Author: graemepirie

• MU Plugins Updated:
  • WordPress Cluster template tags
    • Added syndicated caption information to be displayed.
• Plugins Updated:
  • PA Importer
    • Added featured image caption information to be syndicated.
  • Syndicate Subscriber
    • Featured image captions for PA stories are now syndicated across to subscriber sites.
• Themes Updated:
  • Syndicate
    • Featured image caption is displayed beneath the featured image.

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/929

• Plugins Updated:
  • Vow Awards 1.0.9
    • Added tooltip to the “Add Nomination X” sections:
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  • Yoast News SEO 6.3
    • Previous version was 2.2.5.
    • Previously called “WordPress News SEO”

PR : https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/901, https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/897

Post Deployment Steps

Yoast News SEO will need to be connected to Yoast.com to ensure it’s fully functioning. Steps are available on Yoast’s Knowledge Base website here.

• Plugins updated;
  • PA Importer to 1.0.10
    • Updated function to download the 4×3 orientation of the featured image instead of the original.
• Developers;
  • Vagrant environment changes:
    • Now using PHP 7.2 with compiled xdebug module
    • Soap functionality restored.
    • Dev site served over selfsigned https.
    • Dev site served on standard hostname wpcluster.test.
    • Database restored from c:\backups (mapped to /srv/backups).
    • Database recreated prior to restore.
    • Production to development conversion automated using wp-cli
    • Unused port mapping removed.

PR : https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/865,  https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/868