Use minified stylesheets and JavaScript files if running in a production environment.
“Display credit after posts” now works with pages as well as regular posts (and custom post types).
“Include schema.org structured data” can switched off again after first being enabled.
General code clean-up.
TinyMCE components updated.
3.1.7 – February 24, 2017
JavaScript components should be slightly more fault tolerant now.
The plugin does not depend on the visual editor being enabled anymore. Props karinamendonca29.
3.1.6 – February 4, 2017
Return '' (the empty string) when retrieving empty freeform credits.
Honor “Do not display default credit” for featured images.
3.1.5 – January 29, 2017
Prevent invalid link nesting in featured image credits. This means that by default, no <a> tags are printed for featured image credits. The old behaviour can be restored by including add_filter( 'media_credit_post_thumbnail_include_links', __return_true ); in the theme’s functions.php.
“Display credit after posts” is now restricted to the proper single post view (and not every usage of the_content hook).
“Display credit after posts” is honored when used together with “Display credit for featured images”.
Fixed conflict between WPBakery Visual Composer 4.x and Media Credit.
Updated TinyMCE components.
3.1.1 – August 15, 2016
Fixed JavaScript error in media uploaded directly from Edit Post (wp_prepare_attachmnet_for_js only gets called after the upload finishes in 4.5.x).
3.1.0 – August 13, 2016
Optional no-follow attribute added.
Optional schema.org markup added.
Use HTML5 placeholders instead of default text when “no default credits” is set.
Settings have been updated & streamlined.
Added caching for backend queries.
Updated TinyMCE components.
Switched to the new Media API based on Backbone.js introduced in WordPress 3.5 for a snappier and more consistent user experience.
Several security fixes and a general code clean-up have been applied due to automatic enforcement of WordPress coding standards.
Fixed conflict between “no default credits” and featured image credits.
3.0.3 – July 13, 2016
Updating credits via the Visual Editor works again. Props siricar, timausk, jellylegs.
Consolidated UI in “Edit Image” dialog.
3.0.2 – April 12, 2016
Updated visual editor plugin for WordPress 4.5 (minimum WordPress version is now 4.5, as well).
3.0.1 – March 20, 2016
Fixed run_wptexturize filter breakage caused by calling get_bloginfo too early.
3.0.0 – March 6, 2016
Refactored plugin for a more future-proof architecture.
Moved all non-‘template tag’ functions out of the global namespace. This might break themes that relied on these (undocumented) functions. Please test before updating if you are running a highly customized installation of Media Credit.
Wrap standalone media credits in if HTML5 support for captions is enabled.
Uses WordPress language packs for translations.
Fixed previously broken use case when both caption and credit are removed from an image in the visual editor.
Added check whether parent is already published when displaying “attached” media.
Added support for featured image credits.
2.7.6 – February 7, 2016
Backported fix for removing both credit and caption in Visual Editor (from 3.0 development branch).
Please note: This will likely be the last patch before 3.0.
2.7.5 – November 30, 2015
Fixed a bug in Preview script.
2.7.4 – October 19, 2015
Fixed empty credit array for media_credit_at_end filter when there is only one (unique) credit. Props David Higgins.
2.7.3 – September 30, 2015
Somewhere, the caption ID attribute got lost. Sorry.
Honor ‘Do not display default credit’ option in conjunction with ‘Display credit after posts’
Added translation functions to user visible strings
Added German translation
Fixed responsive image breakage on some themes
Fixed autocomplete in customizer
2.6.2 – August 29, 2015
Updated JS for switching between Visual and HTML editors
Fixed freeform credit parsing in Visual editor
2.6.1 – August 17, 2015
Fixed “media credit at end”
2.6.0 – August 12, 2015
limit selectable users to authors (no subscribers)
URL can be set from Media Library, not just in the post editor
Credit URL can override the automatic author link
Added media_credit_at_end filter hook
2.5.1 – August 2, 2015
Forgot to remove some debug output
2.5.0 – June 7, 2015
Added URL parameter to shortcode and GUI
Display image toolbar with WP 4.2
2.4.1 (Dec. 20, 2014)
Fix missing newlines when switching between HTML and Visual mode in the post editor
2.4.0 (Dec. 17, 2014)
Replaced some deprecated calls
Fixed bug that didn’t add shortcode when editing a “plain” image tag.
Updated UI for WordPress 4.1
2.3.3 – October 26, 2014
Fixed encoding bug with HTML credit lines
2.3.2 – October 22, 2014
Fixed editing of image classes in the visual editor
2.3.1 – October 9, 2014
Fixed deletion of shortcodes without in the visual editor
Fixed bug that added \ to apostrophes/single quotes in certain circumstances
2.3.0 – September 18, 2014
Code clean-up
Added support for visual editing of shortcodes
Fixed edited posts not updating when credits are changed via the media modal.
Added FAQ regarding unparsed shortcodes with JetPack Publicize
2.2.3 – September 10, 2014
Add plugin version to CSS & JS files to ensure the autocomplete bugfix is applied.
2.2.2 – September 6, 2014
Fixed long-standing bug with saving autocompleted credits
Fixed missing autocomplete in WP 4.0 media grid
2.2.1 – September 4, 2014
Fixed E_NOTICE level error message
2.2.0 – September 4, 2014
Added option to prevent attachment authors as default credit
Updated TinyMCE plugin for WordPress 4.0
Various bugfixes
2.1.2 – August 12, 2014
Fixed a packaging error that rendered the plugin inoperational
2.1.1 – August 11, 2014
Fix Visual Editor mode when credit field is empty
2.1.0 – April 16, 2014
Compatibility with WordPress 3.9 (TinyMCE 4.x)
Completely new Visual Editor code
2.0.1 – October 29, 2013
Bumped version number to fix update notice for users of 1.1.2
2.0 – October 27, 2013
Compatibility with WordPress 3.5 media dialog
Fixes for bugs in Visual editor
Fixed shortcode parsing (broken since WordPress 3.4)
1.1.2 – March 1, 2011
Fixes total autocomplete failure on WordPress 3.1
Fixes freeform credit situation where a user was selected but freeform text was entered afterward
Fixes extra output on activation notices (they weren’t serious, but I imagine some people were freaking out seeing them)
1.1.1 – September 19, 2010
Updating media credit in the Media Library really does update the credit within posts correctly now! (props: Greg Wrey)
Adding multiple images with freeform media credit to a post also now works as expected (props: Greg Wrey)
1.1 – June 25, 2010
Now compatible with TinyMCE! Media credit will appear inline (i.e. below the photo) when using the Visual editor rather than as an ugly shortcode.
Updating media credit in the Media Library will now correctly and safely update it in an attached post, regardless of whether it’s a WP user or not
1.0.2 – May 3, 2010
Added filter on the_author so that media credit is properly displayed in Media Library (not yet for unattached media, though – will be added in WP 3.1 hopefully)
Made $post parameter actually optional in template tags (used global $post if not given)
1.0.1 – April 26, 2010
Changed post meta field from media-credit to _media_credit so that it doesn’t appear in custom fields section on Post edit page normally. Upgrade script will handle changing the key for all existing metadata.