Recent Changes for Developers

This page lists changes made in recent versions of Extended CPTs that are of interest to developers, for example new arguments and new features. For a complete changelog, see the Releases page.

5.0.0 (2022-20-01)

Several changes that concern developers, including a bump to the minimum supported PHP version. See the release notes for details.

4.5.2 (2021-03-21)

No developer-facing changes.

4.5.1 (2021-01-31)

No developer-facing changes.

4.5.0 (2021-01-12)

• PHP 8 support was added. There is no functional change to the library, just the platform dependency in composer.json was updated to allow the library to be installed with PHP 8.

4.4.1 (2020-12-05)

• Some new filters were introduced. See the filters and actions documentation for all the details.

4.4.0 (2020-07-08)

• The block_editor argument was introduced.

4.3.3 (2020-04-22)

No developer-facing changes.

4.3.2 (2019-08-25)

No developer-facing changes.

4.3.1 (2019-08-13)

• The post_author filter now accepts an options array or callback.

4.3.0 (2019-08-12)

• Two new post type listing screen filters were introduced: post_author for an author dropdown, and post_date for a date picker.
• The title_icon and title_cb parameters were introduced for displaying a Dashicon or complex markup in post type listing screen column titles.
• The dashboard_activity argument was added to allow the post type to be included in the Recently Published section of the Activity widget on the dashboard.

4.2.6 (2019-08-08)

• It's now possible to specify a default argument in a filter, so posts are filtered by that value by default.
• A meta_key_exists filter type has been introduced, which performs a real EXISTS query on the meta key rather than the truthy meta value query that the meta_exists filter performs.

4.2.5 (2019-06-27)

No developer-facing changes.

4.2.4 (2019-06-17)

• An optional label argument can now be passed to most filters to control the text used for the <label> element for the field. A sensible default is used depending on the filter type, and it's unlikely you'll need to change this.

4.2.3 (2019-09-08)

No developer-facing changes.

4.2.2 (2018-12-06)

No developer-facing changes.

4.2.1 (2018-10-04)

No developer-facing changes.

4.2.0 (2017-11-01)

• Any value that can be passed through strtotime() can now be used when using an admin column that uses date_format. Previously this was restricted to just Unix and MySQL format timestamps.