CHANGELOG.md

Changelog for Co-Authors Plus

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

3.6.1 - 2024-04-25

Fixed

• Fix missing author column in wp-admin Posts table #1038

3.6.0 - 2024-04-22

Added

• Blocks for Co-Authors #997

Fixed

• Improve alignment in author-selection component #990
• Fix admin notice positions #1002
• UI: Add capability check to Add New button #1003
• i18n: set script translations and refresh language files #1007

Maintenance

• Docs: Consolidate and refresh README.md #992
• Refresh package.json #993
• NPM: Add version-bump-prompt #994
• Fix/general code tidy #995
• Composer: Use 4-space tab indentation #999
• Improve tests structure #1000
• Extract iterator class from template-tags.php #1005
• Add supported_post_types() method #1006
• Tests improvements #1008
• Bump postcss from 8.4.19 to 8.4.31 #1009
• Create co-authors-plus-da_DK.po #1013
• Increase minimum supported PHP version to 7.4 #954
• Increase minimum supported WordPress version to 5.7 #955

3.5.15 - 2023-08-28

Fixed

• Incorrect Contributor name
• Incorrect change log date

3.5.14 - 2023-08-28

Fixed

• Check get_current_screen() exists #973
• Fix Ajax-suggested user and guest author ID collision #974
• Fix PHP Warnings on accessing $coauthor instance #975
• i18n: Add text domain header #984

Maintenance

• CI: Update integration tests environments #979
• CLI: Add Behat functional tests #980
• Create LICENSE file #985
• Refresh plugin headers #986

3.5.13 - 2023-07-31

Fixed

• Reverted "Fix Co-Authors Plus & Elementor Archive Pages conflict" #970

3.5.12 - 2023-07-30

Fixed

• Author archive: ensure queried object ID is an int #966
• Ensure 'nickname' is created to prevent is_author() PHP notice with Guest Author #939
• Refreshing meta box nonce after re-authenticating following a wp_auth_check() #670
• Fix Co-Authors Plus & Elementor Archive Pages conflict #926
• Fix broken link in readme #957
• Unable to change avatar image sizes #959
• Fix avatar id collision between user id and guest-author post type #960
• Add i18n string for PluginDocumentSettingPanel title ##961
• Improve I18n strings #963
• Fix notification to post co-authors #964
• UI: Fix admin headings #965

Added

• Add: List Co Authors Plus authors in the Slack social share #953

Maintenance

• Add .gitattributes file #951.
• Tests: Add previously deleted test back in #967
• Refresh screenshots, add banner and icon images #956

Removed

• Removed deprecated social media fields #830

3.5.11 - 2023-07-24

• Author select improvements #924
• Show author taxonomy in REST API, hide description based on capabilities #931
  • The author taxonomy was first added to the REST API in CAP 3.5.0, then removed in 3.5.2 over concerns of author email addresses being visible in the description. This adds it back but with the description hidden by default (filterable).
• Guest Authors: Add labels property #942
• Define dynamic guest_authors property #947
• Bump NPM dependencies #927 #933 #943 #944
• Workflows: Fix runner image and matrix #946
• CI: Split out CS and update integration tests workflow #948
• Improve tests setup #949

3.5.10 - 2023-01-24

• Fix: Authors not being updated properly in the editor #920

3.5.9 - 2023-01-19

• Fix: Avoid Fatal errors reported in the Nav menu filters for Guest Authors #917

3.5.8 - 2023-01-18

• Make CoAuthors_Plus::get_coauthor_by() compatible with unicode author usernames #909
• Yoast: Prevent no-indexing of guest authors' archive pages by @adekbadek #912
• Refactors Gutenberg Feature #870
• Fixes guest author menu item to display accurate URL #913
• Only update authors on Gutenberg post save #914

3.5.7 - 2023-01-05

• Remove Composer autoloader dependency #898
• Fixes Yoast deprecated warning for get_article_type_options_values() #901

