Page Generator

1.7.3 (2024-07-22)

• Fix: Generate: Content: Improve performance when Rotate Authors option is enabled.

1.7.2 (2023-10-26)

• Fix: Keywords: Use sanitize_sql_orderby() when defining order and order by parameters

1.7.1 (2023-09-07)

• Fix: Updated dashboard submodule

1.7.0 (2023-08-23)

• Fix: Updated WordPress Coding Standards to 3.0.0

1.6.9 (2023-08-03)

• Fix: PHP Deprecated notices in PHP 8.2

1.6.8 (2023-01-26)

• Notice: PHP 7.4 is the minimum required version
• Added: Generate: Content: Keyword Autocomplete: Gutenberg: Support for Keyword Autocomplete on Title field
• Added: Generate: Content: Check ID is a Content Group, and show an error if not
• Fix: Keyword Autocompleters: Don’t initialize in Gutenberg / Block Editor text blocks when editing Pages or Posts
• Fix: Keywords: Save: Replace utf8_encode() with mb_convert_encoding() for PHP 8.2 compatibility
• Fix: Generate: Content: Replace utf8_encode() with mb_convert_encoding() for PHP 8.2 compatibility
• Fix: Generate: Content: Keyword Autocomplete: Don’t initialize if no Keywords defined
• Fix: Generate: Content: Keywords: PHP Deprecated notice for count() and getIterator()

1.6.7 (2022-07-14)

• Fix: Error loading taxonomy class when adding/editing Post Categories or Tags

= 1.6.6.3 (2022-06-25)=
* Fix: Generate: Test Mode: Display link to test page

1.6.6.2 (2022-06-21)

• Fix: Coding Standards: Provide specific reasons when ignoring a coding standard

1.6.6.1 (2022-06-21)

• Fix: Keywords: Process form data with nonce verification outside of views folder

1.6.6 (2022-06-21)

• Added: Generate via Browser: Show dialog confirmation if navigating away from generation window whilst generation is running
• Added: Generate via Browser: Remove ‘Generating’ flag on Content Group if navigated away from generation window whilst generation is running
• Fix: Keywords: Add/Edit: Strip slashes from quotation marks when adding/editing a Keyword fails validation
• Fix: Keywords: Search: Strip slashes from ‘Search results for’ label
• Fix: Generate: Content: Test Mode: Honor Resume Index when using Test button in Gutenberg editor
• Fix: Ensure code meets WordPress Coding Standards

1.6.4 (2022-06-09)

• Added: Support for WordPress 6.0

1.6.3 (2022-05-12)

• Fix: Multisite: Activation: Conditionally load required hook depending on WordPress version

1.6.2 (2022-04-24)

• Fix: Upgrade link would incorrectly redirect to WordPress Admin dashboard

1.6.1 (2022-03-14)

• Fix: Generate via Browser: Call to a member function get_parameters() on null
• Fix: Undefined variable: minified

1.6.0 (2022-03-03)

• Added: Keywords: Add/Edit: Use WordPress Code Editor for Terms for improved editing, readibility and search
• Added: Generate: Content: Permalink: Validate that Keyword syntax is valid prior to Test / Generation
• Added: Generate: Content: Keyword Autocomplete: Classic Editor: Up and down keys can be used to select highlighted autocomplete suggestion
• Added: Generate: Content: Keyword Autocomplete: Classic Editor: Insert first displayed Keyword suggestion when enter key pressed
• Fix: Generate: Content: Keyword Autocomplete: Classic Editor: Don’t show autocompleter when left square bracket key pressed
• Fix: Generate: Content: Detect Keywords in Gutenberg Blocks and Page Builders that use nested JSON strings to store data
• Fix: Multisite: Activation: Use wp_insert_site hook when available in WordPress 5.1 and higher

1.5.9 (2021-09-17)

• Fix: Keywords: Correctly escape Keyword name

1.5.8

• Added: Generate: Content: All Method. See Docs: https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/page-generator-pro/generate-methods/
• Fix: Don’t minify Plugin Javascript if a third party minification Plugin is active
• Fix: Keyword Autocompleters: Don’t initialize autocompletors if no Keywords have been specified

