Asgaros Forum

Changelog

2.7.0

• Added: Option which allows users to only delete own topics without replies
• Added: Support for forum name in title of notifications
• Fixed: Malformed meta descriptions when using some special characters
• Fixed: Deprecated error message in statistics
• Improved compatibility with WP-Sweep
• Removed: Themes functionality
• Performance improvements and code optimizations
• The required minimum PHP version is now 5.3

2.6.0

• Fixed: Minor display issues
• Fixed: Wrong stylings when using custom colors
• Compatibility with WordPress 6.3

2.5.1

• Fixed: Wrong stylings when using custom colors
• Fixed: Display issues on mobile navigation
• Fixed: Potential error in title generation

2.5.0

• Revised topic view
• Fixed: Wrong HTML output in forum navigation
• Added: Option to define minimum time between new posts
• Changed: Time limit for editing/deleting topics/posts from minutes to seconds
• Minor design changes
• Improved mobile design
• Performance improvements and code optimizations
• Compatibility with WordPress 6.2

2.4.1

• Fixed: Multiple warnings in widgets
• Fixed: Wrong stylings when using custom colors

2.4.0

• Fixed: It was not possible to unsubscribe from topics/forums in the subscriptions area
• Fixed: Don’t remove href-attribute if links are allowed in signatures
• Fixed: Remove slashes from some outputs
• Fixed: Show groups in mobile view
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Changed: Only show moderators, administrators and topic participants in suggestions for mentioning-functionality
• Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations
• Updated: Font Awesome to version 6.3.0

2.3.1

• Fixed: Broken automatic embedding

2.3.0

• Fixed: Embedding shortcodes broken under certain conditions
• Fixed: Rare rendering issues for widgets
• Fixed: Add missing escaping for output data
• Fixed: Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability when moving topics
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

2.2.1

• Fixed: Add missing escaping for output data

2.2.0

• Fixed: Multiple Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerabilities
• Compatibility with WordPress 6.1

2.1.0

• Added: Functionality to delete forum posts and topics when deleting users
• Added: asgarosforum_overwrite_is_feed_enabled filter
• Improved compatibility with Yoast SEO
• Compatibility with WordPress 6.0

2.0.0

• Revised pagination
• Added: Option to hide names of online users in statistics
• Added: Option to define units for maximum file-size of uploads
• Added: Forum name to notifications
• Added: asgarosforum_render_custom_forum_element action
• Added: asgarosforum_overwrite_forum_status filter
• Added: asgarosforum_overwrite_post_counter_cache filter
• Added: asgarosforum_overwrite_topic_counter_cache filter
• Added: asgarosforum_overwrite_lastpost_forum_cache filter
• Added: asgarosforum_overwrite_get_topics_query filter
• Added: asgarosforum_overwrite_get_sticky_topics_query filter
• Added: asgarosforum_render_custom_forum_element_decision filter
• Fixed: SQL injection vulnerability in the reaction-functionality
• Fixed: Usergroup icons could not get saved correctly
• Fixed: Send notifications to forum-subscribers when there is a new blog-post-topic
• Fixed: Send notification to siteowner when there is a new unapproved blog-post-topic
• Fixed: HTML from message-templates got removed after saving them
• Changed: Move settings related to statistics to its own section
• Changed: Improve instructions in notifications-template
• Changed: Improved multiple strings for better clarifications
• Performance improvements and code optimizations
• Updated: Font Awesome version 5.15.4
• Compatibility with WordPress 5.9
• Compatibility with PHP 8.1

1.15.20

• Fixed: Broken links when URLs contain special characters
• Fixed: Add missing escaping for output data

1.15.19

• Fixed: Add missing escaping for output data

1.15.18

• Fixed: Add missing sanitizing for input data
• Fixed: Add missing escaping for output data
• Fixed: Warnings related to the currently implemented security-improvements
• Fixed: Forum-icons could not get saved correctly
• Fixed: Correctly save allowed html-tags for signatures in forum-settings
• Removed: Advertising functionality
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.15.17

• Fixed: Add missing sanitizing for input data
• Fixed: Broken output due to wrong escape-functions

1.15.16

• Fixed: Display and calculation-issues related to time and timezones
• Fixed: Ensure safe local redirects within the forum
• Fixed: Add missing sanitizing for input data
• Fixed: Add missing escaping for output data
• Changed: Added some clarifying comments for translators
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.15.15

• Fixed: SQL injection vulnerability in the approval-functionality
• Fixed: Prevent cross-site request forgery when creating, editing or deleting posts and topics
• Fixed: Add missing sanitizing for input data
• Fixed: Use sanitizing instead of escaping functions for input data
• Fixed: Add missing escaping for output data

1.15.14

• Fixed: Escape forum-name properly in backend

1.15.13

• Fixed: Multiple Unauthenticated SQL Injection vulnerabilities in the subscription-logic

1.15.12

• Added: asgarosforum_filter_before_post_submit filter
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_before_edit_post_submit filter
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_before_topic_submit filter
• Fixed: Warning in permalink-logic when a deleted post contains the forum-shortcode
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Improved compatibility with Sassy Social Share
• Compatibility with WordPress 5.8

