All-in-One Video Gallery

Changelog

4.5.1

• Security Hardening: Removed “unfiltered_html” capability from Editor role to reduce potential risk e.g. Stored XSS in certain configurations. Thanks to Mohamad Nour Almujarkesh for reporting.
• Tweak: The previous version forced a short number format, which isn’t supported in regions like Europe. This update adds an option to choose the number format, with the full format now set as the default.
• Fix: Various minor bug fixes and performance improvements.

4.4.0

• New: Added an option to display the comments count in the grid view, with a link to the comment form in the player view.
• New: Introduced a setting to configure a custom videos archive page for better SEO.
• New: Added a reset button to allow users to clear filters easily.
• New: Introduced a developer filter hook “the_aiovg_socialshare_buttons” to customize the social sharing buttons output.
• Tweak: Restricted back-end access for the Editor role due to the “unfiltered_html” capability.
• Tweak: Improved the HTML output for video thumbnails.
• Tweak: Added a custom theme option for the Vidstack player.
• Tweak: Enhanced the front-end playlist layout for better usability.
• Tweak: Updated the Freemius SDK to version 2.12.1.
• Fix: Resolved an issue where Vimeo tags were not imported when using Video Automations to import from Vimeo folders.
• Fix: Fixed compatibility issues with the Oxygen page builder.
• Fix: Various minor bug fixes and performance improvements.

4.3.6

• Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.12.0).
• Fix: Gallery thumbnails not showing in some WordPress environments after the last update due to a conflict with optimization plugins like Smush.

4.3.2

• New: Added Bunny Stream integration for seamless video hosting and playback.
• Enhancement: Redesigned the admin UI with a modern, tabbed metabox for easier management of video details, captions, chapters, restrictions, and more.
• Enhancement: Improved the custom multi-select dropdown by adding a search feature when the list contains more than 20 items.
• Fix: Resolved compatibility issues with WordPress 6.8.
• Fix: Various minor bug fixes and performance improvements.

4.1.0

• New: Added filtering options to the gallery, allowing users to filter videos on the same page using keywords, categories, tags, and sort by title, date, popularity, etc.
• New: Introduced a guided user tour for first-time users to enhance onboarding.
• Tweak: Improved the plugin dashboard with a new “Help & Tutorials” section for better accessibility.
• Tweak: Optimized the plugin’s JavaScript files for improved performance.
• Fix: Various minor bug fixes and improvements.

4.0.0

• New: Added an option to configure the player theme color when using the Vidstack player library.
• Tweak: Enhanced video restrictions by adding an option to display a restricted access label on gallery thumbnails.
• Tweak: Extended the chapters feature to allow chapter configuration directly within the video description field.
• Fix: Various minor bug fixes and improvements.

3.9.6

• New: Introduced video access restrictions based on user roles, allowing global and per-video control.
• Fix: [+] a few minor bug fixes.

3.9.5

• New: Added an option to write custom CSS directly in the plugin settings.
• New: Introduced “Email” as a new social sharing button.
• Tweak: Restructured the plugin settings menu for an improved user interface and better usability.
• Update: Upgraded to the latest version of the Freemius SDK for enhanced compatibility.
• Fix: Resolved an issue where other players on the page would not autopause correctly.
• Fix: Fixed a problem where the GDPR cookie consent banner was not being removed automatically when using the iframe player type with JavaScript-based player initialization.
• Fix: Addressed autoplay issues during GDPR consent with the iframe player type.
• Fix: Fixed multiple minor bugs to ensure a smoother and more reliable user experience.

3.9.4

• Enhancement: Improved live user interface for the Video.js Player Library, offering a more intuitive and seamless user experience.
• Enhancement: Added custom HTML elements in front-end layouts to improve performance and ensure future scalability.
• Update: Upgraded the “Freemius SDK” to version 2.10.1 for enhanced functionality and stability.
• Fix: Resolved compatibility issues with the Elementor page builder.
• Fix: Addressed several minor bugs for a smoother user experience.

3.9.2

• Fix: Resolved an issue where the popup would close when clicking the Next/Previous buttons in the gallery.

