Changelog

v4.2 (2019-04-24)

  • Dynamically redirected old enpoints to the new FCM ones to solve this: "you must redirect your Cloud Messaging server requests to the Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) endpoint at fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/ before May 29, 2019".
  • Disabled [WordPress 5.0.1+] real MIME checking to enable pem and p12 certificates upload.
  • Fixed a duplicate entry warning--thanks Marija!
  • Bug fixes and general improvements.

v4.1 (2018-11-16)

  • Web notifications now require PHP 5.6 or greater with GMP extension.
  • Enhanced token and subscribers export.
  • Bug fixes and general improvements.

v4.0 (2018-09-13)

  • Full support for Web Push (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera and others) notifications.
  • [BETA] New option "Clean tokens" which allows you to remove inactive tokens (i.e. tokens to whom at least 50 notifications have been sent, but which have not read any of them).
  • Bug fixes and general improvements.
After the upgrade you will have to:

  1. Go to Push Notifications → Settings → Web and press on the button Create VAPID keys (and make a safe backup of the public and private key, just in case!).
  2. In the same tab enter an URL or a mailto: in the subject field. This provides a point of contact in case the push service needs to contact the message sender.
  3. If you had manually created the manifest.js, remove the old gcm_sender_id key.

v3.7 (2018-07-03)

  • Full support for PHP 7.1 and PHP 7.2.
  • Web notifications now require PHP 5.6 or greater.
  • Bug fixes and general improvements.

v3.6 (2018-05-23)

  • Steps towards GDPR compliance.
  • Bug fixes and general improvements.

v3.5 (2018-03-01)

  • Bug fixes and general improvements.

v3.4 (2018-01-25)

  • New background processing system to avoid timeout problems on huge blogs.
  • Bug fixes and general improvements.

v3.3 (2017-10-19)

  • Removed "beta" label from desktop notifications: Chrome and Firefox notifications are now ready for production!
  • New settings which allows you to always set the app’s badge to 1 instead of the number of unread notifications (especially useful if you are not using our APIs).
  • New settings which allows you to disable the automatic creation of the Manifest.json file (useful if you already have one for other reasons).
  • Bug fixes and general improvements.

v3.2 (2017-06-20)

  • Full support for WordPress 4.8.
  • Chrome notifications now require user interaction avoiding users to loose important news from your website!
  • Bug fixes and general improvements.

Please note Chrome and Firefox notifications may still have bugs or incompatibilities. Enable only on non-production servers that are not business critical. If you experience an issue or something does not work as expected, send us your feedback.

v3.1 (2017-01-24)

  • [BETA] Support for Firefox notifications on Android devices.
  • New step by step documentation to configure Android and Chrome notifications.
  • New test notifications from subscribers page.
  • Bug fixes and general improvements.

v3.0 (2016-12-22)

  • Full support for Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM).
  • Updated internal libraries.
  • Removed support for Fire OS notifications.
  • Full support for PHP 7.
  • Bug fixes and general improvements.

v2.7 (2016-12-13)

  • Full support for WordPress 4.7.
  • Bug fixes and general improvements.

v2.6.1 (2016-10-17)

  • Fixed a misbehaviour with WPML--thanks Hamza!

v2.6 (2016-10-10)

  • Many bug fixes and general improvements.

v2.5 (2016-09-08)

  • Full support for WordPress 4.6.
  • [BETA] New option "Use multiple background processes" which allows you to split the notifications sending across multiple PHP processes to avoid timeout problems.
  • [DEPRECATED] Deprecated Fire OS notifications.
  • Many bug fixes and general improvements.

v2.4 (2016-07-20)

  • [BETA] Support for Safari, Chrome, and Firefox notifications in WordPress multisites.
  • Redesigned the "App Subscribers" page which now shows the notifications sent, the post viewed, and the operating systems of devices.
  • Redesigned the "Stats" page--now the charts are responsive and much more effective.
  • New graph "Read by OS" for the latest posts.
  • If a logged user activates Safari, Chrome, and Firefox notifications, they will be associated to its user.
  • Support for the

    shortcode in posts.

