v1.6.5

Fixed

• The last version introduced a fatal error for users that did not have Elementor installed.

v1.6.4

Changed

• Updated Freemius SDK to v2.5.12.

Fixed

• The error log contents were overflowing and not staying within the screen.
• Some links in the feed did not have the necessary SEO rel attributes.
• Removed a deprecated field from some Instagram API requests.
• Fixed widget registration for Elementor v3.5.0 and later.
• Reduced the key length for the analytics table to avoid errors on some MySQL versions.

v1.6.3

Fixed

• IG posts with emojis or certain characters could not be imported.
• Analytics database table creation no longer fails silently.

v1.6.2

Changed

• Improved logging when importing posts from Instagram.
• Improved logging when downloading remote files.

Fixed

• String interpolation is now compatible with PHP 8 without warnings.
• The arrow buttons in the slider layout did not have accessible names.

v1.6.1

Fixed

• Fixed a missing import for RuntimeException that triggered an error during a feed update.

Changed

• Updated Freemius SDK to the latest version

v1.6

Added

• Reels playback is now enabled in the popup box, if the API provides the video URL.

v1.5.3

Changed

• Optimized some JavaScript code to be slightly smaller.

Fixed

• Like and comment counts were not imported for Business accounts after the v1.5.2 update.
• Stories were being shown within feeds, instead of being accessible from the profile photo.

v1.5.2

Fixed

• Personal accounts could not fetch posts after a recent unannounced change to Instagram's APIs.
• News notifications were not being displayed in the admin UI.
• Having a global filter made feed filters not work.

Changed

• The use cases and templates in the feed creation wizard can now be double-clicked for faster wizard completion.
• Improved styling in news notifications.

v1.5.1

Changed

• The cron job that updates feeds is now compatible with Action Scheduler.

Fixed

• Temporary file deletion fails safely without triggering warnings.
• The "Dev Tools" are no longer unnecessarily shown in the menu.

v1.5

Added

• An error log that records any errors that occur during background tasks.

Changed

• Updated the admin UI to support WordPress 6.2 and React 18
• Improved page routing in the admin UI
• Updated the Freemius SDK to v2.5.5
• Some small improvements to hashtag and caption filtering

Fixed

• An error when a gallery post has an image with no permalink
• Non-square profile images did not maintain a 1:1 aspect ratio
• One of the settings field for hashtag filtering was not the correct type of field

v1.4.4

Changed

• The feed now uses a smoother fade-in animation when loading Instagram posts
• Replaced the review banner with a feature survey prompt

Fixed

• Feeds no longer appear to be stuck in a loading state when the feed cannot be loaded

v1.4.3

Changed

• The "Upgrade" buttons in the UI have been replaced with "Free trial" buttons
• Thumbnails use the file path returned by WordPress, potentially fixing conflicts with image optimization plugins

Fixed

• The "Additional CSS class(es)" field for the block was susceptible to an XSS exploit
• The incompatibility with "Say What? Pro" plugin was not entirely fixed in the previous version
• The Elementor integration caused a deprecation error that prevented Elementor from working

v1.4.2

Fixed

• Incompatibility with "Say What? Pro" plugin
• The auto-integration with WP Rocket now excludes non-minified WordPress assets from optimizations

v1.4.1

Added

• Black Friday and Cyber Monday discount offers

Fixed

• Fixed the register_controls deprecation warning when using Elementor v3.1.0 or later.

v1.4

Added

• New "Custom CSS" option for feeds
• New "Wave" template
• New "Squircle Grid" template
• New "Portfolio" template
• New "Zoom" template

Changed

• The images and icons in the feed creation wizard are now more distinct from each other

Fixed

• The Slider layout no longer causes erroneous page scrolling when "Auto scroll" is enabled

v1.3

Added

• Added support for Instagram embeds to WordPress

v1.2

Changed

• Using SVGs for better quality media type icons in feeds
• Reels now show a link to Instagram when they are opened in the popup box
• The "Popup link text" option in Promotions is always available, even when linking directly
• The IGTV post type filter has been replaced with an option for Reels

