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2.5.3

• Bug: Fixed further issues with the widget code (thanks to Rose-Anne Constantineau for reporting it and helping me out test the result)
• Maintenance: Improved some of the internationalisation texts
• Maintenance: Neatened up some of the code output

2.5.2

• Bug: Fixed a bug where widgets weren't showing single videos (thanks to Josh Callaghan for reporting this)

2.5.1

• Bug: Fixed a bug with Admin Bar when using WP 3.1 - 3.3 (thanks to Carl D'Halluin for finding this)

2.5

• Maintenance: Updated code to work with new playlist options
• Maintenance: Removed embedded URL option due to issues with existing code (see FAQ for details)
• Maintenance: Added further FAQs based on common forum queries
• Maintenance: Wording on options screens changed to better identify differences between players
• Maintenance: Added advertisement to profile screen
• Maintenance: Modified demonstration video and made sponsorship request more visible
• Maintenance: Changes the YouTube admin screen icon
• Enhancement: Download link now uses deturl.com
• Enhancement: Admin Bar link improved in WP 3.3 onwards
• Enhancement: New user upload and search features added
• Enhancement: Now supports ability to specify the time to stop video playback
• Enhancement: Default windowing mode changed to improve performance
• Enhancement: FRAMEBORDER is switchable for the purpose of HTML5 compatibility
• Enhancement: Added internationalisation
• Enhancement: README in admin menu now shows the corresponding README for the version of the plugin you have installed, rather than the latest one
• Enhancement: Added option to admin screen to clear video cache (see FAQ for details)
• Enhancement: Allow recursive shortcodes - that is, shortcodes within the YouTube shortcode
• Bug: Fixed bug in retrieving the video title
• Bug: Resolved various debug messages
• Bug: Fixed bug in MCE button JavaScript

2.4.1

• Maintenance: Removed dashboard widget

2.4

• Maintenance: Re-sequenced the changelog in the README
• Maintenance: Removed drop shadow option
• Maintenance: Re-design of widgets, reducing number of parameters down to make it easier to use - use profiles to modify missing parameters
• Maintenance: Updated YouTube icons
• Enhancement: Added frameborder="0" to IFRAME code
• Enhancement: Added Privacy-Enhanced mode. Doesn't work with Chromeless player.
• Enhancement: Added title option, so you can name the video
• Enhancement: Added ssl option, allowing you to override whether HTTP or HTTPS is used for the video
• Enhancement: Added dynamic option (and matching Profile switch) to allow users to request dynamically resizing video (responsive). Additional option to allow specified width to be maximum
• Enhancement: Made modestbranding a switchable option (switchable in profile options but not on video-by-video basis) due to issues with Apple devices
• Enhancement: Improved matching of URL embedded into post
• Enhancement: If you have the README Parser plugin installed then a new sub-menu will display the README instructions
• Enhancement: Use WP 3.3 Feature Pointer to highlight new menu when plugin is activated
• Bug: Ensure showinfo parameter is set correctly
• Bug: If width or height is missing from Profile screen then fill it in based on widescreen format. Otherwise, causes video to break
• Bug: Video information was being fetched from caching even if option selected to switch it off. Fixed!

2.3.1

• Maintenance: Removed the sponsorship

2.3

• Enhancement: Editor button will add text between shortcodes if no URL or ID is specified
• Enhancement: Square brackets are stripped from alternative shortcodes on option screen - text added to warn against this too
• Enhancement: Added Chromeless player option
• Enhancement: Increased maximum output length of profile and list names to 30 characters
• Bug: Fixed incorrect listing of long profile or list names
• Bug: Fixed INCLUDE bug in widgets.php

2.2

• Maintenance: Updated dashboard widget to latest version
• Maintenance: Added advertising banners to options screen - these can be turned off if you donate
• Enhancement: Replace WP_PLUGIN_URL with plugins_url()
• Enhancement: Added H and W as alternative shortcode parameters to HEIGHT and WIDTH
• Enhancement: Editor button should appear for anyone from editor role upwards
• Enhancement: Removed maximum length from profile and list names. However, only first 20 characters will appear in lists

2.1

• Enhancement: New option to switch API options (where HTTP or HTTPS, display messages or not or even switch off)
• Enhancement: Output video playback errors as XHTML comments. Output to post a generic message which can be changed in the options
• Enhancement: Video information is shown in lists screen when first entering (no need to press Save button to display)
• Enhancement: Added new color parameter, which allows you to specify the colour of the progress bar
• Enhancement: Added new theme parameter, allowing you to specify if the player is dark or light skinned
• Enhancement: Added new https parameter, allowing you to use HTTPS instead of HTTP for the video display
• Enhancement: Added new version parameter to thumbnails, allowing different versions (including a high resolution one) to be displayed
• Enhancement: Added new administration option to allow the thumbnail used in RSS feeds to be specified
• Enhancement: Log the current plugin version into the database. This may be of use in future upgrades to detect which version the user is upgrading from
• Bug: Fixed video title no longer being fetched since 2.0.3 (because of using v2 of API)
• Bug: Fixed some error output - due to changes made in an earlier release some errors would not display

