Change Logs

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Super Speedy Search 4.53 18 April 2024

Fixed bug in new "don't set" option for default post type to fix broken suggestion links which were including post_type=undefined

Super Speedy Search 4.53 in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 5.42 16 April 2024

Performance boost for product updates which should help speed up imports a little bit
Fix for warning on multi-term pages when image for that term combo could not be found
Fixed some warnings in table build when checking existing process info

Super Speedy Filters 5.42 in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 5.41 12 April 2024

added data-image-url to terms in list view

Super Speedy Filters 5.41 in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 5.40 12 April 2024

@kostas fix for object_ancestors table maintenance
fixed issue with hierarchical categories that was causing @kostas Yith stock plugin to fail
Upgraded and hardened the intial table building code
this should work by default on most sites now, presuming they have a cron enabled
Improved speed of initial table build by speeding up the onsale calculations and visibility calcs
Onsale nightly job removed as no longer required

Super Speedy Filters 5.40 in its changelog

Super Speedy Search 4.52 12 April 2024

Cleaned up auto-build a bit by removing wp_die() calls

Super Speedy Search 4.52 in its changelog

Scalability Pro 5.52 11 April 2024

Updated stored reference list tables from WP updates
hopefully this doesn't need to happen too often, maybe I could just reference the constructor of the parent somehow to run the hash check

Scalability Pro 5.52 in its changelog

Super Speedy Search 4.51 11 April 2024

Added "Don't set" option for default post type
enabling this will prevent the addition of &post_type=product etc to the URL
be careful with this, only use it if you have your default search template set up correctly otherwise it will search all post types

Super Speedy Search 4.51 in its changelog

Scalability Pro 5.51 10 April 2024

Fix for file based cache for cases where permissions are completely lacking

Scalability Pro 5.51 in its changelog

External Images 3.14 4 April 2024

Performance update for image proxying if you provide a broken http link on an https site

External Images 3.14 in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 5.39 4 April 2024

Fix for The SEO Framework Plugin which had an incompatibility from our new URL handler
Added new price widget option to add extra orderby attribute to initial filtering ( https://github.com/superspeedyplugins/issue-tracker/issues/107 )

Super Speedy Filters 5.39 in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 5.38 4 April 2024

Added new code to detect bot traffic and then decide whether to display a widget or not
i.e. if the widget is going to be full of rel="nofollow" links we can save a LOT of server resource by avoiding generating these widgets
this applies to googlebot as well as the bad bots which just index everything regardless of rel="nofollow"
this should massively speed up bot indexing speed and ensure they do not disobey our SEO rules
since this is nav content, there is no SEO penalty for this, only benefits because of faster page speed, more optimised/focused cache and higher max indexable pages per day

Super Speedy Filters 5.38 in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 5.37 4 April 2024

Vastly improved efficiency and use of the widget html cache
now avoids wasteful SQL completely
cache in wp-content/cache/scalability-pro folder by default if spro installed
otherwise caching is to the object cache
Fixed rankmath warning in archive

Super Speedy Filters 5.37 in its changelog

Super Speedy Search 4.50 4 April 2024

#68 – Fixed issue for Active/Inactive SSS status for all overrides option

Super Speedy Search 4.50 in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 5.36 3 April 2024

Re-added the widget html cache but in fewer cases
html cache will use the scalability pro transient cache, if you have scalability pro enabled
the spro transient cache will survive object cache flushes, new product additions and new product updates
the widget html cache will re-use a category widget across all categories, but then if another taxonomy is set, another cached widget is saved for that other term
the widget html cache will cache a maximum of 1 other taxonomy, e.g. if you are on /cat/dogs/brand/adidas/ the cat widget will cache against 'adidas', but if you are on /cat/dogs/brand/adidas/color/yellow then it will not cache since this would be against adidas and yellow
the widget html cache is disabled for multiselect, search queries and other superflous calls
the cache wipes overnight, but there is also a new button in SSF Advanced to wipe the cache which can be useful after updating a lot of products
Small modification to JS for showing chosen filters and selected counts

Super Speedy Filters 5.36 in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 5.35 2 April 2024

Removed widget html cache
after testing, it seems to be too heavy on the server and uses up too much space (65K per widget per url for huge taxonomies!)

