The "Edit Feed Source" page now shows shortcode snippets.
- RSS feeds that are invalid due to leading whitespace are now trimmed and may now be imported.
- Images that have the same URL are now downloaded to the media library only once.
- Updated some styles to match the new WordPress 5.3 aesthetic.
- Optimized template saving to be more performant and less error prone.
- Improved error messages in REST API responses.
- Removed some log messages.
- Fatal errors are now always logged.
- Optimized cron-related functionality.
- The plugin will no longer register cron schedules that already exist.
- License-related notices are now only shown to users who have access to the Licenses settings page.
- The "Import Source" option did not work.
- Templates now link imported posts to the local post instead of to the original article.
- Images with HTML entities in the URL could not be downloaded.
- Feed items without a PolyLang translation did not show up in templates.
- PHP notices were triggered when trying to download invalid images.
- The feed item count in the "Feed Sources" page would show zero when certain add-ons are installed.
- Removed a warning shown in templates about
reset()expecting an array. - Thumbnails imported by Excerpts & Thumbnails were not shown in templates.
- Some databases would report the following error during logging: "Column 'date' cannot be null".
- Unserializing the options for the system info triggered PHP notices.
- A WordPress 5.1 function was being used to check for ready cron jobs, now replaced with a custom function.
- Overhauled the data set system with a more robust entity system.
- Various database optimizations for better performance.
- Incompatibility with other plugins that use similar import/export mechanisms.
- Incompatibility with PolyLang, causing the block and shortcode to show no feed items.
- Timeout and infinite loop when saving a feed source.
- Links and integrations with Lorem for custom developer work.
- The default logging type is now "debug".
- Feeds are now sorted alphabetically by default.
- Multisite installations only allowed the main site to have activated licenses.
- License notices now only appear on the main site if the site is a multisite network.
- Blacklist items would occassionally be saved without a permalink.
- Older versions of add-ons triggered errors when trying to log messages with the default log type.
- Fixed checkbox legacy display options not saving correctly.
- A saved empty useragent string in the settings caused the internal default to not be used.
- The certificate path option was not defaulting correctly.
- Media thumbnail images were not being detected properly.
- An invalid feed would trigger false positive errors on fetch.
- New link to the custom feed in the "Custom Feed" settings page.
- Updated the logging system to no longer cause VaultPress to trigger false positive warnings.
- The date format in the custom feed now uses the "RFC3339 Extended" format.
- Items with the same title were not being imported even when "Unique titles only" was turned off.
- Items with future dates where marked as "scheduled" by WordPress.
- The custom feed's "Content-Type" header was set for RSS 2.0 instead of Atom.
- Imported images were not being deleted from the media library when the imported item is deleted.
- PHP notice for "undefined index enclosure" when a feed cannot be fetched.
- Deprecation notice on PHP 7.2 or later for "each" function.
- Warnings when the
wprss_logfunction is used incorrectly. - PHP notice for "property of non-object" when using YoastSEO.
- After using the Templates add-on, images would continue to be imported after the add-on was deactivated.
- New error handling for catchable PHP7
Throwableerrors. - New option to enable feed caching for better performance.
- New option to import source name and URL for each item individually.
- The custom feed now includes source info for every item.
- Improved some exception messages to better indicate the cause of certain problems.
- Re-organized settings into multiple tabs.
- Added the current site URL to the custom feed URL option's label.
- Feed sources had image importing wrongly enabled by default.
- Downloading the debug log triggered an error.
- The custom feed self URL ignored the settings and was incorrect.
- Items in the custom feed had a missing
relattribute for their<link>element. - Fixed placement of WordPress notices on the Templates List and Edit page.
- Fixed WordPress notices disappearing after moving between Templates list and edit page.
- YouTube channel URLs are now supported.
- Items imported from YouTube are detected and their embed links are saved.
- Embedded YouTube videos can now be shown in a lightbox.
- New option to enable or disable the plugin's logging.
- New option to set the log age, in days, for daily truncation.
- Image URLs are detected and saved in feed item meta, to be used by templates that can show images.
- Feed item excerpts are now imported, to be used by templates that can show excerpts.
