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Smash Balloon – Custom Facebook Feed Pro changelog

Release notes for every version we have on record, newest first.

Latest 4.14.0 40 versions
4.14.0 Latest 3 new1 improved9 fixed
New
  • Reels can now open in a full-screen, swipeable player. Turn on Swipe View for Reels under Settings > Advanced; every other post keeps opening the lightbox as before.
  • An admin notice now warns you when a feed has been showing an old saved copy of your Facebook posts for several days because it can't fetch fresh content, and the weekly Feed Issue Email Report now covers this case too.
  • Added a Data Sharing settings tab where you can opt in to anonymous data sharing and in-plugin notifications.
Improved
  • Refreshed the About Us page.
Fixed
  • Facebook source errors are now reported more accurately. Rate limits no longer show a false "Source Invalid" or reconnect prompt, a problem on one source is still reported when another is only being rate-limited, and feeds from a Facebook Page you don't manage are flagged as invalid again in the feed builder. Facebook API errors also come with clearer guidance on what to do.
  • A Facebook source that starts working again now clears its own error, so the critical-issue notice, admin menu badge, Site Health warning and weekly issue email no longer stay on for a problem that has been resolved. When the plugin does report a critical issue, the settings page now explains it.
  • The "Action Required Within 7 Days" data-deletion warning now only appears while that deletion is actually scheduled, and the Settings page no longer fails to load on sites with an older stored error.
  • GDPR mode now serves album and multi-image post images from local copies before consent, detects Borlabs Cookie 3.x consent, and reliably blocks the Facebook CDN in "Automatic" mode.
  • Activating a license key with no activations left now shows an error explaining the site limit instead of the Activate button spinning indefinitely.
  • The Smash Balloon logo is back on the left of the Settings page header.
  • Dismissed in-plugin notifications no longer reappear after a page reload.
  • The deactivation feedback survey no longer conflicts with other Smash Balloon plugins active on the same site.
  • Plugin security hardening.
4.13.0 1 new1 fixed
New
  • Facebook events can now be synced into The Events Calendar or Sugar Calendar, so the events you already display in a feed also appear as real entries on your calendar. Pick your event sources and calendar plugin under Settings > Events Sync, and the plugin keeps them up to date on a schedule, cover images included. Events you delete from your calendar stay deleted. Available on Elite licenses.
Fixed
  • The Settings page no longer fails to load on sites whose license details were saved by an older version of the plugin.
4.12.0 2 improved
Improved
  • Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 7.1.
  • The feed builder and the Facebook feed are now far more accessible to keyboard and screen reader users, meeting WCAG 2.1 AA. Selector cards, the comments toggle, load more and the slider arrows can all be reached and operated by keyboard with visible focus; the lightbox keeps focus inside it, closes with Escape, returns focus to the post you opened, and describes each image as you move through...
4.11.0 1 new1 improved
New
  • Facebook Events feeds can now be connected using your own Facebook App, which fetches your Pages automatically — no more looking up and pasting an iCal URL.
Improved
  • The iCal URL option has been removed from the feed builder and the Manage Sources screen. Existing event feeds set up with an iCal URL keep displaying as before, but the URL can no longer be added or changed from the admin — if one stops working, reconnect the feed using your own Facebook App instead.
4.10.0 2 fixed
Fixed
  • The feed builder no longer fails to load when a user's onboarding data is stored in an unexpected format.
  • Plugin security hardening.
4.9.0 4 fixed
Fixed
  • The tooltip wizard now works correctly in the WordPress 6.9+ and 7.0 block editor.
  • Page names no longer show as "undefined" when connecting a source via OAuth.
  • Extension license keys are now saved correctly.
  • Plugin hardening.
4.8.1 1 new1 improved4 fixed
New
  • Added a Help widget to the feed builder for in-app access to documentation and support.
Improved
  • Corrected typos and grammar in plugin UI strings, admin notices, and tooltips.
