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Changelog for TGM Plugin Activation library

2.5.2 (2015-07-15)

  • Hot Fix: fixes potential Fatal error: Call to protected TGM_Plugin_Activation::__construct() error and other compatibility issues when both TGMPA 2.5+ as well as TGMPA 2.3.6- would be loaded by different themes and plugins.

Take note: We do NOT support 2.3.6 anymore and highly discourage its use. Any themes and plugins still using TGMPA 2.3.6 or less should upgrade as soon as possible. All the same, the end-user should not be confronted with white screens because of it, so this hot fix should prevent just that.

2.5.1 (2015-07-13)

  • Hot Fix: fixes potential Fatal error: Call to undefined method TGM_Utils::validate_bool() errors caused by a conflict with the Soliloquy plugin.

2.5.0 (2015-07-03)

This is a major update which brings some interesting new features and fixes tons of bugs. This version of TGMPA is brought to you by Thomas Griffin with graceful thanks to Gary Jones and our new core-team member Juliette Reinders Folmer for the majority of the changes.

With this release the TGMPA library has moved to its own organisation on GitHub. From now on you can find it at TGMPA/TGM-Plugin-Activation.

The website has also been given some love. You can now find detailed information about the configuration options, FAQs and more at: http://tgmpluginactivation.com/

TGMPA will start providing localized text strings soon. If you already have translations of our standard strings available, please help us make TGMPA even better by giving us access to these translations or by sending in a pull-request with .po file(s) with the translations. A .pot file to get you started is now available in the GitHub repository.

  • Enhancement: Full support for update work-flow.

    • Updating of the registered plugins can now be done from the TGMPA screen, both on individual plugins as well as in bulk - this will take into account WP repo updates as well as updates for plugins which are bundled or come from external sources where a minimum version is set which is higher than the current version.
    • Users will be notified of available updates via the admin notice.
    • The TGMPA admin page now has four views: all, to install, update available and to activate.
    • The TGMPA admin page now has - on selected views - an extra column showing relevant plugin version information.
    • The TGMPA admin page status column will show both install/activate as well as update status (cumulative).
    • If a plugin requires a certain minimum version of a plugin and the currently installed version does not comply, activation will be blocked until the user has upgraded the plugin. If the plugin is already active, it will not be deactivated however.
      • If the required plugin version itself requires a higher WP version than the currently installed WP, upgrade to that version of the plugin will be blocked - this is of course provided TGMPA has access to that information -.
    • The plugin action links on the WP native plugins page will reflect this too - including disabling deactivation if force_activation is true for a plugin.

    #381, #192, #197 Props Zauan/Hogash Studio, Christian, Franklin Gitonga, Jason Xie, swiderski for their preliminary work on this which inspired this full-fledged implementation.

  • Enhancement: Better support for GitHub hosted plugins.

    Previously using standard GitHub packaged zips as download source would not work as, even though the plugin would be installed, it would not be recognized as such by TGMPA because of the non-standard directory name which would be created for the plugin, i.e. my-plugin-master instead of my-plugin. A work-around for this has been implemented and you can now use GitHub-packaged master branch or release zips to install plugins. Have a look at the example.php file for a working example.

    One caveat: this presumes that the plugin is based in the root of the GitHub repo and not in a /src or other subdirectory.

    #327, #280, #283 Thanks Dan Fisher and Luis Martins for reporting/requesting this enhancement.

  • Enhancement: New optional plugin parameter is_callable.

    Some plugins may have a free and a premium version using different slugs. Using the is_callable plugin parameter allows for the premium version to be recognized, even though the slug is set to the free version slug. Have a look at the example.php file for a working example.

    For more information on what is considered a callable, please refer to the Codex on callbacks.

    #205 Props Zack Katz.

  • Admin Page improvements:

    • Plugins downloaded from an arbitrary external source are now labelled "External Source". Previously they were labelled "Private Repository" which could be confusing as the download URL did not have to point to a repository, let alone be private. #372
    • Leverage the CSS styling of the Core standard WP_List_Table #227. Props Shiva Poudel.
    • Allow for moving the Admin Page to a different place in the menu. This is mainly to accommodate plugins using TGMPA as it is terribly illogical for the TGMPA page to be under the "Appearance" menu in that case. This has been now been implemented in a way that Theme Check will not choke on it. #310

  • Admin notices improvements:

    • For installs with both plugin(s) as well as theme(s) using TGMPA, notices will now be dismissable for each separately. This prevents a situation where a theme would have TGMPA included, the user has dismissed the notice about it, a plugin with TGMPA gets installed and the notice about it requiring certain other plugins is never shown. #174 Thanks Chris Howard for reporting.
    • Fixed: The reset of dismissed notices on switch_theme was only applied for the current user, not for all users. #246
    • Fixed: Admin notices would show twice under certain circumstances. #249, #237 Thanks manake for reporting.

