Change Log

2009-01-30: 1.4.40 –

• Added support for Pre-Slug URL elements — this will be helpful for those users who don’t have rewrite working fully
• Additional, unnecessary postmeta fields not being created anymore for pro users
• Fixed auto pretty link creation and auto twitter posting on scheduled and xml-rpc post for pro users
• Fixed twitter badge count issue — it was reporting incorrect tweet results for some pro users on some posts
• Added Option to show tweet badge and/or social buttons in the RSS Feed

2009-12-08: 1.4.38 – Fixed some update and validation bugs affecting a small number of users.
2009-12-08: 1.4.36 –

• Fixed pro export issue
• Fixed html within shortcodes in keyword replacement issues for pro users
• Fixed XHTML validation for pro users using keyword replacement
• Added an email button to the social bar for pro users
• Fixed update code for pro users to not display false update message
• Fixed url utilities port configuration for all users
• Fixed url validation issue for all users

2009-12-08: 1.4.35 – Made significant changes to the Pretty Link Pro update routines & fixed several bugs with remote url reading
2009-11-22: 1.4.34 – Fixed a Redirection Issue for all users
2009-11-09: 1.4.33 – Added more support options for all users, updated install, added exclude tweet badge/comments & social media buttons for specific pages & posts to the page/post edit screen.
2009-10-26: 1.4.32 – Optimized CSV download, fixed group issue on options page, optimized more SQL calls, fixed keyword replacement bug on password protected posts.
2009-10-24: 1.4.31 – Fixed a bug in pretty link, pixel & cloaking redirection.
2009-10-22: 1.4.30 – Altered the where Pretty Links are redirected to put less burden on normal page loads, optimized Group & Report SQL calls to be significantly faster, added a shortcode & template tag for pro users to display their pretty links on pages & posts (the shortcode is http://blairwilliams.com/41e and the template tag is the_prettylink() ).
2009-10-20: 1.4.29 – Added some more support options and fixed some minor bugs in keyword replacement and pro options.
2009-10-14: 1.4.28 – Fixed a bug with link creation from the bookmarklet, post publishing and public link creation that was introduced in the last release
2009-10-13: 1.4.27 –

• Simplified SQL Calls and reduced the number of them that it takes to load a page
• Modified tweets to be counted for each link — even ones not associated with a post — got rid of the url_alias feature
• Streamlined database calls & fixed a bug in the API
• Added the ability to tweet to multiple accounts…
• Added TweetMeme count checking and added additional twitter account validation

2009-10-08: 1.4.26 –

• Fixed the html entity display issue for target urls
• Reduced package size of Pretty Link for more reliable installation
• Added Customizable Bookmarklet for Pro Users

2009-10-03: 1.4.25 – Fixed Install Bug and added nofollows to links in social bar and re-tweet badge
2009-09-27: 1.4.23/24 – Fixed an installation issue for PHP4 users
2009-09-20: 1.4.22 –

• Added known robot and unidentified browser filtering to Pretty Link stats
• Added IP Address range definition to the Excluded IP address field
• Fixed html formatting issue on the bookmarklet success page
• Added the ability for Pro users to remove or alter the attribution link on the Pretty Bar
• Added new shortcodes for Pro users to display the title, target url and social networking buttons for a newly created public pretty link
• Enhanced the default success page for public link creation for pro users
• Fixed the redirect-type not being set bug for pro users allowing public link creation
• Fixed another php short-code bug affecting Pro users (thanks to Clay Loveless of KillerSoft for helping me with that one)

