Serious Slider

1.3.1

Release date – 2026.04.03

• Fixed slides buttons missing in 1.3.0 due to a typo
• Fixed broken ‘slide’ transition animation in 1.3.0 due to over-sanitized styling
• Fixed slider styling not being instance-specific and last styling applying to all instances placed on the same page

1.3.0

Release date – 2026.03.12

• Fixed insufficient permissions check in slide image handling code allowing users with at least subscriber level access to delete images from slider – reported by Legion Hunter to patchstack.com and kr0d to Wordfence
• Rewrote initialization to resolve the ‘_load_textdomain_just_in_time() was called incorrectly’ notice introduced by WordPress 6.7
• Hardened permissions checks in functions handling sliders configuration parameters
• Improved sanitization and escaping according to the Plugin Check (PCP) recommendations
• Improved slider generation workflow to reset form after dynamic creation
• Improved performance by loading scripts in footer
• Fixed jQuery.isFunction() and jQuery.fn.bind() deprecation notices
• Tested for compatibility with WordPress 6.9
• Bumped required PHP version to 7.0

1.2.7

Release date – 2024.11.16

• Fixed insufficient sanitization on shortcode parameters to address an XSS vulnerability that could be exploited by a malicious user with at least contributor level access – reported by Bob from WPScan
• Confirmed compatibility with PHP 8.3

1.2.6

Release date – 2024.10.24

• Fixed over-sanitization of ‘base font size’ value filtering out float numeric values
• Fixed PHP 8.3 deprecation warnings: ‘creation of dynamic property’ and ‘using ${var} in strings, use {$var} instead’
• Tested with WordPress 6.6

1.2.5

Release date – 2024.06.09

• Added sanitization and additional existent content check to address CSRF vulnerability in sample slider generation – reported by Steven Julian to patchstack.com
• Strengthened sanitization to address CSRF vulnerability in slider option fields – also reported by Steven Julian to patchstack.com
• Added extra format check for malformed numbers in shortcode attributes
• Incresed the number of supported caption buttons to 4
• Fixed deprecation warning about jQuery.fn.bind()
• Confirmed compatibility with PHP 8.2

1.2.4

Release date – 2022.12.09

• Fixed slide meta options not getting saved or updated with WordPress 6+

1.2.3

Release date – 2022.01.02

• Added configurable slider shadow effect
• Improved usability of the “Add new slider” functionality
• Fixed incorrect RTL behaviour of next/previous slider buttons
• Fixed notice displayed on frontent when running on PHP 8.0+

1.2.2

Release date – 2021.04.28

• Fixed jQuery.mobile enqueued with the wrong URL since 1.2.1 on older WordPress releases
• Fixed some deprecation notices about jQuery.fn.bind() with WordPress 5.7

1.2.1

Release date – 2021.03.06

• Updated bundled jQuery-Mobile to 1.5-rc for WordPress 5.6+ without jQuery-Migrate and fixed JavaScript errors
• Fixed panels overlapping on smaller screens on the edit slider screen
• Fixed ‘forced’ size mode responsiveness to remove unwanted gap under the slider

1.2.0

Release date – 2020.06.03

• Added the third ‘forced’ images size mode for sliders
• Added forced support for Polylang multilingual plugin
• Added privacy policy info
• Updated plugin dashboard menu icon
• Fixed ‘cryout_serious_slider_buttoncount’ filter
• Fixed ‘Deprecated: media_buttons_context’ notice

1.1.1

• Added option to disable slider transitions autoplay
• Added option to hide slider captions
• Changed slider caption title from using h3 to div tag
• Fixed ‘hidden’ option not working to navigation indicators
• Fixed navigation indicators misalligned on IE 11 with some styles
• Fixed caption going too wide on ‘Caption Left’ style with large captions
• Fixed typo in no sliders hint
• Fixed create_function() deprecation usage notifications in widgets.php with PHP 7.2+
• Fixed slider image responsiveness position on RTL

