Plugin / Foyer – Digital Signage for WordPress

Changelog

1.7

Release Date: November 15, 2018

Introduces the Upcoming Events and Recent Posts slide formats. Displays a slide for each of your upcoming events / recent posts, limited to a certain category if you wish. Upcoming Events requires the Theater for WordPress plugin.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed an issue where video and YouTube backgrounds did not play on displays that did not yet include a video or YouTube background (1.7.2). Thanks amosar for troubleshooting!

Hey developers!:

• Added support for add-on plugins. You can now code Foyer add-on plugins, including template files that take precedence over Foyer template files (1.7.2).
• Fixed an issue where developers could not use HTML in Theater production titles on the Production and Upcoming productions slide formats (1.7.3).
• Added a ‘foyer/public/enqueue_scripts/before’ action hook that is triggered before the Foyer scripts are enqueued, so add-on plugins can bind events before Foyer does (1.7.4).
• Added an event ‘slides:removing-old-slide-group’ that is triggered just before a slide group is removed (1.7.4).
• Added the slide group class as parameter to the ‘slides:removing-old-slide-group’ and ‘slides:loaded-new-slide-group’ events, so these slide groups can be selectively targeted (1.7.4).
• Added a filter that allows displaying of slide previews on the channel admin screen to be disabled (1.7.4).

1.6

Release Date: October 3, 2018

Introduces the highly anticipated self-hosted Video slide background. Displays an uploaded or externally hosted video. Works best with MP4 files. The slide background displaying a YouTube video is now called… ‘YouTube’.

Enhancements:

• Limited the WordPress media library to display only usable media files when adding media to a slide (1.6.0). PDF files only for the PDF slide format, video files only for the new Video slide background, image files only for the Image slide background.

1.5

Release Date: March 2, 2018

Introduces the Post slide format and the Manual text slide format. Displays title, date and content of a post, and optionally the featured image. The Manual text slide format displays your text: pre-title, title, subtitle, content. Also, slides that generate multiple slides (like the PDF slide format) are now called.. Magic slide stacks! The channel admin is improved by displaying title and properties of each slide.

Enhancements:

• Added a new option to enable sound for a video background (1.5.1).
• Video backgrounds no longer play when previewed while editing a Channel (1.5.1).
• Displayed the slide background, next to the slide format, on the slides admin page (1.5.1).
• Tweaked some translatable strings to make translation easier (1.5.1).
• Renamed the ‘Manual text’ slide format to ‘Text’, keeping it simple (1.5.1).
• Added a hint about minimal image sizes to the image slide background admin (1.5.2).
• Removed Dutch translation files (1.5.2). Translations are now fully handled by https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/foyer. Translations welcome!
• Added a Web App manifest that enables displays to launch full screen on Android (1.5.4). Just tap ‘Add to Home screen’ from the Chrome menu and launch this shortcut.
• Encouraged iOS to play YouTube background videos (1.5.5). Works! However not when in “Low Power Mode”, and not for videos with sound enabled.
• YouTube videos now cover the entire slide background (1.5.5). Hello vertical videos!
• Added support for passing on template args to slide backgrounds, so developers (and I) can code more complex slide stacks (1.5.7).

Bug fixes:

• Fixed an issue where YouTube videos stopped playing after 5 minutes when page caching was enabled (1.5.1). Thanks Heinz for troubleshooting!
• Fixed an issue where images on slides were over cropped, even when adding exact Full HD sizes (1.5.2).
• Fixed a 404 Not Found issue when accessing a display on its pretty permalink in fresh Foyer installs (1.5.3).
• Fixed an issue where slideshows would not continue to the next slide when the video of the current slide is not playing, eg. in case of prolonged network failure (1.5.5).
• Fixed an issue where background images were not covering the entire slide, in Edge (1.5.5).
• Fixed an issue where the rewrite rules are not flushed after plugin update, but a PHP Warning is thrown instead (1.5.6).

1.4

Release Date: February 14, 2018

Introduces a brand new way to build slides: choose a format, then a background. Now you can build event slides with video backgrounds. Or, coming up in a future release :-), WordPress Post slides on a background color.

1.3

Release Date: November 25, 2017

Introduces the External web page slide format. Displays a web page to your liking. This could be anything! A dashboard, a social media wall, a live feed, teletext!, .. anything that has its own URL.

