- [NEW LANGUAGE] Adding Indonesian language support!
- [NEW SETTING] Creating a setting to allow users to control how big the AI Relation batch size should be. (The default is 500 posts at a time. This can be too many for some sites and reducing the batch size is needed. Conversely, some sites have lots of small posts and many resources, so increasing the batch size allows processing to go faster.)
- [NEW SETTING] Creating setting to allow users to restrict autolinks to specific post types! (The setting is called “Restrict Autolinks to Specific Post Types” and it is in the Advanced Settings tab)
- [IMPROVEMENT] Adding “Show Linked/Unlinked” settings to the Sitemap Menu for Custom Sitemaps!
- [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the attribute adding for Autolinks so it’s more reliable.
- [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the Related Posts widget so that it doesn’t need to be refreshed when the settings for thumbnails change.
- [IMPROVEMENT] Removing legacy update routine to speed up plugin activation.
- [IMPROVEMENT] Adjusting the AI Relationship database so that relationship calculations run faster.
- [IMPROVEMENT] Creating filters to allow site owners to restrict access to Link Whisper menu-level features. such as the Autolinking and URLChanger. (Information about this new filter can be found here: https://linkwhisper.com/knowledge-b...s-to-link-whisper/#controlling-feature-access)
- [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the license checks to fix a timeout issue that would keep Link Whisper from activating.
- [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the AI Relationship Calculating so that it has much more granular data processing, and addresses itself to sites with limited resources better.
- [IMPROVEMENT] Adding a filter to allow programmatic link attribute filtering. (The filter is called “wpil_filter_active_link_attrs”, and allows you to adjust the attributes added to specific links)
- [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the URL to Post tracing so that it better finds posts that have parents.
- [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the Broken Link Checker’s ability to track minified YouTube links to reduce false positives.
- [EFFICIENTCY] Improving the data compression memory handling so that it’s more efficient.
- [EFFICIENTCY] Improving the AI Relationship data compression/decompression so that it runs faster and uses less memory.
- [EFFICIENTCY] Improving the AI Relationship data cleanup processes so that they are more efficient and work on a wider range of databases.
- [COMPATIBILTY] Improving Cloudflare handling during AI Processing.
- [COMPATIBILTY] Ignoring caching during AI Processing to ensure that we’re always processing fresh data.
- [UX/UI] Creating feature-highlighting tooltips! (The tooltips will occasionally pop up and point out features that may be handy. All tooltips are permanently dismissable)
- [UX/UI] Adjusting the Broken Link Report’s pagination controls so the report looks nicer.
- [UX/UI] Adjusting the Broken Link Report’s URL editor so it always displays full width and doesn’t get squished on smaller screens.
- [UX/UI] Adding error notice to say when there’s been a problem with deleting links from the Broken Links Report.
- [UX/UI] Renaming the ‘AI Batch Processing’ to ‘AI Processing Cron Task’ to better reflect its operation.
- [BUGFIX] Fixing bug that was keeping the setting to “Add destination title” to links from applying to Autolinks.
- [BUGFIX] Fixing bug that would sometimes cause an endless loop when trying to insert a link in a small sentence.
- [NEW MAJOR FEATURE] Creating the new Sitemap feature!!! (The Sitemap allows you to visualize all the links on your site, see the relations between your posts, and see what posts and domains are getting the most links)
- [NEW SETTING] Creating setting to allow users to disable the Autolinking Scan. (Disabling the scan will prevent Link Whisper from inserting autolinks when they are first created. Autolinks can still be created via post update and the Autolinking Cron task)
- [NEW SETTING] Creating settings to ignore specific posts so that accessibility icons aren’t added to links on the page.
- [NEW SETTING] Creating Related Posts setting to allow you to use the first image of a post as its thumbnail image if the post doesn’t have a set thumbnail.
- [IMPROVEMENT] Adding options to only select Related Posts from posts that are in the same categories and tags as the current one.
- [IMPROVEMENT] Adding an Autolink Refresh feature to the Autolinking Cron task so it will clean up old autolinks that should be removed.
- [IMPROVEMENT] Creating a filter to allow users to programmatically decide if an Autolink should be inserted in a post. (The filter is called “wpil_force_include_autolink_post”)
- [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the Link Whisper license checks so that they will be more robust.
- [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the Broken Link Checker’s ability to handle posts with base64 encoded SVG images. (Would sometimes get stuck on posts that contained them)
- [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the Domain Report’s search so it can now support comma-separated searching! (Just comma-separate the links/domains that you want to look for, and Link Whisper will pull up the matches)
- [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the Suggestion Process’s ability to insert links into posts with base64-encoded images. (The image sources were so big, that trying to process posts that contained them would sometimes cause the server timeout to be hit)
- [IMPROVEMENT] Setting the Autolinking Cron task to process posts from newest to oldest.
- [BUGFIX] Fixing a bug that would cause posts to be listed as orphaned when Rank Math was active.
- [BUGFIX] Fixing error notice to improve PHP 5.6 support.
- [BUGFIX] Fixing empty variable notices.
- [BUGFIX] Fixing dynamic property notice.
- [BUGFIX] Fixing a bug in the Link Report’s search that would sometimes cause it to fail to find existing posts.