Changelog
Stay update to date with new features, fixes and improvements to WP Abstracts Pro.Release 2.7.1 – 09-23-2024
- Fix – Resolved issue where abstract reviewers were getting duplicated email reminders.
- Fix – Restrict reviewers from seeing submission attachments if bling reviews are enabled.
- Fix – Resolved minimum topic count error when delete topics.
- Improvement – Added registration email notifications to maillog.
- Improvement – Added input sanitization on form builder inputs for user registration and profile updates.
- Improvement – Removed the restriction on simultaneous access to admin and frontend dashboard.
- Security – Resolved insufficient input sanitization on reset password page.
- Compatibility testing up to WP 6.6.2
Release 2.7.0 – 02-20-2024
- Feature – Added option to generate Abstract book from bulk actions
- Feature – Add ability to toggle user role (author / reviewer) from Manage Users screen
- Feature – Added ability to set a page and countdown to redirect users after registration
- Feature – Added admin email and template for new user registration
- Fix – Resolved hidden author and presenter sections when reviewers are editing their own submission and blind reviews are enabled
- Fix – Fix account activation link in new user confirmation email
- Fix – Resolved insufficient input sanitization on reset password page
- Fix – Resolved incompatible archive error when installing on WordPress >= 6.4.3
- Improvement – Separated topics into its own area under Events -> Topics
- Improvement – Added improved email validation
- Improvement – Updated user exports to use enabled admin columns
- Improvement – Add assigned items count to reviewers on Manage Users
- Improvement – Show the count of assigned items when assigning a submission to a reviewer
- Improvement – Enabled multiple select on user registration form
- Compatibility testing up to WP 6.4.3
Release 2.6.1 – 02-10-2023
- Fix – Resolved reviews not showing dashboard
- Improvement – Added improved filter to user lookup for user sync when using multisite implementation
- Compatibility testing up to WP 6.1.1
Release 2.6.0 – 01-17-2023
- Feature – Added ability to customize reviews admin columns
- Fix – Resolved missing submissions on dashboard when using shortcode without event_id ([wpabstracts])
- Improvement – Allow authors to edit submission across multiple statuses
- Improvement – Added ability to remove header/footer in PDF exports
- Compatibility testing up to WP 6.1.1
Release 2.5.0 – 08-20-2022
- Feature – Added auto-reminder email trigger and template for reviewers
- Feature – Added email log tab under emails to show all emails sent by the plugin
- Fix – Event specific dashboard now correctly filters by specified event identifier
- Fix – Remove HTML tags from description column in csv exports
- Improvement – Added author and presenter shortcode to email templates
- Compatibility testing up to WP 6.0.1
Release 2.4.0 – 05-18-2022
- Feature – Added shortcode to display accepted submissions publicly
- Feature – Added ability to customize info included in PDF exports
- Improvement – Updated missing language translations
- Compatibility testing up to WP 5.9.3
Release 2.3.1 – 12-15-2021
- Fix – Excluded archived events submissions from assigned abstract on reviewer dashboard
- Fix – Updated missing language translations
- Fix – Resolved errors when activating plugin on PHP8
- Fix – Resolved reviewers not seeing the updated attachments
- Fix – Resolved issues where custom titles were not updating
- Fix – Added fallback for missing fonts on PDF exports
- Compatibility testing up to WP 5.8.2
Release 2.3.0 – 03-12-2020
- Feature – Added ability to include submission PDF to email notifications
- Feature – Added ability to trigger email when a reviewer submits a review
- Feature – Added ability export reports by event
- Feature – Added ability to ignore user activation at login (when users are registered outside WP Abstracts)
- Feature – Added ability to make attachments required or optional
- Fix – Excluded archived events from csv exports
- Fix – Corrected bug allowing reviewers to edit reviews by other reviewers
- Fix – Corrected sql typo causing email templates not to display
- Improvement – Added Portuguese (Portugal) translation (Thanks to Diogo Alves)
- Improvement – Added check for GD library before using allowing Captcha
- Improvement – Added sorting to reviewer dropdown when assigning reviewers
- Improvement – Added event, topic and user info to review exports
- Improvement – Added natural sort to ID column on admin Abstracts table
- Improvement – Updated PDF generator (mPDF) to v8.0.x (Requires PHP >=5.6)
- Compatibility testing up to WP 5.3.2
Release 2.2.2 – 07-15-2019
- Fix – Corrected review attachment visibility for authors
- Fix – Stripped slashes from abstract titles on dashboard
- Improvement – Added new page include filters and custom titles
- Compatibility testing up to WP 5.2.2
Release 2.2.1 – 06-27-2019
- Fix – Corrected typo that broke redirect on login