3.5.6 - 2022-11-16

• CI: Add new deployment workflow #890
• Dependency update #891

3.5.5 - 2022-11-16

• Add Yoast integration #877
• CI: Add WP 6.1 #886 #887

3.5.4 - 2022-11-04

• Handle WP_Error on failed guest author creation for method create_guest_author() #879
• Only use pre_handle_404 filter in non-paged result #874
• Add CLI create-author command #880
• Add template tag co_authors_get_users() #862
• Change permission callback for authors and search endpoint and improve current_user_can_set_authors() #883
• Fix tests and add IDE files #882
• Bump dependencies #866 #865 #864

3.5.3 - 2022-10-24

• Add author taxonomy labels #860
• Add check for empty author in Jetpack Open Graph tags #861
• Improve performance of search_authors() #872
• Update WP versions in tests and grant permission to composer-installer packages #863

3.5.2 - 2022-06-01

• Remove the /wp/v2/coauthors endpoint #851
• Remove CSS hack that hides the add author box from core in the block editor #847

3.5.1 - 2022-04-25

• Fix error for undefined use_block_editor_for_post #843

3.5 - 2022-04-21

• Add Block Editor integration #790
• Fix issues with cache key id not being deleted #832
• Fix broken SQL query caused by wpdb->prepare() escaping quotes #831
• Fix _update_users_posts_count function to recount Guest Author's shadow taxonomy term count #829
• Update dependencies #833 #834 #835 #836 #837 #838

3.4.92 (Oct 14, 2021)

• Fix admin posts view for contributors #823

3.4.91 (Aug 12, 2021)

• Revert change with #686 regex change #816

3.4.9 (Aug 11, 2021)

• Fix clash on updating guest author with same slug as a WP_User #748
• Resolve warning from fix_author_page() when called too early #801
• Adjust regex on posts_where_filter to be less greedy #686
• Update deprecated GitHub hosted runner #808
• Replace deprecated jQuery shorthand methods #812
• Switch guest author meta box to aside context #746

3.4.8 (June 15, 2021)

• Fix AJAX author autocomplete when no author to post in author selector #803

3.4.7 (May 31, 2021)

• Fix accidental escaping introduced to coauthors_posts_links() #797

3.4.6 (May 28, 2021)

• Gravatars for guest authors now display in author select box #767
• Fix non-functional filter button on Guest Author listing page #768
• Added Hebrew translation strings #772
• Improve code style via PHPCBF #771 and .editorconfig #773
• Fix bug where guest author with pipe character in name is not rendered in author select box #775
• Fix get_coauthor_by() for correct return of users prefixed with "Cap" in name #778
• Correct failing unit tests under WP 5.7 #774
• Linked accounts display more accurate counts #776
• Switch to GitHub Actions from TravisCI #784
• Update .gitignore to exclude composer lock file and vendor dir #787
• Hide author section in Gutenberg for WP 5.7+ #793
• Delete correct CAP associated term on user delete #792
• Move changelog out of readme #768

3.4.5 (Mar. 28, 2021)

• Fixed bug where guest authors with spaces in names were not showing when queried in AJAX suggest box #764

3.4.4 (Mar. 26, 2021)

• Fixed bug where author with slug beginning with "cap" does not appear in bylines AJAX suggest box when queried #744
• Travis for Xenial build no longer fails #751
• Unit tests no longer fail #752
• Fixed REST permissions bug where co-author cannot view post assigned to them in Gutenberg #757

3.4.3 (Apr. 20, 2020)

• Added author support to CPT instructions in readme FAQ #720
• Added object check for user in coauthors_set_post_author_field() #721
• Fix inefficient user query in avatar url hook #724
• Fix operand typo in get_guest_author_thumbnail() for adding custom classes #725
• Remove hardcoded default avatar and use default option #728

3.4.2 (Dec. 16, 2019)

