Adds the A1 Review Funnel (star-rating widget, shortcode, and optional floating button) plus a Review Link site variable. Collected feedback appears in the A1 Tools CRM under Customer Experience.<\/p>","2.5.2":"
Major upgrade for both A1 Web Form and A1 Live Chat widgets. The form widget gains full visual styling controls, a standard-fields repeater (toggle\/relabel\/reorder the 10 CRM fields), a custom-fields repeater (add arbitrary fields of any type), an SMS-consent block with TCPA-friendly legal-trail storage, and an optional "I'm not a robot" checkbox. The chat widget gains pre-chat form configurability and full window-container styling. The CRM client renders all of the new data in the dispatcher detail panel. Requires A1 Tools 5.3.166 or later on the server side (the DB schema adds three new columns).<\/p>","2.5.1":"
Critical fix for 2.5.0: the Web Form + Live Chat widgets were reading the wrong WordPress option for the CRM company ID, so on sites that already had the legacy form integration configured, the new widgets rendered with company_id=0 and the chat button was clickable but unresponsive. Update immediately if you've placed the new widgets on any live page.<\/p>","2.5.0":"
Adds two new Elementor widgets: A1 Web Form (structured lead intake) and A1 Web Chat (live chat with floating + inline modes that share one conversation). Submissions and chats flow into the reworked Web Leads tab in the CRM. Requires A1 Tools 5.3.160 or later on the server side.<\/p>","2.4.3":"
Franchise widget now uses stored coordinates correctly and aligns cards in the grid even when titles wrap to a second line.<\/p>","2.4.2":"
Fixes a transient TTL bug where "No caching" stored a permanent transient and every other duration was 60\u00d7 too long. Cached payloads (city pages, site variables, franchises, etc.) are flushed automatically on upgrade.<\/p>","1.4.0":"
Added auto-updates support for WordPress.<\/p>","1.3.2":"
Fixed WordPress.org compliance issues with inline styles and added Google Maps documentation.<\/p>","1.3.1":"
Fixed Plugin Check errors. Font Awesome is no longer auto-loaded - ensure your theme includes it or install a Font Awesome plugin.<\/p>","1.3.0":"
Important:<\/strong> All shortcode names have changed from New Social Icons Widget with full styling customization. Enhanced shortcode with style, shape, size, and hover effect options.<\/p>","1.1.0":" Added 6 new social media platforms: Pinterest, BBB, Nextdoor, Houzz, Angi, Thumbtack.<\/p>","1.0.9":" Added settings page with configurable cache duration and manual cache clear button. 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This plugin can embed Google Maps iframes to display your business location.<\/p>\n\n What data is sent:<\/strong> When using the When data is sent:<\/strong>\n- Only when a page containing the What data is received:<\/strong> Google Maps returns the embedded map showing your business location. Google may collect visitor data according to their privacy policy.<\/p>\n\n Service Provider:<\/strong> Google LLC\nEmbed URL:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed\/v1\/place\nTerms of Service:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en_us\/help\/terms_maps\/\nPrivacy Policy:<\/strong> https:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy<\/p>\n\n\n A1 Tools is a business management platform. Contact A1 Chimney Service for access information.<\/p><\/dd>\n Variables are cached based on your settings (default 5 minutes). You can configure the cache duration or disable caching entirely in the A1 Tools settings page. To force an immediate update, use the \"Clear Cache Now\" button on the settings page.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes! The plugin registers dynamic tags that appear under the \"A1 Tools\" group in Elementor. You can also use the Shortcode widget with any of the available shortcodes.<\/p><\/dd>\n The plugin is free and open source. However, it requires an A1 Tools account to function, as it retrieves data from the A1 Tools platform.<\/p><\/dd>\n See the \"External Services\" section above for complete details. In summary, the plugin sends your site URL to the A1 Tools API to retrieve the site variables you have configured. No personal user data from your visitors is collected or transmitted.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\n[a1_*]<\/code> to [a1tools_*]<\/code>. Please update your shortcodes after upgrading. Example: [a1_var]<\/code> is now [a1tools_var]<\/code>.<\/p>","1.2.0":"Features<\/h4>\n\n
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[a1tools_var key=\"phone_primary\"] - Display primary phone number\n\n[a1tools_var key=\"facebook_url\" link=\"true\"] - Display Facebook URL as clickable link\n\n[a1tools_address format=\"full\"] - Display complete formatted address (multi-line)\n\n[a1tools_full_address] - Display full address in a single line (e.g., \"123 Main St, Suite 101, Miami, FL 30001\")\n\n[a1tools_hours format=\"table\"] - Display operating hours as a table\n\n[a1tools_social_links] - Display all configured social media icons\n\n[a1tools_social_links style=\"default\" shape=\"circle\" size=\"50\"] - Styled social icons\n\n[a1tools_city_name] - Display the city name for geo-targeting\n\n[a1tools_state] - Display the state name for geo-targeting\n\n[a1tools_google_map type=\"link\"] - Display Google Maps link\n\n[a1tools_google_map type=\"embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\"] - Embed Google Maps iframe\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nRequirements<\/h4>\n\n
