CHANGELOG ========= = Version 6.3 = * Minor changes in code = Version 6.2 = * Some textual changes = Version 6.1 = * New: plugin now also supports tags * Fix: conditional logic * Fix: added extra check for WooCommerce = Version 6.0 = * Previous version crashes website without WooCommerce * Fix: added extra check for WooCommerce = Version 5.9 = * Fix: meta description of the WooCommerce shop page = Version 5.8 = * New: setting to avoid settings being removed upon uninstall * Updated file uninstall = Version 5.7 = * New: the description of the post or product category can be used as meta description for that category page = Version 5.6 = * Added file vsmd-options * Relocated code of the settingspage to this file * Minor changes in code = Version 5.5 = * Fix: character counter = Version 5.4 = * Updated the character counter * Minor changes in code = Version 5.3 = * Fix: remove line breaks from manual excerpt * Fix: updated register_setting() * Because of fix above plugin now requires at least WP 4.7 * Added, removed and changed escaping and sanitizing of many items = Version 5.2 = * Increased maximum character length of the meta description input * You will be notified if your meta description exceeds the recommended maximum length = Version 5.1 = * Settingspage: no product section if the WooCommerce plugin isn't installed and active * File vsmd: removed unnecessary whitespaces = Version 5.0 = * Decreased maximum meta description length from 320 to 160 characters * Because Google decreased this length in may 2018 * For a short period of time the maximum length was 320 characters * This means you might have to change your meta description = Version 4.9 = * Fix: character counter = Version 4.8 = * Fix: mistake in plugin description = Version 4.7 = * Some textual changes * Removed unnecessary notifications from changelog (such as "updated readme file" and "updated FAQ") = Version 4.6 = * Fixed PHP 7.2 warning in case of an empty page excerpt (thanks Nick) * Using mb_strlen() instead of strlen() for the character counter * Now character counter supports all UTF-8 characters * Minor textual change = Version 4.5 = * Readme file: removed donate link * Updated theme author info * Credits in changelog: removed all full names (because of the GDPR) = Version 4.4 = * Tagline is not used as meta description anymore * This was used when meta description field was empty * Removed this because a tagline is too short to be used as meta description = Version 4.3 = * Increased maximum meta description length from 160 to 320 characters (thanks kawaiikawaii) * Because Google increased this length at the end of 2017 * Redesigned the settingspage = Version 4.2 = * Several minor changes in file vsmd = Version 4.1 = * As mentioned before: removed support for Open Graph and Twitter Cards * New: activate post and page excerpt or product excerpt separately * Updated all files = Version 4.0 = * In next version I will remove support for Open Graph and Twitter Cards * Why? because both features don't have much to do with a meta description * And the amount of users did not increase after adding both features * Best practice: removed closing PHP tag from most files * Best practice: added newline at end of most files = Version 3.9 = * Fixed bug in Open Graph tag (description) on homepage * It was always printing the tagline, never the meta description = Version 3.8 = * Minor textual changes * Updated file vsmd = Version 3.7 = * Increased meta description length from 150 to 160 characters * Minor textual changes * Updated file vsmd = Version 3.6 = * File vsmd: disable direct access to file = Version 3.5 = * Added Twitter Cards tags * Updated text strings on settingspage * Updated file uninstall = Version 3.4 = * Added custom excerpt for pages too * Now you can set a custom excerpt for every post and page = Version 3.3 = * Added Open Graph tags * Updated file uninstall = Version 3.2 = * File vsmd: fix in the meta description order = Version 3.1 = * SEO: added checkbox to use the custom post excerpt as meta description (thanks Tom) * Updated file uninstall = Version 3.0 = * SEO: added checkbox to use meta description for homepage only (thanks Dan) * Updated file uninstall = Version 2.9 = * Added link to settingspage = Version 2.8 = * File vsmd: textual changes = Version 2.7 = * Added file changelog = Version 2.6 = * Added character counter * Updated text strings = Version 2.5 = * Only few minor changes = Version 2.4 = * Updated text strings = Version 2.3 = * Added a PayPal donate link = Version 2.2 = * Only updated readme file = Version 2.1 = * Removed translations: plugin now supports WordPress language packs = Version 2.0 = * Added file uninstall so settings in database are removed when uninstalling plugin = Version 1.9 = * File vsmd: updated data escaping in header = Version 1.8 = * Changed text domain for the wordpress.org translation system = Version 1.7 = * Updated file vsmd = Version 1.6 = * Updated language files = Version 1.5 = * Only few minor changes = Version 1.4 = * Only few minor changes = Version 1.3 = * Removed function vsmd_clean_input and replaced it with native WP function sanitize_text_field * Now all UTF-8 characters are supported * Added Catalan translation (thanks Miquel) * Added FAQ in readme file = Version 1.2 = * Added Serbian translation (thanks Ogi) * Added Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks Gustavo) * Added Spanish translation (thanks Alvaro) = Version 1.1 = * Changed function vsmd_clean_input * Only allowed: letters (a-z), digits (0-10), space, point, hyphen and comma = Version 1.0 = * First stable release