CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

[8.1.2] - 2022-10-06

� Fixes

• #435: Fix required fields text color
• #436: Fix inserting image/video snippets without defined fields

[8.1.1] - 2022-09-23

� Fixes

• #422: Fix in panel initialization logic

[8.1.0] - 2022-09-22 - Release notes

✨ New features

• #369: New required property to specify if a content-type field is required
• #376: Ability to run scripts after content was created
• #377: Git sync actions added on panel and content dashboard (pull and push your changes to remote)
• #379: New frontMatter.config.reload command to reload the configuration file + reinitialize its listeners
• #391: New description property to show a message underneath the input field
• #401: Content dashboard now has pagination enabled and can be disabled via the frontMatter.dashboard.content.pagination setting

🎨 Enhancements

• #352: Custom placeholders now support scripting
• #370: Define the tags and categories as reserved keywords for custom taxonomy
• #372: Rename Taxonomy tab to Taxonomies
• #374: Hide the front matter section to use the panel instead
• #383: Add the item menu to the content list view
• #385: If no default value for the draft field is defined, the field value will be set to true
• #388: New stop server action has been added to the panel
• #390: Implement another JSON parser in order to be able to parse the frontmatter.json file better
• #394: Ordering of snippet fields is based on their field definition
• #395: Added support for custom snippet fields on media snippets
• #402: Custom sorting of content now supports number fields
• #417: New hyperlink wysiwyg option
• #418: New heading and divider fields for your content-type definition

⚡� Optimizations

• Internal post message optimizations to the webviews
• Preview tab now shows the title of the page/content if present

� Fixes

• #378: Fix last modified update only to content in content folders
• #384: Fix issue title field in sub-fields
• #393: Fix Windows file path for retrieving the preview path
• #396: Fix for index and _index page previews
• #398: Fix Windows folder path parsing in data folder retrieval
• #400: Fix for draft/published content grouping
• #403: Fix for media files with spaces on importing in article content
• #404: Fix for published sorting option in media dashboard
• #408: Fix for missing dashboard.taxonomy.view view mode in the JSON schema

[8.0.1] - 2022-07-13

� Fixes

• Fix PSD media card icon image
• Fix missing clipboard icon for the media card action
• Fix in tags rendering on content cards

[8.0.0] - 2022-07-11 - Release notes

✨ New Features

• #291: New taxonomy dashboard for managing tags, categories, and custom taxonomies

🎨 Enhancements

• Ignore the SEO keywords field for missing content type field
• #307: New list field which allows to create a list of items
• #345: Media dashboard UI improvements to visualize the content and public folders
• #349: New slug field which allows you to manage the slug of your post from the Front Matter panel
• #350: New previewPath property for the frontMatter.content.pageFolders setting. This allows you to specify a section prefix for all content created in that directory.
• #351: New template property for content types which allows you to combine templates and content types for content creation
• #353: Add the default content type on project initialization
• #366: Better support for using block fields in another block field

� Fixes

• #348: Fix media dashboard breadcrumb when multiple page folders are in use
• #356: Re-introduce the labelField to the frontMatter.taxonomy.fieldGroups setting
• #358: Fix for relative path of the public folder
• #364: Honour file ending rules in data files
• #365: Show spinner on the initial load of the content dashboard

[7.3.4] - 2022-06-13

� Fixes

• #354: Fix Windows file path parsing for inserting media files

[7.3.3] - 2022-06-11

� Fixes

• Card render when taxonomy is not an array value
• Double pages on contents dashboard

[7.3.2] - 2022-06-01

� Fixes

• #346: Fix media dashboard refresh action

[7.3.1] - 2022-05-26

� Fixes

• #343: Fix in the schema for the frontMatter.taxonomy.fieldGroups setting

[7.3.0] - 2022-05-25 - Release notes

🎨 Enhancements

• JSON schema enhancements for working with data files
• #330: Allow custom scripts to easily update front matter
• #331: Added functionality to run other type of scripts
• #332: New dataFile field which allows you to create data file references
• #333: Automatically mark Jekyll posts in _drafts folder as draft
• #335: Merge media snippets with content snippets to allow you to define multiple media snippets and use these in your content
• #336: Support added for inverting the draft field so that SSGs/authors can use a published field instead
• #337: Allow multiple front matter types to be used
• #338: Ability to disable the templates functionality (default is disabled)
• #340: Show an error message when there is a content folder registered that does not exist in the project