1.15.11

• Added: Option to limit the number of awarded points for likes in MyCred integration
• Added: title-attribute to spoiler-shortcode
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_username filter
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_error filter
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_forum_status_options filter
• Fixed: Hide empty paragraphs for topics created via WordPress posts
• Fixed: pre and code-tags were breaking the layout
• Fixed: Answer-options in polls were ordered randomly on some server-configurations
• Fixed: Added missing translation strings
• Updated: Font Awesome version 5.15.3
• Compatibility with WordPress 5.7

1.15.10

• Added: Option to show usernames in reactions
• Added: Option to hide site-admins in memberslist
• Added: Option to change format for activity-timestamps
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_profile_row filter
• Fixed: Make it possible to delete empty topics
• Fixed: Errors when a topic is empty due to problems during post-creation
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Changed: Moved post-counter and report-button to the top
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.15.9

• Added: asgarosforum_filter_show_header filter
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_upload_folder filter
• Fixed: Show bulk-actions for user-roles/groups to administrators only
• Fixed: Added missing context for some translation strings
• Performance improvements and code optimizations
• Improved compatibility with All In One SEO Pack
• Compatibility with WordPress 5.6

1.15.8

• Added: asgarosforum_filter_meta_post_type filter
• Fixed: Broken TinyMCE-editor in the administration-area
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.15.7

• Fixed: PHP warning during initialization of REST-routes

1.15.6

• Added: Option to hide “last seen” status from profiles and the members list
• Added: Links to login/register notification
• Added: asgarosforum_signature filter
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_header_menu filter
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Fixed: Minor display issues
• Updated: Font Awesome version 5.14.0
• Compatibility with WordPress 5.5

1.15.5

• Added: Option to change title-separator
• Added: CSS view-class to body-classes
• Added: asgarosforum_title_separator filter
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_profile_header_image filter
• Fixed: Do not execute a search-query when no categories are accessible
• Fixed: Minor display issues
• Changed: Misleading strings
• Improved compatibility with All In One SEO Pack
• Improved compatibility with Rank Math SEO
• Improved compatibility with Yoast SEO

1.15.4

• Fixed: Fatal error when multibyte-extension is not installed

1.15.3

• Added: Show number of forum-posts for every user in administration area
• Fixed: Prevent banned users from reacting to posts
• Fixed: Allow line-breaks in biographical info of profile
• Fixed: SQL syntax error when opening a non-existent topic
• Fixed: Rare string-cutting issues
• Fixed: Misleading strings
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Fixed: Display issues on mobile devices
• Improved compatibility with Rank Math SEO
• Performance improvements and code optimizations
• Compatibility with WordPress 5.4

1.15.2

• Added: Option to hide newest member
• Added: Option to let users open their own topics
• Added: Option to let users close their own topics
• Fixed: Only show meta-box for creating topics when user can publish a page/post
• Fixed: Errors in Google Search Console for breadcrumbs
• Updated: Font Awesome version 5.11.2
• Minor design changes
• Compatibility with WordPress 5.3

1.15.1

• Added: Widget option to filter output by forums
• Added: Meta box to create topics for WordPress pages and posts
• Changed: asgarosforum_widget_recent_posts_custom_content is now a filter
• Changed: asgarosforum_widget_recent_topics_custom_content is now a filter
• Updated: Font Awesome version 5.10.2
• Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.15.0

• Added: myCRED Integration
• Added: Reputation system based on amount of posts
• Added: Option to change login URL
• Added: Option to change register URL
• Added: asgarosforum_profile_row action
• Added: asgarosforum_after_add_reaction action
• Added: asgarosforum_after_remove_reaction action
• Added: asgarosforum_after_update_reaction action
• Fixed: Missing users in suggestions if their display name contains special characters
• Fixed: Missing users in suggestions if their display name is not equal to their unique name
• Fixed: Prevent that users react to their own posts
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Updated: Font Awesome version 5.10.1
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.14.15

• Fixed: Compatibility issues with certain editor plugins
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Changed: Combined approval and closed options into a forum status option
• Updated: Font Awesome version 5.10.0
• Improved compatibility with Enlighter
• Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.14.14

• Added: Option to define general forum description
• Fixed: Dont cut meta-tag description in the middle of a word
• Fixed: Compatibility issues with certain editor plugins
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.14.13

• Fixed: Problems when saving ads
• Fixed: Fatal PHP error when processing mentionings
• Changed: Default editor-buttons
• Removed: Option for minimalistic editor

1.14.12

• Added: Options to hide certain filters from memberslist
• Added: Code editor for custom-css and ad-code
• Added: Time to elements in unread-view
• Fixed: Display issues with Font Awesome icons
• Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations
• The required minimum WordPress version is now 4.9

1.14.11

• Fixed: Fatal PHP error in memberslist

1.14.10

• Added: Suggestions for mentioning-functionality
• Added: Show uploaded files in notification-mails
• Added: Option to define if poll-results are visible without vote
• Added: asgarosforum_enqueue_css_js action
• Fixed: PHP warnings during mentioning-processing when HTML 5 tags are used in posts
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Fixed: Correctly embed iframe-media
• Updated: Font Awesome version 5.9.0
• Minor design changes
• Extensive performance improvements in memberslist and online-logic
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.14.9

