Version 3.1.0

Release post: https://webberzone.com/blog/contextual-related-posts-v3-1-0/

• Features:

  • REST API support - you can now fetch the related posts via the REST API. Fetch posts at /contextual-related-posts/v1/posts/<id>
  • New setting in the metabox to exclude specific terms

• Enhancements/modifications:

  • Thumbnail function uses the size instead of exact array of sizes to better select the appropriate thumbnail image size
  • Use site icon if no other thumbnail is found
  • Use both post_title and post_content fields for matching even when match content setting is off
  • Passing post_type and posts_per_page arguments will be respected instead of being overridden

• Bug fixes:

  • Don't enqueue wp-editor on widgets.php
  • WP_Query stopwords are stripped from content that is matched
  • Manual posts are added after the automatic posts are shuffled

Version 3.1.0 Beta 2

• Features:

  • REST API support - you can now fetch the related posts via the REST API. Fetch posts at /contextual-related-posts/v1/posts/<id>
  • New setting in the metabox to exclude specific terms

• Enhancements/modifications:

  • Thumbnail function uses the size instead of exact array of sizes to better select the appropriate thumbnail image size
  • Use site icon if no other thumbnail is found
  • Use both post_title and post_content fields for matching even when match content setting is off
  • Passing post_type and posts_per_page arguments will be respected instead of being overridden

• Bug fixes:

  • Don't enqueue wp-editor on widgets.php
  • WP_Query stopwords are stripped from content that is matched
  • Manual posts are added after the automatic posts are shuffled

Version 3.1.0 Beta 1

• Enhancements/modifications:

  • Thumbnail function uses the size instead of exact array of sizes to better select the appropriate thumbnail image size
  • Use site icon if no other thumbnail is found
  • Use both post_title and post_content fields for matching even when match content setting is off

• Bug fixes:

  • Don't enqueue wp-editor on widgets.php
  • WP_Query stopwords are stripped from content that is matched
  • Manual posts are added after the automatic posts are shuffled

Version 3.0.7

= 3.0.7 =

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

• Bug fix:
  • Replicate old style of exclusion checking of option set in meta. Using the shortcode, manual or block will ignore the meta option to "Disable Related Posts display"

Version 3.0.6

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

• Enhancement:

  • Defining CRP_CACHE_TIME to false will disable expiry
  • Introduced wpml-config.xml file. Title and Custom text for blank output can now be translated with Polylang (and potentially WPML)

• Bug fix:

  • Exclude on categories did not work
  • Posts would trigger a "SHOW FULL COLUMNS FROM" error if they had ' from' in the title
  • Manual posts did not work properly - all post types and all posts are properly fetched now

Version 3.0.5

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

• Bug fix:
  • Certain posts would trigger a "SHOW TABLES LIKE" error
  • Forced .crp_related figure margin to 0

Version 3.0.4

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

• Enhancement/Modifications:
  • include_cat_ids and exclude_categories will also accept custom taxonomy term_taxonomy_ids
  • Thumbnail's img tag is wrapped in <figure>
  • Remove extra checking for exclude_categories in get_crp
  • Optimise deleting of cache entries when updating a post - post saving should be significantly faster

Version 3.0.3

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

• Enhancement/Modifications:

  • Grid style minimum width is now decided by the width of the thumbnail and long words are wrapped

• Bug fixes:

  • Selecting No style created a 404 error
  • Fixed issue with $attachment_id not being declared in some cases

Version 3.0.2

• Bug fixes:
  • Fixed issue where Related Posts newer than was set to 0 caused no posts to display
  • Use the original arguments when setting the cache key for CRP_Query
  • Selecting "Blank Output" didn't work

Version 3.0.1

• Bug fixes:
  • Fixed issue with help tab that broke some sites