WP Abstracts Pro

• Fix - Resolved issue where abstract reviewers were getting duplicated email reminders.
• Fix - Restrict reviewers from seeing submission attachments if bling reviews are enabled.
• Fix - Resolved minimum topic count error when delete topics.
• Improvement - Added registration email notifications to maillog.
• Improvement - Added input sanitization on form builder inputs for user registration and profile updates.
• Improvement - Removed the restriction on simultaneous access to admin and frontend dashboard.
• Security - Resolved insufficient input sanitization on reset password page.
• Compatibility testing up to WP 6.6.2

• Feature - Added option to generate Abstract book from bulk actions
• Feature - Add ability to toogle user role (author / reviewer) from Manage Users screen
• Feature - Added ability to set a page and countdown to redirect users after registration
• Feature - Added admin email and template for new user registration
• Fix - Resolved hidden author and presenter sections when reviewers are editing their own submisison and blind reviews are enabled.
• Fix - Fix account activation link in new user confirmation email
• Fix - Resolved incompatible archive error when installing on Wordpress >= 6.4.3
• Improvement - Separated topics into it own area under Events -> Topics
• Improvement - Added improved email validation
• Improvement - Updated user exports to use enabled admin columns
• Improvement - Add assigned items count to reviewers on Manage Users
• Improvement - Show the count of assigned items when assigning an submission to a reviewer
• Improvement - Enabled multiple select on user registration form
• Compatibility testing up to WP 6.4.3

• Fix - Resolved reviews not showing dashboard
• Improvement - Added improved filter to user lookup for user sync when using multisite implementation
• Compatibility testing up to WP 6.1.1

• Feature - Added ability to customize reviews admin columns
• Fix - Resolved missing submissions on dashboard when using shortcode without event_id ([wpabstracts])
• Improvement - Allow authors to edit submission across multiple statuses
• Improvement - Added ability to remove header/footer in PDF exports
• Compatibility testing up to WP 6.1.1

• Feature - Added auto-reminder email trigger and template for reviewers
• Feature - Added email log tab under emails to show all emails sent by the plugin
• Improvement - Added author and presenter shortcode to email templates
• Fix - Event specific dashboard now correctly filters by specified event identifier
• Fix - Remove HTML tags from description column in csv exports
• Compatibility testing up to WP 6.0.1

• Feature - Added shortcode to display accepted submissions publicly
• Feature - Added ability to customize info included in PDF exports
• Improvement - Updated missing language translations
• Compatibility testing up to WP 5.9.3

• Fix - Excluded archived events submissions from assigned abstract on reviewer dashboard
• Fix - Updated missing language translations
• Fix - Resolved errors when activating plugin on PHP8
• Fix - Resolved reviewers not seeing the updated attachments
• Fix - Resolved issues where custom titles were not updating
• Fix - Added fallback for missing fonts on PDF exports
• Compatibility testing up to WP 5.8.2

• Feature - Added ability to include submission PDF to email notifications
• Feature - Added ability to trigger email when a reviewer submits a review
• Feature - Added ability export reports by event
• Feature - Added ability to ignore user activation at login (when users are registered outside WP Abstracts)
• Feature - Added ability to make attachments required or optional
• Fix - Excluded archived events from csv exports
• Fix - Corrected bug allowing reviewers to edit reviews by other reviewers
• Fix - Corrected sql typo causing email templates not to display
• Improvement - Added Portuguese (Portugal) translation (Thanks to Diogo Alves)
• Improvement - Added check for GD library before using allowing Captcha
• Improvement - Added sorting to reviewer dropdown when assigning reviewers
• Improvement - Added event, topic and user info to review exports
• Improvement - Added natural sort to ID column on admin Abstracts table
• Improvement - Updated PDF generator (mPDF) to v8.0.x
• Compatibility testing up to WP 5.3.2

• Fix - Corrected review attachment visibility for authors
• Fix - Stripped slashes from abstract titles on dashboard
• Improvement - Added new page include filters and custom titles
• Compatibility testing up to WP 5.2.2

Fix - Corrected typo that broke redirect on login

• Compatibility testing up to WP 5.2.2

• Feature - Added the ability to limit the amount of submissions per user
• Feature - Added the ability for reviewers to attach a document to a review
• Feature - Added the ability to set a default status for new submissions
• Feature - Added read-only mode for submissions when not editable
• Improvement - Added email validation on author and presenter emails
• Improvement - Make user id and user email mandatory when exporting users
• Improvement - Added {REVIEW_COMMENTS} to list of email shortcodes
• Improvement - Added event and topic to reviews tab
• Improvement - Added more customizable titles to settings->titles
• Improvement - Now sending status update email on reviews if "Sync Review Status to Abstracts" is enabled
• Improvement - Added visibility flag on reviews to determine if review is visible to the author
• Improvement - Added modified date to abstracts and reviews
• Improvement - Moved Abstract settings to nested tab and added ability to customize abstract admin columns
• Improvement - Added ability to combine first and last name as display name when syncing to Wordpress profile
• Fix - Corrected faulty login redirect when there are multiple event shortcodes
• Fix - Stop admin abstracts revisions from updating the original abstract submission date
• Fix - Corrected faulty user profile deletions that included deleted profiles in user exports
• Compatibility testing up to WP 5.2.2

