This WordPress plugin allows you to simply update the members, teams, themes, publications (from third party HAL or third party database Descartes Publi) of a laboratory's web pages without any knowledge of web programming.
4.8.3
Release Date - 25 July 2024
- BUG : CSS was not updated because of minification. Some bad display.
- TRANSLATION : Corrects a lot of minor formal translation errors (vocabulary for "plugin", typos, uppercases...)
4.8
Release Date - 15 July 2024
- Evolutions of functionalities :
- NEW tab "Privacy" in admin interface :
- NEW : Add a privacy option to hide emails on website
- NEW tab "pages" in admin interface :
- EVOL : Move configuration of attachment page for the personal pages to this new tab "Pages"
- EVOL : Can also define a parent page for pages of teams, thematics and units
- NEW : Adapt warnings about unconfigured parent pages: Inline menu in creation page button and in advanced tools.
- IMPROVE "Advanced tools" in admin interface :
- EVOL : the part "Manage pages" is redesigned and more beautiful
- NEW : new buttons for correct parent page of persons / teams / groups / units
- MISC : Update to the last version of the logo of CNRS
- Reliability :
- CODE: ready and tested for WordPress 6.6
- JS/CODE : Modernize obsolete jQuery calls
- CSS/CODE : Optimise code. Normaly do not change display.
- CODE : Minify js and css (for test, not yet appliyed)
- Internationalization :
- BUG : Bad parent page for translated pages
- BUG : Pages with no hidden title had a translated page with hidden title
- BUG : Restore display of all pages that was masked by Polylang on some select menus (solution : add '&lang=all' as pages parameters).
- Import interface :
- IMPROVE : Security, better check imported files.
- BUG : Some special characters in fields were altered during an export then import operation
- BUG : The algorithm for updating persons and teams via the import interface can potentialy confuse ids (bug never seen in real-life tests).
- BUG : If an URL is given as an image of person imported, it was replaced by 'DEFAULT' instead of keeping URL.
4.7.2
Release Date - 27 March 2024
- BUG : For new installation option "Persons and teams" was not activated by default
- BUG : Syntax error on class_html.php for old version of PHP
4.7.1
Release Date - 25 March 2024
- Evolutions of functionalities :
- NEW option to configure database table prefix for the plugin :
- In multisite installation, different sites can now share the same Mon-Laboratoire data.
- Add the option to manualy change wordpress table prefix
- NEW / IMPROVE admin advanced tools for persons and structures :
- NEW : The user can export data to CSV file (persons, team_members, teams, thematics, units)
- NEW : The user can import persons, teams and their relations from CSV files.
- IMPROVE: Reorganize, makes it clearer and color buttons for admin advanced tools interface.
- IMPROVE: Delete option "advanced tools for persons and structures". The advanced tools are now always shown.
- Reliability :
- CODE : Ready and tested for WordPress 6.5 (test OK - nothing need to be changed)
- BUG/IMPROVE: In page admin -> Page edit members -> table view : display all pages links and no URL error on external address.
- CODE: Improve privacy and avoid tabnabbing phishing for external URL (add rel="noopener noreferrer" after each target="_blank")
- BUG: Documentation of shortcode [publications_list] was not inactivated when no publication server was selected in wp-admin/admin.php?page=MonLabo_config
- CODE: Centralize use of dashicons
- CODE: class Option can now adapt to any new option
- CODE: Plugin can now run if php-mbstring librairy is not installed (in degraded mode for accentuated chars).
- CODE: Plugin do not need php-curl librairy anymore
4.6
Release Date - 6 November 2023
- Evolutions of functionalities :
- IMPROVE admin interface for large numbers of staff :
- Add a search field when selecting into large list (people, teams...)
- Persons members can be driectly added from a team edit interface
- Other IMPROVE of admin interface :
- Better (and colored) submit buttons
- Add an advanced tool to toggle to draft all alumni pages
- generate WordPress pages (persons, teams...) with the block editor format (and no more "classic" editor format).
- Open external links of admin interface in new windows (suggestion of user)
- clear publication cache when publication configuration is updated
- IMPROVE Help :
- Add a link to a video presentation (in french) of functionalites.
- Update URL of Aurehal
- Reliability :
- IMPROVE : Signal an error if php curl plugin is missing.
