ThirstyAffiliates – Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking & Marketing Plugin

3.12.0

• Cleaned up plugin design and pro messaging
• Added setting to disable ThirstyPay
• Tweaked design of Reports page
• Change the order of menu items putting more used items close to the top

3.11.10

• Minor security fix

3.11.9

• Security hardening in Shortcode

3.11.8

• Fix regression against old versions of the Pro plugin

3.11.7

• Fix in plugin messaging bug

3.11.6

• Updated Growth Tools
• Properly handle media file deletion
• Extended data not importing for new links
• Search columns include Slug and Destination URL
• Add slug column to Links listing table

3.11.5

• Transform tag to link in block content
• Add filter hook to Link Fixer link data (ta_link_fixer_link_data)
• Fix Growth Tools menu display

3.11.4

• Minor bugfixes

3.11.3

• New In-plugin Notifications Inbox
• Fix broken attachments

3.11.2

• Removed pause option from Customer Portal as Stripe has removed that feature
• Return if post_type query var is not set
• Fix Gutenberg Image block not showing on front-end

3.11.1

• Minor adjustments to the Onboarding Wizard and admin notices

3.11.0

• Added ThirstyPay™ Links
• Added Welcome Onboarding Wizard to help new users get started faster
• Fixed PHP 8.2+ compatibility issues
• Pro: Added Product Displays add-on

3.10.21

• Bug Fix: Link inserter not working on WP 6.4.

3.10.20

• Bug Fix: Scheduling of in-plugin notifications and how empty images are displayed within them.
• Bug Fix: MonsterInsights event tracking with Enhanced JS Redirect.
• Bug Fix: Autolinker not working correctly with WPML (only affects Pro users).

3.10.19

• Improvement: Add WPML compatibility for thirstylinks inserted via Gutenberg editor.
• Bug Fix: Add preventDefault() call back into Enhanced JS Redirect to fix issue with links opening in new tabs twice.

3.10.18

• Improvement: Allow links with query parameters to be matched in Link Scanner.
• Improvement: Allow default event action to run with Enhanced JS Redirect option enabled.

3.10.17

• Improvement: Separate link inserter into its own toolbar group within the Block Editor.
• Bug Fix: Duplicate day showing in Reports when clocks go back.

3.10.16

• Improvement: Excluded unnecessary development files from deployment.
• Bug Fix: Alt text not being added to TA Image block.

3.10.15

• Improvement: Added helpful footer links.

3.10.14

• Bug Fix: 500 errors when using Bot Crawler Blocker.

3.10.13

• Bug Fix: TA Link Inserter jumping to bottom of page on WP 6.1
• Bug Fix: Warning message being HTML escaped

3.10.12

• Bug Fix: PHP warning

3.10.11

• Bug Fix: Security fixes

3.10.10

• Bug Fix: Security fixes

3.10.9

• Bug Fix: Security fixes

3.10.8

• Bug Fix: Security fixes

3.10.7

• Bug Fix: Fatal error on PHP versions lower than 7.3

3.10.6

• Bug Fix: Security fixes

3.10.5

• Bug Fix: Security fixes

3.10.4

• Bug Fix: Inserting links not working for non-admins
• Bug Fix: Allow uppercase extensions in external image links
• Bug Fix: Fatal error in the stats trimmer on PHP8

3.10.3

• Bug Fix: User-specific language setting having no effect on plugin translations

3.10.2

• Bug Fix: TA Link buttons missing in the block editor in WP <5.6

3.10.1

• Bug Fix: Error with the classic editor in Firefox
• Bug Fix: Duplicate scheduled events queuing up
• Bug Fix: jQuery Migrate warnings
• Bug Fix: The inline link editor jumping around the page on WP 5.6
• Bug Fix: Review notice still showing after leaving review or dismissing

3.10.0

• Changed: Admin UI tweaks
• Bug Fix: Remove styles affecting WP core image block
• Bug Fix: Notice errors when Elementor is installed

3.9.4

• Bug Fix: Conflict with the SmartCrawl Pro plugin

3.9.3

• Improvement: Add an action hook before the enhanced JavaScript redirect
• Bug Fix: Security fix on the link attachment title

3.9.2

• Feature: Add X-Robots-Tag header to nofollow links
• Improvement: Add indexes to the plugin database columns
• Bug Fix: Fatal error activating the plugin on some WP timezones
• Bug Fix: Reports only showing results for 10 links

3.9.1

• Bug Fix: Incorrect client IP retrieved from HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR header
• Bug Fix: External images not working in TA Image block