- Activating or pausing feed sources from the Feed Sources page is now asynchronous.
- Deleting feed items from the Feed Sources page is now asynchronous.
- New plugin-wide error handling to prevent site locks, with the option to deactivate the plugin and its addons.
- Feed sources that are missing their respective cron are detected and fixed while on the Feed Sources page.
- Added tooltips to various links and controls in the feed source list page.
- Import errors are now asynchronously added to the error icon in the feed sources list page.
- Previewing a template no longer requires saving the template.
- Redesigned the feed sources page to be more compact and informative at a glance.
- The imported item count in the feed sources page is now a link to that feed's imported items.
- Improved the responsive styling of the feed sources list table.
- The custom feed now uses the Atom 1.0 standard.
- Improved the detection of cron scheduling failures, prevent feeds from appearing to be stuck.
- Converted log section in the debugging page to use the new module system.
- Some options were renamed to be consistent across various plugin pages.
- Improved the wording, description and tooltip of the "Import order" option.
- Added better error handling during image file creation when using the GD extension.
- Rewrote the unique item title checking logic to be faster and more accurate.
- Now suppressing "non-numeric value encountered" warnings from SimplePie.
- Increased the time by which the plugin detects stuck feeds to 2 minutes.
- The addon licensing registration system has been partially converted to the new module system.
- The default template could not be saved with a particular combination of settings.
- The age limit setting was incorrectly being copied to feed sources.
- Fixed links in templates not opening in new tabs under certain conditions.
- Non image files are no longer wrongly downloaded, cached and treated as images.
- The unique titles option caused a PHP warning when enabled.
- Fixed use of previously cached version scripts and styles for the Templates page.
- Fixed pagination not working correctly when no item limit is set.
- Fixed the "Set links as no follow" option not having any effect.
- An empty limit for the number of items in a template silently defaults to 5 items.
- The name of the user was being shown as the author for feed items that had no author.
- Fixed the "property on non-object" error on the Licensing settings page for new addons.
- On some sites, multiple default templates are constantly being created.
- The default template is auto-created is corrupted data. An update procedure will now fix this data.
- Removed old secure reset code.
- The "View items" row action link in the Feed Sources page has been removed.
- Removed the "Edit" bulk action from the feed sources list page.
- A custom Twig extension for WordPress-based i18n.
- Now correctly requiring WordPress version 4.8 or later.
- Improved the JS architecture to allow addons to extend the UI.
- The deactivation poll will now be shown only 50% of the time, randomly.
- The time ago format for the list template was not respecting the WordPress timezone setting.
- HTML in log messages were breaking the Debugging page.
- The feed items were not being explicitly sorted, which could lead to unsorted items.
- Removed the polyfill for the
gettext()function.
- Disabled Twig cache due to tmp permission issues and false-positive suspicious file reporting by hosts.
- The list template's pagination option is now set to disabled by default, matching previous versions.
- Re-added missing HTML classes in the list template that had broken user custom CSS styles.
- Added a polyfill for the
gettext()function for sites that don't have the PHPgettextextension enabled. - Re-added a function that was removed in v4.13, and marked it as deprecated.
- Fixed feed item dates not using the site's timezone.
- Fixed styles for the legacy rendering system used by the Excerpts & Thumbnails addon.
- Introduced feed templates.
- Introduced a WP RSS Aggregator Gutenberg block.
- Brand new debug log and logging system that stores logs in the database.
- Items can now be added to the Blacklist manually.
- Refactored a lot of legacy code over to the new modular system.
- General display settings have been moved to the "Default" template type.
- Reorganized the general plugin settings. Advanced options are now under an advanced settings section.
- Removed the "Add New" menu item from the RSS Aggregator menu.
- The feed sources page now updates every 1 second.
- Updated the TinyMCE dialog options for inserting a shortcode on a page or post (Classic Editor).
- Updated administrator and editor role capabilities, fixing various permission bugs.
- Updated a lot of setting descriptions and tooltips.
- The help support beacon is now enabled by default.
- Import errors no longer "freeze" feed sources in an infinite importing state.
- Some import errors would not be logged due to script timeout or execution errors.
- Feed to Post was not able to show feed items in the shortcode.
