The Free version of the MetaSlider plugin is available on WordPress.org and you can click here to see the changelog.
The Pro add-on to the MetaSlider plugin is available here on MetaSlider.com and the changelog is below.
MetaSlider Pro Changelog
The format is based on Keep a Changelog recommendations
and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
= [2.30.0] – 02 Nov, 2023 =
- FIXED: Error in console in main theme editor screen, #249;
- FIXED: Creating slides trigger an error from Local videos, #241;
- FIXED: Minimum Free plugin version notice design for consistency, #245;
- FIXED: Wrong message when selecting a video instead of an image as cover, #192;
- FIXED: Deprecated: Automatic conversion of false to array is deprecated, #232;
- FIXED: Creation of dynamic property deprecations, #233;
- FIXED: Local video javascript warnings “Player is already initialised”, #266;
- FIXED: Local videos duplicated instances when slideshow effect is “slide”, #267;
- FIXED: Local videos with autoplay and mute enabled can’t be unmuted through user action, #265;
- FIXED: Local video update is overridden when clicking save button, #268;
- FIXED: Local video requires 2 taps to play in mobile, #273;
- ADDED: External video slide type, #194;
- ADDED: Scroll to bottom after adding a new slide, #225;
- ADDED: Captions/subtitles to Local videos, #227;
- ADDED: Allow to disable date range for schedule, #238;
- ADDED: 1 week to “To” date by default, #246;
- ADDED: crossorigin attribute support to Local videos, #260;
- CHANGED: Schedule UI: #156, #195, #250, #252;
- CHANGED: Set 5.0 as minimum WP version, #231;
- CHANGED: Default end time for Daily constraint, #264;
- CHANGED: Update VideoJS to 8.6.1, #272;
= [2.26.0] – 05 Sep, 2023 =
- FIXED: Remove warning for Thumbnail / Filmstrip in Theme editor, #205;
- FIXED: Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property in PHP 8.2, #189, #114;
- FIXED: Improve Theme editor preview display, #197;
- FIXED: Improve Theme editor’s Custom arrows select buttons, #199;
- FIXED: Don’t allow to choose videos when selecting the image in Layer slides, #190;
- FIXED: “Add to slideshow” button should be disabled when no image has been selected, #152;
- FIXED: Force background CSS properties for notices, #182;
- FIXED: wp_enqueue_style was called incorrectly for notice CSS, #218;
- ADDED: Explanation for dual color boxes in Theme editor, #207;
- ADDED: GDPR support for Google Fonts in Theme editor, #202;
- CHANGED: Allow to customize caption font, color, size, etc. in Theme editor, #129;
- CHANGED: Move Theme editor’s “Slideshow” settings to the bottom, #209;
- CHANGED: Dropdown acts funny with long slideshow names in Theme editor preview, #198;
= [2.25.0] – 19 Jul, 2023 =
- FIXED: Edit Vimeo slide image, #131;
- FIXED: Spacing between select and code field, #127;
- ADDED: Javascript translations support, #174;
- CHANGED: Move jQuery TubePlayer plugin to modules/youtube, #169;
- CHANGED: Move video.js to modules/local_video, #170;
- CHANGED: Improve the notice message for people who only have the Pro plugin, #144;
- CHANGED: Theme editor screens, #155;
- CHANGED: Updated translations for ES, FR, and IT, #163;
= [2.24.0] – 29 Jun, 2023 =
- FIXED: Consistency across input fields design, #147;
- FIXED: Design for warning when choosing libraries different to Flexslider, #151;
- ADDED: Local Video slide type, #97;
- CHANGED: Updated POT file, #153;
= [2.23.0] – 25 May, 2023 =
- FIXED: PHPCS errors, #134;
- FIXED: Background image link not working, #93;
- FIXED: Lazy load and controls not working for YouTube slides created (without saving) in 2.21 and below, #126;
