NEO Bootstrap Carousel

Historique des changements

1.7.0 – 2026-06-14

New Features
* Additional slide sources – the « Posts » source now has a Content Type selector, so a carousel can pull slides from any public custom post type or WooCommerce Products, not just blog posts. The Most Recent / Most Popular / Random / Specific Category modes all carry over: « Specific Category » adapts to the chosen type’s taxonomy (post categories, product categories, or a CPT taxonomy), « Most Popular » orders WooCommerce products by total sales, and « Sticky Posts » stays limited to the core Post type.
* Global Slide Interval (ms) setting under Settings > Design – sets the default slide duration for every carousel on the site. Resolution order: an explicit « interval » shortcode attribute wins, then the per-carousel value, then this global setting, then 5000 ms.
* Per-carousel Slide Interval and Caption Animation overrides – a new « Carousel Settings » side box on the slider edit screen lets each carousel set its own slide duration and caption animation (including « No animation »). Leave a field empty to inherit the global Settings > Design value.
* Custom slide Link Target – each slide (Media and Posts sources) can now open its link in the same window (default) or a new tab; new-tab links receive rel= »noopener noreferrer ».
* Two new developer filters: nbc_slide_post_types (the selectable content types) and nbc_post_type_taxonomy (the taxonomy used for the « Specific Category » filter).

Improvements
* Documentation – the plugin now links to a full online Knowledge Base (https://pixelspress.com/docs/neo-bootstrap-carousel/) for step-by-step guides, settings reference, and troubleshooting. The README is now a focused, user-facing overview; the developer reference (hooks, filters) lives in the Knowledge Base.
* System Status screen now reports Max Input Vars (warns when PHP’s limit could silently drop slides while saving a large slider), the bundled jQuery version, HTTPS status, and WP Debug Mode.
* Asset cache-busting – the admin and public JavaScript and CSS are now versioned by file modification time, so updates reach browsers without waiting for a version bump or a manual cache clear.
* Settings screen layout – the tab content header bar (e.g. « General Settings » with the Save Changes button) now matches the height of the vertical tab items beside it on the General, Design, and Advanced tabs.
* Select2 « Loading more results » and « Searching » messages no longer show corrupted (double-encoded) ellipsis characters.

Changed
* Renamed the « System Requirements » admin page to « System Status » – it now reports the live, evaluated state of the install (pass / fail / info checks and WordPress.org connectivity) instead of a static requirements list. The menu slug, page class, CSS hook (neo-bootstrap-carousel-system-status), and the nbc_system_status_sections filter were renamed to match.
* WPCS cleanup of the placeholder index.php guard files and uninstall.php – the whole plugin now passes the WordPress Coding Standard with zero errors.
* Normalised typographic characters (em/en dashes, curly quotes, arrows, ellipses) to plain ASCII across all plugin files, and kept README.txt and README.md in sync.

Security
* The Design settings save handler now sanitizes its fields server-side before saving (animation style via sanitize_html_class, interval via absint) instead of storing the raw submitted values.

Performance
* The System Status connectivity check and the admin header « Latest version » line now share a single request to api.wordpress.org cached for 12 hours, replacing an uncached remote call that ran on every admin page load.

Fixes
* Per-slide Overlay and Overlay Opacity were reset when the slide list reloaded after changing « Content to Show » (e.g. Most Popular). The reload now carries the on-screen values and merges them with the saved slide data server-side.
* The slide-list AJAX handler now recovers the carousel ID from the edit-screen referer when the request does not include it, so saved Overlay settings still render even with an outdated cached admin script.
* The System Status connectivity check previously read an option that was never set and showed an inverted pass / fail icon; it now reflects the real result.
* The System Status Memory Limit threshold was lowered from 256MB to 64MB (WordPress’s recommended minimum) so healthy sites are no longer flagged, and two requirement-description typos were corrected.