Fixed
  • Feed images with a missing height value no longer cause a fatal error during feed rendering.
  • Feeds displayed inside the Elementor editor now render correctly in Chromium-based browsers.
  • Feeds embedded via the block editor now load correctly.
  • The Elementor widget title is now translatable.
4.8.0 1 new3 fixed
New
  • Added support for multiple Album chronological orders.
Fixed
  • Enhanced plugin error handling and stability.
  • Resolved JavaScript issues preventing some AJAX actions from working correctly.
  • Additional plugin hardening.
4.7.7 1 fixed
Fixed
  • Facebook Feed Pro no longer removes the WordPress footer on plugin admin pages.
4.7.6 2 improved
Improved
  • Various PHP 8.4 compatibility enhancements.
  • Added optional deactivation feedback survey to help us improve the plugin.
4.7.5 1 new2 fixed
New
  • Added support for mixed media post types.
Fixed
  • Resolved PHP warnings and improved legacy feed compatibility.
  • General stability improvements and security hardening.
4.7.5 2 new3 improved6 fixed
New
  • Added support for limiting the number of Event posts displayed.
  • Users can now choose between displaying Videos or Reels in the Videos feed.
Improved
  • Updated the Graph API version.
  • Improved text domain loading (_load_textdomain_just_in_time fix).
  • Various PHP warning and legacy feed compatibility fixes.
Fixed
  • Plugin security hardening.
  • Resolved Lightbox not triggering in Event feeds.
  • Likebox now displays correctly on mobile devices.
  • Comments box now appears correctly across all layouts and settings.
  • Manual cache clearing now properly updates in the background.
  • Improved layout for Videos & Albums Masonry feeds.
4.7.3 1 fixed
Fixed
  • Resolved an issue that caused the Masonry layout to appear broken on the frontend.
4.7.2 1 fixed
Fixed
  • Additional plugin hardening.
4.7.1 1 fixed
Fixed
  • Additional plugin hardening.
4.7.0 2 new3 fixed
New
  • Added support for a new GDPR consent plugin WPConsent.
  • Added support for GDPR Cookie Compliance by Moove Agency and Real Cookie Banner GDPR plugins.
Fixed
  • Improved compatibility with the latest versions of Divi and Elementor.
  • Additional plugin hardening.
  • Lots of miscellaneous fixes for video feeds, videos in the lightbox, missing posts, and others.
4.6.6 1 improved
Improved
  • Added support for our new Feed Analytics product. Get insights as to how your feeds are being used by site visitors.
4.6.5 9 fixed
Fixed
  • Fixed missing Events feed when adding multiple feeds in the same page with Ajax theme option enabled.
  • Fixed wrong date displayed for recurring events.
  • Fixed missing posts in when using the Multifeed Extension.
  • Fixed 404 error when editing a feed caused by SVG icons in some environments.
  • Fixed an issue with multiple timezones applied in the same events feed that would cause the wrong time to be displayed.
  • Fixed an issue with the Multifeed extension and Social Wall, the feeds were not respecting the chronological order of posts.
  • Fixed an issue with the sources list popup when there are multiple sources in a feed.
  • Added Borlabs V3 support.
  • Misc PHP warnings would appear when data was missing from the API.
4.6.4 3 fixed
Fixed
  • Fixed issue preventing the lightbox from being disabled when the setting to do so was applied.
  • Fixed an issue with time zones applying correctly to feeds on the front-end of the site.
  • Fixed an issue with recurring events for events feeds.
4.6.3 1 fixed
Fixed
  • Removed guzzle library that was causing conflicts with some other plugins.
4.6.2 2 fixed1 changed
Fixed
  • Fixed an issue causing recurring events to cause event list to show out of order.
  • Fixed issues due to time zones and events.
