ad-code-manager

Hotfix: No need for redundant development packages and other files to be available in the distributed plugin.

This version requires WordPress 5.7 and PHP 7.4 as a minimum. There are no new features.

Changed

• #165 Increase minimum WP and PHP supported versions.
• #166 Improve spelling, punctuation, and grammar in comments and visible strings.

Maintenance

• #164 Composer: Update to VIPCS 3.
• #167 Add CHANGELOG.md

This version requires WordPress 5.5 and PHP 7.1 as a minimum.

• User focused:
  • Added link to the Settings page from the plugin page to make it easier to find after plugin activation.
  • Moved the settings page from the Tools menu to the Settings menu to make it more intuitive to find.
• Developer focused:
  • Remove parsing of readme.txt into contextual help with a Markdown parsing library.
  • Refactored action_acm_tag() method to a method that returned the tag and another that echoed the returned tag.
  • Fixed internationalization of PHP strings.
  • Improved some coding standards.
    • Thanks to @christianc1, @shantanu2704 and @trepmal.
  • Added check for post types when deleting ad codes.
    • Thanks to @rbcorrales.
  • Moved and reorganised many classes and how they are initialized.
  • Allow filtering the TTL for matching ad codes.
    • Thanks to @dlh01.
  • Changed the assignment of $unit_sizes_output to an array.
    • Thanks to @victorholt.
  • Fixed PHP 7 incompatibilities.
    • Thanks to @swissspidy, @shantanu2704, @alexiskulash, and @jonathanstegall.
• Documentation focused:
  • Refreshed screenshots.
  • Moved previously-linked configuration guidance into Readme.
  • Reorganised documentation sections.
  • Refreshed the on-page contextual help.
• Project focused:
  • Added GitHub workflow to push the plugin to WordPress.org.
  • Added script to more easily bump version numbers.
  • Added script to populate release notes into Readme changelog for WordPress.org.
  • Added dependabot configuration file.
  • Added .gitattributes file.
  • Added LICENSE file.
  • Increased minimum WordPress version to WP 5.5.
  • Increased minimum PHP version to PHP 7.1.
  • Fixed broken tests and workflows.

• Added support for flex sized DFP Async ads (see upgrade notice).
• Added robots.txt entries for provider's crawlers.
• Bug fix: Prevent global $post pollution if ad code is getting rendered inside a loop.
• New Italian translation.
  • Thanks @sniperwolf.
• Using PHP5 constructs when initializing the widget.

• Disabled rendering of ads on preview to avoid crawling errors.
  • Thanks @paulgibbs.
• Bug fix: Corrected "medium rectangle" ad size for DFP Async Provider.
  • Thanks @NRG-R9T.

• Streamlined configuration for Doubleclick for Publishers Async and Google AdSense.
• Faster, cleaner JavaScript.
  • Thanks to @jeremyfelt and @carldanley.
• New filter acm_output_html_after_tokens_processed for rare cases where you might want to filter HTML after the tokens are processed.

• Conditional operator logic can be set on an ad code by ad code basis.
  • Thanks jtsternberg (@jtsternberg) for the pull request!
• Bug fix: If an ad tag doesn't need a URL, ignore the allowlist check
• Bug fix: Make sure that all providers list tables call parent::get_columns() to avoid conflicts with filters.
• Coding standards cleanup

• Allow columns to be optional when creating and editing ad codes, introduced new filter acm_ad_code_args.
• Remove acm_provider_columns filter.

• New Google Ad Sense provider.
  • Thanks to Erick Hitter (@ethitter).
• Bulk delete action added for the WP_List_Table of ad codes. Delete more ad codes in one go.
• New acm_register_provider_slug for registering a provider that's included outside the plugin (e.g. a theme).
• Bug fix: Instantiate the WP List Table on the view, instead of on admin_init, to reduce conflicts with other list tables

• Flush the cache whenever an ad code is created or deleted so you don't have to wait for a timeout with a persistent cache.
• Bug fix: Default to priority 10 when querying for ad codes if there is no priority set.

• UI reworked from the ground up to look and work much more like the WordPress admin (using WP_List_Table).
• Abstracted ad network logic, so users can integrate other ad networks. Pull requests to add support to the plugin are always welcome.
• Added in-plugin contextual help.
• Implemented priority for ad code (allows to workaround ad code conflicts if any).
• Implemented the [acm-tag] shortcode.
• Implemented ACM Widget.
  • Thanks to Justin Sternburg (@jtsternberg) at WebDevStudios for the contribution.
• Initial loading of the ad codes is now cached using object cache.
• Bug fix: Enable using ad codes with empty filters using a filter.
• Bug fix: Setting the logical operator from OR to AND did not seem to result in the expected behaviour for displaying ads.
• Bug fix: Remove logical operator check when a conditional for an ad code is empty.

UI cleanup for the admin, including styling and information on applying conditionals.

• Readme with full description and examples
• Bug fix: Save the proper value when editing actions

Bug fix release.

Initial release.