Plugin / Rotating Tweets (Twitter widget and shortcode)

Changelog

1.9.9

• [Security Update] Adds rel='noopener' to _blank links

1.9.8

• Fixes problem with Twitter intents for users with a high number user ID

1.9.7

• Fixes display bug where a Tweet contains two copies of the same URL.

1.9.6

• Twitter JavaScript only loads if Follow button is set to be displayed and the user has not set ‘Do Not Track’.

1.9.5

• Fixed compatibility with Brilliance Pro template

1.9.4

• Fixed compatibility bug with PHP 7.2

1.9.3

• Fixed compatibility bug with pre-4.0 versions of WordPress

1.9.2

• New shortcode option: auto_height=0 – to switch off height calculation

1.9.1

• Improved support for SSL

1.9

• Supports the new longer Tweet format

1.8.7

• Switches off Twitter JavaScript if ‘Do Not Track’ is enabled.
• Fix minor bug with Selective Refresh.

1.8.6

• Fixing minor bug in German translation.
• Removing “Undefined variable” notice on line 165

1.8.5

• Add shortcode for a large Twitter ‘follow’ button
• Support for PHP7
• Support for ‘Selective Refresh’
• Ensuring show_media display links respects links_in_new_window variable.

1.8.4

• Updated JavaScript for plug-ins and themes with their own JQuery Cycle2 installations

1.8.3

• Fixed ‘Invalid argument’ bug when combining tweets from different accounts
• Allow up to 60 tweets
• Deletion of Italian .mo file – since now available as a WordPress-hosted translation pack

1.8.2

• Fixed ‘Undefined variable’ bug in line 648

1.8.1

• Fixed “no updating” caching bug

1.8

• Better handling of multiple screen names in a single widget or shortcode
• Addition of new option to hide CSS
• Updated Twitter JavaScript
• Translated the base readme file into US English
• Handled bug with UTF8MB4 text encoding
• Tidier date management code with better error handling
• Made links in the readme.txt language independent

1.7.18

• Reinstalling translation packs. Turns out that incomplete packs aren’t loaded – which breaks some of the available translations.

1.7.17

• Move to WordPress-hosted translation packs.

1.7.16

• Fixed undefined variable error for show_media in WP_DEBUG mode
• Fix for caching bug

1.7.15

• Fixing bug on displaying meta content
• Enabling sorting of display elements via rtw_display_order shortcode

1.7.14

• Works with Page Builder by SiteOrigin.
• Adds new shortcode variable only_rts

1.7.13

• Adds profile_image_size, shuffle and merge_cache shortcode variables
• Lowers chance of clashes with other installations of cycle2 – by defaulting autoSelector to .rotatingtweets instead of .cycle-slideshow
• Handles old versions of jQuery that don’t fully support .data() better
• Fixes bug with merge functionality
• Fixes bug with admin page JavaScript (thanks to this very helpful article on StackExchange.com)

1.7.12

• Updated version 2 of JavaScript – updated jQuery.cycle2 and removal of bug
• Fixing height bug
• Fixing Carousel defaults
• Updating .pot file

1.7.11

• Completion of Spanish translation – many thanks to Alberto Lario for his help on this
• Fixing tweet height JavaScript bug
• CSS tidying for TwentyFifteen template
• Experimental function combining historical and current tweets

1.7.10

• Move to using HTML5 custom data attributes and data() functions to transfer variable values to version 1 of JavaScript – including ‘speed’ variable
• Addition of ‘pager’ via show_meta_pager and show_meta_pager_blob variables
• Addition of rtw_hashtag_link class to hashtag links
• timeout=0 now allows continuous scrolling
• Updating object code for the widget

1.7.9

• Fixing Tweet timezone display problem
• Restoring Tweet time display by default for ‘Official Twitter Guidelines (wide)’
• Extra CSS added to enable people to hide links (should they want to)
• Option to switch off JavaScript (for advanced users only)

1.7.8

• Solves bug when Base64 tries to decode an array

1.7.7

• Better handling transients on transition from old version to new

1.7.6

• Addition of Italian language
• Fixes transient-based caching – many thanks to to jensnilsson and Moondrop for highlighting the solution here.