Fixed

• The admin UI would not show up when the URL of the page was incorrect
• No longer using the Instagram shorthand URL for thumbnails due to CORS errors
• Some promotion links were not working due to a JS error
• Relative URLs are now properly allowed in promotions

v1.1.1

Fixed

• An error during import caused by null video URLs

v1.1

Added

• New Analytics page
• New media management options to control how thumbnails are downloaded
• New option to download Instagram videos locally
• New options to add Google Analytics parameters to all promoted URLs in a feed

Changed

• The Settings page has peen redesigned
• You can navigate away from the feed creation wizard using the browser's "Back" function.
• Informational notifications now auto-hide faster
• The sections in the feed editor sidebar now have headers that stick to the top when scrolling
• Feed buttons no longer have hover styles and will inherit their normal colors (only affects newly created feeds)
• Downloading and updating thumbnails is now faster

Fixed

• The "Load more" button was scrolling the page to the top
• A double scroll-bar issue in the feed editor page
• Some responsive feed options did not properly default to their "Desktop" value
• The caption word limit was including one extra word
• The shown selected post/page for a promotion was incorrect when navigating from within the promotions modal

v1.0.1

Added

• Added HTTPS and OpenSSL recommendations in the account info modal

Changed

• The SpotlightInstagram.init() JS function can now re-initializes feeds

Fixed

• Video thumbnails remain in their loading state even after the thumbnail is loaded
• The HTTPS and OpenSSL messages were being shown when they shouldn't, and not shown when they should have been

v1.0

Added

• A feed creation wizard with use-case selection to cater the feed editing experience
• A "Guides" page with links to useful articles and tutorials
• New option to align the "Load more" and "Follow" buttons on the same row beneath the feed
• Pages and posts with an embedded feed can be created directly from the "Embed" tab in the editor
• A warning when the update schedule used to update the feeds does not exist
• Feeds can now be exported to, and imported from, a file
• New options to make the Slider layout scroll automatically
• New option to use links in post captions as promotion links
• Stories in the feed can now be paused by holding down the left mouse button or finger

Changed

• Various visual improvements and fixes for the admin interface
• Reduced the size and loading time for embedded feeds
• Reduced the loading time for the admin app
• Improved the feed editor's styles on mobile devices
• Improved accessibility in the feed
• Any "@" and "#" symbols in image alt texts are removed to aid those with screen readers
• Focus styles in the feed only appear when focusing with a keyboard
• Captions are shown in full when hovering over posts in the feed

Fixed

• Video posts did not load their thumbnail on iOS
• The album navigation arrows in the popup box were not focusable with keyboard navigation
• All of the text on the page in the feed editor gets selected when using a color picker
• The "Follow" button's text was not the same size in the header and footer of the feed
• The padding for the "Follow" and "Load more" buttons did not adjust with text size
• Moderation was ignored when set to "Only show the selected posts" and no posts were selected

v0.10.3

Fixed

• An InvalidArgumentException error after reconnecting a personal account as a business account
• Posts could no longer be imported if an error occurs during importing
• Connected accounts were not being automatically selected in the feed editor

v0.10.2

Fixed

• Security fix

v0.10.1

Fixed

• The feed's styles were not being loaded for feeds embedded on the site

v0.10

Added

• A new option to set the maximum number of imported Instagram posts per account
• Images in the feed now use the caption as "alt" text

Changed

• Videos in galleries are now paused when you navigate within the gallery
• The feed now supports better keyboard navigation
• Improved accessibility in the popup box - the focus is trapped and all controls can be selected with the keyboard
• Reordered the sections in the Embed tab
• Filters can now use the spotlight/instagram/... prefix

Fixed

• Images that fail to load could cause an infinite request loop for the same image
• Non-English characters in hashtags broke links in captions and automated promotions

