Today we’re pushing an auto-update for ProPhoto4 users on auto-upgrade-capable web hosts. This particular update, like the last one, is primarily a pile of small bug-fixes and minor enhancements we’ve made in the last few weeks. A bunch of the fixes happen to be mobile-related.

The most notable two new enhancements are 1) new “link to this post” Call-to-action items which work like the links in the comments header area, and 2) the ability to designate a link URL for your bio area image/s.

-GOTCHA-If your host doesn’t do auto-updates, you can download the latest build from within your admin area, under ProPhoto => Customize => Site Settings => Misc => ProPhoto Updates. Tutorial for updating from downloaded zip can be found here.-/-

Changelog

For those interested in a near-exhaustive list of what’s fixed, see the below list:

• ensure that custom alternate (alt) text is respected in lightbox and slideshow galleries, as well in their thumbnails
• <address> tags should be italic by default, that’s the convention, and how WordPress previews them in the visual editor
• identify newer Windows phones as mobile devices
• fix a minor layout bug that could cause text on mobile overlay grids to get cut off
• ensure that we align masonry grids on mobile devices if showing desktop site
• consider Samsung “Note” phone a tablet (like iPad) since it’s way bigger than normal phones
• fix Android mobile slideshow re-sizing when screen rotated, caused by bug in Android orientatonchange event
• remove a bit of unwanted whitespace on mobile sites when comments are not being displayed
• fix a problem with media-upload gallery buttons on certain non-english localizations of WordPress
• make future-scheduled posts auto-lint with Facebook when transitioning to published to clear out any cache problems when inaccessible to Facebook prior to publishing
• allow custom grid items to link directly to contact form with hash #contact-form, even in overlay format
• work around a rare problem resulting in specialized “pages” being not found, caused by poorly coded plugins
• add a couple of classes for mobile article header meta data, to hook to with CSS/JS
• fixed a problem with mobile links inside of popup menus not working when ajax disabled or linking to external site (only iOS5)
• change to correct comma-separated syntax for mobile meta viewport tag, resolves some errors and corrects some rendering glitches on newer versions of iOS
• don’t trigger mobile overlay grid overlay show/hide when user is scrolling, if possible, improve usability of mobile posts/pages with overlay grids
• force Facebook comments mobile to FALSE when in iPad, because for some reason it adds a HUGE amount of extra space, whereas the normal non-mobile does not
• workaround extremely rare server problem that can cause uploaded ProPhoto images to never save
• catch android tablet “Transformer” treat like an iPad, not like mobile phone
• workaround problem with iOS 5 and mobile footer menu links
• add missing non-vendor specific rounded corner css for tabs, as Firefox 13 dropped support for deprecated -moz-corner-radius format
• don’t let image HTML sneak into mobile excerpts when it is hard-coded into the custom excerpt field
• fix extra 20px of white padding on top of ProPhoto admin iframes, added in wp 3.4
• on import from P3, correctly transform an iPad-related body class that changed from P3 to P4
• don’t trust that wpurl and url are unslashed, because people can hard-code these with WP_HOME and WP_SITEURL constants in their wp-config.php file, and WordPress doesn’t unslash them if they are slashed
• fix sizing problems with overlay style grids on mobile sites
• constrain Facebook like/send button width on mobile devices to prevent rendering screwups in android
• remove empty Email query param to prevent error message in call to action subscribe by email
• revert to having only green edit button work for editing grids and galleries from admin placeholder, so placeholder is draggable within post visual editor
• update Twitter tweet permalink structure AGAIN because they changed back to their old format before their ill-fated adventure with hashbangs
• fix a rare problem on certain windows servers that was causing the pathfixer to fail after a blog had been moved
• some minor tweaks for WordPress 3.4 compatibility
• prevent some PHP warnings on “Manage Designs” screen on rare Solaris servers caused by unexpected return value from glob() function
• add “link to this post” option to call to action options to mirror the functionality built into comments header
• add optional link URLs for bio images
• new: checkboxes to disable/enable main widget footer area on various page types
• increase default max number custom grid items to 50 (can be increased even more with Tweaks plugin)
• change how we get category URLs so that we respect pretty permalinks and prevent servers from redirecting