Changed
  • Important: Due to Meta (Facebook) changes, how our plugin supports Facebook oEmbeds has also changed. If you are using the oEmbed feature to display Facebook oEmbeds, you will need to reconnect your account. Visit the oEmbeds page within the Facebook Feeds settings page to do the reconnection before May 14, 2024.
4.6.1 3 fixed
Fixed
  • Fixed featured post not displaying in the customizer
  • Fixed an issue causing the Date Range extension to not work properly
  • Fixed an issue with the Masonry layout load more button (existing posts were hiding pictures)
4.6 3 improved4 fixed2 changed
Improved
  • Fixed issues related to comments and metaboxes showing incorrect information.
  • Improved the metabox icons for all feed themes.
  • Added support for manually setting the time zone for events feeds. This will allow you to correct the time zone offset and fix incorrect start and end date times.
Fixed
  • Removed HTML comments from the author template.
  • Fixed a rare issue related to SVG icons and some settings pages showing a 404 error.
  • Fixed formatting issues with tags & mentions.
  • Fixed an issue causing the usage tracking option to always remain enabled.
Changed
  • Important: Meta (Facebook) is ending support for group feeds. See our related FAQ for more information. Existing feeds with a Facebook group source will stop updating as of April 2024.
  • Important: Minimum PHP version raised to 7.1.
4.5.5 1 improved
Improved
  • Plugin hardening.
4.5.4 3 fixed1 changed
Fixed
  • Fixed an issue causing Group events to not load.
  • Fixed an issue with Multifeed and events feeds.
  • Fixed an issue with the lightbox text line break.
Changed
  • Events feeds are now able to work like they did prior to the changes that required using an iCal URL. This should allow for past events to display as well as include some events that were previously excluded from the feed.
4.5.3 1 improved2 fixed
Improved
  • Added more functionality that protects your Facebook data.
Fixed
  • Fixed manual API limit value not applied.
  • Fixed an issue with Featured Posts not being displayed.
4.5.2 1 improved2 fixed
Improved
  • Improved and hardened our code base to improve reliability.
Fixed
  • Made several improvements to how our upcoming events in events feeds works for more reliability.
  • Fixed PHP error affecting versions of PHP earlier than 7.0.
4.5.1 3 fixed
Fixed
  • Added a workaround for a bug from Facebook that is preventing upcoming events from displaying in events feeds. Reconnect your events feed sources to add an iCal URL to retrieve upcoming events for your feed.
  • Fixed a limit of only 20 feeds displaying as selectable when creating a Custom Facebook Feeds widget.
  • Fixed PHP deprecation warning for PHP8.1+ regarding dynamic property.
4.5 1 new2 improved5 fixed
New
  • Made many improvements to our Gutenberg block for adding feeds to make it easy to select a feed and add it to a page or post.
Improved
  • Videos that are not "published" will not appear in the feed.
  • Changed how accounts are connected for enhanced privacy.
Fixed
  • Fixed PHP notice "PHP Deprecated: str_replace(): Passing null to parameter #3" that would occur in PHP 8.2+.
  • Fixed PHP warning "undefined index" when there were no shortcode arguments and the feed locator was triggered.
  • Fixed an issue with how we create and send emails that would cause the incorrect from email address to be used.
  • Fixed an issue saving settings when CFF extensions plugin is activated
  • Fixed PHP warning in the header like counts
4.4.1 2 fixed
Fixed
  • License information was not being processed correctly leading to some features not being available even when a license was active
  • Fixed and issue causing the front-end JavaScript file not to be compressed and optimized.
4.4 2 new5 fixed
New
  • New "Feed Themes" feature. Choose a theme for your feed that will add an attractive and coordinated design throughout your feed elements. Impress your visitors and gain more followers.
  • Connect individual locations when connecting an account to display posts from just one specific location instead of only from your main page.
Fixed
  • In some circumstances, Facebook was sending albums data in an incorrect order. We've now included a workaround so albums always display in order of the date they were created.