- Compatibility testing up to WP 5.2.2
Release 2.2.0 – 06-26-2019
- Feature – Added the ability to limit the amount of submissions per user
- Feature – Added the ability for reviewers to attach a document to a review
- Feature – Added the ability to set a default status for new submissions
- Feature – Added read-only mode for submissions when not editable
- Improvement – Added email validation on author and presenter emails
- Improvement – Make user id and user email mandatory when exporting users
- Improvement – Added {REVIEW_COMMENTS} to list of email shortcodes
- Improvement – Added event and topic to reviews tab
- Improvement – Added more customizable titles to settings->titles
- Improvement – Now sending status update email on reviews if “Sync Review Status to Abstracts” is enabled
- Improvement – Added visibility flag on reviews to determine if review is visible to the author
- Improvement – Added modified date to abstracts and reviews
- Improvement – Moved Abstract settings to nested tab and added ability to customize abstract admin columns
- Improvement – Added ability to combine first and last name as display name when syncing to WordPress profile
- Fix – Corrected faulty login redirect when there are multiple event shortcodes
- Fix – Stop admin abstracts revisions from updating the original abstract submission date
- Fix – Corrected faulty user profile deletions that included deleted profiles in user exports
- Compatibility testing up to WP 5.2.2
Release 2.1.0 – 02-08-2019
- Feature – Added captcha on registration form
- Fix – Corrected Internet Explorer issues with registration, submission and editing user profiles
- Fix – Corrected misleading error message when signing in with invalid captcha code
- Fix – Corrected possible server 500 error when bulk downloading attachments
- Improvement – Added Dutch (Netherlands) translation (Thanks to Bas van den Oever)
- Compatibility testing up to WP 5.0.3
Release 2.0.1 – 01-03-2019
- Fix – Corrected permissions error when reviewers attempt to edit or delete a review
- Compatibility testing up to WP 5.0.2
Release 2.0.0 – 12-27-2018
- Feature – Added the ability to sync form builder fields to wordpress user profile
- Feature – Added the ability to customize login, dashboard and submission headers, titles, labels and messages
- Feature – Added the ability to allow edits on a particular status
- Feature – Added ability to auto activate user on registration
- Feature – Added the ability select events while submitting abstracts (also backward compatible)
- Feature – Added the ability to archive events
- Feature – Added customizable emails to admins, authors and assigned reviewers when submissions are revised
- Fix – Removed buggy checkbox and radio group from form builder (use select instead)
- Fix – Corrected validation error when saving abstracts with show description disabled
- Fix – Automatically remove columns from user table when form field is deleted
- Improvement – Deleting events now deletes submissions, reviews and attachment linked to that event
- Improvement – Added {ABSTRACT_KEYWORDS}, {ABSTRACT_TOPIC}, {SUBMITTER_NAME} and {SUBMITTER_EMAIL} shortcodes to email templates
- Improvement – Added ability to reset attachment input file (not replace) while submitting abstracts
- Improvement – Disable accesiblity to /?task=register is user can register is not enabled
- Improvement – Added subject line with shortcodes to registration email
- Improvement – Added stronger permissions checks to frontend dashboard when managing items
- Improvement – Added keywords to exports
- Compatibility testing up to WP 5.0.2
Release 1.9.0 – 09-15-2018
- Feature – Added multisite compatibility
- Feature – Added advanced interaction controls (type-ahead and all column search, filters, quicker pagination and more) to all tables
- Feature – Added ability to bulk assign reviewers to selected abstracts
- Feature – Added ability to bulk download selected attachments
- Feature – Added ability to select which admin account(s) receives admin notifications
- Improvement – Added ability to include email shortcodes in email subject
- Improvement – Added search, sorting and pagination to frontend author / reviewer dashboards
- Improvement – Added event and topic columns and filters to attachments tab
- Improvement – Included type requested and topic in frontend reviewer dashboard
- Improvement – Updated form validation to avoid theme conflicts
- Improvement – Disabled WordPress edit page link from WP Abstracts Dashboard
- Improvement – Updated and improved the word counter
- Improvement – Added reviewer names and emails to csv exports
- Compatibility testing with WP 4.9.8
Release 1.8.2 – 07-26-2018
- Fix – Corrected bug where Event showed “Error: This event was removed” when editing Abstracts
- Fix – Removed parameter missing warning message when users are activating accounts
- Compatibility testing with WP 4.9.7
Release 1.8.1 – 07-24-2018
- Feature – Added ability for admins to manually activate users.