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[a1tools_google_map type=\"embed\"]<\/code> shortcode, your visitor's browser loads an iframe from Google Maps containing your business address or place ID that you configured in the A1 Tools dashboard.<\/p>\n\n[a1tools_google_map type=\"embed\"]<\/code> shortcode is loaded\n- The embed is loaded client-side by the visitor's browser directly from Google<\/p>\n\n\n
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Monday: 8:00 AM - 10:00 PM<\/code> \u2014 instead of a day column separated from the time by a large gap. A time can no longer wrap onto a second line. The old Day Column Width<\/strong> slider is gone, since it was the control that created that gap; existing widgets pick up the new layout with nothing to re-save.<\/li>\n3.3.2<\/h4>\n\n
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display:none<\/code> initially with a data-bh-gate=\"1\"<\/code> attribute. The JS at init checks the visitor's clock (converted to Miami time via Intl.DateTimeFormat<\/code> with timeZone: 'America\/New_York'<\/code>), and either reveals the placement (within hours) or removes it from the DOM (outside hours \/ weekend). Elementor editor and preview modes bypass the gate so admins can always style the widget regardless of the current hour.<\/li>\n2.5.30<\/h4>\n\n
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handleSessionClosed<\/code> aborted the in-flight fetch, but state.sessionId<\/code> was never nulled, so the while (state.sessionId && state.windowOpen)<\/code> loop re-entered immediately, fetched again, got back status=abandoned<\/code>, sleep, repeat \u2014 the actual driver of the 255k-request runaway under 2.5.28. Nulling state.sessionId<\/code> in handleSessionClosed<\/code> flips the loop condition false on the next iteration and the loop exits cleanly. The 2.5.29 poll-interval is still in place as defense in depth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n2.5.29<\/h4>\n\n
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Intl.DateTimeFormat<\/code> with timeZone: 'America\/New_York'<\/code> and strips the chat placement from the DOM if outside hours, so cached pages honour the schedule too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n2.5.26<\/h4>\n\n
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POST \/wp-json\/a1-tools\/v1\/invalidate-cache<\/code>. When an admin saves any variable \/ store \/ franchise \/ city page \/ service \/ review \/ before-after \/ team member \/ FAQ \/ SEO location on the central server, that server pushes an HMAC-signed ping here within milliseconds and the matching transient is cleared on the spot. End result: variable edits propagate to live customer pages in seconds instead of waiting up to 30 minutes for the cache to expire. The 30-min cache TTL + 5-min CDN cache remain in place as the safety net if a ping is missed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n2.5.25<\/h4>\n\n
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a1tools_fetch_api_data()<\/code>: when N concurrent Apache workers on the same site hit an expired transient at the same instant, a short lock transient now lets exactly one worker refill the cache while the others return the stale fallback. Lock TTL (20s) > wp_remote_get<\/code> timeout (15s) so a dying request can't hold the lock indefinitely.<\/li>\n[a1tools_var]<\/code> tags, for example) now hit the transient backend exactly once per page render instead of once per shortcode.<\/li>\na1tools_cache_expiry = 0<\/code> to the new default on plugin upgrade.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n2.5.24<\/h4>\n\n
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border-color 180ms ease<\/code>) on the wrap so the swap is smooth instead of snapping. Matches the existing Submit Button's Normal \/ Hover pattern so editors expecting hover states on bordered elements get a consistent experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n2.5.22<\/h4>\n\n
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justify-content: stretch<\/code> (which isn't a valid value for justify-content<\/code> \u2014 only align-items<\/code>\/align-content<\/code> accept it, so browsers silently dropped it and fell back to flex-end<\/code>) paired with a [data-align=\"full\"]<\/code> attribute selector for the width: 100%<\/code> rule (which never matched in Elementor's live editor preview because the editor only re-injects CSS, not HTML, until you save + reload). Both alignment and width now flow through CSS variables (--submit-justify<\/code>, --submit-width<\/code>) that Elementor emits on the .a1tools-web-form__actions<\/code> wrapper, so the button responds in real time to the alignment toggle in the editor sidebar AND on the published page. Left \/ Center \/ Right also pick up the same variable plumbing for consistency.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n2.5.21<\/h4>\n\n
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<input type=\"time\"><\/code>). Useful alongside the existing Date type for appointment-preference or booking-window forms. Server-side validator in the A1 Tools CRM API extended in lock-step so the new type round-trips into