• Fix incorrect user avatar being displayed from featured post image #706
• Add check for filter_get_avatar_url to ensure valid second parameter #707
• add_coauthors() accepts ID parameter now #685 and ensures valid term slug used #708
• filter_count_user_posts checks that user ID returns valid user object #714
• Added post count instructions in readme FAQ for CPTs #713

3.4.1 (Aug. 19, 2019)

• Fix an issue that may arise in bulk edit #700

3.4 (May 6, 2019)

• New filter get_coauthors for modifying coauthor data returned in get_coauthors() #646
• New filter coauthors_guest_authors_exported_extra_data to allow guest author to export data as regular author #528
• New filter get_avatar_url() to show avatar in JS selection #621
• New parameter in coauthors_wp_list_authors() to only query authors with posts #496
• Add internationalization support to title and name in author archives #516
• Add safe list to skip irrelevant capabilities during permission checks #543
• Add helper function get_guest_author_post_count() #605
• Add parameter for outputting HTML classes in coauthors_get_avatar() template tag #610
• Add --append_coauthors flag to synopsis of CLI assign-coauthors #600
• Adjust CLI command create-guest-authors-from-csv to import website, avatar and description (#603 and #619)
• Post type of "any" can be used in filters #617
• Remove unnecessary is_array() check #471
• Remove unnecessary action_pre_user_query() #531
• Use correct args in search_authors() #519
• Have filter_author_archive_title() run on author archives only #535
• Improve tests coverage (#529, #540, #546, #576 and #569)
• Change posts_selection to action from filter #563
• Fix number of args expected for get_the_archive_title callback #657
• Fix spelling, update FAQ for disabling guest authors and credits in readme (#656, #523 and #501)
• Output coauthors_links_single() template tag correctly when guest author has no website #504
• Number by "Mine" link shows correct listing of posts #663
• Linked guest authors show accurate post counts #674
• Can no longer add co-author more than once #532
• No more overwriting posts with current user in add_coauthors() #545
• Accurate post count for user when using different login #558
• No more double post count for users with linked accounts #567
• Fix SQL error (#593 and #628)
• Fix "Mine" link href for Pages #547
• Can delete users when guest authors functionality disabled #602
• Fix incompatibility issue with Yoast of missing posts in author pages #624
• Resolve undefined index warnings on author archives #521
• Resolve warnings when current user has no term assigned #517

Props: TheCrowned, shantanu2704, WPprodigy, blunce24, rebeccahum, andrewfleming, justnorris, sboisvert, jasonbahl, mariovalney, RoyTheRoyalBoy, jacobarriola, smistephen, manzoorwanijk, kodemonster, westonruter, binodkalathil, scofennell, hyperionjrw, pdemarte, mostafaabd, paulschreiber

3.3.1 "Gutentag" (Dec. 7, 2018)

• 5.0 Compat: Hide core author inputs when using the Block Editor to limit confusion (h/t jonathanstegall).

3.3.0 "Rebecca" (Apr. 16, 2018)

• Fix private post viewing on front-end #386
• Reduce amount of sleep #400
• Author search UX issues #407
• Remove associated guest user when mapped user id deleted. #414
• Removed double left join on posts_join_filter #419
• Fixed WP CLI create-terms-for-posts if no co-authors found #420
• Pages archive now displays co-authors and quick edit works #422
• Terminology updated throughout #423
• Replace hardcoded 'author' with $this->$coauthor_taxonomy #426
• Move parenthesis to fix esc_html and sprintf #430
• Added progress to create-guest-authors so users have an idea of how long it will take #431
• Deleting guest authors is less confusing #432
• Guest author's featured image is avatar now #433
• Removed extra image sizing #434
• Remove duplicated byline #435
• coauthors_wp_list_authors() has option to list only guest authors now #436
• remove duplicates from linked accounts on coauthors_wp_list_authors() #437
• Accurate Guest Author post count on linked accounts #438
• New README.md #439
• Filter author archive #441
• Fix coauthors_links_single() #444
• Added guest author hooks for create/delete #446
• Fixes logic for DOING_AUTOSAVE check #450
• user_login spaces problem when using add_coauthors #453
• Adding details of filter for slow performance #456
• Remove redundant test for 404 on Author Archive #457
• Guest Author Counts are more accurate #461
• Set $coauthors_loading #468
• Fix the issue where guest authors with non-ASCII characters can't be used as co-authors #473
• Fix the issue where incompatibility when coauthors_auto_apply_template_tags set to true #474
• Unit tests/Fix warnings for template tags #475
• Review and improve test coverage #476
• Update class-wp-cli.php #480
• Update .travis.yml file for PHPUnit tests #482
• Changes to resolve issue #332 about missing coauthor meta #484

