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Changelog ​

Version 2.0.0 August 27, 2026 ​

  • Added: Hide blocks at certain viewports/CSS breakpoints, either by the breakpoints of your theme or by your own media queries
  • Added: Blocks with visibility settings are now marked in the document overview and the block itself
  • Improved: The visibility panel now explains via tooltip that settings apply to a block
  • Improved: Unified the look and feel of the settings
  • Updated: PHP requirement changed from minimum version 5.6 to 8.0
  • Updated: Library to detect mobile devices

Version 1.6.1 August 12, 2026 ​

  • Improved: Group labels of the visibility controls are now announced by screen readers
  • Improved: The hide by date controls now have unique, descriptive labels for screen readers
  • Improved: The visibility panel now indicates to screen readers that settings apply to a block
  • Improved: Blocks hidden by date are now marked with an outline instead of reduced contrast
  • Improved: The option to hide content for screen readers now explains when not to use it
  • Improved: The documentation link in the plugin list now announces that it opens in a new tab
  • Improved: The page numbers field now explains its format and that only numbers are allowed
  • Fixed: The visibility panel no longer closes while changing the hide by date settings
  • Fixed: Focus is no longer lost after removing a hide or display date
  • Fixed: Screen readers are now informed if no visibility setting applies to a block anymore
  • Fixed: Posts without a title now have a readable label in the visibility settings
  • Fixed: Hiding a block for screen readers no longer produces invalid HTML in nested blocks
  • Fixed: The screen reader text class is now added reliably regardless of quotes and other classes

Version 1.6.0 May 24, 2026 ​

  • Added: Allow hiding content in feeds
  • Added: Allow filtering the post object before checking for post type
  • Added: Link to documentation in plugin row
  • Fixed: Potential wrong return type in Block_Control::toggle_blocks()

Version 1.5.1 December 14, 2025 ​

  • Fixed: A block with a start date to hide in the future and with an end date will now correctly be hidden between those two dates

Version 1.5.0 May 13, 2025 ​

  • Added: Option to hide based on a numbered page (e.g. in archives)

Version 1.4.1 December 7, 2024 ​

  • We added an indeterminate visual display of the "All" checkbox, e.g. while selecting posts.
  • We fixed displaying post type visibility settings inside the site editor.

Version 1.4.0 November 5, 2024 ​

  • We added the possibility to hide inline text for everyone but screen readers.

Version 1.3.0 August 30, 2024 ​

  • We added the possibility to patterns to hide them by any post type available.
  • We extended the list of ignored post types with font families and font faces.

Version 1.2.0 August 6, 2024 ​

  • We added the option to disable blocks for screen readers. That means that the block is still visible, but will be ignored by screen readers entirely.

Version 1.1.12 December 11, 2023 ​

  • We fixed all variants of hide by date setting to be properly checked.

Version 1.1.11 November 10, 2023 ​

  • We fixed the hide by date setting if only one of the dates is used.

Version 1.1.10 October 31, 2023 ​

  • We fixed the hide by date setting if both settings are in the future or both are in the past.
  • We improved the settings for hide by date for better accessibility and functionality.

Version 1.1.9 August 26, 2023 ​

  • We fixed a problem with some blocks no more saving the visibility settings.

Version 1.1.8 August 8, 2023 ​

  • We fixed a problem with broken blocks after updating to version 1.1.7. The editor now doesn't contain any classes from Block Control anymore.

Version 1.1.7 August 1, 2023 ​

  • We fixed compatibility with dynamic blocks.

Version 1.1.6 June 1, 2023 ​

  • We improved the ability to use the filter blockControl.unsupportedBlocks without needing to load the own JavaScript early.

Version 1.1.5 April 25, 2023 ​

  • We added a filter blockControl.unsupportedBlocks to filter the list of unsupported blocks.
  • We disabled Block Control for the SimpleTOC block in order to display it properly in the backend.

Version 1.1.4 April 5, 2023 ​

  • We disabled Block Control for the Polylang language switcher in order to display it properly in the backend.

Version 1.1.3 November 5, 2022 ​

  • We added full support for WordPress 6.1 (replaced a deprecated function).

Version 1.1.2 October 3, 2022 ​

  • We fixed a potential error in blocks in the widget area.

Version 1.1.1 July 7, 2022 ​

  • We fixed a dependency problem, which may result in preventing the settings panel to appear.

Version 1.1.0 May 28, 2022 ​

  • Since the originally planned Pro version will never be completed, we decided to merge its code into the free version of Block Control.
  • Hide blocks based on roles
  • Hide blocks based on dates
  • Hide blocks based on page types (is_home, is_page, etc.)
  • Hide blocks based on posts of the current post type (useful especially for reusable blocks)

Version 1.0.4 December 14, 2021 ​

  • We fixed a problem with assets loading in the backend

Version 1.0.3 June 15, 2021 ​

  • We fixed a problem while checking for block attributes

Version 1.0.2 December 31, 2020 ​

  • We fixed a problem that may load multiple editor scripts in the frontend even if they are not needed there
  • We fixed a problem where Block Control options won’t be available for certain blocks

Version 1.0.1 August 28, 2019 ​

  • We fixed the internationalization for all strings

Version 1.0.0 August 27, 2019 ​

  • Initial release