- Deprecation notices on PHP 7.3.
- The "Force feed" option was not properly being applied to feed sources.
- A bug that caused perfectly good RSS feeds to trigger gzip errors.
- The "Delete permanently & blacklist" row action was appearing for non-feed-item post types.
- The notice that asks users to leave a review was removed due to various bugs.
- Fixed an issue with Feed to Post not being able to show feed items in the shortcode.
- Fixed deprecation notices on PHP 7.3.
- Fixed an admin capability bug that disallowed admin users from fetching feed items.
- Added a modal with an optional poll when the plugin is deactivated.
- Improved the core plugin's on-boarding process for brand new users.
- The timeout for the truncating posts hook has been extended.
- Fixed the "Sorted" error appearing constantly in the debug log.
- Fixed PHP warnings appearing on WordPress multisite.
- Fixed PHP notice appearing on Feed Items page.
- Fixed strict standards notice appearing on settings import.
- The plugin now checks if its running on PHP 5.3.9, and deactivates itself when not.
- Added message informing users that v4.13 will drop support for PHP 5.3.
- Added an introduction page for new plugin users.
- Changed protocol for all links to HTTPS wherever necessary or applicable.
- Disabled the welcome page on activation and updates.
- Added handling of lifetime licenses.
- License renewal link and expiry are not shown if they are not applicable.
- Updated Help & Support page.
- Added 2 new general settings for item import order and per-import limit.
- Cosmetic and documentation improvements.
- Fixed bug that caused minor publishing controls to be hidden on unrelated Edit screens.
- Enhanced Licenses page so as to make the [Enter] key toggle license activation.
- Enhanced architecture by using a DI container.
- Enhanced admin notifications by refactoring them to use the same mechanism.
- Enhanced admin notifications by making all of them dismissible.
- Fixed bug with lifetime licenses showing expiry notices.
- Fixed bug with being able to submit form on Licenses page.
- Fixed bug with empty saved license key causing PHP notice, and not triggering reminder notification.
- Fixed bug with saved but inactive licenses not triggering reminder notification.
- Fixed bug with minified assets not being served by default.
- Fixed bug with cached admin assets being served even after update.
- Fixed bug with admin notifications displayed on unrelated pages not being dismissible.
- Added a per-feed-source "Link Source" option.
- Added a per-feed-source "Feed Request User Agent" option.
- Now using Composer!
- Now using Phing!
- Added RegEx HTML Encodifier.
- Added integration with Diagnostics plugin, and tests.
- Added "Leave a Review" notification.
- The "Add New" button no longer appears for feed items.
- Logs are now created in
wp-content/log/wprss, and are named more descriptively.
- Fixed bug with feed error output breaking tooltips on "Feed Sources" page.
- Fixed bug with nonces on the "Feed Sources" page that broke some source actions.
- Fixed problem with image cache filenames being too long.
- Fixed problem with permalink URLs sometimes being URL-encoded.
- Fixed problem with large logs causing OOM errors and breaking Debugging page.
- Fixed conflict with function
unparse_url(). - Fixed bug with
_getDataOrConst()not retrieving single value. - Fixed future incompatibility with
class-feed.phpfor WP 4.7+. - Fixed conflicts with many JS scripts by only adding JS on our admin pages.
- Fixed conflicts with some classes by loading only valid root namespace components.
- Fixed PHP warning related to retrieving unique titles.
- Changed copyright and other info in plugin header.
- Enhanced: Visual improvements.
- Fixed bug: Potential security vulnerability related to triggering feed update.
- Fixed bug: Error output on Feed Sources list is trimmed and cannot break the page layout.
- Fixed bug: Certain notices could not be dismissed.
- Fixed bug: Word trimming didn't always trim correctly with HTML.
- Enhanced: Users can now override useragent sent with feed requests.
- Enhanced: Improvements to plugin updating system.
- Enhanced: Readme updated.
- Enhanced: "Open link behaviour" option's internal handling has been improved.
- Fixed bug: Interface methods used to conflict, causing fatal error on activation.
- Fixed bug: Empty feed response used to cause misleading error message in log.
- Enhanced: Visual improvements.
