Contact List – Premium Staff Listing, Business Directory & Address Book

2.9.94 – 2024-05-19

• (All plans) New setting for import & export: Separator for the CSV file
• (All plans) New setting for custom fields: Allow unfiltered content
• (Free + All plans) Bug fixes

2.9.93 – 2024-05-09

• (All plans) More settings to hide fields from the contact edit form (like specific custom fields): see plugin settings, Contact edit tab
• (All plans) Appropriate field titles added to the export file
• (Free + All plans) Accessibility improvements for the send message modal window
• (Free + All plans) New settings for the send message modal window (plugin settings, Send message modal tab)

2.9.92 – 2024-04-26

• (All plans) Fix: search results are no longer limited by the contacts per page setting, when filtering contacts using dropdowns
• (Free + All plans) Fix: [name_prefix], [middle_name] and [name_suffix] are now correctly replaced in the send message modal, if used for contact card title
• (Free + All plans) Layout fixes

2.9.91 – 2024-03-29

• (Free + All plans) Bug fixes

2.9.90 – 2024-03-29

• (Free + All plans) Fixed an issue where simple list search results would get duplicated

2.9.89 – 2024-03-16

• (All plans) New feature: send email to multiple recipients from the front end. When a parameter [contact_list_simple send_group_email=1] is used, the email addresses of the contacts in the search results are shown in a comma separated list and also a Send email button is shown, which opens an email client for sending a message to all those emails.
• (Free + All plans) Fixed an issue where the additional information would be displayed twice in the simple list
• (Free + All plans) Accessibility fix: the send message modal is now accessible with keyboard
• (Free + All plans) New feature: the list of contacts at WP admin / Contact List can now be filtered by group

2.9.88 – 2024-03-07

• (Free + All plans) Bug fixes

2.9.87 – 2024-02-18

• (All plans) New feature (beta): When a parameter ajax is used in the simple list shortcode, the input field search is done using an ajax query (can make the page load faster if the number of contacts is large), [contact_list ajax=1]
• (Free + All plans) Bug fixes

2.9.86 – 2024-02-04

• (Free + All plans) Contact cards are now automatically expanded if content is longer than the set card height. Minimum card height can be set in the settings (Layout tab).
• (Free + All plans) Layout fixes

2.9.85 – 2024-02-04

• (Personal) Fix: Custom URLs show up now properly on simple list
• (All plans) New setting / column for contact cards: Contact card contents, bottom column (100% width)

2.9.84 – 2024-02-03

• (All plans) New setting for simple list: Exclude contacts belonging to only subgroups from group listings
• (All plans) New field for contacts: Google Maps iframe code
• (All plans) New setting: Map height in pixels (Layout tab)
• (Free + All plans) New setting: Hide Google Maps iframe code
• (Free + All plans) New setting for simple list: Preserve table-like layout on mobile devices
• (Free + All plans) Layout fixes
• (Free + All plans) Bug fixes

2.9.83 – 2024-01-20

• (Professional + Business) Custom fields 7-20 added to import / export
• (All plans) New settings for simple list: Show custom URL 1 and 2 + Custom URL 1 and 2 link text
• (Free + All plans) The settings for search results texts are now valid for simple list also (10 contacts found etc.)
• (Free + All plans) The setting “Back”-link title is now active in everywhere the link exists

2.9.82 – 2023-11-21

• (Professional + Business) Added permalink edit for single contacts when the setting “Enable single contact page” is active
• (Professional + Business) Contact names in the simple list can now be linked to the single contact page (see plugin settings, Simple list tab)
• (Professional + Business) You can now activate any number of custom fields (plugin settings, Custom fields tab)
• (All plans) Group names in the simple list can now be linked to a list of members from that group (plugin settings, Simple list tab)
• (Free + All plans) Tweaks and fixes

2.9.81 – 2023-10-31

• (All plans) New shortcode to make the search require a button click, for input field search only: [contact_list hide_filters=1 disable_instant_search=1 search_button_text=”Search”]
• (All plans) New shortcode to make the search require a button click, for search filters only: [contact_list hide_search=1 disable_instant_search=1 search_button_text=”Search”]
• (Free + All plans) It is now possible to add different variations of the [contact_list] shortcode to the same page, and the search functions work correctly