1.7.5

• Much faster and more reliable caching.
• Compatibility with W3 Total Cache.
• New scrollLeftGap transition
• Ability to put ‘prev’ and ‘next’ buttons before and after the main rotating tweets

1.7.4

• Ensures all images use https:// link for compatibility with SSL-secured sites

1.7.3

• Adds show_tco_link shortcode variable to allow people to show t.co.links.
• Support for Newswire template
• Restores the caching of Tweet co-ordinates

1.7.2

• Switches off JavaScript expansion of ‘expand’ to ‘reply retweet favorite’ for carousel rotation.
• Adds new insidebottom option for np_pos shortcode variable

1.7.1

• Improved CSS support for horizontal carousel scrolling

1.7.0

• Adding offset, speed, tweet_length, no_emoji and show_media options to the shortcode
• Solves clash with Cyclone Slider 2
• Adds script version details to the JavaScript
• Removal of excess spaces from middot shortcode option
• Adds option for ‘custom’ display layout with user-defined display function rotatingtweets_display_override()

1.6.11

• Fixing cache bug with ‘user_mentions’

1.6.10

• New code to shrink size of cache by about 70%

1.6.9

• Bug fix.

1.6.8

• Shrinking cache size to reduce memory problems.
• Improved diagnostics.
• Clarified instructions.

1.6.7

• Fix next/prev buttons for v. 2 of Javascript.
• Add next/prev np_pos='tweets' option to documentation.
• Fix bug on admin page when WP_DEBUG is set.

1.6.6

• Corrected the 16×16 icon to the latest Twitter logo.

1.6.5

• Language update including new Serbian translation. Solved an unusual styling problem.

1.6.4

• Bug fix when user name not recognized.

1.6.3

• Add option to shorten default link length to 20 characters
• Language update including new German translation from Nils Kroneberg
• Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation from Wilmerson Felipe

1.6.2

• Fixing bug for PHP installations that don’t support the ‘u’ modifier
• Renaming v2 JavaScript to avoid clash with other plug-ins.
• Extra diagnostics put in to solve regular expression problem

1.6.1

• Move to a more unique class name to avoid clashes with another template.

1.6.0

• New support for reading from multiple accounts
• Improved clean-up on uninstallation or deactivation
• Addition of settings page option for timeout of connection to Twitter
• Addition of settings page option for placement of JavaScript at the bottom of the page
• Addition of settings page option for duration of cache
• Fixed problem with hashtags and accents
• Improved error messages for connection problems
• Tidying up settings page text

1.5.1

• Enforce rules on replies and retweets even if the Twitter API doesn’t
• Fixed problem with Magazino template
• Fixed incorrect message on settings page

1.5.0

• Added Carousel rotation option and beta support for version 2 of JQuery Cycle
• Added link_all_text shortcode tag and functionality
• Added richer debug information
• Corrected API expiry date
• Added missing alt tag
• Kept CSS permanently in the header to maintain HTML capability
• Public facing Dutch translation complete – many thanks to Natasja Weijer for her help on this
• Attempt to fix clash with Avada and Gleam themes

1.4.7

• HTML5 compliance
• Improved rate-limiting

1.4.6

• Addition of Brazilian Portuguese translation
• Addition of new display format 6

1.4.5

• Deletes old cache entries if unused for more than 30 days
• Fixes a jQuery cycle clash with the Oxygen theme.
• Added readme.txt instructions for dealing with the WordPress error code: http_request_failed - name lookup timed out.

1.4.4

• Adds an option to switch off verification of SSL connections to Twitter
• Adds a short code option (no_rotate) to switch off rotation

1.4.3

• Removes two lines of CSS causing formatting problems
• Improves responsiveness going from narrow to wider layouts

1.4.2

• Corrected minor error with resizing of .rtw_meta div

1.4.1

• Now works with responsive formats
• Adjusted width overflow issues
• Added instructions on how to deal with width issues

1.4.0

• Support for search, favorites and lists via Rotating Tweets widgets.

1.3.18

• Improved and clearer error messages.
• Removed search bug.
• ‘Next’ and ‘Prev’ buttons for shortcodes.

1.3.17

• Adds the opportunity to show lists.
• Tackles a very odd box height problem that has just appeared in Chrome (but not Firefox or IE).

1.3.16

• Making sure hashtags have a space or the start of a line before them.
• Tidying up errors found when running plug-in with wp_debug set to true

1.3.15

• Minor correction to hashtag code

1.3.14

• Fixes accents in hashtags (hopefully).
• Adds beta of search to the shortcode API.
• Adds new format of Tweet display.

