Latest updates
An overview of all updates from the Front Matter extension
Change Log
[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 themdx 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
andYYYY
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: 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 towelcome
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
[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