1.5.7

• Added: Localization support, with .pot file and translators comments
• Added: Generate via Browser: Clear log after 100 entries to improve browser and generation performance
• Fix: Keywords: Autocomplete: Don’t strip commas from existing field when selecting a Keyword from the autocomplete dropdown list
• Fix: Keywords: Cache calls made to get_keywords_and_columns() for the request lifecycle, to reduce duplicate queries and improve performance
• Fix: Keywords: Uncaught Error: Class ‘LeagueCsvReader’ not found
• Fix: Generate: Content: Reduce database requests for Generated Count and Last Index during generation to improve performance for larger sites
• Fix: Generate: Content: Prevent memory usage increasing by flushing WordPress’ Term cache occasionally during generation
• Fix: Generate: Content: Delete Generated Content: PHP Warnings or AJAX errors when no Generated Content exists
• Fix: Generate: Content: Test: URL would wrongly result in 404, even when Test Page/Post was successfully generated
• Fix: Generate: Content: Gutenberg: Don’t encode special characters in third party blocks
• Fix: Generate: Content: Detect Non-lowercase Keywords and replace them with Terms
• Fix: Generate: Content: PHP Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object
• Fix: Generate: Content: Classic Editor: Bottom Actions Meta Box: Ensure Generate, Trash and Delete buttons perform action when clicked
• Fix: Generate via Browser: Display Start and End Index in counter correctly when Resume Index and/or No. Posts specified
• Fix: Generate: Content: Autocomplete: Title: Keyword suggestions hidden behind Classic Editor
• Fix: Generate: Content: Classic Editor: Autocomplete: Ensure autocomplete suggestions box height does not exceed 120px and is scrollable
• Fix: Generate: Content: Strip HTML tags from Keyword Term Log Output, to avoid browser memory errors
• Fix: bbPress: Settings: Forums: Forum Root: Fatal error

1.5.6

• Added: Keywords: Add/Edit: Don’t wrap a single Term onto multiple lines
• Fix: Keywords: Add/Edit: Validation: Improved error messages when validating field values
• Fix: Keywords: Add/Edit: Use for field names for accessibility
• Fix: Keywords: Edit: Form field values wouldn’t display immediately after correcting a validation error and successfully saving
• Fix: Keywords: Typo on table when no Keywords exist
• Added: Generate: Content: Trash and Delete Generated Content will Trash / Delete in batches to avoid timeouts
• Fix: Generate: Content: Gutenberg: Don’t remove Permalink field on non-Content Group Post Types
• Fix: Generate: Content: Set Author as current logged in WordPress User if none is specified
• Fix: Generate: Content: Ensure Author or Random Author specified prior to Generation. See Docs: https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/page-generator-pro/generate-content/#fields–author

1.5.5

• Added: Generate: Content: Publish draft Content Group immediately before Test, Generate or Generate via Browser to ensure generation works in Gutenberg
• Added: Generate: Content: Prevent Preview of Content Group. Use Test functionality to test output
• Added: Keywords: Screen Options to define Keywords per Page
• Fix: Keywords: Retain Search, Order and Order By parameters when using Pagination

1.5.4

• Added: Generate: Content: Developer Actions. See Docs: https://www.wpzinc.com/documentation/page-generator-pro/developers/
• Added: Forms: Accessibility: Replaced Titles with elements that focus the given input element on click
• Added: Performance: Only load required Plugin classes depending on the request type
• Fix: Generate: Don’t attempt to replace Keywords that don’t exist
• Fix: CSS: Renamed option class to wpzinc-option to avoid CSS conflicts with third party Plugins
• Fix: Generate: Improved Performance by ~80% when using ~10,000+ Keyword Terms and/or Keyword Transformations, Columns and nth Terms.
• Fix: Activation: Prevent DB character set / collation errors on table creation by using WordPress’ native get_charset_collate()
• Fix: Generate: Content: Keyword Dropdown: Ensure width does not exceed meta box
• Fix: Generate: Content: Keyword Dropdown: Ensure height does not exceed 120px and is scrollable
• Fix: Keywords: Could not Save Keyword when defining several columns that would exceed 200 characters in total length