3.9

• Bug Fix: Gutenberg Input affiliate link as shortcode should show the error to admin only
• Bug Fix: Convert to blocks converts images on posts as ThirstyAffiliates Image block
• Bug Fix: UTC-2 and UTC+11 Timezone produces Fatal Error when activating the plugin
• Bug Fix: TA button style for block editor changes in WP 5.2.1

3.8

• Bug Fix: The “convert to blocks” button is not working with Gutenberg

3.7

• Feature: ThirstyAffiliates “Affiliate Link Images” Gutenburg block
• Bug Fix: Editor/Author unable to access “Edit Post” when plugin visibility is set to enabled & plugin visibility settings are set to same role or higher (roles below it will be affected)

3.6

• Feature: Gutenberg integration with core blocks
• Bug Fix: Affiliate links with “Open In New Tab” not working correctly in Instgram’s in-app browser
• Bug Fix: Module settings still able to be accessed even if the module was disabled
• Bug Fix: Import/Export settings page could be accessed by non-administrator Dashboard users

3.5

• Improvement: Gutenberg compatibility: TA Buttons are not showing up anymore on Gutenberg classic editor
• Improvement: Gutenberg compatibility: TA buttons in wp editors present in metaboxes are not working properly.

3.4.0

• Feature: Support remotely hosted images attached to affiliate links
• Feature: Add Global value for the Redirect type setting in affiliate link editor
• Feature: Click Tracking: track device used
• Feature: Allow adding additional CSS classes
• Feature: Integration with Beaver Builder
• Feature: Integration with Elementor
• Feature: Post edit screen: When using Shortcode link insertion method show link with a special link formatting clickable to an edit screen
• Feature: Add category filter in Add Affiliate Link popup
• Improvement: Add a setting to allow people to turn off the robots.txt blocking
• Bug Fix: Link Fixer issue with query strings
• Bug Fix: Error: Cannot read property ‘replace’ of undefined
• Bug Fix: Query String issue with Enhanced JS redirect

3.3.7

• Bug Fix: Make htaccess bots blocker script optional for customers. turn off by default
• Bug Fix: noscript element is sent to ta_click_data_redirect AJAX as the keyword

3.3.6

• Bug Fix: Disable open new tab as a special case with Facebook Messenger browser which doesn’t support it

3.3.5

• Improvement: Show warning on slug edit to inform users about consequences of editing slug in regards to already inserted links
• Bug Fix: When Statistics module is disabled hide the Enhanced JS Redirect option
• Bug Fix: Uncaught type error on URL splitting in Link Fixer
• Bug Fix: Add jQuery to script dependency list for front end TA script

3.3.4

• Bug Fix: Saved report shows wrong graph lines placement

3.3.3

• Improvement: Block bots on stats recording process for non-apache servers
• Improvement: Remove report data query on page first load
• Improvement: Add settings for blocking bots
• Improvement: Ability to turn off IP address collection on stats (GDPR compliance)
• Improvement: Move “Enable Enhanced Javascript Redirect on Frontend” setting to Link Appearance tab
• Improvement: Code improvements
• Bug Fix: Improve reliability of link scanner
• Bug Fix: attachment page can be viewed with link prefix
• Bug Fix: Improve accuracy of link performance report

3.3.2

• Bug Fix: WP 4.9.6: The post editor won’t show TA buttons and shows a JS error

3.3.1

• Improvement: Add render function for URL input type on settings
• Improvement: Remove Save Changes button on Import/Export setting page
• Bug Fix: Can only click normal links once
• Bug Fix: Exporting CSV produces PHP notice: Undefined index: link_health_issue
• Bug Fix: Fix settings html markup wrapper

3.3.0

• Feature: Introduce Enhanced JS Redirect Feature
• Bug Fix: Link Fixer: When a link has been inserted with category in url, and it is removed in the backend, link won’t be detected
• Bug Fix: Link Fixer: make sure the fetched ID via url_to_postid function for a given link is of “thirstylink” post type

3.2.4

• Bug Fix: Issues with link fixer for sub-directory installs and with WPML translation

3.2.3

• Bug Fix: Uncloaker module sometimes stripping away query strings
• Bug Fix: Notice: Undefined variable error

3.2.2

• Improvement: Allow Force no-cache headers on 301 redirects
• Improvement: Minor codebase improvements
• Bug Fix: Affiliate link can redirect even with invalid category slug
• Bug Fix: Allow valid characters on the slug box pattern match

3.2.1

• Improvement: Set post type and taxonomy to non-public facing
• Improvement: Rename the Link Performance report to Link Overview
• Improvement: Improve codebase
• Bug Fix: Shortcode issue with WPML
• Bug Fix: Issue with inserting thirsty affiliate link into an existing image and hitting enter key right after
• Bug Fix: Affiliate link category pages are accessible on the front end

