Updates & Bugfix

• Tested up to WordPress 6.4.2.
• Bump minimum WordPress version to 5.3, aligning with minimum PHP support.
• Test to PHP 8.2.
• Update Github actions.
• Add Code Standard fixer Github Action, h/t @szepeviktor
• Fix coding standards and a bunch of typos, h/t @szepeviktor
• Increase accuracy of CSS selector used to hide blog related items in Settings > Reading, closes #69
• Add .wp-env.json for local development.

Bugfixes, Comments, & Pluigin Integrations

• Fix typeof typo in disable-blog-customizer.js from 0.5.2 updates for #59.
• Fix uninstall error to allow for the plugin to be deleted correctly.
• Only fire comment related admin functions if comments are supported.
• Limit the get_comment_count function to query only post types supporting comments. This allows for the post types to be modified via the dwpb_post_types_supporting_comments filter and avoids large queries on post types that aren't relevant (e.g. shop_order in WooCommerce). Closes #65
• Add caching to the dwpb_post_types_with_feature function.
• Create a plugin integration framework - simple class with "plugin active" checks and related integration functions, including the preexisting WooCommerce (version <= 2.6.2) comment count integration.
• Add a Disable Comments integration, utilizing the dwpb_post_types_supporting_comments to turn off all Disable Blog comment-related functions if Disable Comments is active.

Bugfixes and updates

• Test up to WP 6.1.1
• Increase minimum PHP to v7.4
• Test to PHP 8.1
• Update Github Actions to current versions.
• Fix some bugs introduced in v0.5.1: Reverts "Remove core post-related blocks in editor" - WP core handles the missing taxonomy endpoints (noted in issue 53) fine without any intervention and pulling these blocks out causes other issues. Also removes dwpb_disabled_blocks filter. Closes #60 Closes #53
• Adds a check to the customizer script to avoid a TypeError. Closes #59
• Increase specificity in permalinks page to correctly target and remove "optional" section when category and post tags are not supported by any post type (default condition). Closes #62

Bugfixes, doc updates

• Update to documentation, readmes, and doc blocks.
• Fix .distignore to remove itself and .gitignore from WP-dot-org repo.
• Add WP repo assets and deployment action.
• Add plugin row links for support, donate, and github repro links.
• New red and black logo and banner for wordpress.org plugin page.
• Test up to WordPress v6.0.2
• Remove core post-related blocks in editor Closes #53. Adds dwpb_disabled_blocks passing array of blocks being disabled by the plugin.
• Add scripts and styles to change Customizer view of homepage settings, matching the static homepage settings and updated text.
• Update loader class to provide a remove_filter method. Closes #58.
• Alter permalink settings based on if categories and author archives are supported.

Improvements, Bugfixes, and Updates

New:

• New disable author archive functionality via new dwpb_disable_author_archives filter. Pass true to disable author archives entirely. Default does not disable author archives because numerous other plugins use author archives for other purposes. (A future settings page will provide more flexibility here).
• New dwpb_author_archive_post_types filter to provide author archive support for custom post types. Pass an array of post type slugs to this filter to modify the post types queried on author archives, if not removed by filter above.
• Extend wp_safe_redirect_fallback on redirects to set the front-end fallback to home_url (WordPress defaults to admin_url).
• New dwpb_redirect_status_code filter to allow for custom status codes for redirects. Defaults to 301 and will set the default if the filter returns a non-300 code.
• New dwpb_pass_query_string_on_redirect filter, returning true enables all valid url query params to be passed during redirects. Default is false. Use the dwpb_allowed_query_vars to limit the vars passed in the redirect by passing an array of keys (e.g. return array( 'utm' ) to only pass utm query variables in the query string). Closes #52
• Remove user sitemaps unless author archives are supported by custom post types via the filter noted above.
• Replace the "Posts" column on the user admin screen by a "Pages" column, also adds similar columns for custom post types using the filter noted above.
• Remove the "view" link to author archives in the user screen if author archives are not supported.
• Update the post tag and category "count" columns to correctly show the number of posts by post type, for use with custom post types supporting built-in taxonomies.
• Update the customizer "Homepage" view to match the Reading options page view, when homepage is set.
• Update the default posts page admin notice indicating the blog is redirected.
• Add javascript to hide admin screen items not easily selected by CSS, include:
  • Hiding toggle comment link on welcome screen (if they are not supported by other post types),
  • Hiding the category and tag permalink base options (if not supported by other post types), and
  • Hiding the default category & default post format on Writing options page.

