| Version |
Release Date |
Change Log |
| 2.0.3 |
2022-11-04 |
- Fix: Removed DotEnv code that was causing a conflict in some rare circumstances.
- Fix: When using two or more feeds on one page and the "AJAX theme loading fix" setting, an empty lightbox related element would display at the bottom of the page.
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| 2.0.2 |
2022-10-06 |
- Fix: Fixed a conflict with the All in One SEO plugin causing menu tabs to not work properly.
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| 2.0.1 |
2022-08-31 |
- Tweak: Improved the user experience to avoid confusion over connecting an account when creating a new feed.
- Fix: Fixed deprecation warnings when using PHP 8.0+.
- Fix: Added any API key saved in settings to the system info for easy support debugging.
- Fix: Activating the Pro version would trigger an error if the free version of YouTube Feeds was also active.
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| 1.4.5 |
2022-08-03 |
- Fix: The play button was still visible in the lightbox during video playback after a user had granted GDPR cookie consent.
- Fix: SSL is now always verified when making API requests to YouTube's API.
- Fix: After enabling background caching, the plugin was not showing when the feed would be updated next.
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| 2.0 |
2022-08-03 |
- Important: Minimum supported WordPress version has been raised from 3.5 to 4.1.
- New: Our biggest update ever! We've completely redesigned the plugin settings from head to toe to make it easier to create, manage, and customize your YouTube feeds.
- New: All your feeds are now displayed in one place on the "All Feeds" page. This shows a list of any existing (legacy) feeds and any new ones that you create.
- New: Easily edit individual feed settings for new feeds instead of cumbersome shortcode options.
- New: It's now much easier to create feeds. Just click "Add New", select your feed type, connect your account, and you're done!
- New: Brand new feed customizer. We've completely redesigned feed customization from the ground up, reorganizing the settings to make them easier to find.
- New: Live Feed Preview. You can now see changes you make to your feeds in real time, right in the settings page. Easily preview them on desktop, tablet, and mobile sizes.
- New: Color Scheme option. It's now easier than ever to change colors across your feed without needing to adjust individual color settings. Just set a color scheme to effortlessly change colors across your entire feed.
- New: You can now change the number of columns in your feed across desktop and mobile.
- New: Easily import and export feed settings to make it simple to move feeds across sites.
- New: Added a new custom text header option, so you can now add custom text to the header for your feed.
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| 1.4.4 |
2022-01-24 |
- New: Added a shortcode setting "allowcookies" that, when set to "true", will allow YouTube cookies needed for custom end screens configured on youtube.com.
- Tweak: Changed menu name from "Feeds for YouTube" to "YouTube Feed".
- Tweak: An alert bubble is added to the Feeds for YouTube menu item when there are new notifications available.
- Fix: Custom JavaScript setting would not allow HTML to be saved.
- Fix: Fixed two PHP errors that would occur when posts were being stored using the "page" storing method.
- Fix: A timestamp was added to errors in the error log to help determine when they occurred.
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| 1.4.3 |
2021-09-14 |
- Fix: Fixed a compatibility issue with the Complianz GDPR plugin.
- Fix: Incorrect description of the "check for new posts" setting in the admin area.
- Fix: The feed finder tool was displaying duplicated results of some feeds.
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| 1.4.2 |
2021-08-23 |
- Tested with WordPress 5.8 update.
- Tweak: Added "play" icon to main player for the gallery layout.
- Fix: Fixed an issue with GDPR Cookie Consent by Web Toffee integration.
- Fix: Setting the height and width of a feed using a shortcode would not work without including the unit of measure.
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| 1.4 |
2021-06-10 |
- New: The locations of the YouTube feeds on your site will now be logged and listed on a single page for easier management. After this feature has been active for awhile, a "Feed Finder" link will appear next to the Feed Type setting on the plugin Settings page which allows you to see a list of all feeds on your site along with their locations.
- Fix: Pro version of the Web Toffee GDPR Cookie Consent plugin was not being detected.
- Fix: Updated jQuery methods for compatibility with WordPress 5.7.
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| 1.3 |
2020-12-17 |
- New: Integrations with popular GDPR cookie consent solutions added: Cookie Notice by dFactory, GDPR Cookie Consent by WebToffee, Cookiebot by Cybot A/S, Complianz by Really Simple Plugins, and Borlabs Cookie by Borlabs. Visit the YouTube Feed settings page, Customize tab, GDPR section for more information.
- Fix: Date that video was published would not always match what was shown on YouTube.com.
