Events Optimizer

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1.7.6

• Optimized German translation
• Fixed an issue with the new settings option from the last version

1.7.5

• Added settings option to prefill the currency field with the standard currency of the events calendar

1.7.4

• Added Mistral Mixtral Large and Mixtral Nemo models
• Added OpenAI GPT-4o mini model
• Added Google Gemini 1.5 Flash model
• Removed deprecated AI models
• Fixed issue in error handling for Mistral API
• Added new modern user interface for buying the Events Optimizer Pro plugin
• Optimized translations for better internationalization
• Fixed issue where URL of new venue was not added properly when adding events from Google Events

1.7.3

• Updated to Freemius SDK 2.7.3
• Refactoring of the code to better separate the files of the free and pro version

1.7.2

• Added free Google AI model Gemini 1.5 Pro
• Added Mistral AI models Open Mistral 7B, Open Mixtral 8x7B, Open Mixtral 8x22B

1.7.1

• Added Anthrophic Claude 3.5 Sonnet model
• Added manual for Anthropic Console setup
• Updated the OpenAI models to the latest versions
• Optimized code for easier translations

1.7.0

• Added Anthrophic Claude 3 models Opus, Sonnet and Haiku

1.6.9

• Fixed error where new venue was not added properly when adding events from Google Events

1.6.8

• First version of Events Optimizer available in WordPress directory
• Fixed potential security vulnerabilities – updating is highly recommended!

1.6.7

• Added OpenAI model GPT-4o
• Fixed potential security vulnerabilities – updating is highly recommended!
• Added new prefix for all functions, actions, etc.
• Known error: new venue is not added properly when adding events from Google Events (issue of the DataForSEO API)

1.6.6

• Changes to migrate options data to new structure

1.6.5

• Fixed potential security vulnerabilities – updating is highly recommended!
• Changed internal function naming syntax for release in WordPress plugin directory

1.6.4

• Optimized the prompt to ensure AI descriptions generated with Google Gemini 1.0 Pro are formatted in proper HTML

1.6.3

• Added the option to select „- Only the administrator -“ in the list of roles for the ability to use the Events Optimizer
• Optimized the prompt to generate better AI descriptions with Google Gemini 1.0 Pro
• Fixed potential security vulnerabilities – updating is highly recommended!

1.6.2

• Fixed bug: RAG works again
• Optimized prompts to generate descriptions by AI
• Fixed a bug where the operational status from Google Places was not shown or a warning was thrown in the venue and organizer list (Optimization with Google Places)
• Fixed a bug where warnings where thrown under certain circumstances in the organizer list (Optimization with Google Places)
• Updated to Freemius SDK 2.7.2

1.6.1

• Fixed bug in error handling of Google Gemini descriptions generation
• Rearranged the settings page to make it clearer
• Known error: RAG implementation doesn’t work, but will be fixed soon

1.6.0

• Added free Google AI model Gemini 1.0 Pro to generate descriptions for events, venues or organizers
• Fixed bug in error handling of OpenAI descriptions generation

1.5.1

• Added option to use the content of the event, venue or organizer website for creating better AI generated descriptions (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
• Optimized prompts for AI description generation
• Updated OpenAI models: gpt-4, gpt-4-1106-preview, gpt-4-turbo, gpt-4-turbo-preview, gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-3.5-turbo-0301, gpt-3.5-turbo-0613, gpt-3.5-turbo-1106, gpt-3.5-turbo-16k
• Changed standard OpenAI model to gpt-4-turbo

1.5.0

• Added setting to give a selected role (in addition to to administrator) the ability to use Events Optimizer
• Fixed a bug where no results from Google Places were not displaying the corresponding error message (organizer and venues)

1.4.2

• Changed code when saving settings to avoid special characters are removed
• Fixed bug when searching for events with special characters created an error of the dataforseo API

1.4.1

• Updated to Freemius SDK 2.7.0
• Changed check of permissions. Only administrators are allowed to use Events Optimizer
• Added feature to deactivate free Events Optimizer plugin when the Pro version is installed

1.4.0

• Added feature to generate description for organizers in optimization within Google Places list
• Fixed a bug where some fields of venues in optimization with Google Places list where not saved properly

1.3.0

• Added feature to generate description for venues in optimization within Google Places list
• Fixed bugs where generating descriptions for single venues and organizers didn’t worked.