2.9.80 – 2023-10-06

• (All plans) Fix: Phone numbers and single custom fields are now properly formatted when using single field values in the contact card’s left and right column
• (Free + All plans) Fix: Email address added back to the contact card

2.9.79 – 2023-10-05

• (All plans) New fields for contacts: Custom URLs. You can now add an icon or any image in the settings and add a link to the contact card (same way the social media urls work). The same icon / image is shown for all contacts and the link is defined when editing the contact. Can be activated from the plugin settings, Custom URLs tab.
• (All plans) It is now possible to add any single field value to the contact card’s left and right column (see plugin settings, Contact card tab)
• (All plans) Import & export now supports images. The importable file should contain either the image id or filename (from media library, the image should be added to media library before the import).
• (Free + All plans) Bug fixes

2.9.78 – 2023-09-16

• (Free + All plans) More settings to hide fields from the contact edit form, all fields are now covered (plugin settings, Hide / show form elements -tab -> Admin form elements)
• (Free + All plans) New fields for contacts: Prefix, Middle name and Suffix (must be activated from the settings)
• (Free + All plans) Twitter renamed to X and icon updated
• (Free + All plans) Bug fixes

2.9.77 – 2023-08-08

• (All plans) Customize the contact card contents: see plugin settings / Contact card tab
• (All plans) Customize the contact card PHP template: see wp-content/plugins/contact-list-pro/templates/contact-card.php
• (Free + All plans) New setting for contact card: Left column width (%)
• (Free + All plans) Bug fixes

2.9.76 – 2023-08-06

• (Professional + Business) New feature: Show a button on the contact card that opens a lightbox (can be used to show longer description / additional info)
• (Professional + Business) New setting: Show a button that opens the contact card lightbox (Contact card tab)
• (Professional + Business) New setting: Text for the button
• (Professional + Business) New setting: Hide additional information from default contact card, show only in lightbox
• (Free + All plans) Fix: no more backslash before an apostrophe in email subject

2.9.75 – 2023-07-25

• Compatibility for WP 6.3

2.9.74 – 2023-07-21

• (Free + All plans) Minor tweaks and fixes

2.9.73 – 2023-07-11

• (Free + All plans) Bug fixes

2.9.72 – 2023-07-05

• (Free + All plans) Various tweaks and fixes

2.9.71 – 2023-06-18

• (All plans) New setting for using reCAPTCHA: Method used for reCAPCHA check in PHP (file_get_contents() or cURL)
• (All plans) New setting: Subject for messages sent from contact card (see plugin settings, reCAPTCHA and email tab)

2.9.70 – 2023-06-11

• (Business) New setting for the daily import: Don’t import the first line of the CSV file
• (All plans) New setting for contact import: Update contacts by email addresses instead of adding new contacts
• (All plans) New setting for contact import: Don’t import the first line of the CSV file
• (All plans) New setting for contact import: Delete ALL existing contacts before import
• (Free + All plans) New setting: Contact card title. Add any fields or other content to be the contact card title (see plugin settings, Contact card tab)

2.9.69 – 2023-05-06

• (All plans) New parameter [contact_list hide_contacts_first=1]: Hide contacts first (contacts are shown when searched or any filter is selected)
• (All plans) New parameter [contact_list hide_contacts_first=1 default_contact_id=12345]: Hide contacts first and show only a single default contact
• (Free + All plans) Bug fixes

2.9.68 – 2023-03-09

• (Free + All plans) Fixed an issue where the phone column was not aligned correctly in simple list
• (All plans) New parameter for search only shortcode: [contact_list_search group=GROUP_SLUG]
• (All plans) New parameter to exclude groups from simple list: [contact_list_simple exclude_groups=”group-slug-1,group-slug-2,group-slug-3″]

2.9.67 – 2023-02-12

• (Professional + Business) Fix: [contact_list group=GROUP_SLUG] now preserves the set group after changing filters
• (All plans) Fix: [contact_list_simple group=GROUP_SLUG] now preserves the set group after changing filters
• (Free + All plans) New setting: Show titles above phone numbers on contact card (plugin settings, Layout tab)
• (Free + All plans) Minor bug fixes

2.9.66 – 2023-02-06

• (Business) New feature: set up a scheduled daily contact import (see plugin settings, Import & Export tab)

2.9.65 – 2022-12-30

• (All plans) It is now possible to define the required fields for the form generated by shortcode [contact_list_form] (see plugin settings, Hide / show form elements tab)
• (Free + All plans) New setting for simple list: Show call button in addition to the phone link
• Some PHP actions added to enable better customization of the plugin. For more information see https://www.contactlistpro.com/docs/php-actions/.

