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Changelog

2.5 (2025-04-24)

  • Hardening: Prevent unsafe markup from being output
  • Update widget base class to v006:
    • Hardening: Prevent unsafe markup from being output
    • Change: Include version number in class name to prevent using older version
    • Change: Move PHPCS-related inline comment with the associated phpcs:ignore comment
  • Change: Note compatibility through WP 6.8+
  • Change: Note compatibility through PHP 8.3+
  • Change: Update copyright date (2025)
  • Unit tests:
    • Change: Remove vestiges of testing for now-removed linkify_authors()
    • Change: Explicitly define return type for overridden methods

2.4 (2024-08-15)

Highlights:

This recommended release features improvements to widget implementation, adds some hardening measures, notes compatibility through WP 6.6+, removes unit tests from release packaging, updates copyright date (2024), and other code improvements and minor changes.

Details:

  • Widget:
    • New: Extract base widget functionality common amongst my Linkify family of plugins into reusable base class
    • Change: Define a default 'none' message so that something is shown when no authors are specified
    • Change: Improve spacing in block editor around widget input field help text
    • New: Add get_config() to retrieve configuration
    • New: Add unit tests
    • Change: Update version to 005
  • New: Extract code for creating link to author's post archive into new __c2c_linkify_authors_get_author_link()
  • Hardening: Escape some variables prior to being output
  • Change: Tweak descriptions to clarify that the links are to each author's post archive
  • Change: Add default values for optional arguments to inline parameter documentation
  • Change: Note compatibility through WP 6.6+
  • Change: Prevent unwarranted PHPCS complaints about unescaped output (HTML is allowed)
  • Change: Update copyright date (2024)
  • Change: Reduce number of 'Tags' from readme.txt
  • Change: Remove development and testing-related files from release packaging
  • Hardening: Unit tests: Prevent direct web access to bootstrap.php
  • New: Add some potential TODO items

2.3.1 (2023-08-22)

  • Fix: Fix some typos in documentation
  • Change: Note compatibility through WP 6.3+
  • Change: Update copyright date (2023)
  • New: Add .gitignore file
  • Unit tests:
    • Allow tests to run against current versions of WordPress
    • New: Add composer.json for PHPUnit Polyfill dependency
    • Change: Prevent PHP warnings due to missing core-related generated files

2.3 (2021-10-16)

Highlights:

This minor release removes support for the long-deprecated linkify_authors(), adds DEVELOPER-DOCS.md, notes compatibility through WP 5.8+, and minor reorganization and tweaks to unit tests.

Details:

  • Change: Remove long-deprecated function linkify_authors()
  • New: Add DEVELOPER-DOCS.md and move template tag and hooks documentation into it
  • Fix: Fix Markdown formatting for code examples in readme.txt
  • Change: Tweak installation instruction
  • Change: Note compatibility through WP 5.8+
  • Unit tests:
    • Change: Restructure unit test directories
      • Change: Move phpunit/ into tests/phpunit/
      • Change: Move phpunit/bin/ into tests/
    • Change: Remove 'test-' prefix from unit test file
    • Change: In bootstrap, store path to plugin file constant
    • Change: In bootstrap, add backcompat for PHPUnit pre-v6.0

2.2.6 (2021-04-26)

  • Change: Add textdomain for lone non-widget string
  • Change: Note compatibility through WP 5.7+
  • Change: Update copyright date (2021)
  • Change: Fix formatting for readme.txt changelog entry for v2.2.5
  • Change: Unit tests: Move install script into phpunit/bin/ where it was originally meant to be
  • New: Add a few more possible TODO items

2.2.5 (2020-08-15)

  • New: Add TODO.md and move existing TODO list from top of main plugin file into it
  • Change: Restructure unit test file structure
    • New: Create new subdirectory phpunit/ to house all files related to unit testing
    • Change: Move bin/ to phpunit/bin/
    • Change: Move tests/bootstrap.php to phpunit/
    • Change: Move tests/ to phpunit/tests/
    • Change: Rename phpunit.xml to phpunit.xml.dist per best practices
  • Change: Note compatibility through WP 5.5+

2.2.4 (2020-05-05)

  • Change: Use HTTPS for link to WP SVN repository in bin script for configuring unit tests
  • Change: Note compatibility through WP 5.4+
  • Change: Update links to coffee2code.com to be HTTPS
  • Change: Update examples in documentation to use a proper example URL

2.2.3 (2019-11-25)

  • New: Add CHANGELOG.md and move all but most recent changelog entries into it
  • New: Add optional step to installation instructions to note availability of the widget
  • Change: Update unit test install script and bootstrap to use latest WP unit test repo
  • Change: Note compatibility through WP 5.3+
  • Change: Add link to plugin's page in Plugin Directory to README.md
  • Change: Update copyright date (2020)
  • Change: Split paragraph in README.md's "Support" section into two

2.2.2 (2019-02-01)

