You MUST always do a backup before install it and always test it in a dev environment.
If you have any trouble
open a ticket.
If you have any feature requests or code issue
open a ticket on github.
ItalyStrap will add powerful features to your WordPress site.
Advanced Control Manager is also on GitHub.
Purpose
I developed this plugin with many features because I need them in all sites created for my clients, it also extends the
ItalyStrap Theme Frameworks functionality, but it works fine with all WordPress themes.
Think about Advanced Control Manager like a Jetpack with many functionality that make your site more powerful and extensible, for example: Lazy load for image with srcset support, widget and shortcode for Twitter Bootstrap Carousel (with lazy load support), widget for displaying lists of posts type with a lot of options like popular posts, last posts, related posts and so on, there are a lot of functionality, see above for the full list of featured.
This plugin is fully developed in OOP. It utilizes
DI Container, Dependency Injection, Polymorphism, Inheritance, etc.
If you are a developer you can extend it with his API (Dev docs coming soon).
Skills required
Some functionalities need to be personalized with lines of code, for example if you use the new widget for displaying posts you have to add your own CSS style to make it look like your site (you can add it in ACM > settings > Style > Custom CSS or in your theme style.css), I'm working on building some basic code snippets and documentation, but I need a lot of time to do it, please be patient with me :-).
Advanced Control Manager will always be free
This is my thanks for what WordPress has given to me.
Get involved
If you want to contribute
click here do a fork and do a pull request to the Dev branch :-)
Want to try the beta functionality?
To do so you can add
define( 'ITALYSTRAP_BETA', true );
to your
wp-config.php
file,
REMEMBER that you have to do this in a development enviroment,
do not do this in a production site and do always a backup.
Features included:
2.16.0
Release Date: Jul 28th, 2023
Dev time: 24h
2.15.1
Release Date: Oct 22nd, 2020
Dev time: 6h
- Fixed bug in Post class for generated post_type string
2.15.0
Release Date: Oct 2nd, 2020
Dev time: 30h
- Changes some class names for PSR-2
- Renamed Config_Interface dependency to ConfigInterface {PSR-2}
- Bools functions wrapped with function_exists
- Moved some classes to new namespace
2.14.4
Release Date: Feb 27th, 2020
Dev time: 10h
- Refactoring of the Image Lazy Load
- Added support for EWWW IO in Image Lazy Load
- Added custom filter for Lazy Load your custom images
2.14.3
Release Date: Feb 20th, 2020
Dev time: 2h
2.14.2
Release Date: Feb 20th, 2020
Dev time: 4h
- Fixed issue with int key used in Config
2.14.1
Release Date: Feb 19th, 2020
Dev time: 4h
- Fixed BC breaks for older ItalyStrap theme framework
2.14.0
Release Date: Feb 19th, 2020
Dev time: 100h
- Some other minor fix
- Refactoring for the image lazy load
- Refactoring for the setting API
- Changed the Fields API
2.13.0
Release Date: Mar 4th, 2019
Dev time: 10h
- New Visual editor in terms page under option
- Fixed Google font fallback json
- Some other minor fix
2.12.0
Release Date: Feb 6th, 2019
Dev time: 30h
- New API for EDD to update ItalyStrap Framework
2.11.3
Release Date: Feb 1st, 2019
Dev time: 3h
2.11.2
Release Date: Jan 30th, 2019
Dev time: 3h
- Updated the Breadcrumbs API
2.11.1
Release Date: Jan 30th, 2019
Dev time: 1h
- Fixed php syntax error
- Fixed undefined index on Term in CPT
2.11.0
Release Date: Jan 28th, 2019
Dev time: 100h
- Requires PHP: 5.4
- Updated composer dependency
- Updated CMB2
- Updated lang files
- New API Class for Breadcrumbs loaded from packagist
- New API for Blocks in beta version
- Moved Fields API to packagist
- Moved Config API to packagist
- Moved Debug API to packagist
- Added option for social share button post type selection (only for BETA Version)
- Added new filter 'italystrap_injector' for passing Injector instance
- Fixed issue with texteditor_code and Codemirror
- Bump minimum requirement to WP 4.9
- Removed unused directory from composer
2.10.0
Release Date: May 31st, 2018
Dev time: 100h
- New API Class for I18N strings
- New API Class for rendering views files