2009-09-15: 1.4.21 – Fixed UTF-8 issues for Pretty Link and Pretty Link Pro Users, added padding configuration to space the buttons on the social bar for Pro users, fixed several issues for users hosted on Windows, enabled UTF-8 Pretty Link slugs, enabled UTF-8 tweets for pro users, and fixed the html validation issues with the tweet badge and social buttons bar.
2009-09-09: 1.4.20 – Added IPv6 support for IP Address Exclusions, added Twitter Comments post widget for Pro users, added RSS feed support for the tweet badge for Pro users
2009-09-08: 1.4.19 – Fixed https image loading / path issue, fixed bookmarklet javascript encoding issue, fixed import / export issue for pro users, added Hyves and Sphinn to the social buttons bar, added more placement options for the social buttons bar, added a social buttons bar shortcode & template tag
2009-09-05: 1.4.18 – Added the Social Network Button Bar for Pro Users
2009-09-04: 1.4.17 – Fixed the php strict tags issue affecting some users, click record issue affecting some IIS users, added DOCTYPE line to pretty bar, eliminated Pro upgrade messages for Pro users
2009-08-31: 1.4.16 – Fixed PrliUrlUtils not found error affecting some users, added instructions for installing the Pretty Link bookmarklet on the iPhone, added a URL Alias feature to Pro to allow tweet counts to be aggregated and hence, more accurate
2009-08-29: 1.4.15 – Fixed the nested slug cookie issue.
2009-08-28: 1.4.14 – Fixed bookmarklet/fopen issue, XML-RPC auto-tweet, scheduled auto-tweet & link creation issue, bulk link creation issue. Added slug choice for your post and a twitter message formatting textarea.
2009-08-22: 1.4.13 – Fixed the option reset issue.
2009-08-21: 1.4.12 – Added title detection, added enhancements to the Pretty Link Bookmarklet, added better support for IIS, changed the keyword replacement algorithm in Pro to replace links throughout the post when thresholds are set (instead of only linking to the top x keywords) and fixed some issues surrounding caching in Pro
2009-08-20: 1.4.11 – Fixed pretty bar styling issue, API issue and added the first official Pretty Link Bookmarklet
2009-08-19: 1.4.10 – Completely overhauled the underlying pretty link options code, cleaned up the link options panel, fixed tweet badge display issues in Pro and added shorturl autodiscovery in Pro as described here: http://sites.google.com/a/snaplog.com/wiki/short_url
2009-08-12: 1.4.8 – Added fixes to the Quick Add dashboard widget, several other features in Pretty Link. Added alternate URL configuration and Public facing URL creation to Pretty Link Pro.
2009-08-11: 1.4.7 – Added Bulk Actions (bulk edit & delete) to the Pretty Link list for Pro users and tested against WordPress 2.8.4
2009-08-10: 1.4.6 – Fixed URL length issue and updated php_browsecap.ini file
2009-08-06: 1.4.5 – Tested up to WordPress 2.8.3 and fixed some PHP4 issues
2009-08-02: 1.4.4 – Fixed the permission issue with the Quick Add Dashboard Widget and the auto tweet post issue in Pretty Link Pro.
2009-07-31: 1.4.3 – Added the Pretty Link Quick Add Dashboard Widget
2009-07-30: 1.4.2 – Fixed some bugs surrounding the manual install process of pro
2009-07-29: 1.4.1 – Created a manual install process for Pretty Link Pro and fixed some bugs
2009-07-28: 1.4.0 – Major release – addition of Pretty Link Pro installation code — it’s live and you can get the Pre-Launch version of Pretty Link Pro at PrettyLinkPro.com!
2009-07-25: 1.3.42 – Fixed pretty bar not found issue
2009-07-21: 1.3.41 – This includes numerous bug fixes, back end hooks and code to interface with Pretty Link Pro
2009-07-20: 1.3.40 – Moved the location of the Pretty Link Options page and tested pretty link against the 2.8.2 release of WordPress
2009-07-17: 1.3.39 – Fixed a bug in Ultra-Cloak rendering
2009-07-16: 1.3.38 – UI Fixes to the Group Section, installation error checking, numerous bug fixes, addition of more backend hooks
2009-06-30: 1.3.37 – Fixed some php 4 compatibility errors…

2009-06-25: 1.3.36 – Upgraded open source flash objects library, made enhancements to the api and finished exporting all api methods via xmlrpc. Also includes numerous bug fixes.