1.2.1

• Added new feature to show a list of all published venues currently not in business operation
• Added documentation how to setup Google APIs in the Google Cloud Console (see heinrich.biz)
• Fixed a bug where error handling did not work properly when generating description of venues and organizers

1.2.0

• Updated Google Safe Browsing to Version 4. API authentification is required now. Check your Google API settings!
• Deprecated legacy Google Safe Browsing for Events Optimizer Free (wasn’t working reliable)
• Enhanced error handling for all APIs
• Changed API calls to the standard http WordPress API (for Google APIs and ChatGPT)
• Optimized matching of states from Google Places to TEC fields
• Updated info links in the settings to make the set up of the APIs easier
• Removed unwanted characters and tags from descriptions produced by ChatGPT API

1.1.6

• Fixed potential security vulnerabilities – updating is highly recommended!
• Added Spanish translation (AI translated. Let me know if there are issues)
• Updated German translation
• Removed unnecessary title, article and section tags from event description generated by GPT-4
• When generating descriptions or data is retrieved from Google Places a status text is shown beside the button now
• Applied more best pratices on code

1.1.5

• Fixed a bug where the state of a venue was not correctly retrieved from Google Places (optimization with Google Places and single venue form)
• Added warning when WordPress website language is not equal to Events Optimizer language used for Google Places (leads to problems when retrieving data)
• Added the option to add the full organizer address into the WordPress HTML Editor (TinyMCE). Worked until now only for the regular text editor

1.1.4

• Fixed a bug where the state of a venue was not shown correctly when retrieved from Google Places
• Fixed a bug that lead to an error during optimization of venues with Google Places

1.1.3

• Optimized settings page for better experience

1.1.2

• Tested compatibility with php 8.3 (even though WordPress is only supporting php 8.2 officially and some TEC plugins are still throwing some warnings)
• Fixed a bug so that the settings page was corrupted

1.1.1

• Added option to select tone for ChatGPT generated output (e.g. informative, educational, enthusiastic)

1.1.0

• Fixed potential security vulnerabilities – updating is highly recommended!
• Overhaul and improvement of the whole code – if you find any issues or unexpected behaviour let me know please!
• Added OpenAI model gpt-4-0125-preview (latest GPT-4 model intended to reduce cases of “laziness” where the model doesn’t complete a task)
• Added OpenAI model gpt-3.5-turbo-1106 (latest GPT-3.5 Turbo model with improved instruction following and a maximum of 4,096 output tokens)
• Optimized event image name for SEO (image name = title of image)
• Fixed some bugs when adding images from Google Images (sometimes images were not able to be downloaded)
• Improved the process to add Google Images to Google Events.
• Fixed issue where images could not be added to events from Google Event
• Changed trial period from 3 days to 7 days
• Updated to Freemius SDK 2.6.2

1.0.22

• Added OpenAI model gpt-4-0613 (snapshot of gpt-4 from June 2023) to generate descriptions.
• Optimized output created by OpenAI model
• Updated and optimized the settings tabs
• Overhaul of German translations
• Fixed some minor UI obstacles

1.0.21

• Fixed potential security vulnerabilities – updating is highly recommended!
• Added feature to generate event description with OpenAI inside Google events list
• Added resolution to images inside Google events list
• Code overhaul of duplicate organizers and venues

1.0.20

• Fixed potential security vulnerabilities – updating is highly recommended!
• Added name of organizer to Google Places optimization
• Fixed some minor UI obstacles
• Tested compatibility with php 8.2
• Further preparation for upload in WordPress directory

1.0.19

• Fixed potential security vulnerabilities – updating is highly recommended!
• Fixed a bug that prevented to run Events Optimzer Pro properly (DataForSEO REST client was missing)
• Fixed a bug where the featured image of a new event was not properly saved
• Updated to Freemius SDK 2.6.1 (to be fully compatible with WordPress 6.3.2)
• Removed OpenAI models text-davinci-002 and text-davinci-003 (deprecated by OpenAI on Jan 4th 2024)

1.0.18

• Updated to Freemius SDK 2.6.0 (please update asap due to security issues!)
• Added OpenAI model GPT-4 turbo (1106 preview with data up to April 2023!) to generate descriptions. Be aware that the generated text is still a bit buggy!
• Info: OpenAI models text-davinci-002 and text-davinci-003 will be deprecated by OpenAI on Jan 4th 2024!
• Updated DataForSEO location codes (there are 126,326 locations available)
• Updated links to documentation pages of OpenAI

1.0.17

• Updated DataForSEO location codes (there are 126,375 locations available now!)
• Updated to Freemius SDK 2.5.9 (please update asap due to security issues!)