  • Improved compatibility with the latest versions of WPML.
  • Speed improvements to make the plugin faster and lighter.
  • Many bug fixes and general improvements.

v2.3 (2016-06-24)

  • [BETA] Support for Chrome and Firefox notifications to send notifications to your website users, right on their desktop and... Android devices! See them in action.
  • Redesigned settings page to make it even more handy and easy to use.
  • Many bug fixes and general improvements.

v2.2 (2016-06-06)

  • New pnfw_notification_payload hook.
  • New Turkish translations -- thanks Gökhan!
  • Other bug fixes and general improvements.

v2.1.1 (2016-05-16)

  • Bug fixes and general improvements.

v2.1 (2016-03-22)

  • Export tokens to CSV.
  • Fixed user categories on WordPress 4.4.2.
  • Other bug fixes and general improvements.

v2.0 (2016-02-29)

  • Support for Safari desktop notifications on OS X to send notifications to your website users, right on their Mac desktop--even when Safari isn’t running.
  • New OAuth option to accept both HTTP and HTTPS requests (useful when you migrate your site from HTTP to HTTPS).
  • Listed the app subscribers custom fields in CSV exports.
  • New step by step documentation to generate iOS and Safari certificates.
  • Other bug fixes and general improvements.

v1.11.1 (2016-01-14)

  • Bug fix on Feedback Provider.

v1.11 (2016-01-11)

  • Fixed an inaccuracy that could give problems with OAuth in case the home URL was different from the site URL (where the WordPress core files reside).
  • Other bug fixes and general improvements.

v1.10 (2015-12-04)

  • Full support for WordPress 4.4.
  • Now shows the expiration of the iOS push notifications SSL certificate.
  • First support for WP REST API v2 for the read/unread state of posts.

v1.9 (2015-11-10)

  • The timestamp shown in the Debug page comply with the format chosen by the user in the WordPress settings page.
  • New pnfw_notification_title filter to customise the notification title.
  • Other bug fixes and general improvements.

v1.8 (2015-10-05)

  • New option to customise notification sound for iOS apps.
  • New API to set the flag read/unread of a post.
  • New option to disable email verification.
  • Now manages the users already registered with different roles without returning "Email already exists".
  • Changed the sender's name in the activation emails.
  • Updated internal libraries.

v1.7.1 (2015-09-09)

  • Older PHP version fix.

v1.7 (2015-09-07)

  • New update system integrated with WordPress.
  • Full parameters validation.
  • Minor bug fixes.

v1.6 (2015-08-24)

  • Full support for WordPress 4.3.
  • New APIs to manage user categories.
  • New optional Register API parameter to specify the user category.
  • New bulk edit of user categories.
  • New logs, also for APIs, more frequent and detailed.
  • Minor bug fixes.

v1.5 (2015-08-04)

  • New progress bar while is sending push notifications.
  • New new graph on the Stats page that shows the devices with notifications disabled.
  • We've redesigned the Debug page to make it even more fast and intuitive.
  • Minor bug fixes.

v1.4 (2015-07-01)

  • Reduced the memory footprint: now uses less memory and more efficiently allowing you to send many more notifications.
  • Moreover, we've added a chart of the new subscribers day by day.

v1.3 (2015-06-25)

  • We've added an option to support Apache Cordova with PushPlugin. Go to Push Notifications > Settings and check the "In the Android notification payload add the message field" option (at the bottom of the page).
  • We've also updated the library that shows analytics, and we've made possible the process of the shortcodes in the Posts API.

v1.2.3 (2015-06-03)

  • New option to enable wpautop filter to convert double line-breaks in the content into HTML paragraphs.

v1.2.2 (2015-05-22)

  • Support for devices without token (e.g. iOS simulator).

v1.2.1 (2015-05-13)

  • New iOS library and minor bug fixes.

v1.2 (2015-04-21)

  • Full support for WordPress multisite.

v1.1 (2015-04-17)

  • New useful pnfw_send_notification function that can be used by themes and plugins.

v1.0 (2015-04-01)

  • First public release.