2.0.4

• Enhancement: Removed HTTPS access to gdata API - will add a switchable option for this in a later release

2.0.3

• Enhancement: Decode any passed template parameters, as WP may have encoded the content first
• Enhancement: Improved file handling
• Enhancement: Now using HTTPS and version 2 of YouTube gdata API
• Enhancement: New general option to switch off reporting of API errors - will simply accept ID and work out type
• Maintenance: Added details to the README to cover issues with style backwards compatibility and YouTube API

2.0.2

• Enhancement: Strip tags from video ID, in case any have crept in
• Enhancement: Tidied some of the widget controls
• Enhancement: You can now specify YouTube short URLs as video IDs
• Bug: Removed reference to jscolor.js script, which isn't used
• Bug: Video IDs beginning with numbers are being confused with list numbers
• Bug: Corrected problem with random single videos being picked from a list
• Bug: Fixed problem with list where one video was being ignored and another repeated
• Bug: Modified widget code to allow for all states to be allowable. Defaults updated
• Bug: YouTube documentation states that if you don't specify the fullscreen parameter it will default to off. It doesn't. Corrected in the code

2.0.1

• Enhancement: Changed cache key encoding so that it was compatible with PHP 4
• Enhancement: Added autoplay option to EmbedPlus
• Enhancement: Re-instated style option, allowing you to apply a direct set of CSS elements to the output - a requirement if you wish to add a border to the video, for instance
• Maintenance: Updated screens and documentation to show the start parameter works with EmbedPlus
• Bug: Fixed incorrect caching of options - was only changing if override parameters were modified
• Bug: Video Information Cache will no longer reset to zero if the Embed cache is greater
• Bug: Added random ID to EmbedPlus output to resolve a bug that can affect IE users

2.0

• Maintenance: Renamed to Artiss YouTube Embed from YouTube Embed
• Maintenance: Major re-write, using new coding standards
• Maintenance: AS3 player is now used, AS2 has been retired
• Maintenance: Compliancy and browser checked - XHTML and HTML5 compliant and works in all the latest browsers
• Maintenance: README completely re-written, contextual help added to admin screens and links to further information
• Enhancement: New administration screens, introducing multiple profiles and playlists
• Enhancement: Both OBJECT and IFRAME versions can be selected
• Enhancement: Migration options added, allowing compatibility with other similar plugins
• Enhancement: Can now specify full video URL as well as video ID
• Enhancement: No need to use separate shortcode for playlists, as they are automatically detected. Video IDs are also now validated
• Enhancement: Options to allow YouTube URLs not within shortcodes to be accepted, as well as in comments
• Enhancement: RDFa metadata added to code output
• Enhancement: Caching of code and ID checking to improve performance
• Enhancement: Templating system replaces CSS specification
• Enhancement: Improved editor button and link added to admin bar
• Enhancement: Many, many more changes - too many to list!

1.5

• Enhancement: Added clone of 'youtube' shortcode, called 'youtube_video'
• Enhancement: Editor now has YouTube button, which inserts the YouTube shortcode (this can be switched off in the options screen)
• Enhancement: Added new option to disable keyboard controls
• Enhancement: Added option to supply a ratio, in case height or width are not supplied - the missing parameter will then be calculated
• Enhancement: Option to create a download link (for video and playlist) using function call or shortcode
• Enhancement: You can now change on the options screen which set of parameters the demonstration video uses (i.e. "normal" or EmbedPlus). This allows you to try your options on a different video type without switching to it.

1.4.2

• Enhancement: Added keyboard disable option
• Bug: Fixed bug which meant that people upgrading from previous versions may not be able to display video until they've been to the options screen and re-saved their default options

1.4.1

• Enhancement: HD option is available with EmbedPlus - updated the admin and widget screen to reflect this

1.4

• Maintenance: Tidied up code
• Enhancement: Now supports multiple widgets - widget code completely re-written
• Enhancement: Support for EmbedPlus added
• Enhancement: Added option to suppress links back to YouTube
• Enhancement: Added functions and shortcodes for returning and outputting available transcripts

1.3.1

• Enhancement: New widget option to specify title

1.3

• Enhancement: Added transparency option so that videos won't cover up layers

1.2

• Enhancement: Minor changes to the XHTML code to prevent warnings from certain validators

1.1

• Maintenance: Updated test video on options screen, as previous one had been removed
• Maintenance: Confirmed WP 3.0 compatibility
• Enhancement: Resulting XHTML code is better formatted, with comments identifying code location

1.0

• Initial release