1.0.16

• Added more search options (= little icons) within forms for invalid data and optimization with Google Place
• Fixed a bug where data was shown in venue optimization with Google Places even no result found
• Updated DataForSEO locations codes (not all locations are supported by Google)
• Updated German translation

1.0.15

• Change to hide the „Generate description“ button in the single event form as well (when activated in the settings)
• Fixed a bug where the tool tip in the single event form was not showing up properly

1.0.14

• Changes to eliminate warnings in the browser’s console when using PHP 8.x
• First version to upload into the WordPress directory

1.0.13

• Fixed a bug in the free version that crashed the plugin when checking for invalid URLs

1.0.12

• Prepared plugin for upload to the WordPress directory (changed directory structure)
• Fixed some minor UI obstacles
• Fixed a bug that causes adding images from Google Images was not working

1.0.11

• Fixed a bug when the state was not set when fetching data from Google Places for venues and organizer in USA
• Updated to Freemius SDK 2.5.7

1.0.10

• Added the option to add Rating and Current Opening Hours fields to the single organizer form

1.0.9

• Added the option to hide „Generate description“ buttons in the single venue and organizer form

1.0.8

• Fixed a bug where HTML tags where unnecessarily removed from the organizer description
• Changes to support php 8.x.

1.0.7

• Fixed a bug where fetching data from Google Places in the single venue / organizer didn’t worked

1.0.6.

• Fixed a bug related to ignored objects that causes a crash of the plugin
• Fixed a bug that causes the plugin to crash when migrating old data structure (after activating the plugin)
• Removed the validation for fields with content less than 4 characters
• Changes to support php 8.x

1.0.5

• Fixed a bug where for some countries Google Places delivered the ZIP in a different field (means ZIP was not set in Events Optimizer)
• Changes to eliminate warnings in the browser’s console when using PHP 8.x

1.0.4

• Updated to Freemius SDK 2.5.6
• Fixed a bug where the country was not saved in the single venue form after fetching data from Google Places
• Fixed a bug where the city was not set in the single venue form when fetching data from Google Places (Google is using different fields for the city!)

1.0.3

• Fixed a bug where the country was not set in the single venue form when fetching data from Google Places
• Fixed a bug when a warning was thrown in the organizer venue form while fetching data from Google Places

1.0.2

• Changed standard OpenAI model to GPT-4 as the quality of output is better (even it’s slower)
• Fixed bug that caused a crash with php 8.x when showing the „Generate description“ buttons

1.0.1

• Updated to Freemius SDK 2.5.5

1.0.0

• Added OpenAI models GPT-3.5 turbo and GPT-4 to generate descriptions
• Added OpenAI settings to select text model
• Removed OpenAI setting for amount of words since the model is ignoring it anyway
• Changed plugin versioning to WordPress standard (major.minor.bugfix)

0.98

• Fixed a bug that caused the list of ignored objects was not updated when an object was trashed
• Updated German translation

0.98

• Fixed a bug related to Geolocation address information when adding an event from Google events
• Updated link of Google Events location code CSV file
• Removed unnecessary Java script file

0.97

• Fixed a bug that caused the plugin to crash when showing an event, organizer or venue in the backend post editor when using a page builder like Divi, Elementor, etc.

0.96

• Fixed a bug that caused the plugin to crash when showing an event, organizer or venue in the backend post editor

0.95

• Improvement for SEO: Image title is sanitized and alternative text is added to event image when uploaded
• Refactoring of code: creation of object_id
• Optimized UI for getting events from Google Events
• Updated to Freemius SDK 2.5.4.2

0.94

• New feature added (Events Optimizer Pro): Automatically generate descriptions for events with OpenAI/ChatGPT (beta!)
• Moved buttons to generate descriptions above editor to save space
• Changed description buttons to normal button as there should be only one primary button per form
• Updated German translation

0.93

• Changed format when saving GeoAddress of venue to avoid unnecessary warning from Events Calendar
• Refactoring of code (replaced getElementsByName with getElementById for better readabilty)

0.92

• Increased maximum amount of tokens to 2048 and words to 1500 to increase quality of generated descriptions
• Fixed a bug not showing when searching for Google Images
• Overhaul of the German translation

