Category: Blocks Theme

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WordPress Cluster 6.21.4

  • Plugins Updated:
    • AMP Config
      • Enabled byline override in AMP templates.
      • Added YouTube, Vimeo js.
      • Removed extra ads.js
  • Plugins Added:
    • Alexa Flash Briefing Endpoint
      • Adds a json endpoint for creating Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing Skills.
  • Themes Updated:
    • Blocks Theme
      • Defined fp posts as the default for Alexa Skills.

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/1127, https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/1122

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WordPress Cluster 6.21.3

  • Plugins Added:
  • Yoast SEO: Search Index Purge
    • The purpose of this SEO plugin is to purge attachment URLs out of Google’s index as fast as possible. This helps sites that might have suffered from  having too many thin content pages in the search index by removing them in the fastest way possible.

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/1130

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Blocks 1.2.5

This PR adds the blocks_end_of_article_content_bas_on_tags() function into each of the other post templates in the Blocks theme, particularly content-featured.php.

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/1103

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Blocks 1.2.4

  • Google added in the copyright section of the image in Media Gallery
    • part 2 displaying Google in the image copyright when selected

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/1095

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Blocks 1.2.3

  • Google added in the copyright section of the image in Media Gallery
    • part 1 deployed, part 2 still in progress

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/1087

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Blocks 1.2.0

  • Upgrading the Blocks theme’s search functionality to Elastic Press:
    • Upgraded search.php template with Elastic Press tags & logic
    • Fixed JS logic to reflect new template classes / references
    • Remove redundant elas_search.php template
    • Added Elastic Press CSS updates & fixes

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/1009