Content Views – Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks and Shortcode

4.1

• 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: [Elementor] 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

• Fix: warning about loading translations too early in WordPress 6.7

4.0.1

• Fix: [Shortcode] Remove unwanted CSS of another plugin (that causes issue to preview output) from the Add/Edit View page
• Fix: [ElementorWidget] “Manual excerpt” and “HTML in excerpt” options not updated in output
• Fix: [ElementorWidget] Undefined array key “columns” in some edge cases

4.0

• New: [ElementorWidget] 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

• 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

• Fix: prevent issue in a multisite network when getting blog ids
• Improve: Escaping pagination output for security enhancement

3.7.1

• Improve: Data escaping for security enhancement

3.7.0

• 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

• 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

• 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: 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

• 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: [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: 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: [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 – 2023/28/08

• 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 – 2023/08/08

• Fix: [Block Settings] Some dropdown options (for example: Categories, Posts Include) are shown under Sort panel

3.3.0 – 2023/08/03

• 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 – 2023/07/25

• 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 – 2023/07/17

• 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 – 2023/07/07

• 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 – 2023/07/05

• 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 – 2023/06/30

• Fix uncaught error in block editor on a multisite network

3.0.1 – 2023/06/30

• 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 – 2023/06/29

• Introduce the Block version with 15 blocks and 76+ stunning patterns ready to import
• The shortcode version still works normally

2.5.0.1 – 2022/11/23

• Prevent potential conflict in the block editor

2.5.0 – 2022/11/08

• 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 – 2022/06/20

• Fix some layout issues in Add/Edit view page in RTL languages

2.4.0.6 – 2022/05/18

• Tested up to WordPress 6.0
• Some improvements

2.4.0.5 – 2022/01/26

• Updated for WordPress 5.9

2.4.0.4 – 2022/01/26

• Fix error and deprecation with PHP 8.0 and 8.1

2.4.0.3 – 2022/01/17

• Fix a bug with PHP 8.0

2.4.0.2 – 2021/07/19

• Tested up to WordPress 5.8
• Remove blank “GitHub Plugin URI” in plugin header

2.4.0.1 – 2021/03/11

• Remove “Content Views” block as it caused unexpected issues

2.4.0 – 2021/03/10

• 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 – 2020/12/07

• Compatible with the upcoming WordPress 5.6
• Update: remove non-authors in the backend author filter
• Other fixes

2.3.3.1 – 2020/10/14

• 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 – 2020/08/10

• Compatible with WordPress 5.5
• Some fixes and improvements

2.3.2 – 2020/02/21

• Update: Better solutions to fix compatibility issues

2.3.1 – 2020/01/21

• 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 – 2020/01/13

• 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 – 2019/05/31

• Enhancement: upgrade bootstrap framework to latest secure version 3.4.1

2.1.3.3 – 2019/05/07

• Tested up to WordPress 5.2
• Prevent grid layout issues caused by grid/flexbox styles of some themes

2.1.3.2 – 2019/02/22

• Tested up to WordPress 5.1
• Some minor fixes

2.1.3.1 – 2019/01/31

• Fix: Showing full post content issue caused by last version

2.1.3 – 2019/01/29

• 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 – 2018/10/19

• Fix: Non-Ajax pagination in custom taxonomy archives causes 404 error

2.1.1 – 2018/09/22

• Fix: No line-break in Text widget caused by a change in version 2.1

2.1 – 2018/09/21

• 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 – 2018/04/09

• 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 – 2018/01/19

• 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 – 2017/11/16

• 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 – 2017/11/01

• 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 – 2017/09/25

• 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 – 2017/08/19

• 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 – 2017/06/09

• 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 – 2017/05/24

• 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 – 2017/04/26

• 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_settings filter to modify taxonomy settings

1.9.8 – 2017/04/17

• 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 – 2017/03/28

• 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 – 2017/03/08

• 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 – 2017/02/08

• 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 – 2017/01/25

• New: Show link to add new View from Admin bar

1.9.3.3 – 2017/01/21

• Fix: Correct output of Scrollable list in Tablet devices

1.9.3.2 – 2017/01/11

• 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 – 2016/12/27

• 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 – 2016/11/22

• 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_type in WordPress query) of another plugin

1.9.2.1 – 2016/11/05

• 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 – 2016/10/24

• 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 – 2016/10/10

• 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 – 2016/09/19

• 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 – August 19 2016

• 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_count post 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 – August 03 2016

• 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 – July 25 2016

• 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 – June 27 2016

• Fix: Conflict with Autoptimize plugin (when enabled forced JS in HEAD)
• Fix: Incorrect number of words in excerpt when uses xC2xA0 or   as space
• Improvement: Able to resize Preview box
• Tweak: Add filter hook to create custom output completely

1.8.5 – May 27 2016

• 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 – May 11 2016

• Fix: [View dashboard] Term boxes under “Select taxonomy” panel are not shown after saving View

1.8.4 – May 09 2016

• 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 – April 15 2016

• 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 – April 01 2016

• 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 – March 21 2016

• 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 – March 12 2016

• Update: Remove notice message (when there is Javascript errors in active theme/another plugin). It caused confusion.

1.8.0.1 – March 02 2016

• Tweak: Update Notice message at front-end (when Javascript error occurs) to avoid misunderstand

1.8.0.0 – March 01 2016

• 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 – February 06 2016

• 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 – January 12 2016

• Bug fixed: Content floats after View output
• Tweak: Code relates to grid system
• Tweak: Update filter “page_attr”

1.7.6 – January 11 2016

• 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