Text to Speech (TTS) by Mementor

Changelog

3.0.2 – 2026-03-25

• Fixed: Save settings button not working on all admin pages (White Label, Advanced, Player, Voices, Content, PRO Support)
• Fixed: No confirmation message shown after saving settings on pages with custom form handlers
• Improved: Audio Library now shows a toast notification when audio is successfully regenerated

3.0.1 – 2026-03-25

• Improved: Generated audio files now use the post title in the filename (e.g. the-headline-14-en.mp3 instead of mementor-14-en.mp3). Existing audio is not affected
• Improved: Comprehensive security hardening — added nonce verification, output escaping, input sanitization, and prepared statements across all admin pages and AJAX handlers
• Improved: Settings import now validates option names against a whitelist to prevent unauthorized writes
• Improved: Complete plugin cleanup on uninstall — all database tables, options, transients, and cron jobs are now properly removed
• Improved: Deactivation now clears all scheduled cron events to prevent orphaned tasks
• Improved: Cron scheduling moved out of class constructors to reduce overhead on frontend page loads
• Improved: Infrequently used options (DB versions, timestamps) no longer autoload on every request
• Improved: All PHP files now include direct access protection
• Improved: Removed duplicate AJAX handler registrations and dead code
• Fixed: Wrong text domain in several translation strings preventing proper localization
• Fixed: Audio player showing a “Generate Audio” button on posts that already have audio
• Fixed: Shortcode player rendering on the frontend even when no audio file exists
• Fixed: Auto-inserted player rendering with a pending state instead of being hidden when no audio is available
• New: Bulk rename in Audio Library — rename old-format filenames (mementor-ID-lang.mp3) to use the current post title
• New: Bulk download in Audio Library now creates a single zip file when multiple files are selected
• Fixed: Frontend audio player now uses post meta as the authoritative source for audio URLs, preventing stale references after file renames
• Fixed: Duplicate AudioObject schema markup when multiple player instances exist on a page
• Fixed: Audio Library play counts now include today’s events instead of only showing aggregated historical data
• Fixed: Regenerating audio with Media Library enabled deleted the newly saved file due to attachment cleanup race condition
• Fixed: Deleting audio from the post list now properly removes the Media Library attachment and physical file
• Fixed: Post list audio detection and deletion now uses post meta URLs instead of hardcoded filename patterns
• Fixed: Speech builder caching DELETE query results which could mask errors
• Fixed: N+1 database query in statistics page running SHOW TABLES inside a loop
• Fixed: Audio file saving now always uses WP_Filesystem API instead of falling back to raw PHP functions

3.0.0 – 2026-03-25

Redesigned Admin Interface

• New: Sidebar navigation replaces horizontal tab navigation for faster access to all plugin pages
• New: Universal card-based design system with consistent styling across every admin page
• New: Design tokens (CSS custom properties) for colors, spacing, typography, and component styles
• New: SVG speaker icon in the WordPress admin menu and plugin sidebar
• New: Global input styling with improved contrast, visible borders, and purple focus states

New Pages

• New: Audio Library page — browse, search, filter, sort, and manage all generated audio files with inline playback and bulk actions (select, delete, download)
• New: Add More Credits page — view available credit tiers with a dedicated sidebar CTA button
• New: Documentation page under System & Help

Redesigned Pages

• Redesigned: Voices page — card-based voice list with filters, compact audio settings grid, and copy Voice ID on hover
• Redesigned: Player page — sticky live preview, two-panel controls and colors layout, organized sizing and spacing
• Redesigned: License page — sales page with feature cards and Lemon Squeezy overlay checkout for free users, streamlined license management for PRO users
• Redesigned: PRO Support page — support form with info sidebar in a two-column layout
• Redesigned: Statistics, My Stats & Voices, Advanced, Affiliate, and White Label pages — all converted to the new design system

Other Improvements

• New: PRO plugin update notification in the sidebar when a new version is available
• New: Review tracking — footer updates after clicking the review link
• New: White Label enhancements — SVG logo upload support and the ability to hide Documentation, Add More Credits, and PRO Support menu items
• Improved: Checkbox styling with purple checkmark on white background
• Improved: Footer with review link and “Built with” branding

