Plugin / Name Directory

Changelog

1.15.2 | October 13, 2019

• Feature: Added an option to the import screen to empty a directory before importing (useful for people who use a spreadsheet for name management)
• Enhancement: Added a special import-option the import screen which uses UTF8 import.
• Maintenance: WordPress 5.3 compatible

1.15.1 | August 16, 2019

• Bugfix: Added an exact match query to the “exact” search functionality

1.15 | August 14, 2019

• Feature: You can now choose (per-directory) whether to search in the description
• Enhancement: Added extra explaination / documentation on the subject of importing to the plugin
• Enhancement: Refined the “exact” search functionality in the directories
• Maintenance: Cleaned up the plugins CSS
• Maintenance: Changed the way the database is installed and kept in sync on updating, way less code

1.14.2 | August 1, 2019 (my nephew’s birthday)

• Improvement: Empty the edit form on Ajax submit and scroll to the top to see the success message

1.14.1 | August 1, 2019 (my nephew’s birthday)

• Feature: You can now use a visual editor! You just have to enable this on the General Settings (the one of Name Directory) screen
• Bugfix: Fixed small import bug with accent characters
• Bugfix: htmlspecialchars sometimes issued a warning to the error_log

1.14 | July 17, 2019

• Feature: Added Quick Import from menu, imports into a new directory
• Enhancement: Translations/naming
• Enhancement: When searching with (double) quotation marks, it will not perform a wildcard search. So searching for “media” will not return ‘mediator’.
• Bugfix: Directory sorting in the admin is now on most recent added named, but with empty directories on top

1.13.7 | June 2, 2019

• Bugfix: SQL improvement for selecting and grouping

1.13.6 | June 1, 2019

• Feature: sort name directory on most recent added name
• Bugfix: also show empty directories

1.13.5 | May 28, 2019

• Refactored some code
• Javascript is handled cleaner (more WordPress-alike)
• Bugfix: Fixed One-click status toggle (published/unpublished)

1.13.4 | May 28, 2019

• Feature: sort name directory on most recent added name
• Bugfix: remove debug output

1.13.3 | May 16, 2019

• Bugfix: utf8_encode in import functionality, so non-latin characters are supported too

1.13.2 | April 18, 2019

• mb_string enhancement, this is used on non-latin character sets.
• Bugfix: Do not use mb_string functionality when it’s not available (so it does not crash)
• Feature: Test whether the mb_string extension in PHP is enabled and display a notice when it’s not
• Tested WordPress v5.2 (beta)

1.13.1 | February 28, 2019 (my birthday!)

• Bugfix: When exporting, rows were not properly separated
• Bugfix: When exporting, HTML markup cannot support linebreaks

1.13 | February 20, 2019

• Introduced [namedirectory_single], to display a single name entry on the website. Useful for widgets
• Bugfix: When exporting, HTML markup is now saved to the CSV
• Added ID’s in the admin (so you can actually use the new shortcode)
• Created a render-helper for nameboxes to be reused by [namedirectory], [namedirectory_random] and the new [namedirectory_single]
• Finally using separate .js and .css for the admin!
• Numurous small enhancements to the admin

1.12 | January 31, 2019

• Added search in the backend -> Code kindly provided by @mpmarinov
• Added shortcode for displaying a random name ([namedirectory_random]) from a given directory -> Code kindly provided by @mastababa

1.11.6 | January 21, 2019

• Also added the ‘jump to’ functionality when clicking on index letters. Earlier, this was only done at the searchbox (Thanks Ana!)

