=== AuctionForge ===
Contributors: SmoothByte IT
Tags: auctions, bidding, auction house
Requires at least: 7.2
Stable tag: 2.7.0.4

== Changelog ==

= 2.7.0.4 =

### Fixes:
- Fixed `bidspiritApi.getAuctionSettingsData is not a function` error in getFullPriceInfo — use local auctionSettingsData variable instead of non-existent API method.

= 2.7.0.3 =

### Fixes:
- Fixed `fullPriceInfo is not defined` ReferenceError that prevented bid confirmation modal from opening on single lot pages and catalogue pages.
- Added missing `getFullPriceInfo()`, `getCommissonInfoForPrice()`, and `roundToCents()` functions ported from upstream.
- All three bid submission paths (submitBid, submitBidCatalog, submitBidCatalog3) now correctly pass fullPriceInfo to the modal-bid-template.

= 2.7.0.0 =

### New Features: Advanced Lot Analytics
- **Conversion Tracking** — View-to-bid ratio table showing lot views, catalogue/external clicks, favorites, shares, bid status, and sold price with sell-through rate summary cards
- **Peak Viewing Times** — Hourly bar chart showing when lots get the most views (last 30 days) with peak hour identification
- **Pre-Sale vs Live Comparison** — Per-auction breakdown of views before auction day vs during/after, with pre-sale percentage
- **Category Performance** — Analytics grouped by lot category: views, lots, favorites, sold count, average views per lot
- **Share Analytics** — Track shares by channel (Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Email, Pinterest, Copy Link) with per-channel badges and most-shared lots table
- **Search → View Funnel** — Correlates internal search queries with subsequent lot page views to show which searches lead to browsing
- **Click-Through Tracking** — Distinguishes catalogue clicks (user came from auction catalogue) vs external clicks (direct/search/referral)
- **CSV Export** — One-click export of all lot analytics data, filterable by catalogue
- **Hot Lot Badge** — Automatic "🔥 Popular" badge on catalogue page thumbnails for lots exceeding view threshold (default: 5 views)
- All new panels respect the catalogue filter dropdown
- New DB table: af_lot_shares (per-channel share events)
- New columns: catalogue_clicks, external_clicks, share_count on af_lot_analytics
- DB version bumped to 20

= 2.6.3.0 =

### Fixes:
- View counter now shows on lot pages even with 0 views
- Fixed backfill and trending queries failing on URLs with trailing slashes

= 2.6.2.0 =

### Fixes:
- Fixed 404 errors on auction/lot pages after DB version update by flushing rewrite rules automatically

= 2.6.1.0 =

### Fixes:
- Renamed shortcodes to use bp_ prefix for consistency: [bp_popular_lots], [bp_most_favorited], [bp_trending_lots]

= 2.6.0.0 =

### New Feature: Lot Analytics
- Added comprehensive lot view and favorite tracking system
- Two new settings in AuctionForge > Settings (both disabled by default):
  - **Enable Lot Analytics** — master toggle for the entire tracking system
  - **Show View Counter on Lots** — display a public view count on each lot page
- New admin dashboard tab: **Lot Analytics** (under Site Statistics) with:
  - Auction Performance comparison table
  - Most Viewed Lots (all time)
  - Most Favorited Lots
  - Trending Lots (last 7 days)
  - Backfill from existing pageview data button
- Local favorites tracking mirrors BidSpirit favorites for analytics
- Three new shortcodes for displaying popular lots:
  -  — most viewed lots grid
  -  — most favorited lots grid
  -  — trending lots (configurable time window)
- All shortcodes support limit, columns, auction_id, and period filtering
- New DB tables: af_lot_analytics, af_lot_favorites (DB version 19)

= 2.5.9.0 =

### Improvements:
- Redesigned Recently Viewed items as square card grid (rows/columns) instead of horizontal list.
- Changed lot thumbnail to contain (show full image) instead of cover (crop to fill).

= 2.5.8.0 =

### Fixes:
- Fixed Recently Viewed cloned image thumbnails using non-existent resize prefix. Now uses raw image filename for reliable CDN loading.

= 2.5.7.0 =

### Fixes:
- Fixed Recently Viewed thumbnail URLs — now builds correct BidSpirit CDN URLs for both cloned (Fastly) and non-cloned (Cloudinary) images instead of broken relative paths.

= 2.5.6.0 =

### Fixes:
- Fixed placeholder image fallback path still referencing old uco-auctions directory.
- Added background color for empty thumbnail containers in Recently Viewed.

= 2.5.5.0 =

### Improvements:
- Removed PAST/Upcoming badges from Recently Viewed items display.
- Added lot thumbnail images to Recently Viewed items with proper card layout.

