Category: WordPress Cluster

• MU-Plugins Updated
  • Modules
    • Categories should not be forced to noindex [NP-694]
  • GTM
    • Premium content upgrade tracking [NP-846]
  • URLs
    • Move url functions to more appropriate file
• Plugins Updated
  • Syndicate Subscriber
    • Categories should not be forced to noindex [NP-694]
  • Blaize
    • Add check for Yoast Premium [NP-647]
• VVV
  • Add third party library paths to be ignored by inspections

• Plugins Updated
  • Yoast & Yoast Premium
  • Yoast Duplicate Post
  • Elasticpress
  • Mailchimp For WP
  • Redirection
  • Redis Object-Cache
• Themes Updated
  • Hueman

• New wpc function wpc_check_external_url() added to check whether a URL is external to the current site.

JIRA: NP-685

• Plugins Updated
  • Wyvex Paywall 2.2.4 (Paypal Repeat)

JIRA: CORE-2472

• Remove rel=’nofollow’ from sharing links [NP-877]

• VVV Changes
  • phpmd is now a supported project again, so we download latest version as part of provision
  • don’t enable es service by default (JVM is quite heavy and not needed for day to day)
  • update VVV scripts to latest plugins needed
  • update local superadmins
  • disable wordfence by default
  • various small updates to bin/ scripts
  • exclude some paths as libraries in phpstorm config
• Plugins updated:
  • Blaize 1.23.5
    • Added Request a Receipt functionality to active subscriptions:
      • Added new WYSIWYG field to Shortcodes ACF
      • Added shortcode [blaize-request-receipt]
      • CSS fixes

Jira: NP-866

• Plugins updated:
  • Blaize 1.23.4
    • Removed CSS margin bug
  • Advertising 2.1.8 (Remove prebid functionality)
• Themes updated:
  • Subscription Manager 1.0.15
    • Prevented MU Plugin advertising.php JS contents from loading via filter
    • PHP ‘beautification’

Jira: CORE-2485

• Plugins updated:
  • DCT CTA 1.1.8
    • Fixed ACF value errors

Plugin Rollback

• Redirection 5.0 > 4.9.2
  • This update caused an outage on www.pressandjournal.co.uk. Assume Redirection 5.0 is not safe for update in future.

• Plugin updates
  • Ad Inserter 2.6.20
  • Advanced Custom Fields Pro 5.9.4
  • AMP 2.0.10
  • Duplicate Post 4.0.2
  • Pods 2.7.26
  • Redirection 5.0
• Theme Updates
  • Hueman 3.7.2
• JIRA
  • https://dcthomson.atlassian.net/browse/CORE-2483
  • https://dcthomson.atlassian.net/browse/CORE-2476

• MU Plugins updated:
  • Added Theme Features JS directory:
    • Contains reusable copies of globally-used JS files and plugins
      • HTML5 Shiv
      • jQuery Cookie
      • jQuery Cycle2
      • jQuery Cycle2 Carousel
      • jQuery Loading Overlay
      • jQuery Validate
    • Added wpc_js_register_scripts() function for global JS plugin registration
      • Enables easier enqueueing later with wp_enqueue_script()
    • Advertising
      • Added checks around advertising variables to prevent common errors.
    • Template Tags
      • Added wpc functions to display icons and social media profiles
        • wpc_the_icon()
        • wpc_get_icon()
        • wpc_the_social_links()
  • Optimisation 1.0.1
    • Added wpc_load_async_scripts() function:
      • Enables async / defer loading of script tags
      • Enables pre-fetch (e.g. dns-prefetch, dns-preconnect) loading of script tags
  • Moved old theme feature script enqueues into Theme Features JS, and removed old MU Plugin partials:
    • jQuery Cookie (sso.php)
    • jQuery Cycle2 (cycle2.php)
    • jQuery Cycle2 Carousel (cycle2.php)
    • HTML5 Shiv (html5-shiv.php)
• Plugins updated:
  • Blaize 1.23.3
    • Added defer/dns-prefetch to enqueued script:
      • Braintree Dropin
    • Merged blaize-accordion.js into blaize.js; removed old script
    • Reviewed script enqueues
    • Removed copies of script files from plugin.
  • DCT CTA 1.1.7
    • Added checks around CTA fields.
• Themes updated:
  • Blocks 2.13.0
    • Added defer/dns-prefetch to enqueued scripts:
      • jQuery Cookie
      • jQuery Cycle2
      • jQuery Cycle2 Carousel

Jira: NP-783, MAG-11