- BUG : Remove PHP warnings when "Persons and teams" configuration is uncheked
- CODE : Ready and tested for WordPress 6.4 (test OK - nothing need to be changed)
- CODE : Test with PHP 7.2.33
- CODE : Improve WordPress coding standards to new CS 3.0.0
- CODE : Add an autoloader
- CODE : replace ( isset(a) && !empty(a) ) by !empty(a)
- Prepare monlabo version 5.0 :
- Rewrite all publications management step 1 : beta v1 shortcode [publications_list2]
4.5.2
Release Date - 14 August 2023
- CODE : Ready and tested for WordPress 6.3 (test OK - nothing need to be changed)
4.5.1
Release Date - 5 june 2023
- CODE : Detect first configuration of plugin in order to a future installation task that will be proposed tu user.
- BUG : ERRORS with old versions of PHP (7.0.33)
- BUG : Impossible update of external URL of a person
4.4
Release Date - 16 March 2023
- IMPROVE : Add a much more visible button for emptying publications cache (add also a submenu to direct access this button)
- NEW : In tab "Advanced tool" :
- Buttons for create missing pages of persons / teams / groups / units
- Buttons for create missing translations of page of persons / teams / groups / units
- Buttons for suppress invalid pages ID of persons / teams / groups / units
- BUG : The parent page of a translated page whas not the translated parent page of the page. Create this translated page if necessary.
- BUG : Uninstall was not functionnal (again). Retrofit V4.3.1
- CODE : Ready and tested for WordPress 6.2 (remove use of obsolete function get_page_by_title)
Minor or inconspicuous developments:
- EVOL : change URL hal.archives-ouvertes.fr to hal.science
- CODE : Set english as the default languages in code in order to prepare translation by external contributors
- CODE : Separate advanced features in specific files.
4.3.1
Release Date - 10 January 2023
- BUG : Uninstall was not functionnal (again).
4.3
Release Date - 26 October 2022
- NEW : Improve customization of texts and gendering for shortcodes :
- Add inclusive french vocabulary (can be edited or suppressed with custom text config page)
- Can customing texts about "supervised students" and "mentors".
- Beautify custom text config page and add embeded graphical help
- BUG : Supress \ (backslash) in excess while converting ' (apostrophe) into ’ (right single quotation mark) in person names.
- BUG/EVOL: Authorize empty unit code (UMR XXXX => '')
- CODE : Ready and tested for WordPress 6.1
Minor or inconspicuous developments:
- EVOL : Add an official debugging option to shortcode [publications_list]
4.2
Release Date - 27 September 2022
- EVOL : Persons titles (ex : Pr. or Dr.) can be edited.
- IMPROVE : Add cache of HAL data in order to fasten rendering pages
- IMPROVE : In the configuration interface, clarify some legends of HAL fields
- CODE : Ready and tested for PHP 8.1
- BUG : HAL pages were empty when HAL server took more than 5s to generate
- BUG : Few text fields were not displayed in configuration menu
Minor or inconspicuous developments:
- HELP : Simplify default help : do not display help on Descates Publi if this database is not activated.
- UNIT TEST BUG : Increase page number of default teams in order not to get it randomnly in unit test
4.1.1
Release Date - 29 August 2022
- BUG : Uninstall was not functionnal.
4.1
Release Date - 6 Jully 2022
- EVOL : Add support of plugin PolyLang-pro
- EVOL : Update HAL logo and Universite Paris Cité logo
- BUG : In some rare cases, bad symetry in json encoding of URL in field wp_pos_ids (can have no \ before each / in database).
- CODE : refactoring class Edit_Members.
- CODE : Reduce static analyse warnings (Class_Page, Class_shortcode)
- CODE : Reduce PHPMD warnings. Create class Shortcode_static, a static interface to all non static code of shorcodes.
