Webmention

Project and support maintained on github at pfefferle/wordpress-webmention.

5.7.0

• Fix blind SSRF vulnerability by using wp_safe_remote_get for author page and tools requests
• Fix undefined constant error in WP handler
• Fix double slash in avatar upload directory path
• Fix “Show avatars on Webmentions” setting having no effect
• Fix comment query to respect explicit type parameter

5.6.2

• Fix incorrect asset URL in admin enqueue
• Revert minimum WordPress version back to 6.2 for ClassicPress compatibility
• Bump @wordpress/components from 30.9.0 to 31.0.0

5.6.1

• Remove explicit require_once for Handler classes, rely on autoloader instead
• Add autoloader tests to verify Handler classes load correctly

5.6.0

• Fix undefined property warning in Item::__call magic method when accessing non-existent properties like category.
• Search Avatar Store if enabled for match before trying meta field. Disable updating meta field when side loading allowing for more flexibility.
• Fix editor plugin error on custom post types without custom-fields support.
• Add video/audio URL extraction as content fallback for webmentions without text content.
• Use registered comment type excerpt templates as fallback for reactions (likes, reposts, etc.).
• Fix array_merge() error when _embedded key is missing in WordPress API response.
• Fix fatal error when parsing invalid date strings in webmentions.
• Fix span tags inside anchor tags confusing WordPress auto-linking.
• Fix PHP warning for undefined array key comment_content when webmention has no content.
• Add uninstall method to clean up plugin options on deletion.
• Add webmention_form_submit_text filter to customize the “Ping me!” button text.
• Fix distorted emoji display when avatars are disabled in Discussion settings.
• Add basic styling for webmention form input and button elements.
• Fix PHP 8 TypeError in parse_post_json when JSON is invalid.

5.5.0

• Fix webmentions_disabled meta value not being deleted.
• Add webmention_show_facepile setting.

5.4.1

• Fix autoloader

5.4.0

• Update yoast/phpunit-polyfills requirement from ^2.0 to ^3.0
• Allow “Approve & Always Allow” only for Webmentions
• Check for missing format property
• Add single ClassicPress Unit Test
• Use readme.md as main readme
• Allow readme.md
• Add setting for avatar store
• Remove Webmention Dependence on Pings
• Bump @wordpress/components from 28.13.0 to 29.4.0
• Improve and simplify the plugin loader
• Finally implement async processing

5.3.3

• Load CSS also if comments are closed, because Webmentions ignore that setting
• Improve version() method

5.3.2

• Several small fixes

5.3.1

• Fix fatal error

5.3.0

• Fix facepiles for FSE themes
• Fix remote Delete
• Updated Readme and Assets

5.2.6

• Fix null reference to comment_parent

5.2.5

• Comment Walker was calling regular not html5 version of comment function when falling back.

5.2.4

• Fix fatal PHP error

5.2.3

• Fix pingback fallback (and happy birthday Matt https://ma.tt/2024/01/birthday-gift/)

5.2.2

• Improve fallback handling to avoid “Anonymous” as post author

5.2.1

• Fix issue where built in comment types were rejected

5.2.0

• Do not bypass the spam filters
• Support Source Update Notifications
• Add in experimental Avatar Store

5.1.9

• Replace comment_link only for Webmentions and only in the frontend

5.1.8

• Replace comment_link only for Webmentions that have a source

5.1.7

• Fix fatal error in WP parser

5.1.6

• Allow variable to be null.

5.1.5

• Bring back overflow option for facepile this time using the details tag
• Add html link discovery for finding WordPress REST API
• Load author page to find name/photo when only the URL is provided
• Fix timezone issue where times were not properly converted into website time
• Introduce webmentions_open function which determines if webmentions are open for a post. Currently a wrapper around pings_open
• Misc minor fixes

5.1.4

• Fixed: avoid enqueuing Webmention’s CSS stylesheet when it is not needed.
• Fixed: threaded comments support.
• Added: client URL validation.

