Billy

Changelog

1.9.2

• Invoice and Quote number formatting: Use current date instead of post date if the post is unpublished
• Dashboard widget: Remove output sanitization as this caused issues when meta data errors were found
• Add a nonce verifiction to the undocumented “fix_invoices” function

1.9.1

• Allow to disable Geocoding
• Accounting: Move export button to the right and fix a PHP notice
• Invoices/Quotes lookup: Fix a PHP notice if no posts have been published yet

1.9.0

• Include an optional reference meta field in invoice post templates
• Customizer: 1. Add new settings for email (default value is “admin_email”) and phone number, 2. Implement a Geocoder API (powered by nominatim.openstreetmap.org) which validates the address input and stores the geocoded data string in a new field for further processing
• Change default currency code from “$” to “USD” (ISO 4217 format)
• PDF generator: Optionally return the file instead of triggering a download
• PDF: Add “DRAFT” watermark if the post has not been published yet
• Redesign the post header and improve the way PDFs are previewed
• Remove Print button which never was active in Chrome due to compatibility issues – users are adviced to print via the browser menu or via OS printing window shortcuts
• Code refactoring with improvements to the load time
• Renaming of some functions for consistency
• Bumb minimum supported WordPress version to v6.0 (v6.5 is recommended!)
• Update dependencies

1.8.2

• Bugfix: Exclude all reusable footer blocks – not only the latest one – from PDF body
• Show the current quote number in Dashboard widget
• Add a blueprint.json
• Tested up to WordPress 6.6 (beta)

1.8.1

• Improve theme compatibility with Export tables
• PDF footer: Include {DATE}, {EMAIL}, {SITETITLE} and {SITEICON} placeholders to output the post date, the admin email and the site title/icon
• Show the current quote number in Editor sidebar panel

1.8.0

• In general more possibilities to customize the look and feel
• All Billy menu items are restructured and combined in a single dashboard menu
• Always show [+] row appender in tables
• Enhancement: Enabled the Synced Patterns core feature in invoice, quote and accounting tables to be able to create reusable blocks for products and services.
• Bugfix: Make table rows in accounting table selectable again
• Quotes: Optionally autoincrement numbers (like in invoices) and add a number prefix
• Number prefixes: Include placeholders {YEAR}, {MONTH} and {DAY} to output the post date variables. Remove “#” fallback prefix from output.
• Tables: Add top/bottom borders by default
• Table data export: Improve handling of output
• PDF generator: Improve unicode chars output
• The PDF footer can now be fully customized via a reusable block – similar to the header. Heads up: Modifying the footer will also change the PDF output of existing posts!
• Code refactoring: Add on_init action in “Billy” class. Combine setAttributes() requests in blocks where possible. Define a table export constant instead of the hardcoded post type lookup, Use document.title as export_table_to_tsv() filename.
• Renamed some variables for consistency
• Fixed some PHP linting warnings
• Updated translation strings

1.7.4

• Bugfix: Error loading font “Could not find PostScript font name”
• Add them.es Starter FSE to tested Themes

1.7.3

• Minor code refactoring
• Add .l10n.php translation files to adopt performant translations (WordPress 6.5+)
• Update dependencies

1.7.2

• Minor code refactoring
• Update dependencies
• Tested up to WordPress 6.5

1.7.1

• Bugfix: Custom meta deprecation warning
• Allow to add classes in custom meta fields

1.7.0

• Code refactoring with an upgrade to Block API v2
• Bump supported WordPress version to 5.6+
• Fix WSOD when saving a post that has not been modified

1.6.6

• Restrict current_user_can() to users who can view/edit private posts
• Add nonce validation to PDF generator
• Hide Print button on Chrome
• Code refactoring and minor style updates
• Upgrade third-party dependencies
• Tested with PHP 8.3

1.6.5

• Enhancement: Update composer autoloader reference to fix a potential issue
• Add Twenty Twenty-Four to tested Themes

1.6.4

• Bugfix: Minor warning in Editor
• Upgrade third-party dependencies
• Tested up to WordPress 6.4

1.6.3

• Tested in PHP 7.4 and updated composer.json to prevent a fatal error (Using PHP 8.0+ is still advised!)

1.6.2

• Bugfix: React warning “Uncaught ReferenceError: editEntityRecord is not defined” in invoice meta
• Upgrade third-party dependencies

1.6.1

• Bugfix: React warnings “Cannot update a component while rendering a different component”
• Deactivate mPDF simpleTables to allow full CSS support for tables (e.g. via manipulating Billy_PDF_Export::$pdfstyles)
• PDF output: Less opinionated table styles
• Minor updates in style-editor.css to format Block-Editor specific elements only

1.6.0

• Refactoring and Code quality
• Styling updates
• Bugfix: Retrieve reusable Header block in current locale (Polylang, WPML)
• New Sidebar panel with settings overview
• Upgrade third-party dependencies
• Tested up to WordPress 6.2

1.5.3

• Minor style update in style-editor.css
• Code quality
• Documentation

1.5.2

• Add an optional “subject” line in Custom Post type templates
• CSS updates (Frontend and generated PDF)
• Upgrade third-party dependencies

1.5.1

• Improve table markup by replacing labels with and removing classNames
• CSS updates (Frontend and generated PDF)
• Minor bugfixes
• Backwards compatibility

1.5.0

• Code modernization: Replace Header CPT with a reusable block ensuring backwards compatibility
• Cleanup
• Minor style updates and UI improvements
• Upgrade third-party dependencies
• Compatibility with WordPress 6.1

1.4.1

• Code modernization and Cleanup
• Upgrade third-party dependencies

1.4.0

• Removed iframe PDF viewer: Use WP native wp-block-file__embed instead
• Add PDF preview before post content
• Don’t make pre-header sticky
• Invoices: Check if required meta data is missing (e.g. after an import) and provide a (hidden) tool to regenerate the meta data on all posts based on the current invoice number
• Upgrade third-party dependencies

1.3.4

• Numeric invoice numbers
• Autoincrement invoice number function has been rewritten using get_previous_post()
• Upgrade third-party dependencies

1.3.3

• Enqueue frontend assets only when necessary
• Upgrade third-party dependencies

1.3.2

• Coding Standards
• Compatibility with WordPress 5.8: Fix PHP notice in ‘block_categories’
• Upgrade third-party dependencies

1.3.1

• Compatibility with WordPress 5.7
• Upgrade third-party dependencies

1.3.0

• Refactoring
• Minor style updates to improve PDF output
• Removed PDF.js: Use browser internal PDF viewer via iframe instead
• Upgrade third-party dependencies

1.2.3

• Refactored Meta
• Replaced two wrong Gettext domains

1.2.2

• Code quality
• Fixed misaligned label in Editor

1.2.1

• PDF footer: Use the date on which the post was published instead of the current date

1.2.0

• Allow more formatting options in descriptions: Replace RichText components with InnerBlocks components.
• Style improvements to the PDF output
• Tables: Vertical alignment “top”
• Upgrade third-party dependencies

1.1.4

• Minor compatibility update for WordPress 5.5+

1.1.3

• Compatibility with WordPress 5.5

1.1.3

• Minor updates: styles

1.1.1

• Prevent TypeError in main.js

1.1.0

• Embedded PDF files (PDF.js)
• Make PDF Export class variables public so they can be modified by third parties
• Minor style updates to the default PDF output

1.0.3

• Dynamically set the PDF filename
• Minor style updates to the PDF output

1.0.2

• Internationalization
• Readme updates

1.0.1

• Minor update to the table row frontend view

1.0

• Initial Release
• Created a GitHub repository with all development sources