All-in-One Video Gallery

• Security Fix: Fixed "Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Download & Server-Side Request Forgery" issue reported responsibly by Chloe Chamberland (Wordfence Threat Intelligence Lead).
• Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.4.5).

• Fix: Disable access to the plugin backend to any user roles other than the "administrator" & "editor".

• Fix: Dailymotion videos not working when using the "JavaScript" player type.

• New: Introduced "Share", "Embed" & "Download" buttons.
• New: A filter hook "aiovg_image_url" for developers to override the image URL in the site front end.
• New: Option to restrict the title length in the gallery layout.
• Tweak: Improvised the plugin settings page UI.
• Fix: Issues with Ajax Pagination.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

• Fix: The search form was disabled on some WordPress environments after the last update.

• New: Exclude categories selectively from the front-end search/video forms.
• New: Support for YouTube shorts.
• Tweak: Updated video.js player library & plugins.
• Tweak: Improvised tags input field.
• Tweak: Option to forcefully enable/disable comments in the front-end video pages.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

• New: Introduces an option to exclude video description when auto-importing videos from YouTube.
• Tweak: The video select field in the "AIOVG - Video Player" widget has been replaced by a jQuery Autocomplete UI.

• Security Fix.

• Tweak: Tags input field rebuilt using a standard HTML "select" field.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

• Fix: Ajax Pagination not working when a page contains multiple galleries.

• New: Ajax Pagination.
• New: Options to disable cookies added by the plugin.
• New: A filter hook "aiovg_socialshare_buttons" for developers to override the plugin's social media buttons.
• Tweak: Tags input field rebuilt using "jQuery AutoComplete UI" instead of the "Select2" library.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

Security Fix: Addresses a validation error in the plugin dashboard that leads to a Local File Inclusion issue. Thanks to "Mr.Erwan LR" from wpscan.com for bringing this issue to us.

Tweak: Fallback to the JetPack HLS URLs. Fix: Updates to the latest Vimeo Image URLs.

• Fix: WordPress 5.8 compatibility issues.

• Fix: Error when you click the "Add More Quality Levels" in the video form but submitting the form without selecting any quality level.

• Fix: SVG Icon sizes are HUGE in some WordPress environments.

• New: Option to show/hide video title on the thumbnail galleries.
• New: Support for "start" and "end" times on the YouTube URLs.
• New: A new "exclude" attribute for the shortcode [aiovg_categories].
• New: Introduced several developer hooks that make the plugin highly extensible.
• Tweak: Replaced the "Big Play Button" in the player with a more clear, beautiful button.
• Tweak: Added support for a custom video player for YouTube and Vimeo videos on mobiles.
• Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.4.2).
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

• New: Added pagination support for categories.
• New: Introduced speed control.
• New: Introduced quality switcher.
• Fix: WordPress 5.6 compatibility issues.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

• New: Added support for "Video Tags".
• New: Added "Tumblr" in social sharing buttons.
• Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.4.1).
• Fix: Rank Math plugin compatibility issues.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

• New: Plugin settings specific to "Related Videos".
• New: A filter hook "aiovg_query_args" for developers to override the WP_Query args of the plugin.
• New: A filter hook "aiovg_back_to_categories_link" for developers to override the "Back to Categories" link on the single category pages.
• Tweak: Display video thumbnails on the back-end "All Videos" list table.
• Fix: WordPress 5.5 compatibility issues.
• Fix: Facebook API compatibility issues.
• Fix: SMUSH plugin conflict issues.
• Fix: Astra theme ("astra_replace_header_attr") conflict issues.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

• Fix: Duplicate plugin menu on the multisite setup.
• Fix: Private Vimeo videos not working.
• Fix: Muted option not working with the Facebook videos.
• Fix: Featured thumbnail issue on the single video pages.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

• New: Introduced player types (JavaScript, Iframe).
• New: Introduced Video SEO.
• Tweak: "Self Hosted / External URL" source type supports the relative file paths and the encoded (%20) file names.
• Tweak: "Iframe Embed Code" source type supports non-iframe player embeds. Example: TikTok Videos.
• Tweak: The "videos count" info on the categories page, includes the subcategory videos too.
• Fix: Security Fix. Prevent XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) attempt on the title fields.
• Fix: Conflict with the Autoptimize plugin.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

• Fix: Third-party videos like YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion & Facebook not working on iOS devices.
• Fix: Video zoomed inside the player in IE.
• Fix: Conflict with the Autoptimize plugin.

