Changelogs

4.6.6 - July 25, 2024

Fixes

• Fix compatibility with JCE editor - admin side.

4.6.5 - July 4, 2024

Fixes

• Fix compatibility with JCE editor.
• Fix adv. filtering show all link missing when filter is controlled by another field option.
• Add database jreviews_categories.marker_icon column migration in case its missing.
• Fix ordering not working in my reviews page.

Changes

• Add missing database jreviews_criteria.search column migration.

4.6.4 - May 10, 2024

Fixed

• (Joomla) Fix smart search indexing error when a listing is found in a category without a listing type.

4.6.3 - April 21, 2024

Fixed

• Fix JReviews module param overwriting main page action value causing the ordering list to hide.
• Fix audio player not loading in front-end media edit dialog.
• (Joomla) Fix routing for videos when using category url as base url.
• (WordPress) Fix error when using Avada theme

4.6.2 - April 1, 2024

Performance

• Create a separate database connection for users only when necessary

Fixed

• Fix broken photo thumbnail preview on frontend upload when site is in subdirectory
• Default listing images found in listing summary always need to be stored locally to avoid performance issues.
• (Joomla) Fix for segment-based routing under a parent menu.
• (Joomla) Fix error loading loading some frontend menus.

4.6.1 - March 1, 2024

Changed

• (WordPress) Improve wp theme dectection by converting to lowercase before check.
• (WordPress) Add support for Astra theme.

Fixed

• Fix deprecated error for empty values when saving confguration.
• (WordPress) Fix expired listings cannot be edited in frontend.
• (WordPress) Fix wrong title/description for widget position in directory page.
• (WordPress) Fix duplicate output issue with Avada fusion builder.
• (Joomla) Remove legacy framework dependency for MenuFinder.
• (Joomla) Fix subcategory/article without menu urls to let Joomla handle when url re-writing + JReviews SEF are enabled.
• (Joomla 5) Error due to change in native event data expected to be object type.
• (Joomla 5) Admin-side error with non-html GET requests.

4.6.0 - December 21, 2023

Changed

• Return empty response in listings/reviews community controllers instead of throwing an exception.

Fixed

• (Joomla) Fix router::article not generating correct urls.
• (Joomla 5) Error when trying to create add-on menu.
• (WordPress) Fix WP theme-related errors.
• (WordPress) Fix frontend php notice WP everywhere_com_content
• (Joomla) Fix JReviews SEF Plugin throws 404 on some pages when URL re-writing is disabled.
• WithFiltering trait not taking into account field's default ordering setting.
• (Joomla) Fix incorrect links for non-JReviews articles in nested categories without menus.
• Submit listing page not showing login form when there are no available categories to submit to.

4.5.1 - November 6, 2023

Fixed

• Left hardcoded language used for testing in calendar module.

4.5.0 - November 3, 2023

New

• Beginning of the week setting for calendar module/widget.

Fixed

• Calendar module/widget locale file not loading for some languages.
• (Joomla) Addon menus not showing when creating/updated menus.

Changed

• Storage defaults for audio and video to 'local'.

4.4.1 - October 18, 2023

Fixed

• (Joomla) JReviews addon menu error.
• (Joomla) JReviews module assignment not working in some Joomla 4.4 sites and Joomla 5.

4.4.0 - October 16, 2023

New

• Joomla 5 compatibility.

Fixed

• (WordPress) Fix and improve generated URLs for unpublished listing preview and add media.
• (WordPress) Missing radio field settings in menu area when creating JReviews pages.
• PHP warnings when using DO storage.
• Filesize check error when performing sync main media test.

4.3.2 - August 18, 2023

Changed

• Removed outdated javascript polyfills from jsoneditor script.

Fixed

• (WordPress) Review discussion page not associated with latest discussions menu.
• (WordPress) Featured image synchroization not working for webp images.
• (Joomla 4) Duplicate h1 tag showing category in detail pages when category page heading menu set to show.
• Regular users cannot upload review media.
• php 7.4 compatibility fixes
• php 8.2 compatibility fixes

4.3.1 - May 28, 2023

Changed

• Embedded SVGs are now used as main media when using default images.
• Updated CSS for detailed ratings table.

Fixed

• PHP notice in everywhere listings detail page.

4.3.0 - May 11, 2023

New

• (WordPress) Added customify theme support.
• Added listing_favorites shortcode.
• Added {schema_date} tag for date field output format for use with Schema.org markup.
• (Joomla) New JReviews content plugin setting to allow showing default Joomla article pagination.

Enhanced

• Added shortcodes class map to allow registering shortcodes using custom classes via config file.
• Set default line height for title cards.

Changed

• Default video audio encoder from libfdk_aac to aac to avoid encoding issues when libfdk_aac is not installed.