  • Bulk Installer:

    • Fixed: If a bulk install was initiated using the bottom "Bulk Actions" dropdown, the install page would display an outdated TGMPA plugin table at the bottom of the page after the bulk installation was finished. #319

  • Theme Check compatibility:

  • Miscellaneous fixes:

    • Leaner loading: TGMPA actions will now only be hooked in and run on the back-end (is_admin() returns true). #357 Also most TGMPA actions will now only be hooked in if there's actually something to do for TGMPA. #381
    • Fixed: "Undefined index: skin_update_failed_error" #260, #240 Thanks Parhum Khoshbakht and Sandeep for reporting.
    • Made admin URLs environment aware by using self_admin_url() instead of admin_url() or network_admin_url(). #255, #171
    • Fixed: the Adminbar would be loaded twice causing conflicts (with other plugins). #208 Props John Blackbourn.
    • All TGMPA generated pages will now show the version number on the page to assist in debugging. #399, #402

  • I18N improvements:

    • Make configurable message texts singular/plural context aware. #173 Props Yakir Sitbon.
    • Language strings which are being overridden should use the including plugin/theme language domain. #217 Props Christian Foellmann.
    • Language strings are loaded a bit later now to ensure that the translations are loaded beforehand. #176, #177 Props Yakir Sitbon.

  • New action and filter hooks for TGMPA:

    • tgmpa_load - filter can be used to overrule whether TGMPA should load. Defaults to loading only when on the WP back-end when not DOING_AJAX. Typical use: add_filter( 'tgmpa_load', '__return_true' );.
    • tgmpa_admin_menu_args - filter can be used to filter the arguments passed to the function call adding the TGMPA (sub) menu page.
    • tgmpa_notice_rendered_action_links - filter can be used to filter the complete html output for the admin notice action links. This is in addition to the tgmpa_notice_action_links filter which already existed and allows for filtering of the individual action links.
    • tgmpa_table_data_item - filter can be used to modify plugin data for a single plugin which is ready for the TGMPA table output.
    • tgmpa_table_data_items - filter can be used to modify plugin data for all plugins which is ready for the TGMPA table output. Example use: changing the sort order of the plugins.
    • tgmpa_table_columns - filter can be used to add/remove table columns from the TGMPA table view.
    • tgmpa_{$prefix}plugin_action_links - filter mirrors the WP core {$prefix}plugin_action_links filter but for the TGMPA page.
    • tgmpa_update_bulk_plugins_complete_actions - filter mirrors the WP core update_bulk_plugins_complete_actions filter but for TGMPA bulk actions.
    • tgmpa_after_plugin_row_{$item['slug']} - action similar (but not the same) as the WP core after_plugin_row_{$plugin_file} action. Can be used to add information to a plugin row in the TGMPA table.

    #188, #226, #300, #357, #362, #381, #388, #389, #390 Props Zack Katz and the TGMPA team.

  • Housekeeping:

2.4.2 (2015-04-27)

2.4.1 (2015-04-22)

  • Improve escaping for URLs and attributes.

2.4.0 (2014-03-17)

  • All textdomain strings now made to tgmpa and remove all notices dealing with textdomain and translation issues.
  • The _get_plugin_basename_from_slug() method now checks for exact slug matches to prevent issues with plugins that start with the same slug.
  • Commenting style now adjusted so it is easier to comment large chunks of code if necessary.
  • Plugins from an external source now properly say "Private Repository" in the list table output.
  • add_submenu_page() has been changed to add_theme_page() for better theme check compatibility.
  • Removed the use for parent_menu_slug and parent_menu_url for $config options (see above).
  • Nag messages can now be forced on via a new dismissable config property. When set to false, nag cannot be dismissed.
  • New config dismiss_msg used in conjunction with dismissable. If dismissable is false, then if dismiss_msg is not empty, it will be output at the top of the nag message.
  • Better contextual message for activating plugins - changed "Activate installed plugin(s)" to "Begin activating plugin(s)".
  • Added cache flushing on theme switch to prevent stale entries from remaining in the list table if coming back to a theme with TGMPA.
  • TGMPA is now a singleton to prevent extra settings overrides.
  • Fixed bug with duplicating plugins if multiple themes/plugins that used TGMPA were active at the same time.
  • Added contextual message updates depending on WordPress version.
  • Better nag message handling. If the nag has been dismissed, don't even attempt to build message (performance enhancement).
  • Ensure class can only be instantiated once (instantiation moved inside the class_exists() check for TGMPA).
  • Change instances of admin_url() to network_admin_url() to add better support for MultiSite (falls back gracefully for non-MultiSite installs).
  • Updated much of the code to match WP Coding Standards (braces, yoda conditionals, etc.).
  • Myriads of other bug fixes and enhancements

2.3.6 (2012-04-23)

  • Fixed API error when clicking on the plugin install row action link for an externally hosted plugin

2.3.5 (2012-04-16)