- New Translator class
- Fix for A non-numeric valus encountered src\Query\Posts.php
- Fix excerpt in Carousel
- Better file structure for functions
- Improved hook on injector autoload
- Improved Post_Title shortcode
- Improved Settings API
- Improved Config API
- Improved the Loader API
- Updated the bootstrap files
- Updated the config file
- Updated the options file
- Excluded GA and TM to preview and customizer
- Only for alpha Some Block improvements
- Bumps up minimum requirements
- Security: Delete unsecure files and folder
2.9.1
Release Date: October 9th, 2017
Dev time: 30min
- Fixed SyntaxError: missing } after function body for Image Lazy Load
2.9.0
Release Date: October 9th, 2017
Dev time: 30h
- Removed other notice on settings page of my plugin
- Added div wrapper for the view of Video Lazy Load
- Improvements for the Bootstrap Carousell API
- Refactoring of the Asset Inline and Minify API
- Refactoring of the Video and Image Lazy Load API
- Fixed PHP notice if the gallery shortcode is empty
2.8.0
Release Date: October 1st, 2017
Dev time: 400h
- New Posts Shortcode in beta version (the widget version)
- New Blocks in Alpha version for Gutenberg
- New Shortcode in beta version fo Post_Title
- New Shortcode in beta version fo Button
- New filter for the read_more_link_text
- New Google Tag Manager in beta version for the ItalyStrap theme framework
- New CMB2 adapter OOP PHP Class
- New Shortcake UI integration
- Changes configuration for widget and shortcode to default for Shortcake
- Fix for Google fonts
- Fix for Breadcrumbs::meta()
- Fix for Posts views for cats and tags
- Added example for the Event Manager API Class
- Added Support for post 2 post plugin
- Better plugin botstrapping
- Better action hook for the loader plugin
- Refactoring for the widget area metabox
- Refactoring for the Posts API
- Refactoring for the Breadcrumbs API
- Refactoring for the Video Lazy Load
- Refactoring for the Bootstrap Carousel validate_data method
- Refactoring for the plugin main file
- Bumps up minimum requirements for the ACM
- Alpha functionality are now in dev mode
2.7.0
Release Date: June 28th, 2017
Dev time: 200h
- New Plugin Name: Advanced Control Manager formerly ItalyStrap
- New Minify API
- New option for positioning analytics code (wp_footer or wp_header)
- New Widget Nav_Menu only for BETA tester
- Improvement of the Widget Area import
- Improvement of the autoload of Import/Export
- Improvement of the settings array
- Fixed hfeed microdata issue
2.6.0
Release Date: April 18th, 2017
Dev time: 100h
- Refactoring of the Widget Areas functionality (beta)
- Refactoring of the plugin bootstrapping
- New Adapter for CMB2
- Read more link from options available also for Widget Post
- Fixed some little error
- Fixed empty excerpt for auto-generate excerpt
- Updated test files
2.5.0
Release Date: April 1st, 2017
Dev time: 100h
- Added New Shortcodes for column in editor only for beta version (do not use it)
- Added New Shortcode Factory Class
- Added New Config class for internal use
- Added New Widget Editor in alpha version (do not use it)
- Added New Customizer controllers (Multicheckbox)
- Better name for future Grouped Posts Widget
- Improvements of the CSS Class Generator
- Improvements of the Font selector for customizer
- Some refactoring for the Carousel Class
- Some refactoring for the Social Share Class
- Refactoring of the widget loader
- Refactoring of the Web Fonts Lazy Loading
- Refactoring of the entire plugin file structure (Big changes)
- Refactoring of the Widgets and Shortcodes Factory
- Other refactoring for general files
- Fixed array to string conversion in Carousel.php
- Fixed post exclusion on archi page for Post.php (Widget and Shortcode)
- Fixed undefined index in Fonts.php
- Fixed empty value for width and height in Carousel
- Deprecated old Widget namespace, now it is ItalyStrap\Widgets;
2.4.2
Release Date: February 25th, 2017
Dev time: 20h
- Added class obj to the 'italystrap_ga_commands_queue_output' filter in Analytics class
- Added 'add_permalink_wrapper' for title and image in Widget Posts
- Better tabs organization in Widget Image
- Fixed widget visibility error on wp-admin/widgets.php (When visibility selected the widget disappeared from the admin.)