3.2.0

• Feature: Feature to determine what pages the current affiliate link is added to
• Feature: Hide currently attached images from the media box to avoid inserting duplicate image to a thirsty link
• Feature: Ability to set some link appearance settings on a per category level
• Feature: Add ta link picker on Text Editor Widget
• Feature: Ability to add link categories from the Quick Add form of the TA link picker
• Feature: Polylang Support
• Feature: WPML Support
• Improvement: Allow sorting of thirsty links on cpt listing by link category and other headers
• Improvement: Make settings page into a vertical orientation
• Improvement: Set default redirect type to 302
• Improvement: Tidy up code
• Bug Fix: Console errors on inserting image into a thirsty link
• Bug Fix: When editing the cloaked url, the final “/” character is not added back
• Bug Fix: Last 7 days link performance report graph is not accurate
• Bug Fix: Fix php notices on the log

3.1.3

• Improvement: Add a small “Edit” link on read only fields on the List view
• Bug Fix: When migrated, geolocation URLs still have the &. It needs to be changed to &

3.1.2

• Bug Fix: Fix link fixer script to detect links with either http or https protocol
• Bug Fix: If all modules requiring ta.js are off dequeue it
• Bug Fix: isThirstyLink should recognize root relative URLs and others
• Bug Fix: Thirstylink CPT publish status is translatable

3.1.1

• Bug Fix: Change reports content display method to use callback function instead
• Bug Fix: Update migration for new tracking script option for GCT module

3.1.0

• Feature: Add REST API support
• Feature: Automatically add link prefix in the robots.txt to prevent indexing
• Feature: Exclude known search engine bots from stats
• Feature: Trim stats table on a regular cron
• Improvement: Make sure the insert buttons in link picker popup stay in place
• Improvement: Readd the social links on the settings Help tab
• Improvement: Improve the save click data function
• Bug Fix: Link picker popup starts searching with only 1 character
• Bug Fix: Uncloaker should not HTML encode & ampersand characters
• Bug Fix: Authors and Editors cannot see the ThirstyAffiliates link picker button
• Bug Fix: Htaccess module removes the wrong .htaccess section
• Bug Fix: Various error messages for different user roles

3.0.3

• Bug Fix: Visual editor breaks on text widgets
• Bug Fix: Conflict with Shortcoder plugin
• Bug Fix: Tour keeps popping up

3.0.2

• Bug Fix: Link Fixer overrides existing CSS classes on the link
• Bug Fix: Link Fixer removes any query strings from the cloaked link
• Bug Fix: Properly handle special characters on the text in which the link is attached
• Bug Fix: Disabling link CSS and title globally won’t work with Link Fixer
• Bug Fix: Fix typo on search placeholder on editor
• Bug Fix: Conflict with OptimizePress theme

3.0.1

• Bug Fix: Link Fixer overrides existing CSS classes on the link
• Bug Fix: Delete all stats data of a link when its permanently deleted
• Bug Fix: Minor code fixes on data migration ( from V2 to V3 )
• Bug Fix: Properly escape destination urls

3.0.0

NOTE: 3.0.0 IS A MAJOR VERSION FULL REWRITE OF THE PLUGIN. WHILE WE HAVE DONE OUR BEST TO ENSURE A SMOOTH MIGRATION, WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU TEST ON A STAGING AREA IF POSSIBLE.

• Migration Assistant: Migrates your affiliate links to the new 3.0.0 standard on update
• Migration Assistant: You can also downgrade your affiliate links back to the old format if you downgrade back to version 2.
• Feature: Rewrote the entire plugin for massive improvements
• Feature: Implemented new data storage model
• Feature: Introduced modularization so parts of ThirstyAffiliates can be turned on/off
• Feature: New link picker that looks and works exactly like the standard link tool in WordPress
• Feature: New advanced link picker (press the cog icon on the link picker) for advanced searching and insertion modes (like image insertion)
• Feature: Choose your default link insertion mode (standard link or shortcode)
• Feature: Reworked the affiliate link edit screen for clarity
• Feature: Reworked the entire settings area for clarity
• Feature: Added additional link information on list view
• Feature: Introduced Link Fixer – a tool that automatically corrects old/outdated affiliate links on the front end
• Feature: Introduced uncloaking – lets you smartly uncloak links individually or based on their category, great for compatibility with stricter affiliate program terms (such as Amazon Associates Terms of Service)
• Feature: Introduced click tracking & basic reports
• Feature: Introduced keyboard shortcut commands
• Feature: Reworked the quick add button feature
• Feature: Added a plugin tour on activation
• … plus many other small improvements, tweaks and bug fixes. We hope you love it!