Removed

• The layouts.js and layouts.css files are no longer needed
• The common-pro.js and common-pro.css files are no longer needed

v0.9.9

Fixed

• Saved thumbnails are lost when the plugin updates Instagram posts

v0.9.8

Changed

• Now requiring a minimum WordPress version of 5.7

Fixed

• "Thumbnail not available" issue for wide feeds on larger screens
• On some sites, the plugin's cron jobs were not being properly registered

v0.9.7

Changed

• The WordPress widget has been renamed to make it clearer in Elementor which widget is which
• Captions are now synced when posts are updated
• Updated the icon for the Elementor widget

Fixed

• Posts without thumbnails caused the feed to crash when those posts are clicked or the feed is very wide
• Some posts would wrongly use the original Instagram CDN image, even if Spotlight had generated optimized thumbnails
• The feed would wrongly show "Thumbnail not available" for posts that had thumbnails available
• Some sites that had HTTPS correctly configured were still seeing the notice that recommends enabling HTTPS

v0.9.6

Changed

• Account access tokens are now encrypted in the database
• Viewing an account's access token now requires entering your password
• Videos in the popup box now sit on top of a black background
• Now recommending HTTPS and the "openssl" PHP extension
• A hard limit of 200 posts is used when importing the "Most popular" posts from a hashtag

Fixed

• Videos in the popup box were invisible when using certain themes
• The popup box now shows an error if a video cannot load
• Videos in albums did not have their URLs updated
• Album posts would sometimes show "Thumbnail not available" even when a thumbnail is available.
• Some hashtag posts could not be fetched because Spotlight was asking IG for too much information

v0.9.5

Fixed

• Videos in gallery posts had broken URLs and could not be played from the popup box
• Feeds only imported posts automatically from the first source

v0.9.4

Fixed

• A feed can no longer have the same account selected multiple times (how did you guys even manage that?)
• An infinite request loop if a thumbnail fails to load in the feed
• A previous solution for the "Image not available" error in the popup box was not working correctly
• JSON data in HTML attributes is now encased in single quotes to prevent escaping problems

v0.9.3

Changed

• The minimum WordPress version requirement is now version 5.3
• The popup box no longer shows images from Instagram's CDN by default
• Photos in album posts now have their thumbnails downloaded and generated
• Optimized some database queries for better performance
• Avoiding an unnecessary image redirect when showing images in the popup box
• Thumbnails in the feed now have explicit "width" and "height" attributes

Fixed

• Fixed a JS error that caused the feed editor page to go blank
• The "Feeds" column in the "Settings > Accounts" page did not show any feeds
• The import completion notification was wrongly saying that more batches were being imported
• The styling of the navbar in the admin app was broken on Chrome
• Fixed an error that prevented the cache from being cleared
• The post selection menu in the promotion options could not be clicked
• Adding a filter causes the plugin to re-import posts unnecessarily

v0.9.2

Added

• Added a filter to transform Instagram post responses from the REST API

Changed

• More user-friendly error message when connecting with an invalid access token
• More user-friendly error message when using a hashtag that does not exist

Fixed

• Duplicate posts were being imported, causing memory exhaustion errors
• Fixed a database insertion error
• Fixed a fatal error when a response status code is invalid
• Fixed an argument type error that is triggered during the clean up cron job
• Fixed blank admin UI for mobile devices on WordPress 5.8

v0.9.1

Fixed

• Fixed an error on the "Widgets" page for WordPress version 5.8
• Fixed a PHP notice when clearing the cache if the thumbnails folder does not exist
• The original image would not be deleted after optimization if an error occurs

v0.9

Added

• Accessibility and SEO attributes to buttons and links in the feed

Changed

• Replaced the built-in import engine with an upgraded version
• Posts that have not changed on Instagram will not be updated unnecessarily
• Large numbers of Instagram posts are now imported in batches
• Minor database query optimizations
• The PRO version no longer restricts updates for the free version

