CodeBard's Patron Button and Widgets for Patreon

This free plugin allows you to add a Patreon Button under the content to have your users to become your patrons on Patreon easily. It also provides two customizable Widgets that you can use in your sidebar. The buttons and widgets blend in with your theme seamlessly. You can use the new or old Patreon button or you can use your own button image. You can customize the call to action text over the buttons or turn them on/off, as well as use your own call to action text. You can disable the Buttons under content if you wish to use only the Widgets as well. You can enter the default account to be used in buttons in plugin options page. In addition, all authors will be able to add their own Patreon username in their profile to be used for the Buttons, so the Buttons showing under their posts as well as the Author Widget in sidebar will go to their Patreon profile. This feature can be disabled if you wish, from plugin settings, with “Force Site Button instead of Author” option. More features are planned as they become available in Patreon API. You can upgrade to Patron Plugin Pro, add the Patron Content Manager addon and enable powerful content-locking options to serve Patron only content from your own website! Patron Plugin Pro will also allow you to put your patrons directly to patron pipeline instead of your profile. Check it out below: https://codebard.com/patron-plugin-pro

2.3.1

• Security: Sanitized $_REQUEST data with map_deep() before dispatching to action handlers
• Security: Escaped all remaining unescaped variable and option outputs across admin pages
• Security: Escaped nonce, internal ID, and admin URL outputs in setup and settings templates
• Security: Added wp_kses_post() escaping to language selector, addon display, and notice outputs
• Security: Used targeted wp_kses() allowlist for form/page template output to preserve form structure
• Fix: Setup modal no longer renders raw PHP code from $site_account assignment outside PHP tags
• Fix: Settings save restored after wp_kses_post() mangled form HTML in page templates

2.3.0

• Security: Added capability check to setup wizard endpoint
• Security: Added sanitization to settings saved during setup wizard
• Security: Added escaping to $_REQUEST parameter in setup modal JavaScript output
• Security: Escaped all customizable language string outputs across admin pages
• Security: Replaced raw SQL string concatenation with $wpdb->prepare() in insert_single_c()
• Security: Added wp_kses_post() escaping to action dispatcher output

2.2.9

• License declaration corrected to GPLv2 or later
• Nonce verification added for settings tab form submissions
• SQL whitelist validation added to delete functions to prevent arbitrary table access
• Outputs in language settings escaped
• Outputs in setup modal escaped
• Outputs in pro pitch modal escaped

2.2.8

• Removed deprecated Patreon goals API code
• Added external services section
• Code that wrote files to the filesystem removed
• Variables in the HTML code that is outputted were escaped
• Nonces added for dynamic dispatches

2.2.7

• Added early exit to prevent direct file access to boost security
• All outputs escaped to boost security
• All input sanitized to boost security
• Nonces and capability checks added
• Various security fixes
• Some template system fixes

2.2.6

• Made admin menu label more informative

2.2.5

• Addressed some PHP warnings

2.2.4

• Removed unused updater code
• Addressed some PHP warnings

2.2.3

• Fixed a PHP deprecation warning

2.2.2

• Fixed a PHP warning

2.2.1

• Sanitized various inputs against xss attacks

2.2.0

• Settings tab resetting & going to dashboard when saving a setting was fixed
• An issue with settings tabs not working correctly was fixed
• An issue with cross site scripting vulnerability was fixed
• Various forms and actions had security nonces added

2.1.9

• Added extra sanitization for security

2.1.8

• Fixed a bug that could prevent WP cli used in managed hosting services from failing in certain tasks
• Addressed a PHP warning
• Sanitized setup modal's site_account input

2.1.7

• Added alt tags and aria labels for screen readers to call to action button under posts and sitebar widgets and forms for accessibility
• Fixed a PHP warning

2.1.6

• Fixed a PHP warning

2.1.5

• Added conditional that hides PCM notice if PP is installed

2.1.4

• Changed plugin name to "CodeBard's Patron Button and Widgets for Patreon" per WP org rules

2.1.3

• Changed plugin name per WP org repo rules

2.1.2

• Added checks to prevent the same notice being shown twice at the same page load

2.1.1

• Added a notice system. Adjusted notices to show 30 days after last notice is shown. Made notices appear in sequential order. Separated system notices and non system notices. Notices are permanently dismissable.
• Made plugin save time of activation when activated
• Added notice for new Patreon plugin

2.1.0

• Updated update_usermeta to update_user_meta to address warnings

2.0.9

• Fixed widget and post button urls giving 404 if a non vanity Patreon url when user id was used.
• Better decision logic in constructing urls

2.0.8

• Added Goals widget. Shows financial goals from Patreon.
• Added one click auto installer for the needed Patreon WordPress free plugin to use goals widget
• Added admin pointers
• Added admin pointer for goal widget

2.0.7

• Changed post button appearing logic to show for all content except pages. It should show for all posts and custom posts as long as they are singular.

2.0.6

• Removed PHP 7 compatible widget notice
• Updated tested up to

2.0.5

• Minor fix for unused plugins_api injectinfo function - removed

2.0.4

• Widget language loading causing some WP-CLI command line functions to fail fixed
• Important issue that prevented languages from being saved and custom languages from being used fixed

2.0.3

• Widgets now PHP 7.x+ compatible with proper constructors
• Notice to update the widgets added

2.0.2

• Major bugfix non-English (en-US) language sites and Out of Memory errors
• New Modal based wizards

2.0.1

• Major bugfix with the patron urls containing utm_source not working - a must

2.0.0

• Totally new plugin engine

1.0.6

• New Patreon Button
• Option for using new or old Patreon button
• Custom button uploader
• Custom button width option
• Minor Css fixes
• Admin side jquery and media uploader queueing

1.0.5

• Unnecessary info update code removed to prevent foreach errors

1.0.4

• Fix to prevent output buffering from capturing whitespace

1.0.3

• Option to hide Site Widget in Single Posts
• Reinforced checking for singular post type for appending the button
• Changes to settings page tab code to prevent PHP Warnings regarding strings

1.0.2

• Installation Wizard to help users fill in their Patreon URLS during first install or if they didnt save it before
• Patreon URL verifications in Install Wizard
• Allow both URL and account name (Personal Url slug to be used from the database for constructing button urls
• Routine to check versions and update variables in db if necessary during updates
• Option to open Patreon Profiles in new window when users click on buttons
• Minor fixes to settings tabs

1.0.1

• Unnecessary update and api codes removed

1.0.0

• Initial release!