Super Speedy Filters 5.35 in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 5.34 2 April 2024

Added bad bot protection to stop semrush, bingbot, amazon alexabot, petalbot and other bad actors from indexing every single link even if rel=nofollow is on the link
updated nofollow links to have href="javascript:void(0);" and a new class and a data attribute containing the actual link, on doc load, the href is updated with JS
updated main ssf tax widget (SSF Filter) so rel=nofollow links will not have href on them until JS runs
updated postmeta filters for clickable ranges in similar way
updated show existing filters widget so all links have no hrefs in similar way
Updated cache storage mechanism to store widget_html and sql_cache in a transient instead of the object cache
new wipe cache button added to the advanced tab
this new approach allows the transients to survive product updates so that when users are updating products
they can choose to wipe the cache after all products updated to keep their site running fast
does not apply to multisite sites, as transient control is handled by multisite/wp core
added feature so that if spro is installed, we will use our own custom transient cache, otherwise redis and other plugins still wipe the transients
Fixed warning happening at /shop/ or top level page = 5.33 ( 27th March 2024 )
Added debounce handler to JS widget search to speed up search even further for those with long lists
Added ssf_archive_tax_term_filter filter into Tax widget (previously added to archive) to allow alteration of what terms are being queried per taxonomy
Fixed bug in manual initial table build which was not setting options properly after completion
this had led to the little panel staying active saying SSF is building object ancestors in the background
Added functionality to count archive pages ( https://github.com/superspeedyplugins/issue-tracker/issues/96 )
Added patch for negative value for Widget "Items per page (Ajax)" field ( https://github.com/superspeedyplugins/issue-tracker/issues/99 ) = 5.32 ( 13th March 2024 )
Speed boost in link class
profiler showed check for onsaleprettypermalink somehow causing issues! Swapping to !empty() fixes completely. May have been oddity on that client server.
Added caching for get_cached_term_link to reduce number of sql calls
Changed how JS to select active filters behaves
it now scans inside a URL so that e.g. if you use 'Reset' style filters, these will now show as selected properly
new code scans upwards and deselects any parents which were marked selected
Added 2x new filters for main query per tax + term_ids
allows us to include universal items, e.g. to always include a specific model-id when any model is selected
apply_filters('ssf_expand_taxonomy', $tax, $expand); return anything truthy to say to expand, or false to make this tax always narrow multiselect
apply_filters('ssf_archive_tax_term_filter', $tax, $vals); return the array of term_ids for this taxonomy – useful to add extra term_ids into the archive when this taxonomy in use
Altered fast-cat-fetcher to return SQL generated too
this used in improved widget cacher
widget cacher now ignores the current term_id as it should, anything like that it should respect is in the SQL
this should mean a noticable difference in speed when you have your object cache on AND a reduction in object cache usage
Change donotreset links to have proper canonical value without other filters selected – new JS handles this instead = 5.31 ( 7th March 2024 )
Added new option to defines.php SSF_DISPLAY_FILTERED_CATS_ON_NON_CAT_PAGES
this takes over and replaces the Customize > WooCommerce > Catalog > Show Categories & Products option
this option means that sub-categories will appear at the top of your filter, so long as subcategories remain in your filtered list
it also means that the links to these sub-categories include the other filters you have active
Fixed taxonomy filter search for hierarchical items
it was matching properly on text, but the behaviour should also show parents and children of matches which it now does
Added taxonomy name to fwwfilter as additional class to help identify and custom style each type of filter = 5.30 ( 6th March 2024 )
Fixed CSS issue for selected image label filter ( https://github.com/superspeedyplugins/issue-tracker/issues/86 )
Added recommended plugins section and functionality ( https://github.com/superspeedyplugins/issue-tracker/issues/92 )
Applied settings import/export functionality ( https://github.com/superspeedyplugins/issue-tracker/issues/105 ) = 5.29 ( 4th March 2024 )
