Changelog

1.7

PR: 42

• Feature: New module Role manager. Add, edit and/or remove roles and grant or deny them capabilities. #43
• Feature: Module Role Defaults: Added the option to copy defaults from one role to another (or multiple). #44
• Enhancement/UI: Enable and Improve responsive styles/a11y. #16
• Enhancement/UI: Improved the autoHeight calculation (submenu and popup).
• Enhancement: View combinations now working in code (No UI). #18
• Enhancement: Major code refactoring for better standards en easier development.
• Maintenance: Validated compatibility with "Restrict User Access" (RUA) plugin v0.14. #31
• Compatibility: Tested with WordPress 4.8 (alpha) and requires WordPress 4.1 or higher (was 3.5).
• Fix: Fixed all major CodeClimate issues. All green now!
• Wiki (documentation) updated.
• Screenshots & Banners updated.

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.6.4

PR: 36 & 34

• Feature: Integration with the "Restrict User Access" (RUA) plugin. Introduces a new view type "access levels" when this plugin is activated. #31
• Enhancement: Improve compatibility with plugins that use the current user object. Related: #32
• Enhancement: Improve compatibility with plugins that use the role objects.
• Enhancement: Redirect to homepage when selecting the visitor view.
• Enhancement: Integrate with the capability groups in plugin "User Role Editor".
• Fix: Started to use CodeClimate for style checks + applied fixes. #37

1.6.3

PR: #29

• Feature: Meta sync manager UI for the role defaults module #28
• Feature: Multiple import methods for the role defaults module #27
• Enhancement: Also update the current user object's capabilities and roles to improve support for other plugins #32
• Other minor improvements

1.6.2

PR: #23

• Feature: A new view! You can now see your site as an unregistered visitor (no need to switch browsers) #14
• Enhancement: Reduced queries for getting the available users to 1! Performance improvement to the native WP function get_users() (with fallback if needed) #24
• Enhancement: Add all existing roles that have defaults to the clear list even if they have been removed from WP #22
• Enhancement: Enable the current view as a capability filter
• Enhancement: Highlight the view capabilities in the capability menu
• Enhancement: Pass view data as JSON (enhances compatibility with weird capability identifiers since WP doesn’t escape these so it could contain special characters)
• Enhancement/Fix: Compatibility with the editable_roles filter for non super admins
• Fix: Hide our toolbar in the customizer preview. Switching in the WP Customizer not possible (yet)
• Fix: Improve capability view handling
• Other minor fixes

1.6.1

PR: #20

• Feature: Freeze locale, force your own locale setting over that of a selected view. (Requires WP 4.7) #21
• Enhancement: Added a11y keyboard tab indexes
• Fix: Reloading when anchor tags are set in the url #17
• Other minor fixes

1.6

PR: #8

• Feature: Lock meta boxes #9
• Feature: View as links in user management page #12
• Enhancement: Better admin bar handling when set to hidden by user #4
• Also adds an option to hide/show our toolbar when now view is selected and the admin bar is not shown.
• Enhancement: Better handling for permission errors #10
• Compatibility: Show our custom capabilities on role manage plugins like Members
• Compatibility: PHP 5.2 (WP minimum)
• Fix: occasional issues with enabling the Role Defaults module
• Refactor whole backend into multiple classes for more flexibility in future development

1.5.3

PR: #6

• Feature: Switch between super admins on network pages (currently only available for superior admins, see view_admin_as_superior_admins filter)
• Improvement: Better handling of role defaults for new users
• Improvement: Also hide the screen options for all users who can access this plugin default functionalities but can’t access the role defaults module
• UX: Confirm before deleting role defaults
• UI: Translate user roles in front end (WP issue workaround)
• UI: Fix icon sizes across browsers
• Tested for WordPress 4.6

1.5.2.1

• Fix: minor bug with displaying role names
• Fix: minor bug with displaying role defaults menu item

