Capitol GAINS: CreativEngine Congressional Utilities

Rexistro de cambios

1.4.7

• Fix: Congress taxonomy filtering in the Loop Filters widget and the Loop Grid/Meetings Table query handlers now compares against the actual registered taxonomy slug (e.g. capigacr_congress) instead of the hardcoded literal congress, and no longer hardcodes an exclusion list for meeting-only taxonomies/post types — both bugs silently broke Congress filtering depending on which modules were enabled or how the taxonomy slug was configured.

1.4.6

• Fix: Single Meeting Snapshot (JSON) import no longer creates a meeting_file record for files attached to panel participants — the meeting-snapshot ingestion path had no equivalent of the live API’s separate “Write/Upload File” step, so a panel member’s referenced files (visible in the pasted JSON) never got their own WordPress file post created. A metadata-only file record is now created for each panel-member file reference during import, matching how every other file location (meeting files, transcripts, meeting members, nominee panels) already behaves.
• Fix: Amend Export / snapshot import silently dropped the meeting Start Date (both the ACF field and the meeting_start database column) for meetings with a title longer than 255 characters — most commonly nomination hearings that list every nominee’s full name and position, but also long Executive Session titles. The plugin’s internal capigacr_meetingmeta.title column was a varchar(255), and the title was written in the same database statement as meeting_start; under strict SQL mode (the modern MySQL/MariaDB default), a too-long title caused that entire statement — including the start date — to fail, with no error surfaced anywhere in the import results. The title column is now TEXT (matching the already-unbounded agenda column), removing the failure entirely. Existing sites are updated automatically via a database migration on the next admin page load.
• Fix: Removed the Bootstrap btn btn-sm btn-primary (and sibling variant) classes from meeting-files and meeting-links card action buttons — buttons now carry only the design-system Button class. The now-obsolete “File Button Style” (meeting-files) and “Link Button Style” (meeting-links) Elementor controls, and all their wiring, were removed.
• Fix: Taxonomy fields (Congress, Meeting Type, etc.) now display correctly on WordPress-source meeting edit screens — a slug format mismatch in adjust_field_editability() caused all taxonomy fields to be hidden regardless of the enabled taxonomies setting.
• Fix: Agenda items card and row layout — content now renders inside .capigacr-widget-card li elements. The render_agenda_item closure was emitting its own <li> wrapper, which when nested inside the template’s <li class="capigacr-widget-card"> caused browsers to auto-close the outer li, producing empty card wrappers followed by bare li elements with the actual content.
• Feature: Agenda Items widget — consolidated “List Indentation” and “List Numbering Styles” Elementor controls into a single “List Style Per Level” repeater. Each row now configures both numbering style and indentation for that level, supporting unlimited nesting depths.
• Feature: Legislation widget — same “List Style Per Level” repeater added to match the Agenda Items widget. Removes the two static indent controls; indentation now applies to amendments at any depth via inline margin-left, and list-style-type is wired to the outer ol.
• Fix: Coast Guard Lists widget — “Preview” header field now renders HTML content (e.g. <p> tags) as formatted HTML instead of escaping it to literal text, in both card and row layout styles.
• Fix: Filter Auto-Refresh on the Loop Filters widget is now permanently disabled — the toggle control was removed and the availability-computation path (which fired uncached /filters/counts REST calls with unbounded WP_Query + per-taxonomy term lookups) can no longer be enabled. Resolves site-wide slowdowns caused by frontend filter changes.
• Feature: Button icon style controls (all widgets) and the Meeting Page Defaults Card/Row attachment icon sections gain a “Square Icon” toggle that forces the icon container to a square aspect ratio (width: 1em; box-sizing: content-box) matching its font-size. Opt-in — off by default, no change to existing pages.
• Fix: Per-widget button label visibility can now override the page-wide default in both directions. The on/off “Hide Button Label” toggle is replaced by a three-state “Button Label” control (Default / Show Label / Hide Label) in the shared button style helper and the Meeting Page Defaults Card/Row attachment sections — setting “Show Label” on an individual widget now re-displays its label even when labels are hidden page-wide.
• Fix: Corrected the “Button Label” visibility control (Default/Show/Hide) so Show and Hide actually take effect on the frontend — the prior fix used an Elementor pattern (condition-gated hidden helper controls) that never emitted CSS. Replaced with Elementor’s selectors_dictionary mechanism directly on the driver control.
• Fix: Further corrected the Button Label visibility control’s CSS delivery — the prior fix’s selector template was a bare {{VALUE}} with no leading CSS property, which produced no output; reshaped to lead with position: matching the plugin’s other working selectors_dictionary controls (e.g. Icon Alignment).
• Feature: New public REST endpoint GET /meetings-calendar returns published meetings as a FullCalendar-shaped events feed (id/title/start/end/url), plus a new Meeting Calendar Elementor widget that renders a self-hosted FullCalendar month grid fed by that endpoint — no CDN dependency, clicking an event navigates to the meeting page.
• Fix: Meeting Calendar widget failed to render — the widget’s init script was registered without elementor-frontend as a script dependency, and relied solely on Elementor’s frontend/element_ready hook, which is not reliably dispatched at a consistent point relative to widget script execution across Elementor versions/setups. The widget now initializes any .capigacr-meeting-calendar element already in the DOM via a direct scan on page load, with the Elementor hook kept as a best-effort addition so the calendar also initializes correctly if added to the page later (editor live preview, popups, AJAX-loaded content).

