* New:
– Show related posts of current post easily (read more)
– Show custom field, meta field… of current post easily (read more)
– Can use “Custom Size” without setting Height value, to resize the image but keep its natural ratio
– [Masonry layout] Add filter to customize which posts to be shown bigger
– Add setting to exclude any fields from the overlay of thumbnail easily

* Fix:
– [Conflict with Photon feature of Jetpack plugin] Thumbnail is not visible in mobile devices, when enable lazy loading

* Update:
– Refactor functions of “Show terms as output” feature

* New:
– Can use “Sort by” setting of selected View when Replace Layout of Blog, Category… page
– Can use Shuffle Filter with Collapsible layout
– Can adjust border width, color, style in Grid layout with new style settings
– Can filter posts by month 1 to 12 (for example filter posts in January of every year)
– Can show both Author name & avatar
– Can add words to ignore when extract index in Glossary layout
– Can change display order of taxonomies in Shuffle Filter
– Can reuse View by set new value to compare for selected custom field in the View

* Improve:
– [Shuffle Filter] Increase speed and reduce CPU usage on displaying new posts which are loaded dynamically by pagination
– Update custom-size image function to resize image by URL rather than attachment ID
– More clear and simple label, text for some settings

* Fix:
– Shuffle Filter does not work when shows Advertisement in View

* Update:
– Able to show Advertisement in “All” tab of Shuffle Filter
– Update Lazyload script to handle cached images by browser
– Remove default underline text decoration for links on hover, in Timeline layout

* Update:
– Remove border of Grid item (when enable border) in Tablet devices if “Items Per Row (Tablet)” is 1
– Output of custom field in Tablet devices
– Output of collapsible item in RTL direction

* Fix: The thumbnail doesn’t display at top with format “Show thumbnail on the left/right of text” in old Views

* New:

– [Shuffle Filter] Add setting to hide the “ALL” option
– [Collapsible List] Add setting to open all items by default

* Improvements:

– [Add/Edit View] Simplify label, description of some settings. Add popover description for Shuffle Filter.
– Many small style improvements

Closing out a year of energetic developments, we are proud to introduce the latest version of Content Views Pro for 2016.

* New:

– [Performance] Improve performance with lazy loading for image, iframe
– [Style Settings] Add text-transform, line-height, letter-spacing settings. Improve UI for font-weight, font-style, text-decoration. Able to set custom font-family (besides Google fonts from previous versions)
– [Shuffle Filter] Add style settings for active filter, heading element
– [Filter by Custom Fields] Add DATETIME type to able to compare more precise by hour, minute, second
– [Advertisement] Able to show Advertisement which is made by shortcode
– [Sort by Custom Field] Able to specify date format for custom field to correct sorting result

* Integrate with other plugins:

– MemberMouse plugin: show content only if current visitor has access to
– SearchWP plugin: retain SearchWP order for search results page when using Content Views Pro to replace layout
– “The Events Calendar” plugin: correct output for venue, organizer of events

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In 2017, Content Views Pro will add more value to your WordPress site with new amazing features, updates and improvements.
Thank you so much for your business with us!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017!

* New
– [Meta fields] Able to set custom format for Date
– [Shuffle Filter] Able to show posts count on each filter

* Fix
– Compatibility issue with Relevanssi plugin: “No posts found” when use CVP to replace search results layout

* Update
– [Shuffle Filter] Prevent issues when 2 terms in different taxonomies but have same slug (by replacing term slug in data-value, data-groups attributes by taxonomy name & term ID)
– [Shuffle Filter] Enable “Load more posts automatically when click on term” by default
– Remove restriction of Layout format in Timeline, Glossary layout
– Update style for right to left text direction
– And many small updates, improvements

* New:
– New solution to replace layout in Blog, Category, Search… page: without modifying file, works across themes (document)
– [Date Settings] Able to show posts of specific Year

* Improve:
– Better support for custom field of Pods, Toolset Types plugin
– Better support for Polylang plugin: easy to add translation of View (document)

* Update:
– [Overlay & Animation] Update description of settings, enable 2 settings for “always” overlay

* Fix:
– [One & others layout] Fix output issues of thumbnail

* Update (View dashboard)

– Merge “Put mask of fields in front of thumbnail”, “Hover animation” to one setting “Overlay Thumbnail With Text”. Rename tab “Animation” to “Overlay & Animation”
– Add setting to set color of Overlay text, to set background color of Title
– Replace “Top margin in hover box” by more versatile setting “Overlay position”
– Remove setting “Remove space between posts”
– Add visual simulator for font style & font-weight
– Add clear button for padding, margin settings
– Move Style Settings to last tab

* New & Improvement

– Able to overlay thumbnail with text always
– Able to set position (top, middle, bottom) of overlay text
– Rebuild padding & margin system, work more effectively with any layouts
– Show alt tag of image inside post content (when no Featured image found)