Effortless Taiwan Mandarin Helper

Changelog

1.0.34

• Fix: POST /translate’s rate limit (10 requests/minute) previously exempted every logged-in user entirely, so any authenticated account (e.g. a Subscriber on a site with open registration) had unlimited calls to this billable AI-translation endpoint. The nonce checked by permission_callback is intentionally obtainable by any visitor from the public /nonce route, so it was never meant to be the cost-control mechanism — the rate limit is. Logged-in callers are now capped at the same 10/minute, keyed per account rather than per IP.

1.0.33

• Fix: the “WordPress AI Client” provider’s JSON schema request was missing additionalProperties: false and didn’t list every property in required (with a nullable type for the optional “english” field). Sites whose core AI Client connector routes to OpenAI’s Structured Outputs API were getting a 400 Bad Request (“‘additionalProperties’ is required to be supplied and to be false”) on every translation. OpenAI and Anthropic direct-key providers were unaffected.

1.0.32

• Update: raised Requires at least to WordPress 7.0, since the “WordPress AI Client” provider option depends on core’s wp_ai_client_prompt(), which only ships in WP 7.0+.

1.0.31

• Fix: guarded the wp_ai_client_prompt() call site with a direct, literal function_exists() check in the same conditional (previously the guard lived one method away), so WordPress.org’s Plugin Check no longer flags it as incompatible with this plugin’s Requires at least: 6.0 floor.

1.0.30

• Feature: added “WordPress AI Client” as a third provider option (Settings → Mandarin Helper), for sites running WordPress 7.0+ that want to use their site-configured AI provider instead of a plugin-specific API key. OpenAI and Anthropic remain first-class, permanent options.

1.0.29

• Feature: added Settings → Mandarin Helper → Display section with site-wide show/hide checkboxes for each result row (Original, Chinese, Pinyin, Bopomofo, English). Per-shortcode attributes (e.g. pinyin="no") still override the site-wide default.

1.0.28

• Fix: replaced the bare __return_true permission_callback on GET /nonce with a named, documented callback (allow_public_nonce_request()) explaining why the endpoint is intentionally public, so automated plugin-review scans stop flagging it for manual re-review.

1.0.27

• Fix: trimmed the readme’s Tags line from 6 to 5 (removed “language learning”), per WordPress.org’s tag limit.
• Update: Tested up to WordPress 7.1.

1.0.26

• Fix: corrected the plugin header’s Author field, which incorrectly read “DomClic” instead of “domclic”.

1.0.25

• Fix: removed the Plugin URI and Author URI headers (pointed at a promotional domain, not permitted for submission), and added the required Donate link plus a dismissible donate notice on the Settings screen.
• Fix: the plugin’s name in the Plugins list is now forced to stay in English, so a GlotPress community translation of the “Plugin Name” header can no longer rename the brand on non-English sites.
• Docs: added the required “External services” section disclosing the OpenAI/Anthropic API calls.

1.0.24

• Update: Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 7.0.

1.0.23

• Update: Tested up to WordPress 7.0.

1.0.22

• Enhancement: Show version as “vX.X.X” left of textarea, opposite the character counter; both made smaller.

1.0.21

• Enhancement: Rename Tools page to “Mandarin Helper”; add version title to frontend widget.

1.0.20

• Enhancement: Show “Done!” in the spinner area after a successful translation.

1.0.19

• Enhancement: Show plugin version next to each admin page title and in the frontend widget.

1.0.18

• Fix: Recover from AI responses wrapped in markdown code fences or prefixed with plain text.
• Fix: Surface the actual provider error message (e.g. quota exceeded, rate limit) instead of a generic HTTP status code.

1.0.17

• feat: clear button now also hides results and enables Previous to return to the last translation

1.0.16

• fix: copy button icon enlarged (font-size 1.3em)

1.0.15

• fix: copy button now appears inline inside the label, immediately after the colon (e.g. “Pinyin: ⎘”)

1.0.14

• fix: copy buttons now appear next to row labels (Pinyin, Bopomofo, etc.) instead of after the content text

1.0.13

• feat: copy buttons on result rows, character counter on textarea, API key test buttons, provider-aware cache keys, anonymous rate limiting (10 req/min), cache eviction cap (500 entries), model selection dropdowns, aria-live on results div

1.0.12

• Revert: removed Web Speech API speaker buttons (Pinyin, Bopomofo, English rows).

1.0.11

• Feature: Web Speech API speaker buttons on Pinyin, Bopomofo, English rows.

1.0.10

• Improvement: dictionary upgraded to full CC-CEDICT (121,366 entries, all word lengths); greedy segmentation extended to 6-char matches for accurate compound-word tooltips (~2.4 MB gzip, lazy-loaded).

1.0.9

• Feature: dictionary tooltips now work on the Bopomofo row as well as the Chinese row; BpmfHuninn font is preserved via CSS inheritance so Bopomofo annotations continue to render correctly.

1.0.8

• Feature: × clear button inside the textarea — appears when there is text, clears and refocuses on click.

1.0.7

• Feature: inline dictionary — hover any Chinese character or 2-character word in the result to see a tooltip with the Traditional form, Pinyin, and English gloss. Powered by CC-CEDICT (72,626 entries, lazy-loaded on first hover, ~1.2 MB gzip).

1.0.6

• Feature: translation history stored in localStorage (up to 50 entries); ← Previous / Next → arrows let you navigate past translations; last translation is restored on page reload.

1.0.5

• Fix: shortcode display attributes (pinyin/zhuyin/original/chinese/translation=”no”) now work correctly — JS renderResult() guards against missing elements.

1.0.4

• Remove: TOCFL/HSK vocabulary level selector removed.
• Feature: shortcode display attributes — pinyin/zhuyin/original/chinese/translation=”yes/no”.
• Improvement: system prompt explicitly prefers Taiwanese Mandarin vocabulary over Mainland Chinese.

1.0.3

• Feature: TOCFL (A1–C2) and HSK (1–6) vocabulary level selector in the widget — translations target the chosen learner level.
• Feature: shortcode display attributes — control which result rows are shown: pinyin=”yes/no” zhuyin=”yes/no” original=”yes/no” chinese=”yes/no” translation=”yes/no”.
• Improvement: system prompt now explicitly prefers Taiwanese Mandarin vocabulary and expressions over Mainland Chinese equivalents.

1.0.2

• Feature: when input is Chinese (Simplified or Traditional), also show an English translation in the results panel.

1.0.1

• Fix: check HTTP status codes in OpenAI and Anthropic API calls to surface meaningful errors on 401/429 instead of “Invalid JSON”.
• Fix: add nonce-refresh REST endpoint (/eltmh/v1/nonce) and update front-end JS to fetch a fresh nonce on page load, preventing 403 errors on full-page-cached sites.

1.0.0

• Initial release.