Plugin / Amazon Auto Links – Amazon Associates Affiliate Plugin

Changelog

3.9.6 – 11/20/2019

• Fixed a bug that the Raw sort unit option for the category unit type was treated as Random, which has started since v3.9.3.

3.9.5 – 11/16/2019

• Fixed a bug with the category unit type that caused excessive nested function calls when setting a large number of item count, which has started since 3.9.0.

3.9.4 – 11/14/2019

• Added the noopener rel attribute value for generated hyperlinks.
• Fixed a bug that caused the PHP fatal error, Uncaught Error: Call to undefined method in the category select page of the category unit type, which has started since v3.9.3.
• Fixed a bug for category units that the same list of products were shown even when multiple categories are added, which has started since v3.9.0.
• Fixed a bug that multiple categories could not be added when creating a new category unit, which has started since v3.9.0.
• Fixed a bug that thumbnails of the category unit type were not displayed properly, which has started since v3.9.0.

3.9.3 – 11/13/2019

• Fixed a bug that the Sort unit option of the category unit type did not take effect, which has started since v3.9.0.

3.9.2 – 11/06/2019

• Fixed a bug that outputs with %category% and %feature% unit Item Format option variables were not properly formatted, which has started since v3.9.0.
• Fixed a bug with some advanced product filter options that did not retrieve product data properly.
• Fixed a bug that caused a PHP fatal error with advanced product filter options, which has started since v3.9.0.
• Fixed a bug that cached connectivity status was shown in the Authentication page.

3.9.1 – 11/04/2019

• Added the Minimum Review Rating advanced unit option for the search unit type.
• Fixed a compatibility issue with PHP 7.3, occurred when browsing category lists.

3.9.0 – 11/01/2019

• Added support for PA-API 5 (deprecated the use of PA-API 4, which is no longer functional as of Oct 31, 2019 due to the termination by Amazon).
• Added the ability for the category unit type not to require Product Advertising API keys.
• Added the Error Log page (Tools -> Error Log) that displays plugin errors.
• Added the a unit filter option to remove adult products.
• Added the option to disable widgets.
• Added the %prime% variable for the Item Format unit option which displays a prime icon.
• Fixed a bug that rating stars appeared in category units when the product did not have a review, started since v3.8.12.
• Deprecated Similarity Look-up unit type as PA-API 5 does not support similarity look-up.
• Deprecated similar_product_image_size and similar_product_max_count unit options.

3.8.14 – 05/22/2019

• Fixed an issue with the Types option of category units that lead to find no products.

3.8.13 – 05/19/2019

• Optimized the category and url unit types to reduce PA API requests when no items are found.
• Fixed an issue that some products of the Types option of category units have been no longer available.

3.8.12 – 03/30/2019

• Fixed a bug that Access Rights -> Capability option did not take effect.
• Fixed a bug that truncating database tables were not successful in some cases.
• Fixed a bug that periodic background tasks of clearing expired caches were not functioning since v3.7.3.
• Optimized the category unit type to reduce unnecessary database queries and API requests.

3.8.11 – 03/09/2019

• Optimized the use of Amazon Product Advertising API to reduce unnecessary API requests.

3.8.10 – 03/04/2019

• Changed link styles other than the default one to preserve URL query parameters given by the Amazon Product Advertising API.

3.8.9 – 02/26/2019

• Updated the Japanese translation.
• Fixed an issue of unnecessary function calls in admin-ajax.php.
• Fixed a misspelling in the Manage Units page regarding PHP codes.

3.8.8 – 01/17/2019

• Added the aal_ajax_loaded_unit jQuery event for templates using JavaScript.
• Fixed an issue that plugin translations are not recognized by wordpress.org by adding Text Domain and Domain Path to the plugin comment header
• Fixed a broken link in a setting page.

3.8.7 – 01/11/2019

• Updated the Japanese translation.
• Added the German translation.
• Fixed an issue of too few products shown due to product filters when setting a small number of the Item Count unit option.

3.8.6 – 01/08/2019

• Fixed a bug of the malformed product category outputs with the %category% Item Format variable.
• Fixed a bug with the %category% variable for the Item Format unit option, which inserted debug outputs.
• Tweaked styling of the List, Category and Search templates.

3.8.5 – 01/04/2019

• Fixed a bug with the %feature% variable for the Item Format unit option, which inserted debug outputs.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes pending product details did not complete.