2.9.64 – 2022-12-23

• (Professional + Business) You can now define the fields shown in simple list for each shortcode separately like so: [contact_list_simple fields=”full_name phone city category”]
• (All plans) Fixed the issue that appeared after the last update when using custom fields 2-6 in the simple list

2.9.63 – 2022-12-21

• (All plans) You can now select any fields in any order to the simple list (see plugin settings, bottom of Simple list tab)
• (Free + All plans) New setting for simple list: Show call button instead of phone number

2.9.62 – 2022-12-18

• Various tweaks and fixes

2.9.61 – 2022-11-29

• (Professional + Business) New tab in settings: Custom post type
• (Professional + Business) Separate pages for single contacts, e.g. /contact/firstname-lastname/
• (Professional + Business) Show contacts in site search results

2.9.60 – 2022-11-15

• Freemius WordPress SDK update (2.5.2)

2.9.59 – 2022-11-06

• WordPress 6.1 compatibility update

2.9.58 – 2022-10-16

• (All plans) ZIP Code added to simple list (can be activated from the settings)
• (Free + All plans) Bug fixes

2.9.57 – 2022-09-05

• (Free + All plans) Various tweaks and fixes

2.9.56 – 2022-05-15

• (All plans) Phone 2 & 3 added to simple list (see plugin settings, Simple list tab)
• (All plans) New shortcode parameter: Show contacts that belong to any of these groups (comma separated group slugs), [contact_list_groups groups__or=”group-slug-1,group-slug-2″]
• (All plans) Fix: automatically generated custom field search filter titles are now correctly formed based on the actual custom field title
• (All plans) Fix: The shortcode [contact_list_groups] is now correctly sorted by the setting ‘Sort contact list by’
• (Free + All plans) New setting: Contact image size (see plugin settings, Layout tab)

2.9.55 – 2022-05-04

• Fixed an issue where all available states were not shown on the search filter using shortcode [contact_list]

2.9.54 – 2022-04-24

• (Free + All plans) Fix: the improved version of the pagination works now correctly
• (Professional + Business) Frontend contact edit optimized: faster page load time when logged in and using the parameter edit=1

2.9.53 – 2022-03-19

• (All plans) New setting: It is now possible to sort the contacts by custom field values
• (All plans) New parameter hide_group_title: [contact_list_groups group=”sample-group” hide_group_title=1]
• (Free + All plans) Improvement: If the contacts are sorted by other field than last name, the sortable field values can also be empty now
• (Free + All plans) Fix: the debug info section opens normally now

2.9.52 – 2022-03-08

• (Free + All plans) PHP error fix (happened during plugin activation if the plugin Shared Files is also installed)

2.9.51 – 2022-03-02

• (All plans) New parameter to hide the breadcrumbs: [contact_list_groups hide_breadcrumbs=1]
• (All plans) New parameter to exclude groups (from search filter and actual contacts): [contact_list exclude_groups=”group-slug-1,group-slug-2,group-slug-3″]
• (All plans) Extra backslashes removed from subject when sending email using [contact_list_send_email]
• (All plans) Reset button added to [contact_list_send_email]
• (Free + All plans) Fixed a small jump of the contact list when changing the search filters for the first time
• Some corrections to the French translations

2.9.50 – 2022-03-01

• Various tweaks and fixes

2.9.49 – 2022-01-23

• (Professional + Business) It is now possible to add new contacts from the front end, must be activated first from the plugin settings (Contact edit tab)
• (All plans) Fields phone 2 and phone 3 added to the import & export tools
• (All plans) Fix: phone 2 and phone 3 are now saved when editing the contact using the front end editor
• (All plans) Fix: reply-to address is now correctly set when sending mail using shortcode [contact_list_send_email group=GROUP_SLUG]
• (Free + All plans) Fix: The strong tag is no more missing from the contact card after searching or filtering contacts