� Fixes

• #334: Fix for locked content folders retrieval
• #339: Fix for content folders without a title

[7.2.0] - 2022-05-02 - Release notes

🎨 Enhancements

• New tag design for the tags, category, and taxonomy fields
• #263: WYSIWYG string field option
• #308: New File field
• #314: New preview actions to open the page in the browser and refresh the preview
• #322: Show parent folder name when file is an index page (index.md / _index.md)
• #323: Added 11ty, jekyll, and docusaurus to the framework selection list
• #325: Better welcome experience that allows you to add content folders straight from the welcome view
• #326: Content type actions to create, update, or set according to the current file

⚡� Optimizations

• #316: Suppress file parsing errors when closing the dashboard

� Fixes

• Updated JSON schema link to supported version by VS Code (draft-07)
• Hide the view mode action from the Front Matter panel if no custom modes are defined
• Fix in decode base64 uploaded video files
• Fix for a lightbox on other types of documents (pdf, etc.)
• Fix for hiding the image preview on slide-over for none image documents
• #324: Fix for the framework selection on the welcome screen

[7.1.2] - 2022-04-11

� Fixes

• #315: Fix draft tab navigation

[7.1.1] - 2022-04-08

� Fixes

• Fix in menu item with stopPropagation not defined.

[7.1.0] - 2022-04-07 - Release notes

🎨 Enhancements

• #240: Capability added to define display modes
• #246: Support to add multiple tags/keywords/taxonomy via comma separated values
• #293: Support added for setting preview images in block fields
• #294: Full-text search allows you to search through all your page content
• #297: SEO Keywords input got moved to the SEO section
• #301: Show tags on the content cards
• #303: Content card actions to quickly view, delete, or run custom scripts
• #310: Supported mime types for media dashboard

⚡� Optimizations

• #296: Loading optimization of the content dashboard

� Fixes

• #302: Fix for spinner when navigating between tabs
• #304: Fix yaml stringify which caused additional fields to be added
• #305: Fix for overflow issue in taxonomy picker
• #306: Fix for default value of content type fields
• #311: Fix for updating snippets

[7.0.0] - 2022-03-21 - Release notes

✨ New Features

• #175: New snippet support + dashboard
• #281: New isPublishDate and isModifiedDate datetime field properties

🎨 Enhancements

• Light color theme enhancements to media cards
• Light color theme enhancements to folder cards
• Added collapse and dashboard button to the view title of the FM Panel
• Show content commands only when a supported file type is active
• Added {{year}}, {{month}}, and {{day}} placeholders for fields
• #272: New slide over panel for showing details of media files
• #276: Add a Front Matter walkthrough for VS Code
• #270: Only show media files from public folder if pageBundle is not enabled on any of the content types
• #282: Insert relative paths for media files located in a page bundle (also sub-folders)
• #283: Added published date sorting options for the content dashboard
• #286: Refresh button added for the content page
• #287: Show folder name on index.md files for recently modified files
• #292: Lower fuzzy search threshold for the content dashboard

� Fixes

• #279: Fix for content dashboard updates for all registered types
• #280: Fix to not automatically set dates on new files that do not contain front matter
• #284: Show the WYSIWYG controls on all supported file types
• #290: Fix for onDidChangeTextEditorSelection listener sending metadata updates

[6.1.1] - 2022-03-02

� Fixes

• #275: Fix for rendering the panel when content contains an invalid markdown syntax tree

[6.1.0] - 2022-02-28 - Release notes

✨ New features

• #176: New block field type that allows you to you to define a group of fields which can be used to create a list of data

🎨 Enhancements

• Updated the activity bar icon for better visibility
• Storing the panel collapse section states
• #241: Added taxonomy limit field property which allows you to limit the number of selections
• #242: Keep comments at the root of the front matter
• #248: Added support for front matter highlighting to all file types specified in frontMatter.content.supportedFileTypes
• #255: Added support for default values on block fields / data creation
• #257: Allow preview images to be used in multi-dimensional fields
• #271: Added image size placeholders for media snippets

⚡� Optimizations

• Show the data item its details when clicking on the record
• Refactoring of the explorer view panel listeners
• Added {{now}} placeholder to the publishing date for content creation
• #243: Refactoring front matter parsing

� Fixes

• #247: Fix the front matter highlighting in markdown documents
• #261: Fix to allow that tag and category fields can be renamed
• #264: Fix for Windows paths on content folder registration
• #268: Fix for panel which only shows loading indicator

[6.0.0] - 2022-01-25 - Release Notes

✨ New features

• #193: Support added for editing data files.
• #197: Support for multi-dimensional content type fields on content creation and editing.
• #225: Placeholder support for front matter field values (template and content type).
• #226: Ability to specify the local server start command and trigger it from the UI.
• #227: Specify the file types to support with the new frontMatter.content.supportedFileTypes setting.
• #228: Show bulk button actions in panel and dashboard view.
• #231: Once you authenticate via GitHub as a supporter, the support links will be hidden from the UI.

