BSK PDF Manager Change Logs

Version 3.0

  • Add new feature of generating featured image from the selected page of the PDF
  • Support deleting featured image when delete PDF / document
  • Remove old shortcodes
  • Add new action of bsk_pdfm_after_document_insert
  • Add new action of bsk_pdfm_after_document_update
  • Add new action of bsk_pdfm_after_bulk_add_by_ftp
  • Add new action of bsk_pdfm_after_bulk_add_by_media_lib
  • Compatible with WordPress 5.7.2

Version 2.9.4

  • Change to use WordPress' new date function.
  • Support WordPress that installed to its own directory
  • Support WordPress that changed default content directory
  • Support WordPress that changed default uploads directory
  • Fixed the bug of html description cannot be saved and shown for document( PDF ).
  • Fixed the bug of html description cannot be saved and shown for category.
  • Fixed the bug of html description cannot be saved and shown for tag.
  • Fixed the bug of causing NextGEN Gallery cannot edit thumb.
  • Compatible with WordPress 5.7

Version 2.9.3

  • IMPORTANT: from version 3.0 we’ll remove the old shortcodes of [bsk-pdf-manager-pdf id="x"] and [bsk-pdf-manager-list-category id="x"]. If you use the old shortcodes to display PDFs / documents then please check documents from https://www.bannersky.com/document/bsk-pdf-manager/ for new shortcodes.
  • Add category object to filter hook of bsk_pdfm_filter_pdf_list_item , category object only available when display PDFs / Documents by category or with category selector
  • Support year range for shortcode attribute year_of, ex: year_of="2000-9999"
  • Support search_bar_year_range="APPLIED" to display years that have content applied to it when show search bar with year dropdown
  • Sanitize user entered data before processing to improve security
  • Support ordering by ID for categories and tags in Dashboard
  • Support linking category to all document that associated to it in Dashboard
  • Fixed the bug of cannot delete documents when delete category
  • Improve admin interface
  • Compatible with WordPress 5.6.2

Version 2.9

  • Supports date&time for tag and order by date when display tags in front
  • Add options to display widget title in h3 or h4 tag instead of always h2
  • Fixed the warning message when add category widget in backend and display in front
  • Fixed the bug of time for category cannot be updated
  • Fixed the bug of tag title, description cannot be updated
  • Fixed the bug of tags displayed in categories list screen
  • Updated some Dutch translations

Version 2.8

  • Support tags for PDFs / documents, you may assign one or more tags to a single document
  • Add tags filter in front, dynamic load PDFs / documents by Ajax when click filter anchor
  • Support move PDFs / documents from Media Library to BSK PDF Manage's upload folder
  • Support visit PDF / document directly by ID
  • Add option of moving documents out of Media Library
  • Add new language of Swedish, thank Anders Olofsson providing Swedish translations
  • Fixed the bug of no documents loaded when day of week changed
  • Fixed the bug of two Monday displayed in date weekday query filter
  • Compatible with WordPress 5.5.3

Version 2.7.2

  • Support translating date / day in week according to WordPress language
  • Updated codes to be compatible with creating custom folders on hosts such as wordpress.com that has a special Wordpress installation folder.
  • Change PDF description to accept large text / html
  • Fixed the bug of category cannot be listed ( in selector ) if only child / grand categories have PDFs
  • Fixed the warning message with PHP 7.3
  • Fixed the bug of some labels not shown in widget
  • Fixed the bug of warning message in the file of category-functions.php with some hosting
  • Compatible with Wordpress 5.5.1

Version 2.7.1

  • Fixed the JavaScript error when upload / edit documents
  • Fixed the warning message on edit documents screenshot with default plugin settings.
  • Include jQuery UI css file to make date picker work better.
  • Compatible with Wordpress 5.5