  • Fixed nag message not working when nag_type string was not set (props Jeff Sebring)

2.3.4 (2012-03-30)

  • Fixed "undefined index" notice when checking for required plugins (props Jeff Sebring)
  • Fixed bug where, during a bulk install, if the plugin was defined in the source as pre-packaged but also existed in the repo, it would erroneously pull the plugin from the repo instead (props Travis Smith)
  • Added ability to set nag type for the admin notice via nag_type string (props Travis Smith)

2.3.3 (2012-02-03)

  • Changed license to reflect GPL v2 or later (to be compatible with the WordPress repo)

2.3.2 (2012-02-03)

  • Fixed bug (100%) with not loading class properly

2.3.1 (2012-02-03)

  • Fixed bug with not finding class (reverted back to Plugin_Upgrader)

2.3.0 (2012-01-25)

  • Improved sorting of plugins by sorting them by required/recommended (while still maintaining alphabetical order within each group)
  • Improved output of strings in nag messages
  • Added 2 new strings: install_link and activate_link to customize the text for the nag action links
  • Added new class: TGM_Plugin_Installer to prepare for must-use plugin support

2.2.2 (2012-01-08)

  • Fixed bug that allowed users to click on the Install Plugins page when all the plugin installations and activations were already complete

2.2.1 (2012-01-05)

  • Fixed bug that caused WordPress core upgrades to fail (WordPress doesn't check for including WP_Upgrader on core upgrades)

2.2.0 (2012-01-02)

  • Fixed erroneous links for plugins linked to the WordPress Repo
  • Improved UI of plugins by listing them in WordPress' default table layout
  • Improved support for installing plugins if security credentials require FTP information
  • Improved support for MultiSite
  • Added 3 new classes (all extensions of existing WordPress classes): TGMPA_List_Table for outputting required/recommended plugins in a familiar table format, TGM_Bulk_Installer for bulk installing plugins and TGM_Bulk_Installer_Skin for skinning the bulk install process
  • Added extra defensive measures to prevent duplication of classes
  • Added ability to bulk install and bulk activate plugins
  • Added new config options: parent_menu_slug, parent_menu_url, is_automatic, and message
  • Added new string: complete (displayed when all plugins have been successfully installed and activated)
  • Added support for singular/plural strings throughout the library
  • Added permission checks to action links
  • Added new filter tgmpa_default_screen_icon to set the default icon for the plugin table page
  • Added new optional plugin parameters: version, force_activation, force_deactivation and external_url
  • Removed button string (deprecated with use of plugins table)

2.1.1 (2011-10-19)

  • Fixed nag not re-appearing if user switched themes and then re-activated the previous theme (UX improvement)

2.1.0 (2011-10-18)

  • Fixed duplicate nag message on admin options pages
  • Fixed FTP nonce error when FTP credentials aren't defined in wp-config.php
  • Improved handling of failed FTP connections with WP_Filesystem
  • Improved string labeling for semantics
  • Improved nag messages so that they are now consolidated into one message
  • Improved plugin sorting by listing them alphabetically
  • Improved plugin messages after installation and activation
  • Added automatic activation of plugins after installation (users no longer need to click the "Activate this plugin" link)
  • Added links to repo plugins for their plugin details and information (done via thickbox)
  • Added option to dismiss nag message
  • Added tgmpa_notice_action_links filter hook to filter nag message action links
  • Added new methods: admin_init(), thickbox(), dismiss(), populate_file_path(), _get_plugin_data_from_name() and is_tgmpa_page()

2.0.0 (2011-10-03)

  • Improved nag messages by adding a strings argument to filter default messages
  • Improved nag message output by using the Settings API
  • Improved internals by adding API for developers to use (code in class no longer has to be touched)
  • Improved API function name (now tgmpa) for semantics
  • Improved example.php with instructions for setup
  • Added internal style sheet for styling
  • Added ability to define custom text domain for localization
  • Added new properties $default_path and $strings
  • Added new methods register(), config(), _get_plugin_basename_from_slug() and actions()
  • Removed unnecessary is_wp_error() check

1.1.0 (2011-10-01)

  • Improved property $args to accept arrays of arguments for each plugin needed
  • Improved add_submenu_page() to add_theme_page()
  • Improved admin notices to display different messages based on status of plugin (not installed, installed but not activated)
  • Improved block-level documentation
  • Improved handling of plugin installation and activation with plugins_api, Plugin_Upgrader and Plugin_Skin_Installer
  • Added support for multiple plugins of each instance (pre-packaged and repo)
  • Added new property $domain to hold textdomain for internationalization
  • Added CSS for slight UI enhancements
  • Added extra conditional checks current_user_can( 'install_plugins' ) and current_user_can( 'activate_plugins' ) for security
  • Removed menu display if all included plugins were successfully installed and activated
  • Removed unnecessary conditional check before class is defined

1.0.0 (2011-09-29)

  • Initial release into the wild