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Version 4.5.2

• Major Bugfix: Google-Crawling Bug was totally fixed!

Version 4.5.1

• I am verry sorry for any inconvenience you got from the latest update(s). I am working on a fix and this bugfix patches the Google Problem. I am sorry though for any problems. ./Stefan

Version 4.5

• IMPORTANT: PLEASE BACKUP YOUR DATABASE FIRST BEFORE YOU UPDATE -> there is no way to downgrade this Plugin after the Update so please backup your data!
• How-To-Downgrade: if something went wrong you can restore your Database (if you made a backup before the update) and restore the plugin (4.4.4.3.2 is still available in the Repo)
• Important: min. WordPress-Installation is now [v3.x]
• Important: it is now required to provide a valid App-ID
• New: Quick Installation Page to make it even easier and faster to use/install the Like-Button
• New: Feed-Links open now in a Fancybox so you can stay on the Plugin-Site while reading some help files
• New-Design: new Backend-Design for all Like-Pages
• New-Design: optimized for Smartphones and smaller Screens
• New: You can now also add other Buttons more easily (visit the Expert-Mode Site) like +1, Tweet Button, Digg, StumbleUpon and more
• New: Incompatible Plugin and Bug-List Sidebar-Box @the Backend (live Update)
• New: Social Button Analysis now available for all your posts/pages (visit the All Post/Page Pages for more information) [Wp 3.0+]
• New-Security: Role and Capability implemented to choose the required level to access the backend pages - default: administrator [WP 3.0+]
• New: it is now possible to deactivate the Message-Output after an installation/update/... of the Plugin (Settings-Page)
• New-Widget: it is now also possible to choose the language for the Like-Button Widget
• New-Priority-Setting: you can now set the Priority of the Like-Button-Plugin-For-Wordpress Output relative to other plugins you use (Settings-Page)
• New-GBCleaner: totally rewritten GBCleaner and GBWidgetCleaner to prevent bugs and update all Plugin-Options
• New-Message: Infomessage after you update the Plugin right on the 'Installed Plugins'-Site
• New-Preview: it is now also possible to see a XFBML-Preview (General-Page)
• New: Google Analytics Social Tracking is now implemented too (currently it is always enabled)
• New-Development: Important Functions now log errors and success messages in the debug.log-file (if WP_DEBUG = true)
• New Shortcode&Template: layout, div, xfbml, besidebutton, class Options
• New-FAQ&Tutorial: you can now access a Guider if you enter the GET-Variable: '?fbguide=true' or hit on the black ?-Button
• Language: Updated Translation
• Request: it is now possible to choose if the 'Featured Image' is activated all the time (works only for newer posts after this update)
• Request: it is now possible to add a Side-Specific Button beside the Post-Specific (visit the Expert-Mode-Site)
• Request: you can now add a 'Custom Channel URL' - More Information
• Request (Meta): Image-Order is now fixed and fully established: featured, specific, default image --> according to your settings
• Design: Complete new Backend-Design
• Design: small menu-changes (title, order,...), better tabs-menu and other some smaller changes
• Design: new GB-World Page Design and new Plugin-Info-Box Design
• Design: new 'Jump to the top' Button
• Design/Performance: 'Loading'-Images added
• FAQ: complete FAQ overhauled
• FAQ: YouTube-Videos instead of the Facebook Videos implemented
• Dashboard: StumbleUpon Widget added, Recommendation Feed removed and some other changes
• Performance: optimized for WordPress 3.2
• Performance: Backend loads faster and used the WP jQuery-files instead of the files provided by Google [WP 3.2+ recommended]
• Performance: Twitter-like Notification on several BackEnd-Pages for several actions
• Performance: better and faster loading of the several Like-Buttons because of an optimized JDK-Library Output on the Frontend
• Security-Update: check if current user can save something (QuickEdit, Post/Page Widget and Admin-Menu)
• Bugfix: Default-Value for the position of the Button added to prevent the 'Hidden Content'-Bug (default value: after-content)
• Bugfix: the Footer-File (Backend) was loaded twice
• Bugfix: the meta-tags now strip all html-tags of the meta-tag content
• Bugfix: BugTracker Feed was not visible and working anymore
• Bugfix: OpenGraph-Image preview is now implemented complete and without any jQuery errors
• Bugfix: new Image-Tag Outputorder (Default - Specific - Featured)
• Bugfix: it is now also possible to add/use pictures with https://
• Bugfix: hidden content when position of the Like Button was not set
• Bugfix: some new jQuery code implemented to provide a stable backend
• Bugfix: Excerpt, Title and Site-Name now do not longer show tags (strip_tags)
• Bugfix: additional Code beside the Like Button was not inside the div-tags
• Bugfix: Template-Function now supports the Style-Attribute correct
• Bugfix: no bugs anymore if a option is not set and you hit the Save-Button (foreach error fixed)
• Bugfix: br-Output before and after the LikeButton was missing sometimes
• Bugfix: Many PHP-Bugfixes in the Backend
• Coding: updating class-snoopy.php to http.php
• Coding:
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• Obsolete: jQuery script inside the plugin directory out of use
• Obsolete: currently the Supporter-Section (Sidebar) is not available anymore
• Obsolete: Shortcode-Only Mode is now available via the Settings-Page and not via the General-Page
• Important: No support anymore for Plugins below [v4.5] though to the amount of changes since this version