Fixed

• Got rid of a few PHP 8.2 deprecation notices.
• (Joomla) Fixed listings from unpublished categories should not show up anywhere.
• Listing type favorites widget ignoring settings in synchronous mode.
• Remove consecutives slashes in URI used for routing purposes.
• (WordPress) Add missing Everywhere extension setting to reviews filter widget.
• Stop thumbnailer from trying to generate thumbs for embedded svgs.
• (WordPress) Listing media update page not working when using 3rd party plugin to add .html to URLs.
• User review submit permissions check for guests.
• Captcha provider setting initialized too late may lead to captcha not loading.
• (Joomla) Wysiwyg editor not reloaded when switching categories in listing form.
• Fix translation error in admin Spanish file breaks field options page.
• Fix duplicate modal shown for guests on claim button click.
• Embedded listing image thumbnail deleted right after creation when using webp.
• Submit listing menu permission issue for single directory when global permissions are disabled.
• PHP error when listing rating count doesn't match review rating count.
• Admin side media uploads url using wrong query parameters.

Changed

• Renamed listing/comment status enum classes.

4.2.5 - February 27, 2023

Fixed

• Blade template error page-header.blade.php
• Media helper skip_thumbnail functionality via hooks.
• (Joomla 4) [SEF Plugin] routing issues for listing detail URLs with extra segments.

Changed

• Updated jQuery UI to v1.13.2.
• Modified the url query parameters for listing/review media upload urls to fix weird conflict causing redirects.
• (Joomla) [JReviews SEF] remove references to Quick2cart extension.
• Detect incorrect dimensions value in settings for thumbnails and replace with a default value.
• (Joomla 4) Fix article template override should only be done for JReviews articles.

4.2.4 - January 16, 2023

New

• New listing type reviews widget option to display reviews from other listings by the same owner.

Fixed

• v4 framework assets not loading when site in sub-directory.
• Deprecated warning when all info icons are disabled.
• Thumbnail generation fails forvideo embeds when storage service is different than videos.
• Refactor listing media edit links and fix WP bug media catch-all not being used.
• (WordPress) config files not read from overrides if present.
• (Joomla 4) [JReviews SEF] Error parsing some URLs when using .html url suffix.
• (Joomla 4) [JReviews SEF] Legacy JReviews category menus have an extra view=category query parameter.
• (Joomla) onContentBeforeSave and onContentChangeState plugin events not triggered.
• (Joomla) Fixed click2search URL format not recognizing hardcoded category and listing type ids

4.2.3 - December 14, 2022

Changed

• Disabled curl verification for image thumbnail requests.
• Ignore image thumbnailing when media array skip_thumbnail is set to true. Allows bypassing thumbnail creation when overriding the image url via filter hooks.

Fixed

• User login option not showing for guests when submitting new listings.
• Not able to upload media for unpublished listings.
• (WordPress) Cannot use nested blade components together with @csrf directive.

4.2.2 - November 28, 2022

New

• Added Cloudflare Turnstile captcha support.

Enhanced

• Reduced size of v4 frontend CSS.

Changed

• Update cron setting css style.
• (WordPress) ensure media scripts are loaded with core editor for WP add media button.

Fixed

• Hide "My Listings", "My Media" buttons after media upload for guests.
• Fix regressions when loading the upload form by using a different URL query string.
• Buffer notices in appstore page.
• v4 framework query recursion with related listing fields when relation also has relationship to parent.
• PHP 8.1 deprecated notices.
• (Joomla 4) JReviews Page Assignment setting in modules not working.
• (Joomla 4) [SEF Plugin] urls with trailing slash result in 404
• Listing owner email not being used as fallback for inquiries when chosen email custom field is empty.

4.2.1 - November 6, 2022

Fixed

• (WordPress) add media page not loading.

4.2.0 - November 3, 2022

New

• WebP support for image uploads and thumbnails. Can be set as default in Media Settings under Image Format.
• Ability to add notes and delete review discussion posts in the moderation queue.
• trusted_on_update_review_discussion filter hook.

Enhanced

• Process custom field php format in page title tags

Changed

• Refactored comments input in review create template.
• Process review trust permission checks after validation.
• Refactored v4 framework code for formfields
• Updated Alpine, htmx, and ApexCharts.
• (Joomla) Updated reference to legacy class JPlugin.
• Catch errors in field php format to prevent broken pages, and show them on page when !J/WP debug mode is enabled.

Fixed

• DigitalOcean disk endpoint setting on v4 framework missing protocol.
• Sometimes wrong id retrieved from request when using controller params instead of passedArgs.
• Related reviews listing type widget cannot be set to sync loading.
• 'Show reviewer rank' setting not working for editor reviews.
• PHP notice when accessing thumbnail for empty media model.
• (Joomla 4) Routing error on logout, and possibly other scenarios.
• (Joomla 4) [SEF plugin] language filter and no-menu routing errors.
• (Joomla) Regression of YooTheme Customizer compatibility fix.
• (WordPress) Error resetting email settings with some 3rd party mail plugins.
• (WordPress) Skip processing off GET jreviews_ajax requests without parameters.
• (WordPress) PHP notice updating listings.

4.1.5 - September 23, 2023

New

• (Joomla 4) Smart Search plugin to push searchable custom field content and main images to to the article index.

Improved

• Added canonical tag to click2search urls.

