Plugin / Notification – Custom Notifications and Alerts for WordPress

Changelog

6.2.0

• [Fixed] Checkbox in plugin settings now can specify true-ish default value.
• [Fixed] Trigger select box margins.
• [Fixed] Role recipient for Email picking wrong roles with LIKE statement.
• [Changed] Input field sanitizer for Carriers, allowing for some HTML tags.
• [Added] Background processing feature, which load the actions into WP Cron.
• [Added] Comment published trigger.
• [Added] Post publication date and time merge tag.

6.1.6

• [Fixed] Notification duplication feature, thanks to Erik West.

6.1.5

• [Fixed] Error when a new user was added by logged in user, the password reset notification was sent.

6.1.4

• [Fixed] Addig the same Notification twice from the Wizard. Now Notification hash is regenerated.
• [Changed] Post triggers now setup properties after checking all the conditions. This way second action call with wrong params won’t change the trigger state. Thanks to Tom Angell.

6.1.3

• [Fixed] Password reset link fatal error when default WordPress notification was disabled.

6.1.2

• [Fixed] Carrier adding section being booted too early and being broken with other extensions.

6.1.1

• [Fixed] The Gutenberg integration causing an error for triggers other than related to post types.

6.1.0

• [Fixed] File mtime method now checks if file exists.
• [Fixed] Cache is now cleared after saving the notification.
• [Fixed] Uninstallation process.
• [Fixed] License deactivation.
• [Fixed] Issue with overlooping notifications when more than one action was called in the same request.
• [Added] Ability to define email headers.
• [Added] Webhook args and headers can be now not included if value is empty.
• [Added] notification/debug/suppress filter to disable suppression of notifications when debug log is activated.
• [Added] Confirmation before deleting the notification.
• [Added] Default WordPress emails disabler.
• [Added] notification/integration/gutenberg filter to disable Gutenberg support for specific post types. Useful when the post is in REST but no Gutenberg is used.
• [Added] Wizard.
• [Changed] Internationalization for JS files.
• [Changed] Notification repeater field is now by default sortable.
• [Changed] Carrier textarea field now can be unfiltered, so no HTML will be stripped.
• [Changed] Webpack for assets processing instead of Gulp.
• [Changed] OP Cache is no longer a requirement, instead hooks compatibility file is loaded when OP Cache config is incompatible.
• [Changed] Better Carriers management, now Carrier can be added and enabled independently.
• [Removed] Freemius.
• [Removed] The story screen.
• [Removed] Plugin internationalization files as all the translations comes from wp.org.

6.0.4

• [Fixed] Webhook waring using empty header values.
• [Fixed] Quick switch in Notifications table.
• [Fixed] Catching Notifications.
• [Added] Basic Gutenberg compatibility, post triggers are now postponed to rest_after_insert_{$post_type} action.

6.0.3

• [Fixed] On/off switch in notifications table.
• [Fixed] Duplicate feature.
• [Fixed] Licensing.
• [Changed] Notification trash link wording.

6.0.2

• [Fixed] Error in admin notice while manipulating extension license.
• [Fixed] Scripts and styles conditional loading.

6.0.1

• [Changed] Added soft-fail for not valid JSON configuration for Notifications. This is most likely caused by updating from a very old version.

6.0.0

• [Fixed] Theme Update trigger errors on update.
• [Added] Notification object as a wrapper for Notification Post.
• [Added] notification_create_view function for seamless view creation.
• [Added] notification/post/column/main action for notification edit screen addons.
• [Added] notification_get_posts function.
• [Added] Import and Export feature using JSON files.
• [Added] Composer support with unified testing.
• [Added] Merge Tags groups.
• [Added] Notification Adapters – WordPress and JSON.
• [Added] notification_ajax_handler function.
• [Added] Ability to define Notifications programmatically.
• [Added] JSON synchronization feature.
• [Added] add_quick_merge_tag Trigger method.
• [Added] Collapse option for plugin settings groups.
• [Added] Common error log for all extensions, you can use notification_log function.
• [Added] Post thumbnail URL and featured imager URL Merge Tags.
• [Added] Comment content HTML merge tag.
• [Added] Resolver API which allows to register more Merge Tag resolvers.
• [Added] notification/should_send filter to hold off the whole Notification.
• [Removed] Trigger usage tracking.
• [Changed] PostData class has been removed in favor of Notification object and procedural functions.
• [Changed] Admin Classes: MergeTags, Notifications, PostData, Recipients, Triggers has been removed and their content included in the Admin/PostType class.
• [Changed] Notification data is now using single nonce field and additional data should be saved with notification/data/save action.
• [Changed] Namespaces of Cron, Internationalization, License and Whitelabel classes.
• [Changed] Native class autoloader to Composer autoloader.
• [Changed] User recipients optimization with direct database calls.
• [Changed] Notification (in “type” context) has been renamed to Carrier.
• [Changed] The View object is not injected anymore to any Class, all use the notification_create_view function.
• [Changed] ScreenHelp class has been renamed to Screen and render methods from PostType class has been moved to this new class.
• [Changed] Notifications are now loaded on every page load and the Trigger action is not executing at all if no Notification is using it.
• [Changed] Notifications doesn’t have the trash anymore, the items are removed right away.
• [Changed] On notification edit screen the editor styles are no longer applied.
• [Changed] Carriers now have two step status – they can be either added to a Notification and be disabled at the same time.
• [Changed] strip_shortcodes function to custom preg_replace for better stripping.
• [Changed] Trigger storage now contains whole Notifications instead of just Carriers.

