Changelog

It's a changelog of the FiboFilters plugin.

  • Release Date - December 17, 2024

    Fixed Did not fetch the currency from the settings, causing the default currency USD to always display.

  • Release Date - December 16, 2024

    Added Custom product sorting within FiboFilters.
    Added Bricks theme integration.
    Added Armania theme integration.
    Added Grouping and searching in long lists of filter values.
    Added Permission for the "Shop Manager" role to manage plugin settings (enabled via a filter). More info.
    Added Option to disable filters for debugging via a hook.
    Added Ability to activate the filter debugger from the browser console.
    Added Limit the total number of filter values.
    Added Improved filter collapsing in mobile and off-canvas views.
    Added WP Rocket plugin integration – improved exclusion of JS scripts from delay and CSS styles from removal.
    Added WP Rocket plugin integration – improved compatibility with Lazy Render Content functionality.
    Added WP Rocket plugin integration – better support for the “Delay JavaScript execution” functionality.
    Added Default theme integration enabled during onboarding.
    Added Option to disable rebuilding the index after settings are updated.
    Fixed Woodmart theme integration – disabled conflicting Woodmart options.
    Fixed Woodmart theme integration – conflict with the “Woodmart Quantity input” in “Theme settings > Products archive > Products styles”.
    Fixed Shoptimizer theme integration – filtering did not work when products were added to the Mega Menu.
    Fixed Blocksy theme integration – fixed wishlist, quick view, and comparison list functionality for products.
    Fixed WPML plugin integration – index build failure due to a fatal error in some cases.
    Fixed Notice about loading translations too early when LocoTranslate is active.
    Fixed PHP notice: Undefined variable $orderedby when loading a WooCommerce template.
    Fixed Pagination issue for URLs missing a trailing slash.
    Fixed JS error and unnecessary wrapping of filter counters.
    Fixed Multilingual issue – removing filters from the URL after a page reload.
    Fixed The list of values for the "Select" filter type was not visible in the mobile view.
    Fixed Filtering did not work when the filter value contained encoded characters.
    Fixed Fatal error when the URL contained query parameters with square brackets.
    Fixed Forcing direct indexing mode did not account for the number of product variations.
    Fixed Incorrect count of viewed products when previous product pages remain hidden.
    Fixed Hidden default categories above products after applying any filter.
    Fixed Conflicts with cache plugins.
    Fixed JavaScript error while fetching single products.
    Fixed Error building the DI container cache.
    Tweak Improved determination of the fetch URL for single products.
    Tweak Hidden the FiboFilters widget from the “Legacy Widget block”.
    Tweak Improved hierarchical checkboxes.
    Tweak Updated labels in brand integrations to reflect the introduction of brand support in WooCommerce 9.4.
    Tweak Cached database query results with a list of product IDs to filter.
    Updated Translations .pot file.
    Updated Freemius SDK.

  • Release Date - October 21, 2024

    Fixed Slow SQL query has been optimized. Very large stores may experience increased CPU load after removing products.
    Fixed PHP Warnings – uninitialized string offset 0 and uninitialized string offset -1.

  • Release Date - October 16, 2024

    Fixed PHP fatal error on the search page in some rare cases.