1.4.5

• Fix: File embargo URL suppression — PHP now withholds file download URLs from HTML during embargo; JS fetches and injects the real URL via a new REST endpoint only after the embargo lifts, preventing URL leakage in page source.
• Feature: New REST endpoint GET /meeting/{id}/file-url/{file_id} returns a file’s download URL after server-side embargo verification.
• Fix: filesEmbargoDateTime is now sent as UTC ISO 8601 (with Z suffix) from the embargo-status API, eliminating browser-timezone misinterpretation when the visitor’s timezone differs from the WordPress site timezone.
• Fix: meeting_start embargo fallback now correctly treats the stored value as UTC rather than source timezone, fixing incorrect embargo lift times when filesEmbargoDateTime is absent.
• Fix: Embargo-checker.js now derives server time from the HTTP Date response header plus half-RTT latency, replacing current_time/current_timestamp body fields that go stale on CDN-cached responses.
• Fix: Cache-Control on the embargo-status endpoint is now conditional — uses api_cache_interval from Live Video settings when configured, otherwise sends no-store headers (replaces hardcoded 5-minute cache).
• Fix: scheduleEmbargoRecheck no longer triggers an infinite polling loop when the embargo is already lifted — returns early instead of immediately rechecking.
• Fix: Embargo reveal now clears the inline style="display:none" set by PHP block templates in addition to removing the CSS class, so elements become visible after lift.
• Fix: Embargo-checker now handles a null or absent filesEmbargoDateTime gracefully — treats it as immediately lifted and reveals any elements hidden on load.
• Feature: Embargo-status API URL includes a predictable _t cache-bucket parameter aligned to the configured CDN interval, matching the live-meetings pattern.
• Feature: cacheInterval and cacheBucket are injected into capigacrEmbargoSettings when a CDN cache interval is configured, enabling JS to compute matching cache-bucket values client-side.
• Feature: ACF taxonomy select field for File Type replaces the default WordPress tag meta box on meeting file edit screens with a proper select-style dropdown.
• Fix: get_meeting_file_type_label() now resolves the label via wp_get_object_terms() when a post ID is provided, giving more reliable results than slug-based term lookup.
• Fix: Files uploaded via REST API are now registered as stubs in local_overrides.files[] so they appear in the hydrated snapshot on the front-end.
• Fix: Proforma file type handler now checks proforma-file-type parameter before falling back to type.
• Feature: Upcoming Hearings Query widget now includes a “No Upcoming” (count=0) option.
• Fix: Embargoed file anchors now render as role="button" aria-disabled="true" without href during embargo; preview-render mode continues to expose the real URL.

1.4.4

• Feature: Single Meeting Snapshot (JSON) import — admins can now paste a full {"meeting":{...}} export snapshot into a textarea on the Meetings Import page to create or update a meeting and all related participants, panels, and file references in one action, at the same fidelity as the REST API.
• Fix: details.amend_type object values in snapshot format are now correctly normalized to scalar before taxonomy assignment, preventing a fatal sanitize_title(array) error on real-world snapshot imports.
• Fix: Agenda Items block template now renders correctly.

1.4.3

• Fix: Coast Guard Lists widget now renders file links in both card and list layouts — files were previously only rendered when a ‘files’ entry existed in the coast guard details repeater, which was never included by default.
• Feature: Coast Guard Lists widget now has an “Enable File Links” toggle (default on) to control file rendering; removed ‘files’ as a selectable field from the coast guard details repeater.
• Fix: ?search=term URL param now filters the meeting table correctly regardless of whether the Loop Filters widget has a search field configured.
• Fix: Search Button widget (which appends _wpnonce to the URL) no longer returns zero results — duplicate title/content WHERE conditions from the native s= search are no longer generated.
• Fix: meetingmeta SQL date filter no longer applies to meetings table queries, preventing meetings with a null meeting_start from being excluded when a year filter is active.
• Fix: phantom Elementor repeater entries (no search_field_type) are no longer treated as custom meta fields, allowing the early-return guard to fire correctly and preventing over-restrictive WHERE clauses.
• Fix: Loop Filters form now preserves the active search param as a hidden input on submission, preventing the search term from being dropped when a filter is changed.
• Fix: filter field options (year, committee, etc.) now show correct available values when a search term is active — phantom field entries in get_search_config_from_widgets() are normalized to title so options sub-queries are not over-restricted.
• Fix: Meeting Video widget now shows the video player iframe when archive_stream_enabled is YES — meeting_id is resolved via get_the_ID() so get_field() correctly reads the value from the meeting snapshot via intercept_acf_load.
• Fix: archive_stream_enabled and live_stream_enabled admin saves via API update and proforma overwrite paths now write to local_overrides so the ACF load path sees the admin-set value instead of the snapshot value.

