Plugin / WP SIMILE Timeline

Changelog

0.4.9 (26/09/2014)

• WordPress 4.0 compatibility
• Fixed start and end dates for posts
• Fixed faulty SQL queries
• Various bugfixes

0.4.8.6 (10/01/2013)

• Fixed wpdb::prepare() calls with second parameter

0.4.8.5 (21/03/2012)

• Fix for custom taxonomies with empty query_var
• Fixes ‘insufficient permissions error’ when deleting hotzones
• Fix for direct link of posts when image attachments are shown in timeline
• Event dates enabled for custom post types with category or post_tag support

0.4.8.4 (12/12/2011)

• Fixes issue with uncontrollable redirect to history.html?0
• Support for WordPress tags and custom taxonomies
• Support for custom post types that use standard taxonomies (categories and tags)
• WordPress 3.3 compatibility (WordPress 2.x not supported anymore)

0.4.8.3 (21/07/2010)

• Changed the date formatting for info bubbles according to WordPress date/time option
• New option to show/hide the event date inside the popup bubble
• Correctly parsing RSS links with SimplePie (fixes XML parsing errors)
• Fixed issues with hotzones and decorators not saving at all on certain installations
• Plugin activation hook is now correctly executed

0.4.8.2 (21/06/2010)

• Fixed initialization issues with WP 3.0 (Status code 404 on external scripts)

0.4.8.1 (16/06/2010)

• Fixed initialization issues when prototype.js is used (empty timeline frame)

0.4.8 (13/06/2010)

• Fixed missing argument error in template function
• Timeline is correctly inserted at the position of the shortcode
• Timeline start and stop boundaries can be defined
• Added contextual documentation links (WordPress help tab)
• Added Belorussian language files (thanks to Marcis G.)
• Various fixes for WordPress 3.0 compatibility

0.4.7 (18/12/2009)

• Implemented contextual help links (inside the small help tab in the admin interface). The documentation will move to the Google group soon.
• Renamed custom stylesheet template timeline.css to /data/custom.css
• Fully switched admin page implementation to PHP classes
• Updated Italian locale
• Updated screenshots
• Fixed bug when creating link categories
• JavaScript bugfixes for UI tabs
• Admin CSS, JavaScript fixes
• WordPress 2.9 ready

0.4.6.6 (05/12/2009)

• Fixed output post content in popup bubbles (Formatting and more tag are preseved)
• Added confirmation dialog on hotzone and decorator deletion (Admin page)

0.4.6.5 (25/11/2009)

• Admin page bugfixes
• Reverted to default styling of event icons (removes grey border)
• Solved issues with PHP 4 compatibility

0.4.6.4 (24/11/2009)

• Added support for customizable Hotzones and Highlight Decorators
• New option to use image attachments from posts to display in the timeline (Compact Painter)
• Uses new API version from SIMILE servers
• Updated interface options in the design tab
• Fixed saving bug of active categories (again)
• Fixed color picker position on options page
• Implemented security measures for query strings in frontend files (js,xml)
• Fixed bug when adding categories after plugin initialization

0.4.6.3 (23/10/2009)

• Fixed two misspelled language namespace identifiers on options page
• Updated i18n: Fully translated in Italian

0.4.6.2 (23/10/2009)

• Markup fixes on admin options page (plus new color picker)
• Compatible up to WordPress 2.8.5

0.4.6.1 (20/10/2009)

• Fixes major bug when saving category settings on timeline options page (due to a deprecated action hook).
• Updated i18n: Fully translated in German

0.4.6 (08/09/2009)

• WordPress 2.8.4 compatibility
• Markup and stability fixes on option pages. Fixes Setting-get-erased-bug (thanks to Shane and Erin)
• Fixed Jump to link location-bug (thanks to rudevich)
• JavaScript fixes on option pages (jQuery tabs)

0.4.5.4 (02/04/2009)

• Fixed collision with JavaScript (jQuery UI Tabs) when inserting media in posts.

