Content Views - Post Grid & Filter (Shortcode, Blocks, Elementor Widgets)
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Every release, newest first, as the vendor published it in the plugin’s changelog.
4.5.1.1
Security In the repository- [Shortcode] Further restrict non-public posts in shortcode output for unauthorized users
4.5.1
Security Not available yet- [Shortcode] Restrict non-public posts in shortcode output for unauthorized users (credit to Revanth Hari Narayana Matte).
4.5
Improved Security Not available yet- [Shortcode] Improved security for the Preview panel by enforcing user role/capability checks.
- [Shortcode] Secured Preview request data handling (credit to Jakub Herman).
- [Shortcode] Restricted preview access for non-public posts (credit to Averon Averenkov).
- Improved code for better security and translation support.
- Other tweaks and improvements
4.4
Not available yet- [Block] Fix compatible issue with WordPress 7.0
- [Block] Prevent "Error loading block" caused by another plugin
- [Block] Set field value to 0 on clicking the Reset button of some fields
- [Shortcode] Fix issue of "Read more" button right after importing library layouts to shortcode
4.3
Fixed Not available yet- Fix: [Block] Unexpected block error caused by another block plugin
- Fix: [WidgetForElementor] fix issue of "Posts Include", "Posts Exclude" with "Media" type
- Some other improvements
4.2.1
Fixed Not available yet- Fix: [Block Admin] fix block toolbar visibility in WordPress 6.9
4.2
Fixed Security Not available yet- Fix: [WidgetForElementor] sanitize the widget ID before showing in output of widgets for Elementor
- Fix: Author's link when showing as 'Top meta'
4.1
Improved Fixed Not available yet- Fix: pagination url issue when activating Polylang plugin and setting language from subdomain
- Fix: update Bootstrap library to fix issues
- Fix: issue with thumbnail border & border radius when enabling "Hover Effect"
- Fix: [Block] prevent "Error loading block: Invalid parameter(s): attributes" caused by another plugin
- Update: [WidgetForElementor] show Widget ID in the editor output (which can be used as VIEW_ID in custom CSS/PHP code)
- Update: [Block] Add search function to the "Select..." dropdown of Categories, Tags
- Other improvements
4.0.2
Fixed Not available yet- Fix: warning about loading translations too early in WordPress 6.7
4.0.1
Fixed Not available yet- Fix: [Shortcode] Remove unwanted CSS of another plugin (that causes issue to preview output) from the Add/Edit View page
- Fix: [WidgetForElementor] "Manual excerpt" and "HTML in excerpt" options not updated in output
- Fix: [WidgetForElementor] Undefined array key "columns" in some edge cases
4.0
New Fixed Not available yet- New: [WidgetForElementor] Add 16 grid, list and other post layout widgets for the Elementor page builder. Each widget has powerful query controls, layout controls, and a lot of style controls to customize your output.
