Plugin / BasePress Knowledge Base

Changelog

2.6.8

• Minor code improvements

2.6.7

• Added option to change the text for “View all articles” under the section

2.6.6

• Fixed automatic redirection not working in some edge cases.
• made automatic 301 redirection opt-in as it may conflict if other redirection plugin is used.

2.6.5

• Fixed Content Restriction not working properly when user has multiple roles (Premium only)
• Fixed template for restricted articles not loading (Premium only)
• Updated translations

2.6.4

• Fixed compatibility issue with plugins used to create custom permalinks for articles
• Updated Freemius SDK

2.6.3

• Improved handling of uncategorized articles

2.6.2

• Fixed duplicate results in searches for some edge cases
• Fixed searches for multibyte characters

2.6.1

• Fixed content restriction not working properly with MySQL 8.0.4+

2.6.0

• Added option to show restricted articles in all pages but hide content if accessed directly (Premium only)
• Added partial French translation

2.5.1

• Fixed content restriction teaser missing spaces between words (Premium only)

2.5.0

• Extended Content restriction. It is now possible to restrict whole KBs or Sections (Premium only)
• Added german Translation
• Added ajax search templating
• General improvements of default themes
• Updated WPML integration (Premium only)
• Refactored breadcrumns. Added new options to include Home page and parent pages.

2.4.6

• Fixed empty page when the search is performed without terms
• Fixed Automatic 301 redirect on sub-sections
• Fixed missing search results after upgrading to Premium

2.4.5

• Fixed 404 template loading

2.4.4

• Fixed feedback not saving properly on some installations
• Added automatic 301 for all pages when passing from single to multiple KBs

2.4.3

• Improved Modern Theme JS to prevent issues with browser BFCache
• Fixed PHP error when WPML and BasePress content restrictions are both enabled (Premium only)
• Added votes submission confirmation message (Premium only)
• Fixed global search when “s” parameter is used

2.4.2.1

• Fixed wrong articles order when WPML is used (Premium only)

2.4.2

• Prevented restricted content to appear on default WordPress searches (Premium only)
• Added option to exclude articles from searches outside of the knowledge base
• Added notice when Build Mode is enabled
• Fixed notice when using WPML (Premium only)
• Updated Translations

2.4.1

• Added debugging info
• Added option to skip the loading of the header and footer
• Added option to load the themes from WordPress upload directory
• Updated translations
• Fixed undefined index warning when using the Table of Content (Premium only)
• Small admin UIs improvements

2.4.0

• Added default taxonomy screen to guaranty compatibility with other plugins
• Add option to limit section levels in widget
• Added option in Related articles widget to display the current article
• General code improvements

2.3.7

• Updated WPML configuration to include latest settings for translations (Premium only)

2.3.6

• Fixed warning in PHP 7.3 on switch statement

2.3.5

• Updated themes’ translations

2.3.4

• Improved restrictions to work for users with multiple roles (Premium only)

2.3.3

• Improved smart search to prevent duplicated results on some edge cases
• Updated Freemius SDK

2.3.2

• fixed restrictions not working in some installations (Premium only)
• Added option to show restriction roles in admin post list (Premium only)
• Added option to filter post in admin by restriction roles (Premium only)
• Added “Select all”, “Deselect all” buttons in content restriction metabox (Premium only)
• Added option to sort user role alphabetically in content restriction metabox (Premium only)
• Updated themes

2.3.1

• Fixed restrictions for users without roles (Premium only)
• Improved restrictions metabox (Premium only)

2.3.0

• Added option to choose sidebar position
• Added option to change the button text for selecting the knowledge base
• Added possibility to include total number of found results in live ajax search
• Renamed “Product” to “knowledge base” in the whole plugin to make it more generic
• Improved Restricted content teaser to work with content that contains HTML tags (Premium only)
• Updated themes
• Updated translations
• Improved Multisite handling (Premium only)
• Fixed article preview when no section was selected
• Added compatibility with MySQL 8.x

2.2.4

• Improved internal handling of articles’ order (Premium only)

2.2.3

• Fixed Table of content links (Premium only)

2.2.2

• Fixed content still missing after updating to 2.2.0. This update is suggested to all users.