0.4.5.3 (22/03/2009)

• Fixed: Database-options were initialized with empty values

0.4.5.2 (21/03/2009)

• IMPORTANT: The plugin drops compatibility with WP 2.3 due to the usage of WP 2.5 specific post interface methods as well as jQuery UI tabs.
• IMPORTANT: The custom field options timeline_icon, timeline_image and timeline_link were renamed! See the online-documentation for new syntax!
• Implemented new date options for imprecise events (latestStart and earliestEnd) in post panel
• Tab-enhanced admin interface using WordPress built-in jQuery UI Tabs (renders plugin only compatible with WP 2.5+)
• Implemented uninstall method to remove plugin-related database entries (also helpful for troubleshooting)
• Removed redundant color settings in JavaScript files (all done with CSS now)
• Fixed: Only active categories with at least one post were listed on the options page
• Fixed: IE JavaScript error in onload.js (‘Event’ is undefined) by simply removing that statement

0.4.5.1 (11/03/2009)

• Updated SIMILE API URL to new location
• Generic fixes for changes in the new SIMILE API
• Timeline-themes are handled completely via CSS (An integrated dynamic theme processes the option settings).
• Updated Italian locale files (thanks to Gianni Diurno)
• Fixed directory names in FAQ

0.4.5 (01/03/2009)

• Implemented new shortcode and function parameter scriptfile to load custom JS init file from the data folder.
• Added reset option for start and end date option in post interface.
• Simplified JavaScript initialization (thanks to Pete Myers).
• Added new option for the timeline start focus.
• Added new option to change click event for timeline entries.

0.4.4 (14/01/2009)

• Included ADOdb Date Time Library to make dates before 1970 possible (replaced mysql2date() with adodb_date2()).
• Added version check on option-page entry to prevent update and initialisation problems

0.4.3 (07/01/2009)

• New post option to define event start date (in addition to the end date) to visualize durations
• Fixed date formatting in XML file (thanks to Ben ter Stal)
• Fixed IE XML parsing errors

0.4.2 (04/01/2009)

• Extended shortcode and template functions with optional parameters for categories
• Removed duplicate closing brace in timeline.xml
• Fixed link to options page inside plugin description

0.4.1 (30/12/2008)

• Fixed whitespace error in XML data when using timeline_icon or timeline_image

0.4.0 (02/11/2008)

• Fixed PHP error on plugin activation.
• Included Italian locale files (contributed by Gianni Diurno)

0.3.9a (20/10/2008)

• Link categories can also be selected for the timeline: If a link holds an RSS-link, the specific feed is parsed and read into the timeline.
  Specify a link image to style your feed entries in the timeline (e.g a favicon of the feed service).
• Refactored acquisition of categories with WP core functions (taxonomy.php)

0.3.8a (17/10/2008)

• Fixed blank admin menu page on some installations. Now uses the correct API hook admin_menu.
• Fixed inital installation of database table for MySQL4 and default configuration options.

0.3.7a (15/10/2008)

• Added optional custom field timeline_link to define a custom link for the title inside the timeline bubble.
• Set showposts to maximum. All entries from the selected categories are shown.
• Fixed XML output of the content using WordPress core sanitization functions from wp-includes/formatting. Styled content is possible now.
• Introduced localized option page for en_US and de_DE. Contributors are welcome!

0.3.6a (14/10/2008)

• Added options for timeline resolution (year, month, week, day, hour) and its interval width in pixels. This replaces the vague resolution selection from previous versions and allows better customisation.
• Fixed markup and CSS for end date in the post write panel.

0.3.5a (12/10/2008)

• Fixed broken option page form action

0.3.4a (11/10/2008)

• Fixed add_option_page file parameter. Got invalid link options page on some installations
• Fixed register_activation_hook for installing Timeline category table
• Fixed plugin folder references due to new foldername by WP plugin directory
• Replaced key-comment with shortcode [similetimeline]

0.3.3a

• WP 2.6 compatibility
• Added date string to javascript file call to prevent caching issues
• Updated backend GUI with new WordPress CSS classes
• Fixed the loop in the xml file. The content now shows up in the info bubbles.
• Added Ootion to display future posts

0.3.2a

• WP 2.3 compatibility. post2cat queries replaced with inner joins on the taxonomy tables (see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/137793)
• Added database table stl_timeline_terms for category options to database (outsourcing from core tables)

0.3.1a

• Fixed option “Show Labels” – nothing was saved because of a typo in the name attribute

0.3a

• Colors can be defined for categories and the Timeline design
• Future Posts that are published will be displayed by the timeline
• Loading notification for larger timelines now works
• WordPress MU compatibility
• Introduced CSS file to style timeline size, border and info bubbles

0.2a

• Posts can now have an end-date to visualize durations
• Titles are linked to full entries
• Multiple categories can be “timelined”

0.1a

• (17/10/2006) r69: The Timeline JavaScript is now loaded only on the page where a timeline is found. This reduces server load at the Simile labs 😉
• (16/10/2006) r66: Fixed a JavaScript error on pages where no timeline is included. The script now degrades gracefully.
• (15/10/2006) r60: Initial release