Content Control – The Ultimate Content Restriction Plugin! Restrict Content, Create Conditional Blocks & More

Journal

v2.0.12 – 10/26/2023

• Fix: Prevent extra 301 redirect due to missing trailing slash on some URLs.
• Fix: Issue with Custom Message replacement not always working on pages built with Elementor.

v2.0.11 – 10/04/2023

• Improvement: Query Monitor integration to show which restrictions are active on a page.
  • Shows global settings that may be affecting the page.
  • Shows which restrictions are active on the page.
  • Shows which posts are being filtered out of queries and by which restriction.
• Tweak: Ensure upgrade stream doesn’t send headers if they were already sent.
• Tweak: Make second arg on get_the_excerpt filter optional to prevent errors with some plugins.
• Fix: Bug when using content_control/check_all_restrictions filter that caused rules to not compare properly.

v2.0.10 – 10/01/2023

• Improvement: If no v1 global restrictions existed, skip the migration step entirely.
• Improvement: Default to late init of post query filtering until after plugins_loaded should be finished. This should prevent help prevent random errors due to restrictions being checked before plugins have had a chance to register their post types, and thus restrictions won’t properly match those post type rules.
• Improvement: Add check to prevent restriction checks for WP CLI requests.
• Improvement: Add notice to indicate is when waiting for post/page search results in the restriction editor fields.
• Tweak: Fix issue in build that caused autoloader to not fully use optimized classmap, should result in improved performance.
• Fix: Ensure $wp_rewrite is available before calling is_rest() -> get_rest_url(). This should prevent errors when using the plugin with WP CLI and when plugins make WP_Query calls during plugins_loaded.
• Fix: Don’t attempt to initialize side query filtering until after_theme_setup hook. This should prevent errors when plugins make WP_Query calls during plugins_loaded, and allow further delaying initialization if needed from themes functions.php file.
• Fix: Backward compatibility issue with WP versions <6.2 that made settings page not render.
• Fix: Bug where Block Controls didn’t work on WooCommerce pages. This was filtering pre_render_block but not returning a value. Now we run our check after theirs to ensure that bug has no effect on our plugin. Report

v2.0.9 – 09/24/2023

• Improvement: Better handling of restriction titles & content. Admins with priv can insert any content into the restriction messages.

• Improvement: Added new filter content_control/query_filter_init_hook to allow delaying query filtering for compatibility with plugins that make custom queries before template_redirect action.

  add_filter( 'content_control/query_filter_init_hook', function () {
return 'init'; // Try setup_theme, after_theme_setup, init or wp_loaded
} );

• Tweak: Ensure our restriction checks work within a nested post loop.

• Tweak: Change how restriction title & descriptions were sent/received over Rest API.
• Fix: Bug that caused some shortcodes to not render properly.
• Fix: Bug where override message wasn’t used.
• Fix: Bug where Elementor Post loop would render incorrectly when using ACF fields in the loop template.

v2.0.8 – 09/22/2023

• Tweak: Ignore many Elementor queries from being restricted.
• Fix: Error when required upgrade was marked as complete.
• Fix: Bug that caused secondary queries to be handled like main queries.

v2.0.7 – 09/21/2023

• Tweak: Only log each unique plugin debug notice once to prevent filling log files quickly.
• Tweak: Replace usage of wp_upload_dir with wp_get_upload_dir which is more performant.
• Fix: Error in upgrades when no data is found to migrate.
• Fix: Error when function is called early & global $wp_query is not yet available.
• Fix: Conditional check that could always return false.
• Developer: Implemented PHP Static Analysis to catch more bugs before they happen. Currently clean on lvl 6.

v2.0.6 – 09/19/2023

• Improvement: Added data backup step to upgrade process that stores json export in the media library.
• Improvement: Better error handling in the data upgrade process.
• Fix: Fix bug in data upgrade process that caused it to never finish.
• Fix: Possible error when no restriction match found in some custom` queries.

v2.0.5 – 09/18/2023

• Fix: Fix errors on some sites with custom conditions due to registering all rules too early.

v2.0.4 – 09/18/2023

• Fix: Error when WP Query vars include anonymous function closures.

v2.0.3 – 09/18/2023

• Fix: Log errors instead of throwing exceptions to prevent uncaught exceptions turning into fatal errors.

v2.0.2 – 09/18/2023

• Fix: Fatal error from error logger on systems without write access.

v2.0.1 – 09/17/2023

• Fix: Fatal error from unregistered or unknown rule types from 3rd party plugins/themes or custom code. Now they are logged in plugin settings page.

v2.0.0 – 09/17/2023

• Feature: Restrict individual blocks in the Gutenberg editor.
• Feature: Restrict individual blocks in the Full Site Editor.
• Feature: Use a custom page template for restricted content.
• Feature: Restrict blocks by device type with customizable breakpoints.
• Feature: Restrict blocks by user status & role.
• Feature: Global restrictions now offer more control over how restricted content is handled.
  • Choose to redirect or replace content with a custom page.
  • Filter or hide posts in archives or custom loops.
  • Secondary controls for posts if found in an archive.
• Improvement: Match or exclude specific roles.
• Improvement: Updated interface with intuitive and responsive controls.
• Improvement: Boolean editor improvements.
• Improvement: Control who can modify plugin settings.
• Improvement: Upgraded tooling & Code quality improvements.

v1.1.10 – 12/28/2022

• Security: Fix unescaped output for CSS classname in the [contentcontrol] shortcode allowing users with the ability to edit posts to inject code into the page.

v1.1.9 – 09/30/2021

• Fix: Error when using Gutenberg Preview.

v1.1.8 – 07/17/2021

• Fix: Error when Elementor instance preview proptery was null.

v1.1.7 – 07/17/2021

• Fix: Prevent warning if widget settings don’t exist in options table.
• Fix: Arbitrary limit of 10 on current items listed in Restriction Editor due to WP query default args.
• Fix: Prevent restrictions from activating when using the Elementor page builder.

v1.1.6 – 03/21/2021

• Fix: Nonce validation was preventing 3rd party plugin from saving widget settings when it failed. Thanks @jacobmischka
• Fix: Prevent corrupted options from preventing saving of settings.

v1.1.5 – 02/22/2021

• Fix: Issue where roles with - would not save when checked.

v1.1.4 – 03/24/2020

• Improvement: Added gettext handling for several strings that were not translatable.
• Tweak: Process shortcodes in default denial message contents.
• Tweak: Various improvements in form reliability & user experience.
• Fix: Issues with ajax search fields not retaining their values after save.
• Fix: Issue where only would show 10 pages.
• Fix: PHP 7.4 compatibility fixes.

v1.1.3 – 12/03/2019

• Fix: Custom post type conditions were not always registered.

v1.1.2 – 11/10/2019

• Tweak: Remove erroneous console.log messages in admin.
• Fix: Fatal error when empty shortcode used.

v1.1.1 – 10/15/2019

• Fix: Bugs where variables were not always the expected type.

v1.1.0

• Improvement: Added default denial message to shortcode.
• Improvement: Render nested shortcodes in the [content_control] shortcode.
• Fix: Bug where multiple roles checked together in restriction editor.

v1.0.3

• Fix: Minor notice on activation.

v1.0.2

• Fix: Call to undefined function.

v1.0.1

• Fix: Non static method called statically
• Fix: Bug when using invalid variable type.

v1.0.0

• Initial Release