  • Release Date - October 14, 2024

    Added SEO-friendly pagination.
    Added A PHP filter to manage currency.
    Added Integration with the Betheme theme.
    Added Integration with the Basel theme.
    Added Filter to change expiration time of JSON files with descriptors.
    Added Fetching descriptors via REST API when fetching them as a JSON file fails.
    Added Filters Debugger.
    Added Removing non-existent or invalid filter values from URLs when the page loads.
    Added Possibility to select all sources in onboarding.
    Added Warnings in the Troubleshooting tab can be dismissed.
    Added Server-side pre-filtering when URL contains filters.
    Added New troubleshooting test – checking for inconsistent tax settings.
    Added Danish translation.
    Fixed JavaScript warnings and errors occurred in some cases on the settings page.
    Fixed Botiga theme integration – a value of the main breakpoint was fixed.
    Fixed Flatsome theme integration – disable the experimental Flatsome feature “AJAX loading” that breaks FiboFilters in some cases.
    Fixed Basel theme integration – fixed product ordering and a wrong number of loading products.
    Fixed XStore theme integration – product photo slider was fixed.
    Fixed Woodmart theme integration – disable the “AJAX shop” feature because of conflicts. FiboFilters does AJAX shop, so this Woodmart feature is useless.
    Fixed Woodmart theme integration – broken product grid after saving the Woodmart settings.
    Fixed Woodmart theme integration – support for non-WooCommerce pages.
    Fixed Astra theme integration – support for a quick view and pagination features.
    Fixed JVM WooCommerce Wishlist plugin integration – necessary JS snippet was loaded before jQuery in some cases. The cix-wishlist dependency on the snippet was added.
    Fixed PW WooCommerce Gift Cards plugin integration – prevent showing duplicated gift cards on the product grid.
    Fixed WPML plugin integration – error building index when there is a product with hidden language.
    Fixed Elementor plugin integration – support for WooCommerce sorting in Elementor Loop Grid widget displaying products.
    Fixed SEO – the counter from the anchor of the category links was removed. Web crawlers will read category link anchors like a plain name instead of a category name and then a counter value.
    Fixed “Duplicate entry…” – error during index build when the build gets stuck and the job is resumed by cron.
    Fixed Support more shortcode attributes during filtering on a custom page for the shortcode [products].
    Fixed Incorrect selecting filter values when the values include duplicate slugs.
    Fixed Filter type buttons – reset margin that might be overridden by theme styles.
    Fixed Fatal error related to an html_entity_decode function.
    Fixed Duplicated or missing products on the product grid in some cases when post_parent values are mish-mashed in a user database.
    Fixed PHP warnings when one of the filters is empty.
    Fixed Invisible filters in horizontal layout when collapsed.
    Fixed MacOS optimization – better handling arrays in calcCountersFromDescriptors().
    Fixed Display the string with the dynamic length after rebuilding the index as a part of the fiboFiltersData object. It might prevent some cache systems that check only HTML length.
    Fixed Astra theme integration – fatal error related to the class Astra_Ext_Extension .
    Fixed The source analyzer doesn't recognize data types correctly in some cases.
    Fixed Force HTTPS in the JSON URL if SSL is enabled.
    Fixed Duplicated results on the search results page.
    Fixed Remove a price filter after the page loads when there are no results.
    Fixed Unwanted focus event after removing an applied filter element.
    Tweak Removing an unused descriptor cache code.
    Tweak Don't rebuild the index after changing some filter options or filter order in the filter creator.
    Tweak Delay in scrolling to the top when changing filter values.
    Refactor Creating filter values slug based on attributes slug instead of creating it dynamically based on names.
    Updated Frontend phrases supplementation for languages CZ, DK, DE, EL, ES, FR, IT, LT, NO, NL, PL, PT, SE, TR translations.
    Updated Freemius SDK.

  • Release Date - July 30, 2024

    Added Integration with the “Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)” plugin.
    Added Integration with the “Salient” theme.
    Added Integration with the “Botiga” theme.
    Added Integration with the “Woo Composite Products” plugin.
    Added Integration with the “JVM WooCommerce Wishlist” plugin.
    Added The “Late init” mode. It's useful when a WP Query is fired late eg. inside WordPress page templates.
    Added Allow to set the Content-aware filter ratio per filter.
    Added Support for inconsistent tax settings.
    Added The new filter type – “Buttons”.
    Added Filter values can be sorted numerically.
    Added Possibility to add brackets to filter counters.
    Added Possibility to set the order of filter values with the Tag source by term order (when Tags are sortable).
    Added A tool for debugging filter source.
    Added Norwegian translation.
    Fixed Incorrect translation of values in the “Stock Status” and “In Sale” filters for WPML and Polylang plugins.
    Fixed PHP warning when nofibofilters=2 mode is active.
    Fixed Missing translation for the “Select…” placeholder.
    Fixed Missed the “When to show” option in the range type filter.
    Fixed A useless scrollbar in the “Filter Creator”.
    Fixed Slow price slider when there was large price range.
    Updated Translations .pot file.
    Updated Turkish translations.

