Hi there, this is Juan again. You know, the Views lead dev 🙂
After putting some of our best heads on this, we are quite proud to announce that... well, we have new betas ready for you to download. Those ones are Types 1.7.8-b2 and Views 1.9..1-b3. Those beta versions solve a number of things:
- Types WYSIWYG fields and formatting - hopefully, no more extra and unwanted paragraphs.
- Types experimental frontend HTML control - this is inspired on the security fix that WordPress itself implemented, it is still a work in progress and will be properly announced soon.
- Views complete review of the several race conditions we were experiencing, which shuld result in proper shortcodes rendering.
Some notes about that last issue.
In Views, we have some advanced things, like wpv-for-each loops which need to iterate over all the shortcodes (Types and Views) it contains, wpv-if conditionals (which provide support for shortcodes in the evaluation expression) and the ability to use shortcodes as values for attributes for other shortcodes. Obviously, we also supported our shortcodes as HTML attributes.
The latest API change involved that not only the last one stopped working, but impacted all the other things too, including the methods we use to render Views, which rely a lot on nested structures. We had to implement a way of handling the directly broken scenarios, while providing a solution to the affected ones. That demanded heavy coding, and also some planning to set a correct order of execition - which caused some issues while we got that right. And we wanted to do this all while ensuring that we did not bring back the very security issue that caused the changes in the first place.
Our goal was, and is, to restore the functionality as it was working. And finally I do think we did.
All that comment means: get the betas, update, check your sites and if you have pending issues, please:
- Check your site without third party plugins and with a default theme, even if that means that some things will look ugly because they do deend on other shortcodes. Let's rule out first that.
- Open a support ticket with as much information as you can: what exact functionality is missing, what is the data structure (a View inside a Content Template? A post types relationship? etc).
- If posible, provide a Duplicator package of your site - it does help a lot - https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/
We will be answering and checking each and every issue related with this update, and we will not be happy until you all are happy.
By the way, and as Amir already teased, we were caught by this while preparing the next Views release, version 1.10. While it will be delayed a little, I can wait to share with all of you the new things we packed for it. A new conditional output system with a GUI, several (and I mean a huge amount of) performance improvements and some other goodies. Please stay tunned.
I want to thank you all again for your patience. It has been a difficult week, but we are getting there 🙂
Regards.
