v3.4.1-beta1

Changelog

Fixes #192

Full Changelog: v3.4.0...v3.4.1-beta1

Installation

1. Download the contextual-related-posts.zip file from this release post
2. Visit Plugins in your Admin Area
3. Hit the Add New button next to the Plugins heading
4. Hit the Upload button next to the Add Plugins heading
5. Select the contextual-related-posts.zip that you downloaded and hit Install Now
6. In the next screen choose Replace current with uploaded
7. This should replace the plugin with the latest version. You can verify this by going back to the Plugins page and checking the version number

Version 3.4.0

Release post: https://webberzone.com/blog/contextual-related-posts-v3-4-0/

• Features:

  • Bulk edit posts, pages and custom post types to add the manual relatd posts and/or exclude posts from the related posts list
  • New argument include_words to include posts that match the words in the title and/or content.

• Enhancements/Modifications:

  • The Manual Related Posts field in the meta box allows a user to live search for related posts
  • Caching of the entire HTML output is enabled by default. You can disable it in the settings page. This will reduce the number of database queries and improve performance. If you have customised the output, you will need to clear the cache for the changes to take effect. Applies to new installs and when you reset the settings
  • The plugin no longer check for pre v2.5 settings key
  • The Media Handler will check the title of the image in case the alt tag text is empty before defaulting to the post title
  • All the inbuilt styles have been updated for the a tags to have :focus-visible declared for accessibility
  • The Heading of posts setting will now use <h2> instead of <h3> for the heading by default

• Bug Fixes:

  • The post cache was not always cleared when a post was updated

• Deprecated:

  • get_crp_posts_id has been completed deprecated and will use get_crp_posts instead. The function will continue to work but will be removed in a future version

Full Changelog: v3.3.4...v3.4.0

v3.4.0-RC3

Changelog

• Features:

  • Bulk edit posts, pages and custom post types to add the manual relatd posts and/or exclude posts from the related posts list
  • New argument include_words to include posts that match the words in the title and/or content.

• Enhancements/Modifications:

  • The Manual Related Posts field in the meta box allows a user to live search for related posts
  • Caching of the entire HTML output is enabled by default. You can disable it in the settings page. This will reduce the number of database queries and improve performance. If you have customised the output, you will need to clear the cache for the changes to take effect. Applies to new installs and when you reset the settings
  • The plugin no longer check for pre v2.5 settings key
  • The Media Handler will check the title of the image in case the alt tag text is empty before defaulting to the post title
  • All the inbuilt styles have been updated for the a tags to have :focus-visible declared for accessibility
  • The Heading of posts setting will now use <h2> instead of <h3> for the heading by default

• Bug Fixes:

  • The post cache was not always cleared when a post was updated

• Deprecated:

  • get_crp_posts_id has been completed deprecated and will use get_crp_posts instead. The function will continue to work but will be removed in a future version

Installation

1. Download the contextual-related-posts.zip file from this release post
2. Visit Plugins in your Admin Area
3. Hit the Add New button next to the Plugins heading
4. Hit the Upload button next to the Add Plugins heading
5. Select the contextual-related-posts.zip that you downloaded and hit Install Now
6. In the next screen choose Replace current with uploaded
7. This should replace the plugin with the latest version. You can verify this by going back to the Plugins page and checking the version number

Full Changelog: v3.4.0-RC2...v3.4.0-RC3

v3.4.0-RC2

Changelog

• Features:

  • Bulk edit posts, pages and custom post types to add the manual relatd posts and/or exclude posts from the related posts list
  • New argument include_words to include posts that match the words in the title and/or content.

• Enhancements/Modifications:

  • The Manual Related Posts field in the meta box allows a user to live search for related posts
  • Caching of the entire HTML output is enabled by default. You can disable it in the settings page. This will reduce the number of database queries and improve performance. If you have customised the output, you will need to clear the cache for the changes to take effect. Applies to new installs and when you reset the settings
  • The plugin no longer check for pre v2.5 settings key

• Bug Fixes:

  • The post cache was not always cleared when a post was updated

• Deprecated:

  • get_crp_posts_id has been completed deprecated and will use get_crp_posts instead. The function will continue to work but will be removed in a future version

Installation

1. Download the contextual-related-posts.zip file from this release post
2. Visit Plugins in your Admin Area
3. Hit the Add New button next to the Plugins heading
4. Hit the Upload button next to the Add Plugins heading
5. Select the contextual-related-posts.zip that you downloaded and hit Install Now
6. In the next screen choose Replace current with uploaded
7. This should replace the plugin with the latest version. You can verify this by going back to the Plugins page and checking the version number

Full Changelog: v3.4.0-RC1...v3.4.0-RC2

v3.4.0-RC1

Changelog

• Features:

  • Bulk edit posts, pages and custom post types to add the manual relatd posts and/or exclude posts from the related posts list
  • New argument include_words to include posts that match the words in the title and/or content.

