YouTube Showcase Professional WordPress Plugin Changelog

V4.9.2

FIX

• Playlist and User Upload type video records

V4.9.1

FIX

• Dislike count on video statistics

V4.9.0

FIX

• Start parameter for video coverflow when multiple shortcodes are on same page

TWEAK

• tested with WP 5.9.2 and PHP 8
• tested with WP 5.9.1 and PHP 8

V4.8.0

FIX

• Slide Gallery was showing at most 10 videos by default. Now it shows all the videos returned by its shortcode.

TWEAK

• Expanded the click surface for the coverflow view when users hover over the video.

NEW

• Added Start parameter for the coverflow view to set the video which the coverflow will display first.

V4.7.0

NEW

• Added video thumbnail and ability to create a paginated list to video search results without loading the page.

V4.6.0

FIX

• Pagination bar not showing in mobile devices in the video gallery and video standard gallery views.

NEW

• Added Video Order Column for bulk CSV Imports and Exports to speed up the order of videos without changing the published date of a video.
• =4.5.0

V4.5.0

TWEAK

• Added additional descriptions for YouTube API channel.

NEW

• Added ability to import video using Channel IDs.

V4.4.0

TWEAK

• Added additional descriptions for YouTube API channel.

NEW

• Added ability to import video using Channel IDs.

V4.3.0

FIX

• insert button in shortcode page

NEW

• Added version numbers to js and css files for caching purposes
• Added YouTube published date field for all videos

V4.2.7

FIX

• Misc warnings and added error messages on youtube api page

TWEAK

• updates and improvements to libraries

V4.2.6

FIX

• Video horizontal slider not displaying properly for odd number of videos.

TWEAK

• updates and improvements to libraries

NEW

• Added previous and next buttons for the edit screens of videos

V4.2.5

FIX

• Video horizontal slider not displaying properly when used more than one on a page.

V4.2.4

FIX

• Video search form does not display selectable dropdown issue.

V4.2.3

TWEAK

• Added error message for invalid API keys.

V4.2.2

NEW

• Enabled video commenting for video pages using theme template. Video comments can be managed under video comments menu page.

V4.2.1

TWEAK

• Remove unused code and add additional hardening for security

V4.2.0

FIX

• Session cleanup workflow by creating a custom table to process records.

NEW

• Added Emd form builder support

V4.1.0

FIX

• Video auto play option which was not working due to Google policy changes.

NEW

• Visual Shortcode Builder page in the plugin settings.

V4.0.1

FIX

• the issue related to video sizes on certain themes.

NEW

• Added ability search videos using titles

V4.0.0

TWEAK

• Improved the emd templating system removing obsolete code.
• Updated the third party code included in the plugin.

NEW

• Added a sidebar widget allowing to search videos by title, category or tag.
• Added ability enable or disable any video search field in the plugin settings.
• Added option to show login or register before searching videos - handy feature for private or customer only videos.
• Added option to use captcha in video search submissions in the plugin settings.
• Added option to set No results found and No access messages in the plugin settings.

V3.9.5

NEW

• Added a video grid view with the video titles at the bottom.

V3.9.4

TWEAK

• Minor changes on the CSS side

V3.9.3

NEW

• Added stacked video view for YouTube videos

V3.9.2

TWEAK

• Changed the scope on main video image resolution to the pages requiring large video images such as main video gallery or individual video pages.

NEW

• Added ability to set smaller thumbnail size for secondary images such as the ones displayed at widgets, related videos or used for navigation.

V3.9.1

FIX

• Video Gallery and Archive views not setting default thumbnail images.

V3.9.0

NEW

• Added ability to change the video thumbnail resolution if there is no poster thumb available. You can change the resolution if there is no thumb image available in YouTube for your video.

V3.8.0

NEW

• Added ability to bulk import videos from YouTube API using one to many YouTube usernames
• Added ability to bulk import videos from YouTube API using one to many YouTube playlists
• Added ability to set batch size for bulk video imports
• Added ability to run bulk import videos on a scheduled basis using WP Cron

V3.5.1

FIX

• license activation warnings

V3.3.0

FIX

• WP Sessions security vulnerability
• conflict with some themes for video gallery
• Slider gallery not getting displayed in mobile devices issue

TWEAK

• PHP7 compatibility
• Misc Fixes and improvements

NEW

• Permission settings to expand the scope of built-in video manager user role
• Added custom JavaScript option in plugin settings under Tools tab
• Added container type field in the plugin settings
• Custom JS and CSS fields in the settings

V3.2.0

FIX

• the issue on shortcodes with paged navigation displayed not linking to the correct video when clicked by user

TWEAK

• Updated Video Filters and Columns to latest version
• Improved page loading performance by caching YouTube Stats

NEW

• Added ability to disable emd templating system and use theme files instead
• Video grid modals display the video itself instead of an interim information
• added ability to update YouTube video stats by a scheduled and on-demand basis from plugin settings

V3.12.0

FIX

• YouTube video is not displayed in full screen mode in some browsers.

V3.11.0

NEW

• Added a video grid view with the video titles at the bottom. Clicking on the video thumb goes to the video page.

V3.10.0

NEW

• Added a video grid view with the video titles at the bottom.
• Added a video gallery view with the video titles at the bottom.