We are happy to announce a huge update as of WP Customer Area 7.9.0, including two new add-ons. It’s mostly about design and display control improvements, but not just that! Since 7.7.0, there have been many improvements, but also many patches: 23 new features and over 49 issues fixes and tweaks. For instance, we improved the security and optimized the size of the plugin and assets. Check our article and changelogs below for more information.

Note: Please note that we can’t write a full paragraph for all our new features or bug fixes, so this post will give you some details about the most requested ones.

New Content Expiry add-on

We created a new add-on that will allow you, for each private content post, to set a predefined date range where the post will be set as valid, and therefore allowed to be displayed.

As you can see on the above screenshots, you’ll be able to define some different dates to set the post as valid for a given period. The validity date will then be displayed on the frontend private posts.

Note: You’ll get this add-on without any additional cost if you already own the All add-ons Bundle, the Collaborative Bundle, or the Freelancer Bundle.

New DIVI Compatibility add-on

Many of you reported some issues with the DIVI theme from Elegant Themes, and they were a bit hard to solve, so we decided to create an official add-on, to fix them all.

Best news about it? It’s free.

Do not hesitate to report some more issues about it on our support forums, or even for another theme.

Note: This add-on is free, but you’ll need a licence in order to get notified about the updates.

Design improvements

We updated the look and feel of the carousel at the top of private pages. It now has a better look, but not only that! It does now include some new useful links to help you navigate through your posts more easily. Find below a quick overview of some of the new features created there.

Frontend editor enhancements

We decided to make some changes to the advanced frontend editor that belongs to the Front Office Publishing add-on.

The frontend editor will not generate paragraph tags by itself anymore, WordPress will do that instead and this will be performed by the wpautop() function. This will make the editor simpler and will make its behavior much closer to the one from the admin side.

That simple update will even allow some WordPress shortcodes to be used, like the embed shortcode (so that your users can easily embed videos or others contents from external sources).

Also, the visual view from the editor will now remove any HTML data when pasting content to make the use of it simpler (HTML pasting is still allowed in code view, in case you need to add more complex data).

Display control improvements

Many of you have let us know that it is embarrassing to have on pages of content, only the posts assigned to the connected user. We listened to you, and we added on the pages “My files”, “My pages” (etc.) the possibility to add the contents created by the current connected user.

We did not want to make this change a breaking change for some of you. So, in 7.7.0 version, we decided to add a new filter that will allow you to display on the same listing page, the content authored by, and assigned to the current user. However, we felt that it was a bit tricky for some of our users, so we decided to make it simpler by adding an option in the settings panel of each content type.

This setting can be found in Settings -> WP Customer Area -> {private content type} -> Frontend Integration -> Content queries -> Hide contents created by the current connected user for listings.

Full changelogs

= 7.9.0 (2020/06/18) =

• New: compatibility with the new Content Expiry add-on (ability to make a post available only during a predefined date range)
• New: compatibility with the new Divi Compatibility add-on (fix some issues with the DIVI theme by Elegant Themes)
• New: improved the carousel design on frontend private content views
• New: added support for some missing features from the admin WYSIWYG editor (image alignments etc…)
• New: added many new action hooks to let you hook into different areas of the carousel ‘cuar/private-content/view/carousel/…’
• Tweak: hide taxonomy terms without private posts in private categories widgets
• Tweak: reduced main plugin size and styles size by removing some unused fonts and stuffs
• Tweak: improved security before saving owner data and other security stuffs
• Fix: fixed switch users no more working because of a missing filter
• Fix: the admin WYSIWYG editor will now include a “div” tag that shouldn’t be removed (necessary for the frontend editor)
• Fix: prevent CURLs timeout from WP-site health (related to issue https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/43358)
• Fix: fixed some un-translatable strings

Add-on changes

ACF Integration – New: support for ACF v5.8.12
ACF Integration – Fix: fixed an issue preventing an attached file to be displayed when viewing a private content
Authentication forms – Fix: compatibility fix with iThemes Security Pro
Content Expiry – New: set validity dates on private content (accessible from date, until date, between dates)
Content Expiry – New: added a new carousel tile when a validity date has been specified for the current post
Design Extras – Tweak: Support for new styles from WP Customer Area 7.9.0
DIVI Compatibility – New: make this add-on translatable ready
Front-Office Publishing – New: added new links on single private content, into the carousel (added dropdown-menus) to let you quickly assign new contents to the selected owner
Front-Office Publishing – New: added new ability to pre-fill owner forms by passing owners’data in URLs
Front-Office Publishing – Fix: also handle default owner when editing from front-office
Conversations – Fix: fixed line-breaks not displaying in conversation replies (admin and frontend side)
Projects – New: added a “Add” button on single project views that let you quickly attach new contents to the project
Projects – New: added a “View project” link on single project views, when clicking on a project link into the carousel
Projects – New: added new “Status” tile on frontend carousel single project views
All add-ons – Tweak: Updated translation and improved security