Version 2.7

  • Support year month day weekday query filter, this filter load documents by date from database when date change
  • Support more file formats such as .mp3, .mp4, .wmv...
  • Add a filter to switch extension in Dashboard to let users manage documents easier
  • Add extension attribute to shortcode
  • Improving the interface when use file name as title, support remove all - and all _ in title to space
  • Change JavaScript codes to make tracking download count accurately
  • Support adding rel="noopener noreferrer" to documents link
  • Fixed warning on setting page on some hosting
  • Make extension filter only show supported extensions that checked on settings page
  • Compatible with Wordpress 5.4.2

Version 2.6

  • Fixed a bug in bulk changing title
  • Fixed a bug in bulk changing date
  • Fixed a bug of sorting in the case with pagination
  • Fixed a bug of category description shown in display with selector mode
  • Fixed the bug of extension filter doesn't work for documents from WordPress Media Library
  • Fixed a bug when use extension filter with display in category and selector mode
  • Fixed a bug when use title start filter with display in category and selector mode
  • Fixed the bug of pagination error on some case
  • Fixed the bug of query most recent doesn't work for display by category
  • Fixed the bug of date cannot be shown correctly when display in dropdown with category selector mode
  • Change script library for uploading directory setting
  • Compatible with some special hosting such as Flywheel and crazydomains.com
  • Support overwritten search button text by shortcode attribute
  • Support multiple languages of English, German, Italian, Portuguese, French and Spanish. Also support set to use English always
  • Support attribute to order PDFs/documents across multiple categories
  • Compatible with Wordpress 5.4

Version 2.5

  • Support bulk change documents title
  • Support bulk add documents from Wordpress' media library
  • Support recognize date from document file name
  • Support only have category and keywords in search bar
  • Fixed the bug of target="_blank" doesn't work for category shortcodes
  • Fixed the bug of wrong link for no category
  • Fixed the bug of cannot use "add by FTP" when Wordpress run on Windows server
  • Compatible with Wordpress 5.2.4

Version 2.4

  • Support only show search bar
  • Support extension filter
  • Support title start with filter
  • Support display search results in dropdown
  • Support pagination and search bar for widgets
  • Support show PDFs / Documents count description, use show_count_desc="yes" in shortcode to enable it
  • Fixed the warning message when edit a document
  • Fixed the issue of search keyword from file path instead file name only
  • Fixed the category description cannot be shown if no PDFs found
  • Fixed the issue of date weekday filter does not work in Safari or iOS
  • Fixed the bug when do statistics setting in backend
  • Fixed the bug of failed to upload files by FTP if ' included in file name
  • Compatible with Wordpress 5.2.2

Version 2.3

  • Support .doc file
  • Support both date and time for document and category.
  • Support bulk change date
  • Support WYSIWYG editor for document's description field. Front description element changed from p to div
  • Support WYSIWYG editor for categories' description field and empty message field. Front description element changed from p to div
  • Support WYSIWYG editor for categories' description and empty message fields. Front empty message element changed from p to div
  • Support change document's title and date time when upload by FTP
  • Improve uploading file interface
  • Improve documents list interface
  • Fix widgets cannot sort by date correctly
  • Fix ordered list AJAX loading bug
  • Fix duplicate entries appear when do upgrading on some server
  • Remove PHP warnings
  • Compatible with WordPress 5.1.1

Version 2.2.1

  • Fix the issue when upgrading from old versions ( below 2.0 )
  • Improving admin interface
  • Compatible with WordPress 5.0.2

Version 2.2

  • Add setting for display bullets for unordered list
  • Support new feature of download statics
  • All supported documents ( pdf, zip, gz, rar, png, jpg, jpeg, gif, tif, tiff, swf, docx, xlsx, pptx, csv, crtfsv, pages, numbers, keynote, ies ) can be bulk uploaded by FTP
  • Compatible with WordPress 5.0.1