2.9.48 – 2022-01-13

• (Free + All plans) Fix: Category dropdown is now normally shown in the search form

2.9.47 – 2022-01-02

• (Professional + Business): New setting: Send messages to groups as Bcc (reCAPTCHA and email tab)
• (Free + All plans) Minor tweaks and fixes

2.9.46 – 2021-11-07

• (All plans) Back links replaced with breadcrumbs on [contact_list_groups]
• (All plans) New setting: Title for home in breadcrumbs
• (Free + All plans) Fix: mailto link on simple list is no longer too much obfuscated

2.9.45 – 2021-10-17

• (All plans) New setting: Disable automatic linking of partial custom field content that look like urls
• (Free + All plans) Contact card html markup fix

2.9.44 – 2021-09-14

• (All plans) Fix: Email notify is now sent when adding new contacts using the shortcode [contact_list_form] and the setting “Automatically publish user submitted contacts” is active
• (Free + All plans) Various tweaks and fixes

2.9.43 – 2021-08-31

• Bug fixes

2.9.42.1 – 2021-08-23

• Fix: Search filter on shortcode [contact_list group=GROUP_SLUG] now shows the subcategories / subgroups properly

2.9.42 – 2021-08-22

• (Professional + Business) Front-end editor is now usable also after filtering contacts
• (Professional + Business) New shortcode parameter: [contact_list group=GROUP_SLUG] (shows contacts in the defined group, and the group filter contains only that group and it’s subgroups)
• (All plans) New setting (Search form tab): Search dropdown width defined based on contents (instead of fixed width)
• (Free + All plans) Fixed an issue where field titles were occasionally displayed on the contact card when no value was defined
• (Free + All plans) Printable list layout fixed
• (Free + All plans) Missing translatable texts added
• (Free + All plans) Various tweaks and fixes

2.9.41 – 2021-08-11

• (Professional + Business) Individual custom fields can now be hidden from the contact card (you may still use those custom fields as search filters)
• (All plans) Individual CSS classes added to phone numbers 1-3 on contact card
• (Free + All plans) Social media icons replaced with high quality SVG versions
• (Free + All plans) Fix: Custom field titles are now always hidden from the contact card if no custom field value is defined
• (Free + All plans) Minor tweaks and fixes

2.9.40 – 2021-08-01

• (Professional + Business) New feature: Front-end contact editor. Can be used with shortcodes [contact_list edit=1] and [contact_list_simple edit=1]. User roles must be first activated from the plugin settings (Contact edit tab).
• (All plans) New setting: “Move zip code after state”
• (Free + All plans) Minor tweaks and fixes

2.9.39 – 2021-07-31

• (Professional + Business) New feature / setting: Open simple list contact details in a lightbox (Settings / Simple list)
• (Professional + Business) New parameters for shortcodes – you can now filter contacts by all custom field values like so: [contact_list custom_field_1=”Management”], [contact_list_simple custom_field_2=”People” custom_field_3=”Workers”], etc.
• (All plans) Missing fields Phone 2 and Phone 3 added to [contact_list_form] (can be renamed and activated from the settings)
• (All plans) Improved version of the pagination. The pagination now works with shortcodes on the front page, single post, archive pages etc. (can be activated from the settings, first tab)
• (Free + All plans) Minor tweaks and fixes

2.9.38 – 2021-07-03

• (Pro) More fields added to the form used by features “request update” and “permanent update URL”
• (Pro) Label for button “Send message” can now be renamed (Settings / Field titles and texts)
• (Pro) Address line 1 added to simple list (Settings / Simple list)
• (Free and Pro) Improved version of pagination
• (Free and Pro) Various tweaks and fixes

2.9.37 – 2021-06-12

• (Pro) Mail sent when “Request Update” is clicked is now customizable (Settings / reCAPTCHA and email)
• (Pro) Contacts created using the shortcode [contact_list_form] now receive (optionally) a message containing a “permanent update URL” (Settings / reCAPTCHA and email)
• (Pro) New setting: “Hide phone numbers from public card”
• (Pro) Custom fields can now be used as search filters (Settings / Search form)
• (Free and Pro) A new setting for all available custom fields: “Link text (only applicable if the custom field content is a URL)” (Settings / Custom fields)
• (Free and Pro) You can now choose any Font Awesome icon for the available custom fields (Settings / Custom fields)
• (Free and Pro) Minor tweaks and fixes