0.91

• Optimized check to recognize non-reachable URLs with paths after the domain-name as well (e.g. example.com/page)
• Added a check if phone numbers have correct international format (e.g. +49 123 456789, 0049 (0) 123 45678, 0123 45678, etc)

0.90

• Fixed a bug where the number of words was not defined while generating descriptions for organizers
• Fixed a bug where headings for description was not added always
• Changed descriptions for venues and organizers that no additional h1-heading will be added (not good for SEO)
• Removed unnecessary debugging information from error log

0.89

• Optimized prompt to generate venue and organizer descriptions
• Added options for FAQ, headings and HTML output for venue and organizer descriptions
• Added option to define the length of the venue and organizer description
• Added option to replace or add to existing content for venue and organizer descriptions

0.88

• Optimized aspect ratio for output of Google Images
• Fixed bug when saving venues (wrong attributes for GeoAddress field)
• Optimized sanitizing of strings for better security

0.87

• Massively increased performance when finding duplicate venues or organizers

0.86

• Improved description generation algorithm to avoid creating false information
• Small UI improvements in the settings tab

0.85

• Updated German translation
• Small improvements to generate better descriptions with OpenAI/ChatGPT

0.84

• New feature added (Events Optimizer Pro): Automatically generate descriptions for venues with OpenAI/ChatGPT (beta!)

0.83

• New feature added (Events Optimizer Pro): Automatically generate descriptions for organizers with OpenAI/ChatGPT (beta!)

0.82

• Fixed bug where HTML markups in content got unnecessarily removed when merging venues or organizers

0.81

• New feature added (Events Optimizer Pro): Add images for events from Google images

0.80

• Fixed a bug where events could not been ignored or added

0.79

• New feature added (Events Optimizer Pro): Add events from Google Events automatically
• Fixed a bug when verifying URLs with missing http / https
• Event start / end date can now be edited in the „Events with invalid data“ form
• Single venue form: Longitude and Latitude is now added from Google Places as well
• Added search options (= little icons) for phone number
• Complete overhaul of the German translation
• Check if Events Calendar plugin is installed and active before activating Events Optimizer
• Smaller bugfixes to eliminate warnings in debug.log
• Updated to Freemius SDK 2.5.2

0.78

• Improved search options (= little icons) within invalid data forms for better clean-up workflow
• Fixed error not finding all duplicate venues and organizers

0.77

• New feature added (Events Optimizer Pro): Option to ignore fields when searching for invalid data
• Added and updated German (informal) language of Freemius SDK

0.76

• New security feature added (Events Optimizer Pro): Verify URLs on missing https / http
• New security feature added (Events Optimizer Pro): Verify if URLs are redirected or permanently moved
• Enhanced maintenance of ignored objects list: individual objects can now also be deleted

0.75

• New feature added (Events Optimizer Pro): Security check if websites are unsafe possibly (using Google Safe Browsing)
• Fixed error when using custom list of countries

0.74

• Small fix in German translation
• Small fix in invalid events

0.73

• New feature added (Events Optimizer Pro): button to ignore objects – perfect for false positive matches!
• Complete overhaul of the analysis process to increase performance.
• Fixed some bugs where not all invalid objects would be displayed
• Updated URL for button to buy Events Optimizer Pro
• Optimized table view on devices with large screens

0.71

• Extended the fetching of data from Google Places in single organizer form: address data can now be filled in additional custom fields
• Updated Link to Google Places documentation
• Excluded CSS to external file
• Improved search options (= little icons) within invalid data forms for better clean-up workflow

0.69

• New feature added (Events Optimizer Pro): fill a custom field with the full address within the single organizer form (with Google places data)
• Improved table view for small mobile devices

0.68

• New feature added (Events Optimizer Pro): fetch organizer data via Google Place from within the single organizer form
• Added more search options (= little icons) within invalid data forms for better clean-up workflow

0.67

• Added some more German translations
• Fixed path to Events Calendar settings in welcome message after installation (has changed in Events Calendar V6.x )
• Fixed descriptions of plugin in readme.txt to display in WordPress plugin repository
• Added Events Optimizer logo to display in WordPress plugin repository

0.66

• Further changes to support php 8.x. Fixed issue when searching for duplicate venues and organizers.

0.65

• New feature added (Events Optimizer Pro): fetch venue data via Google Place from within the single venue form

0.64

• Updated to Freemius SDK 2.4.5 to support php 8.x

0.63

• Changes to support php 8.x

0.62

• Initial release.