Somatic Framework

Comes with support for adding and customizing custom post types, metaboxes, routines, and custom taxonomies.

Installation:

Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

What is new in this release:

• NEW:
• Metabox button "save-back" outputs a save button which immediately redirects back to referring page after saving
• FIX:
• Upload boxes work again with the new plUpload 2.1 that is bundled with WordPress 3.9.

What is new in version 1.8.9:

• NEW:
• API functions soma_queue_notice() and soma_completion_notice(). stores and displays admin notices in the core wp "message box" format.
• FIXED:
• Saving framework options from the advanced tab was clearing all options. now all such options are on the same tab. renamed declarations tab > reports

What is new in version 1.8.6:

• Multi-site support.

What is new in version 1.8.4:

• NEW:
• API function soma_fetch_file() returns bunch of really handy info about an attachment's file.

What is new in version 1.8:

• FIXED:
• Finally using wp_update_post() instead of $wpdb->update for core data, so now text gets sanitized and filtered as normal before saving.
• Major bugs in metabox text saving, resulting in escaped backslash quotes and more issues.
• Safe ID's now generated when using wp_editor(), as it's pretty fussy about ID's. You can use anything you want now without setting it off.
• Finally isolated saving of core metabox data types thru custom ID's, so they don't get hijacked by core save routines.

What is new in version 1.7.8:

• FIX:
• Errors using wp_register_style
• Broken styling of save-changes buttons
• UPDATE:
• jQuery UI smoothness theme updated to 1.9.2, removed local jQuery UI datepicker, as it's in wp-core
• jQuery UI timepicker addon to 1.2.1

What is new in version 1.7.7:

• FIXES:
• Major bug with hiearchical post types not supporting anything.
• Stray undefined indexes.
• Deep bug that caused hierarchical CPTs to return 404 on child pages.
• NEW:
• Functions fetch_sub_pages() and fetch_root_pages() for dealing with hierarchical post types.

What is new in version 1.7.3:

• Metabox CSS tweaks
• Cleaned up some deprecated junk in manage_posts_columns calls
• New API function soma_get_excerpt() for fetching existing post_excerpt or manually creating one from post_content via post ID or object

What is new in version 1.6.9:

• Disabled privileges check in save_asset() that conflicted with paypal digital goods checkout.
• Fixed bug that output junk to the login screen.
• Fixed column listing error when no columns are defined in a CPT.
• Changed save_asset() to not fire when quickedit is used.

What is new in version 1.6.6:

• Removed undefined metabox errors for built-in post types.

What is new in version 1.6.3:

• New save action hook: soma_save_asset
• Admin CSS tweaks
• Metabox field type p2p-thumbs is now p2p-objects

What is new in version 1.6.1:

• Disabling admin menus also gets rid of the +New admin bar item
• Using checked() on html forms now
• Better handling of missing metabox config data
• Tabs on the option page
• Subtle tweaks to login page
• Using wp_enqueue_scripts() globally now
• Favicon set and display on options page
• Options page is now top-level, with subpages
• Import/export of framework options

What is new in version 1.6:

• Settings link right on the plugins page
• Improved the example php config templates
• Better handling of missing metabox config data in add_boxes()
• Independent handling of current nav menu item classes with fix_nav_classes()

What is new in version 1.5:

• Re-enabled admin bar on front-end (had been disabled globally, overriding user options).
• New option: soma_debug - controls inclusion of Kint classes, Debug Bar hooks, and various debugging things. Defaults to off.
• New JS and CSS for injection on the public side of WordPress.
• Cleaned up all PHP Notice warnings! go ahead and turn on WP_DEBUG.

What is new in version 1.4.4:

• Corrected critical bug introduced by 1.4.3 fixes.
• Save routines now work again.

What is new in version 1.4.2:

• Fixed unreliable usage of isset() for array keys in soma_init_type. Wasn't registering user parameters for navbar and sortable properly.
• New somaFunctions::is_blank() for checking whether variable/array key is actually blank or just set to "0" or false.

What is new in version 1.3.2:

• Admin footer text output.
• Fixed numeric field input to allow colon (:).

What is new in version 1.3:

• New API function: soma_singular_term() for retrieving the term of a taxonomy that is meant to have only one value at a time.
• New documentation - example PHP code in the doc folder, to help demonstrate how to use the somatic framework.

What is new in version 1.2.1:

• Cleaned up save routines, stripslashes bugs.
• Metabox type "richtext" now uses the new WP3.3 wp_editor() function.
• New metabox type "html" uses the new WP3.3 wp_editor() function, but without the visual editor.
• Metabox type "editor" removed - use "richtext" instead with ID of "post_content" and data of "core" if you're trying to replace the core post editor.
• Some CSS tweaks in the editor to keep up with WP3.3.
• Added action hook "soma_column_data" to inject custom post type column data output.

What is new in version 1.1:

• Created public functions in api.php to initialize things like custom post type, taxonomy, terms, and custom metabox data
• Added flush_rewrite_rules to plugin activation
• Added contextual help customization per CPT
• Generate custom icon paths automatically based on CPT slug, just provide URL to directory where they're located, image name scheme "slug-menu-icon.png"
• Limit taxonomy term insertion to plugin or theme activation (two scenarios where soma_init_taxonomy could be called)

Requirements:

• WordPress 3.2 or higher
• Posts 2 Posts WordPress plugin

Limitations:

• No interface.
• No documentation.