  • Release Date - July 09, 2024

    Added Preloader for product placeholders.
    Added Support for numeric values in the range filter.
    Fixed OceanWP theme – broken pages by incorrect product placeholder overriding.
    Fixed The product results counter was broken when there were different characters than the Hyphen, En dash, Em dash. These characters are normalized now.

  • Release Date - July 01, 2024

    Added Elementor integration – support for the Loop Grid widget.
    Added Elementor integration – support for the “Products” widget displayed on a custom Elementor page.
    Added Integration with the “Hide Categories and Products for Woocommerce” plugin.
    Added Integration with the “XStore” theme.
    Added Integration with the “Polylang multilingual” plugin.
    Added Integration with the “Kadence Shop Kit products brands” module.
    Added Divi theme integration – allows displacing filters that correspond with the “Woo Products” module.
    Added Caching the descriptors to static JSON files.
    Added Ability to display filters in a custom location.
    Added Ability to set the number of filter buttons in horizontal and mobile layouts.
    Added Ability to filtering products on non-WooCommerce pages.
    Added New pagination type – infinity scroll
    Added Integrate Elementor and Avada builders with the new feature of Infinity Scroll.
    Added Ability to exclude and include filter values.
    Added Compatibility with the Kinsta Server Caching feature.
    Added Easier browsing of product categories displayed as a checkbox tree.
    Added Information about the number of products above the “Show more products” button.
    Added Troubleshooting – checking whether a JSON file compression is enabled.
    Added Possibility to remove the “Show more products” button counter by filter.
    Fixed Elementor overwrites the colors set in theme integrations.
    Fixed WPML integration – possibility to translate phrases from the front using the WPML String Translation module.
    Fixed GeneratePress Premium theme – support for products per page.
    Fixed Woodmart theme – product placeholder and products per page value are now integrated.
    Fixed Divi theme – a PHP fatal error has occurred in some cases
    Fixed JavaScript error if the result count selector is empty.
    Fixed The index cache wasn't reloaded after the index build.
    Fixed Google PageSpeed Insights – accessibility errors solved.
    Fixed Google PageSpeed Insights – pagination links are crawlable now.
    Fixed Category filter links weren't crawlable in horizontal and mobile filter layouts.
    Fixed Speed optimization – unnecessary requests when loading filters were removed.
    Fixed A JavaScript error in the “Filter Builder” view on the Settings page.
    Fixed An incorrect products loading when the shop URL wasn't set.
    Fixed The filters shortcode – show filters on all screens by default when the filter location is set to “Custom location”.
    Fixed A fatal error while displaying filters when category term didn't exist.
    Fixed Products weren't displayed when their visibility was set to “Search results only” in the product edit view.
    Fixed Greek translation – wrong placeholder %S instead of lowercase %s.
    Fixed “Function \FiboFilters\Filtering\Front::get_config was called incorrectly” notice when editing a page with a FiboFilters block.
    Fixed Improvement of image placeholders in Astra, Electro and OceanWP themes.
    Fixed An error in hierarchical checkboxes in a case when a “Show empty filter values” option was disabled.
    Fixed Filters didn't work correctly when JSON files with descriptors were cached by CDN cache.
    Fixed Faster loading of the settings page.
    Fixed Preventing applying the opacity effect multiple times in hierarchical checkboxes.
    Tweak Loading the filters JavaScript file in the page head instead of at the end of the page load.
    Tweak Queuing JavaScript scripts as a new handler within theme integration.
    Tweak Unnecessary use of wpdb::prepare() when retrieving the descriptors from the database.
    Refactor Unused code related to filtering on a server-side was removed.
    Refactor Improved generation of dynamic price ranges in the Price filter type.
    Updated Translations including .pot, .po and .mo files.
    Updated Freemius SDK.