- Enhanced: Included new Object Oriented code.
- Fixed bug: Some exceptions used to cause fatal errors.
- Fixed bug: Requests made by image caching used to always have an infinite timeout.
- Fixed bug: Licensing algorithm used to use constants of inactive plugins, causing fatal error.
- Enhanced: Major licensing system improvements.
- Fixed bug: Licensing notices will now be displayed again.
- Enhanced: Added autoloading and refactored licensing.
- Enhanced: Added button to download error log.
- Enhanced: Cosmetic changes and fixes.
- Fixed bug: Sticky posts no longer get deleted when truncating, unless imported from a feed source.
- Enhanced: Optimized checking for plugin updates.
- Enhanced: Feeds that fail to validate due to whitespace at the beginning are now supported by the plugin.
- Fixed bug: Undefined variables in the System Info section in the Debugging page.
- Fixed bug: Add-on license expiration notices could not be dismissed.
- Enhanced: Licensing errors will be output to debug log.
- Enhanced: Improved compatibility with plugins that allow AJAX searching in the backend.
- Fixed bug: error related to undefined
ajaxurlJS variable gone from frontend.
- Usage tracking now disabled.
- Requirement: WordPress 4.0 or greater now required.
- Fixed bug in image caching
- Fixed bug in admin interface due to incorrectly translated IDs
- Core now implements an image cache logic.
- Russian translation added.
- Google Alerts permalinks are now normalized.
- Enhanced: Add-ons on the "Add-ons" page now have an installed-but-inactive status.
- Fixed bug: Inline help (tooltips) translations now work.
- Fixed bug: Link to the Feed to Post add-on on the welcome page is no longer broken.
- Enhanced: Copyright updated.
- Fixed bug: Word trimming no longer adds extra closing tags at the end.
- Fixed bug: Presence of
idna_convertclass no longer causes infinite redirects on some servers. - Fixed bug: Warning of unterminated comment no longer thrown in PHP 5.5.
- Fixed bug: Added default value for "Unique Titles" option.
- Fixed bug: Having a the port number specified with the database host no longer causes issues with the
mysqliadapter in System Info on some servers. - Fixed bug: Nested options of inline help controller no longer cause a fatal error.
- Fixed bug: Notices will no longer be displayed during rendering of feed items due to absence of required default values.
- Fixed bug: No warning will be thrown when fetching feeds.
- Optionally import only items with titles that don't already exist.
- Added support for multibyte strings in some places.
- Enhanced: Accessing feeds over HTTPS is now possible.
- Enhanced: Increased JS compatibility with other plugins.
- Enhanced: Increased UI support for mobile devices.
- Fixed bug: Having no mysqli extension no longer causes an error to appear in the debug info.
- Fixed bug: Saving an empty license key no longer results in a warning.
- Fixed bug: The "Force feed" option wasn't being correctly used.
- Fixed bug: The "Force feed" option was being removed by the Feed to Post add-on.
- Enhanced: The Help page now includes a support form if a premium add-on is detected.
- Enhanced: Updated some translations for admin options.
- Fixed bug: Help tooltips are now optimized for iPad screens.
- Fixed bug: Errors on the licensing page when a license code has not yet been entered.
- Markdown library added. Changelog now read from readme.
- Enhanced: AJAX license activation.
- Enhanced: License form more reliable.
- Enhanced: license-related UI improvements
- Fixed bug: Saving license keys not longer triggers error in some cases.
- Enhanced: Admin user will now be warned about invalid or expiring licenses.
- Enhanced: Admin notices logic centralized in this plugin.
- Fixed: Multiple small-scale security vulnerabilities.
- Fixed: Ampersand in feed URL no longer causes the product of generated feeds to be invalidated by W3C Validator.
- Enhanced: Added more logging during feed importing.
- Enhanced: Irrelevent metaboxes added by other plugins are now removed from the Add/Edit Feed Source page.
- Fixed bug: Valid feed URLS were being invalidated.
- Fixed bug: The Blacklist feature was being hidden when the Feed to Post add-on was enabled.
- Fixed bug: Patched a vulnerability where any user on the site can issue a feed fetch.
