Compare+ Version History and Product Updates

Scenario: Import feed > map categories > delete feed > see mapping again <-did not delete mapped categories related to particular feed and sometimes caused unexpected results
Product mapping bug (17” TV changes to 17\’\’ TV) > could not map
Change text of alert on /wp-admin/admin.php?page=feed_managementdue Misspelling of “minutes”
Change of name for format_size() function to aw_format_size() to prevent conflict with other plugins
New plugin setting “Attempt to map by product name when EAN is supplied?”. Default “Yes”
Various bug fixes in compare_cron.php and functions.php

Improved database structure for performance reasons
Removed ability to change the feed type once the feed is set up as a subfeed for improved performance
Various SQL query improvements for improved performance
Ability to see all unmapped categories per feed rather than all in one list
Product exclusion process performance improved
Subscriber role can no longer see Compare+ admin menu or interact with the plugin
Tradedoubler CSV and XML parsers added as default
Changed cron time from 15 minutes to 5 minutes
Product slug fix if product name was too long
Could not select and use default brand
PHP setting “max_input_vars” did not allow to map categories properly on some servers where this was restricted
If feed URL was too long the feed did not import
Could not limit products imported per feed for CSV feeds
Could not map categories if category string included ampersand symbol
Automatic parser field detection was not working properly if column or field was encapsulated by quotation marks
System displayed additional slashes in places

Parser improvement – automatic XML / CSV field name detection
Added additional fields, e.g. price was, Last updated time stamp, Mature Content Rating, Stock, Gender, Color, Size (will be added to front-end template in a future release)
Display feed name in category mapping for better control and traceability
Master description on feed level – select which feed the product description should come from
Changed EAN product count in statistics on dashboard
Removed default slug name to prevent mistakes

Sub feeds
Category force import per feed
“Unlock” button in red color, “import” button hidden while locked
Check for new DB tables on C+ home page
“Import this feed” button along with “view feeds” right after creating/editing feed
Bugfix – no empty parser form when created. Now correctly shows that parser was created
Category count on category mapping tool fixed
Applied trim function to all values imported via cron job

Added functionality to allow parsing of nested XML elements as well as XML element attributes
Added database table check to system info page
Bug fix for table creation problem which was caused by the primary key being too long in UTF-8
Bug fix by adding stripslashes() to feed URL for feeds having quotes in their path
Bug fix to allow the use of the last field of CSV files

New Pipe ( | ) field separator option added for CSV feeds
Feed value cleanup – recursively removing single and double quotes from beginning and end of strings, e.g. category name which was a problem in some feeds
HTML category separator bug fixed on “Edit feed” screen

added two additional field separators for CSV feeds (on add/edit feed screen)
Default Brand / Brand Overwrite – product brand name is a mandatory field and we found that often this does not get populated by retailers. To get around this problem we added a default brand that can be set per feed which will be used for products without a brand name.
Feed download debug info – the feed download is done via cURL and we now output the debug information about the transfer (e.g. size and HTTP return code) when the feed import is executed manually.
Updated screenshots on plugin homepage
Fix to statistics displayed on plugin main admin screen