🎨 Enhancements

• Added default field value for content type fields
• HMR support for panel webview development
• Added reveal media file action
• #187: Svelte support with the #227 features has been added.
• #198: Additional media sort options (alt, caption, and size).
• #230: JSON front matter support added.
• #233: Partial update when a page is updated.

� Fixes

• #234: Fix for multi-word keywords
• #235: Fix for reselecting the previously removed value from a choice field

[5.10.0] - 2022-01-10

🎨 Enhancements

• #218: Add support for creating mdx files from templates and content types. This introduced a new setting: frontMatter.content.defaultFileType.
• #220: Add support DateTime updates in mdx files when the mdx extension is not installed.

� Fixes

• #221: Automatic DateTime switch from on text change to on save to prevent multiple updates.

[5.9.0] - 2022-01-01 - 🎇🎆

🎨 Enhancements

• Fixing the spinner which overlaps the global navigation bar
• Quick actions added for media files (edit, delete, insert markdown, insert snippet)
• #199: Search media files in the currently selected folder
• #211: Replace text selection on media inserts
• #212: Create folder watchers for content folders. When new content gets created, the dashboard updates.
• #213: New media folder overview design

� Fixes

• #210: Fix for adding media files with uppercase file extensions
• #214: Fix for opening markdown file after creating it for the specified content type

[5.8.0] - 2021-12-21 - 🎄

🎨 Enhancements

• Refactoring of the WebView logic to new message handlers
• Optimized the getMedia call from the webview
• Keep the dashboard its context when switching tabs
• #205: Define a logging level setting
• #206: Add front matter issues to the diagnostic tab

� Fixes

• #207: Fix the quick picks for content creation
• #208: Fix for the collapse sections action so that it is not available everywhere, but only on the Front Matter panel

[5.7.0] - 2021-12-07 - Release Notes

🎨 Enhancements

• #188: Support for .markdown files added to the dashboard
• #190: Diagnostic output for the extension
• #194: WYSIWYG controls added for markdown files + configuration to enable/disable the functionality

� Fixes

• #191: Fix beta settings page
• #200: Fix last modified date sorting for media files
• #201: Fix overflow issue with the media filename
• #202: Fix checkbox label color for light themes

[5.6.0] - 2021-11-23

🎨 Enhancements

• Updated camera icon from VS Code to media icon
• Updated the media card actions to show it within a menu. This will give a better experience with custom scripts.
• #97: Custom Script support for media files and folders
• #178: Sorting added to the media dashboard
• #179: Updated the open dashboard icon to make it easier to spot it
• #180: Added {filename} as placeholder for media snippets
• #181: Support for custom taxonomy fields added

� Fixes

• #183: Fix type error on the frontMatter.content.sorting setting

[5.5.0] - 2021-11-15

As from this version onwards, the extension will be published to open-vsx.org.

🎨 Enhancements

• #173: Allow to specify your own sorting for the content dashboard
• #174: Added option to exclude sub-directories from page/markdown content retrieval

[5.4.0] - 2021-11-05

🎨 Enhancements

• #166: Added preview button to the panel base view
• #167: Allow to set the preview path per content type

[5.3.1] - 2021-10-29

� Fixes

• #163: Setting workspace state instead of global state for the media view

[5.3.0] - 2021-10-28 - Release Notes

🎨 Enhancements

• #158: Add support for non-boolean draft/publish status fields
• #159: Enhancements to SEO checks: Slug check, keyword details, more article information

� Fixes

• Value check when generating slug from title
• Fix for date time formatting with DD and YYYY tokens
• Fix in tag space replacing when object is passed

[5.2.0] - 2021-10-19

🎨 Enhancements

• #151: Detect which site-generator or framework is used
• #152: Automatically set setting based on the used site-generator or framework
• #154: Bulk script support added
• #155: Fallback image added for the images shown in the editor panel