3.8.4 – 12/30/2018

• Tweaked styling of the template listing page.

3.8.3 – 12/27/2018

• Tweaked styling of the List, Category and Search templates.

3.8.2 – 12/22/2018

• Fixed an issue that category units often returned insufficient number of products.

3.8.1 – 12/20/2018

• Changed the category unit type to require Product Advertising API keys.
• Added the Raw sort select option for the category unit type.
• Deprecated the Date sort select option for the category unit type.
• Deprecated the Keep the raw title unit option for the category unit type.
• Fixed an issue that category units no longer showed products due to recent deprecation of Amazon product feeds by the Amazon store sites.
• Fixed a bug that category unit caches were not deleted properly via the action link in the Manage Units page.
• Fixed a bug that internally stored URLs for category units were malformed in some occasions.

3.8.0 – 12/03/2018

• Changed the default Item Format unit option value.
• Added the default template List.
• Added the %category%, %feature%, %date%, %rank% variables for the Item Format unit option.
• Added the ability to convert amazon links in posts, comments and possibly other areas into user’s associate links.
• Fixed a bug that review numbers get broken characters for some locales.
• Fixed a bug that descriptions of category units were HTML-encoded.

3.7.10 – 11/14/2018

• Fixed a bug that caused a PHP warning upon plugin uninstall.

3.7.9 – 11/09/2018

• Fixed an issue with a contextual unit that the unit status became error due to no context in the preview.
• Fixed a bug that a unit status of the category unit type was not updated when it is created for the first time until the cache was renewed.
• Fixed a bug that ratings became an incorrect number for some cases.

3.7.8 – 11/04/2018

• Added the Toggle Status bulk action for the Auto-insert listing table.
• Tweaked UI by not displaying some action links and bulk actions in the drop down list in the trash view of the listing table.
• Fixed an issue that unit status was not properly updated when an action link is clicked.

3.7.7 – 10/29/2018

• Tweaked the visual of unit status and updating indications in the unit listing table.
• Added the ability to reset unit status of units when caches are deleted in the setting page.
• Optimized the process of performing API requests for product information by reducing the number of HTTP requests.

3.7.6 – 10/25/2018

• Added the Ready/Loading unit status to be displayed when the unit has not been loaded yet.
• Added unit action links to the bulk action drop down list in the unit listing page.
• Added the ability to reduce each HTTP request cache size.
• Fixed a bug that debug outputs for units were not shown when the unit response had an error.
• Fixed a bug with the Renew Cache action link of Category units.
• Fixed a bug that caused PHP Notice: Undefined index: constructor_parameters... in the background, started with v3.7.5.

3.7.5 – 10/16/2018

• Added the ability to reduce URL unit cache sizes.
• Added the Custom URL Query unit option field.
• Fixed an issue that dates in the disclaimer output were not accurate.
• Fixed a bug with the Renew Cache action link of URL units.

3.7.4 – 10/09/2018

• Added the aal_action_activate_templates and aal_action_deactivate_templates action hooks so that third parties can toggle the template status.
• Fixed some broken links in the admin area.

3.7.3 – 10/02/2018

• Added the ability to limit the overall cache sizes.
• Added a field notice of whether the periodic check of cache removal is functional in the setting page.

3.7.2 – 09/29/2018

• Fixed an issue that duplicated database queries were performed with category units.
• Fixed a bug that excluding sub-categories for category units did not fully take effect.

3.7.1 – 09/24/2018

• Fixed an issue that the No Products Found message was moved to the top in the category selection screen of the Category unit type.
• Tweaked unit error outputs which include the change of the class selector to warning from error.

3.7.0 – 09/13/2018

• Added the ability to display errors in the unit listing table of the Manage Units page.
• Optimized the number of API requests based on the Item Format option.
• Optimized API request parameters regarding similar products.

3.6.7 – 09/07/2018

• Added the aal_filter_api_request_uri filter hook to allow third-parties to modify API request URI.
• Added the Associate ID field in the Authentication setting section for some locales.

3.6.6 – 08/09/2018

• Added the Data section in the Reset setting page, which handles export/import options.
• Added the ability to clean up used custom post type posts upon plugin uninstall.

3.6.5 – 08/04/2018

• Added the translation items for the Japanese and default language file.

3.6.4 – 07/29/2018

• Added the aal_filter_product_link filter hook to allow third-parties to modify product links.

