Change Logs

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Super Speedy Search 2.44 BETA 15 November 2021

Fixed SSS_WP_Background_Process class (third party library) to be object cache compatible – it runs smoothly now with object cache on
Added taxonomy search suggestions to ajax
Added SSS_STOP_WORDS define – users can define this to overrule the stop words by adding define('SSS_STOP_WORDS', 'space separated stop words'); to wp-config.php – this will move out of define in future into admin panel

Super Speedy Search 2.44 BETA in its changelog

Scalability Pro 4.72 10 November 2021

Merged old items into core

Scalability Pro 4.72 in its changelog

Super Speedy Search 2.43 BETA 10 November 2021

Made SSS_WP_Background_Process unique name since it's slightly modified to work better with object caches

Super Speedy Search 2.43 BETA in its changelog

Super Speedy Search 2.42 BETA 10 November 2021

Table build improved to have better defaults – users can click the button immediately to get search suggestions built and super speedy search working
Still some admin issues in this: Maintenance of suggestions and main table not happening, progress bar never disappears, progress bar affects styling of wp-admin

Super Speedy Search 2.42 BETA in its changelog

Super Speedy Search 2.41 BETA 8 November 2021

Added suggestions – includes a big table build which currently works only when the object cache is switched off – I've still to fix this third party library so it works properly with the object cache (they mix reading options data through functions and directly from tables)
This release is a BIG one – the table build takes about an hour on foundthru, but it results in instant as-you-type search suggestions

Super Speedy Search 2.41 BETA in its changelog

Scalability Pro 4.71 4 November 2021

Added scalability fix for order admin issue caused by the Order Delivery Date plugin

Scalability Pro 4.71 in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 3.29 Beta 3 November 2021

Had been assuming term_id and term_taxonomy_id are the same – they normally are! But I found a client where this was not true for historical reasons, so now the objectancestors table gets built including a join to term_taxonomy to find the term_id – this slows down the rebuild of fww_object_ancestors a little

Super Speedy Filters 3.29 Beta in its changelog

Scalability Pro 4.70 2 November 2021

Added index to wp_options on name – found in perf analysis that this is actually a very frequent SQL pattern and when > 2000 options exist it starts to get noticable
Added index to wp_comments to assist with admin area where comment counts are counted by comment type
Added count users cache for wp-admin order admin speed boost – it's only used to display a dropdown in the list orders screen (and possibly other screens)
Refactored how indexes are created – paves the way for selective indexing in future

Scalability Pro 4.70 in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 3.28 Beta 2 November 2021

Minor performance improvement to avoid unneccessary work in taxonomy filter when taxonomy is not hierarchical
Minor scalability improvement to reduce RAM consumed by taxonomy filter by passing the $cats by reference
Minor performance improvement to reduce size of $cats array as the filter is drawn – helps improve hierarchical cats slightly

Super Speedy Filters 3.28 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 3.27 Beta 1 November 2021

Improved object cache usage – complete object cache for widgets + object cache usage for get_term related functions with cache key on $termid, $taxonomy, $languagecode

Super Speedy Filters 3.27 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 3.26 Beta 28 October 2021

Fixed permalink rewrite update after saving settings
Fixed bug with /page/2 on UTF8 URLs (e.g. Greek) – the paginated links were being capitalised and this was causing the link class to not match the category – fixed to be case insensitive
Fixed URL slug output on settings page for UTF8 (non latin characters)

Super Speedy Filters 3.26 Beta in its changelog

External Images 2.63 26 October 2021

Fixed warning in get_post_metadata filter relating to DOING_AJAX

External Images 2.63 in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 3.25 Beta 26 October 2021

Hotfix for one code path in the attributes widget which was causing a DB error and failing

Super Speedy Filters 3.25 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 3.24 Beta 26 October 2021

Hotfix to fix {$wpdb->prefix} for non-default table prefixes

Super Speedy Filters 3.24 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 3.23 Beta 26 October 2021

