Trashed By

Changelog

1.4 (2021-07-18)

Highlights:

This minor release reimplements how the plugin hooks into WordPress to handle when a post is trashed or untrashed, restructures unit test files, notes compatibility through WP 5.7, and more.

Details:

• Change: Separately hook filters directly related to a post being trashed or untrashed rather than checking during any post status transition
  • New: Add trash_post() to react when a post is trashed
  • New: Add untrash_post() to react when a post is untrashed
  • Delete: Remove transition_post_status()
• Fix: Change __wakeup() method visibility from private to public to avoid warnings under PHP8
• Change: Throw an error if class is instantiated or unserialized
• Change: Improve some function and parameter inline documentation
• Change: Note compatibility through WP 5.7+
• Change: Update copyright date (2021)
• Unit tests:
  • Change: Restructure unit test directories and files within tests/ top-level directory
    • Change: Move bin/ into tests/
    • Change: Move tests/bootstrap.php into tests/phpunit/
    • Change: In bootstrap, store path to plugin file constant so its value can be used within that file and in test file
    • Change: In bootstrap, check for test installation in more places and exit with error message if not found
    • Change: Move tests/*.php into tests/phpunit/tests/
    • Change: Remove ‘test-‘ prefix from unit test files
    • Change: Rename phpunit.xml to phpunit.xml.dist per best practices
• Change: Remove “A screenshot of” prefix from caption
• New: Add a few more possible TODO items

1.3.1 (2020-07-27)

• Change: Note compatibility through WP 5.4+
• Change: Update links to coffee2code.com to be HTTPS
• Change: Fix typo in docs
• Change: Remove a tag from readme.txt’s ‘Tags’ field
• Unit tests: Change: Use HTTPS for link to WP SVN repository in bin script for configuring unit tests (and delete commented-out code)

1.3 (2020-03-17)

• New: Add CHANGELOG.md and move all but most recent changelog entries into it
• New: Add TODO.md and move existing TODO list from top of main plugin file into it (and add more items to the list)
• New: Add .gitignore file
• New: Add link to plugin’s page in Plugin Directory to README.md
• Improve meta key handling:
  • New: Add is_protected_meta() to protect the meta key from being exposed as a custom field
  • Change: Update register_meta() with a proper auth_callback
  • Change: Prefer registering meta via register_post_meta() when available
  • Change: Register meta on init action instead of plugins_loaded
• Change: Record date post was trashed even if a current user can’t be determined
• Change: Expose custom field via REST API
• Change: Omit ‘type’ attribute for ‘style’ tag
• Change: Add get_trashed_by() as the renamed replacement for the now-deprecated get_trasher_id()
• Change: Support a post object or null (for current post) being sent as the argument to get_trashed_by() and get_trashed_on()
• Change: Prevent object instantiation of the class
• Change: Remove duplicate hook registrations
• Change: Allow string “you” to be translated
• Unit tests:
  • New: Add more unit tests
  • Change: Update unit test install script and bootstrap to use latest WP unit test repo
  • Change: Add test and data provider for default hooks that should get hooked
  • Change: Allow create_user() to accept an array argument of user attributes
  • Change: Use update_post_meta() within create_user() instead of add_post_meta()
• Change: Note compatibility through WP 5.3+
• Change: Drop compatibility with version of WP older than 4.9
• Change: Tweak plugin description
• Change: Amend inline docs for get_trashed_by() and get_trashed_on() to indicate that meta values won’t be returned, even if present, if post isn’t in the trash
• Change: Add inline documentation reference for a filter that originates in WP
• Change: Split paragraph in README.md’s “Support” section into two
• Change: Update copyright date (2020)

Full changelog is available in CHANGELOG.md.