The Changelog lists the changes introduced in each version of the Dynamic Content Gallery plugin for WordPress.
Plugin version: All versions
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Changes are categorised as follows:
Bug fix: means that something was broken and has been fixed
Enhance: means code has been improved either for better optimisation, code organisation, or compatibility with wider use cases
Feature: means new user functionality has been added
3.3.5
- Released 4 December 2010
- Bug fix: Fixes HTML markup error in dfcg-admin-metaboxes.php (missing tag in External Link block)
3.3.4
- Released 1 December 2010
- Feature: Gallery background colour option added
- Feature: on/off option for Slide Pane animation added to jQuery script (v2.6)
- Enhance: Tidied up DCG Metabox markup and contents
- Bug fix: jQuery script conflict with Adblock browser add-on fixed (v2.7)
- Bug fix: jQuery script vertical image alignment with small images fixed (v2.7.5)
- Bug fix: Fixed PHP warning re undefined $cat_selected variable in dfcg-gallery-constructors-jq-smooth.php
3.3.3
- Released 7 November 2010
- Bug fix: Upgraded jQuery script to v2.5 to fix IE img alignment, and non-linking img when showArrows is off
- Bug fix: Added z-index:1; to #dfcg-fullsize selector in dfcg-gallery-jquery-smooth-styles.php
- Bug fix: Fixed slide pane padding issue in #dfcg-text selector in dfcg-gallery-jquery-smooth-styles.php
- Bug fix: Fixed IE img link disappearing. Changed CSS in #dfcg-imglink in dfcg-gallery-jquery-smooth-styles.php
3.3.2
- Released 21 September 2010
- Feature: Added showArrows checkbox for mootools and jQuery, navigation arrows now optional from within Settings
- Bug fix: Fixed URL error to loading-bar-black.gif
- Bug fix: Fixed Slide Pane options errors / hidden fields in dfcg-admin-ui-functions.php
3.3.1
- Released 15 September 2010
- Bug fix: Fixed options handling of new 3.3 options in dfcg-admin-core.php and dfcg-admin-ui-screen.php
3.3
- Released 14 September 2010
- Feature: Support for Custom Post Types added
- Feature: New Auto Image Management option - pulls in Post/Page Image Attachment
- Feature: Carousel thumbnails now generated using WP Post Thumbnails feature
- Feature: New jQuery script, replaces galleryview script. Plays nicer with jQuery 1.4.2 used by WP3.0
- Feature: Gallery images and thumbnails can now be automatically populated by post image attachments
- Feature: Mootools js updated to use Mootools 1.2.4
- Enhance: Constructor functions cleaned up and improved
- Enhance: Pages method now called ID Method (as both Post and Page ID's can be specified)
- Enhance: dfcg_pages_method_gallery() renamed to dfcg_id_method_gallery()
- Enhance: dfcg_jq_pages_method_gallery() renamed to dfcg_jq_id_method_gallery()
- Enhance: DCG Metabox visible in both Write Posts and Write Pages, if ID Method is selected
- Enhance: New tabbed interface for the DCG Settings Page
- Enhance: Tooltips added to DCG Settings Page to declutter the interface
- Enhance: Contextual help now moved to DCG Settings Page Help tab. dfcg-admin-ui-help.php deprecated.
- Enhance: Cleaned up interface text strings, re-worded some strings to make info more understandable
- Bug fix: Removed unnecessary noConflict() call in dfcg_jquery_scripts() function
- Bug fix: Fixed html entities encoding for alt attribute in ID Method contructors (formerly Pages method). Props: Joe Veler.
3.2.3
- Released 11 April 2010
- Bug fix: Fixes contextual help compatibility issue with WP3.0
3.2.2
- Released 08 February 2010
- Feature: DCG Widget added
- Enhance: Updated dfcg_ui_1_image_wp() info re DCG Metabox
- Enhance: Updated dfcg_ui_multi_wp() info re DCG Metabox
- Enhance: Updated dfcg_ui_onecat_wp() info re DCG Metabox
- Enhance: Updated dfcg_ui_pages_wp() info re DCG Metabox
- Enhance: Updated dfcg_ui_defdesc() info re DCG Metabox
- Enhance: Updated dfcg_ui_columns() info re DCG Metabox
- Enhance: Updated dfcg_ui_create_wpmu() info re DCG Metabox
- Enhance: Updated contextual help text in dfcg_admin_help_content() re DCG Metabox
- Enhance: Updated Error Message text in dfcg_errors() re DCG Metabox
- Bug fix: Added conditional tags to add_action, add_filter hooks in main plugin file
3.2.1
- Released 03 February 2010
- Bug fix: Fixed PHP warning on undefined index when _dfcg-exclude is unchecked
- Bug fix: Fixed missing arg error in dfcg_add_metabox() (in dfcg-admin-metaboxes.php)
- Bug fix: Fixed metabox error of adding extra http:// when using Partial URL settings (dfcg-admin-metaboxes.php)
- Bug fix: Added sanitisation routine to dfcg_save_metabox_data() to remove leading slash when using Partial URL setting
- Bug fix: Increased sanitisation cat01 etc char limit to 6 chars to avoid problems with large cat IDs
3.2
- Released 31 January 2010
- Feature: Added custom sort order option for Pages Method using _dfcg-sort custom field
- Feature: Added "no description" option for the Slide Pane
- Feature: Manual description now displays Auto description if _dfcg-desc, category description and default description don't exist