Hotfix for issues with some websites with new pre_get_posts handler
this has been tested with oxygen and worldpay and some other issues which arose from 5.23
hardened the check for when filters run to ensure they never run on any page other than product archives for the main query = 5.28 ( 1st March 2024 )
Added new Browser Title Suffix option to SEO tab
if left empty, will default to site name
Added fix for 'children' display type
previously, if a child was selected which had no children, the filter would disappear
the correct behaviour should be to let users select other children
this only applies to leaf terms, e.g. children filter will still not appear if nothing for that taxonomy has been selected yet
and if a top level term is selected which has no children, it will not appear = 5.27 ( 29th February 2024 )
Fix for pre_get_posts to avoid running on pages where it has nothing to do with the shop archives = 5.26 ( 29th February 2024 )
Removed override Yoast option – this is handled through the SEO features area at the top of the SEO tab now = 5.25 ( 29th February 2024 )
Updated some names of settings in the SEO tab = 5.24 ( 29th February 2024 )
Fix for onsale pretty permalink with new system withour url rewrites = 5.23 ( 28th February 2024 )
Fix for pagination with new 404 handler
Overhaul of SEO features
now you can disable, enable for all, or enable each option only for multi-term archives (e.g. category + brand)
Robots, Browser title, Meta Description, Canonical tag, Opengraph tags, Rel next/prev pagination tags, Shop archive title, Shop archive description, breadcrumbs
SEO items moved out of advanced tab into SEO tab
items simplified into meta and on-page
Completely rewritten how the SEO overrides work
should work now with every single third-party SEO plugin or theme = 5.22 ( 23rd February 2024 )
Fix for new 404 handler so permalink rewrites can be switched off, even if you have removed the taxonomy qualifier from the base, e..g remove /product-category/ = 5.21 ( 22nd February 2024 )
Added new code for parse_request to help WP recognise multiple terms in a URL ( https://github.com/superspeedyplugins/issue-tracker/issues/90 )
this fixes all templating issues with FSE themes & plugins!
it also fixes Product Category Display Options (to show products, categories, or products & categories) ( https://github.com/superspeedyplugins/issue-tracker/issues/48 )
it also fixes https://github.com/superspeedyplugins/issue-tracker/issues/42
new users will find that the URL rewrite & template redirect options in advanced are disabled by default
this should also massively improve onboarding since this should mean that whatever existing filter URLs users have continue to work as expected
also made the parse_request code work with flat taxonomies as their rewrite URLs work slightly differently and end up leading to a 404 error page
Added new filter for Greenshift breadcrumbs ( https://github.com/superspeedyplugins/issue-tracker/issues/87 )
Greenshift seem to ignore Slim SEO, Yoast SEO, Rank Math SEO and WooCommerce for their breadcrumb block and instead build the breadcrumbs from the term hierarchy
new filter fixes this so you can use it with SSF
Added 2 new widget shortcode areas and refactored the code a bit to make this easily expandable in future
Altered the default for URL rewrites and template redirects to default OFF = 5.20 ( 20th February 2024 )
Added filter 'ssf_custom_url_parameters' to save custom URL parameters ( https://github.com/superspeedyplugins/issue-tracker/issues/16 )
Fixed issue for price filter when no values entered for min max ( https://github.com/superspeedyplugins/issue-tracker/issues/79 ) = 5.19 ( 16th February 2024 )
Fixed warning appearing in logs from missing parameter when scheduled auto job for rebuild or from advanced tab = 5.18 ( 29th January 2024 )
Added Back-orders stock in settings and table ( https://github.com/superspeedyplugins/issue-tracker/issues/61 )
Tested reports about issue with wrong stock update based on ( https://github.com/superspeedyplugins/issue-tracker/issues/61#issuecomment-1915088017 ) = 5.17 ( 25th January 2024 )
Fixed issue with selected filters that are not displayed after filtering and pagination plus sorting ( https://github.com/superspeedyplugins/issue-tracker/issues/10 )
Fixed issue with empty min or max value ( https://github.com/superspeedyplugins/issue-tracker/issues/36 ) = 5.16 ( 21st December 2023 )
Fixed issue with selected filters that are not displayed after filtering and pagination ( https://github.com/superspeedyplugins/issue-tracker/issues/10 )