2.9.36 – 2021-06-05

• (Pro) reCAPTCHA errors are now logged to the mail log
• (Pro) New setting: Disable logging for reCAPTCHA errors
• (Free and Pro) Bug fixes

2.9.35 – 2021-06-01

• Fixed custom field value markup in simple list
• Category added to simple list columns (optional, and title can be changed from the settings)

2.9.34 – 2021-05-29

• (Pro) New field: ZIP Code (can be renamed from the settings)
• (Pro) City and ZIP Code added to Import & Export
• (Free and Pro) Bug fixes

2.9.33 – 2021-05-23

• (Free and Pro) New icons added to custom fields
• (Free and Pro) Bug fixes

2.9.32 – 2021-04-12

• Pro: New shortcode [contact_list_send_email group=GROUP_SLUG]. Can be used to send email to a group from the frontend.
• Pro: Missing country, state and city added to shortcode [contact_list_form] (can be hidden from the settings)
• Bug fixes

2.9.31 – 2021-03-17

• (Pro) Fix regarding the shortcode [contact_list_groups groups__and=”groups-slug-1,group-slug-2″]: now only the contacts belonging to all of these groups are listed
• (Pro) City added to simple list search
• (Free and Pro) New setting (Layout-tab): “Show contact images when using 3 or 4 columns view”
• Some minor bug fixes

2.9.30 – 2021-03-16

• New setting: “Disable mail log”
• New feature: Empty mail log
• New parameter for [contact_list_groups]: You can now define many groups like so (comma separated group slugs): [contact_list_groups groups__and=”groups-slug-1,group-slug-2″] (the contacts must belong to all of these groups)
• Fix: setting “Hide job title” for simple list now works normally
• Fix: search for simple list now searches all contacts instead of the ones visible on current page (when using pagination)
• Fix: sender email address is now shown also in the email content
• Fix for [contact_list_form]: Extra numbers removed after custom field titles

2.9.29 – 2021-02-16

• (Pro): Support for pagination added to simple list
• (Pro): New parameter for simple list: [contact_list_simple contacts_per_page=20] (20 can be any number)
• Freemius WordPress SDK updated

2.9.28 – 2021-02-01

• (Free and Pro): Support for alt text added to contact image and social media icons

2.9.27 – 2021-01-20

• (Free and Pro) Affiliation program introduced. Also a new setting (Pro): “Hide affiliation link”
• (Pro) Fix to the import tool: line endings in the CSV file are now detected in a more reliable way
• (Pro) New setting for simple list: “Show titles for columns”
• (Pro) New setting for simple list: “Show city”
• (Pro) 2 new settings for sent emails: “Email footer text” and “Remove email footer completely”

2.9.26 – 2021-01-14

• Photo added to public contact form
• CSS fixes

2.9.25 – 2021-01-02

• Minor improvements and bug fixes

2.9.24 – 2020-12-19

• New field: City. Works together with country and state.
• Pro: Fields country, state and city can now be renamed in the settings
• You can now add multiple instances of [contact_list_groups group=GROUP_SLUG] and [contact_list_search] to the same page, and they all work as they should
• Bug fixes

2.9.23 – 2020-12-05

• New feature (Pro): Exclude contacts using parameter exclude=”123,456,789″ (for all shortcodes, comma separated list of contact id’s)
• New feature (Free & Pro): Simple list added to printable list options
• New parameter (Pro): group-parameter for simple list to show contacts from a specific group: [contact_list_simple group=GROUP_SLUG]
• New parameter (Pro): card_height-parameter can now be defined for each shortcode like so: [contact_list card_height=200]
• New option (Pro): Show send message -button for simple list
• New feature (Pro): Category dropdown (search filter) now supports subcategories and shows the number of contacts (can be reverted back to the previous, simpler version from the settings)
• New feature/option (Pro): Link country and state (on Layout-tab in the settings). Country and state (or whatever you are using them for) can now be linked, meaning that a country must be selected first, and then the available states for that country will be displayed in the state dropdown.

2.5.0 – 2019-12-04

• New licensing model (separate free and paid version)

1.0.0 – 2018-07-13

• Initial release