Enhancements:

• Made the PDF slide format processing work for WordPress < 4.7 (1.3.1).
• Added notifications to the PDF slide format admin screen, displayed when PDF processing is not supported (no Imagick/Ghostscript installed), and when PDF file previews won’t work (WordPress < 4.7) (1.3.1).
• Removed the PDF slide format admin screen notifications added in 1.3.1, below the Upload PDF File button, as they proved to be unreliable. Instead added an admin notification, displayed only when PDF processing actually fails after saving a PDF slide (1.3.2).
• Displays now only use channels that are published, and channels now only use slides that are published (so no draft or private or trashed slides) (1.3.2).
• The Channel columns in the Display admin table now contain ‘None’ if no channel is set (1.3.2).
• Major internal changes that no one should notice: Refactored all non-object classes to use static methods, and switched from using a central Foyer_Loader class to registering actions and filters directly from Foyer, Foyer_Admin and Foyer_Public classes (1.3.2).
• Added a foyer-reset-display detection to JS, in anticipation of the 1.4.0 release that will need to be able to trigger it (1.3.3).

Bug fixes:

• Fixed an issue where the uploaded image on an event slide was never displayed (1.3.1).
• Fixed an issue introduced in 1.2.6 where the scheduled channel date time pickers no longer worked (1.3.1).
• Fixed an issue introduced in 1.2.6 where the media library lightbox texts were no longer set (1.3.1).
• Fixed an issue where the ‘External web page’ slide format displayed a border around the web page, depending on the theme and browser used (1.3.2).
• Fixed an issue where the Landscape / Portrait buttons were not styled correctly, depending on the theme used (1.3.2).
• Fixed a long unnoticed JS error that occurred while attempting loading new display data when no slide group was empty yet (1.3.3).

1.2

Release Date: April 12, 2017

Introduces the Video slide format. Displays a specified fragment of a YouTube video.

Enhancements:

• Added a ‘No transition’ option to channels, eg. for displaying on Raspberry Pi mini-computers (1.2.4).
• Added longer slide durations, up to 120 seconds (1.2.4).
• Added a foyer/public/enqueue_styles and a foyer/public/enqueue_scripts action, for theme developers (1.2.5).
• Made it possible to enqueue Foyer scripts outside of the Foyer plugin (1.2.6).

Bug fixes:

• The video start time was off during the very first loop through video slides (1.2.1).
• Fresh channel content was loaded every 30 seconds when viewing a display, changed this to every 5 minutes as intended (1.2.1).
• Removed all JS console logging that was used during development (1.2.1).
• The ‘Not a valid YouTube video URL’ notification was visible when starting a new video slide (1.2.1).
• The video preview in the admin would not work when editing an existing video slide (1.2.2).
• Improved handling of changed start and end fields in the video slide admin when no valid video URL is entered (1.2.2).
• Improved the video preview in the video slide admin by pausing the preview when the video URL field is changed and not valid (1.2.2).
• Some WordPress JavaScript admin functionality was prevented from working correctly, eg. the Media modal / image selector lightbox (1.2.3).
• The list of available channels was limited to only 5 when editing a display (1.2.3).
• PHP logged an Undefined index PHP Notice (1.2.3).
• The first slide of a channel could not be removed (1.2.4).
• Fixed an issue where some HTML code was visible on Production slides (1.2.6).
• Changed the name of the Production slide format to Event, same terminology as in Theater for WordPress (1.2.6).

1.1

Release Date: March 28, 2017

Added a PDF slide format. Creates a slide for each page in an uploaded PDF.

Bug fixes:

• When adding slides to a channel, the list of possible slides was limited to 5 items (1.1.0).
• Fatal error on install/upgrade on older PHP versions (< 5.5): Can’t use function return value in write context (1.1.1).
• All slide of a channel were removed after re-ordering the slides (1.1.2).
• Javascript error occured when a slide’s freshly selected image didn’t have a generated preview image (eg. PDFs on hosting not capable of converting PDFs) (1.1.2).
• Adding an image to a slide was only possible when the image was already in the media library (1.1.3).

1.0

Release Date: March 20, 2017

First public release!

Bug fixes:

• Improved code security: Sanitized and validated all user input, and escaped and sanitized the output of the plugin (1.0.1).