3.6.3 – 07/17/2018

• Fixed a compatibility issue with third party plugins/themes which attempt to instantiate the plugin widgets.

3.6.2 – 07/09/2018

• Fixed a bug that the default button is not created.

3.6.1 – 07/04/2018

• Added rel='nofollow' to the button links.

3.6.0 – 06/22/2018

• Added the Load with Javascript unit option that lets the user decide whether to display the unit with JavaScript.

3.5.7 – 06/09/2018

• Fixed an issue that some categories could not be recognized when creating a category unit.

3.5.6 – 06/05/2018

• Added SSL support for impression counter scripts.
• Added the API response error message to be displayed for API authentication in the setting page.

3.5.5 – 05/11/2018

• Fixed a bug that incorrect categories were displayed when creating a new product search and item search unit.
• Added support for the Australia locale.
• Added support for the locales of Mexico and Brazil for the search units.

3.5.4 – 05/02/2018

• Fixed an issue that category units could not detect some sub-categories when creating a unit.
• Added custom filter hooks in the feed template to allow third-parties to modify the RSS feed outputs.

3.5.3 – 09/10/2017

• Changed the default value of the Credit Link unit option.

3.5.2 – 06/08/2017

• Fixed an issue that the search unit types missed product thumbnails in rare cases.

3.5.1 – 05/03/2017

• Fixed an issue that the random sort order for URL and Item Look-up units was applied after the product data were retrieved which caused the same items to constantly appear.

3.5.0 – 01/23/2017

• Added the Renew Cache action link in the unit listing table.
• Added the search shortcode and function argument which performs a keyword search with the set keywords.
• Added the asin shortcode and function argument which list products of the set ASINs.
• Added the Contextual unit type.
• Added the Sort Order option to the Item Look-up unit type.
• Refined the API request caching mechanism.
• (breaking change) Fixed typos in option key names. This fix affects the stored option values of Interval for Removing Expired Caches and Caching Mode. Some users may need to re-save the options.
• Fixed a bug that produced invalid RSS2 and JSON formats.

3.4.13 – 01/05/2017

• Fixed a bug that an incorrect offered price was displayed with the %price% variable of the Item Format option.
• Tweaked the accuracy of detecting products with URL units.

3.4.12 – 12/24/2016

• Fixed a bug that invalid user inputs for the Item ID option were saved with the Item Look-up unit.

3.4.11 – 12/16/2016

• Fixed a warning wp_kses_js_entities is deprecated since version 4.7.0.
• Fixed an issue that static auto-insert was not performed when a draft is saved.
• Changed the %price% variable for the Item Format unit option to show the lowest offered price from just a discounted price when available.

3.4.10 – 11/28/2016

• Fixed a bug with static auto-insert.

3.4.9 – 11/27/2016

• Fixed an issue that some API requests were not cached properly.

3.4.8 – 11/25/2016

• Added cache size indications in the Cache setting section.
• Fixed a bug that unexpired caches were deleted when deleting expired caches.
• Fixed an issue that some ASINs were not detected accurately in URL units.
• Fixed a bug that PHP warnings occurred in the background in some rare occasion.

3.4.7 – 11/06/2016

• Fixed a bug that the Contextual Products widgets were no longer displaying any products, introduced in 3.4.6.
• Fixed a bug occurred in PHP 5.3 that caused a warning debug_backtrace() expects at most 1 parameter, 2 given.

3.4.6 – 11/02/2016

• Fixed a bug with the shortcode that some direct product search arguments were not recognized.

3.4.5 – 10/27/2016

• Fixed an issue that reaches PHP max input vars in the auto-insert definition page on some servers.

3.4.4 – 09/16/2016

• Fixed an issue that some locale specific API keys were not connected to the API server by adding the Server Locale option in the Authentication section.

3.4.3 – 09/02/2016

• Fixed a bug of discount prices displayed with the %price% variable for the Item Format unit option.

3.4.2 – 06/09/2016

• Fixed a bug that products of Category units were not displayed on some servers introduced in v3.4.1.

3.4.1 – 05/31/2016

• Fixed a bug that the %rating% variable in the Item Format option produced HTML outputs with an invalid structure.