4.0.1
Release Date - 24 May 2022
- BUG : Bad PolyLang translated links in some shortcodes (take into account current page language before get link of a translated page)
4.0
Release Date - 23 May 2022
- Evolutions of functionalities :
- IMPROVE : New config interface for managing pages of Persons, Teams, Thematics and Units
- Add a radio-buttons-group Create/Choose/Edit/None for pages
- Unification of interface for managing pages (same human friedly menus instead of sometime directly type IDs list)
- 'External URL' is no more needed for Teams, Thematics and Units (fusion with this new functionality)
- Create page if asked for Teams, Thematics and Units
- Create multilingual pages if PolyLang activated
- Signal pages attributed to other persons and structure
- EVOL/IMPROVE : Translated pages with PolyLang are now well managed
- translated pages are automatically used by the shortcodes
- translated pages are displayed in config interface of person and structures
- Create or delete translated page automatically
- IMPORVE : add nice icons in admin menu
- EVOL (minor) : Name of the config tabs URL are more expressive
- EVOL : Persons picture is now managed more simply, i.e. separatly than featured image of the main page of person (drop also 'alternate image' field).
- Correct bugs :
- BUG : in [members_chart] remove persons that are marked as not visible.
- BUG : correct bad HTML in "custom texts" config page
- Improve reliability:
- Ready and tested for WordPress 6.0
- CODE : Deep refactoring : Simplify/reorganize a lot of class, properties and variables
3.6
Release Date - 25 January 2022
- Ready and tested for WordPress 5.9
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CODE: Strong refactor of code (access to Person and structures...) :
-
add classes Main_Struct, Persons_Group, Teams_Group
- reducing warnings with static analizer PhpStan
- better isolation between Person and structure models and controlers
- reduce complexity of class AccessData (to be contunued)
- CODE (Minor) : clean CSS ways to prevent words to be cuted in panels
3.5.1
Release Date - 6 October 2021
- BUG : Remove debug print.
3.5
Release Date - 1 October 2021
- Evolutions of functionalities :
- BUG/EVOL : Better integration of Polylang, links are pointing on translated pages
- NEW (admin interface): We can now add several mentors and students that are from outside the laboratory
- NEW (admin interface): Mentors and students selection interfaces are hidden by default. Can be shown with a button.
- Improve reliability:
- CODE: Deep refactoring in process (new classes...)
- BUG: New line character was not kept in several text area
- CODE: upgrade licence version from GPL-2.0-or-later to GPL-3.0-or-later
3.4
Release Date - 15 Jully 2021
- Evolutions of functionalities :
- EVOL: Improve [teams_list] - directors names are no more simple texts but links to their pages
- CODE/EVOL : Transformation to uppercase of persons names is now done by CSS (thus can be reversed)
- Improve reliability:
- CODE: ready and tested for WordPress 5.8
- BUG: bad link to person that have multiple pages
- BUG: Edition form of an alumni person do no more forget the state of alumni
- BUG (minor): Correct bad alphabetic order in editing form (table view)
- BUG (minor): Correct some bad display of default picture of persons in editing form
- CODE: Correct hundreds of warnings given by static analizer PHPMD (PHAN static analyser is alredy used).
3.3
Release Date - 15 March 2021
- NEW : new language admin menu that permits:
- force language in french or english
- or, translate page in the language of user's browser
- or, be able to translate pages of persons, teams, units in two languages
- or, use a translation plugin as Polylang
- NEW : accept either singular of plural form of parameters for most shortcodes.
Parameters: year(s), categor(y/ies), team(s), unit(s), person(s), unit(s), group(s), thematic(s)
Shortcodes: [members_list] [members_table] [members_chart] [former_members_list] [former_members_table] [former_members_chart] [teams_list] [publications_list]
- EVOL: Rename several shortcode with more explicit names (old names are still functionnal)
- Rename [alumni_list] into [former_members_list]
- Rename [alumni_table] into [former_members_table]
- Rename [alumni_chart] into [former_members_chart]
Minor or inconspicuous developments:
- FIXES/CHANGES : display order of teams list for a person no more by team_id but alpabetically.
- CODE : reduce complexity of several functions
- CODE : Apply WordPress coding standards
3.2
Release Date - 25 February 2021
- Evolutions of functionalities :
- FEAT: shortcode [publications_list] : Permit to chose the type of HAL publications to display => Add option hal_typepub
- FEAT: shortcode [teams_list] : Add options 'unit' and 'team'
- EVOL: shortcode [teams_list] : Small rearange in design (badly arranged margins, limits and sizes. Limit logo of thematics in size).
- EVOL: shortcode [team_panel] : Add links to thematics pages. Add logo and color block
- Correct bugs :
- BUG: shortcode [teams_list] : Do not display groups if groups option is not enabled
- BUG: shortcode [teams_list] : Cannot link internal team pages
- BUG: Admin menu : New lines in "contact phone" of main structure was not taken into account
- Improve reliability :
- Code ready and tested for WordPress 5.7
- CODE: Correct hundreds of warnings given by static analizer Phan.