- Fixed bug: The "Activate" and "Pause" actions are not shown in the bulk actions dropdown in WordPress v4.1.
- Enhanced: Some minor interface updates.
- Enhanced: Added filters for use by the premium add-ons.
- Added output layouts for feed sources and feed items.
- Added time limit extending to prevent script from exhausting its execution time limit while importing.
- Enhanced: Updated EDD updater class to version 1.5.
- Fixed bug: The "Delete and Re-import" button was deleting items but not re-importing.
- Fixed bug: Non-object errors when a feed source is deleted while importing.
- Enhanced: Improved the logging.
- Enhanced: Improved the licensing fields.
- Enhanced: Updated the EDD updater class to the latest version.
- Fixed bug: Small random error when viewing the licenses page.
- Enhanced: Added filters to the custom feed.
- Enhanced: Updated some styles to improve the user interface.
- Fixed bug: The "Remove selected from Blacklist" button had no nonce associated with it.
- Fixed bug: The Blacklist menu entry was not always being shown.
- Enhanced: Re-added the "Add New" link in the plugin's menu.
- Enhanced: Improved error logging.
- Enhanced: Bulk actions in the Feed Sources page are now also included in the bottom dropdown menu.
- Fixed bug: Add-on updater was prone to conflicts. Now enclosed in an action.
- Fixed bug: The Full Text RSS Feeds add-on was not showing as active in the "Add-ons" page.
- Fixed bug: Broken links in the "Add-ons" page, to add-on pages on our site.
- Added a new filter to modify the text shown before author names.
- Added better debug logging.
- Enhanced: Improved plugin responsiveness.
- Enhanced: Updated some help text in tooltips with better explainations and added clarity.
- Enhanced: Optimized some old SQL queries.
- Fixed bug: Licenses were not showing as active, even though they were activated.
- Enhanced: Improved internationalization in the plugin, for better translations.
- Fixed bug: If the feed source age limit was left empty, the global setting was used instead of ignoring the limit.
- Enhanced: Improved the user interface, with better responsiveness and tooltips.
- Enhanced: Removes the ID column. The ID is now shown fixed in row actions.
- Enhanced: Feed Preview indicates if feed items have no dates.
- Fixed bug: If a feed item has no date, the date and time it was imported is used.
- Added filter to allow adding RSS feeds to the head of your site's pages for CPTs.
- Enhanced: Columns in the feed sources table are now sortable.
- Enhanced: Removed the ID column in the feed sources table. The ID has been moved as a row action.
- Enhanced: Improved various interface elements.
- Enhanced: Better responsiveness for smaller screen.
- Fixed bug: The importing spinning icon would get stuck and spin for a very long time.
- Fixed bug: Removed an old description meta field.
- Fixed bug: Plugin was not removing all scheduled cron jobs when deactivated.
- Enhanced: Optimized plugin for WordPress 4.0.
- Enhanced: Improved template and added filters for add-on hooking.
- Fixed bug: Editor toolbar visible over the WP RSS shortcode dialog.
- Fixed bug: Last import feed item count stays at zero.
- Fixed bug: Datetime::setTimestamp error when using PHP 5.2 or earlier.
- Fixed bug: The display limit was not working.
- Fixed bug: Minor bug in licensing.
- New Feature: Bulk importer allows you to create multiple feed sources at once.
- Enhanced: Improved OPML importer with added hooks.
- Enhanced: Centralized add-on licensing, fixing multiple bugs.
- Fixed bug: Undefined
feed_limiterrors when using the shortcode.
- Fixed bug: Errors when using older PHP versions 5.3 or lower.
- Fixed bug: Errors when using older PHP versions 5.3 or lower.
- Fixed bug: Errors when using older PHP versions 5.3 or lower.
- Enhanced: Various improvements to the plugin interface and texts.
- Enhanced: Moved the restore default settings button farther down the Debugging page, to avoid confusion with the delete button.
- Fixed bug: Feed item dates were not being adjusted to the timezone when using a GMT offset.
- Fixed bug: Feed item dates are now adjusted according to daylight savings time.
- Blacklist - delete items and blacklist them to never import them again.