1.11.5 | January 12, 2019

• Better support for your own name term
• Admin link to the add-form

1.11.4 | December 27, 2018

• Fixes bug in WordPress site search hook when no preferences for site search were set

1.11.3 | December 27, 2018

• Temporary disabled the search because of bug reports

1.11.2 | December 26, 2018

• Fixes bug in WordPress site search hook where all posts were included on no results

1.11.1 | December 26, 2018

• Temporary disabled the search because of bug reports

1.11 | December 18, 2018

• Added the ability to give your own term for ‘names’. So it does not have to be a ‘name’ directory, you can customize it to be like ‘movies’. It’ll state “There are currently 10 movies in this directory”, instead of “There are currently 10 names in this directory”.
• WordPress 5.0.1 compatible

1.10 | December 17, 2018

• It’s now possible to include Name Directory in your WordPress (site wide) search results. Offcourse, Name Directory still has it’s own searchbox!
• Added a new General Settings page which allows you to enable and tweak the search-behaviour. You can also choose to search in descriptions and whether it should be a wildcard search.
• Added a screenshot of the new General Settings page
• Updated screenshot #2 (Directory overview)
• Updated Frequently Asked Questions

1.9.7

• PHP 5.3 compatibility
• WordPress 5.0 compatible

1.9.6

• Cleaned up code to prevent errors in debug-mode

1.9.5

• Startswith character can now be non-latin

1.9.4

• Confirm-delete message did show an alert, but no text

1.9.3

• Added a confirm-delete message when deleting a directory.

1.9.2

• Sorted index characters when they were not shown by default: A-Z

1.9.1

• Compatible with WordPress 4.9.1
• Ability to limit the amount of words in the description, shown on the frontend of the website. You can manage this in the directory settings. Names with a description which exceeds the setting, are limited with a “Show more” link.
• Optimized code, rewritten the directory options screen to prevent lots of duplicate code and make it easier for myself to maintain
• Added some more descriptions to what the directory settings do
• Updated screenshots

1.9.0

• You can now use words that start with non-latin characters (like Chinese, Arabic, Nordic/Danish, etc)
• Updated Readme, which includes the Description, Changelog and the Frequently Asked Questions
• Updated php code to follow development guidelines

1.8.2

• Compatible with WordPress 4.9 final
• Update php code to follow development guidelines

1.8.1

• Compatible with WordPress 4.9b3
• Removed old translation file, since Name Directory uses the WordPress translation platform
• Moved an admin add_action hook
• Updated Export to work with Javascript, possible denying Internet Explorer 9 (and lower) users export
• Fixed compatibility with AJAX Front-end plugins
• WordPress moves all divs with class ‘updated’ to the top of the page, which isn’t very handy for the Add-Name form, which is on the bottom of the page. Created a workaround, all success-messages will be displayed above the add-form again.

1.8

• Added export function, export your name directory to .csv file. Offcourse, it’s compatible with the upload function

1.7.15

• WND-46: Created a new option the admin for jumping to the searchbox on the front-end, useful on long page or onepage website
• Support bumped to WordPress 4.8.2

1.7.14

• WND-45: Better multisite support

1.7.13

• WND-44: Front-end submit form now requires at least a name

1.7.12

• WND-42: Option to use latest was broken, treated as L

1.7.11

• WND-41: Verified translation from translate.wordpress.org
• WND-40: Fixed bug there selecting only names that start with numbers, everything was shown

1.7.10 | July 23, 2016

• WND-39: Added name_directory_active class on index to indicate which character was activated
• WND-39: Added name_directory_empty class on index to indicate there are no entries for a character
• Started working with the Stable tag: https://wordpress.org/plugins/about/svn/#task-3
• Removed translations so we can benefit from translate.wordpress.org 🙂
• Do you want to help me translate this plugin in your own language? Let me know in the support forums! I will credit you!

