Category: WordPress Cluster

Themes updated:

• Blocks
  • Updated blockquote styling and WhatsApp icon

Plugins added:

• Smash Balloon Social Post Feed 2.19.3 (Facebook)
• Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed 2.9.2 (Instagram)

JIRA: https://dcthomson.atlassian.net/browse/NP-1732, https://dcthomson.atlassian.net/browse/DESK-6939
PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3772, https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3778

Plugins Updated:

DCT Tickets 1.1.2 (Worldpay)

• Replaced DataCache with Worldpay (CORE-2621)
• Added a Worldpay Payment Notifications Endpoint (EPGR-8)
• Refactored and cleaned up transactional email template logic (EPGR-19)
• Introduced payment failure emails (EPGR-20)
• Amended Plugin Versioning strategy (EPGR-21)
• Fixed Rewrite rules and init logic (EPGR-22)
• Added Event logging (EPGR-26)
• Various security improvements

Themes Updated:

DCT Events 2.3.7

• ACF Fields updated

PRS: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3645, https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3776, https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3777

Third party plugin updates

name	status	update	version	update_version	pull request
wordpress-seo	inactive	available	16.7	16.9	https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3762
wordpress-seo-premium	inactive	available	16.7	16.9	https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3762
wpseo-news	inactive	available	12.7	12.9	https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3763

• Themes updated:
  • Blocks 2.21.6
    • Redirect archive requests on to their correct canonical URLs.
• Plugins added:
  • WP-CLI Term Cleaner
  • WP-CLI command to assist with term removal based on term usages threshold.
  • WP-CLI Term Sync
  • WP-CLI command to perform one way, additive only sync of terms for a specified taxonomy between source(s) and a destination site.
  • DCT Tag Manager
  • Adds an options page to create one tag across multiple news sites.

PRs:
https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3764
https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3585
https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3615

JIRAs:
https://dcthomson.atlassian.net/browse/NP-1081
https://dcthomson.atlassian.net/browse/NP-1443

Third party plugin updates

name	status	update	version	update_version	pull request
polldaddy	inactive	available	2.2.6	3.0.0	https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3754
debug-bar-elasticpress	active-network	available	2.0.0	2.1.0	https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3755
pods	inactive	available	2.7.28	2.7.30	https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3756
publish-to-apple-news	inactive	available	2.1.3	2.2.0	https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3757
wordfence	inactive	available	7.5.4	7.5.5	https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3758

• Plugins Updated:
  • ESIO Server 3.9.4
  • New FP post-type date added to queue Column

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3748
JIRA: https://dcthomson.atlassian.net/browse/CORE-2686

• MU Plugin Updates
  • Cavalcade Duplicate Check / Fix (WordPress Cluster) 1.1.2 / 1.1.3
  • added wpc_media_sideload_one_min_cron
  • added esio_one_min_cron
  • added esio_five_min_cron

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3745, https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3746
JIRA: https://dcthomson.atlassian.net/browse/DESK-7072

• Themes updated:
  • Blocks 2.21.5
    • Improvements made to dataLayer for all content types.
• MU Plugins updated:
  • Optimisations 1.0.5
  • Made wpc_insert_tag() both echo-able and return-able, for use in e.g. shortcodes
  • Flourish
  • Added new return parameter to Scrolly shortcode

PRs:
https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3736
https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3688

JIRAs:
https://dcthomson.atlassian.net/browse/NP-1522

Third Party Plugins Updated:

name	status	update	version	update_version
advanced-custom-fields-pro	active-network	available	5.9.8	5.9.9
wp-smush-pro	active-network	available	3.8.7	3.8.8

• Themes Updated:
  • Blocks 2.21.3
  • Fix for duplicating breaking news icon
  • Blocks 2.21.4
  • Inlined blocks_style.css stylesheet
  • Removed redundant blocks_style.min.css stylesheet
  • Energy Voice 5.2.13
  • Fixing font issue
  • Sunday Post 4.1.24
  • Fixing font issue
• MU Plugins Updated:
  • User Management (WordPress Cluster) 1.3.1
  • wp_set_password parameter order bug fix
  • Optimisation 1.0.4
  • Added wpc_get_inline_tag_id() function for easier identification of inlined style/script tags
• New Plugins Updated:
  • WP-CLI Term Reassign
  • Enables a WP-CLI command with multiple options to move posts between taxonomy terms in batches

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3717, https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3722, https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3723 https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/3682
JIRA: https://dcthomson.atlassian.net/browse/CORE-2681 https://dcthomson.atlassian.net/browse/NP-1515