5.1.3

• Fix timezone issue causes exception

5.1.2

• Remove built-in WordPress filtering in favor of plugin filtering of incoming webmentions.
• If content is long and type is a mention, try to use the summary or name insteasd of full content as the display.
• Fix issue where meta was overriding mf2
• Improve JSON-LD handler

5.1.1

• Several Parser/Handler fixes
• Remove unnecessary loading of comments.php
• Some Tool updates

5.1.0

• Add mf2 author migration
• Include spam and trash statuses for dupe check
• Update tests and make u-url attrib optional for post-type discovery
• Update dupe check
• Set created at time only for new comments
• Allow refreshing webmentions from the Bulk Actions menu
• Remove Gravatar Cache
• A lot of small improvements and fixes

5.0.0

• Complete rewrite of the codebase
• Introduce PHP namespaces
• New parser which will fallback on the WordPress REST API, JSON-LD, or HTML meta tags if Microformats are not sufficient to render a comment.
• New debugger/test tool for Webmention Parsing under Tools
• Webmentions are no longer stored as comment type mention, but as custom comment types
• New simplified presentation code, providing for optional custom templating in future

4.0.9

• Fix XSS issue

4.0.8

• Add onerror handling also for srcset ( props @florianbrinkmann for testing )

4.0.7

• Re-add onerror handling for broken images ( props @snarfed )

4.0.6

• Updated requirements

4.0.5

• Remov Webmention_Notification class until proper tested/used

4.0.4

• Update dependencies
• Fix WordPress warnings

4.0.3

• Move comment approve list and auto approve to the wp_allow_comment function called by the wp_new_comment function.
• Minor fix to avatar function to account for the fact comments have an empty comment type

4.0.2

• Cache in cases where stored avatar is a gravatar

4.0.1

• Show Webmention form only if pings_open
• Show Webmention form also if comments are disabled

4.0.0

• Add settings for enabling Webmention support by public post type
• Add setting for disabling sending media links…URLs attached to image, video, or audio tags
• Switch from sending Webmentions to all URLs in post content to only ones with proper HTML markup
• Support handling avatars if stored in meta
• Support serving a local anonymous avatar if no email and cache whether there is a gravatar for a definable period of time
• Store a Webmention protocol property in comment meta
• Do not show Webmention headers if URL does not support Webmentions
• Update Webmention meta template to use separate file which is shown on the edit comment screen
• Minimum PHP version bumped to 5.4. WordPress currently has a minimum of 5.6 but we support back to version 4.9
• For compatibility reasons, load a version of is_avatar_comment_type (introduced 5.1) and get_self_link (introduced 5.3) for use in this plugin
• Improve all settings and template forms ( props @tw2113 )

3.8.11

• Minor bug fix

3.8.10

• Always enable Webmentions on basis that using plugin means you want Webmentions instead of using default pingback setting
• Fix auto approve based on domain

3.8.9

• Small HTML template changes

3.8.8

• Added NodeInfo(2) support

3.8.7

• Fixed default value of webmention_avatars on the settings page

3.8.6

• Fixed default value of webmention_avatars

3.8.5

• Set correct default value for the “Show comment form” setting

3.8.4

• Store vouch property
• Preliminary vouch support disabled by default. As Vouch is experimental can only be enabled by adding define( ‘WEBMENTION_VOUCH’, true )

3.8.3

• Changed setting for avatar to consider null to be the same as yes

3.8.2

• Fixed PHP issue

3.8.1

• Updated GDPR text suggestion
• Fixed old settings links
• Made Webmention comment-form text customizable (#175)
• Better handling of wp_add_privacy_policy_content call

Thanks Sebastian Greger

3.8.0

• Added GDPR recommendation text
• Implemented help tab
• Form Improvements
• Domain allowlist
• Add avatar settings control
• Text improvements

