Snippet Shortcodes

5.1.3

• Maintenance: Updated and tested to WP version 6.9.4.

5.1.2

• Improvement: Updated links to the GitBook documentation website https://yeken.gitbook.io/snippet-shortcodes

5.1.1

• New Feature: Added a new button on plugin help page to allow the plugin database tables to be checked and fixed if required.

5.1

• New Feature: Added the ability to state whether your shortcode should be displayed on mobile, desktop, tablet or all three.
• New Feature: Added the ability to specify whether your shortcode should automatically be injected into your header or footer.
• Improvement: Only show multisite options if plugin is actually installed on a multisite
• Bug fix: Ensured the multisite version of a shortcode is correctly deleted when the shortcode is deleted locally.

5.0.1

• Improvement: Latest version number of Premium plugin is now fetched from the release manifest rather than hardcoded into the plugin.
• Improvement: Only reach out to YeKen servers for update notices once a day, rather than hourly.
• Bug fix: Corrected issue where each page call would look for update message from Yeken.

5.0

• New feature: A new HTML Editor when adding/editing your own shortcodes.
• Change: Premium features have been moved to a separate plugin (in accordance with WordPress rules). Please download and activate Snippet Shortcodes – Premium
• Change: Simplified slugs for premade shortcodes by dropping the prefix “sc-” e.g. “sc-php-get-value” is now “php-get-value”.
• Improvement: Added “Copy to clipboard” button to the shortcode list page.
• Improvement: Added new plugin icon to WP Admin Menu and WP Editor.
• Improvement: Added tooltips to the admin interfaces (these can be disabled in settings).
• Improvement: Plugin JS, CSS and other assets are only loaded on Shortcode Snippet admin pages (rather than any admin page).
• Improvement: Updated Fontawesome library and moved from CDN to self hosted (e.g. dependencies are now included in the plugin).
• Improvement: Various UI tweaks.
• Improvement: Added various hooks.
• Bug fix: Fixed an issue where button “Add” button was not resetting correctly after a failed attempt to add a shortcode.
• Bug fix: Refreshing the shortcode list after saving a shortcode won’t cause an error message to be displayed.

4.2.5

• Bug fix: In some instances, slug couldn’t be specified when not a Premium user.

4.2.4

• Change: Updated Readme.txt.

4.2.3

• Improvement: All shortcodes are now editable even if there is no premium license. Previously only the top 10 shortcodes could be edited.
• Improvement: Display update messages from Yeken.uk in Admin notices.
• Change: Slugs can no longer be changed if not in Premium.
• Bug fix: Fixed issues where save notifications etc appeared incorrectly within title boxes.

4.2.2

• Version bump for WP 6.8 compatibility.

4.2

• New feature: Added Premium shortcode for displaying WooCommerce user fields. Read more: https://yeken.gitbook.io/snippet-shortcodes/features/ready-made/premium/woocommerce-meta-fields
• New feature: Added Premium shortcode for displaying WordPress meta fields. Read more: https://yeken.gitbook.io/snippet-shortcodes/features/ready-made/premium/wordpress-user-fields

4.1.7

• Improvement: Added additional security checks to Ajax handlers.

4.1.6

• New Feature: Extended [sv slug=”sc-db-value-by-id”] shortcode to include the new argument “key-query-string”. This allows a key to be read from the matching querystring value. Read more: https://yeken.gitbook.io/snippet-shortcodes/features/ready-made/premium/database-values-by-id

4.1.5

• Maintenance: Added a nonce to the main admin Add/Edit UI screen. Although the form was on an admin screen and not exposed to the public, it doesn’t hurt to add a nonce as well. Thanks Benedictus Jovan (aillesiM).

4.1.4

• Maintenance: Updated tested with WP 6.5 note.