1.7.9

• WND-38: Database structure adjust

1.7.8

• WND-35: Fixed CVS import
• WND-36: Tested WP 4.4.2

1.7.7

• WND-24: Fixed Possible XSS vulnerability

1.7.6

• WordPress 4.3 compatible
• Added Arabic translation (Thanks Ahmad from http://www.ams.ly)
• Updated some PHP-code
• Prevent possible function collisions

1.7.5

• Updated Norwegian translation (Thanks Mikael!)
• Some improvements for English language
• Synced .pot and .po files

1.7.4

• WND-25: Send e-mailnotification to WordPress admin when a new name is submitted
• Generated new .pot file and synced all .po files

1.7.3

• Ordering enhancements
• Generated new .pot file and synced all .po files

1.7.2

• WND-32: Show X latest (most recent) names
• Updated Dutch Translation

1.7.1

• Added Norwegian translation thanks to Mikael
• WND-31: Search for searchterm in description (but only if show_description is enabled)
• Moved common code to helpers, preparing for better code

1.7

• WND-11: Import names and descriptions by csv-upload, find this option at the manage-screen
• WND-24: Toggle published-status for name (easily show or hide names)
• Name in WordPress settings menu is now “Name Directory” instead of “Name Directory Plugin”
• Extended FAQ
• Code improvements
• Updated Dutch Translation

1.6.16

• WND-26 & WND-28: Honour the Show Description setting in frontend

1.6.15

• Added little spacers in the admin on the Manage names screen
• Every name on the front-end got an anchor name

1.6.14

• Added new translation file
• Updated Dutch translation

1.6.13

• WND-23: New option to only show letters on the index when there are entries, so A B D E when there is no entry with C
• Fixed small legacy db-convert bug
• Gave the admin panel for directory settings some space

1.6.12

• Expanded FAQ
• Updated documentation / edited screenshots
• Updated information displayed at the WordPress Plugin Repository page

1.6.11

• Search URL’s didn’t function properly
• Search argument didn’t work together (selected name and input filter)
• function didn’t work when WordPress was running without SEO tools
• URL improvements (also tested with Yoast SEO plugin)

1.6.10

• URLencoded the # sign, so entries starting with a number will show up

1.6.9

• WND-21: Checked translation strings. Also edited two fussy strings in the Dutch translation
• WND-22: Fixed wp-admin paths for WP Multisite users

1.6.8

• WND-17: Added option which let’s the user choose a default starting-character when displaying the name directory. For example: use [namedirectory dir=”X” start_with=”j”] to start with the letter J.
• WordPress 4.0 compatibility
• Added Icon to the installer gallery

1.6.7

• Updated Russion Translation (Thanks to: Rig Kruger http://rodichi.org)

1.6.6

• Fixed small display bug

1.6.5

• Showed submitted name

1.6.4

• Updated French translations
• Fixed too-many-slashes issue

1.6.3

• Updated Dutch translations
• Fixed display bug.
• The All-link is hidden when you a visitor HAS to choose a letter from the index

1.6

• Added option ‘Show all names by default’, this can be disabled to hide all entries if a user hasn’t chosen a letter from the index.

1.5.2

• Fixed bug in CREATE TABLE and backlink in form, thank you very much MerlIAV for the patch!

1.5.1

• Fixed bug that prevent saving searchform preference in admin

1.5

• Added search box on front-end (You can enable this in the name-directory settings)
• Added support for four-column layout
• Added Russion Translation (Translated by: Rig Kruger http://rodichi.org)

1.4.3

• Fixed bug which allowed non-published items to be shown

1.4.2

• Fixed support for Chinese characters
• Added French Translation (Translated by: Patrick BARDET http://www.web-studio-creation.fr)

1.4.1

• Fixed sorting issue at the frontend

1.4

• WND-19: Added support for HTML in the name description

1.3

• Name lists can now have multiple columns at the frontend
• Added css in a separate file
• Added database upgrade module

1.2.1

• Plugin url’s are now compatible with third party SEO modules

1.2

• Added support for submission form on the front-end
• Added possibility for admin to filter on published/unpublished names
• Rearranged directory overview for admin, overview now shows totals for published/unpublished

1.1

• Added double name detection

1.0 | November 8, 2013

• First major public release

0.5

• First version for private use