Fixes:

• Add dwpb_xmlrpc_methods_to_remove filter to extend the methods being disabled by the plugin. Pass false to remove the functionality entirely. Closes #50
• Bring back some admin page redirects to account for use cases where direct access to post.php, post-new.php, etc occur. Closes #45
• Replace the REST API site health check (which uses the post type) with a matching function using the page endpoint instead. This was throwing an error with the post type REST endpoints are disabled. Closes #46
• Fix issue with Reading Settings link in admin notice outputting raw HTML instead of a link. Closes #47
• In order to account for multiple subpages of a common parent page being removed the dwpb_menu_subpages_to_remove param has been updated to support an array of subpages in the format of $remove_subpages['parent-page-slug.php'] = array( 'subpage-1.php', 'subpage-2.php' );, though it still supports subpages as strings for backwards compatibility. Fixes bugs were options-writing.php and options-discussion.php were conflicting.

Improvements/Updates:

• Update admin filters to a common format and removing redundent filters. Filter changes include:
  • New filter: dwpb_redirect_admin_url filters the final url used in admin redirects.
  • dwpb_redirect_admin only accepts 1 parameter, the previous version accepted 3 (dropping $redirect_url & $current_url).
  • dwpb_redirect_admin_edit_post is now dwpb_redirect_admin_edit.
  • dwpb_redirect_single_post_edit is now dwpb_redirect_admin_post.
  • dwpb_redirect_admin_edit_single_post is now dwpb_redirect_admin_edit.
  • dwpb_redirect_edit_tax has been removed. Use dwpb_redirect_admin_edit_tags or dwpb_redirect_admin_term instead, depending on the context.
  • dwpb_redirect_edit_comments has been removed. use dwpb_redirect_admin_edit_comments instead.
  • dwpb_redirect_options_discussion has been removed. Use dwpb_redirect_admin_options_discussion instead.
  • The filter dwpb_redirect_admin_options_writing that would pass a boolean to toggle off the options writing page has been remaned dwpb_remove_options_writing and must be passed with true in order to have the page redirect and the admin menu item removed. By default the value filtered is false and the options Writing page does not go away, as numerous other plugins use this page for non-blog related settings. Now dwpb_redirect_admin_options_writing is used to filter the redirect url itself, replacing the previously named dwpb_redirect_options_writing filter.
  • dwpb_redirect_options_tools has been removed. Use dwpb_redirect_admin_options_tools instead.
  • New filter: dwpb_xmlrpc_methods_to_remove (see above).
  • New filter: dwpb_author_archive_post_types (see above).
  • New filter: dwpb_disable_author_archives (see above).
• Update public redirect filters to match the pattern used for the new admin redirects. Filer changes include:
  • New filter: dwpb_front_end_redirect_url filters the final url used in front end redirects.
  • New filter: dwpb_redirect_author_archive to change the redirect used on author archives, if they are disabled.
  • New filter: dwpb_disable_user_sitemap to change the user sitemap default, pass true to keep disable the sitmap. Note that if author archives are disabled by the above filter, user sitemps will be also be disabled regardless of this filter.
  • dwpb_redirect_posts is now dwpb_redirect_post.
  • dwpb_redirect_post_{$post->ID} filter has been removed. Use dwpb_redirect_post and check for the post id to target a specific post.
  • dwpb_redirect_front_end only accepts 1 parameter, the previous version accepted 3 (dropping $redirect_url & $current_url).
• Bump minimum PHP to 5.6.
• Tested up to WP Core version 5.9.3.
• Updated minimum WP Core version to 4.0.
• Updated translation file for all current plugin strings.