Changed

• Delayed initialization of v4 framework storage disks until after JReviews configuration loads.
• Moved EasySocial code from JReviews core to EasySocial Add-on.
• Added User::isAwaitingActivation method to v4 framework.
• (WordPress) Some post.ID column references were not in uppercase.

Fixed

• (Joomla 4) [SEF Plugin] Fixes bug with preview URLs introduced in last update.
• PHP 8 deprecated warnings.
• (Joomla) Menu routing not recognizing view on some sites. Could be related to sh404sef.
• (Joomla 4) Media function method sometimes not reading the correct media ID from request.
• Deprecated warning: implicit conversion from float to int when using random ordering.

4.1.4 - September 7, 2022

New

• Filter hook configure:community.register_url.

Improved

• Improve error exception handling when sending emails.
• Allow copying cron URL (admin configuration) in to clipboard when clicked or using the new Copy link.

Changed

• Add jr_route_cp_ajax function for use with new v4 framework.

Fixed

• SignupRegistration Blade component not reading community integtration value.
• Listing created and modified dates not converted to UTC on save.
• (Joomla 4) Listing id overriden by cat id in listing preview URL.
• (WordPress) Added an "edit listing" JReviews menu option in pages. Necessary when generating the edit link for unpublished listings.
• (Joomla 4) [JReviews SEF] Error accessing JReviews page as homepage when using /index.php

4.1.3 - August 3, 2022

Fixed

• (Joomla) Last user group dropped when user assigned to more than one group.
• (Joomla) Using wrong routing method in MenuFinder for routes without query string and menu id.
• Attachment and audio user upload aggregate counts not updated on upload.
• Listing relationship for Media model.
• Claim/favorite button classes incorrect for guests resulting in taller buttons.
• Undefined variable in predefined replies when all replies are empty.
• Fix alignment of pagination page limit
• (Joomla 4) Admin direct-links to plugins and menus updated to use correct filters parameter.
• (Joomla 4) Form legend floated left with some templates.
• Add User-Agent header to thumbnailer url for servers that return 403 when header is missing.
• Formbuilder checkbox input displays incorrectly.

4.1.2 - June 30, 2022

Enhanced

• (WordPress) Add minimal support for WordPress multisite's single user table in v4 framework.

Changed

• (Joomla) New MakeSefUrls action to fix supervisor queues processing in Joomla4.
• Improve error handling when original images cannot be found to generate thumbnails.

Fixed

• (WordPress) Changed preview urls for listings to use core WP urls.
• PHP notice in review detail page for 3rd party reviews via everywhere add-on
• (WordPress) Duplicate output in posts with Elementor in urls with custom post segments (upload, edit, etc).
• (WordPress) Error in category manager when there are no categories setup.
• Language type for control field placeholder in custom field form.
• (WordPress) Title slug shows incorrectly in listing form when using unicode characters.
• Assets not loading in detail page in preview mode.
• (WordPress) Overcome issue in bitnami server where plugins directory path is missing the "opt" folder.
• (WordPress) Changed case of LoginFormWordPress view class/filename because it wasn't autoloaded on some servers.

4.1.1 - June 13, 2022

New

• listing_detail_cover_options and listing_detail_logo_options filter hooks.

Changed

• Refactored existing app models and included new ones to support new functionality.
• (Joomla) Don't log 404 routes as errors.

4.1.0 - May 25, 2022

Enhanced

• Compatibility with PHP 8.1.

Fixed

• (WordPress) Stop JReviews bootstrapping when plugin not loaded.
• Cleaning response buffer when its empty.
• (Joomla) Error when content images column is empty.
• Minor PHP notices/warnings.
• Add group by statement to reviews query in detail pages to correct missing review issue.

4.0.9 Stable - April 18, 2022

New

• 'listing_cover' shortcode.

Fixed

• [Admin] Listings browse link to front-end doesn't work when site home page is a JReviews menu.
• Observer model events not registered in listings claim controller.
• (WordPress) PHP notice while retrieving list of categories if a previously setup category no longer exists.
• (WordPress) Error on click2search URLs when JReviews Adv. Search menu is missing.
• (WordPress) Admin site health page error.
• (Joomla) [JReviews SEF] JSiteMap Pro article urls generated with IDs.
• (Joomla) core article voting breaks with JReviews SEF.

4.0.8 RC2 - March 8, 2022

Changed

• (Joomla) Stay on the same page when using incorrect info in JReviews login forms.

Fixed

• (Joomla) Shortcodes error with PHP 8 when settings have not been saved before.
• (WordPress) Only strip slashes in request for jreviews_ajax action.
• (WordPress) Improved error handling.
• PHP 8.x compatibility error when displaying "na" ratings.
• PaidListings Omnipay classes not aliased to prefixed FWD namespace.
• (Joomla) [JReviews SEF] Ignore in non-GET requests to prevent issues with page builders like YooTheme.
• Datepicker localization not working in front-end.
• (Joomla 4) [SEF Plugin] Ignore all non com_content/com_jreviews requests.
• (WordPress) Review comments/detail page not found error.
• Listing detail page notice when summary and description are empty.
• Listings module/widget custom params for field ignored when using proximity field without coordinates.
• (WordPress) Menu routes incorrectly matched to JReviews.