• Fix: The player controls not showing with vertical videos.

• Fix: Subtitles not working.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

• New: Replaced "mediaelement.js" player with the "video.js" player library.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

• Tweak: "Autoplay" disabled in the default plugin settings since the browsers don't like this option.
• Fix: Private Vimeo videos not working when configured to "Use Native Controls".

• Fix: Subcategories showing when 'hierarchical' disabled.

• Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.3.1).
• Tweak: Plugin backend access to users with the required capability.
• Fix: M4V, MOV videos not working in the "AIOVG - Video Player" Gutenberg block.
• Fix: WordPress 5.3 compatibility issues.
• Fix: Autoptimize conflict issue.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

• New: Plugin Dashboard.
• New: Shortcode Builder.
• New: A mechanism to auto-detect plugin misconfiguration issues with the fixes.
• New: "Muted" - A setting to turn OFF the audio output of the video by default.
• New: "include" - A new [aiovg_videos] shortcode attribute to show only the selective videos. Example: [aiovg_videos include="1,2,3"]
• New: "include" - A new [aiovg_categories] shortcode attribute to show only the selective categories. Example: [aiovg_categories include="1,2,3"]
• New: "WhatsApp" share button.
• Tweak: Simplified settings page UI.
• Tweak: Replaced transients with $_COOKIES to calculate unique video views. The reason $_COOKIES are used is to stop bloating up OPTIONS table with several hundreds of transients.
• Fix: Same videos repeat again when the videos ordering is to "random" and the pagination is enabled.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

• Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.3.0).
• Fix: Security fix.

• Fix: Unfortunately, there were some bugs in the 1.6.2 release and this is an immediate release which addresses those issues.

• New: Support for Yoast breadcrumbs.
• Tweak: Optimized WP_Query for fast output.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

• New: Option to delete or NOT delete the associated media files when a video post or video category is deleted.
• Tweak: Uses mediaelement.js library files from the WordPress core.
• Tweak: Displays player spinner immediately after the play button is clicked.
• Fix: Issues with the gutenberg player block settings.
• Fix: [+] few more minor bug fixes.

• Fix: Security fix.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

• Fix: Fixes a SERIOUS BUG. Pages created infinitely in some WordPress Environments.
• Fix: Replaced "plugins_loaded" hook with "init" hook to initialize the Gutenberg blocks.

• Fix: Fixes a SERIOUS BUG. Pages created infinitely in some websites.

• New: Freemius Integration.
• New: PHP 7+ compatibility.
• New: Introduces Template options for both categories and videos gallery.
• Tweak: Code completely revised and rewritten to make the plugin more extensible.
• Tweak: Removed Twitter Bootstrap & Font Awesome libraries and replaced with custom CSS code to keep the plugin lightweight.
• Tweak: Custom Logo & Branding, Custom Context Menu options removed from the FREE version. But, these options will continue to work for our old users.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

• New: Gutenberg blocks for the plugin.
• New: Support for Yoast SEO Plugin.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

• Fix: Pagination issue in single video pages.

• Fix: Unfortunately, there were some bugs in the 1.5.3 release and this is an immediate release which addresses those issues.

• New: Custom Logo & Branding.
• Tweak: Removed jQuery dependency for the video player.
• Fix: Shortcodes not working in the single video page.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

• New: Compatible with GDPR.
• Tweak: Disabled the default context menu, and added a custom one.

• Tweak: README.txt updated.

• New: Added support for Dailymotion videos.

• Tweak: Updated to the MediaElement version 4.2.8 that includes an important security fix.

• Tweak: "Select a Template" option removed from "WordPress Admin Panel => Video Gallery => Settings[Display] => Video Gallery Pages" settings.
• Fix: "Autoplay" disabled in mobile devices.
• Fix: YouTube playback issues in IOS.

• Fix: Unfortunately, there were some bugs in the 1.1.0 release and this is an immediate release which addresses those issues.

• New: Added support for Facebook videos.

• Initial release.

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