- Fix: [Block] Layout > Alignment issue in the frontend
- Fix: [Shortcode] Style issues of new layouts ("Grid 2" to "Big Post 2") when adding to the Divi page builder
- Fix: compatible issue with WordPress 6.6
3.8.0
Improved Fixed Not available yet- Fix: [Shortcode] Correct the checked/unchecked status of some checkboxes after saving when using new layouts (Grid 2...Big Post 2)
- Fix: [Block] Fix error when removing selected option of "Parent Page" control
- Update: [Ajax Pagination] Improve the show/hide status of the First, Prev, Next, Last buttons
- Update: [Block] Set default value when "Posts Per Page" is empty
- Other fixes and improvements
3.7.2
Improved Fixed Security Not available yet- Fix: prevent issue in a multisite network when getting blog ids
- Improve: Escaping pagination output for security enhancement
3.7.1
Improved Security Not available yet- Improve: Data escaping for security enhancement
3.7.0
New Improved Fixed Not available yet- New: [Block] Add the Alignment option to "Read More"
- New: [Shortcode] Add option "Show the default image" to Thumbnail settings
- New: [Shortcode] Add "Heading Text" feature
- New: Add option to hide, modify the "No Posts Found" text in blocks and shortcode
- Fix: [Shortcode] Top Meta text is not clearly visible in Overlay layouts
- Fix: [Block] Unexpected block errors caused by another block plugin
- Fix: [Block] ReactDOM.render is no longer supported in React 18
- Fix: [Block] Text is invisible in Overlay blocks when not showing thumbnail
- Update: Sort layout names in Library popup/page
- Update: Tweak CSS of the "Top Meta"
- Update: Add default bottom margin to fields
- Update: [Shortcode] Add instruction when showing full content in the Elementor page builder
3.6.4
Improved Fixed Not available yet- Fix: [Shortcode] fix CSS output in some edge cases
- Fix: [Block] fix issue when click & move cursor in the ColorPicker area
- Fix: [Block] fix issue when set empty value for "Border Radius"
- Update: [Block] disable click on links in the Block Editor
- Other tweaks and improvements
3.6.3
Improved Security Not available yet- Update: Revert to the Green background color for Readmore button in View shortcode (for Free version only. The selected blue/custom color in Pro version is unaffected)
- Improve: Security Enhancement
- Other tweaks and improvements
3.6.2
New Fixed Not available yet- New: Introduce the "Overlay Clickable" option for Overlay blocks/layouts
- New: [Block] add Border, Border Radius, Box Shadow styles to the Title field
- New: [Block] add option to allow HTML tags in excerpt
- Fix: [Block] prevent blank row below blocks
- Other improvements for blocks
3.6.1.1
Improved Not available yet- Update: [Block] Show the Block ID in the "Extra" tab of the Block settings, which can be used as VIEW_ID value in custom codes mentioned on our documentation site
- Other tweaks and improvements
3.6.1
New Improved Fixed Not available yet- New: [Block] Add a Toolbar button to each block to open Block settings
- Fix: [Block] Prevent responsive issue when using with page builder plugin
- Fix: [Shortcode] It doesn't scroll to top of View after changing page, when enable pagination with the new layouts
- Dev: [Block] Fix React warnings about "class", and unique "key" prop
- Update: Add more instructions to the Library page, also rename it to 'Layout Library'
3.6.0
New Fixed Not available yet- New: Add 3 NEW FREE layouts (Grid 2, List, Overlay 1) to View shortcode
- New: Add 'Library' to View shortcode to import ready-to-use patterns/layouts to new/existing View easily
- New: Add 'Top Meta' field to View shortcode
- Fix: Text Alignment of Scrollable block
- Other tweaks and improvements
3.5.0
New Improved Not available yet- New: [Block] Add 'Author Not In', 'Parent Page' options to blocks
- New: [Block] Introduce 'Substitute' option for Featured Image in blocks
- New: [Block] Introduce 'WooCommerce Hot Pick' to show Sale, Best selling, Featured, Top rated ... products in one click
- New: [Block] Introduce the Timeline Block
- Update: [Block] Add 'Theme' colors to the Color Picker
- Update: [Block] Move 'Posts per page', 'Offset' to top of the Query panel to easy use
- Update: [Block] Show default options for Include, Exclude fields
3.4.0
New Fixed Not available yet- New: [Block] add "Live Filter" feature to blocks to show taxonomies, custom fields, text search as filtering options in front-end (see demo)
- New: [Block] add "Filter by Published Date" feature to blocks
- New: [Block] add "Show Advertisement" feature to blocks
- Fix: color of meta fields in overlay blocks
- Fix: position of author prefix text in blocks
3.3.0.2
Fixed Not available yet- Fix: [Block Settings] Some dropdown options (for example: Categories, Posts Include) are shown under Sort panel
3.3.0
New Improved Not available yet- New: [Block] add "Filter by Custom Field" feature to query posts by custom fields in blocks
- Update: [Block] able to sort by multiple custom fields
- Tweak CSS of the Scrollable block and view
- Other tweaks and improvements
3.2.0
New Improved Fixed Not available yet- New: [Block] add "Custom Field" panel and settings to show custom fields in blocks. Support any custom field plugins: ACF, Meta Box, Pods...