- Enhanced: Added a button in the Debugging page to reset the plugin settings to default.
- Enhanced: WordPress Yoast SEO metaboxes and custom columns will no longer appear.
- Enhanced: Better wording on settings page.
- Fixed bug: The Links Behaviour option in the settings was not working.
- Fixed bug: The wrong feed items were being shown for some sources when using the "View Items" row action.
- New Feature: Feed items now also import authors.
- Enhanced: Custom feed is now in RSS 2.0 format.
- Enhanced: Improved the display template for feed items.
- Fixed bug: Custom feed was not working in Firefox.
- Fixed bug: Some feed items were showing items from another feed source.
- Fixed bug: The feed limit in the global settings was not working.
- Enhanced: Added an option to choose between the current pagination type, and numbered pagination.
- Enhanced: The Feed Preview now also shows the total number of items in the feed.
- Fixed bug: A PHP warning error was being shown in the System Info.
- Fixed bug: Language files were not always being referenced correctly.
- Fixed bug: Manually fetching a feed fails if the feed is scheduled to update in the next 10 minutes.
- Fixed bug: Bing RSS feeds were importing duplicates on every update.
- Enhanced: Facebook page feeds are now changed into RSS 2.0 feeds, rather than Atom 1.0 feeds.
- Enhanced: Improved live updating performace on the Feed Sources page.
- Enhanced: Feed Sources page is now more responsive.
- Can now view each feed source's imported feed items separate from other feed sources' feed items.
- Enhanced: Major visual update to the Feed Sources page with new live updates.
- Enhanced: The custom feed now includes the feed source.
- Fixed bug: Google News feeds were importing duplicate items on every update.
- Fixed bug: Multiple minor bug fixes with old filters.
- Fixed bug: Results returned by wprss_get_feed_items_for_source() will no longer be affected by filters.
- Fixed bug: Charset issue in titles
- Enhanced: The Feed Sources table now indicates which feed sources encountered errors during the last import.
- Fixed bug: Feed titles were not being decoded for HTML entities.
- Enhanced: Minor improvements to feed importing and handling.
- Fixed bug: HTML entities were not being decoded in feed item titles.
- Enhanced: Added a force feed option, for valid RSS feeds with incorrect header content types.
- Fixed bug: HTML entities in feed item titles are now being decoded.
- Enhanced: Improved the custom feed, by allowing a custom title.
- Enhanced: Improved shortcode, by adding the "pagination" parameter.
- Enhanced: Modified a filter to fix some bugs in the add-ons.
- Enhanced: Tracking notices only appear for admin users.
- Fixed bug: Auto Feed Discovery was not working.
- New Feature: Feed items can now link to enclosure links in the feed.
- Enhanced: Added a filter to allow add-ons to modify feed item queries.
- Enhanced: Added a filter to modify the feeds template.
- Fixed bug: Nested lists in feeds template.
- Fixed bug: Using the shortcode makes the comments section always open.
- Fixed bug: The plugin prevented uploading of header images.
- Fixed bug: Hook change in last version suspected reason for some installations having non-updated feed items.
- New Feature: Time ago added as an option.
- Enhanced: The plugin now allows the use of RSS and Atom feeds that do not specify the correct MIME type.
- Enhanced: Better performance due to better hook usage.
- Fixed bug: Facebook page feed URL conversion was not being triggered for new feed sources.
- Fixed bug: Styles fix for pagination.
- Fixed bug: Removed empty spaces in logging.
- Enhanced: Added Activate/Pause bulk actions in the Feed Sources page.
- Enhanced: Feed Sources page table has been re-designed.
- Enhanced: Logging is now site dependant on multisite.
- Fixed bug: Undefined display settings where appearing on the front end.
- Fixed bug: The general setting for deleting feed items by age was not working.
- Enhanced: Added a filter to change the html tags allowed in feed item content.
- Fixed bug: Empty array of feed items bug caused importing problems.
- Enhanced: Improved some internal queries, for better performance.
- Fixed bug: Feed limits were not working properly.
- Enhanced: The custom feed can now be extended by add-ons.
- Fixed bug: Removed excessive logging from Debugging Error Log.
