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Content Views · Version history

Content Views changelog and version history

Latest version
4.5.1.2
Aug 31, 2026 (2 months ago)
Releases
179
since 2014
In the last year
7
about one every 45 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 5.6 or later

Releases each year

  • 201443 releases
  • 201535 releases
  • 201623 releases
  • 201716 releases
  • 20187 releases
  • 20196 releases
  • 20206 releases
  • 20213 releases
  • 20226 releases
  • 202316 releases
  • 20249 releases
  • 20253 releases
  • 20266 releases

20266 releases

  1. Content Views 4.5.1.2Latest

    • [Shortcode] Restrict custom post statuses in shortcode output for unauthorized users

  2. Content Views 4.5.1.1

    • [Shortcode] Further restrict non-public posts in shortcode output for unauthorized users

  3. Content Views 4.5.1

    • [Shortcode] Restrict non-public posts in shortcode output for unauthorized users (credit to Revanth Hari Narayana Matte).

  4. Content Views 4.5

    • [Shortcode] Improved security for the Preview panel by enforcing user role/capability checks.
    • [Shortcode] Secured Preview request data handling (credit to Jakub Herman).
    • [Shortcode] Restricted preview access for non-public posts (credit to Averon Averenkov).
    • Improved code for better security and translation support.
    • Other tweaks and improvements

  5. Content Views 4.4

    • [Block] Fix compatible issue with WordPress 7.0
    • [Block] Prevent “Error loading block” caused by another plugin
    • [Block] Set field value to 0 on clicking the Reset button of some fields
    • [Shortcode] Fix issue of “Read more” button right after importing library layouts to shortcode

  6. Content Views 4.3

    • Fix: [Block] Unexpected block error caused by another block plugin
    • Fix: [WidgetForElementor] fix issue of “Posts Include”, “Posts Exclude” with “Media” type
    • Some other improvements

20253 releases

  1. Content Views 4.2.1

    • Fix: [Block Admin] fix block toolbar visibility in WordPress 6.9

  2. Content Views 4.2

    • Fix: [WidgetForElementor] sanitize the widget ID before showing in output of widgets for Elementor
    • Fix: Author’s link when showing as ‘Top meta’

  3. Content Views 4.1

    • Fix: pagination url issue when activating Polylang plugin and setting language from subdomain
    • Fix: update Bootstrap library to fix issues
    • Fix: issue with thumbnail border & border radius when enabling “Hover Effect”
    • Fix: [Block] prevent “Error loading block: Invalid parameter(s): attributes” caused by another plugin
    • Update: [WidgetForElementor] show Widget ID in the editor output (which can be used as VIEW_ID in custom CSS/PHP code)
    • Update: [Block] Add search function to the “Select…” dropdown of Categories, Tags
    • Other improvements

20249 releases

  1. Content Views 4.0.2

    • Fix: warning about loading translations too early in WordPress 6.7

  2. Content Views 4.0.1

    • Fix: [Shortcode] Remove unwanted CSS of another plugin (that causes issue to preview output) from the Add/Edit View page
    • Fix: [WidgetForElementor] “Manual excerpt” and “HTML in excerpt” options not updated in output
    • Fix: [WidgetForElementor] Undefined array key “columns” in some edge cases

  3. Content Views 4.0

    • New: [WidgetForElementor] Add 16 grid, list and other post layout widgets for the Elementor page builder. Each widget has powerful query controls, layout controls, and a lot of style controls to customize your output.
    • Fix: [Block] Layout > Alignment issue in the frontend
    • Fix: [Shortcode] Style issues of new layouts (“Grid 2” to “Big Post 2”) when adding to the Divi page builder
    • Fix: compatible issue with WordPress 6.6

  4. Content Views 3.8.0

    • Fix: [Shortcode] Correct the checked/unchecked status of some checkboxes after saving when using new layouts (Grid 2…Big Post 2)
    • Fix: [Block] Fix error when removing selected option of “Parent Page” control
    • Update: [Ajax Pagination] Improve the show/hide status of the First, Prev, Next, Last buttons
    • Update: [Block] Set default value when “Posts Per Page” is empty
    • Other fixes and improvements

  5. Content Views 3.7.2

    • Fix: prevent issue in a multisite network when getting blog ids
    • Improve: Escaping pagination output for security enhancement

  6. Content Views 3.7.1

    • Improve: Data escaping for security enhancement

  7. Content Views 3.7.0

    • New: [Block] Add the Alignment option to “Read More”
    • New: [Shortcode] Add option “Show the default image” to Thumbnail settings
    • New: [Shortcode] Add “Heading Text” feature
    • New: Add option to hide, modify the “No Posts Found” text in blocks and shortcode
    • Fix: [Shortcode] Top Meta text is not clearly visible in Overlay layouts
    • Fix: [Block] Unexpected block errors caused by another block plugin
    • Fix: [Block] ReactDOM.render is no longer supported in React 18
    • Fix: [Block] Text is invisible in Overlay blocks when not showing thumbnail
    • Update: Sort layout names in Library popup/page
    • Update: Tweak CSS of the “Top Meta”
    • Update: Add default bottom margin to fields
    • Update: [Shortcode] Add instruction when showing full content in the Elementor page builder

