Changelog

Release date:

• January 28th 2017

If you haven’t read the 2.8.0 upgrade notes yet, please do.

Summarized:

• The 2.8.0 release didn’t contain everything I wanted. So, two new features in a minor release? Certainly!
• First, there’s now a fallback Social Image uploader.
• Second, when scheduled posts are published they now trigger a sitemap cache flush and Search Engine pinging.
• Moreover, this update fixes a few bugs: namely ones that caused character encoding issues in the admin area.

Detailed log:

I don’t believe in luck, but I do believe in assigning value to things.

For everyone:

• Added:
  • Scheduled posts now trigger sitemap cache flush and search engine pinging on publish.
  • Fallback social image uploader (Hug me, brother!).
  • JSON-LD sitename is now outputted after the breadcrumbslist if enabled and when breadcrumbs are found.
    • Previously, it was only outputted on the homepage.
• Improved:
  • Term/Post Title and Description values now shows actual output after save, including converted entities and backslashes.
  • Homepage Title, Tagline and Description values now shows actual output after save, including converted entities.
    • Backslashes are stripped, because WordPress internally (needlessly) strips them when updating options, this is already handled correctly in the database functions.
  • Autogenerated Descriptions now have zero chance to contain unwanted invisible characters from the post content.
  • Autogenerated Descriptions now have semicolons converted to a dot at the end.
  • Accidental (or even intentional) duplicated spaces are now omitted from descriptions and titles.
  • Descriptions now have tabs converted into a single space.
  • Removed duplicated content sanitation call, which vastly improves performance on some pages.
• Updated:
  • The JSON-LD cache has been invalidated.
    • WordPress will automatically clean up the cache.
• Fixed:
  • HTML entities were shown as unencoded in the custom post description value.
  • Twitter card type photo is now considered when no social description can be generated.
  • All Twitter metadata will now be removed if no social image or description can be found or generated.
    • It’s then up to Twitter to use Open Graph.
  • Massive title inputs no longer cause browser side-scrolling bars to show up.
  • The social image uploader button text now only transforms to “Change Image” if there actually is an image selected.
  • CJK and other MultiByte dependant languages no longer generate a description that’s far too short.
  • Homepage description placeholder now shows the correct description when the homepage is a blog.

For translators:

• Added:
  • New sentences for the fallback image uploader.
• Other:
  • Are you having difficulties translating some sentences, namely with gender types? Let me know!
    • You can use label i18n/i10n for these issues.

For developers:

• Added:
  • Method s_nbsp, translates space entities to spaces.
  • Method s_dupe_space, removed duplicated spaces.
  • Method s_bsol, translates backslashes to entities.
  • Method s_tabs, translates tabs to spaces, one tab to one space.
  • Method s_singleline, converts multiline to single line with spaces in between.
  • Method s_title_raw, used for database and internal sanitation.
  • Method s_description_raw, used for database and internal sanitation.
  • Method s_excerpt_raw, used for database and internal sanitation.
• Improved:
  • All term data is sanitized more extensively before entering the database.
    • This does not improve security. Always escape the output before sending it to the browser.
    • This does improve visibility of expected output in metaboxes.
  • The homepage metabox general tab has had a major cleanup.
    • It was drastically confusing to work with.
    • In the future it will be refactored to prevent mistakes.
  • Method get_image can now perform on $post->ID === 0.
    • It will then skip featured image and custom social images.
• Updated:
  • Translation POT file.
• Removed:
  • Warning: wp_kses_decode_entities now no longer runs on the option functions.
    • This might cause some calculation functionality to have different effects.
    • Always be sure to sanitize your output.
  • The unused googleplus_tags boolean option has been removed.
    1. It’s unused.
    2. With its removal we can auto-enable it easier in the future.
  • The unused description_custom string option has been removed.
    1. It’s unused.
    2. With its removal we can auto-enable it easier in the future.