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# Nolimit Views — releases
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This repository holds released builds only. The source lives in a private
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repository; this one exists so a WordPress site can check for and download an
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update without needing any credentials.
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## Install
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Download `nolimit-views.zip` from the latest release, then in wp-admin:
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**Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin**.
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After the first install the plugin updates itself from here — it reads the
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latest release on this repository and offers it on Dashboard → Updates like any
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other plugin.
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## What it is
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Saved, named views of the WooCommerce product list — and catalog visibility as
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a column and a filter, which the product list has never had.
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A shop accumulates products that are not simply "for sale": kept back for
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manual orders, meant only for trade customers, kept alive so an old order still
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points at something. WooCommerce supports all of it through post status,
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catalog visibility and categories, and then shows almost none of it on the
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screen you actually work from. Catalog visibility decides whether a product
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appears on the shop at all, and it is set behind a small "Edit" link on the
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product screen — with no column, no filter and nothing in quick edit to tell
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you afterwards. On the shop this was built for, nineteen of the thirty live
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products were hidden from the catalog and no screen in wp-admin said so.
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Three things, and it invents nothing:
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- **A Visibility column**, next to SKU, showing which of WooCommerce's four
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states each product is in, and whether it is featured.
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- **A visibility and featured filter** in the filter row, beside category and
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product type. It combines correctly with the filters already there.
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- **Saved views** — name a combination of filters and it appears in the row of
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links above the list, beside All, Published and Trash. Yours by default, or
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shared with everybody who can edit products.
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There is also a screen under **Products → Saved views** that counts the
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catalogue by status and by visibility, freshly every time it is opened.
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**No new labelling layer.** Every view is built from fields WordPress and
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WooCommerce already fill in. A plugin that asks you to tag thirty products
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before it does anything is a plugin nobody uses twice.
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**It never writes to a product.** It reads status, visibility, categories and
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tags. Deleting it takes its saved views with it and nothing else — your
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products are untouched.
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## What leaves the server
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There is **no telemetry**, and here that is the whole list rather than the
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first item on one: this plugin makes exactly one request to anybody, ever — to
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this repository, to see whether there is a newer version — and it carries
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nothing about the site. No account, no analytics, no upsell, and nothing to
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switch off.
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## Requires
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WordPress 5.9 or newer, PHP 7.4 or newer, and **WooCommerce 6.0 or newer**.
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Without WooCommerce there is no product list, and the plugin registers nothing
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at all rather than failing.
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Part of the **Nolimit** family, which shares one menu in wp-admin: Nolimit
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Security, Nolimit Cache, Nolimit Assistant, Nolimit Discounts, Nolimit
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Subscriptions, Nolimit SEO and Nolimit Views.
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