- New: [Block] add Margin, Padding to Featured Image Styles
- Fix: [Block] changing Featured image Styles not working with some blocks
- Update: [Block] adjust padding/margin of Pinterest, Collapsible blocks
- Other fixes and improvements
3.1.0
New Fixed Not available yet- New: [Block] add Operator IN, NOT IN, AND for each taxonomy in Block > Query
- New: [Block] add "Fields Position" to Block > Layout to change fields position by drag & drop
- Fix: [Block] icon for taxonomies in Bottom Meta
- Fix PHP Deprecated in PHP 8.2
- Other tweaks & improvements for Blocks
3.0.4
Improved Fixed Not available yet- Fix: Readmore button is duplicated in the Pro shortcode layout 'One & Others'
- Fix: 'Block Library' menu link when enabled 'Hide Content Views sub-menus' in the Settings page
- Update: revert some small CSS updates since version 3.0 to ensure every tiny detail in view shortcode output is the same as before version 3.0
- Update: add some texts to clarify on the Settings page, Block Library page
3.0.3
Improved Fixed Not available yet- Update: toggle block checkbox of Heading Text, Title, Content, etc. will take immediately effect, without waiting for re-render
- Update: add slug, menu order to sorting options on blocks and View (shortcode)
- Update: add option to show/hide Read More button in View (shortcode)
- Update: set default 'Full size' image for the 'Big Post 1' block
- Fix compatible issue with custom taxonomy of Pods plugin
3.0.2
Fixed Not available yet- Fix uncaught error in block editor on a multisite network
3.0.1
New Fixed Not available yet- New: add the option "Use the manual excerpt" to both shortcode & block modules
- Fix: do not set the new blue background color to 'Read More' of existing view shortcode if it was shown as text link instead of button
3.0
New Not available yet- Introduce the Block version with 15 blocks and 76+ stunning patterns ready to import
- The shortcode version still works normally
2.5.0.1
Not available yet- Prevent potential conflict in the block editor
2.5.0
Improved Not available yet- Create "Content Views" block in the Block editor. Now you can add a view as block or shortcode.
- Prevent a compatible issue caused by another plugin
- Tweak some texts
2.4.0.7
Fixed Not available yet- Fix some layout issues in Add/Edit view page in RTL languages
2.4.0.6
Improved Not available yet- Tested up to WordPress 6.0
- Some improvements
2.4.0.5
Improved Not available yet- Updated for WordPress 5.9
2.4.0.4
Fixed Not available yet- Fix error and deprecation with PHP 8.0 and 8.1
2.4.0.3
Fixed Not available yet- Fix a bug with PHP 8.0
2.4.0.2
Improved Removed Not available yet- Tested up to WordPress 5.8
- Remove blank "GitHub Plugin URI" in plugin header
2.4.0.1
Removed Not available yet- Remove "Content Views" block as it caused unexpected issues
2.4.0
New Fixed Not available yet- Add "Content Views" block to the Block editor
- Fix AJAX pagination changes URL incorrectly in non-Latin languages
- Fix logged warnings with jQuery 3.5
- Other fixes and tweaks
2.3.4
Improved Not available yet- Compatible with the upcoming WordPress 5.6
- Update: remove non-authors in the backend author filter
- Other fixes
2.3.3.1
Fixed Not available yet- Prevent text of another plugin from showing in generated excerpt
- Fix content visibility issue on Safari browser when using the option "Do not wrap text around image" in Display Settings
- Some small improvements
2.3.3
Not available yet- Compatible with WordPress 5.5
- Some fixes and improvements
2.3.2
Improved Not available yet- Update: Better solutions to fix compatibility issues
2.3.1
Improved Fixed Not available yet- Compatibility: Avoid issue caused by a hide post plugin (which modifies query without proper checking)
- Fix: Fix text output issue in a layout
2.3.0
New Improved Not available yet- Update: Improve SEO for Ajax pagination: relace the format
/pages/(as it caused some issues) by_page=; make each component pages accessible individually. - Update: Add link to title in the Collapsible list
- Update: Show original post title in Collapsible list without stripping HTML tags as previous versions