Version 4.4.4.3.2

• Patchversion: patched Generate-File and new Output of the (XFBML) Like Button (based on IDEEcon)
• Notice: Please add an App-ID (OpenGraph-Page) to prevent Bugs with the Like Button: Get an App-ID

Version 4.4.4.3.1

• Short Update to fix the Problem that causes no Like-Counts when you hit the Button
• Important: it is now a must have to enter a valid App-ID! Please enter a valid App-ID if you do not already have one!
• Problems with the WordPress-Repo: This was causing the Updates from [v4.4.4.1] to [v4.4.4.3]
• Patchversion [v4.4.4.3.1]: it patches the Generate-File which includes a performance increase and other smaller patches

Version 4.4.4

• New: Admin-Bar Menu with many options you can set right from the frontend of your blog (WP 3.1+)
• New: new and fully integrated Template-Function now available (WP 3.1+)
• New: The Widget on the Edit-Pages can disable/enable the Template-Button if you like/need it (Pages, Posts)
• New: TinyMCE Button now fully supports all the required Shortcode Options and live Preview
• New: W3C-Validaded Code - it is now possible to choose if you want to optimize the Output to valided your page correctly (Expert-Mode Site)
• New: Optimized and even more settings for the type and default image tag
• Warning-System: New Warning if you enter a non-supported image-URL
• OpenGraph: The image-tags are only visible in the source code if you enter a supported image-file (png, jpg, jpeg, gif)
• Help: Due to many problems with the image tag I expand the Info-Text to answer FAQs right above the Inputbox
• Update: new Screenshots added with a new description
• Update: totally rewritten FAQ-Section for the Plugin-Page on WordPress.org
• Coding (Beta): to prevent and test a new way of adding the Like Button to the Content I changed AddAction to ApplyFilter (More Information)
• BugFix: Title-Meta-Tag was not visible on other pages like archive and category
• BugFix: The Image-Tag was sometimes not working on other pages than post/page.
• BugFix: if the Default image was not set no image appeared at all
• BugFix: Option send now fully integrated and should be added automatically (Check Expert-Mode)
• BugFix: sometimes the Post-Specific Options disapeared after you edit something and save the post/page again
• BugReports-Fix: 0000065, 0000054, 0000062, 0000068, 0000067, 0000053
• Disabled: Send-Function now deactivated for the iFrame Version because Facebook does not support send for the iFrame Button
• Information: Currently it seems that Facebook has several problems with the XFBML-Button. Sometimes it does not appear even if it works in the past! Please be patient until Facebook fixes this! Thanks.

Version 4.4.3.6

• New: Implement the new Send Button if you using the XFBML Like Button (iFrame also but Facebook recommends the XFBML-Button)
• New: Facebook URL Linter Link on every Edit-Page (post and page)
• Bugfix: the iFrame Version does now also support the language you choose
• OpenGraph: displays now the WP-Title of the current Category/Archive for the title-tag (more dynamic soon)
• JavaScript: Generator-File Update
• Coding: the new default value of height/width is 100/250px

Version 4.4.3.5

• New: Due to a request I added the function to deactivate the default image if you like (Edit-Pages)
• Bugfix: Featured Image Support now only with WP 2.9+ and if your template supports thumbnails
• Bugfix: new Query to check if the current theme supports thumbnails

Version 4.4.3.4

• Bugfix: the new OpenGraph Option was accidently shown in the sourcecode
• Bugfix: Post-Title-Value was taken on Category and Archive Pages -> currently you can not set which value this two sites have but it will be available soon
• Bugfix: Meta-Tags were sometimes disabled
• Bugfix: The featured image option is not set true by default anymore
• Bugfix: Some Post-Specific Options (on the Edit-Pages) were not changeable