2.4.1
Release Date: February 25th, 2017
Dev time: 100h
- New Plugin description
- New Widget Monster for internal widgets in ALPHA version
- New Classes for internal debugging
- New internal shortcode for displaying docs
- New directory for docs
- New input for icon name in Widget Image
- New method for forcing remove filters
- Allow HTML in Widget Carousel title
- Allow HTML in Widget Image description
- Refactoring: the bootstrap application
- Refactoring: Widget registering
- Refactoring: Widget Class (method visibility)
- Refactoring: Some internal refactoring
- Fixed PHP error on \Exception
2.4.0
Release Date: January 23rd, 2017
Dev time: 100h
- New Event Manager API
- Added counts by ID inserted for Posts API
- Added some example for Widget Creation
- Added migration strategy for the ItalyStrap theme framework user
- Added new filter for Google Analytics output
- Added some example for Google Analytics API
- Added button for widget area only for the ItalyStrap theme framework user
- Refactoring: Some changes for Taxonomies list API (Only for beta tester)
- Refactoring: Some changes in Widget API
- Refactoring: Some changes in Social Share API (Only for beta tester)
- Fixed issue in share button with EDD actived
- Improved media carousel description
2.3.0
Release Date: Dicember 31st, 2016
Dev time: 200h
- New API for FB pages (only for Beta tester)
- New widget for FB pages (only for Beta tester)
- New widget visibility (only for Beta tester)
- New lazy load for videos (only for Alpha tester)
- New option for hiding widget title
- Added new functionality for the excerpt read more link
- Added some example files
- Added most viewed posts for widget posts (uses Jetpack stats)
- Refactoring: Google Analytics API
- Refactoring: Inline script and css API
- Refactoring: Carousel API: Added 'read more' link for post
- Internal use: new sanitize method
- Internal use: new fields group (Beta version)
- Some code refactoring
2.2.1
Release Date: December 4th, 2016
Dev time: 100h
- Added jpeg_quality option
- Improved validation of options on settings saving
- Fixed excerpt more output in Widget Posts
- Fixed a php fatal error on new install
- fixed undefined index on new install
- Some code refactoring
2.2.0
Release Date: November 13th, 2016
Dev time: 50h
- New Import Export API for the plugin
- Added hook for breadcrumbs, now you can use
<?php do_action( 'do_breadcrumbs', array() ); ?>
instead of the core function.
- Fixed some issue
- customize_selective_refresh for all widget in this plugin.
2.1.1
Release Date: November 10th, 2016
Dev time: 30h
- Fixed #15
- psr-4 almost ready for admin classes
- Improvement of the Fields API
- Improvement of the Settings API
- Class for Social Sharing only for beta tester
- Other fix, improvements and refactoring
2.1.0
Release Date: November 7th, 2016
Dev time: 10h
- Better Field Class API improvements
- Added Google Analytics snippet with basic options in ItalyStrap settings
- New function for getting default plugin config
- Added PHP Cache for menu only for beta tester
- Improved functionality for gallery settings (work in progress)
- Some code fix
- Fixed a PHP 5.3 fatal error
2.0.2
Release Date: October 28th, 2016
Dev time: 2h
- New options for adding a CSS class to image title for widget image
- Fixed field type for Zipcode in vCard widget
- Temporary added P.IVA for vCard output
- Changed array short notation to extended notation
2.0.1
Release Date: October 25th, 2016
Dev time: 4h
2.0.0 Breaking Changes
Release Date: October 19th, 2016
Dev time: over a year
Make backup first ;-)
DEPRECATED
- Deprecated class
ItalyStrapBreadcrumbs()
, use ItalyStrap\Core\breadcrumbs()
instead.