- New: Add option to show original full content without attempt to balance HTML tags
- Some minor updates and fixes
2.2.0
Improved Not available yet- Enhancement: upgrade bootstrap framework to latest secure version 3.4.1
2.1.3.3
Improved Not available yet- Tested up to WordPress 5.2
- Prevent grid layout issues caused by grid/flexbox styles of some themes
2.1.3.2
Improved Not available yet- Tested up to WordPress 5.1
- Some minor fixes
2.1.3.1
Fixed Not available yet- Fix: Showing full post content issue caused by last version
2.1.3
Improved Fixed Security Not available yet- Security improvement: Prevent direct access to plugin files
- Compatibility: Ensure the full post content (created by "Beaver Builder" plugin) in View is as same as in single post page
- Fix: PHP notice when listing authors
2.1.2
Fixed Not available yet- Fix: Non-Ajax pagination in custom taxonomy archives causes 404 error
2.1.1
Fixed Not available yet- Fix: No line-break in Text widget caused by a change in version 2.1
2.1
Improved Not available yet- Update: SEO friendly URL for non-Ajax pagination (change from /?_page=N to /pages/N)
- Update: Prevent private taxonomies from being shown in meta fields
- Update: Adjust color of the Content Views icon in Dashboard menu, only highlight on open/click
- Update: Prevent empty p tag from being added to View output in Text widget
- Update: Some other updates & improvements
2.0.2
Improved Not available yet- Update: Redirect /?vpage=NUMBER to new URL depending on which page the pagination is showing on
- Compatible Fix: Excerpt of posts created by the Cornerstone Page Builder plugin is incorrect
- Tweak: Update content of the Settings page and description of some settings
1.9.9.6
Improved Fixed Not available yet- Fix: Embedded URLs (that are on their own line) in post content shows in the excerpt
- Update: Remove dependence of "Show Thumbnail" to "Format" setting, of "Show Taxonomies" to "Content Type" setting
- Dev: Prevent the global $post to be changed while processing the View shortcode in content of a post
- Tweak: Small CSS update
1.9.9.5
Improved Not available yet- Update: Only
do_shortcode()in the post content, text widget if the View shortcode was not done - Update: Small CSS update for the Collapsible list
1.9.9.4
Improved Fixed Not available yet- Fix incompatibility with WordPress 4.8.3: No posts found in non-English languages sites
- Tweak: Update and add some texts in Add/Edit View page, Settings page
- Tweak: remove .mo file, rename .po file to .pot file
1.9.9.3
Not available yet- Compatible Fix: "Sort by" feature always returns a same order, when the "Intuitive Custom Post Order" plugin is in used
- Compatible Fix: Resolve conflict with Slider Revolution plugin
1.9.9.2
Improved Fixed Not available yet- Fix: Text is invisible in some cases when select "Do not wrap text around image" setting
- Improvement: Update pages list of ajax pagination more dynamically
- Dev: Add filter "comments_count" to customize comment output
- Dev: Add filter "hierarchical_post_type" to enable "Parent Page" settings for other post types
1.9.9.1
Improved Not available yet- Compatible Fix: Posts of excluded categories in "Ultimate category excluder" plugin don't show in View output
- Update: Remove SESSION usage & relative functions
- Improvement: Cleanup View transients from database
- Tested up to 4.8
1.9.8.21
New Improved Not available yet- New: Add setting to not wrap text around image (when show thumbnail on the left/right of text)
- Tweak: Add class to each pagination item
- Tweak: Change class of scrollable carousel element
- Tweak: Update README.txt
- Dev: Add some filters
1.9.8.1
Improved Fixed Not available yet- Fix: Compatible with latest version 2.5.2 of Page Builder by SiteOrigin plugin (excerpt of posts built with that plugin is invalid after update)
- Tweak: Add
pt_cv_taxonomy_settingsfilter to modify taxonomy settings
1.9.8
Improved Fixed Not available yet- Update: Remove default font-size of Title
- Fix: "Sort by" feature always returns a same order, when the "Simple Custom Post Order" plugin is in used
