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1.2

• New feature: the user is able to set the cache refresh time both in the widget form and the shortcode

• Change: Copyright set to 2012

• Change: Replaced old email address (mywizardwebs@) with new (stefonthenet@)
• Change: Added the plugin version number in the "Powered from" line at the botton
• Change: Renamed plugin from Google News Widget/Shortcode to Google News Just Better
• Change: Author URI, Plugin URI added to readme.txt file
• Change: formatting topic and keyword(s) (now on the same line)
• Change: "sport" (as default keyword removed from keyword(s) textbox in widget form
• Change: List of Google News location set to 12 Nov 2011 (last time check)
• Change: Topic Science/Technology has been split into Science and Technology (2 topics) by Google itself.

• Change: Improved description of sample shortcode

• Fixed bug: Boolean variables were not properly tested and caused some inconsistent views when used as a shortcode

1.1

• New feature: forced feed cache to refresh every 30 minutes instead of the default 12 hours
• New feature: made it (hopefully) compatible with XHTML1.0 by writing all tags and attributed in small letters

• Changed feature: fetch_feed function is called to catch the feed instead of simplexml_load_file. Some users were unable to use this last PHP 5 function on their own webserver. (http://php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-load-file.php)

• Fixed bug: incorrect links to feed URLs in shortcodes were generated

1.0

• New feature: Made titles linkable for shortcodes too
• Change feature: Added a feed small icon linking to its feed URL (instead of linking to the title directly)
• HTML tags are now stripped from the description to make the mouseover experience more meaningful
• Fixed a bug which prevented the title to be linkable

0.9

• Fixed a bug (introduced in 0.8) which showed the widget title twice
• Amended the 0.7 changelog/Upgrade notice as a few changes were forgotten

0.8

(never released. used to test the bug-fix)

• Fixed a bug which prevented non-standard chars to be displayed properly

0.7

• New feature: added selection of local news (working for Usa and Canada English only)
• New feature: Made the widget title linkable to the feed URL
• Added proper error messages for: empty, non-existing URLs and invalid/misformatted feeds content
• Added defaults for target and list (widget fields)
• Added instruction to hide Warnings from the xmlsimple_load_file function
• Fixed a bug which prevented proper display of description/summary with tags
• Made it fully compatible with RSS standards where link and title might be omitted
• Used the native PHP class simpleXML instead of the WordPress feed parser (Magpie)

0.6

• added show/not excerpt and how many chars of it to the widget form/shortcode
• fixed view of certain foreign countires in the widget's "Localization" drop down menu
• updated readme.txt, fixed formatting

0.5

• added show/not publication time to the widget form/shortcode
• added show/not plugin's author to the widget form/shortcode
• updated readme.txt and fixed links and some formatting

0.4

(never released. used to test the bug-fix) * fixed a which prevented working in admin for certain wp installations * added show/not publication date to the widget form/shortcode

0.3

• fixed Plugin Home directory in the plugin file header (google-news-widget.php)

0.2

• added topic, list and target to the widget form/shortcode
• fixed a bug which prevented to show news, if no search-word was defined
• enabled a shortcode version (to add news to posts/pages)
• updated readme.txt file
• updated description in the php file (made consistent with readme.txt)
• introduced donation page

0.1

• First release of google-news-widget