• Added: Option to define number of activities per page
• Added: asgarosforum_reactions filter
• Added: asgarosforum_execution_check action
• Fixed: JavaScript ReferenceError when leaving a page which does not contain an instance of the TinyMCE editor
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Changed: Use AJAX for reactions to prevent reload of page
• Improved compatibility with Toolset
• Improved compatibility with Permalink Manager
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.14.8

• Added: Option to let users delete their own topics
• Added: Option to set time limitation for deleting topics
• Added: Option to let users delete their own posts
• Added: Option to set time limitation for deleting posts
• Added: Option to disable post editing
• Added: Option to change location of subforums
• Added: Warning when an user leaves a page with unsaved changes in the editor
• Fixed: Division by zero warning when viewing the results of a poll without votes
• Fixed: Added missing translation strings
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Changed: Select ad randomly if multiple ads are defined for a specific location
• Changed: Restructuring of settings
• Updated: Font Awesome version 5.8.2
• Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.14.7

• Fixed: Search-engines could not index the forum if profiles were not accessible for guests

1.14.6

• Added: Option to change the indicator color for read and unread items
• Fixed: Wrong stylings when using custom colors

1.14.5

• Added: Options to change URL-slugs for views
• Added: Option to set icon for usergroup
• Added: Generate Open Graph image-tag for topics
• Added: asgarosforum_seo_trailing_slash filter
• Fixed: Search-engines cannot longer index profiles if they are not accessible for guests
• Fixed: Display issues with Font Awesome icons
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.14.4

• Added: Option to define who can use signatures
• Fixed: Properly escape content of posts
• Fixed: Strip slashes inside of polls
• Fixed: Escape HTML inside of polls
• Compatibility with WordPress 5.2

1.14.3

• Added: Caption titles to topic-icons
• Fixed: Display issues with Font Awesome icons
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes

1.14.2

• Fixed: Load Font Awesome v4 compatibility library to fix display-issues with icons

1.14.1

• Fixed: Database error when creating table for poll-answers

1.14.0

• Added: Poll functionality
• Added: Font Awesome icons
• Added: Option to change URL mode (slug, ID) for SEO-friendly URLs
• Added: Option to disable spoiler-functionality
• Added: asgarosforum_after_topic_approve hook
• Fixed: Dont send notifications to users who got mentioned inside of quotes
• Fixed: Broken layout with certain links
• Fixed: Wrong avatar-size in certain configurations
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Improved compatibility with Rank Math SEO
• Minor design changes
• Updated design for the administration area
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.13.3

• Added: Option to disable avatars
• Added: Show received likes in profiles
• Added: Functionality to reassign forum posts when deleting users
• Design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.13.2

• Fixed: Names of administrators/moderators not highlighted when using custom link-colors

1.13.1

• Added: Global stickies
• Added: Option to disable automatic embedding of content in posts
• Added: Option to show excerpt in recent topics/posts widget
• Added: asgarosforum_widget_excerpt_length filter
• Fixed: In some cases usergroup could not get removed from user using bulk-actions
• Fixed: Wrong stylings when using custom colors
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Changed: Moderators have access to reports
• Changed: Report management has been moved to the frontend
• Changed: Dont show HTML tags in report preview
• Changed: Show enabled register-link even when user registration is temporarily disabled
• Improved RTL support
• Improved compatibility with Yoast SEO
• Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations
• Compatibility with WordPress 5.1

1.13.0

• Added: Approval functionality for topics
• Added: Spoiler functionality
• Added: Option to define days of activity to show
• Added: Option to define receivers of administrative notifications
• Fixed: Display issues in the administration-area of Asgaros Forum when notices of WordPress or other plugins are shown
• Fixed: Broken forum if settings could not get loaded from database
• Fixed: Height of editor to small in certain configurations
• Fixed: It is not longer possible to quote posts from other topics
• Fixed: It is not longer possible to quote posts from inaccessible topics
• Fixed: It is not longer possible for guests to post when topics are inaccessible for guests
• Fixed: Search-engines cannot longer index inaccessible areas
• Fixed: Dont leak content via meta-tags in inaccessible areas
• Fixed: Performance issues in forums which consist of many topics
• Fixed: PHP-error in notifications-processing when a receiver-mail does not belong to a WordPress-user
• Fixed: Wrong stylings when using custom colors
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Changed: Show all editor-buttons when the minimalistic editor is not used
• Changed: Dont notify users about a new post or topic when they already receive a mail because they got mentioned
• Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations
• The required minimum WordPress version is now 4.8

1.12.1

• Fixed: Ad code containing JavaScript could not be edited
• Fixed: Allow activity-feed when using shortcode-parameters for categories
• Fixed: Only show accessible topics in unread-view
• Fixed: Only show accessible topics in unread-view when using shortcode-parameters
• Fixed: Only show accessible topics in post-history when using shortcode-parameters
• Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.12.0