  • New: Add README.md
  • Change: Escape text used in markup attributes (hardening)
  • Change: Add GitHub link to readme
  • Change: Unit tests: Minor whitespace tweaks to bootstrap
  • Change: Rename readme.txt section from 'Filters' to 'Hooks'
  • Change: Modify formatting of hook name in readme to prevent being uppercased when shown in the Plugin Directory
  • Change: Note compatibility through WP 5.1+
  • Change: Update copyright date (2019)
  • Change: Update License URI to be HTTPS

2.2.1 (2017-02-24)

  • Fix: Fix unit tests by not declaring test class variable as static
  • Change: Update unit test bootstrap
    • Default WP_TESTS_DIR to /tmp/wordpress-tests-lib rather than erroring out if not defined via environment variable
    • Enable more error output for unit tests
  • Change: Note compatibility through WP 4.7+
  • Change: Minor readme.txt content and formatting tweaks
  • Change: Update copyright date (2017)

2.2 (2016-03-11)

  • Change: Update widget to 004:
    • Add register_widget() and change to calling it when hooking 'admin_init'.
    • Add version() to return the widget's version.
    • Reformat config array.
    • Discontinue use of old-style constructor.
    • Add inline docs for class variables.
    • Late-escape attribute values.
    • Reorder some conditional expressions.
  • Change: Explicitly declare methods in unit tests as public or protected.
  • Change: Fix and simplify unit tests. Add tests for widget.
  • New: Add 'Text Domain' to plugin header.
  • New: Add LICENSE file.
  • New: Add empty index.php to prevent files from being listed if web server has enabled directory listings.
  • Change: Use DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR in place of '/' when requiring widget file.
  • Change: Note compatibility through WP 4.4+.
  • Change: Update copyright date (2016).

2.1.3 (2015-08-12)

  • Update: Discontinue use of PHP4-style constructor invocation of WP_Widget to prevent PHP notices in PHP7
  • Update: Minor widget header reformatting
  • Update: Minor widget file code tweaks (spacing, bracing)
  • Update: Minor inline document tweaks (spacing)
  • Note compatibility through WP 4.3+

2.1.2 (2015-02-11)

  • Note compatibility through WP 4.1+
  • Update copyright date (2015)

2.1.1 (2014-08-26)

  • Minor plugin header reformatting
  • Change documentation links to wp.org to be https
  • Note compatibility through WP 4.0+
  • Add plugin icon

2.1 (2013-12-20)

  • If a slug search for a user by login fails, try by nicename
  • Discontinue use of deprecated get_userdatabylogin() and use get_user_by() instead
  • Validate author is either int or string before handling
  • Add unit tests
  • Minor code tweaks (spacing, bracing)
  • Minor documentation tweaks
  • Note compatibility through WP 3.8+
  • Discontinue compatibility with WP older than 3.3
  • Update copyright date (2014)
  • Change donate link
  • Add banner

2.0.4

  • Add check to prevent execution of code if file is directly accessed
  • Note compatibility through WP 3.5+
  • Update copyright date (2013)
  • Create repo's WP.org assets directory
  • Move screenshot into repo's assets directory

2.0.3

  • Re-license as GPLv2 or later (from X11)
  • Add 'License' and 'License URI' header tags to readme.txt and plugin file
  • Remove ending PHP close tag
  • Note compatibility through WP 3.4+

2.0.2

  • Note compatibility through WP 3.3+
  • Add link to plugin directory page to readme.txt
  • Update copyright date (2012)

2.0.1

  • Note compatibility through WP 3.2+
  • Minor code formatting changes (spacing)
  • Fix plugin homepage and author links in description in readme.txt

2.0

  • Add Linkify Authors widget
  • Rename linkify_authors() to c2c_linkify_authors() (but maintain a deprecated version for backwards compatibility)
  • Rename linkify_authors action to c2c_linkify_authors (but maintain support for backwards compatibility)
  • Add Template Tag, Screenshots, and Frequently Asked Questions sections to readme.txt
  • Add screenshot of widget admin
  • Changed Description in readme.txt
  • Note compatibility through WP 3.1+
  • Update copyright date (2011)

1.2

  • Use get_the_author_meta('display_name') instead of deprecated get_author_name()
  • Add filter linkify_authors to respond to the function of the same name so that users can use the do_action() notation for invoking template tags
  • Wrap function in if(!function_exists()) check
  • Reverse order of implode() arguments
  • Fix to prevent PHP notice
  • Remove docs from top of plugin file (all that and more are in readme.txt)
  • Note compatibility with WP 3.0+
  • Minor tweaks to code formatting (spacing)
  • Add Filters and Upgrade Notice sections to readme.txt
  • Remove trailing whitespace

1.1

  • Add PHPDoc documentation
  • Use esc_attr() instead of the deprecated attribute_escape()
  • Minor formatting tweaks
  • Note compatibility with WP 2.9+
  • Drop compatibility with WP older than 2.8
  • Update copyright date
  • Update readme.txt (including adding Changelog)

1.0

  • Initial release