BeyondWords – Text-to-Speech

Registro de cambios

5.4.0

Release date: 22nd April 2025

Fixes:

• #436 Article language support in WordPress.
  • Each POST and PUT request to the BeyondWords REST API now includes the article language.
  • This update ensures compatibility with recent REST API changes and improves support for multilingual websites.
• #432 Delete audio and post meta when posts are trashed or deleted.
  • When a post is moved into the trash in WordPress it is now deleted from the BeyondWords dashboard, and all associated BeyondWords post meta data (e.g. the content ID) is also deleted.
  • This resolves REST API error messages caused by DELETE requests for content that no longer exists.
  • After this update you will need to regenerate audio again if you restore posts from the trash.

Enhancements and Features:

• Tested up to WordPress 6.8.
• #405 “Post a review” notice in WordPress admin.
  • A new notice prompts you to review our plugin on the WordPress Plugin Directory.
  • The notice will appear 14 days after activating the plugin, or 14 days after updating to this version (or later) .
  • The message is permanently dismissed once you close it or follow the link to leave a review.
• #434 Update Cypress to version 14.

5.3.1

Release date: 11th February 2025

Fixes:

• Replace esc_js with esc_attr for the player onload attribute.
  • Fixes a reported issue where UTF-8 characters in the Call to Action setting were not being output correctly.

5.3.0

Release date: 3rd February 2025

Enhancements and Features:

• 426 Add support for article summarisation.
  • A new “Player Content” field has been added to the post edit screens for both the Block Editor and Classic Editor.
    • Selecting “Summary” in the BeyondWords side panel loads the summarised audio into the player.
    • The default value, “Article,” continues to load the full article content.
  • To use this feature, ensure that summarisation is included in your plan and enabled in your BeyondWords dashboard.
• 429 Add Summarization tab in plugin settings.
  • Adds a link to manage summarization settings for your project, including the summarization voice.

Fixes

• Prioritise post-specific player settings.
  • It was previously possible for the plugin settings in the “Player” tab to overwrite any post-specific settings such as the player style.
  • The priority has now been corrected so any post-specific settings will overwrite the plugin settings.
• Fix Clipboard.js error.
  • Replace Clipboard.js script with the WordPress core version to address a console error in the block editor.
• 425 Update asset URL to Azure Storage.
  • The AMP logo image has been moved from AWS S3 to Azure Storage.

Codebase Enhancements

• Refactor React code for the player.
  • Updated the block editor player embed script to align with React players we use in other BeyondWords projects.
  • This included removing the react-script-tag dependency.
• Added the __nextHasNoMarginBottom property to various components.
  • __nextHasNoMarginBottom has been set in various places to address a console warning from WordPress core.
• Updated dependencies.
  • Updated several dependencies including @mockoon/cli, @wordpress/env, @wordpress/eslint-plugin, @wordpress/scripts, and uuid.
  • Removed unused dependencies.

5.2.2

Release date: 10th December 2024

Fixes

• 423 Optimise WordPress HTTP calls to BeyondWords REST API.
  • Increase the WordPress default timeout param from 5 to 30. This is to address a reported issue where REST API calls are sometimes timing out in WordPress/PHP before the REST API is able to respond.
  • Also removed the sslverify param for API calls. This is no longer recommended.

5.2.1

Release date: 28th November 2024

Fixes

• #421 Update WordPress GET voice queries to use scopes.
  • Fixes the issue where multilingual voices were not being shown in voices dropdown menus.
• #417 Improve handling of failed REST API requests when syncing settings.
  • Add HTTP status code into failed API credentials validation message to improve debugging for empty response body.
  • Fix the undefined index errors that are logged when REST API responses do not contain the expected structure.
  • Replace transients with object cache to reduce db writes.
  • Add Query Monitor plugin to wp-env local dev config to help with debugging.

5.2.0

Release date: 22nd November 2024

Enhancements

• #414 Tested up to WordPress 6.7.
• #409 Support the recommended inline script tag method to embed players.
  • This opt-in feature is experimental and may change, or be removed, in the near future.
  • Opt-in to the inline <script> tag method of auto-embedding audio players by defining the constant BEYONDWORDS_PLAYER_INLINE_SCRIPT_TAG as true in your wp-config.php.
  • This was added because the recent removal of the deprecated beyondwords_content_id filter caused problems for a publisher who had been using it to display an audio player from another post on their homepage.
  • After opting-in, audio players that are auto-prepended to the post body should now use the beyondwords_content_id and beyondwords_project_id from the associated post being queried within The Loop.
  • A known-issue is the current implementation is currently incompatible with both the BeyondWords shortcode and the BeyondWords player block. Compatibility will be ensured before this experimental opt-in feature is shipped to all users. In the meantime players added using either the shortcode or player block are unlikely to appear when the BEYONDWORDS_PLAYER_INLINE_SCRIPT_TAG is true.

Fixes

• #413 Refactor API calls to prevent “invalid creds” messages
  • Since upgrading to version 5 a few publishers have reported problems with their valid API credentials being flagged as invalid, so the checks we had in place to validate the API Key and Project ID have been updated.
  • API calls to create/update BeyondWords content can now be made with potentially invalid credentials. If this happens (e.g. if your API Key has been revoked) the 401 Unauthorized error code and error message will be stored for your requests and visible in WordPress admin.

5.1.0

Release date: 30th October 2024

Fixes

• #404 Bring auto-publish setting into WordPress to fix auto-publishing.
  • In some cases WordPress was publishing audio regardless of the auto-publish setting in the dashboard.
  • After this update any content created with the WordPress plugin will need to be published in the BeyondWords dashboard.
• #407 Regenerate audio for all post statuses
  • If a post has a content ID for audio then we now always make PUT requests to the BeyondWords REST API when the post is updated.
  • This fixes an issue where the published property of audio was not set to false when WordPress posts were moved back to draft status.
• #408 Generate Audio checkbox in Classic Editor doesn’t reflect the “Preselect” setting
  • A change in the v5.0 update meant the “Preselect generate audio” JS script was no longer being enqueued. This should now be fixed.

5.0.0

Release date: 15th October 2024

Enhancements

• #385 Extend plugin settings using a tabbed interface.
  • The plugin settings screen has been expanded to include settings from the BeyondWords dashboard, allowing you to set various BeyondWords settings without leaving WordPress.
  • Changes made in WordPress will be immediately copied over to the BeyondWords dashboard when “Save settings” is pressed.
  • Changes made in the BeyondWords dashboard will be copied over to WordPress when you visit the relevant plugin settings tab.

Breaking changes

• Legacy audio player support has been removed.
  • The legacy BeyondWords player is no longer natively supported in the WordPress plugin.
  • The standard BeyondWords Player is now the only built-in option for the audio player.
• Remove built-in Elementor compatibility.
  • Basic support for audio generation and auto-player embeds should still work for posts that are created with Elementor, although you will be unable to see a BeyondWords player in the Elementor post edit screens. To view our player in WordPress admin you can temporarily switch to the Block or Classic editors.
  • Refer to our WordPress filters docs and the Elementor hooks docs if you wish to add Elementor support to your site.
• Stop saving the legacy beyondwords_podcast_id param.
  • This change means that posts generated with versions v5.0.0 and later will not play audio if the plugin is downgraded to v3.x or below.
  • If you need to downgrade to v3.x after using v5.x please contact us for support.
• Remove deprecated filters.
  • A number of deprecated filters have now been removed from the source code.
  • Refer to our WordPress Filters documentation to view the current filters we provide.

See the previous changelogs here.