1.3.13

• Strips @ from screen names to avoid API problems.

1.3.12

• Removes accents from screen names (and otherwise cleans them up).
• Add test option (currently for shortcodes only) to access favorites.
• Solves clash between PECL OAuth library and the Rotating Tweets OAuth library.

1.3.11

• Supports cyrillic hashtags!

1.3.10

• Fixed hashtag links

1.3.9

• Moved to Semantic Versioning

0.712 (1.3.8)

• Fixed bug with console.log javascript on IE.

0.711 (1.3.7)

• Fixed up a significant problem with caching.

0.709 (1.3.6)

• Tidying up error reporting.

0.707 (1.3.5)

• Fixes major bug resulting from upgrade to handle Twitter API v 1.1

0.706 (1.3.4)

• Change to JavaScript to improve width handling for tweets.

0.703 (1.3.3)

• Minor code tidying to improve debugging and increase speed!

0.702 (1.3.2)

• Adjustment to javascript and CSS to cope with long links or long words

0.701 (1.3.1)

• Very minor mistake in rendering code

0.700 (1.3.0)

• Important upgrade needed for Rotating Tweets to keep working after March 2013. Supports version 1.1 of the Twitter API.

0.625 (1.2.4)

• Enabled users to make all links open in a new tab or window

0.623 (1.2.3)

• Fixed a problem where a short name fitted inside a long one – e.g. @rotary and @rotarycrocus

0.622 (1.2.2)

• Escaped title tags

0.621 (1.2.1)

• Fixed timezone problem.

0.620 (1.2.0)

• Added option to show links in a new window
• Fix problem with selection of 20 second rotating speed.

0.613 (1.1.6)

• Fixed instructions in plug-ins list.

0.612 (1.1.5)

• Fixed error message caused by last fix causing tweets to repeat.

0.611 (1.1.4)

• Finally ran with debug and removed all the error messages.

0.610 (1.1.3)

• Starts to add options to allow for different length URLs

0.602 (1.1.2)

• Fixes bug with Javascript

0.601 (1.1.1)

• Fixes problem with stylesheet

0.600 (1.1.0)

*Now includes options consistent with Twitter display options
* Tidied up code.

0.505 (1.0.0)

• Minimized Javascript.
• Set-up for I18n.

0.502 (0.4.1)

• Javascript fix for zero height tweets problem

0.500 (0.4.0)

• Adds options for how tweet information is displayed and how the tweet rotates.

0.492 (0.3.1)

• Solves Cannot use string offset as an array error on line 232

0.491 (0.3.0)

• Lets you customize the Twitter ‘follow’ button.
• Fixes problem with media links.
• Sorts problem of overlong links reshaping widgets.

0.48 (0.2.6)

• More detailed error messages for WordPress installations unable to access Twitter.
• Fixes problem on the zeeBizzCard template and sets up fix for other templates that use their own install of the jquery-cycle javascript.

0.471 (0.2.5)

• Making sure that cache never gets overwritten unless new, valid twitter data has been downloaded.
• Dealing with the problem that someone in a long conversation may not get enough valid tweets to show by asking for only 20 tweets from Twitter.

0.46 (0.2.4)

• Properly handles rate-limiting by Twitter

0.44 (0.2.3)

• Removes follow button if Twitter has returned an empty value

0.43 (0.2.2)

• Improved error checking if Twitter has returned an empty value

0.42 (0.2.1)

• Fixed major bug causing crashes when Twitter goes down

0.40 (0.2.0)

• Added ability to alter speed of rotation

0.30 (0.1.8)

• Fixes bug – problem with get_object_vars() on line 193

0.29 (0.1.7)

• Better handling of retweets. No longer cuts off the end of the text on longer RTs.

0.28 (0.1.6)

• Properly fixes flaw in how flags are handled.

0.27 (0.1.5)

• Fixed flaw in how flags are handled.

0.26 (0.1.4)

• Stops display and caching of non-existent twitter feeds

0.25 (0.1.3)

• Stops display and caching of faulty twitter feeds

0.21 (0.1.2)

• Replaced a missing </div> in the follow-button code (with thanks to jacobp for spotting it and suggesting a fix)

0.2 (0.1.1)

• Fixed a problem with caching

0.1 (0.1.0)

• First published version