Accidental deploy?

Plugin has been restored to previous version.
If your are getting some error you can manually remove the plugin with ftp by going to
wp-content/plugins folder and removing wp-hide-post folder.

After that you go to install plugin section and search for hide post plugin and install the stable version again

Noticed that WP Hide Post stopped working today on my websites – and what is worse is that it actually hid all my custom post types and wooCommerce products… yikes! If you get the message “No products were found matching your selection” – this might be your solution

I noticed I had a more recent version of WP Hide Post (2.0.3) than what is available on your WP plugins page (Version: 1.2.2) – how did that happen? (I’m sure it happened because I have auto updating plugin activated). Anyways I uninstalled the newer version and installed what you have available on your WP plugins page (Version: 1.2.2) and it solved my issue.

That was the critical error that was made here…

There are 50k active installs, so who knows how many of those sites were set to auto update plugins or happened to update during the short window that the “bad release” was available – I’m sure it was in the hundreds.

What should have ben done is followed up with a 2.1.0 release (even if it was the same as 1.2.2). That would have effectively automatically fixed everything through updating.

Instead, it was rolled back to 1.2.2. This means that for the potentially hundreds of users who have the a broken site, the only way they can fix it is to delete the plugin completely from their server, then manually reinstall it … and that’s assuming they even figure out that the plugin is the source of their site breaking.