0.9.66 Released – Bug Squashing of Oct 2017 [72nd Update]

It makes me very happy to announce another big stability update that will increase the stability and improve the performance of AMP.

Let’s quickly have a look at the changelog:

1. Design 3 & Design 1 are optimised with 90+ Google PageSpeed Score on Mobile and 95+ in desktop performance #1273
2. Featured Image from the content for blog and homepage #1295
3. Category Module for AMP Page builder added #888
4. Don’t load unused CSS selectors. All the CSS is conditionally loading, to decrease the number of CSS loaded per page and increased in performance #1292
5. Twitter Video embed code support added in AMP #1307
6. Video Posting Structured data #1293
7. Navigation menus are now Schema compatible for better Structured data integration #1229
8. Yoast checking conditions for Structured Data Improved #1293
9. Added “back to Top” in design 3 #959
10. Proper blog check and author for custom frontpage #1260 (Made some changes to check the blog properly and also added the author details for Custom Frontpage)
11. AMP not working on password-protected pages #1192
12. Debug errors reported by the user #1284 and few more we found internally
13. Inline Style Sanitizer for Comments to avoid any validation issues #1193
14. Next/Previous links removed from pages #1268 props @Frenchomatic
15. WPML Multilingual CMS plugin flags compatibility added #1270
16. Image sanitizer added for the Sidebar #1270
17. Added AMP Components the correct way. Added amp-gist, amp-social-share. #336
18. amp-video script added – Which decreases the non-critical validation issues #991
19. Arrows in Design 3 pagination #1000

20. Author page links in Single #1282

21. Added previous open state of option panel and show again when search clean #1238

22. Odnoklassniki Social Sharing Support for AMP (with target blank for better bounce rate) #1230

23. GIF or animated images resize problem fixed #1281

24. In Design1, Header Background & Link Color have same option #1249
25. FB Pixel for AMP added #1231
26. Structured Data Type option for AMPed Custom Post types only #1259

27. Attribute ‘readability in the tag ‘div’ removed – this decreases the validation issues #1306

28.  AMP Theme Framework Improvements: loop, author, related_post, Add Author support #1311

29. Commentator’s Avatar in the comments section #1132

30. Remove ‘Welcome to AMP’ from Dashboard sub-menu and moved to the options area to decrease the annoyance and increase the user happiness #902
31. Option to Sort the Random Order of Related Posts to increase the audience engagement (Default is ‘ID’, on enabling the option it will change to ‘rand’) #1250

32.  View AMP on Admin Bar for the respected page/post If enable. #1236

33. google maps iframe – link to larger map #1099
34. Comments now jumping due to the slash at the end #1309
35. Page Builder causes Incompatibility with the Divi theme (We restructured the Text Module for Page builder for better compatibility and UX) #1162
36. Inline Style Sanitizer for Comments added. Less Critical Validation issues and Better Presentation #1193
37. WPML amp-html error fixed #1285
38. Radio button not working for Show View more Button” #1018
39. Added registered handle for tinymcePointer localize data #1301
40. Date in the Design 2 should not be hidden in mobile version #1315
41. Page builder not working on homepage(Selected as front page) #1316
42. Instant articles number of posts option #1271 (Removed some unused code as well, it will rendered all posts if none is enter in the options)

43. Auto flush on save for FBIA to improve the UX.

44. Plain Permalinks Support improved. #1318
45. Tables support added to FB Instant Articles #1266

46. Demo link added in the Theme selector option #1248

47. Remove invalid attributes from multiple tags which reduces critical validation errors and validates pages.
48. AMP makes a problem in archive page label, when it is active in non-amp version #1304
49. placeholder-icon.png is 404 fixed #1310
50. Category & Tags switches for Single added. #1055
51. Copy Content (Custom AMP Editor) Option Not showing with Page Builder of SiteOrigin issue fixed #1280
52. Improving UX with: when AMP support is off for a specific post type then all the AMP related metaboxes should be removed #1289
53. Options Panel Options rearranged, labels rewritten, descriptions repositioned for better User interaction [commit]

Thanks to each and every single user of the plugin and the AMP & WP Community.

As always, You keep giving the feedback and we will keep implementing them!