• Added: Ads Management
• Added: Option to add custom css
• Added: Option to hide posts from logged-out users
• Added: Mark all read-button to unread-view
• Added: Show location of unread topics
• Added: asgarosforum_content_top hook
• Added: asgarosforum_content_header hook
• Added: asgarosforum_after_category hook
• Added: asgarosforum_after_forum hook
• Added: asgarosforum_after_topic hook
• Added: asgarosforum_after_post hook
• Added: asgarosforum_content_bottom hook
• Added: asgarosforum_add_admin_submenu_page hook
• Fixed: Rare javascript-errors with some themes
• Removed: asgarosforum_after_first_post hook
• Minor design changes
• Minor design changes in the administration area
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.11.3

• Fixed: Possible infinite-loop during database-updates
• Fixed: Prevent creation of indexes if they already exist
• Fixed: Possible PHP-errors in overview when there are empty forums/subforums

1.11.2

• Added: Option for recent-posts-widget to group posts by topic
• Added: asgarosforum_user_replacements filter
• Fixed: Delayed database-updates after plugin-update
• Fixed: Performance issues in forums which consist of many topics
• Fixed: Rare PHP-error in unread-logic
• Fixed: It was not possible to use HTML-attributes in mail-templates
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.11.1

• Fixed: Wrong avatar-sizes with certain themes and plugins

1.11.0

• Added: New view to show unread topics
• Added: Filter users in memberslist by their role/usergroup
• Added: Mail-templates for notifications
• Added: Show groups of user inside the memberslist
• Added: Bulk-actions to assign roles
• Added: Filter users in backend by their role
• Added: Option to change link-color
• Added: Option to change light text-color
• Added: Option to change second background-color
• Added: asgarosforum_prepare hook
• Added: asgarosforum_usergroup_{ID}_add_user hooks
• Added: asgarosforum_usergroup_{ID}_remove_user hooks
• Added: asgarosforum_breadcrumbs_{current_view} hooks
• Fixed: Only show accessible posts inside post-histories to the current user
• Fixed: Broken forum-role selector in backend-profile
• Fixed: Broken banning-functionality in frontend when using plain URL-structure
• Fixed: Various problems which prevents the application of custom appearance-modifications
• Fixed: Hidden filters for usergroups in backend user-overview when there were many usergroups
• Fixed: A couple of display issues
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Changed: Dont group posts in “Recent Forum Posts”-widget by topic
• Changed: Show IDs of usergroups in the backend
• Changed: Usergroup-tags now link to memberslist showing all users of that group
• Changed: Show username of notification-receiver in mail
• Minor design changes
• Minor design changes in the administration area
• Improved application of custom appearance-settings
• Improved mobile design
• Improve first-time installation-process
• Screen-reader accessibility improvements
• Performance improvements and code optimizations
• Compatibility with WordPress 5.0

1.10.1

• Added: Forum administrator role
• Added: Show forum role in backend user overview
• Added: Moderators can now ban users
• Added: Its now possible to ban users from their profile
• Fixed: Rare PHP-error in rewrite-logic when post-object is not set
• Fixed: Performance issues in forums which consist of many topics
• Fixed: Broken links in posts pointing to other forum topics
• Fixed: Wrong default values for dates in database
• Changed: Users can no longer be moderators and banned at the same time
• Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.10.0

• Added: RSS feeds for topics and forums
• Added: Option to change main forum title
• Added: Unread indicator to activity feed
• Added: Show location of search results
• Added: asgarosforum_wp_head hook
• Added: asgarosforum_bottom_navigation hook
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_editor_buttons filter
• Fixed: Broken cookies when using SEO-friendly URLs
• Fixed: Render allowed HTML-tags in signatures inside the profile
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.9.6

• Added: Option to disable counting of topic views
• Added: Option to allow HTML tags in signatures
• Added: Option to define allowed HTML tags for signatures
• Fixed: Use correct background color in profile when using a custom background color
• Changed: Remove HTML tags from signatures completely when HTML tags are not allowed

1.9.5

• Added: asgarosforum_custom_profile_menu hook
• Fixed: Broken post history view when SEO-friendly URLs are disabled

1.9.4

• Added: Post history of users
• Added: Option to change accent color
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Changed: Mobile theme improvements
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.9.3

• Fixed: Users cannot post in closed topics anymore
• Fixed: Users cannot create topics in closed forums anymore
• Changed: Show registration date in last seen-status when user was not online yet

1.9.2

• Fixed: Broken seo-friendly URLs in combination with certain server protocol configurations

1.9.1

• Fixed: Broken usernames when URL contains certain special characters
• Fixed: Broken profile URLs when usernames are numeric
• Fixed: Broken URLs when using certain custom permalink structures
• Fixed: Dont show last seen-status in profiles/memberslist when who is online-functionality is disabled
• Changed: Allow HTML in forum descriptions
• Added: asgarosforum_widget_recent_posts_custom_content hook
• Added: asgarosforum_widget_recent_topics_custom_content hook

1.9.0

• Added: SEO-friendly URLs
• Added: User option to disable mentioning notifications
• Added: Option to add new users to specific usergroups automatically
• Added: Show last post info on small screens
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Fixed: Display issues on small screens
• Changed: Group activity by time
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Changed: Minor design changes in the administration area
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.8.4

