Post & Thread Highlight Pro v2.1.1

• FIX: Prevent "First post could not be pinned" errors on highlight-only pages by preserving XenForo's separate pinned-post and solution-post fetches.
• FIX: Keep highlight cursor filtering limited to the main post list, including when a highlighted first post is outside the current page.
• FIX: Retain native visibility checks for separately fetched posts.

• PERFORMANCE: Eliminate full-thread highlight count scans on ordinary thread pages by maintaining the count as highlights change, improving performance on very large threads.
• PERFORMANCE: Load highlighted posts from a dedicated indexed lookup with Previous/Next pagination, keeping each page bounded even when a thread has many highlights.
• FIX: Count posts with both normal and special highlights only once in the thread's highlighted-post total.
• FIX: Preserve XenForo's normal post rendering, attachments and moderation controls on highlight-only pages.
• FIX: Keep lookup context and thread counts aligned during highlighting, moderation, deletion, post moves, post merges, thread merges and forum moves.
• FIX: Preserve both normal and special highlights when changed together or imported from legacy flags; preserve historical source/actor/date during repair and merges.
• FIX: Make the ledger CLI command compatible with XenForo 2.2 and PHP 7.4.
• PERFORMANCE: Discover legacy highlights once using narrow index scans; upgrade batches process only highlighted posts/threads and affected or stale count caches.
• PERFORMANCE: Bound reaction rebuild input rows before filtering or aggregation.
• UPGRADE: Automatically create the lookup, import existing highlights, repair context and rebuild thread/user counts during the normal upgrade.
• REPAIR: Optional maintenance command: php cmd.php wutime-posthighlight:rebuild-ledger --batch-size=1000
• RESUME: Add --resume to continue an interrupted CLI rebuild from its last completed batch.

For large forums, upload the addon in the GUI and run:

Bash:

# Recommended for large forums after upgrade:
php cmd.php wutime-posthighlight:rebuild-ledger --batch-size=1000

• NEW: Add highlight ledger table as the source of truth for post, special, thread, curated, manual, and reaction-based highlights.
• NEW: Store highlight source, actor, recipient, thread/forum context, migration state, and highlight timestamp for all new highlights.
• NEW: Add CLI rebuild command: php cmd.php wutime-posthighlight:rebuild-ledger
• NEW: Add XF 2.3+ option to feature threads in XenForo Featured content when a thread highlight is applied.
• UPGRADE: Import existing post/thread highlight flags into the ledger as legacy records with unknown actor/date metadata.
• FIX: Search highlights now reads the ledger and applies visible content/forum visibility restrictions.
• FIX: Prevent unhighlighted post inserts, including approval-queue posts, from leaving stale user highlight counts.
• FIX: Keep cached highlight counts aligned when highlighted posts or threads move into or out of moderated/deleted/redirect visibility states.
• CHANGE: Member highlight-count links now render a dedicated Highlights by user page instead of creating fake search result pages.
• CHANGE: What's new highlights now displays highlighted threads as preview cards and highlighted posts as compact rows instead of ful post bodies.

• FIX: Fixed visibility leak on highlight pages by restricting results to forums the visitor can view.
• FIX: Fixed permission checks to be forum-specific using node-level hasNodePermission instead of global checks.
• FIX: Fixed reaction rebuild overcount bug so counts only increase by newly highlighted posts.
• FIX: Fixed curation counter sync so user highlight totals update correctly when thread-starter curation changes.
• FIX: Fixed phrase/i18n issues by adding missing phrases and removing hardcoded UI text fallbacks.
• FIX: Fixed reaction option validation to require at least one reaction and clean/dedupe reaction IDs.
• FIX: Fixed quick reply UI permission check to use node-level permissions for the current thread.
• FIX: Removed cross-addon residue by deleting wutc_member_noable modification and unused phrase.

• NEW: Added option to apply prefix restrictions to thread starters only or to everyone
• NEW: Added highlight count to the “Show highlights” button (e.g. Show highlights (3))
• NEW: Special (staff) highlights are now included in highlight counts and filters
• FIX: “Show highlights” toggle now only appears when highlighted posts actually exist
• FIX: Fixed Special Highlight styling not rendering in XenForo 2.2 due to legacy CSS build inconsistencies.

• NEW: Quick highlight toggle beside “Report” for thread-starter curated highlighting
• NEW: Permission: Allow thread starters to curate highlighted posts
• NEW: Option: Restrict thread-starter highlight curation to specific thread prefix IDs
• NEW: Option: Maximum curated highlights per thread
• ADD: Add-on–specific permissions interface group
• FIX: Improved permission names for clarity and consistency

NOTE: Thread-starter curation allows highlighting any post within their own thread, without requiring post edit permissions

• ADD: Performance update to prevent slow query
• ADD: Index for WhatsNew::actionHighlights (xf_post)
• FIX: Remove database indexes on uninstall() prior to dropping columns

• FIX: Checks instanceof Reply\View before calling getTemplateName()

• NEW: Option to add a toggle button on thread pages for ["Show Highlights" / "All Posts"]
• NEW: Option to add link to forum pages to "View Highlights": /highlighted-posts/:forum_id
• NEW: Forum Nav + Page: Highlighted threads
• NEW: Whats New + Page: Highlighted posts
• NOTE: Thread "Show Highlights" button is enabled by default
• NOTE: Forum "View Highlights" button is disabled by default
• FIX: Add event listener hint to be more performant
• FIX: Reactions bar bgcolor for highlighted posts now blends properly

• FIX: Small inconsistency with CSS
• FIX: Remove custom option_value on uninstall()
• FIX: Remove custom permission entries on uninstall()