4.1.3

• Bug fix: Fixed incorrect reference to ws_ls_to_bool() with sh_cd_to_bool()

4.1.2

• Improvement: By default, the shortcode [sv slug=”sc-db-value-by-id”] shall be disabled unless explicitly enabled in WP Admin.
• Improvement: Added the setting ””sc-db-value-by-id” shortcode enabled?’ to enable the shortcode [sv slug=”sc-db-value-by-id”].
• Improvement: Added filter “disable-ss-sc-db-value-by-id” to hard disable the shortcode [sv slug=”sc-db-value-by-id”].

4.1.1

• Improvement: Dropped the database table prefix from the shortcode [sv slug=”sc-db-value-by-id”] e.g. instead of specifying “users” table, it would now be “wp_users” (i.e. if a WP table, specify the prefix)

4.1

• New Feature: New Premium shortcode for fetching a value from a MySQL table, [sv slug=”sc-db-value-by-id”]. Read more: https://yeken.gitbook.io/snippet-shortcodes/features/ready-made/premium/database-values-by-id

4.0.4

• Bug fix: Added extra error handling around no multisite tags.

4.0.3

• Updated “Tested upto” statement.

4.0.2

• Tested up to version 6.0.

4.0.1

• Updated “Tested upto” WP version.

4.0

• New feature: Bulk import of shortcodes via CSV.
• New feature: Quick Add shortcodes without having to open the editor and wait for page refreshes.
• Improvement: Shortcodes can be deleted via Ajax on the list page. This saves waiting for a page refresh.
• Improvement: Added “loading” animations on relevant UI elements.
• Improvement: General code refactoring.
• Bug fix: Allowed text in JS files to be correctly localised.

3.5.4

• Updated version WP compatibility statement.

3.5.3

• Updated version WP compatibility statement.

3.5.2

• Version bump.

3.5.1

• Bug fix: Corrected documentation and GitHub issue links.
• Added a little text about emailing in suggestions.

3.5

• New Feature: New settings page.
• New Feature: Allow authors and editors to view and edit your shortcodes.

3.4.1

• Bug fix: Fixed issue with saving.

3.4

• Improvement: Cosmetic tweaks to shortcode list table.
• Bug fix: Fixed an issue where license price wasn’t being displayed correctly.
• Change: Updated links to new documentation website: https://snippet-shortcodes.yeken.uk/
• Change: Free users are now limited to 15 shortcodes.
• Change: Tweaked Upgrade URL and default price.

3.3.3

• Updated “Tested upto” statement within readme.txt.

3.3.2

• Renamed plugin to Snippet Shortcodes!

3.3.1

• Updated tested upto version for 5.6

3.3

• Improvement: Removed “Your shortcode has been saved” confirmation page.

3.2.1

• Readme tweaks.

3.2

• New Shortcode: “sc-user-profile-photo” – display the current user’s profile photo.

3.1.1

• Updated compatibility version number.

3.1

• New Shortcode: “sc-site-current-url” – get the current URL.
• New Shortcode: “sc-site-register-url” – get the URL for the WordPress registration page.
• Improvement: Added localised strings so plugin can now be translated.
• Improvement: Licenses are now checked daily and on each upgrade to ensure they are still valid.
• Bug fix: Missing array element throwing error on shortcode listing page.
• Bug fix: PHP warning being thrown on license page when one hasn’t been added.
• Bug fix: Always create multisite database table regardless.

3.0.4

• Improvement: Fetch license price from YeKen API

3.0.3

• Bug fix: Removed debug data altogether as causing unintended behaviour.

3.0.2

• Bug fix: Only display HTML caching comment on pages / posts. Currently rendering on things like AJAX responses and causing unintended behaviour.

3.0.1

• Bug fix: Fix error being thrown when not a multi site and DB table missing.

3.0

• Improvement: Support for multi-site variables.
• Improvement: Replace shortcodes within menu titles.

2.4.1

• Bug fix: fixed save_result undeclared variable error.

2.4

• New Feature: Added a button to the WordPress text editor (classic mode) to allow users to easily insert shortcodes.
• New Fetaure: Added a new shortcode sc-date. Allows you to do render today’s date and add or subtract days, months and years.