- Deprecated title attribute (
$atts['title']
) in gallery
shortcode, use image_title
instead.
- Deprecated vCard Widget (there's a new version for this widget, see below)
- Deprecated
italystrap_get_apply_lazyload( $content );
and italystrap_apply_lazyload( $content );
use ItalyStrap\Core\get_apply_lazyload( $content );
and ItalyStrap\Core\apply_lazyload( $content );
FIX
- All filters and actions start with
italistrap_
lowercase (if you find some in CamelCase or some without a prefix please let me know).
- Fix front page and posts page visualization for breadcrumbs.
ENHANCEMENTS
- New API for settings options
- New API for settings options
- New API for fields
- New API for sanitization and validation
- New API for exporting and importing still in alpha version not active
- New plugin settings interface for displaying all options.
- New API for templating system in beta version, in future you can override the template used in widgets and shortcodes like WooCommerce does.
- Added some general utilities in plugin settings:
- Show post type ID
- Show post type thumb
- Disable the emoji
- HTML attributes for widgets
- Possibility to add some tags to widget title with
{{}}
instead of <>
- Widgets:
- New API for building widgets in an easy way (it is possible to create your own widget too but the docs will be available soon)
- Widget for vCard with schema.org markup (this is a new version, the old one is deprecated, you can see in the widget description)
- Widget for Post (a widget with a lot of options for displaying post, page and custom type in a widget area)
- Widget for Bootstrap Carousel (it works only if you have Twitter Bootstrap CSS loaded by your theme), the settings are the same of shortcode settings.
- Shortcode:
- Option for executing shortcode in the widget text
- Option for Carousel shortcode, now you have to activate it for making it works.
- Style:
- Text area for custom CSS
- Input fields for adding custom body class and post class attribute.
- Script:
- There are a new section in plugin settings still in BETA version for adding script like GA adn FB pixel
1.3.3
Release Date: September 19th, 2015
Dev time: 8h
- Added logo upload in vCard widget
- Fixed some issue
1.3.2
Release Date: August 14th, 2015
Dev time: 20h
1.3.1
Release Date: June 13th, 2015
Dev time: 1h
- Added taxonomy support for breadcrumbs
1.3.0
Release Date: March 4th, 2015
Dev time: 30h
- Added Local Business widget for widgetized themes
1.2.1
Release Date: March 1st, 2015
Dev time: 5h
- Added new function for LazyLoad
- Fixed some issue
1.2.0
Release Date: February 27th, 2015
Dev time: 40h
- Fixed some bug and issue
- Added static class for appending inline script and print it in footer after wp_print_footer_scripts hook (for performance purpose)
- Added static class for appending inline css and print it in header after wp_head hook (for performance purpose)
- Added class for Lazy Load image functionality
1.1.0
Release Date: February 20th, 2015
Dev time: 80h
- Renders extra controls for image dimension in the new media UI
- Added Bootstrap Carousel functionality forked from Agnosia Bootstrap Carousel by AuSoft
- Renders extra controls in the Gallery Settings section of the new media UI
- Added Mobile_Detect class from https://github.com/serbanghita/Mobile-Detect for responsive functions
- Added Schema.org in Bootstrap Carousel
- Fixed some bugs
1.0.2
Release Date: January 8th, 2015
Dev time: 1h
- Fixed documentation link in admin dashboard (Thanks to Stefano Tondi from G+)
1.0.1
Release Date: January 8th, 2015
Dev time: 1h
- Updated Breadcrumbs documentation
1.0.0
Release Date: January 7th, 2015
Dev time: 100h