- FIXED: Controls not working for Vimeo slides created (without saving) in 2.21 and below, #125;
- FIXED: Make width settings optional in JavaScript output for Layer Slides, #136;
- ADDED: POT file, #69;
- ADDED: alt text for thumbnail images, #16;
- ADDED: Display Slide ID next to slide type, #91;
- ADDED: Delete permanently option for trashed slides, #139;
- CHANGED: “Add-on” Pack to just “Pro” in terminology, #94;
= [2.22.0] – 04 May, 2023 =
- ADDED: Support for YouTube Shorts, #28;
- FIXED: Default saved settings when adding a new YouTube slide, #59, #105, #118;
- FIXED: Default saved settings when adding a new Vimeo slide, #115;
- FIXED: Background color in play button on focus in Twenty Twenty-One theme in YouTube slides, #112;
- FIXED: Error when adding youtu.be URLs, #106;
- CHANGED: Vimeo and YouTube text changes, #108, #106;
= [2.21.0] – 07 Mar, 2023 =
- FIXED: Fixed Preview button error, #87, #85;
- FIXED: Fixed the layer slides not finding local videos, #84;
= [2.20.0] – 01 Dec, 2022 =
- FIXED: Fix Post Feed order by The Events Calendar data, #60;
- FIXED: Fix daily constraint feature under schedule tab, #53;
- CHANGED: Change signature of filter “metaslider_post_feed_args” passing
$slider
as the 5th argument, #50;
= [2.19.1] – 02 Nov, 2022 =
- FIXED: Fixed warning in the admin saying the plugin is not compatible with WP 6.1;
- CHANGED: Update simba-plugin-manager-updated to 1.8.15, and plugin-update-checker to 4.13.*;
= [2.19.0] – 11 Oct, 2022 =
- FIXED: Code review improving output escaping and input data sanitization, #51;
- CHANGED: Update simba-plugin-manager-updated to 1.8.15, and plugin-update-checker to 4.13.*;
= [2.18.8] – 26 Sep, 2022 =
- FIXED: Fix Vimeo thumbnails not updating, #44;
- FIXED: Fix YouTube thumbnails not updating, #35;
- FIXED: Fix error 404, file not found: metaslider-pro/modules/layer/assets/codemirror/mode/xml/xml.js, #43;
- CHANGED: Added and updated translations for ES, FR, and IR (Thanks to @wocmultimedia), #30;
= [2.18.7] – 16 Sep, 2022 =
- FIXED: Fix the auto-hiding slides, #39;
= [2.18.6] – 15 Sep, 2022 =
- FIXED: Fix some Italian language strings;
- FIXED: Fix the Schedule tab after MetaSlider v3.27.9;
- FIXED: Fix the taxonomies tab after MetaSlider v3.27.9;
- FIXED: Fix typos in the readme file;
- FIXED: Fix output escaping on the admin notice;
- FIXED: Fix nonce validation on a few ajax requests;
= [2.18.5] – 30 May, 2022 =
- REMOVED: Remove warning about not tested WP version.
- CHANGED: Bump min WP version to v4.6.
- CHANGED: Bump min PHP version to 5.6.
- CHANGED: Change test with WP 6.0.
- CHANGED: Stick library jquery-tube-player on v2.12.2 to fix conflicts while building the file.
- CHANGED: Update Simba Plugin Manager library from vv1.8.9 to v1.8.14.
= [2.18.4] – 26 Jan, 2022 =
- CHANGED: Test with WP 5.9.
= [2.18.3] – 22 Jul, 2021 =
- FIXED: Removes the playlist parameter that YT no longer accepts
= [2.18.2] – 11 Mar, 2021 =
- CHANGED: Updates “Tested To” number to remove WP warning message.
= [2.18.1] – 25 May, 2022 =
- CHANGED: Updated the tested WordPress version to 6.0;
= [2.18.0] – 05 Aug, 2019 =
- FIXED: Updates UI elements and updates icon set (FA was causing issues on some hosts)
= [2.17.0] – 10 Sep, 2019 =
- ADDED: Adds ability to loop Vimeo videos
- CHANGED: Updates check for plugin file location
- CHANGED: Updates jQuery to work with WP 5.5 (while maintaining backwards compatibility)
- FIXED: Add polyfill for WP4.4 wp_add_inline_script
- FIXED: Fix issue where Vimeo settings weren’t saving
- UPGRADE NOTE: You can now loop your Vimeo videos endlessly. A recommended update for all.