3.9.1

• New: Added the ability to use shortcodes from third-party plugins within video descriptions for greater flexibility and functionality.
• Fix: Addressed problems with subtitle styling to ensure a consistent and improved viewing experience.
• Fix: Fixed a bug causing incorrect ordering of videos based on Likes/Dislikes.
• Fix: [+] a few minor bug fixes.

3.9.0

• New: Added a custom player skin for the Video.js library.
• New: Added “Lazyloading” for images and iframes used by the plugin, improving page load times and performance.
• New: Enhanced the [aiovg_video] single video shortcode to support dynamic video display based on specified “category,” “tag,” and “sort” attributes, giving users more control over which videos are shown.
• New: Added multi-category filtering to the search form, enabling users to refine video search results with enhanced flexibility.
• New: Added new configuration options to the search form, including the ability to set video sorting preferences, hide the submit button, and enable automatic submission when a form element is modified.
• New: Added new developer hooks, significantly increasing the plugin’s extensibility and customization potential.
• Tweak: Significantly improved the responsiveness of the video.js player skin, enhancing playback experience on smaller devices.
• Tweak: Improved Yoast breadcrumbs support for category pages, now displaying child categories in the breadcrumb trail for better navigation clarity.
• Tweak: Applied various CSS style updates to improve the visual appearance and user experience across the plugin.
• Tweak: Updated Video.js player library (8.18.1).
• Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.9.0).
• Fix: [+] a few minor bug fixes.

3.8.3

• Security Fix: “Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Video Shortcode” issue that was discovered by Webbernaut, and reported responsibly to us by Adam Goodlin (Customer Support Engineer) from Wordfence.
• New: Support for the PiP (Picture-in-Picture) feature in the video player.
• Tweak: The source type formerly known as “Iframe Embed Code” in video forms has been rebranded as “Third-Party Player Code,” which now includes support for third-party plugin shortcodes.
• Tweak: Updated Video.js player library (8.16.1).
• Tweak: Updated Magnific Popup library (1.2.0).
• Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.7.3).
• Fix: WordPress 6.6 compatibility issues.
• Fix: [+] a few minor bug fixes.

3.7.1

• Fix: Pages show a 404 error when the “Permalink Slugs” settings field is empty.

3.7.0

• Security Fix: Fixed “Authenticated (Contributor+) Local File Inclusion via aiovg_search_form Shortcode” issue reported responsibly to us by Janet Katile (Customer Support Engineer) from Wordfence.
• Fix: [+] a few minor bug fixes.

3.6.5

• Security Fix: “Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary File Upload via featured image” issue that was discovered by stealthcopter, and reported responsibly to us by Adam Goodlin (Customer Support Engineer) from Wordfence.
• Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.7.2).
• Fix: [+] a few minor bug fixes.

3.6.4

• New: Introduces a new [aiovg_related_videos] shortcode that displays the videos related to the current video on the single video pages.
• New: Introduces a new “Menu Order” option in the plugin’s “Order By” settings for videos and categories. This allows you to customize the videos and categories ordering using third-party plugins like Simple Custom Post Order.
• New: Option to configure the DateTime format that the plugin should use when displaying the dates on the site’s front end.
• Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.7.0).
• Fix: The views count displayed in the front end pages doesn’t use the proper number format.
• Fix: WordPress 6.5 compatibility issues.
• Fix: [+] a few minor bug fixes.

3.6.2

• New: Likes / Dislikes.
• Tweak: Optimized JavaScript loading.
• Fix: [+] a few minor bug fixes.

3.6.0

• New: Chapter Markers.
• New: User Playlists / Favorites.
• Tweak: The back-end & front-end template files have been rewritten to adapt to the latest web standards.
• Tweak: The CSS & JS files used by the plugin have been rewritten to adapt to the latest web standards.
• Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.6.2).
• Fix: Security fix: Broken Access Control. Thanks to emad from Patchstack.
• Fix: [+] a few minor bug fixes.

3.5.2

• Fix: Unlisted Vimeo videos stopped working after the 3.5.0 release.