• Added: Activity feed functionality
• Added: Option to hide specific usergroups from public
• Added: Option to set time limitation for editing posts
• Added: Show visible usergroups of user in posts
• Changed: Always use defined usergroup color when output an usergroup
• Changed: Improved descriptions in subscriptions overview
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations
• Improved compatibility with Autoptimize

1.8.3

• Fixed: Serious performance issues in the notifications logic
• Fixed: Broken subscriptions functionality for administrators in categories which are accessible for moderators only
• Fixed: Broken subscription checkbox in editor
• Removed: asgarosforum_filter_subscribers_query_new_post filter
• Removed: asgarosforum_filter_subscribers_query_new_topic filter
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Changed: Mobile theme improvements
• Changed: Dont show subscription checkbox in editor when user is subscribed to all topics
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.8.2

• Added: Option to subscribe to all topics and posts
• Added: Possibility to unsubscribe from subscriptions inside the subscription overview
• Added: Option to hide category name in breadcrumbs
• Changed: Moved user subscription settings to the subscription overview
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Changed: Mobile theme improvements
• Changed: Moved mobile css rules into style.css file
• Fixed: Display issues on small screens
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.8.1

• Added: Time when an user was last seen to profiles and members list
• Added: Name of the person who mentioned an user to notification mail
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_notify_mentioned_user_message filter
• Fixed: Display issues in the administration area on small screens
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes

1.8.0

• Added: Mentioning functionality
• Added: Functionality to move forums
• Fixed: Reactions not saved correctly in some cases
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Changed: Improved mobile navigation
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.7.2

• Fixed: Parse error when using some older versions of PHP

1.7.1

• Added: The search functionality now also checks topic titles
• Added: Include currently active guests in the statistics-area
• Fixed: Broken usernames in reports when users dont exist
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Removed: Read more-button from editor
• Changed: New profile design
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.7.0

• Added: Reaction functionality
• Added: Reporting functionality
• Added: Search Widget
• Added: Option to limit file uploads to moderators
• Added: Option to change font
• Added: Option to change font size
• Added: Edit profile-link to profile
• Added: Possibility to toggle truncated quotes with a click
• Added: asgarosforum_prepare_{current_view} hooks
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_get_sticky_topics_order filter
• Fixed: Mark all read not working when using category-parameters in shortcode
• Fixed: Visited topics not marked as read in certain cases
• Fixed: Wrong author names for automatically created topics of scheduled blog posts
• Fixed: Wrong titles when using certain SEO plugins
• Fixed: Broken search when using certain special characters
• Fixed: Some strings could not get translated
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Changed: Apply additional validation rules before saving options
• Changed: All theme and color options are now available in the appearance area
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.6.8

• Added: Option to change the border color
• Added: Option to hide members list for guests
• Added: Option to define number of members per page in members list
• Added: Show user role in members list
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_widget_avatar_size filter
• Fixed: Parse error when using some older versions of PHP
• Fixed: Wrong stylings when using custom colors
• Fixed: Display issues on mobile devices
• Changed: Design changes for the administration area
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.6.7

• Added: Members list
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_members_link filter
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_automatic_topic_title filter
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_automatic_topic_content filter
• Fixed: Only create automatic topics for new blog posts instead for all post types
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.6.6

• Fixed: Do additional error checks during database upgrade to prevent some errors during an update

1.6.5

• Added: Categories for usergroups
• Fixed: Administrators didnt get notifications in some cases when using usergroups
• Fixed: Hide topics and forums from subscription list when a user has no access to it
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Changed: Show number of users for each usergroup in the user overview
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.6.4

• Added: Option to automatically create topics for new blog posts
• Fixed: Broken subscriptions/profile-view when using shortcode with category-parameter
• Changed: Truncate long quotes
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Changed: Renamed asgarosforum_after_add_thread_submit hook into asgarosforum_after_add_topic_submit
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.6.3

• Added: Pagination in topic-overview
• Added: Category name to breadcrumbs
• Added: Usergroups to profile
• Added: Biographical info to profile
• Added: Signature to profile
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_forum_menu filter
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_topic_menu filter
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_post_menu filter
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations
• Compatibility with WordPress 4.9
• Added link to the official support forum to the administration area

1.6.2

• Added: Options to hide login/logout/register buttons
• Added: asgarosforum_custom_header_menu hook
• Fixed: Broken search when using plain permalink structure
• Fixed: Styling issues with highlighted usernames
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Changed: Prevent indexing of the following views: addtopic, movetopic, addpost, editpost, search
• Changed: Show page number in meta title
• Changed: Minor design changes

1.6.1

• Fixed: Broken guest-posting functionality

1.6.0

• Added: Profile functionality
• Fixed: Subscriptions view not working with certain shortcode parameters
• Fixed: Rare PHP-notices
• Changed: Login/Logout/Register links are now accessible everywhere
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.5.9

• Added: Option to hide author posts counter
• Fixed: Prevent cross-site request forgery in settings

1.5.8

• Fixed: Prevent non-admin users from modifying settings
• Fixed: PHP errors when updating user profile
• Changed: Enqueue stylesheets
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.5.7