Props to the many people who helped make this release possible: catchmyfame, danielbachhuber, david-binda, douglas-johnson, castlehouse, frankar, haleeben, jjeaton, johnbillion, kevinlisota, mattoperry, mdbitz, mdchiragpatel, megfh, mjangda, mslinnea, natebot, nickdaugherty, nilzari, philipjohn, pkevan, rebeccahum, ryanmarkel, sanketio, sboisvert, Spongsta, srguglielmo, timburden, trepmal, TylerDurdon

3.2.2 (Apr. 3, 2017)

• Fix broken author ordering in 4.7+ (props mslinnea)
• Fix no moderation e-mail bug (props RobjS)
• Cached functions in CLI commands (props jasonbahl)
• Fix missing echos (props trepmal)
• Add coauthors_guest_author_query_args filter (props trepmal)

3.2.1 (May 16, 2016)

• Hotfix for broken Guest Author bio metabox (props JS Morisset)

3.2 (May 12, 2016)

• Various minor bug and security fixes

3.1.2 (Aug. 31, 2015)

• Minor bug fixes and coding standards changes.
• The author's display name is now filtered through the_author in coauthors_posts_links_single()
• New Russian and Ukrainian translations, courtesy of Jurko Chervony.

3.1.1 (Mar. 20, 2014)

• Bug fix: Co-authors selection UI should appear when creating a new post too.

3.1 (Mar. 17, 2014)

• Manage co-authors from Quick Edit. Props mpatek.
• Updated Spanish translation, courtesy of sergiomajluf.
• Now matches core behavior when displaying author archive on multisite: user of the blog, or previously published author on the blog.
• Breaking change: "Create Profile" link is no longer shown by default on the Manage Users screen. Instead, it can be enabled with the coauthors_show_create_profile_user_link filter.
• Guest authors work properly with Jetpack Open Graph tags. Props hibernation.
• Guest author profile editor now supports a few different fields. Props alpha1.
• New coauthors_count_published_post_types filter for specifying the post type(s) used when calculating the user's number of published posts.
• Bug fix: Ensure post_author is set to one of the co-authors assigned to a post.
• Bug fix: Filter author feed link for guest authors on the author page. Props hibernation.
• Packages a composer.json file for those using Composer.
• Beginnings of unit test coverage for core features. Increased minimum required WordPress version to 3.7 because WordPress.org unit testing framework doesn't work reliabilty below that.

3.0.7 (Jan. 27, 2014)

• Better support for installing Co-Authors Plus as a symlinked directory. Follow these instructions to filter plugins_url.
• Links to authors' posts pages to comply to hCard microformat, which Google depends on.
• New coauthors_emails() template tag to list email addresses of the co-authors. Props benlk.
• Bug fix: Remove extraneous space between last two co-authors output. Props johnciacia.
• Updated French translation, courtesy of Jojaba (via email).

