The ruling concerns the “WAVE” logs. That stands for White House Access-Visitor Entry. It’s one of the gated entries into the White House.
It won’t cover visits from other government officials, including foreign dignitaries. They use a separate entry point. But, it will cover those who are professional lobbyists and the like.
There is a good scene involving that “WAVE” gate in the movie “The American President” where Annette Benning is gaining entry to go to a meeting with the White House Chief of Staff.
I don’t know how much “meat” the media will get from this change in policy ordered by the judge. During the last administration there were inquiries about repeated entries by a fellow named Wong, because someone with that last name was involved in some campaign finance “hanky panky” with the Democratic National Committee. George Stephanopolus pointed out that the media were confusing him with another gentleman named Wong who was from the IRS and detailed to work at the White House (detailees use that WAVE gate). No one in the media ever followed up to question why someone from the IRS was working at the White House when such a work detail assignment had been against the law since 1975. It was one of the post-Watergate laws.