Content Blur Pro - Boost Registrations and Upgrades v2.4.0

• Stats issue resolved
• Resolves error preventing daily stats from completing

If you launch the new "Users" system to target users to upgrade, and haven't dealt with permissions previously, please post in the discussion group for help.

• NEW: Targeting available for Users (not just guests anymore)
• NEW: Choose your implementation:
  1. Guests Only
  2. Users Only
  3. Guests & Users
• NEW: Lightweight database tracking system implemented
• NEW: Statistics automatically added to XF stats system
• Tracks blur thread views, blur guest registrations, blur user upgrades
• NEW: Moved notices to an actual template that allows variables and regular HTML (User mode only)
• NEW: 4 permission groups added for (permissions for [User] or [Guests & Users] mode only)
  • (perm) unblur posts
  • (perm) unblur stickies
  • (perm) unblur X posts
  • (perm) unblur X paragraphs
  • Installer sets default options so that all users see 'unblurred' posts (including guests)
  • Please understand xenforo permission system and set permissions as required BEFORE enabling addon
• NEW: Options for notice placement (Users System)
• NEW: Option to remove common actions from blurred forums (reply, like, create, etc) (user mode only)
• NEW: Performance improved by extracting posts direclty versus itering to find them
• NEW: Option to toggle obfuscating post text for guests
• NEW: Option to toggle obfuscating post text for users
• NEW: Option to choose whether to remove images when post is blurred
• NEW: Option to prevent users masquerading as crawlers to avoid blur
• FIX: Obey ignored forums when using "Guests Only" mode (the original system)
• FIX: Added blurred links to the blur CSS (colored links within blur text stood out too much without)
• FIX: In guest mode, obey fade paragraphs set to 0 (blur article if fade is 0)
• FIX: bug on Post extension by WarningIprovements and/or ReportingImprovements
• FIX: Call to undefined method XF\Mvc\Reply\Redirect::getParams()
• FIX: Restore canCreateThread on forum where blur is disabled (Users mode)
• NEW: Performance improved, removed all reliance on previous Crawler detection
  • Removed old classes/folders
  • Using composer package instead
  • Removed outdated listener and event listeners
• Updated installer to require composer
• Renamed addon to something more concise and less reliant on "registering" (Content Blur Pro)
  • Unfortunately need to keep the AddOn zip name the same for compatibility

• Bug fix for getParams() edge case error
• Update extended Thread to ensure it only applies when 'intanceof View'
• Bug fix for duplicate notice when there's only one post AND option for "last post" is selected
• Bug fix edge case for registration overlay not firing in all situations
• Update all checkbox options to Boolean instead of String

• Fix error when Article/Question has no posts
• Exit blur post alter if/when there's no post

** XF 2.3 Compliant - Forwards/Backwards Compatible **

Recommend uninstall/reinstall, but not required, updating works fine.

Overhauled and lots of changes, so reinstalling will reset to more appropriate preset defaults and ensure templates are overwritten as well as phrases revisited.

• added "style property" for notice block for editing
• added actual "login", "register" and "confirm email" link to notice block
• added [Always show notice message on last post] option
• fixed issue with simulating registration overlay click (XF 2.3)
• compressed images (reduced image files by 80%)
• save 300kb+ per page load
• removed reliance on blur images
• updated all jQuery to native JavaScript (XF 2.3)
• change blur to use the actual text from each post
  • target all text outside of [bbcode] tags, leaving bbcode tags intact
  • prevent copy/paste and viewing source being helpful to visitor,
  • shifted all text letters so that text is incomprehensible beyond blur
• bug fix on counting posts NOT to blur (article versus regular posts)
• added option to count "article/question" towards post count so "ignore" counts make more sense
• revisited all option defaults and made them more sensible
• added new phrases
• added option group tabs option (default=off)

Bug fix:

• (fixed) post->message was cleared too early, preventing the registration message from showing

RC5 notes:

• tested with XF RC5
  • everything works except the following:
  • (issue) Registration overlay, if enabled, doesn't fire (needs to be fixed in future release)

Features & Display

• added [Article] type targeting
• new "fade" effect for Articles (shows actual article text)
• added ability to limit the number of times the registration link shows
• randomized blur posts sizes so they're less uniform (4 varieties based on post size)

Options

• added selection for Articles (default=off)
• added option to choose the numbers of Article paragraphs to fade
• added option to choose the number of posts to show registration link on
• registration link display limit (default=off)
• (change) automatically show the registration overlay (default=off)

System/Performance

• added updated crawler list
• added 22 new crawlers
• updated exclusions
• added 4 exclusions

Roadmap

• extend the "fade" to all blurred posts by sentence count or character limit
• test with 2.3 RC5

• Added option to force blur settings on a specific list of thread id's (even if the forum is ignored)
• Updated crawler detection definitions (added approximately 300+ regexes for additional crawlers)
• Performance improvement to add immediate exit of routine if add-on is disabled

• Now checks and prevents users "awaiting email confirmation" from seeing posts
  • Users "awaiting email confirmation" will see blurred posts
• Now checks and prevents "banned" users from seeing posts
  • Users "banned" will see blurred posts
• New language item added [wutime_forcereg_blur_please_email_confirm]
  • "Please confirm your email address and make sure your account is valid to see the post content below."

• Added detection for "googleweblight" crawler user agent