3.0.6 (Dec. 9, 2013)

• New Swedish translation, courtesy of alundstroem
• Updated German translation, courtesy of krafit.
• New Dutch translation, courtesy of kardotim
• New filter for specifying the default author assigned to a post. Props tannerm
• Bug fix: When filtering a user's published post count, use the value of their guest author profile if one is mapped.
• Added support for checkboxes in Guest Author profiles
• Fix Strict warnings from CPT's that don't define all capabilities
• New swap-coauthors CLI command for replacing one co-author with another

3.0.5 (Feb. 18, 2013)

• New filter coauthors_search_authors_get_terms_args allows you to increase the number of matches returned with AJAX co-author selection
• Bug fix: If there isn't an author term yet for a co-author, avoid an erroneous join that caused duplicate posts to appear.

3.0.4 (Jan. 6, 2013) =

• Support for automatically adding co-authors to your feeds. Props cfg.
• Bug fix: No Co-Authors Plus on attachments. For now.
• Bug fix: Better support for co-authors with non-standard user_nicenames. Props STRML.

3.0.3 (Dec. 3, 2012)

• Bug fix: The default order for the 'author' taxonomy should be term_order, in order for the author positions to stick. Props lgedeon

3.0.2 (Nov. 23, 2012)

• Bug fix: Fall back to non-pretty permalinks when the author permastruct is empty, so that coauthors_posts_links() doesn't link to the homepage

3.0.1 (Nov. 21, 2012)

• Add your own custom columns to the guest authors table using filters. Props cfg
• A new wp-cli subcommand for renaming co-authors and another for removing author terms mistakenly assigned to revisions
• Bug fix: Using a featured image for a guest author avatar didn't work. Now it does.
• Bug fix: Don't assign author terms to revisions to avoid unnecessary database bloat
• Bug fix: Make the coauthors_wp_list_authors() template tag work again
• Bug fix: Improve capability filtering by properly handling super admin access and situations where user_id = 0
• Minor UI enhancements for guest authors

3.0 (Nov. 12, 2012)

• Create guest author profiles for bylines you'd like to assign without creating WordPress user accounts. Guest authors can have all the same fields as normal users including display name, biography, and avatars.
• Support for non-Latin characters in usernames and guest author names
• wp-cli subcommands for creating, assigning, and reassigning co-authors
• For themes using core template tags like the_author() or the_author_posts_link(), you enable Co-Authors Plus support with a simple filter
• New author terms are now prefixed with cap- to avoid collisions with global scope
• Bug fix: Apply query filters to only post_types registered with the taxonomy. Props Tom Ransom
• Filter coauthors_posts_link_single() with coauthors_posts_link. Also adds rel="author". Props Amit Sannad and Gabriel Koen
• Filter for the context and priorities of the Co-Authors meta boxes. Props Tomáš Kapler
• Renamed the post meta box for selecting authors, so it applies to many post types. Props John Blackbourn

2.6.4 (May 7, 2012)

• Bug fix: Properly filter the user query so users can AJAX search against the display name field again
• If https is used for the admin, also use the secure Gravatar URL. Props rmcfrazier

2.6.3 (Apr. 30, 2012)

• AJAX user search is back to searching against user login, display name, email address and user ID. The method introduced in v2.6.2 didn't scale well
• French translation courtesy of Sylvain Bérubé
• Spanish translation courtesy of Alejandro Arcos
• Bug fix: Resolved incorrect caps check against user editing an already published post. See forum thread

2.6.2 (Mar. 6, 2012)

• AJAX user search matches against first name, last name, and nickname fields too, in addition to display name, user login, and email address
• Comment moderation and approved notifications are properly sent to all co-authors with the correct caps
• Filter required capability for user to be returned in an AJAX search with coauthors_edit_author_cap
• Filter out administrators and other non-authors from AJAX search with coauthors_edit_ignored_authors
• Automatically adds co-authors to Edit Flow's story budget and calendar views
• Bug fix: Don't set post_author value to current user when quick editing a post. This doesn't appear in the UI anywhere, but adds the post to the current user's list of posts
• Bug fix: Properly cc other co-authors on new comment email notifications
• Bug fix: If a user has already been added as an author to a post, don't show them in the AJAX search again
• Bug fix: Allow output constants to be defined in a theme's functions.php file and include filters you can use instead

