3.6.0

Changelog

Release post: https://webberzone.com/announcements/contextual-related-posts-v3-6-0/

• Features:

  • [Pro] New block: Contextual Related Posts Featured Image is an advanced featured image block that falls back to the first image, meta key, or a default image if no featured image is set.
  • [Pro] Related Posts block now includes:
    • Buttons to save and clear default block settings.
    • Auto-insertion of default and global settings attributes, with an option to disable this in the List tuning tab.

• Modifications:

  • The "Manual related posts" field in the meta box can now be customized to perform searches without relevance. To disable relevance in searches, use the filter crp_meta_box_manual_related_relevance with the following code: add_filter('crp_meta_box_manual_related_relevance', '__return_false');.
  • Contextual Related Posts Block's Other attributes moved to Advanced panel.
  • Show admin notices when the Style is set to "Rounded Thumbnails", "Rounded Thumbnails with Grid", or "Text Only" in the Settings page. A notice will appear below the affected settings, indicating that these options cannot be modified.
  • Updated "Rounded Thumbnails" style's post title line height to 1.1em and removed the padding.
  • Updated Freemius SDK to 2.10.1.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed warning message about language files being initiated too early.

Full Changelog: 3.5.5...3.6.0

3.6.0-beta1

• Features:

  • [Pro] New block: Contextual Related Posts Featured Image is an advanced featured image block that falls back to the first image, meta key, or a default image if no featured image is set.
  • [Pro] Related Posts block now includes:
    • Buttons to save and clear default block settings.
    • Auto-insertion of default and global settings attributes, with an option to disable this in the List tuning tab.

• Modifications:

  • The "Manual related posts" field in the meta box can now be customized to perform searches without relevance. To disable relevance in searches, use the filter crp_meta_box_manual_related_relevance with the following code: add_filter('crp_meta_box_manual_related_relevance', '__return_false');
  • Show admin notices when the Style is set to "Rounded Thumbnails", "Rounded Thumbnails with Grid", or "Text Only" in the Settings page. A notice will appear below the affected settings, indicating that these options cannot be modified.
  • Updated Freemius SDK to 2.10.1

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed warning message about language files being initiated too early.

Full Changelog: 3.5.5...3.6.0-beta1

Version 3.5.5

Changelog:

• Updated Freemius SDK to 2.9.0.
• Added: Filter crp_query_posts_groupby to allow filtering of the GROUP BY clause in the SQL query.
• Renamed: crp_query_pre_get_match_sql from crp_pre_get_match_sql.

Full Changelog: 3.5.4...3.5.5

Version 3.5.4

Changes:

• Fixes:
  • include_post_ids and manual_related were not being passed correctly to the query

Full Changelog: 3.5.3...3.5.4

3.5.4-beta1

Changelog

• Fixes:
  • include_post_ids and manual_related were not being passed correctly to the query

Full Changelog: 3.5.3...3.5.4-beta1

Version 3.5.3

• Modifications:

  • Updated Freemius SDK to 2.7.3
  • Updated Contextual Related Posts block apiVersion to 3
  • Increase background opacity for the Rounded Thumbs style's post title for better readability

• Fixes:

  • Allow manual_related attribute in shortcode
  • Correctly handle manual_related and include_post_ids arguments when set to 0. Ensure manual_related is set to an empty array when 0 is passed.
  • Correctly check if relation attribute is set for meta_query and tax_query
  • Fixed links to settings and tools page in the admin area
  • Pass post_status when using get_posts()
  • Remove the_posts filter in CRP_Query
  • [Pro] Fixed bug in the Query Loop where custom post types didn't appear in the dropdown

Full Changelog: v3.5.2...3.5.3

v3.5.3-beta1

Full Changelog: v3.5.2...v3.5.3-beta1

• Fixes meta_query check for relation field.

v3.5.2

Changelog:

• Modifications:

  • [Pro] If "Only from" same category/tag/taxonomy is enabled, the plugin will sort results by the number of matched taxonomies first, therby optimising the related posts further. The free version will continue to sort by date
  • [Pro] If any of the weights are 0, then the algorithm will not consider that field for matching

• Bug fix:

  • Custom styles did not get enqueued on the front end
  • Fixed PHP error on Network admin page
  • Fixed bug where post types and taxonomies settings retained the previous values if no option was selected

Full Changelog: v3.5.1...v3.5.2

v3.5.1

• Bug fix:
  • Fixed memory issue when using the crp shortcode

Full Changelog: v3.5.0...v3.5.1

Version 3.5.0

Complete code rewrite using OOP, namespacing and autoloading. This will make it easier to maintain and extend the plugin in the future.

• Features:

  • Enter a negative number in the "Insert after paragraph number" setting to insert the related posts from the bottom of the post
  • [Pro] New Related Posts Query Block that allows you to query related posts using a block in the block or site editor
  • [Pro] New feature to set the weight of the title, content and excerpt in the related posts algorithm
  • [Pro] New parameter display_only_on_tax_ids to display related posts only on specific taxonomy terms
  • [Pro] New option added to the Edit Post meta box mapped to include_cat_ids to include related posts from specific categories only
  • [Pro] New Clear cache button in the settings page to clear the cache

• Enhancements:

  • The plugin supports WP_Query directly if crp_query is set in the query arguments
  • Optimized media handler to reduce the number of queries
  • Cache posts only setting is changed to be true by default
  • Cache HTML output will now cache the HTML output of the related posts list superseding the Cache posts only setting

• Bug fix:

  • trim_char function returned a blank string instead of the original string if length was 0
  • Insert after paragraph used to insert after an extra paragraph than what was specified

Full Changelog: v3.4.2...v3.5.0