3.5.1

• Fix: The single video shortcode “[aiovg_video]” attributes stopped working after the 3.5.0 release.

3.5.0

• New: Introduces Web Components to speed up video embeds.
• New: Option to Lazyload videos whenever possible.
• Tweak: The Player file has been completely rewritten for more optimized performance.
• Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.5.11).
• Fix: [+] a few minor bug fixes.

3.4.3

• Security Fix.
• New: Introduces a new stylish video player (Vidstack).
• New: Keyboard Hotkeys.
• Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.5.10).
• Fix: [+] a few minor bug fixes.

3.3.0

• Tweak: The wpml-config.xml file has been updated as per this discussion https://wordpress.org/support/topic/last-update-has-broken-my-websie-2/#post-16593449
• Tweak: Replaced “h4” tags on the thumbnail video titles with the “div” tags.
• Fix: Single category/tag/user pages don’t work when the URL contains special characters.
• Fix: [+] a few minor bug fixes.

3.1.0

• Fix: A quick bug-fix version that addresses a compatibility issue with the WPML & POLYLANG plugins.

3.0.0

• New: WPML Compatibility.
• New: POLYLANG Compatibility.
• New: Support for the “Insert from URL” option on the back-end file uploader.
• New: Option to configure the thumbnail image file size loading on the front-end gallery layouts.
• New: A new “Dropdown” template for categories.
• New: Option to open single videos in a popup.
• New: Option to customize the auto-imported video titles & descriptions when using the “Automations” feature.
• Tweak: The player integration code has been rewritten for better performance.
• Tweak: All the CSS & JS files added by the plugin are minified for better performance.
• Tweak: Updated to the Gutenberg API Version 2.
• Tweak: Improvised search form layout when only the keyword search is enabled.
• Tweak: Shows HD icon on the player control bar when multiple video resolutions are added and the current playing video resolution is greater than 720p.
• Tweak: Updated the front-end video submission form with “Plupload” library to support large file uploads and reworked the form validation.
• Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.5.5).
• Fix: Fixed several W3C validation errors.
• Fix: [+] a few minor bug fixes.

2.6.4

• Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.5.3).
• Fix: The YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion & Facebook videos not working when configured to use native controls.
• Fix: Video playback issues on webOS TV.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

2.6.3

• New: Support for featured images.
• New: Option to add videos from Rumble.com.
• New: Added support to SRT file format for subtitles.
• New: Option to show subtitles automatically on the player.
• New: Option to configure the “Page Range” in the pagination links.
• New: Action hooks named “aiovg_player_iframe_head” and “aiovg_player_iframe_footer” for developers to add their own custom styles/scripts in the player file.
• Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.5.2).
• Fix: PHP 8.x compatibility issues.
• Fix: WordPress 6.1 compatibility issues.
• Fix: “JavaScript” player type not working in some WordPress environments.
• Fix: Replaced deprecated methods in the Gutenberg blocks.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

2.6.2

• New: Auto import videos from the Vimeo channel, album, folder, group, portfolio, etc.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

2.6.1

• Security Fix: Fixed “Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Download & Server-Side Request Forgery” issue reported responsibly by Chloe Chamberland (Wordfence Threat Intelligence Lead).
• Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.4.5).

2.6.0

• Fix: Disable access to the plugin backend to any user roles other than the “administrator” & “editor”.

2.5.9

• Fix: Dailymotion videos not working when using the “JavaScript” player type.

2.5.8

• New: Introduced “Share”, “Embed” & “Download” buttons.
• New: A filter hook “aiovg_image_url” for developers to override the image URL in the site front end.
• New: Option to restrict the title length in the gallery layout.
• Tweak: Improvised the plugin settings page UI.
• Fix: Issues with Ajax Pagination.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

2.5.7

• Fix: The search form was disabled on some WordPress environments after the last update.

2.5.6

• New: Exclude categories selectively from the front-end search/video forms.
• New: Support for YouTube shorts.
• Tweak: Updated video.js player library & plugins.
• Tweak: Improvised tags input field.
• Tweak: Option to forcefully enable/disable comments in the front-end video pages.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

2.5.5

• New: Introduces an option to exclude video description when auto-importing videos from YouTube.
• Tweak: The video select field in the “AIOVG – Video Player” widget has been replaced by a jQuery Autocomplete UI.

