- Fix: xHamster not working. Its direclty supported with normal URLs now. Note ARVE needs to allow referrer to me send, with this privacy enhancement disabled xHamster will see the domain you are embedding from.
- Fix: multisite (needs to be confirmed).
- Show messages about incompatibility issue with All in One SEO Pack.
- Fix: Duplicated controls in ARVE Block sidebar.
- Fix: Help tests were not showing in Settings page.
- New: URL detection for VK.com videos.
- New: Add current theme and version to Debug Info.
- Fix: PHP error when
$GLOBALS['content_width']
is not an integer. Props Gianluca.
- WP 6.6 marked as required.
- New: Brings back support for Shortcode UI that was removed previously. Note that in SCUI it uses yes/no and ARVE dialog uses true/false. There may come some improvement on that later.
- Fix: Remove script module and WP interactivity registering as this is done by WP in 6.6 now and caused double register and ordering issues.
- Fix: Make sure the ARVE shortcode modal is closed when selecting a thumbnail and reopened afterwards.
- Fix: Help toggle in new ARVE Shortcode dialog.
- Improved: Show message that the ARVE Button in Classic Editor needs WP 6.6 (sorry, to be released 2024-07-16).
- Fix: Rare src mismatch errors with YouTube.
- Improved: Set block api version to 3.
- Improved: Show message that the ARVE Block needs Gutenberg active or WP 6.6.
- Improved: Set WP required version to 6.5 in main plugin file, previously only set in readme.
- New: Invidious URL Parameter setting for new extra privacy addon.
- Fix: Encoding and JSON errors related how things were stored in oembed cache.
- Fix: Issue activating licenses.
- Improved: Yet another Setting page overhaul, dropping Alpine.js for WP Interactivity API.
- Improved: Bring back reset buttons for settings sections.
- Improved: A couple of typos.
- Removed Shortcode UI support. (That plugin did now have a release in 5 years, the ARVE dialog is better anyway IMO)
- Compatibility with latest Pro addon.
- Improved: Changes how the referrer setting works.
no-referrer
by defaultstrict-origin-when-cross-origin
for selected providers. - Fix: Some YouTube videos (music?) do not without without allowing reverer to be send so YouTube was added to the list to allow it by default.
- Improved: ARVE own video IDs are no longer random, this is better for SEO and other things.
- New: Support for ok.ru.
- New: Rutube video url detection. (only embed code worked before).
- Fix: Videos with quotes in the title/description caused json_decode syntax error.
- Fix: Some Vimeo videos not working without cache working.
- Fix: src mismatch error testing.
- Improved: Error display.
- Fix: Do not delete cache every time.
- Fix: Some broken Vimeo videos. And possibly other bugs.
- Fix: Lazyload and Lightbox (Pro) were not displayed when used with video files.
- Performance of oembed deletion.
- Move the "Delete oEmbed cache" button to the top of the Debug tab in the Settings. Press it if you have trouble with thumbnails.
- Fix?: Initialize deletion of oembed caches later.
- New/Fix: Setting to allow domain restricted videos.
- Fix: Show Blog entries in correct order on settings page.
- Fix: Fatal error prevention for people using outdated versions of ARVE Pro while upgrading the main plugin to version 10. Update to Pro 6.x.x is mandatory.
- Fix: Vimeo domain restriction
- Fix: Activation error related to script dependencies. (Elementor)
- Elementor Widget.
- Support for Kick.
- Optional ARVE button on the admin bar for quick access to the ARVE Settings page.
- Support for new DSGVO and Extra Privacy addon.
- Pasting iframe embed code in the URL/Embed Code field in the Block Editor.
- Lots code changes to modernize and make the code more robust.
- Better way to negate WPs own aspect ratio for embed blocks.
- Further privacy enhancements.
- New look and UX improvement to the shortcode creation dialog in Classic Editor.
- Loop and Mute previously were only used for (self hosted) video files. These shortcode attributes now add
loop=1&mute1
to the iframesrc
as well. Note not every provider supports them. To loop YouTube videos the video ID was also need as theplaylist=
parameter. ARVE is doing this automatically now. - Sandbox setting has been replaced with 'Enable Encrypted Media'.
- Fix: Wrongly displayed message about outdated PHP version.
- Cut development files from the distribution.
- Improved: Make Admin notice dismiss without jQuery. May fix an extremely rare issue of dismiss failing.
- Tested with latest WP 6.5-nightly
- Plugin is no longer being tested with PHP versions below 7.2+, in theory the 9.x versions should work with PHP 5.6+.
- Tested with latest WP 6.5-nightly
- Updated warning that next major version will required php 7.4+.
- Fix: Styles not loading correctly in latest Gutenberg versions.
- Fix: Yoast SEO compatibility and other possible issues.
- Fix: Fatal error with WordPress 5.8.6
- New: Warning massage that ARVE will require PHP 7.2 soon.
- New: Support for extra classes (Advanced section) on the ARVE block.
- New: You can align left/right the ARVE block now.
- Fix: Styles were not applied inside new Gutenberg versions.
- Improved: Videos are no longer playble in the Block editor, instead the block is selected when clicking on them.
- Improved: Some minor code changes.
- Fix: WP Courseware Course Builder meta box was always collapsed. (Could not get the ARVE button to work for the Course Description)
- Fix: Rumble videos not work correctly on all cases correct oembed data.
- Fix: Invisble Shortcode creation dialog content.
- Fix: Hide the dialog when the WP image upload dialog is opened.
- Fix: Issue when browser does not support
<dialog>
.
- Fix: Incompatibility with Accelerated Mobile Pages by removing the jquery-ui depedancy and using a native
<dialog>
for the shortcode creator modal. This may also fix layering (z-index) issues with other plugins.