2.1.2 – 2026-03-20

• Added: Show in Media Library (PRO) — generated audio files are registered as WordPress media attachments when enabled in Settings
• Added: Retroactive sync — turning the setting ON automatically adds all existing audio files to the Media Library
• Added: Shortcode audio files are included in the Media Library as unattached media items
• Added: Media attachments are automatically cleaned up when TTS audio is deleted or regenerated
• Added: WPML-aware media — audio attachments inherit the language of their parent post
• Fixed: PRO update download link in the Settings header now uses the versioned URL instead of a hardcoded path

2.1.1 – 2026-03-20

• Added: WooCommerce Product Audio — configure which product fields (title, price, stock, category, image text, descriptions) are included in generated audio
• Added: Product-specific player placement — choose before/after short or long description independently from the global player position
• Added: Product player label override — hide or customize the player label on product pages
• Added: Product text templates — configurable format strings for price, sale price, stock status, and category for multilingual support
• Added: TTS-friendly price formatting — prices are spoken naturally (e.g. “95 dollars” instead of “$95.00”), supports 16 currencies
• Added: Block theme support for WooCommerce product player using the render_block filter as fallback when classic hooks don’t fire
• Added: WPML multi-language voice support — assign different voices per language alongside existing Weglot integration
• Improved: Post list TTS column now uses custom SVG icons instead of WordPress dashicons for a cleaner, more polished look
• Improved: Inline audio playback in the post list — clicking play now plays audio directly instead of opening the file in a new tab
• Improved: Modern tooltips on post list TTS action buttons replace the default browser tooltips
• Improved: TTS column is now always placed immediately after the Title/Name column, regardless of other plugins
• Improved: TTS column no longer forces width on other columns — WordPress handles the natural table layout
• Improved: “Text to Speech (TTS)” label is available in Screen Options for toggling the column visibility

2.1.0 – 2026-03-06

• Added: Per-license PRO credit limit system
• Added: PRO credit usage included in support form submissions for faster troubleshooting

2.0.9 – 2026-03-06

• Improved: Input sanitization on all AJAX nonce checks following WordPress best practices
• Improved: Output escaping on dashboard stats, settings pages, and admin notices
• Improved: Debug and error messages in the audio player no longer appear in the browser console unless debug mode is enabled
• Fixed: JavaScript syntax errors in the shortcode player caused by partially removed debug code
• Fixed: Replaced raw PHP redirects with wp_safe_redirect for safer admin navigation
• Fixed: Database queries now use $wpdb->prepare where previously missing
• Improved: Switched from json_encode to wp_json_encode across PHP files for better WordPress standards compliance
• Improved: General code hardening across admin and public JavaScript files

2.0.8 – 2026-02-23

• Moved: Extra credits add-on section relocated from free plugin to PRO plugin for consistent availability across all installations

2.0.7 – 2026-02-23

• Added: “Before Excerpt” player placement option to display the audio player before the post excerpt
• Added: “After Excerpt” player placement option to display the audio player after the post excerpt
• Added: Elementor compatibility for excerpt placement via the elementor/widget/render_content filter on the Post Excerpt widget
• Added: Broad theme compatibility for excerpt placement using both the_excerpt and get_the_excerpt WordPress filters
• Fixed: Theme compatibility fallbacks no longer override excerpt-based placement with content-based injection
• Added: Extra credits add-on system for PRO users needing more than 75,000 monthly credits (275K and 575K tiers)
• Added: Stripe-powered purchase flow and license key activation on the License page

2.0.6 – 2026-02-22

• Fixed: Elementor pages sending raw JSON structure data to the ElevenLabs API instead of actual text content
• Fixed: [tts_player] shortcode displaying an audio player even when no audio is attached to the post
• Improved: Elementor content extraction now recursively parses text editor and heading widgets from _elementor_data

