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

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  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 \xC2\xA0 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

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