Version 2.1

  • * Date filter, weekday filter parameters changed. If you use this feature please update them according to documentations.
  • * Search bar parameters changed. If you use this feature please update them according to documentations.
  • Fix bug of extra dash ( - ) before child category in backend.
  • Fix bug of sorting by date not work in category widget.
  • New order by parameter of PDFs' id to get more choice.
  • New date filter to display Years, Month, Days, Weekday in descending order and also can place date filter bar on right.
  • New style for PDFs unordered list (ul), ordered list( ol ) and columns.
  • In column mode the heigh for each PDF / column will be adjusted to keep same automatically.
  • Enhanced category shortcodes and now it supports pagination in single category or multiple categories despite category hierarchy enabled or not.
  • New search bar support by category, by year with keywords.
  • Ajax processing for Search, Category password verifying and pagination to update content without refresh page.

Version 2.0

  • ***2.0 is a big update and please make sure do a full site backup before do updating.
  • Hierarchical Category
  • Keep document last modified
  • Pagination, Search Bar
  • Date filter and weekday filter
  • Query by year, month, day or weekday
  • Support changing documents upload folder, new license module and won't slow down your site. Support more documents type than PDF
  • Compatible with PHP 5 & PHP 7
  • Compatible with Wordpress 4.9.8

Version 1.9.4

  • Fix PHP notice
  • Compatible with Wordpress 4.9.6

Version 1.9.3

  • Add new shortcode parameter to only output html a element.
  • Improve parameters compatibility
  • Compatible with Wordpress 4.9.5

Version 1.9.2

  • Fixed typo

Version 1.9.1

  • Fixed the deprecated function in jQuery
  • Compatible with WordPress 4.94.

Version 1.9

  • Add new feature of password protect to PDFs. Support different category has different password
  • Add new feature of empty message to category if no PDFs can be shown
  • Compatible with WordPress 4.9.2

Version 1.8.1

  • Fixed two small bugs
  • Put the CSS class "bsk-pdf-manager-pdf-date" on the date in a span when featured image is set to true
  • Compatible with WordPress 4.8

Version 1.8

  • Compatible with PHP 7
  • Fixed the bug of delete pdf when switch category
  • Updated license manage module, doesn’t slow WordPress anymore
  • Add publish date and expiry date for a PDF document

Version 1.7.4

  • Add default="ALL" as shortcode parameter to category list & category selector shortcode.
  • Update license manage module to make renew license easier.
  • Compatible with WordPress 4.7.3

Version 1.7.3

  • Fixed the bug of cannot upload PDF from WordPress media library in Firefox.
  • Compatible with WordPress 4.6.1

Version 1.7

  • Supports WordPress Media Uploader, you may link to PDF files that have already been uploaded to a site.
  • Add feature of showing date before or after title.
  • Supports displaying PDFs in multi-column layout.
  • Compatible with WordPress 4.5.3

Version 1.6

  • Fixed PDF display bug when categories more than 10.
  • Adding setting to disable featured image if you don't want to use it at all.
  • Adding search feature in backend, it is useful mainly for handling many PDFs.
  • Adding setting to allow users with Author role to access Category & PDF menu in backend.
  • Improved backend interface.

Version 1.5

  • New feature of assigning featured image size.
  • Allow you add your own image size and use it to show PDF's featured image.
  • Fixed warning message.

Version 1.4

  • New feature of category selector, allow the user to select the category and have all PDF's associated with the category be shown.
  • Add parameter to show NONE option when show PDFs in dropdown, this will add a NONE option as the first one in dropdown.
  • Fixed a small bug when show all PDFs.

Version 1.3

  • Add option to show PDF title together with featured image.
  • Support show PDFs in ordered list.

Version 1.2

  • Fixed bug of double records shown in dropdown format
  • Fixed featured image cannot be shown well in PDF widget
  • Fixed conflict with WPide
  • Change Datepicker to use the latest jQuery UI theme css
  • Security improvement

Version 1.1

  • Fixed a small bug of losing PDFs when upgrade from Personal Edition to Professional Edition.

Version 1.0

  • Initial professional version