2.3

• Improvement: sc-user-counts – Display a count of all WordPress users or the number of WordPress users for a given role e.g. [sv slug=”sc-user-counts” role=”subscriber”] or [sv slug=”sc-user-counts”].

2.2.1

• Bug fix: Fixed issue with clone.

2.2

• Improvement: Slugs can now be edited.

2.1

• New Feature: Added the ability to clone your own shortcodes.

2.0.1

• Bug fix: Fixed broken menu

2.0

• New Feature: Added additional premium shortcodes.
• New Feature: Inline editing of shortcodes from the main list screen.
• New Feature: Able to disable / enable shortcodes from shortcode list.
• Improvement: Refactoring and optimisation of the entire plugin code.
• Improvement: Added Fooicons.
• Improvement: Added simple form validation when adding a record.

1.8

• Improvement: Added escaping for premade shortcodes.
• Improvement: Added new shortcode “sc-privacy-url” for rendering Privacy URL link.

1.7.4

– Version and readme.txt updated to reflect 4.8 compatibility.

1.7.3

– BUG FIX: On the very first load of a variable it would return nothing. This was due to a bug in the code. The first load would display nothing to the user, however it would cache the shortcode correctly. Upon the next visit, the shortcode would render correctly!

1.7.2

– When creating a new shortcode, “Disabled” is set by default to “No”.
– Additional upgrade check added. This compares the previously stored version number against the new version number. If there is a difference, it will run the DB table check again.

1.7.1

– BUG FIX: Tweak made to “on activate” so the code required to change the relevant database tables is called correctly.

1.7

– Disable a variable. You can now disable a variable via the admin panel – if a shortcode is disabled nothing will be rendered in it’s place (will remove the shortcode though).

1.6.1

– BUG FIX: Array declaration caused 500 error on non PHP 7

1.6

– Now supports custom parameters. You can now add parameters when inserting a shortcode and specify where in the shortcode those parameters should appear.
– BUG FIX: Removed a stray var_dump()

1.5.1

• BUG FIX: “Add new” link for message “You haven’t created any shortcodes yet.” wasn’t working correctly
• BUG FIX: Typo – “Shotcodes” instead of “Shortcodes” on “Your Shortcodes” page

1.5

• Added a shorter shortcode slug. So, instead of [shortcode-variables slug=”your-slug-name”] you can also use [s-var slug=”your-slug-name”]
• BUG FIX: Some pre-made shortcodes weren’t being rendered in the correct place. Fixed.

1.4

• Added the new pre-made shortcodes:
  • sc-login-page – WordPress login page. Add the parameter “redirect” to specify where the user is taken after a successful login e.g. redirect=”http://www.google.co.uk”.
  • sc-username – Display the logged in username.
  • sc-user-id – Display the current user’s ID
  • sc-user-ip – Display the current user’s IP address.
  • sc-user-email – Display the current user’s email address.
  • sc-username – Display the current user’s username.
  • sc-first-name – Display the current user’s first name.
  • sc-last-name – Display the current user’s last name.
  • sc-display-name – Display the current user’s display name.
  • sc-user-agent – Display the current user’s user agent
• BUG FIX: Deleting a shortcode from cache when deleted from Admin panel. This stops it getting rendered when removed from the plugin.

1.3.1

• Added some messages to encourage people to suggest premade tags.
• Added version numbers. These are stored in DB to aid future upgrades.

1.3

This was a dummy release to fix an SVN issue with the 1.2 release!

1.2

• Added Premade shortcodes and framework to add additional ones
• Added Top Level menu item to support two sub pages. One for user defined shortcodes and another for premade shortcodes.

1.1

• Added caching to SQL queries. Therefore making shortcode rendering faster and reduce load on mySQL.
• TinyMCE editor for editing shortcode content.
• You can now specify other shortcodes within your Snippet Shortcodes.
• Readme.txt fixes

1.0

• Initial Release