Fixed

• Timeout errors when importing large numbers of Instagram posts
• Timeout errors when clearing the cache for large numbers of Instagram posts
• A PHP notice about an undefined 'shortcode' index
• A conflict with pages that have the word "spotlight" in their permalink
• Expired images in the popup now fallback to a local image
• A styling incompatibility with LearnDash Advanced Quizzes
• Vertical center alignment for album images and videos
• The feeds shows the wrong number of posts when tablets and phones show more than on desktop
• The feed layout did not change in the Elementor widget editor
• The settings for the Elementor widget would reset when the feed editor saves the feed
• Posts imported for multiple sources can now be shown in feeds for both sources

v0.8.2

Changed

• Replaced Guzzle with an in-house solution, resolving many plugin conflicts
• The feed is now centered in its container or block when its width is not set to "Auto"

Fixed

• The header "Account to show" option did not work
• A conflict with BuddyBoss caused a fatal error due to a typed shortcode parameter
• Centered headers were not properly center-aligned
• Disabling all promotions in a feed did not disable automated or global promotions

v0.8.1

Fixed

• The Guzzle conflict detection has been disabled due to false-positives

v0.8

Added

• New feed templates to get started with a preset design
• Feeds can now be exported and imported
• Integration with WP Rocket and Litespeed Cache plugins
• You can now start designing feeds before connecting an account
• The REST API now includes an "Expires" header for proper browser caching
• A link to customer support in the navigation bar when on the Feeds page
• New dev tools page to help diagnose problems (currently hidden)

Changed

• Reduced total size of JS and CSS loaded on the site by 28%
• Removed use of dashicons in the feed
• Moved the preview device selector into the preview viewport
• Icons have been added to the action menus for feeds and accounts for better clarity
• Delete options in the action menus for feeds and accounts are now red to indicate danger
• Promotion options now open in a modal
• The promotion type can now be set on a per-post basis

Fixed

• Fixed a conflict with the WooCommerce Paypal Payments extension
• Album images of posts not owned by your account no longer request the thumbnail, which caused an API error
• Various usability and accessibility fixes in the feed editor
• The PRO features did not activate under certain conditions

v0.7

Added

• Support for IGTV videos
• New link to the "Feeds" page in the Plugins page
• New link to documentation and FAQs in the Plugins page
• New options for hover colors and border radius for the "Follow" and "Load more" buttons
• New option to toggle whether the "Load more" button causes the page to scroll down
• Optimization can now be run manually from the "Configuration" settings page
• URLs in captions are now turned into links
• The "Type of posts" option now allows distinguishing between normal and IGTV videos
• The link at the bottom of the popup box's sidebar can now be styled as a button

Changed

• Reduced the total size of JS and CSS loaded on the site by 70%
• Improved updating of data during imports
• Removing use of PATCH and DELETE HTTP methods

Fixed

• Feeds had no header if another feed on the same page showed a header for the same account
• Some tagged posts could not be imported due to use of invalid request fields

v0.6.1

Changed

• Now compatible with PHP8

Fixed

• An error, caused by curly braces offset access syntax, which is not supported in PHP8.

v0.6

Added

• New slider layout
• New option to duplicate feeds

Fixed

• The feed did not load on sites that send CORS preflight requests
• Fixed hashtags without spaces between them becoming a single link
• Undefined index errors during an import or update
• Expired stories are now longer shown in the feed
• The clean-up optimization deletes expired stories

v0.5.4

Changed

• Now detecting a conflict with the official "Facebook for WordPress" plugin

Fixed

• Fixed "Argument 1 passed" error when viewing/previewing a feed

v0.5.3

Added

• Added the ability to clear cache for a single feed only
• Added more tooltips in the editor and improved the wording of existing tooltips
• Added a notification if an error occurs while saving the settings

Changed

• The actions in the feeds list are now in a menu
• The feed usages in the feeds list now link to the post on the site, not the edit page
• The sources in the feeds list now link to the account info or hashtag page on Instagram
• The default click behavior on mobile devices is now set to open the popup box
• The admin interface uses the WP Admin color scheme as much as possible
• Better error messages when account connection fails
• The copied info from our access token generator can now be directly pasted into the access token field
• Unavailable images and videos now show a message in the popup box, instead of broken content
• The popup box's size in the preview now matches the device being previewed
• The popup box takes on a vertical layout on mobile devices
• Images and videos correctly fill up the popup box when the sidebar is enabled
• The default hashtag type is now "most popular", since that often gives better results