- Fixed bug: Bug in admin-debugging.php causing trouble with admin login
- Enhanced: Added error logging.
- Enhanced: Added a feed validator link in the New/Edit Feed Sources page.
- Enhanced: The Next Update column also shows the time remaining for next update, for feed source on the global update interval.
- Enhanced: The custom feed has been improved, and is now identical to the feeds displayed with the shortcode.
- Enhanced: License notifications only appear on the main site when using WordPress multisite.
- Enhanced: Updated Colorbox script to 1.4.33
- Fixed bug: The Imported Items column was always showing zero.
- Fixed bug: Feed items not being imported with limit set to zero. Should be unlimited.
- Fixed bug: Fat header in Feed Sources page
- Enhanced: Added a column in the Feed Sources page that shows the number of feed items imported for each feed source.
- Fixed bug: Leaving the delete old feed items empty did not ignore the delete.
- Fixed bug: Fixed tracking pointer appearing on saving settings.
- Fixed bug: Incorrect file include call.
- Enhanced: Improved date and time handling for imported feed items.
- Fixed bug: Incorrect values being shown in the Feed Processing metabox.
- Fixed bug: Feed limits set to zero were causing feeds to not be imported.
- New Feature: Feed sources can have their own update interval.
- New Feature: The time remaining until the next update has been added to the Feed Source table.
- New Feature: Feed items can be limited and deleted by their age.
- Enhanced: Added utility functions for shorter filters.
- Fixed bug: License codes were being erased when add-ons were deactivated.
- Fixed bug: Some feed sources could not be set to active from the table controls.
- Fixed bug: str_pos errors appear when custom feed url is left empty.
- Fixed bug: Some options were producing undefined index errors.
- New Feature: State system - Feed sources can be activated/paused.
- New Feature: State system - Feed sources can be set to activate or pause themselves at a specific date and time.
- Enhanced: Added compatibility with nested outline elements in OPML files.
- Enhanced: Admin menu icon image will change into a Dashicon, when WordPress is updated to 3.8 (Decemeber 2013).
- Fixed bug: Custom Post types were breaking when the plugin is activated.
- Fixed bug: Missing 2nd argument for wprss_shorten_title()
- New Feature: Can set the maximum length for titles. Long titles get trimmed.
- Fixed bug: Fixed errors with undefined indexes for unchecked checkboxes in the settings page.
- Fixed bug: Pagination on front static page was not working.
- Fixed bug: Invalid feed source url was producing an Undefined method notice.
- Fixed bug: Custom feed was producing a 404 page.
- Fixed bug: Presstrends code firing on admin_init, opt-in implementation coming soon
- Enhanced: Increased compatibility with RSS sources.
- Fixed bug: Pagination not working on home page
- New Feature: Can delete feed items for a particular source
- Enhanced: the 'Fetch feed items' row action for feed sources resets itself after 3.5 seconds.
- Enhanced: The feed image is saved for each url.
- Fixed bug: Link to source now links to correct url. Previously linked to site's feed.
- Enhanced: Added more hooks to debugging page for the Feed to Post add-on.
- Fixed bug: Uninitialized loop index
- Bug Fix: Feed items were not being imported while the WPML plugin was active.
- New feature: Pagination
- New feature: First implementation of editor button for easy shortcode creation
- Enhanced: Feed items and sources don't show up in link manager
- Enhanced: Included Presstrends code for plugin usage monitoring
- Added suppress_filters in feed-display.php to prevent a user reported error
- Removed anonymous functions for backwards PHP compatibility
- Missing
- in certain feed displays
- Enhanced: Added some hooks for Feed to Post compatibility
- Enhanced: Moved date settings to a more appropriate location
- Fixed Bug: Minor issue with options page - PHP notice
- New Feature: Saving/Updating a feed source triggers an update for that source's feed items.
- New Feature: Option to change Youtube, Vimeo and Dailymotion feed item URLs to embedded video players URLs
- New Feature: Facebook Pages URLs are automatically detected and changed into Atom Feed URLs using FB's Graph
- Enhanced: Updated jQuery Colorbox library to 1.4.29
- Fixed Bug: Some settings did not have a default value set, and were throwing an 'Undefined Index' error
- Fixed Bug: Admin notices do not disappear immediately when dismissed.