2009-06-16: 1.3.35 - Fixed some bugs including the redirection issue with encrypted links

2009-06-13: 1.3.34 - API updates, Bug Fixes

2009-06-3: 1.3.33 - Enhanced API, Fixed bugs

2009-05-29: 1.3.32 - Fixed the Parameter Forwarding Bug and some other issues…

2009-05-28: 1.3.31 - Added the ability to create nested pretty link slugs (slashes are now allowed in slugs). Also fixed several bugs.

2009-05-20: 1.3.30 - Bug fixes: link validation and link edit options

2009-05-15: 1.3.29 - Fixed Link Search and path problems when hard-coding to wp-content folder

2009-05-14: 1.3.28 - Added the Pretty Link API (local & remote)

2009-05-13: 1.3.27 - Fixes to the PrettyBar in IE and addition of character limit thresholds for the title, description and Target URL display on PrettyBar

2009-05-12: 1.3.26 - Fixes to Javascript & UTF-8 Support in PrettyBar

2009-05-11: 1.3.25 - Added Unique Hit column, PrettyBar icon and Ultra Cloak icon to Pretty Links List page

2009-05-08: 1.3.24 - Added Default Link Options and modified the User Interface

2009-05-08: 1.3.23 - Bug Fixes — fixed some “Hit Report” issues

2009-05-07: 1.3.22 - Added advanced PrettyBar configuration, modified the new/edit link UI, and added a link ultra-cloak mode that hides the Target URL from the user by loading it in a full-screen frame

2009-05-03: 1.3.21 - Added configuration and skinning options to the PrettyBar

2009-05-02: 1.3.20 - Added the first version of “PrettyBar” to this Plugin. This will allow you to keep your visitors tied to your site by displaying a bar at the top of the page. This feature is off by default but can be turned on for any Pretty Link.

2009-05-01: 1.3.19 - Added a way to add multiple links to a group in one action on the Group Add and Group Edit pages.

2009-05-01: 1.3.18 - Added the ability to create nofollow/noindex links, to disable link tracking and an option to clear the entire hit database. There were also numerous bug fixes in this release.

2009-04-29: 1.3.17 - Bug Fixes

2009-04-29: 1.3.16 - Added Pretty Link Groups

2009-04-28: 1.3.15 - Performance Enhancements and Bug Fixes

2009-04-28: 1.3.14 - Big changes to Pretty Link reporting and Bug Fixes.

2009-04-25: 1.3.13 - Bug Fixes

2009-04-24: 1.3.12 - Added CSV reports for visitor and IP based reports

2009-04-24: 1.3.11 - Added visitor tracking to csv download and individual views

2009-04-24: 1.3.10 - Track users across hits

2009-04-24: 1.3.9 - Bug Fixes

2009-04-24: 1.3.8 – Bug Fixes

2009-04-24: 1.3.7 - Added the ability to select Temporary (307) or Permanent (301) redirection for your Pretty Links

2009-04-23: 1.3.6 - Added Request URI to the data stream and the ability to search / sort hits

2009-04-23: 1.3.5 - Added fixes to include better javascript degradation

2009-04-22: 1.3.4 - Fixed some issues some users were having while running wordpress in a subdirectory of their document roots

2009-04-22: 1.3.3 - Bug Fixes

2009-04-22: 1.3.2 - Added the ability to exclude IP Addresses from the Clicks / Stats. These hits are still recorded in the database but are just excluded from the reports. You can find the text field where you can enter these IP addresses in the Pretty Link Options panel.

2009-04-21: 1.3.1 - Added rewriting for Parameter Forwarding. Now you can specify the format of the parameters you want to send to your Target URL.

2009-04-20: 1.3.0 - Added a search bar on the links list.

2009-04-20: 1.2.9 - Added a Title & Description to the Links. Added sorting to the list of links. Added the Creation date of the link to the list of links.

2009-04-18: 1.2.8 - In this release I altered the way the url rewriting worked. Instead of using Apache’s mod_rewrite, I now use WordPress’s internal mechanism. If you still want to use Apache mod_rewrite, just go ahead and select it in the Options page (under Settings).