- Fix – Corrected error when exporting users
- Fix – Woocommerce users with an added subscriber role can now see the “New Abstract” button
- Fix – Corrected warning message and bug in user exports
- Improvement – Added ability to restore user registration form-builder default inputs
- Improvement – Added date field to user registration form-builder input group
- Improvement – Added better UX for word counter
- Improvement – Insisted User Id column and desc order in user exports
- Compatibility testing with WP 4.9.7
Release 1.8.0 – 07-04-2018
- Feature – Added the ability to create unlimited statuses for Abstracts and Reviews
- Feature – Create unlimited email templates to map to submission triggers, status changes and reviewer related events
- Feature – Implemented shortcode for registration form. Use [wpabstracts_register] show the registration form
- Feature – Implemented shortcode for login form. Use [wpabstracts_login] show the login form
- Feature – Added the ability to add multiple presenters
- Fix – Corrected issue where users intermittently displays under user tab
- Fix – Corrected user form builder display issue when special characters are present in the form
- Fix – Corrected forms validation issues (events, abstracts and reviews) when other inputs are present on the page
- Fix – Corrected typo in Shortcode copy to clipboard
- Improvement – Removed special jQuery dependency from formbuilder
- Improvement – Migrated Email related settings to Email Tab
- Improvement – Added and improved help text on multiple screen
- Compatibility testing with WP 4.9.6
Release 1.7.0 – 04-30-2018
- Feature – Optional customizable user registration using form builder
- Feature – Enable or disable forced redirection to author dashboard after login
- Fix – Corrected pagination bug when filtering by presenter preference and performing actions
- Improvement – Review reports now exports status description
- Improvement – System will authenticate reviewers even if the user has multiple roles including editor
- Improvement – Added event shortcode to events screen for copying to clipboard
- Compatibility testing up to WP 4.9.5
Release 1.6.1 – 01-24-2018
- Feature – Added Spanish (Chile) translation (Thanks to Cristian Nova Castillo)
- Fix – Corrected issue that affected listings on plugin page and plugin details modal
- Improvement – Login now checks for the presence of the subscriber or editor role
- Improvement – Adjusted file extension validation to be more inclusive
- Improvement – Added keywords to abstract info on review screens
- Improvement – Added filters to email template shortcodes
- Compatibility testing up to WP 4.9.2
Release 1.6.0 – 01-04-2018
- Feature – Added ability to assign unlimited reviewers to abstracts
- Fix – Corrected issue that affected uploading large attachments
- Improvement – Validation, error messaging and performance improvements for attachment uploads
- Improvement – Added ability for users to remove and add new attachments while editing abstracts
- Improvement – Implemented license validation for automatic updates
- Compatibility testing up to WP 4.9.1
Release 1.5.1 – 10-27-2017
- Feature – Added Spanish (Argentina) translation (Thanks to Veronica Gomez)
- Fix – Preserve abstract ownership when “reviewer can edit” is enabled and reviewer edits the submission
- Fix – Show correct list of users when managing ownership and “reviewer can submit” is enabled
- Compatibility testing up to WP 4.8.2
Release 1.5.0 – 09-30-2017