• Feature - Added captcha on registration form
• Fix - Corrected Internet Explorer issues with registration, submission and editing user profiles
• Fix - Corrected misleading error message when signing in with invalid captcha code
• Fix - Corrected possible server 500 error when bulk downloading attachments
• Improvement - Added Dutch (Netherlands) translation (Thanks to Bas van den Oever)
• Compatibility testing up to WP 5.0.3

• Fix - Corrected permissions error when reviewers attempt to edit or delete a review
• Compatibility testing up to WP 5.0.2

• Feature - Added the ability to sync form builder fields to wordpress user profile
• Feature - Added the ability to customize login, dashboard and submission headers, titles, labels and messages
• Feature - Added the ability to allow edits on a particular status
• Feature - Added ability to auto activate user on registration
• Feature - Added the ability to select events while submitting abstracts (also backward compatible)
• Feature - Added the ability to archive events
• Feature - Added customizable emails to admins, authors and assigned reviewers when submissions are revised
• Fix - Removed buggy checkbox and radio group from form builder (use select instead)
• Fix - Corrected validation error when saving abstracts with show description disabled
• Fix - Automatically remove columns from user table when form field is deleted
• Improvement - Deleting events now deletes submissions, reviews and attachment linked to that event.
• Improvement - Added {ABSTRACT_KEYWORDS}, {ABSTRACT_TOPIC}, {SUBMITTER_NAME} and {SUBMITTER_EMAIL} shortcodes to email templates
• Improvement - Added ability to reset attachment input file (not replace) while submitting abstracts
• Improvement - Disable accesiblity to /?task=register if "user can register" is disabled
• Improvement - Added customizable subject line with shortcodes to registration email
• Improvement - Added stronger permissions checks to frontend dashboard when managing items
• Improvement - Added keywords to exports
• Compatibility testing up to WP 5.0.2

• Feature - Added multisite compatibility
• Feature - Added advanced interaction controls (type-ahead all column search, filters, quicker pagination, and more) to all tables
• Feature - Added ability to bulk assign reviewers to selected abstracts
• Feature - Added ability to bulk download selected attachments
• Feature - Added ability select which admin account(s) receives admin notifications
• Improvement - Added ability to include email shortcodes in email subject
• Improvement - Added search, sorting and pagination to author / reviewer dashboards
• Improvement - Added event and topic columns and filters to attachments tab
• Improvement - Included type requested and topic in reviewer dashboard
• Improvement - Updated form validation to avoid theme conflicts
• Improvement - Disabled WordPress edit page link from WP Abstracts Dashboard
• Improvement - Updated and improved the word counter
• Improvement - Added reviewer names and emails to csv exports
• Compatibility testing with WP 4.9.8

• Fix - Corrected bug where Event showed "Error: This event was removed" when editing Abstracts.
• Fix - Removed parameter missing warning message when users are activating accounts.
• Compatibility testing with WP 4.9.7

• Feature - Added ability for admins to manually activate users.
• Fix - Corrected error when exporting users
• Fix - Woocommerce users with an added subscriber role can now see the "New Abstract" button
• Fix - Corrected warning message and bug in user exports
• Improvement - Added ability to restore user registration form-builder default inputs
• Improvement - Added date field to user registration form-builder input group.
• Improvement - Added better UX for word counter
• Improvement - Insisted User Id column and desc order in user exports
• Compatibility testing with WP 4.9.7

• Feature - Added the ability to create unlimited statuses for Abstracts and Reviews
• Feature - Create unlimited email templates to map to submission triggers, status changes and reviewer related events
• Feature - Implemented shortcode for registration form. Use [wpabstracts_register] show the registration form
• Feature - Implemented shortcode for login form. Use [wpabstracts_login] show the login form
• Feature - Added the ability to add multiple presenters
• Fix - Corrected issue where users intermittently displays under user tab
• Fix - Corrected user form builder display issue when special characters are present in the form
• Fix - Corrected issue with submission forms validation (events, abstracts and reviews) when other inputs are present on the page
• Fix - Corrected typo in Shortcode copy to clipboard
• Improvement - Removed special jQuery dependency from formbuilder
• Improvement - Migrated Email related settings to Email Tab
• Improvement - Improved and included FAQs under help tab
• Compatibility testing with WP 4.9.6