• Added: Subscription overview
• Fixed: Strip slashes when showing the description inside of a forum
• Changed: Highlight quotes in the editor
• Changed: Minor design changes

1.5.6

• Fixed: Broken structure administration
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.5.5

• Added: Option to show description in forum
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_avatar_size filter
• Fixed: Dont show last posts/topics in widgets when user cant access any categories
• Fixed: Limit maximum characters in a couple of input fields
• Fixed: Display issues in administration with small screen resolutions
• Fixed: Wrong stylings when using custom colors
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.5.4

• Added: Register links to some error messages
• Fixed: Huge performance drops when the forum has a lot of posts/topics
• Fixed: Broken editor with some editor-configurations
• Fixed: Wrong stylings when using custom colors
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Changed: Increased page-navigation size on mobile devices
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.5.3

• Added: Option to change icon of forums
• Fixed: Missing data when using shortcode parameter for specific post
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.5.2

• Added: Option to set notification sender name
• Added: Option to set notification sender mail
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Fixed: JavaScript warning when editing the forum structure
• Changed: Set forum cookies only on forum page
• Changed: Show possible error messages when uploading files
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations
• Compatibility with WordPress 4.8

1.5.1

• Fixed: Fatal PHP error on some versions of PHP

1.5.0

• Added: Usergroups functionality
• Added: Show newest member in overview
• Added: Show names of online users in overview
• Added: Show who edited a post
• Added: asgarosforum_after_first_post hook
• Added: asgarosforum_custom_forum_column hook
• Added: asgarosforum_custom_topic_column hook
• Fixed: Dont remove paragraphs from quotes
• Fixed: Some strings could not get translated
• Changed: Show possible error messages when updating the structure
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.4.5

• Added: Widget option to hide avatars
• Added: Reply counter to recent forum topics widget
• Added: Show author in notification mails
• Added: asgarosforum_before_delete_post hook
• Added: asgarosforum_before_delete_topic hook
• Added: asgarosforum_after_delete_post hook
• Added: asgarosforum_after_delete_topic hook
• Fixed: Huge performance drops when the forum has a lot of posts/topics
• Fixed: Prevent creation of hidden content
• Fixed: Broken/missing links when the filename of uploads contains special characters
• Fixed: Do not try to generate thumbnails for pdf uploads
• Fixed: Dont show HTML-entities in the subject of notification mails
• Changed: Indent subforums in forums-list when moving topics
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.4.4

• Added: Avatars to widgets
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_widget_title_length filter
• Fixed: Strip slashes of forum names/descriptions in structure-administration
• Fixed: Warnings on multisite installations
• Changed: Highlight administrators/moderators in widgets
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.4.3

• Added: Open Graph tags
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Mobile Theme Improvements
• Search Engine Optimizations
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.4.2

• Revised structure administration
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Removed: asgarosforum_action_add_category_form_fields hook
• Removed: asgarosforum_action_edit_category_form_fields hook
• Removed: asgarosforum_action_save_category_form_fields hook
• Removed: asgarosforum_filter_manage_columns filter
• Removed: asgarosforum_filter_manage_custom_columns filter

1.4.1

• Added: Option to show thumbnails for uploads
• Fixed: Correct escaping of keywords in search results view
• Changed: Keep keywords in search input field
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.4.0

• Added: Option to show who is online
• Added: Shortcode extension to show a specific post
• Added: Shortcode extension to show a specific topic
• Added: Shortcode extension to show a specific forum
• Added: Shortcode extension to show one or more specific categories
• Added: Option to hide breadcrumbs
• Added: Show statistics in the mobile view
• Added: Cancel button to editor
• Added: Show IDs of forums/categories inside the administration area
• Fixed: Sort categories correctly in the forum-overview
• Fixed: Load stylesheets and scripts only on forum page
• Fixed: Wrong labels in forum configuration
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Changed: Hide new post/topic buttons when editor is active
• Changed: Show pagination under search results
• Changed: Show full breadcrumbs when moving topics
• Changed: Structure of the forum configuration
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Search Engine Optimizations
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.3.10

• Fixed: Filter [Forum] shortcodes from posts
• Fixed: Remove filtered shortcodes from post content only
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Changed: Show editor for new posts in the lower area
• Performance improvements and code optimizations
• The required minimum WordPress version is now 4.7

1.3.9

• Fixed: Dont show error to logged-out users when the guest-posting functionality is disabled
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.3.8

• Fixed: Notifications about new topics were sent to all users who subscribed to specific forums
• Fixed: Status change of topics was not working with some WordPress configurations
• Fixed: Scroll to the correct editor position when creating new posts
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Changed: Small adjustment to the editor location

1.3.7

• Added: Possibility to add multiple quotes at once
• Fixed: Private/pending/draft pages can now be set as the forum location
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Changed: Show editor at the same page when adding posts or topics
• Changed: Show all numbers in a format based on the used locale
• Changed: Always show all forum options
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.3.6

• Fixed: Save deactivated options in the administration area correctly
• Changed: Minor design changes

