Content Views Pro version 5.4.1 has been released with fixes and improvements:

• Fix: Click anchor link with hash mark (#) causes the page with live filter to reload
• Update: Support setting values for multiple custom fields while reusing View shortcode (using the “custom_field_value” parameter)
• Improvement: Prevent direct access to plugin files
• Improvement: Track page views (by Google Analytics) when opening lightbox which shows only specific content area of a page
• Improvement: Add option to sort Glossary heading by locale (site language)
• Improvement: Prevent potential layout issues when double-click option of Shuffle filter, while the animation is not finished
• Some other fixes, adjusts and improvements

Thank you,

Content Views Pro version 5.4.0 includes many new features, fixes and improvements. It has been tested with official WordPress 5.0 (released on December 6th). Here are list of changes:

• New: Add options to remove box shadow, and border between fields of the Masonry layout
• New: Allow filtering by custom field has value in Unix Timestamp format
• New: Support custom-post-type-powered taxonomy created by CPT-onomies plugin
• New: Allow HTML in custom name when showing custom field
• Fix: Live filter by multiple custom fields with the OR logical relationship not showing all options of each field
• Fix: Remain current language argument of translation plugin in URL on selecting live filter options
• Fix: Pinterest layout issue in edge cases
• Fix: Hard resize not working with Media content type
• Fix: Soft resize reverts to default size on Ajax pagination
• Fix: The number 0 in post title is ignored and not shown as index in Glossary layout
• Fix: Can’t open full screen video in lightbox content
• Improvement: Improve performance when filtering by multiple custom fields with the OR logical relationship
• Some other fixes and improvements

Thank you,

This is maintenance release which includes:

• Fix notice and warning in PHP 7.1, 7.2 in some edge cases
• Improve the compatible fix with “The Events Calendar” plugin in previous version

Thank you,

* Update:

• Able to set limit (total number of posts to show) when replacing layout
• Add/adjust some description texts

* Fix:

• Display issue of live filter dropdown type occurred since version 5.3.4.1
• Compatible fix: filter past events of “The Events Calendar” plugin not work because this plugin prevented past events from showing

This version mainly contains some updates and fixes of the Live Filter feature. It also includes the update to support “The Events Calendar” plugin. Here are the details:

* Update:

• Support “The Events Calendar” plugin: able to show venue name and organizer name by showing 2 custom fields _VenueVenue, _OrganizerOrganizer
• Support filter by date custom field has value is not in Year-month-date format. No need to create alias field as in previous versions.
• Support live filter by the custom field which contains space in name/key
• Improve output of live filter elements (dropdown, radio, checkbox)
• Able to set multiple parent pages to show children pages, by using the reusable parameter “post_parent” (separate parent IDs by commas)

* Fix:

• Slow query caused by live filter custom field which has serialized value
• Live sort by custom field (has decimal value) returns incorrect results in some cases
• Fix some small layout style issues

Thank you,

New:

• Support to show/hide posts depend on access restriction by s2Member plugin
• Add option to exclude children pages, to show only top level pages

Fix:

• Replace layout with live filters might return no results when used the default pagination of page

Update/Improve:

• Improve output of the border feature in the Grid layout (the border between posts in existing Views will be converted to border around posts).
• Make the lightbox feature to be responsive on resizing the window
• Easy to change the text of Submit, Reset buttons of Live Filter using Javascript variables
• Add & update some texts in View editing page, Replace Layout page for better instruction
• Some styles improvements

Update/Improve:

• Can show video, audio, pdf directly in Lightbox
• Can include/exclude Social buttons from the overlay
• Avoid sending live filter Ajax request in some cases
• Can execute shortcode in the description of category, when showing category as output
• Improve description of some settings/messages to better explain what they do
• Improve style of some elements

Fix:

• The Pro feature which supports to show content to authorized members of the “Ultimate Member” plugin not working with “Ultimate Member” version > 2.0
• Sort by custom field when replacing layout with Ajax pagination not working
• Fix thumbnail issue of Collapsible, Scrollable list when showing images in the same size, or using soft resizing feature
• Fix Timeline layout on mobile devices when using the long-mode feature
• Fix PHP warning/notice in some edge-cases

* Update:
– [Live Filter] Restrict results to selected taxonomies (which no terms are selected in View panel) by default
– [Live Filter] Change the sorting parameter from “orderby” to “_orderby” to prevent conflicts with default WordPress sorting parameter
– Support some plugins which don’t use WordPress featured image but a custom field to store thumbnail
– Able to show embedded video from videopress.com as thumbnail
– Make the soft resizing images responsive

* Fix:
– “Full Size” thumbnail of the Media content type doesn’t show the original image
– Color picker in Style Settings disappears when activating the “NextGEN Gallery” plugin version 3.0

* New:
– [Live Filter] Able to reposition filters (drag & drop to change filters positions)
– [Live Filter] Able to sort options of a filter by posts count, display text, raw value
– [Replace Layout] Able to show all children terms of current term in taxonomy archive page
– [Show terms as output] When no terms selected manually, show all terms automatically

* Update:
– [Live Filter] Able to change the default text of the Button type
– [Live Filter] Able to remove the default label text
– [Scrollable list] Update some elements styles when set custom item margin values