3.4.0 – 03/17/2016

• Added the ability to automatically extract ASINs for the Item Look-up and Similarity search unit types.
• Added the ability to set a custom label for the unit preview page.
• Added the Interval for Removing Expired Caches option.
• Added the default unit options.
• Changed the %price% variable in the Item Format option to display a discounted price when available.
• Fixed a bug that ISBN could not be set with the Item Look-up unit type even the locale was set to US.
• Fixed a bug that expired caches were not cleared automatically.
• Fixed a bug that the custom data base tables did not have the proper character set and collation.

3.3.6 – 01/14/2016

• Fixed PHP warnings caused by using a deprecated method.

3.3.5 – 01/13/2016

• Tweaked the style of an Auto-insert option.
• Fixed a bug that caused a warning when setting the Post Type Slug option ( Settings -> General -> Unit Preview -> Post Type Slug).
• Optimized performance in the admin area.

3.3.4 – 01/02/2016

• Fixed a bug that a fatal error occurred with category units on sites enabling SSL.
• Improved performance of the setting pages.

3.3.3 – 12/31/2015

• Fixed a bug that caused illegal string offset warnings with stored template data.

3.3.2 – 12/29/2015

• Fixed an issue that the setting forms could not be displayed when third-party plugins or themes have JavaScript errors in the same page.

3.3.1 – 12/25/2015

• Fixed invalid offset warnings in PHP 7.
• Fixed a bug that an invalid character was inserted in the RSS feed.

3.3.0 – 12/23/2015

• Improved the performance of the auto-insert functionality.
• Added the Description Suffix unit option that let the uset set own text for the read more label.
• Added the Max Image Size for Similar Product Thumbnails and Max number of Similar Products unit options.
• Added the %meta% variable to the Item Format unit option.
• Added the %similar% variable to the Item Format unit option.
• Added the Unit Options Converter in the Tools page.
• Added the %content% variable for the full product description to the Item Format unit option.
• Added the RSS Content Tag option that lets the user decide whether a complete product output should be in the <description> tag or the <content> tag in the feed.
• Added the Allowed HTML Tag Attributes option and the Allowed Inline CSS Properties option in the Misc setting page.
• Fixed a bug that deactivated templates were loaded as active.
• Fixed some incompatibility issue with PHP 7.
• Fixed a bug that the unit options could not load when there is no button created.
• Fixed a bug with the contextual product widget which caused Item Format option to be empty when the user first add the widget without connecting to the API.
• Fixed a bug with the contextual product widget which caused a fatal error when the user enabled Breadcrumb in the Additional Criteria option and enabled The home page in the Available Page Type` option.
• Fixed a bug that custom database table versions were not saved properly and caused extra database queries.
• Reduced the number of database queries in widget forms.
• Changed the Item Format option to be available.
• Changed the %description% variable of the Category unit type to include description produced by Amazon Product Advertising API if the user has authenticated the plugin.
• Deprecated the Template Options Converter.

3.2.4 – 12/13/2015

• Fixed an issue that unit preview could not be displayed without re-saving the site permalink options after setting a custom unit preview post type slug.
• Fixed a bug that a View action link was inserted in different post type listing table when a custom unit preview post type slug was set.
• Fixed a bug in the contextual products widget that the Credit Link option was not displayed properly.
• Fixed an issue of a fatal error Maximum function nesting level of 'x' reached when the server enables the XDebug extension and sets a low value for the xdebug.max_nesting_level option.
• Tweaked the appearance of the auto-insert setting page.

3.2.3 – 12/11/2015

• Fixed a compatibility issue with WordPress 4.4 that some widget options could not be saved.

3.2.2 – 12/09/2015

• Added a unit option to select credit link type.
• Fixed a bug that reselecting categories via the Select Categories button in the Category unit editing page let to a fatal error, introduced in v3.2.0.
• Changed the minimum required cache duration to 600.
• Changed the Found Items field in the URL unit definition page to display Not Found message for finding no item.

3.2.1 – 12/04/2015

• Fixed a bug with the Item Look-up and URL unit types that the Number of Items option did not take effect.
• Fixed a bug that some Amazon Product Advertising API response errors could not be displayed when the Query per Item option was enabled.
• Fixed incorrect inline CSS values in the default Image Format unit option.
• Changed the default template of the Contextual Products Widget to Search.
• Tweaked the style of Search and Category templates for disclaimer elements in widgets.
• Tweaked the style of Search template to wrap descriptions.
• Removed some advanced options of the URL unit type as their values could not be used rather led to errors.