- New: TikTok support.
- Improved: Removed deprecated message because it broke the WP login when debug output was enabled.
- Fix: Give errors and prevent php 8.0 and 8.1 from having errors when the aspect ratio contains non integer numbers like
0.9:1
only integers are allowed like9:10
. - Improved: Update EDD updater class.
- Fix: Divi endless reload issue is hopefully finally fixed. ARVE Pro users please note this is a workaround that causes previews inside the Divi builder not have the correct data. Most noticable thumbnails and titles. If you provide a fallback thumbnail in ARVE Pro settings it will show that while you using Divi. The plugin works correctly on the frontend. However the "Video (ARVE)" button currently does not work in Divi.
- Fix: Shortcode Creator dialog with Advanced Custom Fields plugin active.
- Improved: Simplyfied and reduced debug info.
- Improved: Adjustments for updated ARVE Pro version.
- Fix: Block not registering.
- Introduces clickable area above the Block in the Editor.
- Fixed Thumbnail image overflowing.
- Removed maximal width setting when not aligned. This concept does not fit Gutenberg. Width should be controlled by setting the block to wide or full alignment.
- Introduces a recommended
block.json
. - Some other minor improvements.
- New: Add new 'Darken' hover effect option for Pro Addon.
- Removed Ustream from providers (not functional bought up by IBM)
- Improved browser support to display aspect ratio correctly on older browsers.
- Fix: '[Vue warn]: Cannot find element: #arve-sc-vue' JavaScript error on admin page.
- Fix: Some internal errors generated for YouTube embeds.
- Fix: Elements from the dialog showing up in Elemetor. (Button does not work)
- New: Support for brighteon
- Improved: Make sure there is no ARVE pecific json left in the oemed caches after uninstalling the plugin.
- Fix: Partially reverse
preload="none"
on<video>
. This causes thumbnails not to be generated from the video by the browser.preload="none"
will be used only for Lazyload and Lightbox mode when there is a thumbnail image. - Improved: Seo data is now generated in
json-ld
.
- Deprecated: Shortcode UI dialog is no longer maintained but you can still use it by clicking on "Add Post Element" button when Shortcode UI is installed.
- New: ARVE now has its own dependecy free Shortcode creator dialog in Classic Editor. It will pop up when you click the "Embed Video" button that previously opened up Shortcode UI dialog.
- New: Support for tv.gab.com
- Improved: Video files will be embedded with
preload="none"
to prevent desktop browsers from buffering videos without interaction. - Improved: Tested with WP 5.9 nighly and PHP 8.0
- Improved: Make use of modern CSS
aspect-ratio
instead of padding hack.
- Fix: Vimeo color bar thumbnail issue. (they changed their URLs)
- Fix: Vimeo chat can now be embedded with ARVE
allow-forms
will be added to sandbox attribute.
- Fix: Removed
<template>
tag that was causing AMP errors messages.
- New: Support for v.qq.com videos.
- Fix:
.m4v
files not loading.
- Fix: 'None numeric value' errors in some situations.
- Fix: Scripts wrongly moved to the
<head>
with the "Always load assets" option turned on.
- Minor tweak: Load main.js in
<head>
. - Tested with WP 5.7.0
- Improved: Load scripts with higher priority.
- Fix: Error related to removed notice script.
- Fix: JSON decode error appearing.
- Fix: Error messages for no longer needed and not existing
.js
file. - Improved: Default width for sticky videos set to
500px
. - Tested with WP 5.7-RC2
- Fix: Possible conflict with PHP8 polyfills.
- Fix: Unintentional newlines.
- Improved: Tweaks to make debugging easier.
- Options for sticky videos are ready to use.
- Fix: Shortcode arguments not working in all situations.
- Removed services that went down.
- Fix: Conflict with Notice library.
- Changes to oembed data caching.
- Fixed and further simplified oembed caching.
- Improved: Allow forms for Wistia.
- New video hosts support for
- LBRY
- Odyssey
- mail.ru
- donnersender.ru
- banned.video & cantcensortruth.com mirror site. Works directly with their URLs, not their embed codes. ARVE works without using their JavaScript on your site.
- Fix: Classic Video widget use with provider urls.
- Fix: Filtered out link in new admin notices.
- Improved: Caching system simplified and improved.
- Improved: Added info if logged in user can not install plugins.
- Improved: Make more tags filterable.
- Fix: Include new library for notices.
- Fix: (hopefully) Non dismissible admin notices. Also removed the notice that came with 9.0-beta completely.
- Fix: rumble.com and other providers.
- Improved: The tiny JavaScript of ARVE is now loaded in the
<head>
with<script async src=
this will deal with edge cases when styles would get applied late.
- Fix: Avoid passing
null
tostr_contains
. - Improved: Code related to the above.
- Improved: Added back Installation section to the readme.
Improved:
- Simplified CSS and reduced size.
- Security related escaping and filtering HTML output on settings page.
- No longer show save buttons on Debug Info tab. Nothing to save there.
- Added back info text for URL Parameters settings. Found in the code from 8.0.
- Added in placeholders for text fields.
- General code improvements and removal of unused code.
- Fix: Missing 'Normal' mode select
- Revert some things that made latest Pro tests fail
- Fix: Compatibility with Astor Theme.
- Improved: Added notes that Shortcode UI is not maintained to the button and readme.
- Improved: Added notes about outdated PHP versions to settings page sidebar.
- Improved: Classic Tabs, new settings section for upcoming ARVE sticky Videos.
- Improved: Lots of code restructured and improved.
- New: Vimeo play button option for ARVE Pro
- Improved: Fitvids conflict mitigation