Product Visibility by User Role for WooCommerce

1.8.2 – 2024-08-28

• FIX: bug with “replace short description” feature.

1.8.1 – 2023-07-13

• FIX: PHP 8.2 notices.
• FIX: WP notice.

1.8.0 – 2022-06-01

• UPDATE: changes to maintain compatibility with new features in pro version.
• UPDATE: updated .pot file for translations.

1.7.3 – 2021-09-08

• FIX: issue with product attribute counts not updating in WC layered nav widget.
• UPDATE: PHP 8 now officially supported.
• UPDATE: updated .pot file for translations.

1.7.2 – 2021-04-23

• FIX: bug with setup_search_cases where post_type could be array.
• UPDATE: added explanatory text around visible/invisible settings.
• UPDATE: updated .pot file for translations.

1.7.1 – 2021-04-13

• FIX: compatibility issue with “WooCommerce Composite Products” plugin.

1.7.0 – 2021-01-14

• NEW: compatibility with “WooCommerce Product Search” plugin.

1.6.2 – 2020-09-17

• UPDATE: bump tested versions.

1.6.1 – 2020-08-28

• FIX: PHP warning.

1.6.0 – 2020-08-22

• NEW: per-product settings now always take priority over bulk settings.
• NEW: adjust term counts (i.e. category counts) to account for hidden products.
• FIX: when users have multiple roles, we now look at all roles together before deciding visibility. (Previously we decided based on the first matching role only).
• UPDATE: display our settings in WC status report.
• UPDATE: major code refactoring.
• UPDATE: updated .pot file for translations.

1.5.8 – 2020-07-08

• FIX: bug (since v1.5.5) allowing hidden products to appear in search.
• UPDATE: add Persian translations (thanks to Farhad Fariborzi).

1.5.7 – 2020-06-20

• FIX: some updates missing from v1.5.6 package.

1.5.6 – 2020-06-08

• FIX: non-translatable string.
• UPDATE: bump tested versions.

1.5.5 – 2020-05-12

• FIX: filter ajax requests (may solve issues with certain themes and/or widgets that query items via ajax).
• FIX: hidden products appearing in feeds generated by Google Product Feeds plugin (and probably other feeds plugins as well). Now feeds will be filtered with the same rules as a user with role “guest”.
• FIX: issue where pagination does not work correctly when the WC store page is set as the same page as the home page.

1.5.3 – 2020-03-30

• FIX: issue with settings changes not showing their effects immediately (caching issue).
• FIX: conflict with Social Warfare plugin (Social Warfare is doing something strange with WP_Query, but their plugin hasn’t been updated in months so it’s faster for us just to patch it from our side).

1.5.2 – 2019-12-17

• UPDATE: bump tested versions.

1.5.1 – 2019-11-15

• UPDATE: bump tested versions.

1.5.0 – 2019-08-30

• UPDATE: updated .pot file for translations.

1.4.1 – 2019-03-19

• Dev – Plugin author data updated.

1.4.0 – 2019-02-10

• Dev – General Options – “Replace description” options added.
• Dev – Admin Options – Product quick/bulk edit – “Clear” option added.
• Dev – Bulk Settings – Products – Language codes added to the list.
• Dev – Major code refactoring.
• Dev – Admin settings restyled.

1.3.0 – 2019-01-29

• Dev – Admin Options – “User roles to display in settings” option added.
• Dev – Admin settings descriptions updated and restyled.
• Fix singular view if category option is in use on bulk settings.
• Fix duplicate tax_query parameters.
• Improve nested tax_query parameters by making it simpler.
• “Redirect URL per product” option added.
• Bulk Settings – “array_merge(): Argument #1 is not an array” PHP warning fixed.
• “Hide menu items” now also hides products items from menu (i.e. not only categories and tags).
• Admin settings restyled.
• Add WPML compatibility to bulk section.
• Code refactored (admin settings).
• Fix products terms hiding regarding multiple roles.
• Fix redirect option forcing invisible products to be 404.
• Make the plugin compatible with WPML plugin.