3.2.0 – 12/02/2015

• Enhanced the ability of the contextual product search for the site search terms.
• Added the URL unit type which enables to search products and list them with given urls.
• Added the Query per Term unit option for the Search, Item Look-up, Similarity Look-up unit types.
• Added the %disclaimer% variable in the Item Format unit option.
• Added a unit option to toggle the visibility of Now Retrieving... message.
• Added the internal ability to set previous unit option values when creating a new unit.
• Changed the some option inputs larger including product filter options and search items of the Item look-up and Similarity look-up unit type s.
• Changed the initial position of the Template unit option section.
• Tweaked the style of setting pages and forms.
• Deprecated the tag unit type as it is no longer supported by Amazon.

3.1.4 – 11/27/2015

• Added the search_per_keyword argument for the shortcode which can be set to true when performing search with multiple keywords.
• Enhanced the ability of the contextual product widget.

3.1.3 – 11/26/2015

• Changed the unit template formatting options to accept some inline CSS properties.
• Tweaked the style of rating images of the Category and Search templates.
• Tweaked the style of sub-images in widgets of the Category and Search templates.
• Tweaked the style of some option fields in the plugin setting pages.
• Fixed a bug that some options with numbers could not set more than 1.

3.1.2 – 11/25/2015

• Changed the default value of the page type option in the Contextual Search widget.
• Tweaked the style of thumbnails of the Category and Search templates.

3.1.1 – 08/09/2015

• Fixed a fatal error Call to undefined function mb_detect_encoding()... in the category select page on the server that does not install the multibite string extension.
• Fixed a bug that the %price% variable in the Item Format unit option was not functional.

3.1.0 – 07/27/2015

• Added the ability to skip no thumbnail items.
• Added the Button Type unit option that lets the user add a product to the Amazon shopping cart.
• Added the ability to produce RSS and JSON feeds by unit id.
• Added the home and front page criteria for the Available Page Types option in the widget form.
• Tweaked the style of built-in templates.
• Tweaked the style of the credit link.
• Fixed PHP warnings related file path lengths set to the PHP_MAXPATHLEN constant.
• Fixed an issue that widget by unit could not be displayed in the front/home page, introduced in 3.0.5.

3.0.5 – 07/14/2015

• Added visibility options to the widget by unit.
• Fixed a credit link that pointed the plugin directory which occurs when the user does not update the options to v3.

3.0.4 – 07/07/2015

• Changed debug methods not to function when the site debug mode is off.
• Changed not to redirect the user to the listing table page after editing an auto-insert definition.
• Fixed strict standard PHP warnings.

3.0.3 – 07/05/2015

• Fixed a bug in the contextual product widget that product filter options did not take effect.
• Fixed a bug that setting 0 for the Max Image Size for Sub-images option did not disable the images.
• Fixed a bug that templates inherited from v2 options were listed twice in the template listing table.

3.0.2 – 07/04/2015

• Fixed an issue that templates were not properly loaded if the user did not upgrade the options to v3.

3.0.1 – 06/30/2015

• Tweaked the formatting of a product element.
• Fixed an issue that translation files were not loaded in the front-end.
• Updated the base translation file.

3 – 06/29/2015

• Added the Tools setting page.
• Added the contextual products widget.
• Added the ability to design buttons and insert them in units.
• Added black and white lists per unit.
• Added common advanced unit options.
• Added the %button%, %review%, %rating%, and %image_set% variables to the template option.
• Refined the method of processing RSS feed data by getting rid of SimplePie.
• Refined the caching mechanism by introducing custom tables.
• Refined the setting pages.
  • Changed the behaviour of the white-list to only allow certain products from being blocked, from only showing certain products.
  • Added a unit preview link to a unit name in the Auto-insert listing table.
  • Tweaked the Manage Auto-insert admin menu that did not appear in the Auto-insert listing page.
  • Remove the Template option section when creating a new unit.
  • Removed the Add Auto insert admin menu link.
  • Removed the Support section from the settings.
  • Updated Admin Page Framework.
• Updated the Amazon Product Advertising API version.

2.2.1 – 04/25/2015

• Fixed a compatibility issue with WordPress 4.2 in template listing page.
• Tweaked the styling of plugin template listing pages.

2.2.0 – 04/24/2015

• Added the Preview Unit options including one that allows the user to set a custom url slug to the unit preview page.

2.1.2 – 12/15/2014

• Added the aal_action_loaded_plugin action hook.
• Changed the timing of a localization function call.
• Tweaked the way to display product prices of the search unit type.
• Updated the Japanese translation file.