2.5.4

• Security Fix.

2.5.3

• Tweak: Tags input field rebuilt using a standard HTML “select” field.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

2.5.2

• Fix: Ajax Pagination not working when a page contains multiple galleries.

2.5.1

• New: Ajax Pagination.
• New: Options to disable cookies added by the plugin.
• New: A filter hook “aiovg_socialshare_buttons” for developers to override the plugin’s social media buttons.
• Tweak: Tags input field rebuilt using “jQuery AutoComplete UI” instead of the “Select2” library.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

2.5.0

Security Fix: Addresses a validation error in the plugin dashboard that leads to a Local File Inclusion issue. Thanks to “Mr.Erwan LR” from wpscan.com for bringing this issue to us.

2.4.9

Tweak: Fallback to the JetPack HLS URLs.
Fix: Updates to the latest Vimeo Image URLs.

2.4.8

• Fix: WordPress 5.8 compatibility issues.

2.4.7

• Fix: Error when you click the “Add More Quality Levels” in the video form but submit the form without selecting any quality level.

2.4.6

• Fix: SVG Icon sizes are HUGE in some WordPress environments.

2.4.5

• New: Option to show/hide video title on the thumbnail galleries.
• New: Support for “start” and “end” times on the YouTube URLs.
• New: A new “exclude” attribute for the shortcode [aiovg_categories].
• New: Introduced several developer hooks that make the plugin highly extensible.
• Tweak: Replaced the “Big Play Button” in the player with a more clear, more beautiful button.
• Tweak: Added support for a custom video player for YouTube and Vimeo videos on mobiles.
• Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.4.2).
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

2.4.4

• New: Added pagination support for categories.
• New: Introduced speed control.
• New: Introduced quality switcher.
• Fix: WordPress 5.6 compatibility issues.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

2.4.3

• New: Added support for “Video Tags”.
• New: Added “Tumblr” in social sharing buttons.
• Tweak: Updated Freemius SDK (2.4.1).
• Fix: Rank Math plugin compatibility issues.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

2.4.2

• New: Plugin settings specific to “Related Videos”.
• New: A filter hook “aiovg_query_args” for developers to override the WP_Query args of the plugin.
• New: A filter hook “aiovg_back_to_categories_link” for developers to override the “Back to Categories” link on the single category pages.
• Tweak: Display video thumbnails on the back-end “All Videos” list table.
• Fix: WordPress 5.5 compatibility issues.
• Fix: Facebook API compatibility issues.
• Fix: SMUSH plugin conflict issues.
• Fix: Astra theme (“astra_replace_header_attr”) conflict issues.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

2.4.1

• Fix: Duplicate plugin menu on the multisite setup.
• Fix: Private Vimeo videos not working.
• Fix: Muted option not working with the Facebook videos.
• Fix: Featured thumbnail issue on the single video pages.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

2.4.0

• New: Introduced player types (JavaScript, Iframe).
• New: Introduced Video SEO.
• Tweak: “Self Hosted / External URL” source type supports the relative file paths and the encoded (%20) file names.
• Tweak: “Iframe Embed Code” source type supports non-iframe player embeds. Example: TikTok Videos.
• Tweak: The “videos count” info on the categories page, includes the subcategory videos too.
• Fix: Security Fix. Prevent XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) attempts on the title fields.
• Fix: Conflict with the Autoptimize plugin.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

2.3.0

• Fix: Third-party videos like YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion & Facebook not working on iOS devices.
• Fix: Video zoomed inside the player in IE.

2.2.0

• Fix: The player controls not showing with vertical videos.

2.1.0

• Fix: Subtitles not working.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

2.0.0

• New: Replaced “mediaelement.js” player with the “video.js” player library.
• Fix: [+] few minor bug fixes.

EARLIER VERSIONS

For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to the changelog on plugins360.com.