What's new in BlueFeed

Every update to the plugin — new features, fixes, and improvements — documented here.

v1.0.13
Added
  • New Videos layout – card-style grid showing only posts with videos, with natural portrait/landscape thumbnails and play overlay on hover
  • Added show_videos shortcode parameter and block toggle for inline video thumbnails in classic and cards layouts
  • Video badge in compact layout; video thumbnails in cards layout image area
  • Cards layout swipeable carousel for posts with multiple images or gallery embeds
  • Added gallery carousel embed support for the images layout
Fixed
  • Fixed missing stats icons on cards and videos layouts; play button overlay on video thumbnails (hover)
  • Fixed show_handle not rendering on cards and videos layouts
  • Validate Bluesky handle on save and in Test Connection
  • Clean up transient timeout rows on cache clear and uninstall
  • Hardened plugin bootstrap (guarded constants, static activation hooks)
v1.0.12
Fixed
  • Fixed small bugs
v1.0.11
Added
  • Added language translation support with full text-domain
  • Added bluefeed.pot template for translators
  • Added Bluesky handle/DID validation before API calls
v1.0.10
Added
  • Added show_avatar shortcode parameter and admin setting to show/hide post author avatars (default: true)
  • Added show_name shortcode parameter and admin setting to show/hide post author display names (default: true)
  • Added show_handle shortcode parameter and admin setting to show/hide post author @handles (default: true)
  • Added show_time shortcode parameter and admin setting to show/hide post timestamps (default: true)
  • Added show_stats shortcode parameter and admin setting to show/hide the stats bar (replies, reposts, likes) on all layouts including the images overlay (default: true)
  • New “Post Elements” checkboxes in admin under Layout & Spacing to set global defaults for avatar, name, handle, timestamp, and stats visibility
  • All new visibility options available as Gutenberg block toggle controls in the Visibility panel
Fixed
  • Fixed profile header banner image not displaying on WordPress 7.0 beta.
v1.0.9
Added
  • Added Gutenberg block (BlueFeed) with live preview, full settings panel (layout, display, visibility, colors), and server-side rendering
Fixed
  • Frontend CSS is now only loaded on pages that use the BlueFeed shortcode or block
v1.0.8
Added
  • Added circuit breaker for Bluesky API requests. When the API is unresponsive, the plugin now serves cached content instantly instead of waiting for the request to time out
  • Added a long-lived stale backup cache (24 hours) so cached data survives beyond the normal cache TTL during extended outages
Fixed
  • After a failed API call, subsequent requests skip the API for 5 minutes and serve stale cache immediately, eliminating slow page loads when Bluesky is down
v1.0.7
Changed
  • Redesigned admin settings page with a tabbed navigation (General, Layout & Spacing, Colors, Shortcodes) for easier navigation
v1.0.6
Fixed
  • Fixed profile header breaking when the Bluesky profile has no banner image. The banner area now always renders with a placeholder background color so the avatar is not cut off
  • Fixed bare domain URLs without a protocol (e.g. example.com) not being clickable in the profile bio and post text
v1.0.5
Added
  • Added configurable gap/spacing between posts in classic, cards, and images layouts
  • New “Card Gap” setting in admin (Settings → BlueFeed → Layout & Spacing)
  • New gap shortcode parameter to override spacing per-shortcode (e.g. [bluefeed layout="cards" gap="24"])
  • Added configurable border radius for all card/post elements
  • New “Border Radius” setting in admin (Settings → BlueFeed → Layout & Spacing)
  • New border_radius shortcode parameter (e.g. [bluefeed border_radius="0"] for square corners)
  • Added configurable border width for all card/post/divider borders
  • New “Border Width” setting in admin (Settings → BlueFeed → Layout & Spacing)
  • New border_width shortcode parameter (default: 1px, images layout defaults to 0)
  • Added #hashtag linking in post text. Links to Bluesky hashtag search
Fixed
  • Each layout retains its own default spacing when no gap is set (Classic: 12px, Cards: 16px, Images: 4px)
  • URLs, @mentions, and #hashtags are now clickable in the profile bio
  • URLs in posts and bio now display without the http/https prefix for cleaner appearance
  • Layout & Spacing settings moved to their own admin section with a dedicated reset button
  • Fixed compact layout hover background bleeding outside rounded corners on first and last rows
  • Fixed card image radius gap when using larger border widths
  • Fixed double line-break spacing in profile bio when URLs or domains are present
v1.0.4
Added
  • Added “View Details” link on the Plugins page that opens the WordPress.org plugin information modal
v1.0.3
Added
  • Added External services section to readme for third-party API disclosure compliance
v1.0.2
Fixed
  • Fixed copy-to-clipboard button showing both icons at the same time before being clicked
v1.0.1
Fixed
  • Improved compact layout – tighter spacing, smaller avatars, and single-line flow for name and time on both desktop and mobile
  • Fixed copy-to-clipboard icons missing on the admin settings page
v1.0.0

Initial release

Added
  • Four layout styles: classic, cards, compact, images
  • Profile header with stats
  • Caching system
  • Public API integration