WordPress Cluster 6.11.14

  • Plugins Updated
    • DCT Corporate Careers 1.0.1
      • Fixed CRON hook action
    • HiJobs 1.0.1
      • Added url escaping to the widget.
    • Jobs in Scotland 1.0.2
      • Added url escaping to the widget.

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/913/files, https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/914

WordPress Cluster 6.11.13

  • Plugins Updated;
    • Vows Awards 1.0.9
      • Spelling of the domain name was incorrect, possibly causing spams.
  • Must-Use Plugins update;
    • Zenfolio Shortcodes 1.0.1.
      • Bug fix. Added 3rd argument to WPC error call.

https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/909

 

WordPress Cluster 6.11.12

  • Must-Use Plugins updated;
    • Debug (WordPress Cluster) 1.4.1
      • Active Themes table sorting and searching restored.
  • Must-Use Plugins added;
    • Zenfolio Shortcodes 1.0.0. Two new shortcodes have been added to render Zenfolio galleries and photos: You must specify a Zenfolio Gallery ID and You must specify a Zenfolio Photo ID
  • Themes removed;
    • beano
    • dct-events
    • dct-mawbroons
    • scotshop
    • twentyfourteen
    • vowsawards

https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/906, https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/907

https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/908

WordPress Cluster 6.11.11

  • Must-Use Plugins added;
    • Lightbox 1.0.2
      • Allow theme feature to load with or without AMP.
      • Fixed bug where some external images would load in Lightbox but then redirect to the image.
  • Developers;
    • Vagrant multi-machine setup:
      • Onboarding Instructions (confluence)
      • Removed NFS as it proved unreliable
      • Increased CPU use to 2
      • Configuration changes are now copied instead of linked in
      • Split DB and WEB virtual machines
      • new management script to automate common tasks
      • Xdebug is now removed correctly
      • Performance improvements to redis

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/902,  https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/905

WordPress Cluster 6.11.10

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

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

WordPress Cluster 6.11.8

  • Plugins updated;
    • PA importer 1.0.11
      • Clear scheduled hook on plugin deactivation.
    • Lightbox 1.0.1
      • Suppress warnings processing invalid html / html5 fragments

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/888, https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/889

WordPress Cluster 6.11.7

  • Plugins updated;
    • Vows Awards to 1.0.5
      • Removed an “by reference” error on an admin search query adjustment.
      • The previously use causes an error in PHP 7.2, as noted since our move to Linode.
  • Must-Use Plugins added;
      • Lightbox 1.0.0
        • Automatically apply lightbox to images within the post content.
          • Excludes images where-by there is an existing hyperlink.
  • Cron job for Sunday Post puzzles
  • Developers:
    • Vagrant fixes:
      • Updated getting started instructions
      • Unique nfs ids to avoid locks
      • named vm for easier ident in VBox
      • Prevent spammy openssl
      • Restore performance tweaks
      • Production to dev conversion to prepare for future elasticsearch.

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/883,  https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/885, https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/886https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/887

WordPress Cluster 6.11.6

  • Must-Use Plugins updated;
    • ElasticPress (WordPress Cluster) to 1.0.2
      • Hooking on to ep_ignore_invalid_dates, ElasticPress no longer attempts to process “the_content” filter.
      • Code for oEmbed and Shortcodes in the “the_content” filter was causing the individual portions being indexed to take too long and for PHP to eventually error with; “Maximum execution time exceeded.”
      • This tweak has dramatically improved indexing times for large websites.
    • WordPress Cluster to 3.4.7
      • ElasticPress related tweaks;
        • Removed an old patch for ElasticPress from a previous attempt to use this plugin approximately eighteen months ago.
        • This limited the number of documents being indexed to 50 (default is 350).
      • Removed a patch for Formidable now that the plugin is no longer in use.
      • Removed a patch for Advanced Custom Fields PRO when previous versions had numerous caching / updating issues. This is no longer needed in the newer versions of the plugin.

PR : https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/882

WordPress Cluster 6.11.5

  • Advertising 1.0.8:
    • Scripts and stylesheets are now correctly enqueued.
    • Prevent errors when no post is available.
  • Adsyoulike:
    • Prevent errors when no post is available.
  • Sailthru 1.2.1:
    • Scripts and stylesheets are now correctly enqueued.
  • Template tags:
    • wpc_get_post_image_ids(): image ids for posts no longer fail when no valid post is passed in.
  •  Developers
    • Remove wordfence log files and rules from version control, Please restore contents of src/wp-content/wfLogs if you rely on these files.

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/879