- Fix: View output doesn't appear correctly in page created by OptimizePress plugin
1.9.7
New Improved Not available yet- New: Add setting to change HTML tag for Title
- Update: Show message in Preview panel when enabled Pagination but there is only 1 page
- Tweak: More useful information in Content Views >> Settings page
- Improvement: Refactor some code to improve performance
1.9.6
Improved Fixed Not available yet- Fix: Shortcode of "Visual Composer" plugin is visible in content of posts loaded by Ajax pagination
- Fix: "Sort by" feature always returns a same order, when the "Post Types Order" plugin is in used
- Update: Add Romania translation, thanks to "Dan Caragea"
- Update: Add Dutch translation, thanks to "At Voogt"
- Update: Add Chinese translation, thanks to "JIGE-HNM (iojpe dot com)"
- Update: Add Russian translation, thanks to @snakecom
- Tweak: Add some filters to customize authors list, thumbnail, excerpt
1.9.5
Improved Fixed Not available yet- Fix: In some cases, HTML output of excerpt is broken when allows HTML tags in excerpt
- Improvement: More clear and simple label, text for some settings
- Update: Remove
<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->of Divi theme from excerpt - Update: Hide empty
<p>tag from excerpt (which can add unnecessary blank space to content area) - Update: Add default font-style normal for link & button
1.9.4
New Not available yet- New: Show link to add new View from Admin bar
1.9.3.3
Fixed Not available yet- Fix: Correct output of Scrollable list in Tablet devices
1.9.3.2
Improved Not available yet- Update: simplify label of some settings in Add/Edit View page
- Improvement: simplify code base and improve performance of Grid, Collapsible List
- Improvement: some style adjustments for Scrollable List
1.9.3.1
Improved Not available yet- Update: Save temporary View data to WordPress transient if SESSION is not available
- Improvement: Show all content of Collapsible list when printing
1.9.3
Improved Fixed Not available yet- Improvement: Remove prefix "by", "in" (before taxonomy, author) to save translation effort
- Improvement: More accurate, time-saving mechanism to remove raw shortcodes text of other plugins in post content
- Fix: "View maybe not exist" error, caused by custom filter hook (which modifies
post_typein WordPress query) of another plugin
1.9.2.1
Improved Not available yet- Tweak: Update message when something went wrong, show exact error in Preview panel
- Tweak: Update description for keyword setting
- Tweak: Introduce filter "pt_cv_link_html" to modify HTML output of title, thumbnail, read-more button
1.9.2
Improved Not available yet- Revert force_balance_tags() for item HTML wrapper, to prevent broken output
- Tweak: Remove unused functions
- Tweak: Introduce filter "pt_cv_pagination_text" to customize pagination text
1.9.1
Improved Fixed Security Not available yet- Fix: XSS security flaw (a big thank to Tristan Madani)
- Tweak: Improve logic/coding in settings processing, view output functions
- Tweak: Update some descriptions in View dashboard
1.9.0
Improved Not available yet- Update: Make excerpt length works with languages which don't use spaces between words
- Update: Validate session ID before using to prevent session hijacking
1.8.9
New Improved Fixed Not available yet- New: Add wrapper for Grid items, to facilitate adding custom style (background color, border, padding, margin)
- Fix: W3C validator (duplicate ID "pt-cv-page-1")
- Update: Remove text of
[caption]shortcode from excerpt - Update: Clear
view_countpost meta & related functions - Tweak: Change sort by option "Created date" to "Published date"
- Tweak: Remove filter "excerpt_clean_tags", add filter "tag_to_remove" to exclude content of any HTML tags from excerpt
1.8.8
New Improved Fixed Not available yet- New: Able to edit Read More text
- Improvement: Minify and combine styles, scripts to save bandwidth and improve performance
- Fix: Excerpt (of content was built with Page Builder by SiteOrigin plugin) is not updated
- Fix: [Scrollable List] Indicators don't change active status