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| 1.2.4 |
2020-12-08 |
- Tweak: Minor update to item.php template to accommodate dynamic title attribute in lightbox.
- Tweak: Added support for improved notices on the plugin settings page.
- Fix: Connecting an account that didn't have an associated YouTube channel would result in nothing happening. Now an empty channel is connected that can be used to create feeds.
- Fix: Iframe player now uses the video title as the iframe element title attribute.
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| 1.2.3 |
2020-08-13 |
- New: Added setting to use WordPress cron to clear feed caches on an interval. If your feeds are not updating automatically, try enabling the setting found on the "Customize" tab "Cron Clear Cache".
- Tweak: Added notice explaining the account connection and what it can and can't be used for when connecting an account.
- Tweak: Removed refresh token from being required for a manual connection.
- Fix: Improved performance of API requests for creating feeds.
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| 1.2.2 |
2020-05-29 |
- Tweak: More details are provided for API errors such as an API key not working after being created.
- Tweak: If an API key has not been entered, an account reconnection is required if trying to display videos from a previously unused channel and more than an hour has passed since the last account connection.
- Tweak: Play icon changed to YouTube logo to comply with their terms of service.
- Fix: Prevented a Fatal PHP error caused by retrieving YouTube videos without using an API key and either entering a non-existing YouTube channel ID or having allow_url_fopen disabled on the server.
- Fix: Non-latin characters were displaying incorrectly in titles and descriptions when a feed was using backup data.
- Fix: Thumbnails were not resizing properly when the browser was resized.
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| 1.2.1 |
2020-05-26 |
- Tweak: Video thumbnails are cropped to a 9:16 aspect ratio to remove black bars at the top and bottom of the images.
- Tweak: Improved workarounds for video player issues caused by having iframes from other sources on the same page.
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| 1.2 |
2020-04-23 |
- New: Display video players in 9:16 ratio. To use 3:4 ratio, go to the "Customize" tab, "Video Experience" area.
- New: Added a Feeds for YouTube Gutenberg block to use in the block editor, allowing you to easily add a feed to posts and pages.
- Tweak: Non Feeds for YouTube admin notices are removed when viewing settings pages for Feeds for YouTube.
- Fix: Video player would sometimes not work when the YouTube iframe JS API was available earlier than the feeds were created.
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| 1.1.1 |
2020-03-17 |
- Tested with upcoming WordPress 5.4 update.
- New: Added setting for using custom templates for feed HTML.
- Tweak: Added CSS to help feeds work better with certain themes.
- Tweak: Used a higher resolution image file if optimum resolution was not available from the API.
- Fix: "include=" shortcode setting would cause play icon to never show.
- Fix: Fast response from YouTube player API would cause the players to load along with the page when not necessary.
- Fix: Background caching was not updating feed caches.
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| 1.1 |
2020-02-10 |
- New: Several improvements to the lightbox for YouTube grid feeds were made including a video index indicator, navigation arrows moved to the outside of the YouTube video, and a close button.
- New: Added play button icon that displays on top of YouTube video thumbnails. Disable this on the "Customize" tab.
- New: Added workaround for occasional issue caused by multiple elements of the page using the YouTube Player API.
- Tweak: Fixed typo in HTML element with the class "sby_thumbail_hover". Now "sby_thumbnail_hover".
- Tweak: Updated admin PHP code.
- Tweak: Updated JavaScript code.
- Tweak: Updated language files and several strings to use text domain "feeds-for-youtube" instead of "youtube-feed".
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| 1.0.3 |
2020-01-23 |
- Tweak: Changed tooltip and notes regarding how to display a YouTube feed from a certain YouTube channel.
- Fix: YouTube iframe JavaScript file was being loaded with HTTP. Changed to HTTPS.
- Fix: Prevented error if allow_url_fopen set to false in php.ini by changing how RSS channel feeds are retrieved from YouTube.
- Fix: Unable to view YouTube account details if more than one YouTube account connected.
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| 1.0.2 |
2019-12-17 |
- New: Changed the method used to update feeds to reduce YouTube API requests.
- Tweak: More posts cached in the wp_posts table when a YouTube API request is made.
- Tweak: Channel data cached to reduce YouTube API requests.
- Fix: Error when deactivating and reactivating plugin with background caching enabled.
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| 1.0.1 |
2019-12-12 |
- Fix: Optimized API calls to reduce requests.
- Fix: Minor bug fixes.
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| 1.0 |
2019-12-10 |
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