- Feature – Enable / disable admin email notifications when reviews are submitted
- Feature – Added new email template for admin notifications when reviews are submitted
- Feature – Added a new abstract status and the ability to customize status descriptions
- Feature – Added a new email template for ‘Under Review’ status
- Feature – Added filter by presenter preference to abstracts list table
- Feature – Added presenter preference to abstract / review Sync setting
- Feature – Added author and user to abstract search fields
- Feature – Added “keywords” and “affiliations” to PDF exports
- Feature – Added Brazilian translation (Thanks to Gabriel Vieira)
- Feature – Added German translation (Thanks to Wolfgang Saus)
- Fix – Remove author and presenter fields when blind review is enabled
- Fix – Upgraded PDF exporter for PHP7+ compatibility
- Removed – Removed the Summary Tab (Summary can be obtained from Reports tab)
- Compatibility testing up to WP 4.8.2
Release 1.4.0 – 06-10-2017
- Feature – Added optional security captcha to login
- Feature – Added the ability use the ‘add media’ option on the text editor
- Feature – Media/images can now be included in exported PDFs
- Improvement – Implemented login using AJAX (apart of roadmap for future development)
- Improvement – Topics can now accepts commas
- Fix – Resolved intermittent error when exporting PDFs on PHP7
- Compatibility testing up to WP 4.8
Release 1.3.0 – 03/26/2017
- Feature – Added the ability to turn off abstract description field
- Improvement – Facelift the login form and added Lost Password link
- Fix – Remove back slash from abstract title when apostrophes are used.
- Fix – Resolved issue with word count.
- Fix – Resolved issue where review submission sometimes failed
- Fix – Resolved sorting by topics error
- Compatibility testing up to WP 4.7.3
Release 1.2.0 – 04/30/2016
- Feature – Added the ability to turn off author fields
- Feature – Added user’s name to the csv abstracts exports under reports
- Feature – Added status filter and search to Abstracts
- Feature – Added user role/type filter and search to Users
- Feature – Added ability to create and export a zip of all attachments
- Feature – Added search option for attachment tab
- Feature – Added abstract and attachment IDs to attachment tab
- Feature – Added presenter preference {PRESENTER_PREF} to the list of shortcodes for email templates
- Feature – Added optional author email alerts on reviewer comments
- Feature – Added optional keywords field to submission page and setting option
- Feature – Added optional terms & conditions to submission page and setting option
- Feature – Added optional setting to hide reviewer comments
- Feature – Added optional setting to sync reviewer status choice to abstracts
- Fix – Corrected email templates from being reset when plugin is re-activated
- Fix – Corrected email template id when bulk action is used to Accept submissions
- Fix – Corrected broken reviewer assignments when assigning additional reviewers to submission
- Fix – Corrected broken attachment download issue on author’s dashboard
- Fix – Corrected glitch in changing topics while editing abstracts
- Fix – Corrected event deadline to correctly compare current date and event deadline irrespective of the current wordpress datetime format
- Fix – Corrected unwanted slashes in text editor when apostrophes are used.
- Improvement – Included more wordpress filters for admin tabs, header, pages and frontend dashboard, get and edit views.