1.3.5

• Added: Option to limit number of uploads per post
• Added: Option to limit file size of uploads
• Fixed: Broken mark all read-button
• Fixed: Site administrators could not moderate topics/posts on multisite installations
• Fixed: Dont let post-footer hide post-content
• Fixed: PHP notices during creation or editing of content
• Fixed: Reload scripts and stylesheets in administration after plugin update
• Minor usability improvements
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.3.4

• Added: Signature functionality
• Fixed: Reload scripts and stylesheets after plugin update
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.3.3

• Fixed: Parse error when using some older versions of PHP

1.3.2

• Added: Statistics functionality
• Added: asgarosforum_statistics_custom_element hook
• Added: asgarosforum_statistics_custom_content_bottom hook
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Changed: Minor design changes

1.3.1

• Added: Subscriptions for specific forums
• Fixed: Group search results by topic to avoid duplicates
• Fixed: Sort search results correctly by relevance and date
• Fixed: Wrong stylings when using custome colors
• Fixed: Display issues when visiting the forum with a mobile device
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Changed: Minor design changes

1.3.0

• Added: Search functionality
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_error_message_require_login filter
• Changed: Dont shorten topic titles
• Search Engine Optimizations
• Revised design

1.2.9

• Fixed: Broken widgets with some WordPress configurations
• Fixed: Dont send notifications about new posts/topics in restricted categories to all users
• Fixed: Dont send notifications to banned users
• Added: asgarosforum_{current_view}_custom_content_top hooks
• Added: asgarosforum_{current_view}_custom_content_bottom hooks
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_subscribers_query_new_topic filter
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_subscribers_query_new_post filter
• Added: asgarosforum_subscriber_mails_new_topic filter
• Added: asgarosforum_subscriber_mails_new_post filter
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations
• Compatibility with WordPress 4.7

1.2.8

• Fixed: Broken link-generation with some WordPress configurations

1.2.7

• Fixed: Broken read/unread-logic
• Fixed: Remove cookies for guests correctly when mark all forums as read
• Changed: Try to determine widget-links when forum-location is not set correctly

1.2.6

• Fixed: Only show widgets when the forum is configured correctly
• Fixed: Show filtered login-message only when necessary
• Fixed: Rare PHP-notices
• Changed: Moved location-selection from widgets to forum-settings
• Setup improvements
• Performance improvements and code optimizations
• The required minimum WordPress version is now 4.6

1.2.5

• Fixed: Never highlight guests as topic-authors
• Added: Database-driven read/unread-logic across topics
• Added: Widget for recent forum topics
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.2.4

• Fixed: Various fixes in the read/unread-logic
• Added: Option to highlight thread authors
• Added: Option in user profiles to get notifications on new topics
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_subject_before_insert filter
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_content_before_insert filter
• Changed: Read/Unread icons are now better recognizable
• Changed: Renamed asgarosforum_filter_notify_administrator_message filter into asgarosforum_filter_notify_global_topic_subscribers_message
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.2.3

• Fixed: Remove slashes in the forum description
• Fixed: Escape HTML in the forum description
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Changed: Links in notification mails are now clickable
• Changed: Added amount of posts to the asgarosforum_after_post_author hook

1.2.2

• Fixed: Remove tables on multisite installations correctly
• Fixed: Dont hide widget when there are no recent posts
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Added: Option to allow uploads from guests
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_login_message filter
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.2.1

• Fixed: Prevent generation of wrong canonical links
• Fixed: Rare PHP-warning when using notifications
• Added: Multisite compatibility
• Changed: Show login-links at all pages
• Search Engine Optimizations
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.2.0

• Fixed: Correct escaping in notification mails
• Fixed: Display issues in notification mails with some characters
• Fixed: Resize external iframe-content (e.g. YouTube videos) correctly
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Fixed: Added missing translation strings
• Fixed: Misleading strings
• Added: Option to allow guest postings
• Added: Option to allow shortcodes in posts
• Added: Option to hide uploads from guests
• Added: asgarosforum_editor_custom_content_bottom hook
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_insert_custom_validation filter
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.1.6

• Fixed: HTML is now rendered correctly in notification-mails
• Fixed: Correct escaping of URLs
• Fixed: Prevent modification of topic-subject
• Fixed: Prevent submitting the same form multiple times
• Fixed: Redirect to the current forum-page after login
• Added: Post number to the bottom of posts
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_notify_administrator_message filter
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_notify_topic_subscribers_message filter
• Changed: Revised editor
• Changed: Improved error handling
• Changed: Post number is linking to the post now instead of the date
• Changed: Added post ID to asgarosforum_after_post_message hook
• Changed: Renamed asgarosforum_after_thread_submit hook into asgarosforum_after_add_thread_submit
• Changed: Renamed asgarosforum_after_post_submit hook into asgarosforum_after_add_post_submit
• Changed: Renamed asgarosforum_after_edit_submit hook into asgarosforum_after_edit_post_submit
• Changed: Improved compatibility with some third-party plugins
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.1.5

• Fixed: Correct filtering of posts inside the widget
• Fixed: Hide post-counter for deleted users
• Fixed: The notification-text in mails is now translatable
• Fixed: Rare PHP-notice in categories-configuration
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Added: Subscribe checkbox in editor for the current topic
• Added: asgarosforum_after_post_message hook
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_get_posts filter
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_get_posts_order filter
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.1.4

