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Date:   Mon Sep 21 07:50:25 2026 +0000

    What this repository is, and what the plugin does

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