• Feature - Added customizable user registration using form builder
• Feature - Enable or disable forced redirection to author dashboard after login
• Fix - Corrected pagination bug when filtering by presenter preference and performing actions
• Improvement - Review reports now exports status description
• Improvement - System will authenticate reviewers even if the user has multiple roles including editor
• Improvement - Added event shortcode to events screen for copying to clipboard
• Compatibility testing with WP 4.9.5

• Feature - Added Spanish (Chile) translation (Thanks to Cristian Nova Castillo)
• Fix - Corrected issue that affected listings on plugin page and plugin details modal
• Improvement - Login now checks for the presence of a the subscriber or editor role
• Improvement - Adjusted file extension validation to be more inclusive.
• Improvement - Added keywords to abstract info on review screens
• Improvement - Added filters to email template shortcodes
• Compatibility testing with WP 4.9.2

• Feature - Added ability to assign unlimited reviewers to abstracts
• Fix - Corrected issue that affected uploading large attachments
• Improvement - Validation, error messaging and performance improvements for attachment uploads
• Improvement – Added ability for users to remove and add new attachments while editing abstracts
• Improvement - Implemented license validation for automatic updates
• Compatibility testing with WP 4.9.1

• Feature - Added Spanish (Argentina) translation (Thanks to Veronica Gomez)
• Fix - Preserve ownership of abstract when reviewer edits the submission
• Fix - Show correct list of users when managing ownership and "reviewer can submit" is enabled
• Compatibility testing up to WP 4.8.2

• Feature - Enable / disable admin email notifications when reviews are submitted
• Feature - Added new email template for admin notifications when reviews are submitted
• Feature - Added a new abstract status and the ability to customize status descriptions
• Feature - Added a new email template for 'Under Review' status
• Feature - Added filter by presenter preference to abstracts list table
• Feature - Added presenter preference to abstract / review Sync setting
• Feature - Added author and user to abstract search fields
• Feature - Added “keywords” and “affiliations” to PDF exports
• Feature - Added Brazilian translation (Thanks to Gabriel Vieira)
• Feature - Added German translation (Thanks to Wolfgang Saus)
• Fix - Remove author and presenter fields when blind review is enabled
• Fix - Upgraded PDF exporter for PHP7+ compatibility
• Removed - Removed the Summary Tab (Summary can be obtained from Reports tab)
• Compatibility testing up to WP 4.8.2

• Feature - Added optional security captcha to login
• Feature - Added the ability use the 'add media' option on the text editor
• Feature - Media/images can now be included in exported PDFs
• Fix - Resolved intermittent error when exporting PDFs on PHP7
• Improvement - Implemented login using AJAX (apart of roadmap for future development)
• Improvement - Topics can now accepts commas
• Compatibility testing up to WP 4.8

• Feature - Added the ability to turn off abstract description field
• Fix - Remove back slash from abstract title when apostrophes are used.
• Fix - Resolved issue with word count.
• Fix - Resolved issue where review submission sometimes failed
• Fix - Resolved sorting by topics error
• Improvement - Facelift the login form and added Lost Password link
• Compatibility testing up to WP 4.7.3

• Feature - Added the ability to turn off author fields
• Feature - Added user's name to the csv abstracts exports under reports
• Feature - Added status filter and search to Abstracts
• Feature - Added user role/type filter and search to Users
• Feature - Added ability to create and export a zip of all attachments
• Feature - Added search option for attachment tab
• Feature - Added abstract and attachment IDs to attachment tab
• Feature - Added {PRESENTER_PREFERENCE} list of shortcodes for email templates
• Feature - Added optional author email alerts on reviewer comments
• Feature - Added optional keywords field to submission page and setting option
• Feature - Added optional terms & conditions to submission page and setting option
• Feature - Added optional setting to hide reviewer comments
• Feature - Added optional setting to sync reviewer status choice to abstracts
• Fix - Corrected email templates from being reset when plugin is re-activated
• Fix - Corrected email template id when bulk action is used to Accept submissions
• Fix - Corrected broken reviewer assignments when assigning additional reviewers to submission
• Fix - Corrected broken attachment download issue on author's dashboard
• Fix - Corrected glitch in changing topics while editing abstracts
• Fix - Corrected event deadline to correctly compare current date and event deadline irrespective of the current wordpress datetime format
• Fix - Corrected unwanted slashes in text editor when apostrophes are used.
• Improvement - Included more wordpress filters for admin tabs, header, pages and frontend dashboard, get and edit views.
• Improvement - Event is now automatically selected/set based on event ID from shortcode on the dashboard
• Compatibility testing up to WP 4.5.2