� Fixes

• #153: Support old date formatting for date-fns
• #156: Fix for uploading media files into a new folder

[5.1.1] - 2021-10-14

� Fixes

• #149: Fix panel rendering when incorrect type for keywords is provided

[5.1.0] - 2021-10-13

🎨 Enhancements

• #141: Allow content creation for page bundles or single files
• #145: Moved folder registration settings to frontmatter.json file
• #147: Error boundary added for metadata fields

� Fixes

• Rendered more hooks than during the previous render in FileList
• #142: Fix for unknown tags where it throws an error
• #143: Fix for duplicate values in the file list
• #144: Fix for toISOString does not exist on object
• #146: Date parsing logic added with fallbacks

[5.0.0] - 2021-10-07 - Release Notes

✨ New features

• #113: Integrating a local DB for media metadata (caption, alt)
• #132: Major changes to the media dashboard which allows you to navigate through all folders

🎨 Enhancements

• #110: Add support for workspaces with multiple folders
• #117: Allow to specify a singleline of text in the metadata fields
• #119: Multi-select support for choice fields
• #121: Choice fields support ID/title objects as well as a regular string
• #122: Update the filenames of your media
• #124: Add new isPreviewImage property to the content type field to specify custom preview images
• #126: Create new content from the available content types
• #127: Title bar action added to open the dashboard
• #128: Support for multi-select on image fields added
• #131: Folder creation support added on media dashboard
• #134: On startup, the extension checks if local settings can be promoted
• #135: Hidden property added for field configuration
• #137: Ask to move the .templates folder to the new .frontmatter folder

� Fixes

• #120: Choice and number field not updating when set manually in front matter of the file
• #133: Fix for overriding default content type settings

[4.0.1] - 2021-09-24

• #114: Fix for categories/tags provided as string in YAML
• #115: Fix for updating added categories/tags
• #116: Fix for not showing the -1 limit on inputs

[4.0.0] - 2021-09-22 - Release Notes

• #101: Date picker available on the metadata section
• #102: Support comma separated arrays in front matter
• #103: Added title and description field to the metadata section
• #104: Allow to set images in front matter from the metadata panel section
• #105: Content Type support with backwards compatibility
• #106: Introduction of team level settings for Front Matter
• #107: Number field support added in content type fields
• #108: Choice field support added in content type fields
• #109: JSON Config script added to automate the JSON schema
• #111: Insert media into the markdown contents
• #112: Add snippet support for media insertion

[3.1.0] - 2021-09-10

• BETA version available at: beta.frontmatter.codes
• #72: Media view on the dashboard
• #73: List view option for the dashboard
• #77: Dashboard grouping pages functionality integrated
• #81: Optimizing the content folders to use a new setting to simplify configuration
• #87: Fix issue with autofocus and command palette
• #88: Fix issue with search sorting
• #89: Clear filter, sorting, and grouping button added
• #90: Refactoring to use Recoil state management
• #91: Support image previews from content folders
• #98: Add drag and drop support for media upload in a folder

[3.0.2] - 2021-08-31

• #82: Hide the register and unregister commands from the command palette

[3.0.1] - 2021-08-30

• #79: Fix scrollbar not visible on the welcome screen

[3.0.0] - 2021-08-27

• #61: List of recently modified files
• #64: Publish toggle for easier publishing an article
• #65: Aggregate articles in draft
• #66: New dashboard webview on which you can manage all your content
• #69: Welcome screen for getting started

[2.5.1] - 2020-08-23

• Fix typo in the package.json file for the preview command

[2.5.0] - 2020-08-19

• Moved the center layout button to the other actions section
• #60: Added the ability to open a site preview in VS Code

[2.4.1] - 2020-08-16

• Better editor highlighting functionality

[2.4.0] - 2020-08-16

• #21: Folding provider for Front Matter implemented
• #55: Highlight Front Matter in Markdown files
• #56: Action to collapse all Front Matter panel sections at once
• #57: New action added to provide better writing settings (only for Markdown files)
• #58: Sections remember their previous state (folded/unfolded)
• #59: Center layout view toggle action added

[2.3.0] - 2020-08-10

• Refactoring and showing other actions in the base view
• Show BaseView in Front Matter panel when switching to welcome tab
• #31: Automatically update the last modification date of the file when performing changes
• #53: Create current Markdown file as template

