WPAdverts 1.4.0 – Please read before (or after) updating.

Hello Everyone,
on 6th February WPAdverts 1.4 will be available, this is both exciting and scary at the same time.

The scary part is that we are making changes that on some small percent of sites can be backward-incompatible, but nothing that would break your website.

Either way, before (or after) updating there are two things you should check to make sure everything will work smoothly after the update:

1. Custom Language – if you are using a custom translation (created using LocoTranslate, Say What? or any other translation plugin), then after updating you would need to :

– Go to the folder when the translation is stored (usually wp-content/languages/plugins/ and rename file(s) adverts-* to wpadverts-*.

– Say What? users would need to edit each customized WPAdverts phrase and change the text-domain from “adverts” to “wpadverts”.

2. add-preview.php template, if you are using a custom version of the wpadverts/templates/add-preview.php you will need to open it and add to both <form>s a line

<input type="hidden" name="_post_id_nonce" id="_post_id_nonce" value="<?php echo esc_attr($post_id_nonce) ?>" />

If a developer created a website for you then it is best to check with him, he will know if you are using custom add-preivew.php. If you created a website yourself and do not know what an add-preview.php file is then most likely you do not need to update anything.

In either case after updating just go to the page with [adverts_add] shortcode and post a new Ad, if it will go from Preview to the last step then you do not need to update anything.

If you would like to know more why we are doing these changes and what other changes we have made please read the (pre) release blog post https://wpadverts.com/blog/wpadverts-1-4-0-release/