Super Speedy Filters 5.34 in its changelog

External Images 3.13 27 March 2024

Solved issue #33 ( https://github.com/superspeedyplugins/issue-tracker/issues/33 )
Featured Image was not displaying while using Admin Columns plugin on all posts page

External Images 3.13 in its changelog

Super Speedy Search 4.49 27 March 2024

#108 Add slug search to the back-end admin search and front-end search for searching terms and products and everything into SSS https://github.com/superspeedyplugins/issue-tracker/issues/108
#102 Add Use Global Settings option to Super Speedy Search widget https://github.com/superspeedyplugins/issue-tracker/issues/102
#89 Add button to SSS Settings Advanced tab to let users delete plugin data on deactivation https://github.com/superspeedyplugins/issue-tracker/issues/89
Partial WP CLI commands to make it easier for users to build or rebuild the tables
wp sss rebuild all
wp sss rebuild cancel
wp sss rebuild cancel force
wp sss rebuild search
wp sss rebuild suggestions
This dev version includes partial working admin bar to help users know when SSS is running or not

Super Speedy Search 4.49 in its changelog

Super Speedy Search 4.48 21 March 2024

Added more word boundaries for exact search matches so if users enter any special characters, they are fully searched for now

Super Speedy Search 4.48 in its changelog

Super Speedy Search 4.47 20 March 2024

Fixed bug with item searches where the search contains + symbol
e.g. ?s=RB5009UPR%2BS%2BIN&post_type=product (where %2B = +)
Added short token weights
customers were reporting things could not float to the top if the search involved 1 or 2 character tokens
added SSS_SHORT_TOKEN_WEIGHT_MULTIPLIER definition, default 50, for the short_token base multiplier
post_title gets bonus weight of SSS_SHORT_TOKEN_WEIGHT_MULTIPLIER * post_title weight multiplier
will consider adding short token weights to post_excerpt and post_content

Super Speedy Search 4.47 in its changelog

Scalability Pro 5.48 15 March 2024

Added deactivation hook to drop indexes when plugin deactivated
this will revert the database to exactly how it was before installing and doing anything with scalability pro
it will also make it clearer for people who activate > create indexes > deactivate and then are comparing before & after since with the indexes there, it would appear to be closer in speed
Added reference copy of Class WP_Posts_List_Table and WP_List_Table and hash check on wp version change etc to be able to tell if the constructors change
if it changes, the author post count caching will be disabled to preserve whatever functionality changed in this constructor

Scalability Pro 5.48 in its changelog

Scalability Pro 5.50 4 March 2024

Added new file based transient cache with groups capability and expiration built in (and it's fast of course!)
the first user of this is Super Speedy Filters, but there could be many benefits here to bypass certain transient groups being wiped when products are updated/created/deleted or when other posts/orders are edited

Scalability Pro 5.50 in its changelog

Scalability Pro 5.49 3 March 2024

Improved functionality of our own custom transient cache
new delete_group and delete_transient functions added

Scalability Pro 5.49 in its changelog

External Images 3.12 29 February 2024

Fixed warning about converstion of false to array (https://discord.com/channels/837258064704438282/880089157299499048/1212460802636906516)

External Images 3.12 in its changelog

Super Speedy Search 4.46 28 February 2024

Added search form override for the Astra theme
Added workaround for client with Astra theme where for some reason, <ul> and <li> elements are being stripped from the header/search form output
Improved Admin bar assistance
this still needs improved styling before release

Super Speedy Search 4.46 in its changelog