Plugin / Fontsampler

Changelog

0.4.4

• FIX: Made ‘init’ and ‘fina’ Opentype Features available in the context menu for fonts that support them

0.4.3

• TWEAK: Improved admin interface slider responsivness and sanity checks
• TWEAK: Fixed compability with misc plugins (css class conflicts)

0.4.1 & 0.4.2

• TWEAK: Hotfix to suppress a debug message

0.4.0

• FEATURE: Implemented option for handling notdef glyphs
• FEATURE: Implemented language locale picker, which allows previewing Opentype locl substitutions
• FEATURE: Implemented default translations for frontend strings
• FEATURE: Included translations: English, German, Finnish, Persian
• FEATURE: Added more Javascript events for various UI operations, making it easier to customise and extend the plugin
• FEATURE: Added ‘fontsampler_enqueue_styles’ filter hook to programatically trigger enqueuing the fontsampler styles (e.g. if you have programatically triggered the shortcode and want to ensure the styles are loaded in the head tag)
• FEATURE: Implemented automatic detection and rewrite for mixed content problems when serving a site over https, but font files are stored in the media gallery with http
• TWEAK: The Fontsampler UI CSS and HTML structure has changed slightly (mainly: using flex-box display)
• TWEAK: Improved shortcode detection and outputting of fontsampler styles to the header of pages on which the fontsampler shortcode is detected
• TWEAK: Improved rendering for right-to-left languages in frontend and backend
• TWEAK: Fixed the warning about the minimum PHP version required for Fontsampler to be 5.6.33
• TWEAK: Warning and error messages now use the default WordPress styling
• FIX: Fixed an issue where settings overwrites for the sample texts dropdown would incorrectly render the default settings’ sample texts
• FIX: Fixed the appearance of color picker buttons in the Fontsampler admin area
• FIX: Improvement that prevents the same font file being loaded several times when used in several different Fontsamplers on the same page, potentially resulting in a MASSIVE performance improvement
• FIX: Implemented a fix that prevented “Oblique” styles from being detected as different than their roman counter-part
• NOTICE: Deprecating Specimen and Link UI fields; those will get removed with 0.5.0 and replaced with hooks to enable customising
• NOTICE: Deprecating “Legacy formats” now still included (hidden by default) in the admin area; those will get removed with 0.5.0

0.3.7 & 0.3.8

• Implemented shortcode attribute to overwrite or dynamically set the default text
• Implemented shortcode attribute to overwrite or dynamically set the fonts and font files
• Implemented events called on the wrapper after initialisation and font change
• Now serving all frontend javascript assets as one minified file (previously 20+ dynamic file calls)
• Now serving all backend javascript assets as one minified file (previously 30+ dynamic file calls)
• Fixed a compability issue arising from other plugins using the same javascript dependency manager
• Fixed an issue where OpenType features that are enabled by default did not have their UI elements reflect that correctly
• Fixed an issue where switching fonts would revert selections made in the OpenType modal

0.3.6

• Implemented a feature that strips pasted text of its original styling
• Fixed an issue that caused dropdowns to not work on mobile devices
• Fixed an issue in the admin area that overwrote font names when uploading several fonts at once
• Fixed several styling and preview issues in the admin area

0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.3.3

• Hotfix to prevent buggy PHP 5.6 T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM (::) error
• Hotfix to prevent directory permissions check to detect a false positive

0.3.0

• Added a “What’s new” tab that is shown after an updated, informing users of recent changes
• Changed the default behaviour regarding font names. Font names in Fontsamplers will be shown as stored in the admin area, instead of being extracted from the PostScript names in the files themselves
• Adding a new font file in the admin area will automatically extract the PostScript font name from the file, but let’s users store any arbitrary font name when creating the font set
• Adding a new font file in the admin area will immediately render a preview of the font
• Added PHP version check to avoid users running PHP versions lower than 5.6 trying to run Fontsampler
• Fixed permissions check and creation of custom css files for storing Fontsampler custom css settings
• Added the notifications highlight number also to the Fontsampler sidebar menu to attract attention to potential issues when browsing anywhere in the admin area
• Changed the display of Fontsamplers in the admin area: The font name is directly rendered in the font, additionally there is a flag showing if a Fontsampler uses custom or default options
• Updated Opentype.js dependency to fix a Safari specific bug that would fail to detect several different distinct styles of one font family
• Fixed an issue with the uninstall script that would prevent Fontsampler from being fully uninstalled in some circumstances
• Temporarily removed Woff2 until the Opentype.js implementation is fully working; any already uploaded and stored woff2 files will still be there once this feature is ready for prime time in an upcoming release
• Fontsampler is now officially brought to you as an Open Source initiative of Underscore Type – same developer, different name 😉

See the changelog tab to review the changes in prior updates.