= 7.8.6 (2020/03/03) =

• New: action ‘cuar/private-content/files/before-ob-end-clean’
• Fix: stop end flushing while downloading files because it is not working on some server configurations

= 7.8.5 (2020/03/02) =

• Fix: files could not be downloaded in some cases

= 7.8.4 (2020/03/02) =

• Fix: files could not be downloaded in some cases

= 7.8.3 (2020/02/21) =

• Fix: excerpts on site could be affected by WPCA’s excerpts and vice-versa

= 7.8.2 (2020/02/10) =

• New: filter ‘cuar/core/user-profile/password-min-length’ to customize password length on Edit Account page
• Tweak: add code suggestion to improve compatibility with cache plugins
• Tweak change default collection listings post_per_pages to 12
  Note: for an optimized display, we recommend that you manually change this settings to 12 in WP Customer Area settings for each content type
• Fix: posts not displaying when sidebar was disabled
• Fix: PHP warning ‘Warning: array_search() expects parameter 2 to be array’
• Fix: excerpt lengths were affected on non-WPCA pages

Add-on changes

• Design Extras – Tweak: Support for new styles from WP Customer Area 7.8.2

= 7.8.1 (2020/01/17) =

• Fix: warnings in projects settings admin page

= 7.8.0 (2020/01/14) =

• New: frontend editor enhancements
• Fix: Gutenberg Parent pages’s dropdown disappear when WPCA is active
• Fix: wrong border color shown on account details page
• Fix: post owner fields PHP warnings
• Fix: issue where grid collection were not sized correctly on page load

Add-on changes

• Collaboration – New: Frontend Summernote editor – disabled auto paragraph generation when pressing enter
• Collaboration – New: Frontend Summernote editor – shortcodes can now be used
• Collaboration – New: Frontend Summernote editor – new compatibility with embed shortcode, that allows to embed content from other sites
• Collaboration – Fix: disable key navigation for wizard steps (was conflicting with moving caret using arrow keys)
• Conversations – Fix: disable key navigation for wizard steps (was conflicting with moving caret using arrow keys)
• Projects – Fix: disable key navigation for wizard steps (was conflicting with moving caret using arrow keys)
• Tasks – Fix: disable key navigation for wizard steps (was conflicting with moving caret using arrow keys)
• Design Extras – Tweak: Support for new styles from WP Customer Area 7.8.0
• Authentication Forms – Fix: translated message could not be translated “An email has been sent with the instructions to….”
• Smart Groups – Fix: illegal string warnings when no group has yet been created

= 7.7.7 (2019/11/06) =

• Tweak: enhancing security by removing some unused files from PHP libraries
• Tweak: updated JS dependencies

= 7.7.6 (2019/11/05) =

• Fix: programmatically added files were removed when updating post
• Fix: removed sample files from TCPDF and html2pdf

Add-on changes

• Projects – Fix: projects sometimes not showing up into Select2 lists

= 7.7.5 (2019/10/08) =

• Fix: missing folder

= 7.7.4 (2019/10/02) =

• Tweak: recompiled some assets

= 7.7.3 (2019/10/02) =

• New: added option in Settings -> {Private Post Type} -> Frontend Integration -> Content queries to allow you to hide contents from current connected user from listings (checked by default)
• New: ‘Content queries’ option now works also for the widgets
• Fix: update Html2pdf library to latest version to support PHP 7.x

Add-on changes

• Search – New: added compatibility with new filter ‘cuar/core/page/query-disable-authored-by’ (from 7.7.2), and new ‘Content queries’ settings option (from 7.7.3)
• Invoicing – Fix: update Html2pdf library to support PHP 7.x and allow switching default font
• Conversations – Fix: syntax error

= 7.7.2 (2019/08/21) =

• Fix: renamed ‘skins/frontend/master/assets/css/eqcss/queries.eqcss’ to ‘queries.css’ to prevent it to be blocked by servers for security reasons
  Warning: DO NOT cache ‘queries.css’ using cache plugins ! This file is not a CSS file, but a file interpreted by a JS script.
• Fix: issue on my-account page that was making the left column of the fields too small for some sites

Add-on changes

• Design Extras – Tweak: Support for new styles from WP Customer Area 7.7.2

= 7.7.1 (2019/08/21) =

• Fix: issue on my-account page that was making the left column of the fields too small for some sites