Changelog

1.4.2

• Tested with WordPress 5.8 update.
• Tweak: Added “play” icon to main player for the gallery layout.
• Fix: Fixed an issue with GDPR Cookie Consent by Web Toffee integration.
• Fix: Setting the height and width of a feed using a shortcode would not work without including the unit of measure.

1.4.1

• Fix: Fixed several issues with GDPR Cookie Consent by Web Toffee integration.

1.4

• New: The locations of the YouTube feeds on your site will now be logged and listed on a single page for easier management. After this feature has been active for awhile, a “Feed Finder” link will appear next to the Feed Type setting on the plugin Settings page which allows you to see a list of all feeds on your site along with their locations.
• Fix: Pro version of the Web Toffee GDPR Cookie Consent plugin was not being detected.
• Fix: Updated jQuery methods for compatibility with WordPress 5.7.

1.3

• New: Integrations with popular GDPR cookie consent solutions added. Visit the YouTube Feed settings page, Customize tab, GDPR section for more information.
• Fix: Date that video was published would not always match what was shown on YouTube.com.

1.2.4

• Tweak: Minor update to item.php template to accommodate dynamic title attribute in lightbox.
• Tweak: Added support for improved notices on the plugin settings page.
• Fix: Connecting an account that didn’t have an associated YouTube channel would result in nothing happening. Now an empty channel is connected that can be used to create feeds.
• Fix: Iframe player now uses the video title as the iframe element title attribute.

1.2.3

• New: Added setting to use WordPress cron to clear feed caches on an interval. If your feeds are not updating automatically, try enabling the setting found on the “Customize” tab “Cron Clear Cache”.
• Tweak: Added notice explaining the account connection and what it can and can’t be used for when connecting an account.
• Tweak: Removed refresh token from being required for a manual connection.
• Fix: Improved performance of API requests for creating feeds.

1.2.2

• Tweak: More details are provided for API errors such as an API key not working after being created.
• Tweak: If an API key has not been entered, an account reconnection is required if trying to display videos from a previously unused channel and more than an hour has passed since the last account connection.
• Tweak: Play icon changed to YouTube logo to comply with their terms of service.
• Fix: Prevented a Fatal PHP error caused by retrieving YouTube videos without using an API key and either entering a non-existing YouTube channel ID or having allow_url_fopen disabled on the server.
• Fix: Non-latin characters were displaying incorrectly in titles and descriptions when a feed was using backup data.
• Fix: Thumbnails were not resizing properly when the browser was resized.

1.2.1

• Tweak: Video thumbnails are cropped to a 9:16 aspect ratio to remove black bars at the top and bottom of the images.
• Tweak: Improved workarounds for video player issues caused by having iframes from other sources on the same page.

1.2

• New: Display video players in 9:16 ratio. To use 3:4 ratio go to: Feeds for YouTube > Customize > Video Experience.
• New: Added a “Feeds for YouTube” Gutenberg block to use in the block editor, allowing you to easily add a feed to posts and pages.
• Tweak: Hide admin notices from other plugins when using the Feeds for YouTube settings pages.
• Fix: Video player would sometimes not work when the iframe JS API was available earlier than the feeds were created.

1.1.1

• Tested with upcoming WordPress 5.4 update.
• New: Added setting for using custom templates for feed HTML.
• Tweak: Added CSS to help feeds work better with certain themes.
• Tweak: Used a higher resolution image file if optimum resolution was not available from the API.
• Fix: “include=” shortcode setting would cause play icon to never show.
• Fix: Fast response from player API would cause the players to load along with the page when not necessary.
• Fix: Background caching was not updating YouTube feed caches.

1.1

• New: Several improvements to the lightbox for grid feeds were made including a video index indicator, navigation arrows moved to the outside of the video, and a close button.
• New: Added YouTube play button icon that displays on top of video thumbnails. Disable this on the “Customize” tab.
• New: Added workaround for occasional issue caused by multiple elements of the page using the YouTube Player API.
• Tweak: Fixed typo in HTML element with the class “sby_thumbail_hover”. Now “sby_thumbnail_hover”.
• Tweak: Updated admin PHP code.
• Tweak: Updated JavaScript code.
• Tweak: Updated language files and several strings to use text domain “feeds-for-youtube” instead of “youtube-feed”.

1.0.3

• Tweak: Changed tooltip and notes regarding how to display a feed from a certain channel.
• Fix: YouTube iframe JavaScript file was being loaded with HTTP. Changed to HTTPS.
• Fix: Prevented error if allow_url_fopen set to false in php.ini by changing how YouTube RSS feeds are retrieved from YouTube.
• Fix: Unable to view YouTube account details if more than one account connected.

1.0.2

• New: Changed the method used to update feeds to reduce API requests.
• Tweak: More posts cached in the wp_posts table when an API request is made.
• Tweak: YouTube channel data cached to reduce API requests.
• Fix: Error when deactivating and reactivating the plugin with background caching enabled.

1.0.1

• Fix: Optimized API calls to YouTube to reduce requests.
• Fix: Minor bug fixes.

1.0

• Launched the Feeds for YouTube plugin!