Author: Chris McAndrew

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WordPress Cluster 8.2.2

  • New Plugin
    • Blaize 1.0
      • Extend the WP menu system to add Blaize Login and Logout menu links. These links, when rendered are then encapsulated within Blaize Feature rules.
      • Added shortcodes for rendering Blaize Login and “Update your details” forms.
      • Added a generic shortcode for rendering a Blaize feature rule.
      • Added JS to logout a user out of a Blaize session.

PR:  https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/2079

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WordPress Cluster 8.1.0

  • MU Plugin updates
    • Embeds
      • Shortcodes
        • Removed the_open_320, the_open_620 and the_open_920
        • Added the_open
          • [ the_open type=”LeaderboardWidget” year=”2018″ name=”TheCourier1″ width=”620″ height=”1240″ ]

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/2055

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WordPress Cluster 7.0.5

  • MPP Paywall
    • IdentityModule turned back on
  • MU Plugins
      • Embeds 1.3.1
        • Wayin 2.0.2
          • Shortcode update to handle Simple and Advanced Experiences.
          • Deprecated domain engagesciences replaced with new domain.

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/1970 https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/1971

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WordPress Cluster 6.56.0

  • New Plugins
    • WP All Import PRO 4.5.5
    • WPAI acf-add-on 3.2.0
  • MU Plugin update
    • Advertising 1.2.1
      • Advertising stop panel changed to editor permission level and above
  • Optimize Wordfence Firewall [CORE-1938]
    • php.ini on webservers needs additional step:
      • auto_prepend_file = ‘/srv/wpcluster/src/wp-content/wordfence-waf.php’
    • Network WordFence settings page should now read

      • Protection Level

        Extended Protection: All PHP requests will be processed by the firewall prior to running.

        If you’re moving to a new host or a new installation location, you may need to temporarily disable extended protection to avoid any file not found errors. Use this action to remove the configuration changes that enable extended protection mode or you can remove them manually.

  • Developers
    • Vagrant environment upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04
    • Upgrade to PHP 7.3

Note: To switch to the updated environment recreate your web box:

vagrant destroy web -f
vagrant up

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/1866, 1890 1892 1897

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WordPress Cluster 6.54.0

  • Plugin Updates
    • ACF Pro 5.7.13
    • Redirection 4.2
    • WordPress SEO 10.1.3
  • Developer
    • Unit Testing Fixtures (partial)
    • From this commit onwards developers can skip initiating a dev conversion manually after bringing up a web+deb environment, as this now happens automatically.
Post Deploy

@sandervandragt to update https://confluence.dctdigital.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=26345736 with the devconversion changes.

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/1848