Fix custom post type archive bug in 0.4.9

Fix a bug from v0.4.9 that caused redirects on custom post type archives, correcting the modify_query function to only remove posts from built-in taxonomy archives, as that was the original intent.

WP 5.5 Compatibility, Tests, and other improvements.

Includes the following:

• Notice: Added the minimum PHP version requirement of 5.3, which was not explicitly set before now.
• Big change: the plugin now changes the post_type arguments for posts so they are no longer public and removes all post_type support parameters. This disables the post-related admin redirects, as WordPress will now show users an error page stating "Sorry, you are not allowed to edit posts in this post type." It also pulls posts out of a lot of other locations (menus, etc, achieving the same thing as #36. Thanks to @chesio for his contribution there) and is a much more efficient method of "disabling" the 'post' type. This method is also used on built-in taxonomies, unless another post type supports them. This change may impact other plugins or themes, be sure to back up your site and, if you can, test these changes prior to updating the plugin on a production site.
• Add basic static php tests and update code to pass those test, closes #24. Huge props to @szepeviktor.
• Disable pingbacks entirely.
• Fix comment redirect/menu functionality, now correctly removes comments and redirects edit-comments.php admin page if no other post type support comments (note that WordPress default is for pages and attachments to support comments).
• Fully disabling XMLRPC for posts and tags/categories. Tag/categories remain if another post type supports them.
• Initiate plugin via plugins_loaded hook.
• Change the admin notice related to blog and home page settings, only showing notices if no homepage is set or if the blog and homepage are the same page.
• Flush rewrite rules at activation and deactivation.
• Filtering out post post types from all archives, previously it was just author archives and search results.
• Removes post, category, and tag options from all menus. Tag/categories remain if another post type supports them.
• Remove header feed urls, unless supported by another post type.
• WordPress 5.5 support:
  • Remove 'post' post type from XML sitemaps.
  • Remove built-in taxonomies from XML sitemaps, if not being used by a custom post type.
  • Fix sitemap redirect issues.
• Developers: Filters were removed and altered in this version:
  • The dwpb_redirect_feeds filter now has (3) params, to match those in the dwpb_disable_feed filter: $bool, $post, $is_comment_feed.
  • The dwpb_author_post_types filter is now dwpb_archive_post_types, as the query modification now includes all pages passing is_archive.
  • Removed filters: dwpb_disable_rest_api, dwpb_remove_post_comment_support, dwpb_remove_post_trackback_support, dwpb_redirect_admin_edit_single_post, dwpb_redirect_single_post_edit, dwpb_redirect_admin_edit_post, dwpb_redirect_edit, dwpb_redirect_admin_post_new, dwpb_redirect_post_new as these are rendered obsolute by above changes.

Version Bump

Do'h! I forgot to update the version number in the main plugin file, this release fixes that (and some minor readme.md changes)

See 0.4.8 release notes for changes since 0.4.7.

Bugfixes & Misc

• Fixed typo in variable name for current vs redirect url check. (h/t @chesio, PR #30, Closes #29)
• Update function names from template to disable_blog. (h/t @szepeviktor, PR #31)
• Add WP.org Badge to readme.md. (h/t @szepeviktor, PR #32)
• Change the name of the CI workflow to be specific to deployment. (h/t @szepeviktor, PR #33)
• Some code tidying and inline documentation.

Admin Notices on Front Page settings & Bugfixes

• Using GitHub actions publish on WP.org from github releases.
• Cleaned up the Reading settings, adding admin notices if front page is not set.
• Add check for Multisite to avoid network page redirects. Closes #17, props to @Mactory.
• Added Contributing and Code of Conduct documentation.
• Check that is_singular works prior to running redirects to avoid non-object errors in feeds, Closes #22.