- Update: [Collapsible List] Allow HTML tags (
<b>, <br>, <code>, <em>, <i>, <img>, <big>, <small>, <span>, <strong>, <sub>, <sup>, <label>, <cite>) in heading
1.8.7
Improved Fixed Not available yet- Fix: Broken View output when put View shortcode in Text element of Divi Builder plugin
- Fix: Shortcode of another plugin is visible in Preview panel
- Tweak: Add filter to show all collapsible items at page load
1.8.6
Improved Fixed Not available yet- Fix: Conflict with Autoptimize plugin (when enabled
forced JS in HEAD) - Fix: Incorrect number of words in excerpt when uses
\xC2\xA0or as space - Improvement: Able to resize Preview box
- Tweak: Add filter hook to create custom output completely
1.8.5
New Improved Not available yet- New: Add setting to configure responsive output for Mobile, Tablet devices easily
- Update: Hide all notices of other plugins in Add/Edit View page
- Improvement: Faster performance with optimized core filter "item_col_class"
1.8.4.1
Fixed Not available yet- Fix: [View dashboard] Term boxes under "Select taxonomy" panel are not shown after saving View
1.8.4
New Improved Not available yet- New: Add option to enable/disable "Open first item by default" for Collapsible List
- Update: Leverage WordPress core translations (for "Read More", "No posts found." ...) to minimize user translation effort
- Update: Update setting text in View dashboard to improve usability
1.8.3
New Improved Fixed Not available yet- New: [Collapsible list] Show first item by default
- Fix: Blank excerpt when post content was made all by shortcodes
- Fix: Little style issue of numeric text field in WordPress 4.5
- Fix: Remove unwanted styles (uniform.aristo ...) of another plugin in View page (it caused setting options are overlapping each others)
- Update: Uncheck "Show Author", "Show Comment" by default
1.8.2
Improved Not available yet- Update: Remove default font-size 14 pixels for post content in View
- Tweak: Show post id as data for item (facilitate to customize individual post style)
- Tweak: Add some filters to customizing View elements by PHP code
1.8.1
Improved Fixed Not available yet- Improvement: Equal column width in grid of 5,7,8,9,10,11 columns (in prior versions, last column was biggest)
- Fix: Conflict with theme/plugin which uses Bootstrap library
1.8.0.2
Improved Not available yet- Update: Remove notice message (when there is Javascript errors in active theme/another plugin). It caused confusion.
1.8.0.1
Improved Not available yet- Tweak: Update Notice message at front-end (when Javascript error occurs) to avoid misunderstand
1.8.0.0
Improved Not available yet- Improvement: Detect Javascript errors (which can stop Content Views from working properly), show guide to try to solve it automatically
- Improvement: Prevent error "Permission denied" by session_start() in some hostings
- Improvement: Prevent conflicts with dropdown Menu in theme
- Improvement: Clearer shortcode information in View edit page
- Improvement: Add 2 clear notices in View dashboard about term, thumbnail
- Improvement: Increase performance by optimizing styles, scripts
- Improvement: Print friendly (remove plain text URL after each link in Print mode)
- Update: Disable option "Don't load Bootstrap 3 style & script"
1.7.8
Improved Fixed Not available yet- Improvement: [supports qTranslate-X plugin] Generate valid excerpt of post in current language
- Fixed: Some bugs of pagination in special cases
- Update: Drop support for "vpage" parameter in (Ajax) Numbered pagination to prevent ambiguous logic
1.7.7
Improved Fixed Not available yet- Bug fixed: Content floats after View output
- Tweak: Code relates to grid system
- Tweak: Update filter "page_attr"
1.7.6
Improved Not available yet- Update: Set Administrator (instead of Editor) as default user role who can add, edit, delete View
- Update: Do not wrap items in output to rows anymore
- Update: Disable sub View by default
- Improvement: Better View dashboard (simplified text & description, improved styles & scripts, improved display in Tablet)
- Improvement: Better performance by better solution