  • Release Date - April 18, 2024

    Added Scheduling indexing. It allows to rebuild the index automatically on a schedule.
    Added Added WP-CLI commands related to the index.
    Added Possibility to disable filters for debugging by adding the ?nofibofilters=1 parameter to the URL.
    Added Integration with the “WP Rocket” plugin.
    Added Integration with the “FlyingPress” plugin.
    Added Integration with the “Freestyle” theme.
    Added Integration with the “Breakdance builder” plugin.
    Added Possibility to sort products by stock status first, then by other values. It could be activated only by the WordPress filter hook.
    Added Troubleshooting - a new test for ambiguous and incorrectly configured stock status in variable products.
    Added Turkish translation.
    Added Lithuanian translation.
    Fixed Variable products could disappear from the products catalog when the wc_product_attribute_lookup table is corrupted or incomplete.
    Fixed Support for the “Post Card” feature in the Avada theme integration.
    Fixed Index building fails because of a “Duplicate entry...” error.
    Fixed Wrong pagination selector in the Avada theme integration.
    Fixed Incorrect price ranges that were generated in some price combinations.
    Fixed “Woodmart” theme integration - products grid crashes after updating the “Woodmart” theme to v7.4.3.
    Fixed The “Scroll to the top after selecting a filter value” functionality doesn't work.
    Fixed JS error when the first element of ranges is empty and there isn't a possibility to get the rounded_max variable.
    Fixed Language files for plugin settings are not loaded.
    Fixed Pagination - returning to page 1 in the browser history doesn't change the pagination state.
    Fixed Products can't be fetched when the “Shop” page is empty in the WooCommerce settings.
    Fixed Untranslated “Clear” text.
    Fixed An SQL error on the frontend when the index is not ready.
    Fixed Incorrect filter translations when the administrator's language differs from the website's language.
    Fixed Warning about using ReactDOM.render on the settings page.
    Tweak Hide the “Custom” filter location in the onboarding process.
    Tweak Remove unused code.
    Tweak Exposing some internal data that is helpful in debugging.
    Refactor Cleanup in the Request class.
    Refactor Rename “Products loading” to “Pagination types” in the plugin settings.
    Updated Freemius SDK.

  • Release Date - March 21, 2024

    Added Compatibility with the “Variation Swatches for WooCommerce - Pro” plugin.
    Added The CSS class was added to the counter for the “more/less” links to allow users to hide it via CSS.
    Added Swedish translation.
    Added Save indexer fail logs.
    Added Allowing to disable source value types analyzer.
    Added Add a filter to change content-aware filters ratio.
    Added Integration with the “YITH WooCommerce Wishlist” plugin.
    Added Integration with the “Pixel Manager for WooCommerce (Premium)” plugin.
    Added Possibility to hide filters by context (only by PHP snippets).
    Fixed Products disappear from filter results after editing them.
    Fixed The indexer error when filter value label is too long.
    Fixed The plugin settings cannot be saved when the "ESI in LiteSpeed Cache” is enabled.
    Fixed The index cannot be built when the "ESI in LiteSpeed Cache” is enabled.
    Fixed Typos in translations.
    Fixed Issues related to JS onpopstate event.
    Fixed GeneratePress theme - the FiboFilters plugin doesn't recognize GeneratePress settings because of the wrong order of WP hooks.
    Fixed Divi theme - memory limit exceeded error.
    Fixed Astra theme - hidden products when the "Reveal Effect” is enabled.
    Fixed An JS error related to infinity and -infinity types returned by Math.min.
    Fixed Invalid price ranges.
    Fixed Prevent empty url_label.
    Fixed Add a shop page as the base URL to fetch products to fix some integrations with themes.
    Fixed Page shifts after loading horizontal filters.
    Fixed Incorrect “Woocommerce Result Count” values in some cases.
    Tweak Triggering theme actions also after overwriting product placeholders.
    Tweak Index building time optimization.
    Tweak Restoring the default OR logic for the “Categories” filter when the “Checkboxes” type is selected.
    Updated Freemius SDK.

  • Release Date - March 04, 2024

    Added First public release