!!ATTENTION!! Please make sure to purge your Story Data Caches under Fictioneer > Tools! If your roles somehow lack permissions, you can fix them with Fictioneer > Tools > Initialize Roles manually. And flush your permalinks for good measure under Settings > Permalinks > Save. If the style is old or weird, clear your browser cache.
This may very well be the most comprehensive update since the initial release. As always there are some bug fixes and performance improvements, but this time there are new features as well. I even considered jumping to 6.0 but decided it's not that different yet.
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Highlight: Role Manager
You can now add, edit, and remove roles and capabilities under Fictioneer > Roles, although limited to the theme. If you want to edit truly all capabilities, use a dedicated plugin. The primary goal was to lobotomize the editor for random authors in case you want to host an open community archive. Which you really should not. The Installation Guide has been updated with the new Roles tab.
Fiction post types are no longer considered pages but come with their own capabilities, so you have full control over who can see, assign, edit, or delete them. The same goes for all taxonomies, including the default categories and tags. Permalinks and page templates are no longer free-for-all, dates cannot be changed once a post has been published, sticky requires permission, shortcodes require a written test, and custom CSS injections are not for children's hands. And so forth.
Release Notes
- Fixed: Stories without chapters will no longer query everyone and their cat to fill the void
- Fixed: The "New" marker on cards is now displayed correctly
- Fixed: The comment style preview in the profile now shows your badge (if any)
- Fixed: Your Patreon status no longer lasts indefinitely
- Fixed: Default avatars should now really no longer be broken (lol)
- New: Chapters belonging to an unpublished story will now 404 and be marked in lists
- New: Option to monitor posts for suspicious strings and alert the admin via email
- New: Options to send notifications of new stories and chapters to Discord channels
- New: Style of the settings is now likened to WordPress and works with the color schemes too
- New: Option to flush the whole object cache on update (the nuclear option)
- New: Story filter for the chapter list table
- Improved: Fewer follow-up and double action execution with the block editor and caching
- Improved: Your profile now tells you if your Patreon status has expired (log out and in to refresh)
- Added:
FICTIONEER_ENABLE_FRONTEND_ACFconstant to enable ACF on the frontend - Added: The admin profile now also has the self-delete section (if allowed)
- Changed: The
fictioneer_filter_comment_badge()filter has been reworked, the old one will crash - Changed: The TinyMCE editor for foreword/afterword has been reduced
- Changed: Several general settings have been removed and re-added as role capabilities