Author: alicolville

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WordPress Cluster 9.0.58

  • CDN Patching
    • Added logic to set a “Deploy Mode” so JS and CSS assets could be served from WPC rather than Zephr.

I’ve had to partially roll this back while we investigate why the site option won’t toggle off on production!

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/2573

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WordPress Cluster 9.0.57

  • Plugins updated:
    • Blaize 1.11.23
      • Added fade effect to ‘Continue Reading’ UIC
  • Plugins added:
    • DCT Timeline 1.0.0
      • Displays intentionally related posts in a timeline format
  • Themes updated:
    • Blocks 2.6.0
      • Added new Premium block type
      • Added ALL Blocks ACF as ACF PHP fields:
        • Easier to maintain
        • Avoids data loss across multiple environments
        • Reduces calls to the database, speeding up the site
      • Removed ALL old Blocks ACF local JSON:
        • Handled now by ACF PHP fields
        • No more need to sync ACF after a deploy!
      • Moved ALL Blocks layout CSS into own stylesheet
        • includes @media and @supports tags for responsive CSS and feature queries
      • Added Enhanced Profile functionality:
        • Adds stylised author profile pictures to Simple template
      • CSS improvements
    • The Courier 4.2.10
      • Premium block CSS
      • Enhanced Profile author bio CSS
    • Press and Journal 4.2.5
      • Premium block CSS
      • Enhanced Profile author bio CSS
    • Syndicate 1.2.0
      • PA Subjects area added to the post template
        • Queries the PA API to retrieve the latest data
        • Quick way to verify if PA have tagged a story correctly

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/2564/, https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/2572

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WordPress Cluster 9.0.35

  • Plugins Updated
    • Yoast SEO 12.8.1
    • Ad Inserter 2.6.1
    • AMP 1.4.2.
    • Contact Form 7 5.1.6.
    • Custom Post Type Permalinks 3.3.4.
    • Duplicate Post 3.2.4
    • MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress 4.7.4
    • Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields 2.7.16.2.
    • Redirection 4.6.2.
    • Redis Object Cache 1.5.5
    • Wordfence Security 7.4.4
    • Blaize 1.11.7
      • Added post type filter to Blaize’s Premium Content metabox
      • Updated template name from ‘Premium’ to ‘Simple’ to avoid confusion
  • Themes updated
    • Huemen 3.4.36
    • Blocks 2.5.4
      • Added ‘fp’ to new Blaize Premium Content metabox filter
      • Added new thumbnail template & functions to Premium post format
      • Added $content_width global update action for Premium post format, hopefully fixing feature image size issues
      • Fixed feature image positioning for images of <940px width
      • Reverted original thumbnail function
  • Core languages updated
  • Shortcodes
    • Formstack Added

PRs:

  • https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/2486
  • https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/2487
  • https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/2490
  • ttps://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/2491
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WordPress Cluster 9.0.20

  • Plugins updated
    • Blaize 1.11
      • Added Password Reset shortcode. [blaize-password-reset]
      • Added Non-Product subscription toggle

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/2420/

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/2421

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WordPress Cluster 9.0.1

  • Themes updated
    • Preference Centre 1.2.13
      • Removed redundant MPP function calls.
    • Blocks 2.4.1
      • Fixed broken login forms
      • Added E-Editions CSS
  • Plugins updated
    • Blaize 1.9.5
      • Added Brand filter to [blaize-pagesuite] shortcode.
    • Blaize 1.9.6
      • Fixed double ID bug (screwing login forms)

 

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/2382, https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/2381,
https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/2383