2.1.1 – 12/04/2014

• Added the ability to automatically remove auto-insert items with no unit associated when a unit is removed.
• Changed the displayed product price of the Search unit type to use the discount price if there is an offered price.
• Optimized the performance.

2.1.0 – 11/24/2014

• Added the India locale for the search unit type.
• Fixed an issue that when Marketpalce is selected in the Category option of the Select unit type, an error was shown.

2.0.7 – 11/14/2014

• Added a error message when a template is not found.
• Added the Merchant ID option in the advanced options for the Search unit type.
• Fixed an issue that options were not saved with sites that enables object caching in the admin area.

2.0.6 – 09/27/2014

• Made a small optimization on the background caching routines.
• Added the %price% variable for the search unit type.
• Fixed widget output formatting.

2.0.5.4 – 06/07/2014

• Tweaked the styling to horizontally center the Not Found image of the Search template.
• Fixed the label of one of the advanced options of the search unit type.

2.0.5.3 – 05/30/2014

• Fixed the warning: Array to string conversion in... message when product links were displayed with the auto-insert.

2.0.5.2 – 05/27/2014

• Tweaked a form validation method to prevent no type option item from getting selected.
• Changed the file structure of including files.
• Tweaked the styling of the Category template to center the not found image.

2.0.5.1 – 04/24/2014

• Changed the default option value of Prevent Duplicates.

2.0.5 – 03/22/2014

• Fixed a bug that templates were deactivated when the plugin was deactivated and reactivated.
• Fixed an issue that the the_content filter was ignored in the plugin custom post type page.
• Added the Caching Mode option.
• Fixed a compatibility issue with a third-party plugin that hooks the posts_where filter.
• Fixed a PHP warning that occurs when a user with an insufficient access level logs in to the admin page.
• Added the class selectors representing unit ID and the label to the products container element.
• Fixed a bug that the column option was saved always as 1 for the first time.
• Refactored the code.

2.0.4.1 – 03/03/2014

• Fixed a bug with the Auto-insert feature that a set page type for the Where to Enable section did not take effect.
• Added the ability to use an image when no product is found for the search unit type.
• Fixed a bug with the search unit type that results of the same API request but with a different locale were saved with the same name.
• Fixed a bug with the search unit type that same products were stored in the response array when more than 10 items were set.

2.0.4 – 02/27/2014

• Improved the caching mechanism.
• Fixed a bug that caches for the search unit type renewed in the background were not saved properly with the right name.
• Fixed a bug that caches durations for the search unit type were not set properly.

2.0.3.5 – 02/01/2014

• Fixed a possible security issue in the plugin admin pages.
• Tweaked the form text input length.
• Fixed an issue that (recently, newly) tagged... message was inserted in the title of product links of Tag unit type.
• Fixed the warning: Strict standards: Declaration of ... should be compatible with ... when displaying the output of the tag unit type.

2.0.3.4 – 01/25/2014

• Fixed: a bug that the Settings link of the plugin in the plugin listing table did not point to the Setting page.
• Fixed: a bug that caused a broken output in the search unit type due to an undefined index in an array when the authentication keys are not properly set in some PHP versions.
• Added: the Number of Items option for the Similarity Look-up search unit type.
• Fixed the warning: Strict standards: Declaration of ... should be compatible with ....
• Updated: the Admin Page Framework library to v2.1.7.2.

2.0.3.3 – 01/17/2014

• Fixed: a bug that the Single Post check option did not take effect in the Page post type.
• Updated: the Admin Page Framework library to v2.1.7.1.
• Fixed: a bug that taxonomy check list boxes were gone since v2.0.2.

2.0.3.2 – 01/07/2014

• Fixed: an issue that an image element was inserted when no image of the product was found in the search unit type.
• Fixed: undefined index warnings with the search unit types.
• Fixed: a bug in the advanced search option that the Title option did not take effect.

2.0.3.1 – 01/03/2014

• Fixed: an issue that the stylesheet urls included the characters, /./, which may have caused a problem for third-party plugins that minifies CSS.
• Fixed: an issue that some outputs broke html tags due to unescaped characters.
• Fixed: a bug that search units did not return results with the correct item count.

2.0.3 – 12/20/2013

• Added: the Similarity Look-up unit type which allows to display similar products by ASIN.
• Changed: the message “Could not identify the unit type.” to be inserted as an HTML comment.