1.2.4 – 2018-12-25

• Dev – Bulk Settings – Products – Product ID added to listing.
• Dev – Bulk Settings – Products – WPML – Listing all languages products now.
• Dev – Bulk Settings – Products – Code refactoring – Variations listing optimized.
• Dev – Bulk Settings – Categories / Tags – WPML – Listing all languages terms now.
• Dev – Bulk Settings – Categories / Tags – Term ID and term parent info added.
• Dev – Plugin URI updated.
• Improve ‘Bulk Settings’ code combined with ‘Modify Query’ option.

1.2.3 – 2018-12-06

• Add compatibility with WPML plugin.

1.2.2 – 2018-08-13

• Improve ‘alg_wc_pvbur_can_search’ filter preventing the main visibility query to work on wp menu.
• Fix category visibility replacing ‘key’ by ‘taxonomy’ on tax_query parameters.

1.2.1 – 2018-07-25

• Allow other plugins to interact with invisible products query using the ‘alg_wc_pvbur_can_search’ filter or passing a ‘alg_wc_pvbur_search’ parameter on customs WP_Query queries.
• Add WooCommerce minimum requirement.
• Improve performance of invisible products search by saving the results of alg_wc_pvbur_get_invisible_products() in cache (Only the ids, not WP_Query).
• Add action ‘alg_wc_pvbur_save_metabox’ on metabox saving.
• Add new function ‘alg_wc_pvbur_get_invisible_products_ids()’ to get only the invisible products ids, with a cache option.

1.2.0 – 2018-06-29

• Improve ‘alg_wc_pvbur_is_visible()’ function. Get the terms isn’t working properly. Replace by wp_get_post_terms().
• Add is_search() check to products hiding function to make sure it works on search results too.
• Add new option to filter product terms hiding product categories and tags using the get_terms() function.
• Improve invisible product detection on single product pages.
• Add new option to hide all products, product categories/tags from user roles.

1.1.9 – 2018-05-24

• Create “alg_wc_pvbur_get_invisible_products” function.
• Change the way Modify query option works.
• Add ‘alg_wc_pvbur_post__not_in’ filter.
• Add ‘alg_wc_pvbur_hide_products_query’ action.
• Update WooCommerce tested up to.

1.1.8 – 2018-05-03

• Remove pro version checking.
• Fix visible products logic.
• Fix ‘alg_wc_pvbur_get_user_roles()’ function exists.
• Use composer to handle dependencies.

1.1.7 – 2018-04-18

• Add composer
• Sync bulk options with post meta values.
• Change the way “product_by_user_role_pre_get_posts()” works. Now it really hides invisible product from queries fixing issues with pagination.
• Add action ‘pvbur_save_product’ after a product is updated.
• Add a new admin option to hide categories from wp nav menu if there is no products to show.
• Add a filter ‘pvbur_hide_empty_cats’ to hide categories from wp nav menu if there is no products to show.

1.1.6 – 2018-04-12

• Add ‘alg_wc_pvbur_is_visible’ filter.
• Add new option on admin to redirect to a page different from 404 in case a product is invisible.
• Add new filter ‘pvbur_invisible_product_redirect’ to redirect to a page different from 404 in case a product is invisible.

1.1.5 – 2018-03-26

• Fix – Core – is_visible() – Bulk settings – Products – Returning false only.
• Dev – General – Admin Options – “Product quick edit” option added.
• Dev – General – Admin Options – “Products bulk edit” option added.

1.1.4 – 2017-11-12

• Dev – Core – Possible “wp_get_current_user() undefined” error fixed.

1.1.3 – 2017-10-31

• Dev – Admin Settings – Settings tab title updated.
• Dev – Admin Settings – General – Description updated.

1.1.2 – 2017-10-30

• Dev – Admin Settings – Bulk Settings – User roles subsections added.
• Dev – Admin Settings – Meta box – Title updated.

1.1.1 – 2017-10-26

• Dev – Admin Settings – Bulk Settings – “Save all changes” button added to each role’s section.
• Dev – Admin Settings – Meta box – Title and descriptions updated.

1.1.0 – 2017-10-25

• Dev – “Bulk Settings” section added.
• Dev – Admin Settings – Meta box select – chosen_select class added.
• Dev – Admin Settings – Meta box on product edit moved to side with low priority.
• Dev – Code refactoring.
• Dev – Saving settings array as main class property.

1.0.0 – 2017-08-30

• Initial Release.