Fixed

• Image and video URLs were not being renewed, causing broken content when they expire
• Thumbnails are now served using HTTPS is the site is using SSL
• The popup box is no longer too large for mobile devices
• Text in the popup box was too large
• The popup box now prevents the page from scrolling, which used to result in 2 scrollbars
• Extending the execution time during imports to prevent long imports from terminating early
• Fixed incompatibility with plugins that introduced circular references in post type objects
• Fixed an SQL error that occurs when using MySQL version 8.0 or later
• All connected accounts were being included in a feed's context, even if unused in that feed
• Scrollbars would show up in the editor preview, even when there was nothing to scroll
• The popup box no longer freezes in white when the image or video cannot be loaded
• New comments were not imported when the plugin fetches updates from Instagram

v0.5.2

Added

• The plugin now checks for required PHP extensions and will show a message if one is missing

Changed

• The "Cookie nonce is invalid" error has been changed to highlight that you are not logged in
• Tweaked the scaling of the hover date so that it doesn't overlap with the Instagram icon
• Like and comment counts are now updated on subsequent imports

Fixed

• Fixed an "Invalid argument type" error that occurs during import
• When the feed loads a post with a video in an album, the feed app would crash
• On 32-bit systems, feeds would only show 1 post
• The logo in the block editor is too large when using certain themes
• The onboarding process triggered a feed load twice after connecting the account, resulting in an error
• When navigating away from the editor, the "unsaved changes" prompt did not show up
• Stories would take up the count for normal posts in the feed, resulting in less posts being shown
• Auto promotion hashtags were not detected if the hashtags in the caption where not space-separated

v0.5.1

Changed

• Optimized the rendering for the grid layout, resulting in smoother loading animations

Fixed

• All posts in the feed would flash when more posts are loaded using the "Load more" button
• When PHP strict_types is enabled, a type error occurred while fetching posts from Instagram
• Updates for the free version were only available when the PRO version is deactivated
• Story posts were not importing due to an error
• The masonry layout's loading animation would wrongly hide already loaded posts

v0.5

Added

• New option in the feeds list to update the Instagram posts for a feed
• The "Show/hide PRO Features" selection is remembered in the browser

Changed

• Video thumbnails are generated for non-tagged and non-hashtag posts
• Added a notification when connecting an account using an access token fails
• Duplicate posts, even if fetched for different sources, will no longer be shown in feeds
• When a feed is not set to open posts in the popup box, the "Popup box" section is now disabled instead of being hidden

Fixed

• Incompatibility with Kadence plugins caused modal popups to not appear
• Incompatibility with LiteSpeed cache when loading JS when DOM is ready
• Corrupted feed options would cause an error that prevented editing and saving feeds
• Modals no longer cover up toast notifications in the admin app
• Warnings would show up when activating the plugin on a new site
• Cron jobs would not be recreated after their schedule is changed in the settings
• Feed usage in the block editor was not detected and shown in the feeds list
• Duplicate crons would be created when run manually using WP Crontrol
• Activating the PRO version without the FREE version shows a "You're not allowed" page
• The tagged accounts option did not update when connecting an account in the New/Edit Feed page
• The preview wrongly showed the message to relax filters/moderation while the feed is still loading

v0.4.2

Changed

• Various tiny performance optimizations
• The default optimization age limit is now 7 days, down from 30 days
• Increased the quality of generated thumbnails with minimal disk space impact
• Now checking if FREE version is v0.4 or later instead of strictly matching the PRO version

Fixed

• Downloading thumbnails for videos would occasionally cause a fatal error
• Custom post types used by the plugin were not properly registered
• Updates for PRO would not show up if FREE was upgraded before PRO

v0.4.1

Changed

• Now using a beacon in the bottom-right of the screen for important plugin-related alerts
• Using paused videos as thumbnails, until a better solution can be found for video thumbnails

