Plugin / Linkify Text

Changelog

1.9.1 (2018-07-19)

• Fix: Ensure mb_* functions aren’t used when not available
• Fix: Prevent conflicts with oembeds by firing at a lower hook priority
• New: Add a unit test related to multibyte text

1.9 (2018-07-05)

Highlights:

• This release adds a setting for links to open in a new window, adds support for linkable text spanning multiple lines in your post, adds a filter for customizing link attributes, improves performance, and makes numerous behind-the-scenes improvements and changes.

Details:
* New: Add setting to set if links should open in a new window/tab
* New: Add filter ‘c2c_linkify_text_link_attrs’ for adding attributes to links
* New: Add support for finding linkable text that may span more than one line or consist of internal spaces
* Fix: Improve handling of removing links within links
* Change: Improve performance by checking for substring match for phrase to linkify before doing much work
* Change: Update plugin framework to 048
* 048:
* When resetting options, delete the option rather than setting it with default values
* Prevent double “Settings reset” admin notice upon settings reset
* 047:
* Don’t save default setting values to database on install
* Change “Cheatin’, huh?” error messages to “Something went wrong.”, consistent with WP core
* Note compatibility through WP 4.9+
* Drop compatibility with version of WP older than 4.7
* 046:
* Fix reset_options() to reference instance variable $options
* Note compatibility through WP 4.7+
* Update copyright date (2017)
* 045:
* Ensure reset_options() resets values saved in the database
* 044:
* Add reset_caches() to clear caches and memoized data. Use it in reset_options() and verify_config()
* Add verify_options() with logic extracted from verify_config() for initializing default option attributes
* Add add_option() to add a new option to the plugin’s configuration
* Add filter ‘sanitized_option_names’ to allow modifying the list of whitelisted option names
* Change: Refactor get_option_names()
* 043:
* Disregard invalid lines supplied as part of hash option value
* Change: Bail early if filtering disables linking of the given text
* Change: Prevent PHP warnings by ensuring array elements exist before use
* Change: Cast return values of hooks to expected data types
* Change: Improve setting page help text
* New: Add README.md
* New: Add GitHub link to readme
* Change: Store setting name in constant
* Unit tests:
* Change: Improve test initialization
* Change: Improve tests for settings handling
* Change: Default WP_TESTS_DIR to /tmp/wordpress-tests-lib rather than erroring out if not defined via environment variable
* Change: Enable more error output for unit tests
* New: Add more tests
* New: Add header comments to bootstrap
* Change: Note compatibility through WP 4.9+
* Change: Drop compatibility with version of WP older than 4.7.
* Change: Tweak plugin description
* Change: Rename readme.txt section from ‘Filters’ to ‘Hooks’
* Change: Modify formatting of hook name in readme to prevent being uppercased when shown in the Plugin Directory
* Change: Update installation instruction to prefer built-in installer over .zip file
* Change: Update copyright date (2018)

1.8 (2016-05-16)

• New: Ensure longer, more precise link strings match before shorter strings that might also match, regardless of order defined.
• New: Linkify text within shortcode content, but not within the shortcode tags themselves.
• New: Add $text_to_link as additional optional argument to ‘c2c_linkify_text_linked_text’ filter.
• Bugfix: Fix being able to limit text replacements to just once a post.
• Bugfix: Honor setting to limit text replacements to just once a post for multibyte strings.
• Bugfix: Preserve capitalization of source string being linkified. Fixes case-sensitive matches where the source string is differently cased than defined in setting.
• Change: Update plugin framework to 043:
  • Change class name to c2c_LinkifyText_Plugin_043 to be plugin-specific.
  • Disregard invalid lines supplied as part of a hash option value.
  • Set textdomain using a string instead of a variable.
  • Don’t load textdomain from file.
  • Change admin page header from ‘h2’ to ‘h1’ tag.
  • Add c2c_plugin_version().
  • Formatting improvements to inline docs.
• Change: Add support for language packs:
  • Set textdomain using a string instead of a variable.
  • Remove .pot file and /lang subdirectory.
  • Remove ‘Domain Path’ plugin header.
• Change: Declare class as final.
• Change: Add more unit tests.
• Change: Explicitly declare methods in unit tests as public or protected.
• Change: Discontinue unnecessary use of empty().
• Change: Minor code reformatting (spacing).
• Change: Minor documentation tweaks.
• Change: Note compatibility through WP 4.5+.
• Change: Remove support for versions of WordPress older than 4.1.
• Change: Update copyright date (2016).
• Change: Prevent direct invocation of test file.
• Change: Prevent web invocation of unit test bootstrap.php.
• New: Document ‘c2c_linkify_text_linked_text’ filter in readme.
• New: Create empty index.php to prevent files from being listed if web server has enabled directory listings.
• New: Add LICENSE file.

1.7 (2015-02-20)

• Improve support of ‘&’ in text to be linked by recognizing its encoded alternatives (‘&’, ‘&’) as equivalents
• Prevent linkification of text if the provided link doesn’t look anything like a link
• Change regex delimiter from ‘|’ to ‘~’
• Minor refactoring of multibyte handling
• Add to and improve unit tests
• Add help text under primary textarea mentioning the term referencing feature
• Minor documentation changes throughout

1.6 (2015-02-12)

• Prevent text replacements from taking place within shortcode attributes or content. props @rbonk
• Support linkifying multibyte strings. NOTE: Multibyte strings don’t honor limiting their replacement within a piece of text to once
• Use preg_quote() to escape user input used in regex
• Update plugin framework to 039
• Add check to prevent execution of code if file is directly accessed
• Minor plugin header reformatting
• Minor code reformatting (spacing, bracing)
• Change documentation links to wp.org to be https
• Add an FAQ question
• Note compatibility through WP 4.1+
• Update copyright date (2015)
• Add an FAQ question
• Add more unit tests
• Add plugin icon
• Regenerate .pot

1.5 (2014-01-04)

• Add setting to allow limiting linkification to once per term per text
• Add filter ‘c2c_linkify_text_replace_once’
• Add ability for a term to use another term’s link
• Change to just-in-time (rather than on init) determination if comments should be filtered
• Add linkify_comment_text()
• Add get_instance() static method for returning/creating singleton instance
• Made static variable ‘instance’ private
• Validate post is either int or string before handling
• Add unit tests
• Omit output of empty ‘title’ attribute for links
• Update plugin framework to 037
• Use explicit path for require_once()
• For options_page_description(), match method signature of parent class
• Discontinue use of explicit pass-by-reference for objects
• Code tweaks (spacing, bracing, rearranging)
• Documentation enhancements, additions, and tweaks
• Note compatibility through WP 3.8+
• Drop compatibility with version of WP older than 3.6
• Update copyright date (2014)
• Regenerate .pot
• Change donate link
• Add assets directory to plugin repository checkout
• Add banner
• Add screenshot

1.0.1 (unreleased)

• Re-license as GPLv2 or later (from X11)
• Add ‘License’ and ‘License URI’ header tags to readme.txt and plugin file
• Add ‘Upgrade Notice’ section to readme.txt
• Remove ending PHP close tag
• Note compatibility through WP 3.4+
• Update copyright date (2012)

1.0

• Initial release