xF2 Add-on XPress - A theme and bridge for bringing WordPress into XenForo 1.1.3 Patch Level 4

Changes:

• Resolved a couple of issues with filters not receiving all necessary arguments.
• Resolved a number of namespacing issues when throwing login errors.
• Resolved an issue with category breadcrumbs not correctly showing on pages and category archives.
• Resolved an issue with XenForo>WordPress widgets not respecting display conditions.
• Resolved an issue with XPress Category page criteria not saving correctly.
• Resolved an issue with XPress Category page criteria not correctly triggering on category archive pages.
• Resolved a number of assorted hook issues.

Changes:

• Fixes an installation issue introduced in the latest patch.
• Custom Post Types can now be manually enabled in the WordPress configuration (see documentation for more information).
• Added a number of filters and hooks for easier extension (see documentation for more information).
• Now sending all hooks, filters and API endpoints through the XenForo class proxy for easier extension (see documentation for more information).
• Resolved an issue that prevented users from being logged out of WordPress if they logged out of XenForo with SSO enabled.
• Resolved an issue that prevented scheduled posts from creating a XenForo thread.
• Manually deleting WordPress accounts now also deletes the account link from XLink, resolving an issue that would prevent new accounts with the same email address from being linked.
• Resolved an issue with installations based on php-fpm.
• The WordPress XPress dashboard item no longer shows for user accounts without administrator roles.
• No longer stops duplicate XenForo comments from being inserted into the WordPress database.

Changes:

• Resolved a javascript error preventing native WP comments from being inserted dynamically after being posted.
• Resolved an error preventing editing tags on threads linked to WP posts.
• WP Post featured images are now used as Open Graph images for the linked XenForo thread too.
• Added page criteria for WordPress categories (XPress theme only).

Changes:

• Resolved a javascript error preventing native WP comments from being inserted dynamically after being posted.
• Resolved an error preventing editing tags on threads linked to WP posts.
• WP Post featured images are now used as Open Graph images for the linked XenForo thread too.
• Added page criteria for WordPress categories (XPress theme only).

Additions:

• WordPress guest pages are now cached with the XF guest cache when using the XPress theme and guest page caching is configured.

Bugs fixed:

• WordPress post titles with more than 150 characters no longer crash thread generation on post save.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent featured articles from showing on the front page.
• Fixed an issue that could trigger a "Invalid parameters" error on certain WP API calls
• The WordPress username on the WordPress author page no longer links to a 404 page.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent linked posts/comments from being edited.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent linked post/comments from being deleted.
• Removed an deprecated navigation entry from the WordPress dashboard navigation.
• Fixed an issue that could trigger an "undefined index" notice when upgrading.

Enhancements:

• Improved API call error logging to display more comprehensible errors.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a "Sorry, that username already exists" error on automated account creation.
• Fixed an error that prevented the update available message from vanishing after updating.
• Fixed a "instance of WP_User expected, boolean given" error.
• Fixed an issue that would sort the profile views article list backwards.
• Fixed an issue that would prevent promoted articles from being automatically tagged with 'render-bb-code'.
• Fixed a "call to isPrefixValid on null" error on linking threads without nodes.
• Fixed an issue that would always render ellipsis instead of an excerpt text on featured articles.

Please see the documentation for how to upgrade from XPress 1.0.0 Patch Level 5 to XPress 1.1.0.

Enhancements:

• Introduced XLink as new platform management tool
  • XLink is now available for download in your ThemeHouse client area, if you’re an owner of XPress. Please be advised, that moving forward, XLink will be a requirement to run XPress.
  • Find more information on XLink in our documentation.
• Introduced user group mapping
• • You can now set up 1 to 1 relations for user groups from within your XLink platform manager.
  • User groups are mapped from the primary XenForo user group to the WordPress role only.
• The featured article image may now be used as thread cover.
• The XPress theme now submits native WordPress comments via ajax to save a full page reload.
• A row of new functional tags has been introduced to handle different functionality:
  • Tagging an article with redirect-wp will automatically redirect the XenForo thread to the WordPress post.
  • Tagging an article with redirect-xf will automatically redirect the WordPress post to the XenForo thread.
  • Tagging an article with bb-code allows you to use BB Codes within the article. Please be advised that this disables native Shortcode rendering and HTML rendering.
  • Functional tags can be hidden from frontend display with a newly introduced style property.
• A new default prefix option has been introduced. The selected prefix will be automatically applied to all threads created by XPress that are eligible to have the selected prefix.
• User signatures can now be hidden in blog comments.
• WordPress users are now banned when their XenForo counterparts are.
• WordPress profiles may now be redirected to XenForo profiles.
• A new front page listing style “masonry” has been added.
• WordPress usernames, and biography may now be replaced with the linked XenForo accounts counterpart information.
• You are now redirected to the WordPress edit page when having the correct permission to edit the post after promoting an article.
• A number of XenForo ad positions have been added to the XPress theme.
• XPress no longer logs WordPress warnings and notices.
• Added a new front page specific Widget sidebar to the XPress theme.

Bug fixes:

• The XPress theme no longer keeps the reply box at the bottom of the comment section when replying to other comments, but moves it to the respective place when using native WordPress comments.
• An incompatibility with the Gutenberg Editor introduced in WordPress 5.0.0 has been resolved.
• Excerpts are now stripped of previously unrendered shortcodes.
• Thread excerpts are no longer rendering plain HTML.
• The comment count on the front page no longer shows an incorrect number if comment synchronization is disabled.
• Resolved a number of template errors.
• Widget titles are no longer rendering incorrectly when UTF8 characters.
• A number of other widget related issues have been resolved.
• Fixed a number of alignment issues with Default XenForo avatars in WordPress.
• Posting in a thread that is linked to a WordPress post now creates a WordPress account if the user does not already have one.
• A number of issues with hardcoded phrases in the WordPress theme have been resolved.
• The featured articles list no longer resides outside the UI.X content wrapper.
• The no sidebar page template has been fixed to actually show no sidebar.
• Resolved a number of links not being set absolute when Cross-Origin mode was enabled.
• The XenForo configuration sidebar is now visible on all installations.
• An incompatibility with Divi page builder has been resolved.
• An incompatibility with WP Bakery Page builder has been resolved.
• An incompatibility with the Visual Composer Page builder has been resolved.
• XPress/XLink administrator permissions are now working as intended.
• Resolved an issue with sub navigation items on the UI.X style not being escaped property.
• Resolved a number of deprecated function warnings for WordPress 5.0.
• The excerpt setting has been moved to style properties.
• Resolved a number of assorted issues.