- Improvement – Event is now automatically selected/set based on event ID from shortcode on the dashboard
- Compatibility testing up to WP 4.5.1
Release 1.1.3 – 12/20/2015
- Feature – Added auto-updater to allow future updates from wordpress plugin’s page
- Feature – Added presenter preference and abstract Id shortcode for automated emails
- Feature – Added setting to allow reviewers to be authors
- Feature – Added the ability to turn off presenter preference
- Feature – Added the ability to change abstract status back to pending
- Feature – Added filter to reviewer list to exclude already assigned reviewers
- Fix – Block reviewers from being assigned their own abstracts
- Fix – Disallow direct downloading for abstracts, attachments and reports (security fix)
- Fix – Removed passed events from the drop down for new submissions
- Fix – Correct date on exported PDFs
- Fix – Correct remaining attachments allowed while in editing abstracts
- Fix – Correct pagination results on abstracts and attachment tabs
- Fix – Show admin bar issue
- Tweak – Optimized abstracts and attachments tabs to handle large amounts of submissions
- Tweak – Minor revamping of the admin panel
- Compatibility testing up to WP 4.4
Release 1.1.2 – 06/07/2015
- Feature – Added email templates for status change – accepted and rejected
- Feature – Added the ability to turn off attachment completely
- Feature – Added the ability to unassign a reviewer
- Fix – Exporting file name issue under Reports
- Fix – Minor JS bug affecting abstracts submission
- Fix – Author affiliations input field limitation issue
Release 1.1.1 – 03/13/2015
- Fix – Language and localization bug
- Fix – Enabling blind review displayed author’s name on reviewer’s dashboard
- Fix – Author instructions not saving
- Fix – Auto-update error on WP plugin page
- Fix – Reviewer submission setting affected author’s dashboard
Release 1.1 – 3/3/2015
- Enhancement – Completely new Responsive front-end dashboard
- Feature – Added Attachments Tab for fast and easier access to uploaded attachments
- Feature – Added Ability to customize outgoing emails
- Feature – Added submission deadline on events / conferences
- Feature – Added Automatic Updates. Update to the latest version just like you would with other plugins
- Feature – Added support for multiple events or conferences. Include the event ID in the shortcode E.g.[wpabstracts event_id=2]
- Feature – Added option (under setting tab) to disable reviewer abstract editing privileges
- Feature – Added option (under setting tab) to disable reviewer abstract submission privileges
- Feature – Merged Author and Reviewers login area (now one dashboard login but backward compatible)
- Tweak – Redesigned the user’s manager area
- Tweak – Partial transition to jQuery
- Tweak – Minor admin area JS and CSS tweak
- Compatibility testing up to WP 4.1
Release 1.0.4 – 08/15/2014
- Feature – Added limit for attachment uploads per submission
- Feature – Added customizable instruction text for authors
- Feature – Authors can now delete abstracts if still in pending mode
- Feature – Ability to customize presenter preferences
- Fix – Front-end HTML rendering issues on some templates (a work in progress)
- Fix – Content sanitization issue while saving abstract description
- Fix – Character count now changed to word count and rectified
- Fix – Date error/warning while adding reviews
- Fix – Only related topics are loaded on event change when editing abstracts
- Tweak – Author’s name now accepts commas
- Tweak – Added event name on abstracts listing
- Tweak – Added submissions count to events listing
- Tweak – Proper chart labeling of y-axe under reports
- Compatibility testing with WP 3.9.2
Release 1.0.3 – 05/15/2014
- Feature – Added language support (Thanks to Stergatou Eleni, CTI, Greece)
- Feature – Added Greek translation (Again thanks to Stergatou Eleni)
- Feature – Ability for blind reviews
- Fix – Topics are now displayed to the reviewers in IE.
- Fix – Abstract sorting error on reviews tab
- Fix – PHP short tags
- Fix – WP debug notices
- Tweak – Added get_option(‘date_format’) . ‘ ‘ . get_option(‘time_format’) for abstracts display in admin pages
- Tweak – Simplified shortcode to [wpabstracts] (backward compatibility kept)
- Tweak – Added flick as jquery ui css theme
- Tweak – Added Abstract ID column on Reviews tab
- Tweak – Migrated HTML to separate location
- Tweak – Partial transition from Javascript to jQuery
- Compatibility testing with WP 3.9.1
Release 1.0.2 – 03/15/2014
- Feature – Reports tab with graphs and csv exports
- Feature – Download Abstracts as PDF
- Feature – Ability to add up to 3 reviewers
- Feature – Setting to turn off ‘change ownership’ on submissions
- Feature – Added Author Affiliation to submissions
- Fix – Better HTML formatting abstracts description
- Fix – Restrict removal of all authors
- Fix – Error when email reviewer on assignment is enabled
- Tweak – Added tooltips on settings page
- Tweak – Partial transition from Javascript to jQuery
Release 1.0.1 – 02/15/2014
- Feature – Option to manage attachments from the edit screen.
- Feature – Option to assign abstracts to existing users (change ownership).
- Feature – Option for reviewers to submit abstracts
- Feature – New column to show attachment count on submissions
- Fix – possible “header() already sent” error while downloading attachments
- Fix – bug on summary page where abstracts displayed wrong title
- Tweak – Minor JS and CSS tweak
Release 1.0 – 01/15/2014
- Initial Release