Employee Directory Professional WordPress Plugin Changelog

V6.6.0

NEW

• Added ability to visually debug the drawing of organizational charts

V6.5.3

TWEAK

• Allowed existing custom field to be displayed in EMD Custom Field Builder. You will be able to use custom fields generated by third party plugins.

V6.5.2

FIX

• Organization charts cannot be filtered using Visual Shortcode Builder.

V6.5.1

FIX

• Toolbar icons are not displayed in the employee list view.

V6.5.0

TWEAK

• Added ability to set the maximum number of employees to show in multiple sidebar widgets.
• Added ability to set pagination support with customization options for multiple sidebar widgets.
• Upgraded included software libraries and improved overall look and feel.

NEW

• Added EMD Custom Field Builder support for creating custom attributes and taxonomies.

V6.1.0

NEW

• Added EMD Custom Field Builder support for creating custom attributes and taxonomies

V6.0.0

TWEAK

• The anniversaries of the current month will be displayed starting from the current date.
• Added ability to search by last name in alpha search
• Visual Shortcode Builder to better support complex queries
• upgraded the libraries included in the source code

NEW

• Ability to customize search result columns
• Added EMD Form Builder support for creating fully featured custom submit and search forms

V5.7.3

NEW

• Added company taxonomy for Employee and Event entities.

V5.7.2

FIX

• Only file types allowed and set in the plugin settings can be uploaded to WordPress media library issue

V5.7.1

TWEAK

• Modified template system to maintain support for Internet Explorer 11.

V5.7.0

TWEAK

• WordPress 5.x compatibility.

NEW

• Visual Shortcode Builder page under the plugin settings.

V5.6.0

FIX

• manager relationship cannot be added from the frontend in employee profile pages.

TWEAK

• enabled ajax based taxonomy search in the filters and columns section in WordPress dashboard.
• Added phone field to advanced search forms
• Improve the performance of employee list pages in the backend

NEW

• Added phone and mobile fields to employee list datagrid.
• Added employee first name and last name for search purposes. These fields are not displayed in the profile page.

V5.2.0

FIX

• Sorting of birthdays and anniversaries for this week widget resulting from the dates spanning multiple months.
• Bio field not displaying its content when there are special characters.

TWEAK

• The birthdays of the current month will be displayed starting from the current date.
• The recent employee widget sorting for better compatibility.

V5.1.1

FIX

• Minor fix on employee photo not displaying proportionately in some views

V5.1.0

FIX

• Misc. template issues related to frontend editing functionality
• this week birthdays and anniversaries widgets for the weeks spanning two months
• Custom fields not getting displayed in the details tab of employee profiles

TWEAK

• Enabled local loading of Font Awesome Web font
• Recent employee widget was displaying new hires of the current month. Now it is all new hires sorted by their hire dates, starting from the latest at top

NEW

• Added a widget which displays employees celebrating birthdays in the current month
• Added a widget which displays a random employee every time it is loaded
• Added department field in all widgets
• Added monthly widgets for birthdays
• Added random employee widget

V5.0.6

FIX

• Misc. template issues related to frontend editing functionality

TWEAK

• Enabled local loading of Font Awesome Web font

V5.0.5

TWEAK

• Update this week birthday and anniversary widgets to count employees starting from the current date instead of the beginning of the current week

V5.0.4

TWEAK

• The current week starting from Monday to Sunday - changed from Sunday to Sunday
• Changed the layout of the alphabetical search view to make it display better in pages with sidebars

V5.0.3

FIX

• Circle grid not displaying properly issue.
• wp_mail function conflicts with postman installed systems

V5.0.0

NEW

• Users belonging to employee or employee manager roles will be able to edit event or profile pages from the frontend after they logged in
• Administrators will be able to set which employee or event fields can be edited or accessed from the frontend and/or WordPress dashboard for employee and employee manager roles.
• Administrators will be able to display or hide the event or employee fields of their choosing to non logged-in users

V4.7.2

FIX

• Employee Tag Search displaying all terms instead of distinct values issue

V4.7.1

FIX

• Recent Employees widget display has been changed to be based on the month and year of the hire date

V4.7.0

NEW

• Alphabetical search for employees based on employee names
• Letter-based navigation bar for employee list
• Alphabetical search for employees based on department names
• Alphabetical search for employee based on job titles
• Ability to limit max size and file types of employee photos

V4.6.6

FIX

• Minor CSS issues with the employee related views

V4.6.5

FIX

• Taxonomy based organizational charts not returning correctly

NEW

• Anniversary view which you can display on the frontend using its shortcode

V4.6.1

TWEAK

• Improved performance on drawing large organization charts.

V4.6.0

NEW

• Added new hire notification which is triggered when a new employee added to the directory
• Added weekly and monthly employee anniversary sidebar widgets
• Added anniversary ribbons changing colors based on the number of years of employee service
• Added new hire notification which triggered when a new employee added to the directory

V4.5.5

FIX

• license activation warnings

TWEAK

• Added PHP backward compatibility

V4.5.4

FIX

• Search tags not having enough space

V4.5.3

FIX

• issues related to sidebar not properly displayed in mobile devices
• recent events widget not properly displayed in mobile devices

V4.5.2

FIX

• Tagcloud search leaving space for employees not matching the criteria
• Tagcloud displaying employee count without any terms associated with it

V4.5.1

TWEAK

• all widgets images and standardized look and feel

V4.4.5

FIX

• Missing taxonomy views for Genders, Marital Statuses and Employment types
• Events in the event calendar not getting displayed when a logged in user is the author

TWEAK

• CSS to better serve to some mobile device screens

NEW

• Tag Cloud search view with powerful options
• Permissions tab in setting to expand the scope of built-in user roles

V4.4.2

NEW

• Added custom JavaScript option in plugin settings under Tools tab

V4.4.1

FIX

• Custom fields in search forms
• Org Chart manager to direct report limit to 10 employees
• PHP 7 compatibility warnings
• WP Sessions security vulnerability
• Removed Org Chart manager to direct report limit to 10 employees

V4.4.0

FIX

• image events not displayed in single, archive and taxonomy pages

NEW

• Added event image and venue to the recent events widget
• Stacked view for company events

V4.3.0

FIX

• Visual Shortcode Builder library setting binary parameter issue

NEW

• Added ability change the title of the supervising employee. For example, Manager, Supervisor, Lead etc. The default is set to Manager
• Added Phone Extensions to search forms
• Organization charts support vertical display. The vertical display can start from a level set in the org char shortcode
• Configured to work with EMD Active Directory/LDAP extension