1.5.3

• Added: Keywords: Keyword Names can include any language
• Fix: Keywords: Terms: Remove empty newlines
• Fix: Keywords: Database error: Field ‘columns doesn’t have a default value

1.5.2

• Added: Generate: Content: Verbose logging on Generation
• Added: Generate: Content: Metaboxes are no longer filtered out or removed, ensuring better third party Theme / Plugin compatibility (e.g. SEO Plugins)
• Added: Generate: Content: Autocomplete Keyword Suggestions displayed when typing in Title and Permalink fields
• Added: Generate: Content: TinyMCE: Autocomplete Keyword Suggestions displayed when typing “{“
• Added: Generate: Content: Gutenberg Blocks: Autocomplete Keyword Suggestions displayed when typing
• Added: Generate: Content: Warning when specifying a static Permalink
• Added: Generate: Content: Trash / Delete Generated Content options if Generated Content exists
• Added: Generate: Content: Test: Verbose errors displayed on generated test Page / Post
• Fix: Keywords: Aligned “Search results for” label correctly when searching for Keywords
• Fix: Generate: Content: Only attempt to UTF-8 Post Excerpt when Page Generation fails and the Post Type supports Excerpts
• Fix: Generate: Content: Trim setting values to avoid failures
• Fix: Generate: Content: Renamed Remove Trackbacks and Pingbacks to Remove Track / Pingbacks, to avoid text overflowing in the UI
• Fix: Generate: Content: Gutenberg: Don’t display Gutenberg’s Permalink Panel in the sidebar, as it’s not used.
• Fix: Generate: Content: Only fetch Group Settings once, to improve performance
• Fix: Generate: Content: Only fetch Keywords once, to improve performance
• Fix: Generate: Ensure progress bar styles don’t override other styles in the WordPress Admin UI
• Fix: Removed unused logging from Javascript
• Fix: Localization strings

1.5.1

• Added: Generate: Content: Optimized performance for generation
• Fix: Compatibility when using multiple WP Zinc Plugins
• Fix: Only load JS when required for performance
• Fix: Activation: Fix ‘Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes’ error on Keyword Table creation for MySQL 5.6 and lower
• Fix: Generate: Content: Undefined index: group_id Javascript errors
• Fix: Generate: Content: Author field search failing
• Fix: Minified all CSS and JS for performance

1.5.0

• Fix: Fatal error on Plugin Activation

1.4.9

• Added: Success and Error Notices can be dismissed
• Fix: Generate: Honor Page Template Setting
• Fix: Keywords: Ensure that Sorting Keywords in the table doesn’t re-trigger a duplicate or delete event
• Fix: Activation: Don’t specify ENGINE on CREATE TABLE syntax
• Fix: Multisite: Network Activation: Ensure database tables are automatically created on all existing sites
• Fix: Multisite: Network Activation: Ensure database tables are automatically created on new sites created after Network Activation of Plugin
• Fix: Multisite: Site Activation: Ensure database tables are created
• Fix: UI Enhancements for mobile compatibility
• Fix: ACF and Divi compatibility
• Fix: Generate: Action Buttons CSS to ensure buttons aren’t cut off
• Fix: Removed all select2 references, as select2 is no longer used
• Fix: Keywords: Allow Keywords to be sorted ascending and descending when clicking Keywords column in table

