v4.0.20

Change Log

• Fixed : PHP Warning on PublishPress\Permissions\Groups::getGroupsForUser() / pp_get_groups_for_user() call

v4.0.19

Change Log

• API : Function pp_get_groups_for_user() no longer defaulted to returning group objects
• Compat : bbPress - Forum Role column on Users screen was hidden
• Lang : Upate ES, FR, IT translations

v4.0.18

Change Log

• Perf : Eliminated scan of users table on plugin activation (impacting sites with large number of users)
• Perf : Eliminated recursive query of subpages (impacting sites with complex page hierarchies)
• Perf : Improved caching of post capability checks
• Perf : On category / term queries, don't filter term counts if empty terms are not being hidden and counts are not being shown
• Code : Improved PHP Code Sniffer scan results
• Compat : Elementor - Could not use Elementor front end editor to save a draft of a published post
• Compat : Nested Pages - Apply pp_force_quick_edit capability to Nested Pages' Quick Edit and Contextual Add / Insert buttons
• Fixed : Filters for Post category, Tags, Terms, Parent or Status could be applied to wrong post under certain conditions
• Fixed : Permissions > Settings > Core > Front End > "Performance: Don't filter category / tag counts" was not applied for Administrator
• Fixed : Some strings on Permissions > Settings were not translated
• Fixed : Gutenberg editor usage was not properly detected when triggered by another plugin, possibly leading to issues with category / term assignment filtering
• Fixed : Category pages: Subcategory posts were inappropriately hidden on some sites
• Fixed : Legacy Nav Menu Management - Limited Nav Menu editors saw uneditable menus in dropdown on Menus management screen
• Fixed : Legacy Nav Menu Management filters interfered with front end filtering under some conditions
• Fixed : Sanity check to prevent excessive version history logging if installed plugin's version tags or version tag storage is incorrect
• Fixed : Terms were inappropriately auto-assigned under some conditions\
• Change : Permissions > Settings > Editing option to disable auto-assignment of terms (when default term is not selectable). Note: Auto-assignment is required for some term-restricted editing configurations.
• Change : Auto-assign a term only if no default terms are selectable and the user's editing access is modified by term-specific Permissions
• Change : Never auto-assign a term to front page or posts page
• Change : Constant definitions related to term auto-assignment to assist any potential troubleshooting or restore previous behavior
• Change : User search for Specific Permission assignment - use LIKE matching for user meta field searches
• Change : Suppress "Enable Permissions" metaboxes in Post editor, Edit Term screens
• Change : Support constant PRESSPERMIT_MEDIA_UPLOAD_GRANT_PAGE_EDIT_CAPS for front end uploading solutions that require page editing capabilities for the async upload request
• Lib : Update wordpress-reviews library to v1.1.20
• Lib : Update wordpress-version-notices library to v2.1.3
• Lang : Update ES, FR, IT translations

v3.11.6

Change Log

• Feature : Option to require Taxonomy edit capability to assign post tags that do not already exist
• Fixed : On Post edit, Tags were not filtered based on Specific Permissions
• Fixed : On Permissions > Settings, All Taxonomies remained checked even after updating with some disabled
• Compat : Work around unidentified compatibility issue affecting term filtering and access to certain static methods

v4.0.0

Change Log

• Perf : Eliminated scan of users table on plugin activation (impacting sites with large number of users)
• Perf : Eliminated recursive query of subpages (impacting sites with complex page hierarchies)
• Perf : Improved caching of post capability checks
• Code : Improved phpcs scan results
• Feature : Option to require Taxonomy edit capability to assign post tags that do not already exist
• Fixed : On Post edit, Tags were not filtered based on Specific Permissions
• Fixed : On Permissions > Settings, All Taxonomies remained checked even after updating with some disabled
• Compat : Work around unidentified compatibility issue affecting term filtering and access to certain static methods

v3.11.5

Change Log

• Compat : Beaver Builder - Queries within BB shortcodes were improperly filtered
• Fixed : Supplemental Role captions (for current assignments) were blank (since 3.11.4)
• Fixed : PHP Warning "Attempt to read property 'count' on string"
• Fixed : PHP Warning "Undefined variable $admin_post_new_url"

v3.11.4

Change Log

• Fixed : Collaborative Publishing module was not loaded correctly on some installations
• Fixed : Caption for Permissions: Assign Term metabox in post editor
• Fixed : PHP Warnings on Permission Groups screen

v3.11.3

Change Log

• Fixed : Some Permissions filtering was not applied on sites with a custom wp-admin URL
• Fixed : Type-specific Supplemental Roles also granted most generic capabliities in Pattern Role. Introduce new Permissions > Advanced > Role Integration setting to restore previous behavior if needed.
• Fixed : On page edit, if the Page Parent is not editable by the logged in user, it is hidden from the Page Parent selector. This occurred only with WP >= 6.3 and with a non-standard advanced Permissions configuration.
• Fixed : PHP Warning in term filtering (Attempt to read property "term_taxonomy_id" on string) under some configurations
• Fixed : Filtering of default category / term by other plugin was overridden
• Fixed : Edit User Permissions - PHP Warning "compact(): Argument must be string..."
• Fixed : Fatal error "Call to a member function init() on null" under some configurations
• Compat : Polylang + WP 6.3 - Language filter was no longer applied to Page Parent dropdown

v3.11.1

Change Log

• Fixed : Rest API access error on some sites (potentially preventing login)
• Fixed : Gallery block in Gutenberg editor: error loading Image Size dropdown options
• Fixed : Caption for Navigation Menus (for Navigation block) did not distinguish them from legacy Nav Menus
• Fixed : PHP 8.1 - Warning for dynamic property creation in post editor
• Compat : Peepso - Non-administrators couldn't submit front end posts on PHP >= 8.1

v3.10.0

Change Log

• Compat : WooCommerce - Private Products were not listed in Shop, even if Read Permissions are assigned
• Compat : ACF Extended - Extra Update button on Edit Term screen
• Fixed : Fatal error for undefined PUBLISHPRESS_PERMISSIONS_PRO_VENDOR_PATH on some installations
• Fixed : If a "Limit to: (none)" Permission is assigned to default-restrict a post type, creating a new post causes a post-specific allowance to be assigned
• Fixed : Category filtering error caused Nav Menu corruption if empty category is used as a top level menu
• Change : Update vendor libraries using new internal-vendor structure