- Feature: Added Metabox to Post/Page Editor screen to handle custom fields
- Feature: Added _dfcg-exclude postmeta to allow specific exclusion of a post from multi-option or one-category output
- Feature: Added postmeta upgrade routine to convert dfcg- custom fields to _dfcg-
- Enhance: Added text-align left to h2 in jd.gallery.css for wider theme compatibility
- Enhance: Updated inline docs
- Enhance: $dfcg_load_textdomain() moved to dfcg-admin-core.php
- Enhance: $dfcg_errorimgurl variable deprecated in favour of DFCG_ERRORIMGURL constant
- Enhance: New function dfcg_query_list() for handling multi-option cat/off pairs, in dfcg-gallery-core.php
- Enhance: Function dfcg_admin_notices() renamed to dfcg_admin_notice_reset()
- Enhance: Tidied up Error Message markup and reorganised dfcg-gallery-errors.php, with new functions
- Enhance: Renamed function dfcg_add_page() now dfcg_add_to_options_menu()
- Enhance: jd.gallery.css modified to remove open.gif (looked rubbish in IE and not much better in FF)
- Enhance: Moved Admin CSS to external stylesheet and added dfcg_loadjs_admin_head() function hooked to admin_print_scripts_$plugin
- Bug fix: Fixed non-fatal wp_errors in dfcg-gallery-errors.php
- Bug fix: Corrected path error for .mo files in load_textdomain() in plugin main file
- Bug fix: Fixed Settings Page Donate broken link
- Bug fix: Increased sanitisation cat-display limit to 4 characters
- Bug fix: Increased sanitisation Carousel text limit to 50 characters
- Bug fix: Removed unneeded call to dfcg_load_textdomain() in dfcg_add_to_options_menu()
- Bug fix: Mootools jd.gallery.js - increased thumbIdleOpacity to 0.4 for improved carousel visuals in IE
3.1
- Released 28 December 2009
- Feature: Added auto Description using custom $content excerpt + 7 options
- Enhance: dfcg_baseimgurl() moved to dfcg-gallery-core.php, and added conditional check on loading jq or mootools constructors
- Enhance: Tidied up Settings text for easier gettext translation
- Enhance: Tidied up Settings page CSS
- Bug fix: Fixed "Key Settings" display error when Restrict Scripts is set to Home page only ("home" was used incorrectly instead of "homepage").
- Bug fix: Fixed whitelist option error for WPMU in dfcg-admin-ui-sanitise.php
- Bug fix: Category default images folder can now be outside wp-content folder
3.0
- Released 7 December 2009
- Feature: Added alternative jQuery gallery script and new associated options
- Feature: Added WP version check to Plugins screen. DCG now requires WP 2.8+
- Feature: Added contextual help to Settings Page
- Feature: Added plugin meta links to Plugins main admin page
- Feature: Added external link capability using dfcg-link custom field
- Feature: Added form validation + reminder messages to Settings page
- Feature: Added Error messages to help users troubleshoot setup problems
- Feature: Re-designed layout of Settings page, added Category selection dropdowns etc
- Feature: New Javascript gallery options added to Settings page
- Feature: Added "populate-method" Settings. User can now pick between 3: old way (called Multi Option), One category, or Pages.
- Feature: Added Settings for limiting loading of scripts into head. New functions to handle this.
- Feature: Added Full and Partial URL Settings to simplify location of images and be more suitable for "unusual" WP setups.
- Feature: Added Padding Settings for Slide Pane Heading and Description
- Bug fix: Complete re-write of code and file organisation for more efficient coding
- Bug fix: Changed $options variable name to $dfcg_options to avoid conflicts with other plugins.
- Bug fix: Improved data sanitisation
2.2
- Released 5 December 2008
- Feature: Added template tag function for theme files
- Feature: Added "disable mootools" checkbox in Settings to avoid js framework being loaded twice if another plugin uses mootools.
- Feature: Changed options page CSS to better match with 2.7 look
- Bug fix: Changed handling of WP constants - now works as intended
- Bug fix: Removed activation_hook, not needed
- Bug fix: Fixed loading flicker with CSS change => dynamic-gallery.php
- Bug fix: Fixed error if selected post doesn't exist => dynamic-gallery.php
- Bug fix: Fixed XHTML validation error with user-defined styles/CSS moved to head with new file dfcg-user-styles.php for the output of user definable CSS
2.1
- Released 7 November 2008
- Bug fix: Issue with path to scripts due to WP.org zip file naming convention.
2.0 beta
- Released 5 November 2008
- Feature: Major code rewrite and reorganisation of functions
- Feature: Added WPMU support
- Feature: Added RESET checkbox to reset options to defaults
- Feature: Added Gallery CSS options in the Settings page
1.0.0
- Public release 1 September 2008
0.9.1
- Released 26 August 2008
- Activation and reactivation hooks added to code to setup some default Options on Activation and to remove Options from the WP database on deactivation.
0.9.0
- Beta testing release 25 August 2008