1.1.0

• Improved slider responsiveness under 640px and 480px breakpoints
• Improved new slider interface in ‘Manage Sliders’ screen
• Added ‘random’ sort option in slider options
• Fixed larger images overflowing slider container when using the ‘Adapt to images’ mode
• Fixed styling overlaps from themes on the dark, tall and caption- styles
• Fixed background color text style option no longer applying since 1.0.4

1.0.5

• Small styling fix to remove an erroneous bottom margin
• Cleaned up some leftover dev code

1.0.4

• Added responsiveness option to choose between the new responsiveness mode and the pre-1.0 behaviour
• Fixed slider multi-swipe issue on mobile devices
• Restored paragraph support in slider captions (and added the necessary styling)
• Added info message when slider button is used with Text editor
• Minified custom styling added to the footer
• Slightly improved accessibility

1.0.3

• Fixed slider indicators being left aligned in Webkit browsers
• Tweaked and re-checked all slider styles

1.0.2

• Fixed shortcode attributes filter in wrong location and not working
• Fixed slider missing indicators when ‘cryout theme’ style is used
• Fixed slider description field being visible when HTML descriptions are enabled
• Improved ‘manage slider’ section appearance and responsiveness

1.0.1

• Fixed notice of undefined function call in shortcodes.php
• Updated info on plugin about page

1.0.0

• Added 4 new design styles (Square, Tall, Caption Left & Caption Bottom)
• Totally revamped design of existing styles (Light, Dark, Bootstrap & Cryout)
• Added slider buttons with up to 2 buttons per slide (with customizable label and link); removed in-caption links styling
• Added caption alignment and caption max-width options
• Added caption text styling option
• Added accent color option
• Added caption animation option with 4 effects
• Added quick image management (add/change/remove) in the slides list section
• Added ‘orderby’, ‘hidecaption’, ‘hidetitle’ slider shortcode parameters
• Updated caption markup for compatibility with our Kahuna and Anima themes built-in styling
• Several minor tweaks:
  • link to slides management in the slider section, added ‘Insert Slider’ button next to ‘Insert Media’;
  • moved toolbar button to secondary TinyMCE Editor row;
  • updated plugin info and links;
  • new banner and icon images;
  • added missing ‘no sliders’ message;

0.6.5

• Added ‘shortcode’ column in sliders list
• Fixed animation hiccup on some versions of Safari
• Fixed slider bullets alignment
• Fixed unclosed label in widget HTML markup
• Changed class initialization hook to ‘setup_theme’

0.6.4

• Added check to hide caption titles and text when they are not defined
• Fixed widget slider no longer displaying slider output buffering shortcode in 0.6.1
• Improved styling to remove prev/next buttons border on some themes

0.6.3

• Fixed leftover debug output in 0.6.2

0.6.2

• Fixed slides links always opening in a new window

0.6.1

• Fixed extraneous slide/term fields being visible after double quick edit
• Fixed version information not updated in about page
• Fixed slide image not vertically center-aligned when image is narrower than screen
• Improved slider captions responsiveness
• Fixed slider being displayed at top of content due to improper outputting (also separated inline script and moved to footer enqueue)
• Removed some log messages that would appear in the browser’s console
• Fixed overslide, underslide and parallax transitions functionality on 3D-enabled browsers

0.6

• Enabled quick-edit functionality on the sliders
• Fixed slider query overlapping WordPress query in specific usage scenarios (thanks to webdragon)
• Limited dashboard resource loading only to plugin’s sections
• Fixed multiple instances of the same slider missing styling after moving inline styling to footer in 0.5.1
• Added extra taxonomy hook for support in Cryout themes
• Fixed animation glitch on Fluida theme

0.5.1

• Moved inline styling to footer
• Fixed responsive styling issue on about page
• Added widget HTML wrapper for better compatibility with themes
• Added get_sliders_list() function for custom theme integration
• Improved ‘No slides’ message to link to slider management / sample slider loader.
• Corrected slider selection label in slider metabox
• Corrected insert slider window to display ‘no slider available’ message when there are no sliders
• Fixed missing closing bracked in template code example
• Fixed slider image tag to only be outputted when an image was defined
• Improved contrained slider layout
• Fixed missing insert slider icon in TinyMCE editor

0.5

• Initial release.