- CODE: Declare type of most function parameters
- CODE: Make code more independant with the use of namespace. Rename all class and their files.
- CODE: Self document all code with PHPDOC
- CODE: create a new class MonLabo_teams
3.1.3
Release Date - 27 January 2021
- Ready and tested for WordPress 5.6
- BUG : Repair broken link "Configuration" in extensions list
- BUG : On new installations, some default activated-options were not activated (at least MonLabo_uses_members_and_groups)
- BUG : Remove some warnings (function image_from_id_or_url())
3.1.2
Release Date - 21 December 2020
- BUG : On new installations, some default activated-options were not activated (at least MonLabo_uses_members_and_groups)
3.1.1
Release Date - 7 December 2020
- Ready and tested for WordPress 5.6
- BUG : Repair broken link "Configuration" in extensions list
3.1
Release Date - 19 October 2020
- Main evolutions of functionalities :
- EVOL : A person can own several pages
- EVOL : A person can own several emails (separated by coma)
- EVOL : Add the option "person=" to shortcode [alumni_list] (as it already exists for [members_list])
- Main improvements or updates of interface:
- DESIGN : Improve ergonomy of "Custom texts" config tab.
- EVOL : Much easier configuration form for members WordPress address
- EVOL : Correction of poor display of radio buttons in config interface.
- Main improvements about security and reliability:
- CODE/BUG : Rewrite all code for chosing an image as a logo for Thematic, team or unit. Sometimes it was non functionnal.
- CODE : Improve unit test coverage (6026 tests) and tested in WordPress multisite
- Minors :
- EVOL : Allows user to customize text "Room" in team_panel.
- DESIGN : Always displays "Custom texts" config tab. Lighten "Features" config tab.
- EVOL : Add logo U-Paris. Suppress UPEC (non contributive since V2.0)
- CODE : Detect obsolete database
- CODE : Secure ajax code with a nonce to prevent unauthorized access
- CODE : Secure all actions that accept POST with a nonce to prevent unauthorized access
- BUG : Suppress php warnings that occur when creating new person, team, thematic or unit.
- BUG : Suppress php warnings that occur when apparence fields in are empty in configuration interface.
- BUG : Correct bad redirection of buttons for modifying teams, thematics or units in the admin tab "table view"
- BUG : Bad alphabetic order of [members_list] with people that have accents in names. Order shoud be : E < É < F
- BUG : Suppress warnings if database is empty
- CODE : Correct few HTML warnings from W3C standards
- BUG : Suppress a PHP warning in MonLabo_doc
- BUG : In some server configuration, URL of default image for a person was wrong.
3.0.5
Release Date - 28 Jully 2020
- BUG : PHP error when activate multiple units mode and define no unit
3.0.4
Release Date - 27 Jully 2020
- BUG : Bad PHP warning of function error_MonLabo_perso_page_parent()
3.0.3
Release Date - 26 Jully 2020
- CODE: Convert text-domain and langage slug 'MonLabo' into 'mon-laboratoire' in order to be compatible with translate.wordpress.org
- BUG : Simplify some complex translation calls beause it was badly interpretated sometimes
- BUG: Solve potential errors of translations when blog language is different that page language (for instance if a translation plugin is installed).
3.0.2
Release Date - 18 Jully 2020
- BUG : Suppress warnings with PHP 7.4
- BUG : Sometimes "Room" was badly translated in shortcodes for members
- BUG : Sometimes language english was not taken into account : add en_GB translation
- BUG : Wordpress official repository do not recognize that main language is french : add fr_FR translation
3.0.1
Release Date - 8 June 2020
- BUG : Suppress warnings in admin page
3.0
Release Date - 20 February 2020
- EVOL : The plugin is changing its name from "MonLabo" to "Mon Laboratoire"
- EVOL : The plugin is now in WordPress plugin repository
- EVOL : Remove backward compatibility for following obsolete shortcodes :
- [members_list_automatic], [get_members_list]
- [custom_publications_list], [publications_automatic]
- [perso_panel_automatic]
- [alumni]
- CODE : Suppress dead codes.
See
changelog.txt for older, minor or inconspicuous changelog