wp-parsely 3.9 will become available in VIP staging and production environments on Tuesday, September 5 2023. Before using it in production, we recommend testing the new release in staging.
wp-parsely 3.9 will become the default version in production on Tuesday, September 12, 2023, and all non-pinned environments will be auto-upgraded to this version. These changes do not affect customers who don’t use wp-parsely, or use an integration method outside of mu-plugins.
What’s new in wp-parsely 3.9
Here are some of the enhancements that are present in the new version:
New features
- The plugin now provides filters for disabling Content Helper features, allowing you to disable the Parse.ly Content Helper partly or entirely.
- The plugin now automatically tracks Custom Post Types by default. This functionality is only available to new plugin installations. Existing installations will continue to work as before.
- Improvements were made to the settings page that include small UI updates, obsolete options removal, and some basic validation functionality.
- Plugin
itm_sourcestrings are now appended to URLs that come from the plugin, allowing you to associate page visits to the plugin.
Optimizations and quality improvements
There are dozens of improvements in this release to keep our code updated, improve its coherence, improve automated testing, and fix bugs. Some notable ones are:
- Preventing plugin settings from getting saved more often than they should, saving unneeded trips to the database.
- Eliminating unneeded calls to the Parse.ly API, which should result in faster Content Helper operation under certain cases.
- Bug fixes to our Recommendations Block.
- Merging 100 dependency updates into our codebase.
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