Improved performance of attributes to make them use the objectancestors table – specifically, when attributes are restricting themselves by other taxonomies (category, brand etc) then they are now far faster
Improved performance of main query – normally the domain of Scalability Pro and this may move over to scalability pro – an 'include children' query on a taxonomy will perform an IN statement. I modified it to use objectancestors so it can use an = statement.
Fixed bug with deep categories not having top category marked as 'selected' in the HTML – this means deep categories now appear opened when using hierarchy and the top level category will have whatever styles applied (e.g. checkmark, bold etc)
Improved Link Class constructor to use proper get_term_by function and avoid superflous SQL calls
Refactored custom tax SQL to use single query rather than nested queries. Significantly boosts speeds in many cases.
Significantly improved performance of custom taxonomy/category widget – now uses a single SQL call to grab the full hierarchy. Reduces 'harry potter' search widget construction from 3s on foundthru to 0.3s.
Fixed term ordering so it properly and efficiently respects the term ordering – also removed the term ordering option from settings since it's now fast regardless
Fixed bug where if onsale was selected, the category in widgets was not being selected and expanded
Hardened parent term restrictions – now uses new walker function and restricts from there rather than in SQL. Nice and efficient.
Removed a bunch of error logging
Added on-the-fly update of the onsale meta flag – no need to recalculate this manually now
Added recalculation of object_ancestors table after terms edited/added/deleted and posts edited

Super Speedy Filters 3.23 Beta in its changelog

Scalability Pro 4.69 22 October 2021

Hardened code to avoid fatal warning at end of overnight cron job if WooCommerce not installed – checks for existence of wc_recount_all_terms – was not affecting anything other than creating an error in debug.log

Scalability Pro 4.69 in its changelog

External Images 2.62 Beta 21 October 2021

Fixed warning that happened when External Images settings were saved and option to not check image sizes was selected
Hardened get_post_metadata filter to prevent possible stack overflow through recursion

External Images 2.62 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 3.22 Beta 14 October 2021

Improved performance of link class
Improved resilience of link class when you have identical slugs in different taxonomies – if you DO, you should keep the taxonomy prefix on the URL (e.g. keep /product-category/dogs/ rather than just /dogs/)
Added compatibility for latest dev-version of Super Speedy Search updates (dev update for SSS not yet in beta, but this is back and forward compatible)
Made WCLovers filter_vendor parameter sticky – once set, the filters will always use it unless it's cleared by the WCMultivendor (WCLovers) Store filter

Super Speedy Filters 3.22 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 3.21 Beta 28 September 2021

Hotfix to fix wp_fww_object_ancestors – for restricting other terms, I'd used wp_ when I should have used $wpdb->prefix – affects anyone with altered table prefixes

Super Speedy Filters 3.21 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 3.20 Beta 28 September 2021

Removed scroll bar from category children to avoid there being multiple scrollbars in a nested taxonomy with many children
Fixed ajax back button – correctly reloads the previous page properly now.

Super Speedy Filters 3.20 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 3.19 Beta 22 September 2021

Fixed minor JS bug for tax accordions – added stopPropagation
Moved doc.ready JS into its own function and added a call to this function on ajax complete (fww-specific ajax complete)
Fixed recently viewed products so it correctly removes items when more than 3 have been viewed
Removed 'number of recently viewed products' config – it shouldn't have been in the widget since we need access to it on product detail pages and the widget might not be there
Hard coded the number of recently viewed products to 3 for now – cookies can not store more than 4 products, potentially less depending on additional HTML in the woo template.
Added new styles for buttons and popovers with updated fonts for icons from @twardy
Added new fwwicon-arrow_drop_down for popouts
Fixed search box inside popouts so they don't immediately close the popout!
Added code to prevent popout closing if user clicks reset search button

Super Speedy Filters 3.19 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 3.18 Beta 16 September 2021

Hotfix to re-add scroll-to and move-selected options for taxonomy
Hotfix to re-add multivendor/author code

Super Speedy Filters 3.18 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 3.17 Beta 16 September 2021

Added pure CSS spinner to ajax for when products are fetched
Improved the popover by using a11ydialog
Added shadow, fadein and animation-down for popouts – looks better
Added popover group – will use the first button of the group and hide all others and place the contents inside the popover
Added popout groups – similar to popovers, uses the first button and hides the others. Does not yet include an icon picker – the icon is used to distinguish different groups – also the icon doesn't yet get added to the button
Fixed a bunch of warning and notices that were happening for undeclared variables

Super Speedy Filters 3.17 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 3.16 Beta 15 September 2021

Added popout container option to all widgets, version 1.0 – lets you have popouts containing labels, lists, colours etc – saves space on screen and looks good on mobile
Added popover container option – version 0.1 – not working yet, trying to use googles material design library but I only have a Cancel button so far on the popover and no actual content

Super Speedy Filters 3.16 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 3.15 Beta 14 September 2021

Added post_author column to ancestors table – requires db upgrade which may be slow on large sites – took 2 minutes on foundthru with 1 million products. New users would not experience this.
Added post_author to rebuild job
Added filter_vendor detection to taxonomy and attributes filters to restrict the lists based on author/vendor

Super Speedy Filters 3.15 Beta in its changelog