2.6.1 (Dec. 30, 2011)

• Fix mangled usernames because of sanitize_key http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-co-authors-plus-26-not-working-with-wp-33

2.6 (Dec. 22, 2011)

• Sortable authors: Drag and drop the order of the authors as you'd like them to appear (props kingkool68)
• Search for authors by display name (instead of nicename which was essentially the same as user_login)
• Option to remove the first author when there are two or more, so it's less confusing
• Bumped requirements to WordPress 3.1
• Bug fix: Update the published post count for each user more reliably

2.5.3 (Aug. 14, 2011)

• Bug fix: Removed extra comma when only two authors were listed. If you used the COAUTHORS_DEFAULT_BETWEEN_LAST constant, double-check what you have

2.5.2 (Apr. 23, 2011)

• Bug: Couldn't query terms and authors at the same time (props nbaxley)
• Bug: Authors with empty fields (e.g. first name) were displaying blank in some cases
• Bug: authors with spaces in usernames not getting saved (props MLmsw, Ruben S. and others!)
• Bug: revisions getting wrong user attached (props cliquenoir!)

2.5.1 (Mar. 26, 2011)

• Fix with author post count (throwing errors)

2.5 (Mar. 26, 2011)

• Custom Post Type Support
• Compatibility with WP 3.0 and 3.1
• Gravatars
• Lots and lots and lots of bug fixes
• Thanks to everyone who submitted bugs, fixes, and suggestions! And for your patience!

2.1.1 (Oct. 16, 2009)

• Fix for co-authors not being added if their username is different from display name
• Fixes to readme.txt (fixes for textual and punctuation errors, language clarification, minor formatting changes) courtesy of Waldo Jaquith

2.1 (Oct. 11, 2009)

• Fixed issues related to localization. Thanks to Jan Zombik zombik@students.uni-mainz.de for the fixes.
• Added set_time_limit to update function to get around timeout issues when upgrading plugin

2.0 (Oct. 11, 2009)

• Plugin mostly rewritten to make use of taxonomy instead of post_meta
• Can now see all authors of a post under the author column from Edit Posts page
• All authors of a post are now notified on a new comment
• Various javascript enhancements
• New option to allow subscribers to be added as authors
• All Authors can edit the posts of which they are co-authors
• FIX: Issues with wp_coauthors_list function
• FIX: Issues with coauthored posts not showing up on author archives

1.2.0 (Jun. 16, 2012)

• FIX: Added compatibility for WordPress 2.8
• FIX: Added new template tags (get_the_coauthor_meta & the_coauthor_meta) to fix issues related to displaying author info on author archive pages. See Other Notes for details.
• FIX: Plugin should now work for plugins not using the wp_ DB prefix
• FIX: Coauthors should no longer be alphabetically reordered when the post is updated
• FIX: Plugin now used WordPress native AJAX calls to tighten security
• DOCS: Added details about the new template tags

1.1.5 (Apr. 26, 2009)

• FIX: Not searching Updated SQL query for autosuggest to search through first name, last name, and nickname
• FIX: When editing an author, and clicking on a suggested author, the original author was not be removed
• DOCS: Added code comments to javascript; more still to be added
• DOCS: Updated readme information

1.1.4 (Apr. 25, 2009)

• Disabled "New Author" output in suggest box, for now
• Hopefully fixed SVN issue (if you're having trouble with the plugin, please delete the plugin and reinstall)

1.1.3 (Apr. 23, 2009)

• Add blur event to disable input box
• Limit only one edit at a time.
• Checked basic cross-browser compatibility (Firefox 3 OS X, Safari 3 OS X, IE7 Vista).
• Add suggest javascript plugin to Edit Page.

1.1.2 (Apr. 19, 2009)

• Disabled form submit when enter pressed.

1.1.1 (Apr. 15, 2009)

• Changed SQL query to return only contributor-level and above users.

1.1.0 (Apr. 14, 2009)

• Initial beta release.