  8. Content Views 3.6.4

    • Fix: [Shortcode] fix CSS output in some edge cases
    • Fix: [Block] fix issue when click & move cursor in the ColorPicker area
    • Fix: [Block] fix issue when set empty value for “Border Radius”
    • Update: [Block] disable click on links in the Block Editor
    • Other tweaks and improvements

  9. Content Views 3.6.3

    • Update: Revert to the Green background color for Readmore button in View shortcode (for Free version only. The selected blue/custom color in Pro version is unaffected)
    • Improve: Security Enhancement
    • Other tweaks and improvements

202316 releases

  1. Content Views 3.6.2

    • New: Introduce the “Overlay Clickable” option for Overlay blocks/layouts
    • New: [Block] add Border, Border Radius, Box Shadow styles to the Title field
    • New: [Block] add option to allow HTML tags in excerpt
    • Fix: [Block] prevent blank row below blocks
    • Other improvements for blocks

  2. Content Views 3.6.1.1

    • Update: [Block] Show the Block ID in the “Extra” tab of the Block settings, which can be used as VIEW_ID value in custom codes mentioned on our documentation site
    • Other tweaks and improvements

  3. Content Views 3.6.1

    • New: [Block] Add a Toolbar button to each block to open Block settings
    • Fix: [Block] Prevent responsive issue when using with page builder plugin
    • Fix: [Shortcode] It doesn’t scroll to top of View after changing page, when enable pagination with the new layouts
    • Dev: [Block] Fix React warnings about “class”, and unique “key” prop
    • Update: Add more instructions to the Library page, also rename it to ‘Layout Library’

  4. Content Views 3.6.0

    • New: Add 3 NEW FREE layouts (Grid 2, List, Overlay 1) to View shortcode
    • New: Add ‘Library’ to View shortcode to import ready-to-use patterns/layouts to new/existing View easily
    • New: Add ‘Top Meta’ field to View shortcode
    • Fix: Text Alignment of Scrollable block
    • Other tweaks and improvements

  5. Content Views 3.5.0

    • New: [Block] Add ‘Author Not In’, ‘Parent Page’ options to blocks
    • New: [Block] Introduce ‘Substitute’ option for Featured Image in blocks
    • New: [Block] Introduce ‘WooCommerce Hot Pick’ to show Sale, Best selling, Featured, Top rated … products in one click
    • New: [Block] Introduce the Timeline Block
    • Update: [Block] Add ‘Theme’ colors to the Color Picker
    • Update: [Block] Move ‘Posts per page’, ‘Offset’ to top of the Query panel to easy use
    • Update: [Block] Show default options for Include, Exclude fields

  6. Content Views 3.4.0

    • New: [Block] add “Live Filter” feature to blocks to show taxonomies, custom fields, text search as filtering options in front-end (see demo)
    • New: [Block] add “Filter by Published Date” feature to blocks
    • New: [Block] add “Show Advertisement” feature to blocks
    • Fix: color of meta fields in overlay blocks
    • Fix: position of author prefix text in blocks

  7. Content Views 3.3.0.2

    • Fix: [Block Settings] Some dropdown options (for example: Categories, Posts Include) are shown under Sort panel

