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0.7

• Bug Fix: The [...] in the excerpt linked to the description and not to the URL of the linked item/article [Thx ]
• Bug Fix: "Num. of News" in widget form becomes "No. of Items"
• Bug Fix: Fixed the shortcode example in readme.txt as contained syntax errors [Thx Wayne]
• Bug Fix: The strings for titles and excerpts were not properly formatted for display on screen [Thanks Mary Ann]
• Change: Improved documentation for page Other Notes

0.6

• New feature: the user is able to set the cache refresh time both in the widget form and the shortcode
• Change: Replaced old email address (mywizardwebs@) with new (stefonthenet@)
• Change: Added the plugin version number in the "Powered from" line at the botton
• Change: Author URI, Plugin URI added to readme.txt file

• Change: Improved description of sample shortcode

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

0.5

• Added attribute "filter" to include or exclude given words
• Changed footer's author link to the plugin homepage
• Set attribute Charex default value to 150 so that if excerpt is true, an excerpt is automatically displayed (for 150 chars).
• Changed attribute num default value to 5
• Enclosed shortcode in a class (it seems attribute feed collided with wordpress since 3.2)

0.4

• Made Date & Time formats (when selected) as those defined in wordpress settings page
• Made linkable title opening in new/same window according to widget selection
• Added attributed "title" and "link" to shortcodes too
• Made link for title as an image to an RSS cube
• Used fetch_feed as feed farser function (the other was not compatible with all the PHP server installations)
• Made code DHTML compatible (hopefully)

0.3

• Made it fully compatible with Atom 1.0
• 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

0.2

• Fixed a bug which prevented the shortcode to show feeds from URLs containing & and =
• Made it fully compatible with RSS version 0.92, 2.0, 2.0.1 where link and title might be omitted
• Made the widget title linkable to the feed URL
• Used the native PHP class simpleXML instead of the WordPress feed parser (Magpie)

0.1

• First release. Originating from google-news-widget plugin