== Decent Comments by itthinx - changelog.txt ==

= 3.0.2 =
* WordPress 6.9 compatible.
* Removed author email from REST response.
* Providing author display name instead of email for post authors in REST response.
* Fixed warning in Decent Comments Block widget when rendering on the frontend.
* Added support for comment_ID as orderby option in REST requests.
* Added support for excerpt, max_excerpt_words, max_excerpt_characters, show_author, show_date, show_comment options in REST request.
* Added instances of missing code documentation.
* Fixed some code formatting issues.
* Changed block placeholder to generic verbiage.
* Updated the translation template.
* Updated the included translations.

= 3.0.1 =
* WordPress 6.9 compatible.
* Updated the translation template.
* Updated the Catalan translation.
* Updated the German translation.
* Updated the Spanish translation.
* Updated the French translation.
* Updated the Italian translation.
* Updated the Lithuanian translation.
* Updated the Portuguese translation.
* Updated the Russian translation.
* Updated the Chinese translation.

= 3.0.0 =
* WordPress 6.9 compatible.
* Requires at least WordPress 6.5.
* Added Decent Comments Block widget with the same functionality and features as the existing widget and shortcode.
* Added REST API endpoint for requesting comments.
* Fixed warning related to translations rendered too early.
* Replaced occurrences of the language domain constant with the corresponding string literal.
* Refactored parts of the plugin initialization.
* Updated the translation template.
* Added the plugin version constant and removed the global that was used to hold the version number.
* Revamped HTML structure and styling.

= 2.0.0 =
* WordPress 6.7 compatible.
* Added support for the include parameter which allows to show comments from posts given by their IDs separated by comma.
* Added support for the exclude parameter which allows to exclude comments from posts given by their IDs separated by comma.

= 1.13.0 =
* WordPress 6.4 compatible.
* Requires at least WordPress 6.0.
* Requires at least PHP 7.4.
* Added compatibility plugin header fields.

= 1.12.0 =
* WordPress 6.1 compatible.
* Fixed fatal errors caused by the previous release when handling comment update actions.
* Fixed cache entry for widget not cleared when changing widget settings.
* Fixed taxonomy, term and other widget settings were not cleared when previously set.
* Fixed more translation errors.

= 1.11.0 =
* WordPress 6.1 compatible.
* Requires at least WordPress 5.6.
* Fixed several PHP warnings related to undefined array keys used in the plugin's widget.
* Fixes a dumb approach to caching the widget's content.
* Adds support for role- and group-based caching for the widget's content; group-based caching requires https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/
* Adds the decent_comments_widget_cache_expire filter.
* Added support for the user_id attribute to the comments renderer (render comments from given user).
* Added support for the search attribute to the comments renderer (render comments related to keyword).
* Fixed translation errors.
* Completely revised comments query code to extend instead of replace the WP_Comments_Query.

= 1.10.0 =
* WordPress 5.7 compatible.
* Added escaping to translated strings output.
* Added shop links.
* Revised http:// links to https:// where appropriate.
* Fixed comments on private posts were included.

= 1.9.0 =
* WordPress 5.4 compatible.
* Cleaned up code, trailing whitespace.
* Minimum WordPress version required is now 5.0.
* Improved code format, validation, output escaping and documentation.
* Updated the translation template.
* Corrected the German translation.
* Added the formal German translation.

= 1.8.0 =
* WordPress 5.2 compatible.

= 1.7.0 =
* WordPress 5.1 compatible.
* Fixed some code documentation issues.

= 1.6.0 =
* Tested with WordPress 4.9.1.
* Added the Russian translation.

= 1.5.0 =
* Added the possibility to indicate multiple post types, so only comments on one
  or more post types are shown.
* Updated the German, French, Portuguese and Spanish translations.
* Added the Catalan translation.

= 1.4.1 =
* Updated the plugin tags.

= 1.4.0 =
* PHP 7.x fixed widget constructor warning.
* Improved admin appearance.
* Adjustment for get_terms() signature change.

= 1.3.11 =
* Added missing translation strings.
* Added the Spanish translation.
* Added missing German translations.

= 1.3.10 =
* Fixed shortcode attribute strip_tags was not taken into account.

= 1.3.9 =
* Added the decent_comments_comment_output filter.
* Added the decent_comments_comments_output filter.

= 1.3.8 =
* WordPress 4.3.x compatibility checked
* Fixed PHP notice related to widget constructor.

= 1.3.7 =
* Fixed some PHP notices thrown due to missing isset and empty checks on the back end.

= 1.3.6 =
* Added the option to show date and time of comments.
* Tested for WordPress 4.2.

= 1.3.5 =
* Fixed static call to class method.

= 1.3.4 =
* Changed use of deprecated like_escape, WordPress 4.0 compatible.

= 1.3.3 =
* Added the Portuguese translation.

= 1.3.2 =
* Added options to exclude comments from post authors.

= 1.3.1 =
* WordPress 3.8 compatibility checked

= 1.3.0 =
* Added: Chinese translation.
* Added: Italian translation.
* Added: New option to limit comment excerpts to a number of characters (useful for languages like Chinese where the word limit is not effective).

= 1.2.0 =
* Added feature: show comments for a specific post type.
* Fixed: not linking author's avatar when the author has no related URL.
* Added feature: option to link comment authors to their site or not.
* Added French translation.

= 1.1.5 =
* Fixed : {current} wasn't accepted as Terms in widget.

= 1.1.4 =
* Added options to include Pingback/Trackback.
* WordPress 3.5 compatibility.
* Fixed some options not working (booleans).

= 1.1.3 =
* Added German translation.

= 1.1.2 =
* Added option to restrict comments shown by post ID when using the shortcode.

= 1.1.1 =
* Lithuanian translation added

= 1.1.0 =
* Added own comment retriever which allows for more versatile ways to get comments.
* Widget and shortcode allow to show comments from posts related to one or more terms in a chosen taxonomy.
* Shortcode now works like this [decent_comments/] and as before [decent-comments/]

= 1.0.3 =
* guarded against shortcode interpretation in comments

= 1.0.2 =
* Fixed typos

= 1.0.1 =
* Fixed to avoid class not found issues

= 1.0.0 =
* Initial release.