1.4.1

• Fix: preview pass 2 now works without requiring a proforma API token to be configured — internal render nonce is used for access control.
• Fix: saving an empty permalink slug value now correctly falls back to the built-in default slug.

1.4.0

• Meeting Table Query Controls: added configurable “Query” repeater section to Meeting Table widget with Taxonomy, Date, and Search row types.
• Fixed taxonomy override: taxonomy rows constrain query results and suppress conflicting visitor filters with configurable AND/OR relation.
• Search button and filter summary integration: search button widget emits loop filters nonce; filter summary displays active search term.
• Participant public key flattening: flatten witness public array onto snapshot root and promote formatted HTML/text fields.
• Schema-driven data layer: added Meeting Schema, Schema Traverser, Schema Hydrator, and Entity Writer for structured import/retrieval pipelines.
• Meeting Files Modal: sidebar file management with attach/delete/upload via AJAX modal.
• Granular capabilities: per-CPT capability_type with activation/deactivation role management.
• Configurable permalink slugs: admin UI for customizing CPT and taxonomy URL slugs.
• Pagination: disabled prev/next buttons at page boundaries with CSS and JS.
• Archive streams: restored archive_stream_enabled toggle and added frontend iframe rendering.
• Private meetings: conditionally include private post_status for users with read_private_posts capability.
• Post title sync: sync post_title to meetingmeta title column on save.
• Proforma improvements: gated upgrade behind allow-takeover setting, fixed status overwrite bug, added private meeting visibility.
• File management: fixed file URL to use filesystem filename, added file_status tracking for API uploads, added Re-check Meeting Files utility.
• Import tools: added Bulk Meetingmeta Update import type and Content Record date migration tool.
• Removed featured images from meeting post type supports.
• Fixed meeting_type fallback and subcommittee/committee_type taxonomy wiring.
• Fixed Plugin Check errors for WordPress registry submission compliance.

1.3.12

• Switched to inline nonces throughout plugin, fixed preview API escaping, replaced ‘ce’ prefix in JavaScript handles.

1.3.11

• Fixed nonce validation and unsafe SQL call.

1.3.10

• Preview access: restrict preview meetings to Proforma auth or users who can edit; apply to all meeting queries and global post.

1.3.9

• Maintenance release.

1.3.8

• Fixed admin menu: use default menu positions all CPT menus (Meetings, Participants, Members) remain visible and avoid overwriting items.
• Use values for slugs and prefixes from Meeting Settings.
• Replaced remaining hardcoded taxonomy slugs with configurable slugs (meeting_type, meeting_status, privacy_type, subcommittee) in utilities and meetings table widget.
• Proper nonce validation throughout plugin.

1.3.7

• Hardened database table rename migrations to prevent data loss when both old and new tables exist.
• Replaced hardcoded post types/taxonomies with dynamic lookups for configurability.
• Adjusted /check API to return slugs only, treat trashed meetings as missing, and untrash on republish.
• Fixed recent meetings query placeholder ordering and a panels template syntax error.

1.3.6

• Addressed WordPress.org plugin review feedback: Ajax URLs from PHP only, external services documented in readme, no direct core loading or plugin-directory writes, nonces/capability checks and sanitization/escaping across handlers, unique prefixes for options/CPTs/taxonomies, prepared SQL, and consistent checkbox/settings persistence (e.g. enabled taxonomies, logging, embargo).
• Log files and congress data now use the uploads directory. CPT/taxonomy slug limits (20/32 chars) enforced in Setup with truncation and shorter defaults where needed. Generate Congress Terms uses the congress taxonomy slug from settings.

1.3.5

• Switched plugin slug/text domain to creativengine-congressional-utilities and aligned folder/handles for consistent localization.
• Restored REST API authentication checks and added direct file access guards across template files.
• Improved hardening with additional escaping and nonce validation in admin flows.
• Standardized prefixed asset handles and refreshed enqueued CSS/JS for admin and Elementor widgets.

1.3.4

• Preview meetings now load members, participants, and files purely from snapshot data (no relational lookups) for accurate preview displays.
• Data store falls back to snapshot files for preview posts and file deletion hooks skip previews to avoid removing published assets.
• Minor stability updates around preview cleanup and file handling.

1.3.3

• Meeting Video widget: added configurable aspect ratios and consistent styling for all message states (upcoming, no live scheduled, no live video).
• Meeting video messages now allow custom titles/bodies per state with shared styling.
• Minor documentation updates.

1.3.2

• Fixed read-only field groups appearing incorrectly when taxonomy dropdowns change
• Improved AJAX handling for field group loading
• Added custom sort order for congress taxonomy dropdown (numerical descending)

1.3.1

• Initial release