= [2.16.0] – 23 Dec, 2019 =
- ADDED: Allow daily time constraints on scheduled slides
= [2.15.2] – 05 Dec, 2019 =
- FIXED: Fixes an issue where YouTube URL wouldn’t update properly
- FIXED: Fixes an issue where the “lazy load” option on YouTube remained on
= [2.15.1] – 04 Oct, 2019 =
- ADDED: Allows YouTube to be loaded from a different domain
- CHANGED: Adds various UI and RTL enhancements
- CHANGED: Removes internal options from post feed code snippet list
- FIXED: Fixes an issue where the calendar and time helper don’t show
- FIXED: Fixes an issue where the post feed slide would not render on initial add
= [2.15.0] – 17 Oct, 2019 =
- CHANGED: Updates classname on layer container to avoid a CSS conflict
- FIXED: Fixes Vimeo issue when slideshow has autoplay disabled
- FIXED: Updates RTL language styles to address layout breaks
- FIXED: Adds additional attribute required by iOS for background video autoplay
- FIXED: Adds origin fix for YouTube videos loading in iframe
= [2.14.0] – 26 Jul, 2019 =
- ADDED: Adds a CSS manager module to allow users to add custom CSS
- CHANGED: Removes is_admin requirement when saving slides
- FIXED: Fixes scheduling query when another theme plugin alters the initial query
= [2.13.2] – 21 Mar, 2019 =
- CHANGED: Removes some ancient code for compatibility with PHP < 5.1
- FIXED: Fixes a bug where some Vimeo video URLs render wrong video because of the wrong regex used
- FIXED: Fixes a bug where Nivo Slider captions disappear
= [2.13.1] – 20 Mar, 2019 =
- FIXED: Fixes a bug where some users will see an error with Youtube
= [2.13.0] – 19 Mar, 2019 =
- ADDED: Adds lazy loading to YouTube videos
- CHANGED: Updates bundled updater class dependency to latest series (1.6.*)
- FIXED: Updates computed ratio on videos to work with locale settings
= [2.12.0] – 13 Dec, 2018 =
- ADDED: Adds the ability to update a video url
- ADDED: Adds the ability to mute a video on start
- FIXED: Updates various Vimeo functionality to match their API changes
- FIXED: Updates various YouTube functionality to match their API changes
- DEPRECATED: Remove showinfo option to hide title on YouTube video (https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters#release_notes_08_23_2018)
= [2.11.0] – 17 Nov, 2018 =
- FIXED: Fixes issue where some themes would break the slides query
- FIXED: Hides private and password protected post slides by default
= [2.10.1] – 30 Oct, 2018 =
- FIXED: Fixes a bug where some slides were not properly being hidden
- FIXED: Fixes a bug where Vimeo slides report a fatal error
= [2.10.0] – 25 Oct, 2018 =
- ADDED: Adds option to make thumbs more responsive
- CHANGED: Now requires MetaSlider base plugin 3.10.0+
- FIXED: Fixes bug where jQuery $ is not defined
= [2.9.2] – 28 Sep, 2018 =
- FIXED: Fixes bug where some slides would not save properly
= [2.9.1] – 26 Sep, 2018 =
- FIXED: Fixes bug where some slides scheduled with the standalone plugin previously would break
- FIXED: Fixes bug where thumbs and filmstrip would show even when not scheduled
= [2.9.0] – 24 Sep, 2018 =
- ADDED: Adds ability to schedule a slide by day of the week
- ADDED: Adds a clock showing the server time on the schedule tab
- CHANGED: Changes schedule query method to remove slow query
- FIXED: Fixes how plugin handles when original schedule class is found
- FIXED: Fixes bug when adding extra JS parameter hooks
= [2.8.0] – 12 Sep, 2018 =
- ADDED: Adds ability to change layer slide background
- ADDED: Adds schedule functionality
- ADDED: Adds the ability to toggle a slide’s visibility
- CHANGED: Improves videos ratio code
- FIXED: Adds specificity to the default selector
= [2.7.3] – 15 Dec, 2017 =
- CHANGED: Fixes Youtube slide markup
- FIXED: Adds and updates text-domain for translation support
= [2.7.2] – 28 Nov, 2017 =
- FIXED: Fixes ability to navigate External Slide tabs
= [2.7.1] – 14 Nov, 2017 =
- ADDED: Allow a slide to be restored after deletion