Version 4.4.3.2

• Bugfix: OpenGraph was not activated by default after the update

Version 4.4.3.1

• New: Featured Image Option - Notice: all posts/pages before this update have the featured image option deactivated to prevent bugs or incompability
• New: You can now deactivate the Meta-Tags for posts/pages if you want to on the Edit-Pages.
• Notice: featured image is set by default if you add a new post/page
• New: You can choose up to 3 images including the default one of the blog and the featured and specific image of each post/page.
• New: It is now possible to deactivate the Meta-Output of the Plugin
• New: You can now add something (code, other button, links, images and more) beside the Button (left or right) (WP3.+ required)
• New: You can now also add the Activity-Feed-Box to your Sidebar (new Widget)
• Bugfix: some people below WP3.0 had problems with some new functions
• Bugfix: Tooltips did not work on several pages ( including the edit pages of pages/posts)
• Coding: page=fb-like-beta page is now available at page=fb-like-expert
• Widget-Fix: it was not possible to choose 'Recommend' it is now fixed
• Widget-Design: more space for the ref-attribute
• Widget-Menu-Design: new Widget-Backend CSS based Design to show the identity of the Plugin
• Dasboard-Design: Fixed the unwanted overflow depending on the Screensize of your monitor/smartphone
• GB-World-Page: Feed-URL Update (because we switched to FeedBurner: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GBWorldnet)
• Message-Update: Updated Message Output after you update to this version

Version 4.4.3

• Design: We optimized the OpenGraph Page to keep it more simple
• Bugfix: We optimized the Save-Process
• New: We added a from new option which lets you deactivate the description tag
• FAQ: new video added from our Facebook Fanpage to the FAQ Page

Version 4.4.2

• jQuery: The conflict with Disqus is now fixed
• GBCleaner: we updated and improve its functionality
• Bugfix: The output of the Like Button was not correct (before or after the content)
• Bugfix: We updated the Warning-System because the messages won't hide when everything is ok. But you still have to refresh to update the Messages
• New: on the 'Expert-Mode' page you can now take a look at all your settings. They are listed in a textarea to help finding bugs
• New: 'Reset Options' Tool on the 'Settings' Page

Version 4.4

• New: We implemented the GB-Warning-System again after it was disabled since [v4.2]. It is now better, cleaner and even more detailed/helpful
• New: Completly new Message-System to keep you up-to-date and help you to install/update the Plugin without any problems
• Design: new 'Settings-Saved' Message Design
• Design: new Admin-Menu Icon (Facebook Logo)
• Design: Some Info-Text was changed and deleted or added
• Design: PayPal-Box was modified and updated
• Language: fully updated German-Language-File
• Help: After we noticed that a lof of people did not set the height of the Button and were suprised because of the blank space we added a Infomessage to remember everybody to set a height value
• BugFix: Error-Fix while activating the Plugin (was only visible if you Debug the Blog)
• Coding: new standards were established to improve the loading speed of the Admin-Pages
• Coding: changed some variables and backend access coding
• Coding: many functions/files were completly rewritten to improve the performance and the new plugin-structure
• jQuery: update to the latest jQuery 1.5 version
• GB-World: GB-World Page Update (Design and Coding)
• GB-world-Newsbox: Updated the Links and the Feedreader

Version 4.3.2

• New: Adding an Update-Message to help you after an Update
• Feed-Update: new URL for the WordPress-News-Feed
• Bugfix: Problem when Updating the Plugin was now solved
• Coding: some problems and mistakes were fixed
• Coding: If you deactive the Like-Button the Meta-Tags will not be generated anymore for your blog
• GB-World-Page: Update of the Links and some other settings/code parts
• FAQ-Page: We added the Tutorial-Videos and also the GB-Wiki and BugTracker-Page
• Security: required lvl to change any settings is now set as administrator (User-Request)
• Design: New order of the General Options. Because some user did not find the 'Dynamic Button' Setting
• Design: Different Position for the Submit-Button
• OpenGraph-Feature: you are now able to set a type-tag for each type of site (frontpage, post, page) by yourself
• OpenGraph-update: You have to update your header.php-file according to the description on the AdminPage: xmlns:og="http://ogp.me/ns#"
• Future-Feature: you'll be able to set many new Pluginsettings soon - But you can already see some of them.
• others: We updated the text of the readme-file

Version 4.3.1

• Coding: There was an Error when you tried to save an option - fixed!
• Coding: Some other Changes with the Plugin-Options -> Tip: Run the GB-Cleaner after the update!