2.0.2 – 12/17/2013

• Fixed: an issue that too many database queries were performed in the plugin setting pages as of v2.0.1 due to disabling object caching.
• Added: the Item Look-up unit type which allows to pick one or more items by item ID.
• Fixed: the method handling Amazon Product Advertising API to treat invalid XML returned by the API as an error.
• Updated: the information regarding obtaining an Amazon access key since the linked documentation page has been closed.
• Added: a help page and some information pages in the plugin admin pages.
• Tweaked: the style of the option elements in the unit definition page.
• Updated: the Admin Page Framework library to v2.1.6.

2.0.1 – 11/30/2013

• Improved: the method to load template stylesheets.
• Disabled: object caching in the plugin pages and the options.php (the page that stores the settings) in order to avoid conflicts with caching plugins.
• Updated: the Admin Page Framework library to v2.1.4.
• Added: the aal_filter_unit_output filter.
• Fixed: a bug in form filed layout that an enclosing tag was missing.
• Fixed: the warning, Creating default object from empty value.

2 – 11/01/2013

• Changed: to ask user permission to display ads in the settings page and the support rate when the plugin is activated for the first time.
• Changed: the unit label option to a taxonomy.
• Changed: the url cloak to use less characters (moved to the link style option).
• Added: the ability to limit auto-static-insertion by taxonomy and post type.
• Added: the ability to limit auto-insertion by taxonomy, post type, and post ID.
• Added: the ability to prevent duplicated products from being displayed throughout the page load.
• Added: the ability to create units by tag.
• Added: the Brazil and Mexico locales.
• Added: the case sensitive option for the black and white list options.
• Added: the white list option.
• Added: the auto-insert feature. Accordingly, the Where to Insert option and Where to Disable option were deprecated.
• Added: the tag unit type.
• Added: the search unit type.
• Added: the template system. Accordingly, the Container, Item, Image format options were deprecated.
• Renewed: (Breaking Changes)the entire option structure. Accordingly, after running the option importer script, which is displayed as a link in the admin message, the insert position options need to be reconfigured.
• Renewed: the background-caching system.
• Renewed: the icon.
• Renewed: the admin interface.

1.2.6 – 09/01/2013

• Added: the ability to use SSL images if the site runs on SSL.
• Added: the Indian locale.

1.2.5.2 – 03/08/2013

• Added: an error message for servers which does not have the DOM XML extension which appears upon plugin activation.
• Disabled: completely DOM related errors.
• Tweaked: some code for faster loading in the admin settings pages.
• Changed: the option object to be global for plugin extensions.
• Added: filters for plugin extensions.

1.2.5.1 – 02/23/2013

• Fixed: the warning, Undefined variable: oAAL.

1.2.5 – 02/23/2013

• Added: the version number to appear in the footer of the plugin setting pages.
• Added: the ability to remove all used option values of the plugin upon plugin deactivation, which can be set in General Settings.
• Fixed: the warning message, undefined index, save, which occurred in the debug mode when posting a new post.

1.2.4 – 02/22/2013

• Added: the “Access Right to Setting Page” option in the General Settings page that sets the access level for the admin page of the plugin.

1.2.3 – 02/21/2013

• Fixed: a bug that title sorting was not accurately performed when the title contained HTML tags or encoded differently from other titles.
• Changed: the name of the sort option, Title, to Title Ascending.
• Added: the Title Descending sort order option.

1.2.2 – 02/21/2013

• Added: the Debug Log option and page.
• Changed: the default value of the Prefetch Category Lists option to Off.
• Fixed: the Japanese localization file name.
• Disabled: the warining message to occur: Warning: DOMElement::setAttribute() [domelement.setattribute]: string is not in UTF-8.

1.2.1 – 02/18/2013

• Fixed: a bug that changing unit option values did not take effect when the Proceed button was pressed via the Manage Unit page.
• Changed: product links to be disabled on the front page ( not only on the home page ) if the “Disable on the home page” option is enabled.
• Fixed: warning messages, undefined index, which appeared in the debug mode when the Delete Selected Units button was pressed.

1.2.0 – 02/12/2013

• Fixed: some lines of code which caused warning messages when the WordPress debug mode was turned on.
• Added: the ability to clean up remaining once-off events upon plugin deactivation.
• Added: the option to disable product links per unit basis on certain pages including the home page.
• Fixed: a bug that url cloak had not been working as of 1.1.9.