- ADDED: Attempts to make the UX elements more obvious
- CHANGED: Changes the description and team name
- CHANGED: Turkish translation. Provided by Ali Sabri Gök
- CHANGED: Adds better update handling by checking version numbers
- FIXED: Allow for https image URLs
= [2.7.0] =
- ADDED: Add caption field to External Slides
- CHANGED: New Pro slides will be added as a custom post type
= [2.6.8] =
- ADDED: Add ‘allowfullscreen’ Vimeo attribute
= [2.6.7] =
- FIXED: Force https vimeo urls
- FIXED: Workaround wptexturize and wpautop by removing && from video JavaScript
- FIXED: Apply Smart Pad to post feed slides
- FIXED: Apply metaslider_flex_slider_image_attributes and metaslider_responsive_slider_image_attributes filters to laye slides
= [2.6.6] =
- FIXED: Fix PHP notice (wp-updates.com check)
- FIXED: Fix black thumbnails (YouTube Player Update)
- FIXED: Allow empty i tags in layer editor
- FIXED: Fix PHP notice (deleting vimeo slide)
= [2.6.5] =
- ADDED: Add metaslider_tubeplayer_protocol filter
- REMOVED: Remove TGM Plugin Activation class
- FIXED: Fix bug with multiple post feed slideshows and filmstrip thumbnails
- FIXED: Fix Vantage bug with YouTube first slide autoplay
= [2.6.4] =
- ADDED: Add white as an option for text color in the layer editor
- FIXED: Fix empty color block showing in the color picker
= [2.6.3] =
- CHANGED: Update TGM Plugin Activation class to latest (Security fix)
= [2.6.2] =
- FIXED: Fix post feed captions
= [2.6.1] =
- ADDED: Add URL parameter to metaslider_layer_video_attributes filter
- ADDED: Add ability to use ‘metaslider_post_feed_image’ custom field to override featured image
- ADDED: Add metaslider_layer_editor_font_sizes and metaslider_layer_editor_colors filters
- FIXED: Fix conflict with slideshow parameters and post feed slides containing slideshows
- FIXED: Fix post feed slide delete button
= [2.6.0] =
- ADDED: Add change slide image option to vimeo, youtube and layer slides
- ADDED: Video background option added to layer slides
= [2.5.1] =
- FIXED: Fix post feed slide warning
- FIXED: Use $ instead of jQuery in dynamic JS
- FIXED: Allow links to be clicked in layers when a background image url is specified
- FIXED: Fix YouTube slide error with R. Slides
= [2.5.0] =
- ADDED: Add {thumb} template tag to post feed
- ADDED: Add External URL slide type
- CHANGED: Move classes from
to
- for flexslider slideshows
- CHANGED: Change autoload from private to public
- FIXED: Hide events without thumbnails from post feed
- FIXED: Refactor method for generating thumbnails
= [2.4.6] =
- ADDED: Add metaslider_flex_slider_filmstrip_parameters filter
- FIXED: Hide layers until slideshow is ready
- FIXED: Re-crop thumbnails when original image is re-cropped
= [2.4.5] =
- ADDED: Add filter for post feed args – see https://gist.github.com/tomhemsley/100930dafd179bae2d1d
- FIXED: Run post feed content filter before the default tags have been parsed
- FIXED: Fix Responsive Slides second animation flash
= [2.4.4] =
- FIXED: Fix layer background link functionality
- FIXED: Return filtered CSS correctly
- FIXED: Don’t clone layers without animation
- FIXED: Fix navigation defaulting to thumbnails
= [2.4.3] – internal =
- ADDED: Add actions for youtube & vimeo iframes
= [2.4.2] =
- FIXED: Show warning in layer editor when no layer is selected
- FIXED: Fix layer editor styling
= [2.4.1] =
- FIXED: Fix downscale only setting
- FIXED: Fix layer scaling initiation code
= [2.4.0] =
- ADDED: Theme Editor refactored: Caption text align added
- ADDED: Theme Editor refactored: Caption border radius added
- ADDED: Theme Editor refactored: Custom Prev / Next arrows added
- ADDED: Theme Editor refactored: Enable or disable arrow / bullets / navigation custom styling
- ADDED: Post Feed slides improved: Custom templates added
- ADDED: Post Feed slides improved: WooCommerce support added
- ADDED: Post Feed slides improved: Filters added for output (in line with standard image slides)