Version 4.3

• Design: Complete Redesign of the Plugin
• Coding: Performance-Update
• Coding: jQuery-Problem is now solved (nonConflict)
• and some other smaller BugFixes/Updates/Changes

Version 4.2.5.1

• BugFix: one function was not up-to-date and it causes some error with the output if you activate (before/after the footer)

Version 4.2.5

• Feature: you can now hide the Like-Button on every page/post you want more easily. Just check the new Checkbox when you create a new post or page.
• Feature: you can now easily add some css-style within the new css-box (only available with the jquery-based-Design)
• Coding: change the default height-value to 250px if it is not set
• BugFix: the og-type-tag is now working again
• Fix: fixed some spelling and text mistakes
• Widget: a new Widget is available: Recommendations. You can now add a Recommendation-Box to your Sidebar with the new Widget
• Design: little bugfix on the Settings-Page
• Future: we will change the design and structure of the Settings-Page with the next update (no tabs, no jQuery)
• FAQ: new explanation for the URL-Setting at the Like-Button-Generator-Section
• BugFix: the excerpt was not shown correctly (thx to Nicole Simon)
• Coding: add a link to the header.php-File

Version 4.2.4

• Feature: it is now possible to add a different fb-image for every post/page of your site
• BugFix: the problem with the 'undefined ajaxurl' is now resolved (finally)
• BugFix (Meta-Tags): the 'url'-Tag was not listed on every page - now fixed
• Added: now also a category-page has its own description-tag. This tag will use the description of the shown category you defined in the admin-menu.
• Shortcode: The Shortcode can now also have attributes (url) which lets you easily choose which url will be "liked" with a Shortcode-Button
• Post/Page-Editor: you can now easily add the Shortcode with a new TinyMCE-Button

Version 4.2.3

• Coding: the Like-Button won't appear on 404-Pages any more
• FAQ: Adding the Information that you can also like Facebook Pages and Applications
• Dashboard: Updating the Dashboard-Widget
• Facebook Like Button Update: box_count is now also available
• Bugfix Open-Graph: og:type should be article on posts. everything except posts will have your choosen type. posts will allways have 'article' as og:type-tag value
• Bugfix Open-Graph: og:image -> problem should no be solved!
• Coding: Performance-Update at the Meta-Output
• Widget: Adding a Facebook-Recommendation-Widget
• Widget-Coding: Updating the code and the Description at the Widget-Page

Version 4.2.2

• GB: some small fixes

Version 4.2.1

• Plugin: We used the plugin 'Changelogger' as a plugin in our plugin.
• Info: Adding some more information for the AppID-Tag
• Bugfix: page_id-MetaTag
• new Feature: now there is also a new dashboard-widget with your blog-recommendations available (Dahsboard)
• Codefix: adding the 'height'-Option at the end of the src-attribute of the iFrame-Version (all Like-Buttons)
• Codefix: adding the 'height'-Option at the end of the src-attribute of the iFrame-Version (Sidebar-Widget)
• Code: some code-update on the Meta-Section (jQuery-based Design)
• FAQ: Update the FAQ with the "Meta-Tag App-ID"-Description
• Feature: now the Description-Meta-Tag is more individual for every post/page
• Bug-Fix: undefined ajaxurl (on the Option-Page as well as on the GB-World-Page
• Bug-Fix: XFBML-Modification was not showing up correctly
• Feature: now you can use the Shortcode-Only if you just need the Like-Button sometimes
• Bug-Fix: the old design had some problems if you deactivate the jQuery-Design - is now fixed. But please reload the page if you de/activate jQuery
• GB: Introducing Google-Analytics
• Design: some small css-fixes and changes

Version 4.2

• you can now deactivate or activate the FavIcon on the Option-Page
• active textboxes have no a different background
• now you can press Enter to save the Settings
• coding-Updates
• js-files Update
• js and css-files are now compressed to reduce space
• you can now activate or deacitvate the jQuery-based Option-Page (will be activated as default at v4.5)
• introducing the jQuery-Fancybox, Image-Preview and Image-Thumbnails Plugin
• Official Function-Request: currently you have to exclude all private-pages by your own but we will solve it as soon as possible
• GB-Warning-System: you can now deactivate the warnings of our Warning-System if you do not like/need them
• some functions are now disabled if you are offline (not connected to the internet)
• now we can also launch some votings within the option-page
• launching the share-button for the plugin
• little GB-NewsboxUpdate (v3.2)
• Update GB-Warning-System [v1.2]
• Bugfixes: GB-Warning-System
• some new Screenshots
• language-files update to the latest version

Version 4.1.3

• default height if the option is unset
• GB-Warning-System Update v1.0.6
• little Performence-Update

Version 4.1.2

• some options were not correctly displayed (only wrong display but they saved the option correctly).
• css-class infotext is now more detailed

Version 4.1.1

• some small bugfixes. sorry for any issues caused by that bugs.