1.6.0 – 2026-05-24

• Feature: Lazy loading for slide images – only the first slide loads immediately, remaining slides load on-demand during transition
• Feature: Post to Show options – Most Popular, Sticky Posts, Random, Specific Category (with AJAX reload)
• Compat: WordPress 7.0 and jQuery 4.0 compatibility verified
• Fix: Overlay and Overlay Opacity settings not saving (PHP 8 strict type comparison with pipe-delimited data)
• Fix: Inline script block moved to wp_add_inline_script() (HTML5 best practice, removes CDATA wrapping)
• Fix: jQuery 4.0 compatibility shims added – $.proxy, $.support.transition, $.fn.emulateTransitionEnd polyfilled
• Fix: jQuery 4.0 compatibility shim added to Select2 for deprecated $.isFunction, $.isArray, $.trim
• Fix: jQuery version gate removed from bundled Bootstrap carousel JS (allows jQuery 4+)
• Fix: Implicit nullable type parameter fixed for PHP 8.4 (shortcode $content)
• Fix: Loose equality (==) replaced with strict (===) in admin JS
• Fix: filter_input(INPUT_GET) replaced with $_GET + sanitize_text_field() in 5 admin files
• Fix: Caption animation function moved from inline script to main JS file (nbcDoAnimations)
• Fix: Template uses require instead of require_once (supports multiple carousels per page)
• Fix: Neo_Bootstrap_Carousel_i18n class renamed to Neo_Bootstrap_Carousel_I18n (PSR naming)
• Fix: WordPress global $post_id override resolved in post-display meta box partial
• Fix: Undefined variable warnings resolved with @var annotations across all template partials
• Fix: WPCS compliance improvements across 15+ files (sanitization, escaping, alignment, formatting)
• Fix: PHPDoc parse error and post-increment corrected in settings tab menu filter
• Fix: Share The Love SVG icons not visible on Welcome page (CSS overflow/positioning fix)
• Refactor: Changelog admin page now reads from README.txt (single source of truth)
• Refactor: Help/FAQ admin page now reads from README.txt (single source of truth)
• Feature: System Status page – added PHP version, WordPress version, plugin version, max execution time, and GD/Imagick checks
• Tweak: README.txt Tested up to updated to 7.0

1.5.1 – 2026-04-08

• Fix: Next/Previous arrow navigation not working due to touch carousel removing Bootstrap data-API click handler
• Fix: Clicking arrow controls was appending carousel ID as URL hash
• Fix: License header corrected to GPL-2.0-or-later (consistent with LICENSE.txt)

1.5.0 – 2026-04-07

• Compatibility: WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.4 verified
• Fix: $(window).load() replaced with $(window).on(‘load’) for jQuery 3.x compatibility
• Fix: flush_rewrite_rules() removed from init hook (was running on every page load)
• Fix: filter_input_array() second argument added to resolve PHP 8.1 deprecation
• Fix: wp-editor Gutenberg block dependency replaced with wp-block-editor (deprecated WP 5.8+)
• Fix: Block editor script dependencies removed from public page enqueue
• Fix: wp_get_attachment_url() extra argument removed (function only accepts 1 param)
• Fix: Null-safety check added for wp_get_attachment_image_src() return value
• Fix: wp_safe_redirect() now followed by exit for correct redirect behaviour
• Fix: nbc_shortcode() now returns empty string instead of null when no slides found
• Fix: Slide overlay inline style value is now properly escaped
• Fix: Gutenberg render callback moved into class as static method (coding standards)
• Fix: Hardcoded plugin version in default_configurations() replaced with VERSION constant
• Tweak: README.txt headers updated (Tested up to: 6.9, Requires PHP: 8.0)

1.4.3 – 2020-04-30

• Note: Overall code improvements using WordPress Coding Standards

1.4.2 – 2019-11-04

• Feature: Added Gutenberg Block
• Note: Improved code.

1.4.1 – 2019-03-13

• Note: Used CDATA inside JavaScript Tag
• Fix: Resolve caption keep showing on slider even when it is disabled from settings panel

1.4.0 – 2019-03-13

• Tweak: Improved Admin UI/UX
• Note: PHP 7.2 compatible
• Fix – Hide empty elements of carousel If no slider is define

1.3.2 – 2018-06-19

• Fix – When hide display navigation, It hide direction arrows too which is fixed now
• Fix – Slide URL label was wrong, when adding a new slide. It is fixed now.

1.3.1 – 2017-11-08

• Fix – Resolved plugin carousel height conflict with Bootstrap based themes.

1.3 – 2017-11-08

• Feature – You can add 3 recent posts
• Feature – Added a link field in media slides to link slides to internal/external pages/posts.
• Note – Structure Improvement.
• Note – CSS Improvement for better loading speed.
• Note – At activation hook, defined the default settings of the plugin
• Note – Removed pause slide

1.2.1 – 2016-12-30

• Note – Security implemented.
• Fix – Resolved Delete Slide bug

1.2.0 – 2016-10-30

• Feature – Added Slide Overlay with Opacity Control Attribute
• Feature – Added Less Files
• Tweak – Complete structure revised.
• Fix – Resolved the unsaved title & description content bug.

1.1.2

• Fix – Undefined variable version and plugin name in class class-neo-bootstrap-carousel-shortcode.php

1.1.1 – 2016-08-27

• Feature – Added More Animations to Caption & Description

1.1.0 – 2016-08-08

• Feature – Added Animations to Caption & Description
• Tweak – Changed Slider Content Area Layout at Admin Panel

1.0.0 – 2016-07-30

• Initial version