[2.2.0] - 2020-08-06

• #28: Align the file its name with the article slug
• #47: Fix when table shows only value 0
• #48: Added new folder registration message + notification helper
• #49: New initialize project command
• #50: Fix in the table rendering of rows
• #51: Panel actions base view enhanced to show project actions and information

[2.1.0] - 2020-08-04

• #44: Added article creation command
• #45: WSL support added
• #46: Make the tag pickers render in full width

[2.0.1] - 2020-07-27

• #42: Small enhancement to the table layout
• #43: Fix for collapsible sections and taxonomy picker

[2.0.0] - 2020-07-23

• Redesigned sidebar panel
• Sidebar background styling match the VSCode defined sidebar color
• Added support for mdx files
• Added support for enter press in the combobox
• #41: Word count implementation + extra details
• #40: Added checks for the keyword usage in title, description, slug, and content

[1.18.0] - 2020-07-20

• Updated README

[1.17.1] - 2020-06-28

• #34: Fix that last modification date does not update the publication date
• #38: Update the last modification date on new page creation from the template

[1.17.0] - 2020-06-14

• #36: Add the option to change the Front Matter its description field

[1.16.1] - 2020-05-27

• Fix for Node.js v14.16.0

[1.16.0] - 2020-05-04

• Add all front matter properties as an argument for custom scripts

[1.15.1] - 2020-05-04

• Add the ability to specify a custom Node path

[1.15.0] - 2020-05-04

• Added the ability to add your own custom scripts as panel actions.

[1.14.0] - 2020-03-19

• New links added to the Front Matter panel to reveal the file and folder.

[1.13.0] - 2020-02-26

• Implemented links to quickly open the extension settings + issue from the FrontMatter view panel
• Added button to update the modified time in the FrontMatter view panel

[1.12.1] - 2020-02-13

• Fix Front Matter SVG

[1.12.0] - 2020-01-26

• #29: Open file after creating it from the template

[1.11.1] - 2020-12-10

• #26: Fix for arrow selection in the dropdown.

[1.11.0] - 2020-12-10

• #25: Moved from Material UI Autocomplete to Downshift. This gives more flexibility, and allows to focus the inputs from a VSCode command.
• Changed the Front Matter: Insert <tags | categories> functionality to open in the panel, instead of using the VSCode dialogs.

[1.10.0] - 2020-12-03

• FrontMatter panel implemented. This panel allows you to control all extension actions, but not only that. It makes adding tags and categories in a easier way to your page.

[1.9.0] - 2020-11-25

• #23: Implemented the option to create and use templates for article creation (front matter will be updates as well).

[1.8.0] - 2020-11-20

• #22: Allow to configure the SEO Title and Description lengths.

[1.7.2] - 2020-10-30

• #19: fix for tag insertion when empty tag is used

[1.7.1] - 2020-10-21

• Fix for title and description length check

[1.7.0] - 2020-09-30

• #18: Added date and modified date field names settings to be able to change the extension its behavior

[1.6.0] - 2020-09-23

• Syntax highlighting for Hugo shortcodes has been added

[1.5.0] - 2020-09-10

• #17: Make front matter be indentation tabSize aware

[1.4.0] - 2020-08-24

• Added set lastmod date command
• #16: Fixed hardcoded length value

[1.3.0] - 2020-08-22

• Added SEO description warning when over 140 characters is used

[1.2.0] - 2020-07-03

• Added SEO title warning when over 60 characters is used

[1.1.1] - 2020-04-07

• TOML delimiter fix

[1.1.0] - 2020-03-25

• TOML support added

[1.0.0] - 2020-03-25

• First major release
• Fixed an issue with null tag/category values

[0.0.10] - 2019-09-17

• Updated the logic to remove quotes from front matter property values

[0.0.9] - 2019-09-17

• Added setting to specify if you want to enable/disable array indents in the front matter of your article
• Remove quotes on date strings

[0.0.8] - 2019-09-04

• Added command to generate a clean article slug

[0.0.7] - 2019-08-28

• Added command to remap tags or categories in all posts: Front Matter: Remap tag/category in all articles

[0.0.6] - 2019-08-28

• Updated package.json file to include preview label
• Added the status bar item to quickly view and update the draft status of an article

[0.0.5] - 2019-08-27

• Updated title, description and logo

[0.0.4] - 2019-08-26

• Added set date command

[0.0.3] - 2019-08-26

• Support added for *.markdown files

[0.0.2] - 2019-08-26

• Updated extension to bundle the project output

[0.0.1] - 2019-08-26

• Initial beta version