- CHANGED: CKEditor updated to 4.4 (IE11 fixes)
- FIXED: Avoid wpautop errors with Layer Slides
- FIXED: Video slides now use jpeg mime type to avoid getID3 errors
- FIXED: Post Feed slides, call wp_reset_query after thumbnail extraction
- FIXED: Layer Editor: process qTranslate shortcodes
- ADDED: Added ‘Loop’ options for Flex & Nivo Slider
- FIXED: Fix HTTPS video previews
- FIXED: Check slideshow width and height before launching layer editor
- FIXED: Layer Slide scaling JS extracted to it’s own jQuery plugin
= [2.3.2] =
- FIXED: Post Feed: Fix Taxonomy restriction
= [2.3.1] =
- FIXED: Menu Order added to Post Feed Slide
- FIXED: Post Content (With Formatting) option added to Post Feed Slide
= [2.3.0] =
- FIXED: Filmstrip navigation option added (Flex Slider)
- FIXED: Layer Scaling options added
= [2.3-beta] – internal=
- ADDED: Layer Slide background link, SEO options
- CHANGED: Tabbed interface on all slides
= [2.2.8] – internal =
- FIXED: Orderby parameter on Post Feed slides
= [2.2.7] – internal =
- CHANGED: Add List item classes to slide types (flexslider only)
= [2.2.6] – internal =
- CHANGED: Add metaslider_post_feed_caption filter
= [2.2.5] – internal =
- FIXED: Vimeo auto play bug (When first slide is set to autoPlay)
= [2.2.4] =
- FIXED: Allow layers to scale up past 100%
= [2.2.3] =
- FIXED: Post Feed/Nivo Slider captions (for MetaSlider 2.6)
= [2.2.2] =
- FIXED: PHP Warnings
= [2.2.1] =
- FIXED: Invalid CSS
= [2.2.0] =
- ADDED: Auto Play setting for YouTube videos
- ADDED: Auto Play setting for Vimeo videos
- FIXED: Force CKEditor to use ‘en’ lang files
- FIXED: TGM Plugin activation check for MetaSlider Lite
= [2.1.2] – internal =
- FIXED: WPML: Check ‘is_plugin_active’ function exists before calling
= [2.1.1] – internal =
- CHANGED: Lang files removed from CKEditor to reduce plugin size
- CHANGED: Images in Layers given a max-width
- FIXED: Fix to work with ‘SvegliaT buttons’ plugin
= [2.1.0] – internal =
- FIXED: YouTube & Vimeo settings
- FIXED: Reset wp_query after post feed to fix comment setting on page
= [2.0.4] =
- FIXED: Responsive layer scaling
= [2.0.3] =
- FIXED: Strict warning for Walker Class compatibility (Since WP3.6 change)
= [2.0.2] =
- CHANGED: “Title & Excerpt” option added for post feed caption
- FIXED: Responsive slider – Pause Vimeo/YouTube when navigating to next slide
= [2.0.1] =
- CHANGED: Responsive Slides output tidied up for YouTube & Vimeo slides
- FIXED: Vimeo HTTPS
- FIXED: Hover Pause is now compatible with YouTube slides (Flex Slider)
- FIXED: Play/Pause video functionality and Auto Play (Flex Slider)
= [2.0.0] =
- ADDED: Thumbnail navigation for Flex & Nivo Slider
- CHANGED: Pro functionality refactored into ‘modules’
- CHANGED: Theme editor CSS output tidied up
- FIXED: YouTube thumbnail date
- FIXED: YouTube videos on HTTPS
= [1.2.2] =
- FIXED: Vimeo slideshows not pausing correctly
= [1.2.1] =
- CHANGED: Post Feed limit changed to ‘number’ input type
- FIXED: Vertical slides with HTML Overlay not working
- FIXED: YouTube & Vimeo slides not saving on some installations
= [1.2.0] =
- ADDED: WYSIWYG Editor Added to HTML Overlay slides
- ADDED: Plugin localized
- FIXED: Post Feeds now only count posts with featured images set
= [1.1.4] =
- FIXED: Fix for YouTube and Vimeo slides when thumbnail download fails
= [1.1.3] =
- FIXED: Youtube debug removed
= [1.1.2] =
- ADDED: Alt text added to HTML Overlay slide type
- REMOVED: “More Slide Types” menu item removed
- FIXED: PHP Short tag fixed
- FIXED: Theme editor CSS fixed
- FIXED: HTML Validation Fixes
= [1.1.1] =
- FIXED: HTML Overlay bug fixed when slideshow has a single slide
= [1.1.0] =
- ADDED: Theme Editor added
- CHANGED: Vimeo thumbnail loader now uses build in WordPress functionality
= [1.0.1] =
- FIXED: Hide overflow on HTML Slides (to stop animations from ‘leaking’ into other slides)
= [1.0.0] =
- ADDED: Initial Version