Fixed

• Thumbnails are now saved locally, after Instagram made an unannounced change to their API
• Thumbnails are resized and automatically and optimally scaled for the screen

v0.4

Added

• Global promotions: Apply promotions globally for all feeds
• Automated promotions: Automatically promote posts based on hashtags
• Elementor widget to natively embed Instagram feeds in Elementor

Changed

• Greatly improved the loading time for feeds on the site
• All pages are now much more responsive and usable on mobile devices
• Filtering fields will auto-add their typed value when they lose focus
• Improved the message shown in the shortcode when a feed does not exist
• Added redundant WordPress styles to ensure a consistent look and feel
• The PRO version now requires the free version to be installed and activated

Fixed

• Addressed the "Cache key is invalid" entries in the debug log
• Fixed thumbnails not loading due to Instagram deprecating their thumbnails API
• Fixed an error that sometimes prevented feeds from being saved
• Fixed PRO layouts not loading in the WordPress block editor

v0.3.2

Changed

• The plugin now clarifies whether errors come from Instagram's API or the plugin itself
• Overall performance of the editor has been greatly improved

Fixed

• The text size option was showing wrong values for tablets and phones
• Videos did not load and would remain as grey tiles
• The preview did not always reflect changes made to the feed's options
• Promotion settings would occasionally not get saved properly
• The last column in the Masonry layout would become larger than the other columns
• Showing the likes and comments icons no longer crops images

v0.3.1

Fixed

• The page would not load or crash if an account has no access token expiry date
• The top navigation bar would did not update to indicate the current tab.
• Saving a feed after applying a promotion caused a previous change to be lost

v0.3

Added

• Added a block for the WordPress Gutenberg block editor
• Account information is now updated during media imports
• New "Promote" feature for promoting content from Instagram feeds

Changed

• Now using the WordPress-bundled React, reducing JS file sizes
• Improved the responsiveness of the navbar

Fixed

• Fixed an error that caused feeds to break when not logged in
• Fixed PRO features not being enabled in Safari
• Fixed an error caused by media not being a valid array from the Instagram Graph API
• Fixed an error while fetching comments caused by empty media IDs

v0.2.4

Fixed

• Some fields in the Design tab would incorrectly remain disabled
• The app no longer gets stuck on the flashing logo during loading
• Feeds did not work when other plugins encounter errors or raise warnings

v0.2.3

Changed

• Videos use an Instagram-style video player
• The popup box is now responsive
• Now showing smaller thumbnails in smaller feeds
• The popup box sidebar moves under the media on mobile devices
• Fixed interval timing for videos in stories
• Fixed the admin app crashing when visiting the moderation tab
• Hashtag posts with unavailable media are omitted from feeds
• The stories popup now has a semi-transparent background, instead of opaque

Fixed

• Front-end CSS is now correctly minimized for increased page load speeds
• Fixed app not loading correctly after an update, due to browser caching

v0.2.2

Added

• Hover info now scales with the size of the media tiles in the layout
• Added confirmation when resetting moderation

Changed

• Added reset styles to media in the popup box to improve compatibility with themes
• Improved how media in the popup box gets scaled to better match Instagram's own scaling
• Improved the design of the lightbox sidebar
• The PRO version enables the popup box sidebar by default
• The PRO version enables all header info options by default

Fixed

• Media in the popup box would incorrectly have black bars
• Cancelling after clicking the Cancel button disabled the Cancel and Save buttons
• Fixed the Masonry layout having double horizontal spacing between tiles
• Hashtag filtering was ignoring hashtags at the beginning of a caption
• The PRO version was loading admin-side JS and CSS on the public-side

v0.2.1

Fixed

• "Too many IDs" error when a Business account has more than 50 posts

v0.2

Added

• Freemius integration
• Admin notifications
• New "Tools" section in the settings and an option to clear the API cache
• The live preview shows a message when user options result in no posts being shown in a feed

v0.1

Initial version of Spotlight Instagram Feeds.