Version 4.1

• new design
• introducing the css-function - Sidebar-Widget and Like-Button
• some text changes and some options are now in the FB-Button-Settings-Box
• BugTracker-Link was broken -> fixed
• now you can choose how many
  s you wanna have before or after the Like Button
• adding the 'page_id' meta tag
• GB-Warning-System-Update [v1.0.5]

Version 4.0

• WP3.0 Compatibility
• Infopage-Update
  • GB-World-Plugin-List Update: new algorithm to find the installed gb-world-plugins
  • Performance Update
  • CSS-Update
  • GB-Newsbox-Update 3.1
• Security Update
• Traffic-Reduction
• Settingspage
  • Update some text and information
  • Metatags-update ** Infotext about the image-meta
  • the Like-Button-Position can now be before, after or before and after the content
  • the Like-Button can now also be displayed at the archive-page of your theme (sometimes it depends on the theme if it works - please report any errors and the name of the theme were the error occurs)
• More Stability
• Introducing our new BugTracker-System
  • Introduction of the BugTracker-Link
  • Show the latest Bug-Reports of the Plugin on the Option-Page
• Introducing the REF-Option
  • Introducing the FB-Analytics-Box
• introducing a Warning-System [v1.0]
  • currently only for the Option-Page and not for the Widget
• introducing the new GB-World-Ad-System [v1.0]
  • now you can advertise on our plugin-option-page (see more on the Option-Page in your WordPress-Backend-Menu
• introducing a new GB-Cleaner
  • this new tool cleanes senseless options of older versions of this plugin
• Updating the Sidebar-Widget
  • Add the Ref-Option
  • Meta-Tags are now also available if you only use the Sidebar-Widget
• Introducing a Facebook-Like-Box of GB-World.net
• fixing more than 100-200 coding lines
• Update the FAQ
• language file updated
• better information about the -Attributes you have to add if you use XFBML

Version 3.1

• We have added some new information to the FAQ on the Option-Page and much easier explanations for all of our plugin-users
• Now 'Categories' can also display the Like-Button - and you can also exclude categories
• We changed some text on the Option-Page
• Update the Info-Page to v1.1: Bugfixes and it now dispalys all of the installed GB-World-Plugins
• some Bugfixes and new functions for the Meta-Tags:
• the Description-Meta-Tag is now dynamic (you can choose more options for this tag)
• Meta-Tag-Image: Now a little preview is available for the Image you choose (until width=400px)
• We also changed the Blog-Type-Meta-Tag into a combobox and added tooltips

Version 3.0.1

• Bugfix: GB-World-Info-Page [v1.0] had a bug -> now it is fixed

Version 3.0

• Updating the SideBar-Widget with new functions and bugfixes
• New functions for the Like-Button were added
• Bugfixes and a performance-update of the executing code
• Tooltips for some difficult options which need some explanations
• introducing the GB-World-Info-Page [v1.0]

Version 2.5

• Bugfix and update speed of the plugin
• changed all the settings to our new domain: gb-world.net

Version 2.0

• Updating the GB-Newsbox to v2.5
• fixed the bug for all IE-Users. They were not able to save any options

Version 1.4.5

• We introduced the php-function 'urlencode' to ensure that the url for the facebook-button is correct
• it is now possible to change the language of the fb-button by yourself (only if you use the Java-SDK)
• We have expendet your Generator with new functions
• It is now also possible to choose the position of the facebook-button within the content of your page/post (top/bottom)

Version 1.4

• We finally finished all the work for our 1.3.x-versions. We have tested this new code on a website of us and it works!

Version 1.3.7.5

• every Post/Page or even Frontpage will now have a individual Facebook-Like-Button. This is the principal function of a Like-Button. The Like-Buttons are generated automatically after you make one with our Generator.

Version 1.3.7.3

• we implemented the fb:like-tag into this plugin. We do not know if all works properly with this new code segment. we need some reports from you if there is a new bug or something else.
• we know that some domains have a problem with the Java-SDK-Output of our plugin. We do not really know why. We are working on that problem.

Version 1.3.6.2

• important bugfix: enabling all functions of the open-graph-protocol and fixing a mistake in the code
• extending the FAQ

Version 1.3.6

• some new translations
• some bugfixes in the background-code

Version 1.3.5

• fix some bugs.

Version 1.3

• relase this version to the official WP-Plugin-Repo.