1.5.2

• Feature: Added the view_admin_as_superior_admins filter. Grant admins the capability to view other admins. There is no UI for this!
• Improvement: (Module Role Defaults) Added forbidden meta keys to make sure user entered keys (filter) are ok to use.
• Improvement: (Settings tab) Add the option to group users under their roles. This option is only available when there are less than 15 users and roles, otherwise this is default
• Improvement: view_admin_as_role_defaults capability for access to the “Role Defaults” module when a user isn’t a super admin
• Performance: Less queries for user validation
• Fix: (Module Role Defaults) Problem solved with unsetting meta keys
• Fix: Problem solved with anchor tags preventing javascript from reloading
• Fix: Problem solved with reset button on single switch mode
• UI: Move “Role Defaults” to the top
• UI: Remove the reset button when no view is selected
• UI: Added some of those pretty dashicons
• UI: Allow titles to toggle content
• Resource: Started with viewadminas.wordpress.com

1.5.1

• Feature: view_admin_as capability for non-admin users to enable limited access to this plugin (they won’t be able to view or edit equal or admin users and roles). This capability requires the edit_users capability (+ manage_network_users for multisite installations)
• Feature: Ability to disable the “screen settings” option for all users that don’t have access to this plugin
• Fix: die_handler for https
• Fix: reset currently loaded metadata aswell when resetting a view (refresh is no longer needed, minor bug in 1.5)
• Added notices on compatibility errors

1.5

• Upgrade notice: The plugin code changed a lot, please clear your cache after updating
• Feature: Import and export functions for module “Role defaults”
• Feature: (Settings tab) View mode “browse” and “single”
• Feature: (Settings tab) Change location of this plugin menu
• Improvement: Better capability filter (used for changing capabilities and roles)
• Improvement: Added some actions for extension purposes
• Improvement: Better version compare
• Improvement: Better code standards and data validation
• Compatibility: Backwards compatibility until WP 3.5+ (3.8+ is highly recommended, 4.0+ is best!)
• Security: Better data validation and usage of a nonce (allthough in this case I don’t think it made any difference for actual security, it’s still good to implement proper security!)
• i18n: All translations are now managed with translate.wordpress.org
• Screenshots updated

1.4.1

• Improvement: Improve how capabilities are fetched
• Improvement: Usage of a single instance of the class
• Tested with WordPress 4.5-Beta4

1.4

• Feature: Module “Role defaults” to set default screen settings for roles and apply them on users through various bulk actions
• Improvement: DB version storage and update functions
• A lot of code improvements and some deprecated fixes
• Stopped using WordPress default translations since some where not correct for this plugin. All translations are now managed with the plugin
• Also tested with WordPress 4.5-Beta1

1.3.4

• Improvement: View settings are saved separately for each browser login so you can set different views at the same time if you use different browsers. (incognito also works!)
• Improvement: View settings are saved for 24 hours. After that they are cleared automatically. (login triggers cleanup)
• Improvement: Better Ajax handlers
• Improvement: Better storage handlers
• Improvement: uninstall.php added for cleanup all data. (Sadly does not work for large networks of 10000+ sites or users)
• Tested with WordPress 4.5-Beta1

1.3.3

• Improvement: Changed “init” hook to “plugins_loaded” for theme support (found some issues with the Genesis Framework, this solved it)

1.3.2

• Feature: Added the ability to filter capabilities by the role defaults (normal and reversed)

1.3.1

• Capability filter improved
• Fix: constructor for PHP7
• Fix: Stop loading css and scripts on frontend when no view is selected and the adminbar is disabled
• Added version tag to css and scripts

1.3

• Feature: Added the ability to (non-destructively) change your own capabilities
• Feature: Added reset link on the “access denied” page when a view is selected
• Remove ‘reset-view’ from address bar when selecting a new view
• Added capability screenshots
• Added a FAQ
• Tested with WordPress 4.4-Beta4

1.2.2

• Added support for users with multiple roles
• Enabled switching to admin users for multisites (switching to super admins is always disabled!)

1.2.1

Warning fixed

1.2

• Support i18n functionality (currently only English and Dutch, translators are welcome!!) – Note: I use default WordPress strings aswell
• When grouped (10+ users): show number of users per role
• When grouped (10+ users): ability to search for users by their username
• Disable forcing the admin bar when in default view (Off)
• Some extra code and style improvements

1.1

• Sort users by their role
• Group users under their roles when there are more than 10 users
• Make current user or role bold in dropdown + add eye icon
• Improve compatibility with Pods Framework
• Added css for style improvements
• Some extra code improvements

1.0

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