  8. Content Views 3.3.0

  9. Content Views 3.2.0

  10. Content Views 3.1.0

  11. Content Views 3.0.4

  12. Content Views 3.0.3

  13. Content Views 3.0.2

  14. Content Views 3.0.1

  15. Content Views 3.0

  16. Content Views 2.5.0.1

20226 releases

  1. Content Views 2.5.0

  2. Content Views 2.4.0.7

  3. Content Views 2.4.0.6

  4. Content Views 2.4.0.5

  5. Content Views 2.4.0.4

  6. Content Views 2.4.0.3

20213 releases

  1. Content Views 2.4.0.2

  2. Content Views 2.4.0.1

  3. Content Views 2.4.0

20206 releases

  1. Content Views 2.3.4

  2. Content Views 2.3.3.1

  3. Content Views 2.3.3

  4. Content Views 2.3.2

  5. Content Views 2.3.1

  6. Content Views 2.3.0

20196 releases

  1. Content Views 2.2.0

  2. Content Views 2.1.3.3

  3. Content Views 2.1.3.2

  4. Content Views 2.1.3.1

  5. Content Views 2.1.3

  6. Content Views 2.1.2

20187 releases

  1. Content Views 2.1.1

  2. Content Views 2.1

  3. Content Views 2.0.2

  4. Content Views 2.0.1.1

  5. Content Views 2.0.1

  6. Content Views 2.0

  7. Content Views 1.9.9.6

201716 releases

  1. Content Views 1.9.9.5

  2. Content Views 1.9.9.4

  3. Content Views 1.9.9.3

  4. Content Views 1.9.9.2

  5. Content Views 1.9.9.1

  6. Content Views 1.9.9

  7. Content Views 1.9.8.21

  8. Content Views 1.9.8.2

  9. Content Views 1.9.8.1

  10. Content Views 1.9.8

  11. Content Views 1.9.7

  12. Content Views 1.9.6

  13. Content Views 1.9.5

  14. Content Views 1.9.4

  15. Content Views 1.9.3.3

  16. Content Views 1.9.3.2

201623 releases

  1. Content Views 1.9.3.1

  2. Content Views 1.9.3

  3. Content Views 1.9.2.1

  4. Content Views 1.9.2

  5. Content Views 1.9.1

  6. Content Views 1.9.0

  7. Content Views 1.8.9

  8. Content Views 1.8.8

  9. Content Views 1.8.7

  10. Content Views 1.8.6.1

  11. Content Views 1.8.6

  12. Content Views 1.8.5

  13. Content Views 1.8.4.1

  14. Content Views 1.8.4

  15. Content Views 1.8.3

  16. Content Views 1.8.2

  17. Content Views 1.8.1

  18. Content Views 1.8.0.2

  19. Content Views 1.8.0.1

  20. Content Views 1.8.0

  21. Content Views 1.7.8

  22. Content Views 1.7.7

  23. Content Views 1.7.6

201535 releases

  1. Content Views 1.7.5

  2. Content Views 1.7.4

  3. Content Views 1.7.3

  4. Content Views 1.7.2

  5. Content Views 1.7.1

  6. Content Views 1.7.0

  7. Content Views 1.6.8.4

  8. Content Views 1.6.8.3

  9. Content Views 1.6.8.2

  10. Content Views 1.6.8.1

  11. Content Views 1.6.8

  12. Content Views 1.6.7

  13. Content Views 1.6.6

  14. Content Views 1.6.5.2

  15. Content Views 1.6.5.1

  16. Content Views 1.6.5

  17. Content Views 1.6.4

  18. Content Views 1.6.3.1

  19. Content Views 1.6.3

  20. Content Views 1.6.2.1

  21. Content Views 1.6.2

  22. Content Views 1.6.1

  23. Content Views 1.6.0

  24. Content Views 1.5.7.1

  25. Content Views 1.5.7

  26. Content Views 1.5.6

  27. Content Views 1.5.5

  28. Content Views 1.5.4

  29. Content Views 1.5.3

  30. Content Views 1.5.2

  31. Content Views 1.5.1

  32. Content Views 1.5.0

  33. Content Views 1.4.9

  34. Content Views 1.4.8

  35. Content Views 1.4.6

201443 releases

  1. Content Views 1.4.5

  2. Content Views 1.4.4

  3. Content Views 1.4.3

  4. Content Views 1.4.2

  5. Content Views 1.4.1

  6. Content Views 1.4.0

  7. Content Views 1.3.9

  8. Content Views 1.3.8

  9. Content Views 1.3.6

  10. Content Views 1.3.5.1

  11. Content Views 1.3.5

  12. Content Views 1.3.4.1

  13. Content Views 1.3.4

  14. Content Views 1.3.3

  15. Content Views 1.3.2

  16. Content Views 1.3.1.9

  17. Content Views 1.3.1.8

  18. Content Views 1.3.1.6

  19. Content Views 1.3.1.5

  20. Content Views 1.3.1.4

  21. Content Views 1.3.1.3

  22. Content Views 1.3.1.2

  23. Content Views 1.3.1.1

  24. Content Views 1.3.1

  25. Content Views 1.3.0.2

  26. Content Views 1.3.0.1

  27. Content Views 1.3.0

  28. Content Views 1.2.6

  29. Content Views 1.2.5

  30. Content Views 1.2.4

  31. Content Views 1.2.3

  32. Content Views 1.2.2

  33. Content Views 1.2.1

  34. Content Views 1.2.0

  35. Content Views 1.1.6

  36. Content Views 1.1.5

  37. Content Views 1.1.4

  38. Content Views 1.1.3

  39. Content Views 1.1.2

  40. Content Views 1.1.1

  41. Content Views 1.1

  42. Content Views 1.0.2

  43. Content Views 1.0.1

Questions about Content Views’s releases

What is the latest version of Content Views?

4.5.1.2, released on Aug 31, 2026 (2 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 5.6 or later.

How often is Content Views updated?

7 releases in the last year, about one every 45 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from June 2014.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Content Views’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.