1.4.8

• Added: Generate Content: Test, Generate and Delete Generated Content Actions in Sidebar for Gutenberg Editor
• Added: Generate Content: Gutenberg Compatibility
• Added: Keywords: Use native wpdb class insert(), update() and delete() functions when creating, updating and deleting Keywords
• Added: Generate: Content: Yoast SEO: Prevent Yoast SEO stripping curly braces from Canonical URL
• Added: Generate: Output: Display Keywords + Term Replacements used in each Page Generation
• Fix: Generate Content: Gutenberg: Save all Settings
• Fix: Generate Content: Initialize array in a PHP 5+ compatible manner
• Fix: Generate Content: Ignore _wp_page_template if supplied in Post Meta; this ensures the Content Group’s Page Template is always honored.
• Fix: Generate Content: Improved error message in Test and Generate mode when the total number of possible keyword term combinations exceeds PHP’s floating point limit.
• Fix: Generate Content: Confirmation Dialogs localized for translation
• Fix: Generate Content: Correctly replace keywords when using PHP versions older than 5.5.x (please upgrade to PHP 7 – PHP 5.x is end of life January 1st 2019: http://php.net/supported-versions.php)
• Fix: Generate Content: Author field now uses selectize asynchronous search for better performance on sites with a large number of WordPress Users
• Fix: Exclude Content Groups from Yoast SEO Sitemaps, regardless of Yoast settings

1.4.7

• Fix: Call wp_enqueue_media() on Plugin screens, because Plugins which register Meta Boxes and Yoast SEO wrongly assume that there is always a Visual Editor and Featured Image on a Post Type

1.4.6

• Added: Don’t initialize plugin if the Pro version is installed; prevents 500 internal server errors when users wrongly attempt to run both Free + Pro versions at the same time
• Added: show_in_rest = false for Content Groups, until we’re happy that the Gutenberg editor is stable in WordPress
• Added: Generate: Output: Display Keywords + Term Replacements used in each Page and Post Generation
• Fix: Generate: Use date_i18n() instead of date() to ensure that published Posts honor WordPress’ locale
• Fix: Generate: Attributes: Only display Template option if the Post Type has registered templates available
• Fix: Generate: Prevent Preview / View of Group on frontend, which results in errors (use ‘Test’ method instead)
• Fix: Keywords: Prevent spaces in Keywords
• Fix: Generate: Prevent spaces in Permalink
• Fix: Code formatting

1.4.5

• Fix: Generate: Fatal error when using certain Themes

1.4.4

• Added: Post Type Template Support (WordPress 4.7+)
• Added: Generate: Support for large keyword term combinations in All mode (e.g. 100 million+ pages). Requires PHP 5.5+
• Fix: Keywords: Prevent spaces in Keywords
• Fix: Generate: Prevent spaces in Permalink
• Fix: Code formatting
• Fix: Generate: Use date_i18n() instead of date() to ensure that published Posts honor WordPress’ locale
• Fix: 404 errors on generated Pages when Page Parent was previous set and then removed

1.4.3

• Added: Improved UI
• Fix: Uncaught TypeError: Illegal constructor in admin-min.js for clipboard.js functionality

1.4.2

• Fix: Generate: Blank screen for some users

1.4.1

• Fix: Undefined variable errors

1.4.0

• Fix: Only display Review Helper for Super Admin and Admin

1.3.9

• Added: Review Helper to check if the user needs help
• Updated: Dashboard Submodule

1.3.8

• Added: Version bump to match Pro version, using same core codebase and UI for basic features. Fixes several oustanding bugs
• Added: Post Type: Use variable for Post Type Name for better abstraction
• Fix: Generate: Don’t attempt to test for permitted meta boxes if none exist
• Fix: Generate: Check Custom Fields are set before running checks on them
• Fix: Use Plugin Name variable for better abstraction
• Fix: Improved Installation and Upgrade routines

1.0.6

• Fix: Changed branding from WP Cube to WP Zinc

1.0.5

• Fix: Display keywords in keyword table

1.0.4

• Tested with WordPress 4.3
• Fix: plugin_dir_path() and plugin_dir_url() used for Multisite / symlink support

1.0.3

• Fix: Dashboard errors
• Fix: Changed Menu Icon
• Fix: WordPress 4.0 compatibility

1.0.2

• Added: Support for HTML elements in keyword data

1.0.1

• Added translation support and .pot file

1.0

• First release.