2.2.1

• Hot fixed content not showing on section after updating to 2.2.0 (Visiting plugin’s settings and saving would already fix this)

2.2.0

• Added option to use search parameter on URL
• Updated all mentions of “post” with “article” in admin
• Improved Setup Wizard
• Fixed missing default options if wizard was not used
• Fixed new editor blocks to work with latest WordPress updates
• General code optimization

2.1.1

• Hot fixed bug that caused all menus to be deleted after using the Setup Wizard
• Hot fixed error appearing during upgrade to Premium version
• Added message for no results found in smart search results
• Improved theme’s css

2.1.0

• Added new editor blocks
• Added Setup Wizard for new installations which includes some demo content
• Added ‘build mode’ to hide the KB to anyone apart from the administrator.
• Added filter by “Section” in articles list in admin side.
• Improved Insights charts labels (Premium Only)
• Fixed entry page canonical link with Yoast SEO
• Updated translations
• General code improvements

2.0.7

• Added hook ‘basepress_article_shortcode_args’ to customize articles shortcodes arguments

2.0.6

• Removed automatic 301 redirection becaused it can conflict with many plugins

2.0.5

• Updated Freemius SDK. This update is recommended to all users for improved security
• Fixed sections pagination not working on some edge cases

2.0.4

• Improved search function to prevent conflict with other plugins

2.0.3

• Fixed “Edit Product” and “Edit Section” link in admin bar in the front end not working

2.0.2

• Fixed search bar shortcode which made bar always appear at the top of the page

2.0.1

• Added option to order articles alphabetically
• Added Gutenberg editor support

2.0.0

• Added possibility to run the Knowledge base from front page
• Added Dashboard Widget (Premium Only)
• Moved shortcode editor to its own page (Premium Only)
• General code improvements

1.9.1

• Hotfix for sections permalink not working

1.9.0

• Added Users feedback feature (Premium Only)
• fixed conflict with WooCommerce cart if KB page is not selected in settings
• Fixed search that stopped working properly after version 1.8.9

1.8.11

• Fixed pagination that stopped working after version 1.8.9

1.8.10

• Improved articles list in sections. Now it shows the articles from that section and a list of sub-sections if present

1.8.9

• Removed feed links from header inside all knowledge base pages as there are no feeds for the articles
• Added automatic 301 redirects for all articles that have been moved to a different section (article’s slug must remain unchanged)
• Updated Freemius SDK

1.8.8

• Fixed post order page not showing all articles (Premium Only)
• Small improvement on admin css

1.8.7

• Fixed bug for searches when the KB is in sub-page

1.8.6

• Improved search results to move exact matches on top

1.8.5

• Removed page builders’ shortcodes from search snippets

1.8.4

• Renamed some element’s css classes on admin side to avoid naming conflict with other plugins

1.8.3

• Improved menu handling so KB menu item has class “current_menu_item” when visiting any KB page

1.8.2

• Updated Freemius SDK

1.8.1

• Fixed case insensitive search for non English languages

1.8.0

• Added knowledge base Insights (Premium Only)
• Fixed products template translation

1.7.12

• Minor code optimization for post views counter

1.7.11

• Fixed PHP error when section image is missing.
• Fixed search feature not finding articles in sub-sections

1.7.10.1

• Fixed PHP error when product image is missing.

1.7.10

• Improved update and upgrade process
• Improved articles voting system for better articles suggestions (Premium Only)

1.7.9

• Improved permalink structure if KB is in a sub-page

1.7.8

• Added an Icons Manager to have full control on the icons used in the knowledge base
• Updated included themes to work with the new Icon Manager
• Updated Freemius SDK

1.7.7

• Fixed page title tag for single product mode always showing the same title name

1.7.6

• Automated product selection on all admin screen if ‘Single product mode’ is enabled
• Improved page title tag for single product mode

1.7.5

• Fixed Search and Articles navigation not working on some installations
• Updated Freemius SDK

1.7.4

• Added possibility to disable the Table of Contents on individual articles (Premium Only)

1.7.3

• Fixed bug that stopped highliting of found terms on search bar results
• Fixed post counter not working on some WordPress installation

1.7.2

• Improved compatibility with Yoast SEO which would make Table of Contents links not work correctly (Premium Only)

1.7.1

• Fixed bug that made sections with not articles but only sub-sections disappear

1.7.0

• First release