- Fixed bug: Better function handling on uninstall, should remove uninstall issues
- New feature: Added exclude parameter to shortcode
- Enhanced: Added metabox links to documentation and add-ons
- Fixed bug: Custom feed linking to post on user site rather than original source
- Fixed bug: Custom post types issues when activitating the plugin
- Fixed Bug: Roles and Capabilities file had not been included
- Fixed Bug: Error on install, function not found
- New feature: OPML importer
- New feature: Feed item limits for individual Feed Sources
- New feature: Custom feed URL
- New feature: Feed limit on custom feed
- New feature: New 'Fetch feed items' action for each Feed Source in listing display
- New feature: Option to enable link to source
- Enhanced: Date strings now change according to locale being used (i.e. compatible with WPML)
- Enhanced: Capabilities implemented
- Enhanced: Feed Sources row action 'View' removed
- Fixed Bug: Proxy feed URLs resulting in the permalink: example.com/url
- New feature: Parameter to limit number of feeds displayed
- New feature: Paramter to limit feeds displayed to particular sources (via ID)
- Enhanced: Better feed import handling to handle large number of feed sources
- Fixed bug: Incompatibility with some other plugins due to function missing namespace
- New feature: Option to set the number of feed items imported from every feed (default 5)
- New feature: Import and Export aggregator settings and feed sources
- New feature: Debugging page allowing manual feed refresh and feed reset
- Enhanced: Faster handling of restoring sources from trash when feed limit is 0
- Fixed bug: Limiter on number of overall feeds stored not working
- Fixed bug: Incompatibility issue with Foobox plugin fixed
- Fixed bug: Duplicate feeds sometimes imported
- New feature: Option to select cron frequency
- New feature: Code extensibility added to be compatible with add-ons
- New feature: Option to set a limit to the number of feeds stored (previously 50, hard coded)
- New feature: Option to define the format of the date shown below each feed item
- New feature: Option to show or hide source of feed item
- New feature: Option to show or hide publish date of feed item
- New feature: Option to set text preceding publish date
- New feature: Option to set text preceding source of feed item
- New feature: Option to link title or not
- New feature: Limit of 5 items imported for each source instead of 10
- Requires: WordPress 3.3
- Enhanced: Performance improvement when publishing * New feeds in admin
- Enhanced: Query tuning for better performance
- Enhanced: Major code rewrite, refactoring and inclusion of hooks
- Enhanced: Updated Colorbox to v1.4.1
- Enhanced: Better security implementations
- Enhanced: Better feed preview display
- Fixed bug: Deletion of items upon source deletion not working properly
- Tab navigation preventing typing in input boxes
- Feeds showing up in internal linking pop up
- Feeds showing up in site search results
- Enhanced: Better tab button navigation when adding a new feed
- Enhanced: Better guidance when a feed URL is invalid
- Fixed bug: wprss_feed_source_order assumes everyone is an admin
- Italian translation added
- Feed source order changed to alphabetical
- Fixed bug - repeated entries when having a non-valid feed source
- Fixed bug - all imported feeds deleted upon trashing a single feed source
- Fixed bug with date string
- Fixed $link_before and $link_after, now working
- Added backwards compatibility for wp_rss_aggregator() function
- Limit of 15 items max imported for each source
- Added install and upgrade functions
- Added DB version setting
- Feeds now fetched via Cron
- Cron job to delete old feed items, keeps max of 50 items in DB
- Ability to limit total number of feeds displayed
- Feed source list sortable ascending or descending by name
- Now requires WordPress 3.2
- Bulk of code rewritten and refactored
- Updated colorbox to v1.3.20.1
- Feed sources now stored as Custom Post Types
- Removed days subsections in feed display
- Fixed issue of page content displaying incorrectly after feeds
- Added top level menu
- Added settings section
- Ability to open in lightbox, new window or default browser behaviour
- Ability to set links as follow or no follow
- Now requires WordPress 3.0
- More flexible fetching of images directory
- Code refactoring
- Changes in file and folder structure
- Using constants for oftenly used locations
- Initial release.