Changelog

Changelog: WP Slide-up box plugin for WordPress

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A: added
M: modified
F: fixed
R: removed

A: color selectors for cover background and text colors in the Shortcode generator
A: admin settings page added for setting default values. The shortcode generator is pre-filled with these values if they are not empty.
A: Preview box for the shortcode generator
A: all the strings in the plugin are now translatable
A: added a Support page to the admin menu
A: added a direct link to the plugin settings page from the All Plugins page for easier reach
M: the plugin was renamed to “a-boxes” (from WP Slide-up box) to better fit into our plugin branding line
M: all animations are rewritten to use native CSS animations instead of jQuery
M: minified versions of the CSS and JS files added, and these are loaded to speed up the loading times
M: added 20px left and bottom margins to the boxes by default – to make them better align when used next to or below each other
F: adjusted some initial values to prevent the cover layer from “flashing up” during page load
F: now the code trims white spaces from shortcode URL parameters, preventing some annoying linking issues.

M: website links are changed to https:// in the readme and in plugin file headers
F: target links on touchscreens weren’t working in v0.4. Now it’s fixed.
F: better compatibility with the 2016 theme

A: links can be placed inside the description
A: touchscreen support – a tap on the box starts the animation, while the link appears in the corner
A: now not only image IDs, but image URLs can also be used, making it possible to use external images, too
A: added plugin header and icon for the WP plugin directory
M: the plugin code is now more secure using escaping methods
M: the extra class is added to the container boxgrid DIV insead of the cover – it adds more customizability
M: links in the help block and in readme now point to the new website
F: on some themes the cover layer had issues if the IMG had margins – now it’s fixed

Fixed cover width issues in JS (sometimes it was not set properly on some servers)
Improved responsiveness (in the previous version there had been issues with window resizing)

Plugin’s code was rewritten completely with more attention to quality
The plugin no longer creates a table in WPDB, everything can now be controlled via the shortcode or the template function’s parameters (however, we kept the table reader functions for backwards compatibility)
Size parameter added for using other image sizes than “full”
The project is now on GitHub
Admin is now responsive
Front end now has better support for responsive images
Shortcode generator added in admin
Everything is prefixed now correctly: the plugin is less prone to conflicts with other plugins

Bugfix: in 0.2 there was an error in the install process (didn’t generate the neccessary database tables)

Now you can insert Slide-up boxes as PHP functions into your WP themes
New shortcode attributes introduced: class, title, desc, alt
If not specified, the plugin uses the cover title as the value of the image alt tag (helps you make valid and SEO-friendly code)
Improved documentation and FAQ
4 new modes: fade-in, fade-out, top-down-full, top-down-part
Separated frontend and admin PHP files: this way the plugin uses a bit less memory

First 6 modes introduced
Admin panel to set up slide-up boxes
You can use pictures of any size (which is an improvement since the original jQuery plugin)