• Fixed: The names of some users were not shown correctly

1.1.3

• Fixed: Correct sanitizing of URL parameters
• Fixed: Removed unnecessary hyphen from username
• Added: Option to disable the minimal-configuration of the editor

1.1.2

• Fixed: PHP parse-error when using a PHP version less than 5.3
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Added: Notifications functionality
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.1.1

• Fixed: PHP-Warning in theme-manager

1.1.0

• Fixed: Categories were not sorted correctly
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Fixed: Prevent accessing some PHP-files directly
• Fixed: Added missing translation strings
• Added: Sub-forum functionality
• Added: Banning functionality
• Added: Theme manager functionality (thanks to Hisol)
• Added: Color picker for the text
• Added: Color picker for the background
• Changed: Administrators cant be set to forum-moderators anymore
• Changed: Subject in last-post-view links to the topic
• Changed: Revised forum management
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Changed: Provide translation files via WordPress Updater only
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.0.14

• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Added: Option to modify allowed filetypes for uploads
• Changed: Only the following filetypes can be uploaded by default: jpg, jpeg, gif, png, bmp, pdf
• Changed: Hide page-navigation when there is only one page
• Changed: Provide spanish translation updates via WordPress Updater
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.0.13

• Fixed: Closed forums were not saved correctly
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Added: asgarosforum_filter_post_username filter
• Changed: Show moderator buttons only at the beginning of threads
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.0.12

• Fixed: Broken link of uploaded file when filename contains umlaute
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Added: Option to close forums
• Changed: Categories are now ordered in the administration area
• Changed: Use default WordPress icons instead of own icon pack
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Changed: Provide portuguese (Portugal) translation updates via WordPress Updater
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.0.11

• Fixed: Missing page titles with some themes
• Fixed: Display issues when using apostrophes and backslashes
• Fixed: Wrong HTML escaping
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Added: Portuguese (Portugal) translation (thanks to Sylvie & Bruno)

1.0.10

• Fixed: PHP errors when using a PHP version less than 5.3
• Fixed: Display issues with big post images in Internet Explorer
• Added: asgarosforum_after_thread_submit hook
• Added: asgarosforum_after_post_submit hook
• Added: asgarosforum_after_edit_submit hook
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Changed: Provide russian translation updates via WordPress Updater
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.0.9

• Fixed: Broken thread titles when using multi-byte characters
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Added: Category access permissions
• Added: Filter asgarosforum_filter_editor_settings
• Changed: Improved compatibility with some third-party plugins
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.0.8

• Fixed: Insert forum at the correct shortcode position
• Fixed: Broken URLs with some third-party plugins
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Added: Moderator functionality
• Added: Filter asgarosforum_filter_get_threads
• Added: Filter asgarosforum_filter_get_threads_order
• Added: Spanish translation (thanks to QuqurUxcho)

1.0.7

• Fixed: Prevent the creation of empty content
• Fixed: Hide widget for guests when access is limited to logged in users
• Fixed: Some PHP notices
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Added: Option to hide the edit date
• Added: Filter hook asgarosforum_filter_post_content
• Changed: Editor error messages are now shown on the editor page
• Changed: Minor design changes

1.0.6

• Fixed: Wrong word wrap
• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Added: “Last edited” info to posts
• Changed: Provide hungarian translation updates via WordPress Updater
• Changed: Added author_id to asgarosforum_after_post_author action hook
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.0.5

• Added: Option to easily change the forum color
• Added: Option to limit access to logged in users
• Added: Action hook asgarosforum_after_post_author
• Added: Danish translation (thanks to crusie)
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Changed: Provide german translation updates via WordPress Updater

1.0.4

• Fixed: Display issues with some themes
• Fixed: Error messages were not translated
• Added: Option to highlight administrator names
• Added: Notice when user is not logged in
• Added: “Go back” link on error pages
• Added: Hungarian translation (thanks to zsebtyson)
• Changed: Permalink accessible via date instead of icon
• Updated: English and german translation
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.0.3

• Fixed: Icons not visible in some WordPress themes
• Fixed: Broken images inside quoted posts
• Fixed: Display issues with big images in posts
• Fixed: Prevent accessing PHP-files directly
• Added: Recent Forum Posts Widget
• Added: Bosnian translation (thanks to AntiDayton)
• Removed: Image captions
• Updated: English, german and russian translation

1.0.2

• Fixed: Dont modify page titles outside of the forum
• Fixed: Added missing translation strings
• Added: Editor button for adding images to posts
• Added: CSS design rules for better mobile device compatibility
• Added: Finnish translation (thanks to juhani.honkanen)
• Added: French translation (thanks to thomasroy)
• Added: Russian translation (thanks to ironboys)
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Updated: English and german translation
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.0.1

• Fixed: Added missing translation strings
• Fixed: Display issues with some default themes
• Changed: Minor design changes
• Changed: Translation slug from asgarosforum to asgaros-forum
• Updated: German translation
• Performance improvements and code optimizations

1.0.0

• First initial release