1.1.9 – 01/24/2013

• Updated: the Japanese localization file.
• Added: the Above and Below Post on Publish check boxes for the auto insert option.
• Fixed: the styles of the Manage Unit table by loading the stylesheet in all the setting tab pages of the plugin.
• Changed: the file name to amazon-auto-links.php from amazonautolinks.php
• Changed: the text domain to amazon-auto-links from amazonautolinks.
• Changed: the timimng of registering classes to be extension-friendly.
• Changed: code formatting to extend the plugin more easily.

1.1.8 – 01/19/2013

• Added: the icons for the Operation column of the Manage Unit table .
• Adjusted: the styles of the Manage Unit page in the admin page.
• Fixed: an issue that R18 categories requiring additional redirects could not be browsed in the category selection page.

1.1.7 – 01/16/2013

• Fixed: a bug that caches were not cleared with database tables that have a custom prefix.
• Fixed: a bug that the Prefetch Category Lists option had not take effect since v1.1.3 removing the iframe preview page.

1.1.6 – 01/14/2013

• Fixed: a minor bug that an error message did not appear properly when category links cannot be retrieved.
• Added: Blacklist by title and description set in the General Settings page.

1.1.5 – 12/14/2012

• Changed: to force the unit output to close any unclosed HTML tags.
• Fixed: a bug that the plugin requirement check did not work as of v1.1.3.
• Improved: the response speed when first accessing the setting page.

1.1.4 – 12/13/2012

• Fixed: a bug that shortcode did not work as of v1.1.3.

1.1.3 – 12/13/2012

• Supported: WordPress 3.5
• Changed: the preview page not to use iframe so that “Could not locate admin.php” error would not occur.
• Fixed: a bug that the style was not loaded in one of the tab page in the plugin setting page.
• Fixed: a bug that the arrow images which indicate where to click did not appear in the category selection page.
• Added: the ability to delete transients for category caches when the pre-fetch option is set to off.
• Added: the unit memory usage in the unit preview page.
• Added: the ability to remove transients when the plug-in is deactivated.

1.1.2 – 11/11/2012

• Fixed: a bug which displayed the plugin memory usage in the page footer.

1.1.1 – 11/02/2012

• Added: the prefetch category links option, which helps in some servers which sets a low value to the max simultaneous database connections.

1.1.0 – 10/26/2012

• Fixed: a bug that url cloak option was forced to be unchecked in the option page.
• Fixed: a bug that credit option was forced to be checked in the option page.
• Fixed: an issue that encryption did not work on servers which disables the mcrypt extension.
• Fixed: an issue that some form elements of the admin page did not appear on servers with the short_open_tag setting disabled.
• Fixed: a bug that the AmazonAutoLinks() function did not retrieve the correct unit ID.

1.0.9 – 10/06/2012

• Added: the link cloaking feature.

1.0.8 – 10/03/2012

• Fixed: a bug that shortcode failed to display the unit saved in version 1.0.7 or later.
• Added: the title length option.
• Added: the link style option.
• Added: the credit insert option.

1.0.7 – 10/02/2012

• Fixed: an issue that the widget got un-associated when the unit label got changed.
• Fixed: an issue that category caches were saved with the wrong name which resulted on not using the cache when available.
• Fixed: an issue that the format of the img tag got changed when the validation failed when setting up a unit.
• Added: a donation link in the plugin listing page.

1.0.6 – 09/24/2012

• Added: the rel attribute, rel=”nofollow”, in the a tag of product links.
• Re-added: the widget which enables to add units easily on the sidebar.

1.0.5 – 09/20/2012

• Improved: the caching method. Now the caches of links are renewed in the background.

1.0.4 – 09/18/2012

• Added: the settings link in the plugin list page of the administration panel.
• Improved: the page load speed in the category selection page by reducing the cache elements.

1.0.3 – 09/16/2012

• Fixed: an issue that in below PHP v5.2.4, the link descriptions could not be retrieved properly; as a result, the edit and view page links were broken.
• Improved: the page load speed in the category selection page with caches.
• Removed: the widget functionality since it produced a blank page in some systems and the cause and solution could not be found.

1.0.2 – 09/12/2012

• Fixed: an issue that form buttons did not appear in the category selection page in WordPress version 3.1x or ealier.

1.0.1 – 09/10/2012

• Added: the Widget option.

1.0.0 – 09/10/2012

• Initial Release