Compatibility breaking changes

Hooks – Some of the hooks names has been renamed for better consistency across the plugin. List of all changes:

• notification/notification/pre-send -> notification/carrier/pre-send
• notification/notification/sent -> notification/carrier/sent
• notificaiton/notification/field/resolving -> notification/carrier/field/resolving
• notification/value/strip_empty_mergetags -> notification/resolve/strip_empty_mergetags
• notification/value/strip_shortcodes -> notification/carrier/field/value/strip_shortcodes
• notificaiton/notification/field/resolved -> notification/carrier/field/value/resolved
• notificaiton/merge_tag/value/resolved -> notification/merge_tag/value/resolved
• notitication/admin/notifications/pre -> notification/admin/carriers/pre
• notitication/admin/notifications -> notification/admin/carriers
• notification/webhook/called/get -> notification/carrier/webhook/called/get
• notification/webhook/called/post -> notification/carrier/webhook/called/post
• notification/notification/box/pre -> notification/carrier/box/pre
• notification/notification/box/post -> notification/carrier/box/post
• notification/notification/box/field/pre -> notification/carrier/box/field/pre
• notification/notification/box/field/post -> notification/carrier/box/field/post
• notification/notification/form_fields/values -> notification/carrier/fields/values
• notification/email/use_html_mime -> notification/carrier/email/use_html_mime
• notification/email/recipients -> notification/carrier/email/recipients
• notification/email/subject -> notification/carrier/email/subject
• notification/email/message/pre -> notification/carrier/email/message/pre
• notification/email/message/use_autop -> notification/carrier/email/message/use_autop
• notification/email/message -> notification/carrier/email/message
• notification/email/headers -> notification/carrier/email/headers
• notification/email/attachments -> notification/carrier/email/attachments
• notification/webhook/args -> notification/carrier/webhook/args
• notification/webhook/args/$type -> notification/carrier/webhook/args/$type
• notification/webhook/remote_args/get -> notification/carrier/webhook/remote_args/get
• notification/webhook/remote_args/post -> notification/carrier/webhook/remote_args/post

Classes – Some of the classes or namespaces has been renamed or removed. List of all changes:

• BracketSpace\Notification\Admin\MergeTags – removed
• BracketSpace\Notification\Admin\Notifications – removed
• BracketSpace\Notification\Admin\PostData – removed
• BracketSpace\Notification\Admin\Recipients – removed
• BracketSpace\Notification\Admin\Triggers – removed
• BracketSpace\Notification\Admin\PostData – removed
• BracketSpace\Notification\Tracking – removed
• BracketSpace\Notification\Admin\BoxRenderer – removed
• BracketSpace\Notification\Admin\FormRenderer – removed
• BracketSpace\Notification\Admin\ScreenHelp – removed
• BracketSpace\Notification\Admin\FieldsResolver – removed
• BracketSpace\Notification\Abstracts\Notification -> BracketSpace\Notification\Abstracts\Carrier
• BracketSpace\Notification\Defaults\Notification -> BracketSpace\Notification\Defaults\Carrier
• BracketSpace\Notification\Admin\Cron -> BracketSpace\Notification\Core\Cron
• BracketSpace\Notification\Internationalization -> BracketSpace\Notification\Core\Internationalization
• BracketSpace\Notification\License -> BracketSpace\Notification\Core\License
• BracketSpace\Notification\Whitelabel -> BracketSpace\Notification\Core\Whitelabel

Functions – Some of the functions has been renamed for better consistency across the plugin. List of all changes:

• notification_is_new_notification -> notification_post_is_new
• register_notification -> notification_register_carrier
• notification_get_notifications -> notification_get_carriers
• notification_get_single_notification -> notification_get_carrier
• register_trigger -> notification_register_trigger
• notification_get_single_recipient -> notification_get_recipient
• notification_get_notification_recipients -> notification_get_carrier_recipients
• notification_get_single_trigger -> notification_get_trigger
• register_recipient -> notification_register_recipient