Plugin / BNS Featured Category

Changelog

2.8.2

• Released March 2016
• Added new custom meta field sort option (props Billy Solo)

2.8.1

• Released February 2016
• Added i18n language files

2.8

• Released February 2016
• Added “Title” option to sort order, both “A to Z” and “Z to A”
• Changed plugin class to “singleton” style
• Moved “in plugin update message” function into class
• Renamed BNS_Feature_Category_Widget to BNS_Featured_Category
• Replaced BNS_Featured_Category::custom_excerpt with wp_trim_words
• Updated copyright year in all files

2.7.2

• Released August 2015
• Updated to use PHP5 constructor objects

2.7.1

• Released March 2015
• Update copyright years
• Remove extraneous structure end comments …
• Changed textdomain from bns-fc to bns-featured-category
• Added “in plugin” update message

2.7

• Released August 2014
• Add new constants for use with plugin path and URL functionality
• Added CSS wrapper class to separate shortcode style elements from widget usage
• Added new option “Featured Image First” to display before balance of post
• Added new style enqueue statement to read from update safe folder
• Added sanity check to ensure there are “child categories” to display
• Fixed sort order implementation
• Updated inline documentation
• Updated readme.txt

2.6

• Released March 2014
• Added bnsfc-container wrapper CSS element
• Added bnsfc-widget-title class
• Added bnsfc_no_posts_message hook to no posts message
• Added option to only show posts from child categories
• Added a “wish link” and “support_link” to the plugin meta row
• Code Reformatting to better match current WordPress Coding Standards
• Extracted code to create plugin_data method
• Moved BNSFC Plugin Meta function into main class of plugin
• Raised required version to WordPress 3.6
• Updates to the readme.txt documentation

2.5

• Released December 2013
• Add new “union” option so posts must be in all categories chosen
• Add hook bnsfc_query allowing the query arguments to be over-written
• Add hook bnsfc_output allowing the entire output to be over-written
• Add hook bnsfc_link to allow the infinity symbol to be more easily changed
• Add plugin row meta details

2.4.3

• Released September 2013
• Added third parameter to shortcode_atts for automatic filter creation

2.4.2

• Released May 2013
• Version number compatibility update

2.4.1

• Released February 2013
• Added code block termination comments and other comments / documentation updates
• Changed call to query_posts to WP_Query
• Fixed conditionals for showing thumbnails
• Fixed where content and excerpt post thumbnail sizes are used
• Moved all code into class structure

2.4

• Released February 2013
• Assigned the string from get_the_excerpt to be used as the basis of the custom excerpt string
• Added conditional to only append link if there are words to be used in the excerpt
• Added termination comments to code blocks
• Added dynamic version to enqueue parameters used in Options
• Refactored code into a more OOP style

2.3

• Released November 2012
• Add option to use widget title as link to single category archive
• Add filters to allow modification of author and date post meta details
• Add filters to allow modification of category list post meta details
• Documentation updates
• Optimize output buffer closure in shortcode function
• Remove load_plugin_textdomain as redundant
• Updated widget option panel screenshot

2.2

• Documentation updates
• Corrected ‘no_excerpt” label issue
• Featured images link to post
• Remove ‘jQuery’ enqueue as it is enqueued as a dependency of the ‘bnsfc-options.js’ enqueue
• Added option to not show the Post Title
• Programmatically add version number to enqueue calls

2.1

• Added option to set post sort order – ascending, descending, and random
• Added ‘no excerpt at all’ checkbox option

2.0

• Added BNS_Options_Scripts_and_Styles
• Added inline documentation indicating what conditions will partially collapse the widget options panel
• Added *-toggle variables for collapse effect
• Added code to remove spaces (if used) when multiple categories are chosen
• Added current_theme_supports check for post-thumbnails; no support = no thumbnail options

1.9.3

• Fixed problem with non-existent custom stylesheet (see 1.9.1)

1.9.2

• Added ‘offset’ option
• Add CSS to set background to none; and width to 100% when shortcode used

1.9.1

• Removed extra slash in wp_enqueue_scripts parameters
• Added ‘content_thumb’ and ‘show_full’ to shortcode options – back to beta
• Fixed 404 error when ‘bnsft-custom-style.css’ is not available

1.9

• released November 2011
• confirmed compatible with WordPress 3.3
• added phpDoc Style documentation
• added i18n support
• added bnsfc-style.css for plugin specific elements
• added wp_link_pages after the_content
• changed code blocks order to more logical sequence
• changed bnsfc_first_words to bnsfc_custom_excerpt (refactored documentation)
• changed options panel width to 200px to fit within Administration Panel Sidebar
• changed bns-cat-class- to bnsfc-cat-class- CSS prefix for category choices for consistency
• corrected documentation typos
• fix ‘only_titles’ form issue
• minor code and format clean-up
• updated ‘readme.txt’ Frequently Asked Questions
• updated screenshot image

1.8.5

• released May 2011
• confirmed compatible with WordPress version 3.2
• addressed some minor items in the readme (this file)
• cleaned up some text strings in the code
• minor variable changes – load_bnsfc_widget(), bnsfc_custom_excerpt()

1.8.4 / 1.8.4.1

• released April 2011
• confirmed compatible with WordPress 3.1.1
• added option to use current category of post in single view

1.8.3

• released December 11, 2010
• Confirm compatible with WordPress 3.1 (beta)
• Change ‘the_time’ to date-format option
• Only show number of comments if not password protected

1.8.2

• released Sept 21, 2010
• added new and improved shortcode functionality – still may be considered beta

1.8.1

• removed shortcode function due to error issues

1.8

• released Sept 19, 2010
• increased minimum required WordPress version to 2.9
• add post_thumbnail support
• added experimental shortcode support – currently best used to generate the only content on a post or page

1.7.2

• released: 29 Aug 2010
• compatibility check for WordPress 3.0.1
• no other modifications

1.7.1

• released: July 5, 2010
• cleaned up code to meet WP Standards
• added wp_reset_query();

1.7

• compatible with WordPress version 3.0
• updated license declaration

1.6.3

• removed the_ID() function as redundant
• added category related span around widget title

1.6.2.3

• compatible with WordPress version 2.9.2
• updated license declaration

1.6.2.2

• clarified the plugin release under a GPL license

1.6.2.1

• compatibility check for 2.9.1 completed

1.6.2

• Total Posts to Display can now exceed the posts_per_page option value.

1.6.1

• Minor correction to variable structure to allow for multiple instances of the plugin with independent post counts

1.6

• added option to display the description for the (first) category choice as taken directly from the Categories panel under Posts in the Dashboard
• wrapped Category Description in its own class: ‘bnsfc-cat-desc’
• corrected issue with checkbox not displaying its state correctly
• Updated the screenshot to show the most recent version of the options panel

1.5.1

• modified excerpt function name to make more unique to plugin

1.5

• added option to set the quantity of the first words of the post to display instead of the default excerpt.
• modified description to reflect new functionality
• slightly increased the size of option panel to better display controls

1.4

• added version control compared against $wp_version
• added horizontal rule to option panel for clarity

1.3

• code cleanup and error trapping
• added dynamic reference of maximum posts based on blog Settings | Reading “posts per page”

1.2

• code clean up
• changed the_content(__(‘Read more …’)) to the_content() as a more “default” version

1.1

• added option for Post Titles only
• added <div style="overflow-x: auto"> wrapper to allow for images wider than the widget area

1.0

• Initial Release.