2.0.5 – 2026-02-17

• Fixed: Older articles using the WordPress “Read More” tag generating audio from only the first paragraph
• Fixed: Page builders such as Fusion Builder and Elementor truncating content at the Read More tag during AJAX-based audio generation
• Fixed: WordPress global more variable not being set correctly in AJAX context, causing incomplete content rendering
• Improved: All content rendering paths now remove WordPress “more”, “nextpage”, and “noteaser” tags before processing
• Improved: Full article content is now rendered consistently across single post, bulk generation, auto-generation, and shortcode methods

2.0.4 – 2026-02-17

• Fixed: Credit usage tracking now reads the actual cost from the ElevenLabs API response instead of using text character count
• Fixed: PRO credit counter now updates in real time after each generation
• Improved: Credit tracking is accurate across all generation paths (single post, bulk, and shortcode)
• PRO: All PRO license credit counters have been reset to 0 to compensate for previous over-counting

2.0.3 – 2026-02-10

• Added: API key permission validation. Checks Text to Speech (Access), Speech to Text (Access), Sound Effect (Access), Audio Native (Read), Voices (Read), History (Read), and User (Read) when saving an API key
• Added: Detailed permission status display with checkmarks/crosses for each permission when key has limited access
• Added: Link to ElevenLabs API key settings page for users to fix missing permissions
• Added: “Re-validate Permissions” button to re-check permissions after updating them on ElevenLabs
• Added: Voice loading fallback to built-in shared API key when user’s key lacks Voices: Read permission
• Fixed: API key validation now properly tells apart invalid keys from keys with missing permissions (ElevenLabs returns 401 for both)
• Fixed: Speech to Text permission check now sends proper multipart request to trigger auth check
• Improved: API key setup instructions updated with recommended minimum permissions
• Improved: Permission notice stays on settings page as long as permissions are limited (not just a one-time flash)

2.0.2 – 2026-02-08

• Fixed: PRO API key not being used for audio generation due to incomplete usage data parsing
• Fixed: ElevenLabs API response fields read from wrong location in PRO usage check
• Fixed: “Use My Own ElevenLabs API Key” setting ignored. PRO key was always used regardless of user preference
• Fixed: PRO credits showing incorrect values (shared account totals instead of per-user allocation)
• Fixed: “jQuery is not defined” error on frontend caused by WP Rocket delaying jQuery
• Fixed: jQuery now excluded from WP Rocket delay/defer when TTS scripts are active
• Fixed: Public JS moved to footer for better script loading order
• Fixed: jQuery availability retry mechanism for cache plugins that defer scripts
• Fixed: Missing unknown.svg gender icon causing 404 errors on Voices page
• Fixed: Double slash in icon URL paths due to trailing slash in plugin URL constant
• Improved: Error messages now displayed inline below the generator with high-visibility styling
• Improved: ElevenLabs error messages (payment_required, quota_exceeded, sign_in_required) shown as readable text
• Improved: Generic ElevenLabs API error messages passed through instead of generic “unknown error”
• Improved: Error toast auto-hide extended from 3 to 8 seconds for better readability
• Improved: JS cache-busting using file modification time to prevent stale scripts after updates

2.0.1 – 2026-02-05

• Fixed: “jQuery is not defined” error on sites using script optimization plugins (WP Rocket, Autoptimize, LiteSpeed Cache, etc.)
• Added: jQuery availability check with retry mechanism for deferred script loading
• Added: Added custom voice sharing instructions on Voices page
• Added: Link to ElevenLabs help article for voice sharing instructions
• Improved: Script loading compatibility with caching and optimization plugins

2.0.0 – 2026-02-04

• Full support for ElevenLabs Eleven v3 model (now generally available)
• Added opt-in telemetry consent dialog
• Telemetry now requires explicit user consent before collecting any data
• Added telemetry opt-out toggle in Advanced settings
• Improved telemetry module security architecture
• Added dismissible “Leave a review” prompt in settings header

Previous Versions

Version 1.x included: S3 storage integration, Weglot multi-language support, content extraction improvements, credit usage tracking, language code mapping for 70+ languages, performance tuning, and many bug fixes. For full history, see the plugin’s GitHub repository.