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4.9.18 – Oct 12th 2024

• Fixed Sanitize Number fields

4.9.17 – Juli 08th 2024

• Fixed Sanitize text field

4.9.16 – March 26th 2024

• Fixed Deletion failed

4.9.15 – May 2 2023

• Fixed Image size

4.9.14 – May 1 2023

• Fixed Array string keys
• Fixed Date since published

4.9.13 – July 22 2021

• Fixed Line number with WordPress 5.8

4.9.12 – July 20 2021

• Deprecated jQuery warnings

4.9.11 – April 15th 2021

• Wiget title heading level buttons
• Add sticky posts at start

4.9.10 – December 15th 2020

• Fixed Missing load more button

4.9.9 – December 9th 2020

• Load more placeholders

4.9.8 – November 30th 2020

• Date since published for n-days

4.9.7 – November 21th 2020

• Item title in lines (line-clamp)
• Fixed Column layout
• Fixed Image Html rendering

4.9.6 – November 16th 2020

• Item title heading level buttons
• Excerpt-more link placeholder
• Native WordPress filter CSS classes
• Rework thumb handling

4.9.5 – May 12th 2020

• Fixed Widget_Title filter missing parameters

4.9.4 – March 2th 2020

• Fixed Delete global click event

4.9.3 – March 18th 2020

• Fixed Mouse hover icon and post format indication

4.9.2 – Mai 23th 2019

• Fixed Starts with post
• Fixed Replace the figure-element

4.9.1 – Mai 17th 2019

• ‘Load more’ button / Ajax API
• Data range filter
• Text, if there is no post
• Excerpt length in lines (line-clamp)
• Image crop with CSS (object-fit)
• Fluid images (max-width in %).
• One thumb dimension can be left empty
• Admin UI: Button to easy add post details placeholder
• Admin UI: Set / find thumbnail size buttons: +, ¼, ½, 2x, -, ratio and Media sizes

4.8.5 – April 02nd 2018

• Fixed Tabs not working

4.8.4 – April 02nd 2018

• Fixed Make widget SiteOrigin Page Builder Compatible

4.8.3 – March 03th 2018

• Fixed Updated widget with zero for the thumb dimensions caused a JavaScript error

4.8.2 – January 30th 2018

• Fixed Adding the widget with the customizer only the title is shown
• Fixed Recognize “Empty lines” > Next line is a paragraph in the Template in widget areas

4.8.1 – January 25th 2018

• Fixed Recognize “Empty lines” > Next line is a paragraph in the Template

4.8 – January 22th 2018

• SVG font-icon support for post formats
• Template to arrange the post details
• Premade Templates
• Date format: Time since plublished
• Filter by post status: Published, scheduled, private
• Hover effect: SVG font-icon

4.7.4 – October 21th 2017

• Bugfix for filter by post status (note private)

4.7.3 – October 10th 2017

• Add option to filter by post status
• Fixed footer section do not change when switching to and from “all posts”

4.7.2 – February 25th 2017

• Add option to disable only the font styles
• Fixed if option ‘Everything is a link’ no closing anchor tag
• Fixed if option ‘Everyting is a link’ wrong layout
• Fixed when a manual excerpt is provided, use it instead of generating an automatic one
• Fixed if option ‘Disable the built-in CSS’ the thumbnail client-side cropping isn’t disabled
• Fixed if option ‘Disable the built-in CSS’ title class is not rendered
• Fixed when having multi shortcodes, clicking on a checkbox label marks in any of them selects the one in the “first”
• Fixed if option ‘CSS crop to requested size’ for multi shortcodes
• Fixed for CSS animation

4.7.1 – December 20th 2016

• Support multiple shortcodes in content
• Add option for post offset (use two or more widgets after another)
• Fluid images for Responsive Layouts
• Set a thumbnail as default thumbnail
• Add option to enable excerpt filters from Themes and plugins
• Add option to disable social buttons, banner, … in the excerpt
• Add dropdownbox entry for ‘all’ categories
• Add option to disable subcategories
• Add insert shortcode buttons to the editor toolbar
• Use WP user profile for settings (‘auto close’ and if the shortcode button appears in the editor toolbar)
• Simple API for external use
• Support localization with translate.wordpress.org: Portuguese (Brazil) thank you Henrique Vianna and German by Daniel Floeter
• Remove allow_html option (Instead we recommend to use the manual excerpt or we support this option furthermore in the Term Posts Excerpt Extension for the premium version)

4.6.2 – August 28th 2016

• Fixed only five widget instances can be costumized with shortcodes.
• For editing shortcode adds a customizer link to the admin-bar if page/post is in edit mode.

4.6.1 – June 5th 2016

• Add shortcode [catposts] edit options only in the customizer
• Keep panels open after save.
• Option to hide social buttons on output.

4.1.9 – May 5th 2016

• Fixed undefined constant.

4.1.8 – May 3th 2016

• Add mouse hover effects: blur
• Add option to choose allowed HTML in the excerpt
• Add Jetpack ‘Sharing – Show buttons on posts’ support
• Fixed division by zero bug (for small uploaded images)

4.1.7 – April 14th 2016

• Fixed division by zero bug.

4.1.6 – April 13th 2016

• Add option CSS cropping for thumbnails.
• Add option to set mouse hover effects for post thumbnail.
• Add option to change the excerpt more text.
• Add option to allow links in the excerpt
• Add filter ‘widget_title’ for the title
• Add option to hide post titles.

4.1.5 – February 4th 2016

• Support for multi sites.
• Support for localization.
• Area UI.
• Meet new plugin author mark-k

4.1.4

• Added option exclude current post.
• Added option to hide posts which have no thumbnail.
• Added option to make the widget date link to the category page.
• Added option to link to the category page below posts list.
• Added option show post author.
• Added option to format the outputted date string.

4.1.3

• Added option to hide widget, if category have currently no posts.

4.1.2

• Fixed hide title bug.

4.1.1

• Added option to put thumbnail on top.
• Added option to show/hide the title.
• Fixed no background bug.

4.1.0

• Added PHP5 Constructor.
• Added Option to allow/disallow widget CSS.
• Now, compatible with WordPress 4.3.
• Meet new plugin author kometschuh

4.0

• Added CSS file for post styling.
• Now compatible with latest versions of WordPress.

3.3

• Fixed random sort bug.

3.2

• Added option to change ordering of posts. Defaults to showing newest posts first.

3.1

• Fixed a bug in the thumbnail size registration routine.

3.0

• Added support for WP 2.9’s post thumbnail feature.
• Removed support for Simple Post Thumbnails plugin.
• Added option to show the post date.
• Added option to set the excerpt length.
• Added option to show the number of comments.

2.3

• Really tried to fix bug where wp_query global was getting over written by manually instantiating a WP_Query object.

2.1

• Fixed bug where wp_query global was getting over written.

2.0

• Updated to use the WP 2.8 widget API.
• Added support for Simple Post Thumbnails plugin.