• Feature - Added auto-updater to allow future updates from wordpress plugin's page
• Feature - Added presenter preference and abstract Id shortcode for automated emails
• Feature - Added the ability to turn off presenter preference
• Feature - Added the ability to change abstract status back to pending
• Feature - Added setting to allow reviewers to be authors
• Feature - Added filter to reviewer list to exclude already assigned reviewers
• Fix - Blocked reviewers from being assigned their own abstracts
• Fix - Blocked direct downloads for abstracts, attachments and reports (security Fix)
• Fix - Removed passed events from the drop down for new submissions
• Fix - Corrected date on exported PDFs
• Fix - Corrected remaining attachments allowed while in editing abstracts
• Fix - Corrected pagination results on abstracts and attachment tabs
• Fix - Corrected the show admin bar issue glitch
• Tweak - Optimized abstracts and attachments tabs to handle large amounts of submissions
• Tweak - Minor revamping of the admin panel
• Compatibility testing up to WP 4.4

• Feature - Added email templates for status change - accepted and rejected
• Feature - Added the ability to turn off attachment completely
• Feature - Added the ability to unassign a reviewer
• Fix - Exporting file name issue under Reports
• Fix - Minor JS bug affecting abstracts submission
• Fix - Author affiliations input field limitation issue

• Fix - Language and localization bug
• Fix - Enabling blind review displayed author's name on reviewer's dashboard
• Fix - Author instructions not saving
• Fix - Auto-update error on WP plugin page
• Fix - Reviewer submission setting affected author's dashboard

• Enhancement - Completely new Responsive front-end dashboard
• Feature - Added Attachments Tab for fast and easier access to uploaded attachments
• Feature - Added Ability to customize outgoing emails
• Feature - Added submission deadline on events / conferences
• Feature - Added Automatic Updates. Update to the latest version just like you would with other plugins
• Feature - Added support for multiple events or conferences. Include the event ID in the shortcode E.g.[wpabstracts event_id##2]
• Feature - Added option (under setting tab) to disable reviewer abstract editing privileges
• Feature - Added option (under setting tab) to disable reviewer abstract submission privileges
• Feature - Merged Author and Reviewers login area (now one dashboard login but backward compatible)
• Tweak - Redesigned the user's manager area
• Tweak - Partial transition to jQuery
• Tweak - Minor admin area JS and CSS tweak
• Compatibility testing up to WP 4.1

• Feature - Added limit for attachment uploads per submission
• Feature - Added customizable instruction text for authors
• Feature - Authors can now delete abstracts if still in pending mode
• Feature - Ability to customize presenter preferences
• Fix - Front-end HTML rendering issues on some templates (a work in progress)
• Fix - Content sanitization issue while saving abstract description
• Fix - Character count now changed to word count and rectified
• Fix - Date error/warning while adding reviews
• Fix - Only related topics are loaded on event change when editing abstracts
• Tweak - Author's name now accepts commas
• Tweak - Added event name on abstracts listing
• Tweak - Added submissions count to events listing
• Tweak - Proper chart labeling of y-axe under reports
• Compatibility testing with WP 3.9.2

• Feature - Added language support (Thanks to Stergatou Eleni, CTI, Greece)
• Feature - Added Greek translation (Again thanks to Stergatou Eleni)
• Feature - Ability for blind reviews
• Fix - Topics are now displayed to the reviewers in IE.
• Fix - Abstract sorting error on reviews tab
• Fix - PHP short tags
• Fix - WP debug notices
• Tweak - Added get_option('date_format') . ' ' . get_option('time_format') for abstracts display in admin pages
• Tweak - Simplified shortcode to [wpabstracts] (backward compatibility kept)
• Tweak - Added flick as jquery ui css theme
• Tweak - Added Abstract ID column on Reviews tab
• Tweak - Migrated HTML to separate location
• Tweak - Partial transition from Javascript to jQuery
• Compatibility testing with WP 3.9.1

• Feature - Reports tab with graphs and csv exports
• Feature - Download Abstracts as PDF
• Feature - Ability to add up to 3 reviewers
• Feature - Setting to turn off 'change ownership' on submissions
• Feature - Added Author Affiliation to submissions
• Fix - Better HTML formatting abstracts description
• Fix - Restrict removal of all authors
• Fix - Error when email reviewer on assignment is enabled
• Tweak - Added tooltips on settings page
• Tweak - Partial transition from Javascript to jQuery

• Feature - Option to manage attachments from the edit screen.
• Feature - Option to assign abstracts to existing users (change ownership).
• Feature - Option for reviewers to submit abstracts
• Feature - New column to show attachment count on submissions
• Fix - possible "header() already sent" error while downloading attachments
• Fix - bug on summary page where abstracts displayed wrong title
• Tweak - Minor JS and CSS tweak

• Initial Release