BeyondWords is the AI voice platform that brings frictionless audio publishing to newsrooms, writers, and businesses. Automatically create audio versions of WordPress posts and pages and embed via a customizable player. Lifelike neural voices and customizable text-to-speech algorithms deliver realistic speech that keeps listeners coming back for more.
5.1.0
Release date: 30th October 2024
Fixes
- #404 Bring auto-publish setting into WordPress to fix auto-publishing.
- In some cases WordPress was publishing audio regardless of the auto-publish setting in the dashboard.
- After this update any content created with the WordPress plugin will need to be published in the BeyondWords dashboard.
- #407 Regenerate audio for all post statuses
- If a post has a content ID for audio then we now always make PUT requests to the BeyondWords REST API when the post is updated.
- This fixes an issue where the
published
property of audio was not set to false
when WordPress posts were moved back to draft
status.
- #408 Generate Audio checkbox in Classic Editor doesn't reflect the "Preselect" setting
- A change in the
v5.0
update meant the "Preselect generate audio" JS script was no longer being enqueued. This should now be fixed.
5.0.0
Release date: 15th October 2024
Enhancements
- #385 Extend plugin settings using a tabbed interface.
- The plugin settings screen has been expanded to include settings from the BeyondWords dashboard, allowing you to set various BeyondWords settings without leaving WordPress.
- Changes made in WordPress will be immediately copied over to the BeyondWords dashboard when "Save settings" is pressed.
- Changes made in the BeyondWords dashboard will be copied over to WordPress when you visit the relevant plugin settings tab.
Breaking changes
- Legacy audio player support has been removed.
- The legacy BeyondWords player is no longer natively supported in the WordPress plugin.
- The standard BeyondWords Player is now the only built-in option for the audio player.
- Remove built-in Elementor compatibility.
- Basic support for audio generation and auto-player embeds should still work for posts that are created with Elementor, although you will be unable to see a BeyondWords player in the Elementor post edit screens. To view our player in WordPress admin you can temporarily switch to the Block or Classic editors.
- Refer to our WordPress filters docs and the Elementor hooks docs if you wish to add Elementor support to your site.
- Stop saving the legacy
beyondwords_podcast_id
param.
- This change means that posts generated with versions
v5.0.0
and later will not play audio if the plugin is downgraded to v3.x
or below.
- If you need to downgrade to
v3.x
after using v5.x
please contact us for support.
- Remove deprecated filters.
- A number of deprecated filters have now been removed from the source code.
- Refer to our WordPress Filters documentation to view the current filters we provide.
See the previous changelogs here.