  • Fixed YouTube videos not playing in the lightbox under certain circumstances.
  • Fixed a fatal PHP error that would occur in PHP8+.
  • Fixed low resolution image appearing in the lightbox under certain circumstances.
  • Fixed incorrect links that would cause logged-out visitors to link to the incorrect page on facebook.com.
4.3.6 1 improved1 fixed
Improved
  • Added a notice to help with creating a feed for our latest Social Wall 2.0 update.
Fixed
  • Fixed additional deprecation warning that would affect our Elementor integration.
4.3.5 5 fixed
Fixed
  • Fixed the integration with the Cookie Yes plugin for GDPR related features to work with the latest and migrated version of Cookie Yes.
  • Fixed a PHP warning that would occur with our Reviews extension.
  • Hashtags in the post content would cause the max text length feature not to work properly.
  • Fixed the resolution of images in the lightbox for photos feed not always being correct.
  • Fixed an issue causing missing posts for timeline feeds on the front end of the site but not the customizer.
4.3.4 1 improved5 fixed
Improved
  • Vue.js code is now loaded from a local file shipped with the plugin rather than an external CDN for use with the customizer in the admin area.
Fixed
  • Fixed a compatibility issue with the Complianz Cookie Consent plugin integration.
  • For events feeds, the "Buy Tickets" action couldn't be disabled.
  • For events feeds, disabling the event details would also disable the post text.
  • Comments for group feeds were not working in some circumstances.
  • Displaying post text could not be disabled for some feed types.
4.3.3 3 fixed
Fixed
  • Updated GDPR permissions system to work with the latest versions of the Complianz GDPR Consent plugin.
  • Fixed an issue with feed location when retrieving comments from a cache.
  • Fixed group feeds having HTML being inserted into links that contained underscores due to how Markdown was supported.
4.3.2 1 fixed
Fixed
  • Changed how the plugin's code was included to prevent conflicts with SMTP plugins that overwrite wp_mail().
4.3.1 5 fixed
Fixed
  • Fixed avatars from visitor accounts not showing in the lightbox.
  • PHP error that would occur when trying to use the new Facebook Feed Divi block with the Divi Builder plugin and PHP version 7.3 or lower.
  • Photo feeds would show broken images in the feed preview under certain circumstances.
  • Fixed event feeds showing an error in the API response in certain circumstances.
  • Tagged accounts in post content were not linking correctly.
4.3 2 new4 fixed
New
  • Elementor and Divi Builder widgets. We've added new Elementor and Divi Builder widgets to make it easier to embed your feeds.
  • Iframes from YouTube and Vimeo will not load until the rest of the page content has loaded to improve page performance.
Fixed
  • Some post content that included special characters would display incorrectly.
  • Comments for posts would appear correctly in the feed preview but not on the front-end for some feeds.
  • When the text shortening setting was enabled, unexpected text would appear in some circumstances.
  • For the carousel layout available with the carousel extension, the setting to automatically adjust the height of the feed would not work correctly when expanding post content on mobile devices.
4.2.6 1 improved6 fixed
Improved
  • Added a new setting to allow disabling of the JavaScript image loading. Deactivate "JavaScript Image Loading" on the advanced tab if you are using a lazy loading plugin and blank images are displaying in your feed.
Fixed
  • Group posts with special formatting (markdown) will now display like they do in Facebook.
  • Fixed several issues related to accessibility and screen readers.
  • Fixed an issue where shortening the text content might result in emoji being cut off and displaying as plain text.
  • Fixed an error with group posts and the Social Wall plugin.
  • Fixed an error with the carousel layout in the feed preview when customizing a feed.
  • Fixed an issue with translations not showing the default value to be customized in the customizer.
4.2.5 2 fixed
Fixed
  • Fixed issues with hashtags and account mention links in the post text in some specific situations.
  • Fixed PHP warnings when visiting the support page before creating a feed.