= 2.5.4.0 =

### Fixes:
- Fixed item variable not being passed to auctionIsLive-template (was lost during previous file edits).

= 2.5.3.0 =

### Fixes:
- Fixed `item is not defined` in `displayBidFormData` — removed stray `item: item` from house-info-template call where item variable does not exist in scope.

= 2.5.2.0 =

### Fixes:
- Fixed `item is not defined` JavaScript error in `auctionIsLive-template` on single lot pages.
- Fixed statistics table auto-creation running on frontend requests (restricted to admin only).

= 2.5.1.0 =

### Fixes:
- Fixed `hideleadingBidSection is not defined` JavaScript error on single lot pages.
- Fixed statistics database tables not auto-creating on plugin update (only activated on fresh install).
- Added self-healing table creation on `plugins_loaded` for sites that update without re-activating.
- Cleaned up duplicate `AF_Stats_Init::activate()` calls in DB update function.
- Bumped DB version to 18.

= 2.5.0.0 =

### New Features:
- **Site Statistics System** — Full website analytics built into the plugin admin (Lots → Site Statistics).
  - Dashboard with KPI cards: visitors, sessions, pageviews, bounce rate, avg duration, pages per session.
  - Period comparison: current vs previous period with percentage change indicators.
  - Traffic over time line chart (pageviews, visitors, sessions).
  - Traffic channels doughnut chart (organic search, direct, referral, social, email, paid).
  - Hourly distribution bar chart.
  - Device type pie chart (desktop, mobile, tablet).
  - Top Pages tab with views, unique visitors, avg time on page, search, pagination, CSV export.
  - Referrers tab with traffic channel badges, sessions, bounce rate, avg duration, CSV export.
  - Countries tab with horizontal bar chart and visitor/pageview counts.
  - Technology tab with browser, OS, device breakdown and screen resolutions.
  - Searches tab tracking internal WordPress and auction search queries.
  - 404 Errors tab tracking broken URLs with hit counts and referrers.
  - Real-Time visitors view (last 5 minutes, auto-refreshes every 10 seconds).
  - Settings tab: enable/disable tracking, exclude IPs and roles, IP anonymization (GDPR), data retention.
  - Date range picker with presets (7, 14, 30, 90, 365 days) and custom range.
  - Lightweight frontend tracker (~3KB JS) with session management, heartbeat, and beacon API.
  - GeoIP country/city lookup via ip-api.com with 24-hour cache.
  - Bot detection (30+ crawler patterns filtered).
  - UTM parameter tracking (source, medium, campaign, term, content).
  - Traffic channel auto-classification.
  - Outbound link click tracking.
  - Time-on-page tracking via 30-second heartbeat + page unload beacon.
  - Daily cron for automatic data retention purge.
- **Recently Viewed Items** — New profile page tab showing the last 20 viewed lots per user.
  - Admin setting to enable/disable (Lots → Settings → Enable user viewing history).
  - Tracks lot views with timestamp, stores in custom DB table.
  - Clear history button for users.
  - Disabled by default.

### Fixes:
- Fixed `settings is not defined` JavaScript error on auction catalog and single lot pages.
- Fixed `postAuctionSaleOpened is not defined` JavaScript error on auction pages.
- Fixed missing `vendor.min.css` and `password-validation.min.css` (404 errors).
- Added missing template variables to all `loadTemplate` calls for `lot-content-template`, `leadingBid-template`.

= 2.4.4.0 =

### Fixes:
- Fixed the display of purchase prices on shop pages for unsold items. Items with a buyout price now correctly show the "Purchase Price" in both ended and active auction states.

= 2.3.5 =

### New Features:
- Added the ability to create a menu item that opens a modal login window. (`[href="#bp-profile"]`)
- Prices are now displayed with a secondary currency.
- Added an option to display prices including taxes.

### Improvements:
- Login and registration pages no longer leave users on the default welcome page after authentication.
- Updated German localization.
- Added Dutch localization.
- Optimized the synchronization process for auction houses with a large number of auctions.
- Updated the user manual. Added a section with available shortcodes.

### Fixes:
- Fixed a synchronization issue when default and secondary language settings were incorrect in the plugin.
- Fixed broken content in the *Make an inquiry about this item* link when special characters were present in the lot title.
- Fixed display of current bids for lots depending on the auction house settings.
- Fixed display of current bids for lots that are loaded when scrolling the page, if the "Enable pagination" option is disabled.
- Fixed handling of lots that were removed from the auction.
- Fixed bid display on the catalog page when the *enablePrebidsUnderStartPrice* option is enabled.