Thanks Sebastian Greger, David Shanske and Chris Aldrich

3.7.0

• Added “threaded comments” support

3.6.0

• Send delete Webmentions
• Receive delete Webmentions

3.5.0

• Added nicer HTML views for non API calls
• Added german translations (thanks to @deponeWD)
• Be sure to disable the old webmention-for-comments plugin

3.4.1

• Add filter to allow setting of Webmention form text
• Move register settings to init due new default options not being set if admin only
• Add edit_webmention hook due comment array filtering
• Display Webmention Meta on Edit Comment page

3.4.0

• Added settings link
• Added link to Homepage Webmention page
• Enable pings for Homepage Webmentions

3.3.0

• Add setting for homepage mentions (thanks @dshanske)
• Remove deprecated functions due 4.8 release

3.2.1

• moved endpoint discovery to functions.php
• added missing i18n strings
• removed polyfill

3.2.0

• Enable option for page support
• Allow custom post types to declare support for Webmentions as a feature which will enable pings.
• Remove new meta properties from being added during preprocessing as these are added after Semantic Linkbacks Enhancement.
• Move new meta properties to being built into Webmention code
• Store Webmention source in comment meta but fall back to checking comment_author_url if not set.
• Store Webmention creation time in comment meta as comment time is overridden by Semantic Linkbacks allowing to determine if a comment has been modified.

3.1.1

• URLEncode/Decode source and target
• Webmention Comment Type now declares support for avatars
• Meta keys are now registered for webmention_target_url and webmention_target_fragment
• Target URL is stored instead of derived from the permalink to ensure permanance
• Target fragment is stored to support fragmentions. Can also suport comments when reply is to a comment.

3.1.0

• added page support (server and client)
• moved webmention_post_id filter to a global function (thanks @dshanske)
• fixed https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-for-entering-manual-pings-stays-on/
• fixed some typos

3.0.1

• Show endpoint discovery on every page again, to prevent several problems.

3.0.0

• Plugin refactored to use API infrastructure.
• Visiting the endpoint in a web browser now returns a Webmention form.
• Plugin now compliant with draft specification although remains synchronous.
• Deprecation of webmention_title and webmention_content filters in favor of a single targeted Webmention comment data filter.
• webmention_post_send action now fires on all attempts to send a Webmention instead of only successful ones. Allows for logging functions to be added.
• Supports adding additional parameters when sending Webmentions
• Fix incompatibility with Ultimate Category Excluder plugin.

2.6.0

• removed duplicate request for HTML via get_meta_tags
• refactoring
• limits to same domain

2.5.0

• add salmon/crossposting-extension support (props @singpolyma)
• disable self-pings via settings
• do not unapprove already-approved Webmention (props @singpolyma)
• some code improvements

2.4.0

• switched to WordPress Coding Standard

2.3.4

• some fixes and improvements

2.3.3

• added filter for Webmention endpoint (to add/require additional paramaters: https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-webmention/issues/39 or https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-webmention/pull/41)

2.3.2

• added more params to webmention_post_send (props to @snarfed)
• removed rescedule of Webmentions (props to @snarfed)

2.3.1

• use error-code 403 instead of 500 if Pingbacks/Webmentions are disabled for a post (thanks @snarfed)
• added webmention_comment_parent filter

2.3.0

• nicer title and content discovery
• added post-id to webmention_links filter
• improved publish_post_hook function
• disabled flood control
• nicer response value
• some more filters/actions
• added a default request “action” to be more flexible and to handle more than mentions on posts and pages
• a lot of small fixes

2.2.0

• prevent selfpings
• added support for https and http
• optimized some methods

2.1.4

• fixed pseudo hook

2.1.3

• fixed some warnings

2.1.2

• now ready to use in a bundle

2.1.1

• nicer feedback for the Webmention endpoint

2.1.0

• nicer title and content discovery
• added post-id to webmention_links filter
• improved publish_post_hook function

2.0.1

• small fixes
• nicer excerpt extractor

2.0.0

initial release