• Enhancements/Modifications:

  • The Manual Related Posts field in the meta box allows a user to live search for related posts
  • Caching of the entire HTML output is enabled by default. You can disable it in the settings page. This will reduce the number of database queries and improve performance. If you have customised the output, you will need to clear the cache for the changes to take effect. Applies to new installs and when you reset the settings
  • The plugin no longer check for pre v2.5 settings key

• Deprecated:

  • get_crp_posts_id has been completed deprecated and will use get_crp_posts instead. The function will continue to work but will be removed in a future version

Installation

1. Download the contextual-related-posts.zip file from this release post
2. Visit Plugins in your Admin Area
3. Hit the Add New button next to the Plugins heading
4. Hit the Upload button next to the Add Plugins heading
5. Select the contextual-related-posts.zip that you downloaded and hit Install Now
6. In the next screen choose Replace current with uploaded
7. This should replace the plugin with the latest version. You can verify this by going back to the Plugins page and checking the version number

Full Changelog: v3.4.0-beta1...v3.4.0-RC1

v3.4.0-beta1

Changelog

Features:
* Bulk edit posts, pages and custom post types to add the manual relatd posts and/or exclude posts from the related posts list

• Enhancements/Modifications:

  • Caching of the entire HTML output is enabled by default. You can disable it in the settings page. This will reduce the number of database queries and improve performance. If you have customised the output, you will need to clear the cache for the changes to take effect. Applies to new installs and when you reset the settings
  • The plugin no longer check for pre v2.5 settings key

• Deprecated:

  • get_crp_posts_id has been completed deprecated and will use get_crp_posts instead. The function will continue to work but will be removed in a future version

Installation

1. Download the contextual-related-posts.zip file from this release post
2. Visit Plugins in your Admin Area
3. Hit the Add New button next to the Plugins heading
4. Hit the Upload button next to the Add Plugins heading
5. Select the contextual-related-posts.zip that you downloaded and hit Install Now
6. In the next screen choose Replace current with uploaded
7. This should replace the plugin with the latest version. You can verify this by going back to the Plugins page and checking the version number

Full Changelog: v3.3.4...v3.4.0-beta1

v3.3.4

Release post: https://webberzone.com/blog/contextual-related-posts-v3-3-0/

• Enhancements/Modifications:

  • When displaying the post thumbnail, the Media Handler will first use the image's alt tag set in the Media editor. If alt tag is empty, then it will use the post title as a fallback. Filter tptn_thumb_use_image_alt and set it to false to not use the alt tag. Filter tptn_thumb_alt_fallback_post_title and set it to false to disable the alt tag
  • Orderby clause modified to ensure compatibility if any other plugin rewrites the WP_Query fields

• Bug Fixes:

  • Fix duplicate display of related posts when using reusable blocks or a plugin that inserts pages
  • meta_query argument was ignored

Full Changelog: v3.3.3...v3.3.4

v3.3.4-RC1

Changelog:

• Enhancements/Modifications:

  • When displaying the post thumbnail, the Media Handler will first use the image's alt tag set in the Media editor. If alt tag is empty, then it will use the post title as a fallback. Filter tptn_thumb_use_image_alt and set it to false to not use the alt tag. Filter tptn_thumb_alt_fallback_post_title and set it to false to disable the alt tag

• Bug Fixes:

  • Fix duplicate display of related posts when using reusable blocks or a plugin that inserts pages

Installation

1. Download the contextual-related-posts.zip file from this release post
2. Visit Plugins in your Admin Area
3. Hit the Add New button next to the Plugins heading
4. Hit the Upload button next to the Add Plugins heading
5. Select the contextual-related-posts.zip that you downloaded and hit Install Now
6. In the next screen choose Replace current with uploaded
7. This should replace the plugin with the latest version. You can verify this by going back to the Plugins page and checking the version number

Full Changelog: v3.3.4-beta2...v3.3.4-RC1

Version 3.3.4 Beta 2

Changes:

• Fix: Check if either in_the_loop or is_main_query is not true and exit
• Fix: Make sure preg_match receives a string as a slug
• Fix: wp_img_tag_add_loading_attr is deprecated in WordPress 6.3

Installation

1. Download the contextual-related-posts.zip file from this release post
2. Visit Plugins in your Admin Area
3. Hit the Add New button next to the Plugins heading
4. Hit the Upload button next to the Add Plugins heading
5. Select the contextual-related-posts.zip that you downloaded and hit Install Now
6. In the next screen choose Replace current with uploaded
7. This should replace the plugin with the latest version. You can verify this by going back to the Plugins page and checking the version number

Full Changelog: v3.3.4-beta1...v3.3.4-beta2

Version 3.3.4 Beta 1

Installation

1. Download the contextual-related-posts.zip file from this release post
2. Visit Plugins in your Admin Area
3. Hit the Add New button next to the Plugins heading
4. Hit the Upload button next to the Add Plugins heading
5. Select the contextual-related-posts.zip that you downloaded and hit Install Now
6. In the next screen choose Replace current with uploaded
7. This should replace the plugin with the latest version. You can verify this by going back to the Plugins page and checking the version number

Full Changelog: v3.3.3...v3.3.4-beta1