**Reported by:** jsgeorge@ua.edu

## Describe the Issue and the Expected Behavior
I have been playing with the directory a bit more (mostly adding people in a variety of categories and tags so I have something to work with) but I cannot get the directory feed to let me modify it on the backend. I keep seeing an error that says "This block has encountered an error and cannot be previewed."  I have these on the people page (https://dev-cis.ua.edu/people/) right now but I cannot find a solution to make them work. They display fine when I preview the page but I cannot edit on the back end. Any suggestions? I have tried both firefox and safari. Same result.

## Screenshots

<img width="1031" height="510" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/41d739d3-0e92-47f0-8072-5282c24bc911" />

## How to reproduce
Add a /directory feed block and it give the error.

### Where the problem occurs
wordpress-dashboard

## Diagnostic Info

| Property | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Site URL: | https://dev-cis.ua.edu |
| Theme: | UA Theme 3.5.1 |
| Parent Theme: | N/A |
| Wordpress Version: | 6.8.1 |
| PHP Version: | 8.2.20 |
| Multisite? | Yes |
| Custom CSS? | Yes |
| Operating system: | Mac OS X 10.15.7 |
| Browser: | Safari 18.5 |
| Javascript enabled? | Yes |
| Cookies enabled? | Yes |
| Browser Size: | 2560 x 1335 |

### User Agent String

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.5 Safari/605.1.15

### Plugin List

| Name | Version | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection| 5.4 | Inactive |
| Better Search Replace| 1.4.10 | Inactive |
| Gravity Forms| 2.9.10 | Active |
| Gravity Forms reCAPTCHA Add-On| 1.7.0 | Active |
| Hello Dolly| 1.7.2 | Inactive |
| Redirection| 5.5.2 | Active |
| UA Shorthand| 2.1.0 | Active |
| WordPress Importer| 0.8.4 | Active |


Theme 3.5.2

Directory feed error on the backend. "This block has encountered an error and cannot be previewed."

## Description

When adjusting font weight in the editor, the active value is not listed after selecting from the dropdown. It does adjust the weight. It just doesn't show as selected and instead always shows "Default."

## Expected behavior

The active weight should be listed in the dropdown box when selected.

## How to reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior. For example:

1. Go to a page
2. Add a heading
3. Click the 3 dots by Typography in the block settings bar and select "Font Weight"
4. Select a font weight from the dropdown
5. See that "default" remains listed even though the selected weight is actually applied

## Technical information

Please go to [supportally.com](https://supportally.com/) and fill in the relevant information below:

- Operating System: OS X 10.15.7 64-bit
- Browser: Chrome 137.0.0.0
- GA Supported: Yes
- Cookies Enabled: Yes
- Browser Size: 1920 x 934
- JavaScript Enabled: Yes
- Browser User Agent String: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

## Screenshots

<img width="273" height="544" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9e431868-531d-42a6-8e70-c713cf911b9f" />

Font weight dropdown selection doesn't update

## Background

This was requested by Brent on the Web Forum

## Description

The image size on the user page seems a little large in tablet view. It would be nice to optimize these images on something smaller due to how many could be displayed on the directory page.

## Workarounds

There is no real workaround for this since the featured image is used in both places.

## Mockups / Proposed solution

We could alter the design, but if they're just worried about file size on the profile pictures, we may be able to use something in WordPress to show a lower resolution file on the contact cards in the directory feed block and on the directory pages.


enhancement

Reduce size of image on person profile page

## Background

This was requested by both Jessica and Brent on the Web Forum
 
## Description

From Jessica:

> On the main directory page, can we be able to sort/order directory entries instead of displaying them alphabetically? At the very least, we like to keep our VP and AVPs at the top.

From Brent:

> If it is not too much trouble having an extra field at the bottom for sorting purposes would be helpful.  We would most likely use 'lastname, firstname' in that field but for smaller areas they could use numbers.  That would put everything in ABC order but the title would be displayed on the page written normally.  (or flip this so the title is for sorting and the display is the extra field)  Beyond that I think categories can handle all other organization.

## Workarounds

With the newest update, you can make a custom directory page, using categories and the directory feed block, to add leadership above and then the rest below.

Theme 3.5.3

Sorting for the directory

## Background

This was a request from Brent Springer on the Web Forum

## Description

Could the displayed icon and link mechanics be optional? That would give us more flexibility in how they are used. Such as an advisory board will not need a phone number, email address, and location. Those fields could be repurposed for other types of short information.

## Mockups / Proposed solution

I think it would be cool if the user could add metadata items on their own, select the icon, and insert a link.

This would almost certainly be a breaking change though, unless we can figure out a way to automate updating those records to the new format.


Allow flexible contact metadata

## Background

We've been using thin images with elephants in place of dividers on several sites. I was wondering if we may be able to expand on the divider block to provide these at the theme level, as well as generally providing other options for divider styles.

## Description

A developer needs to do some investigation in the block settings to see if this is something we can influence at all, and to what degree.

Aside from choosing the divider style, it would be cool if we could also set the divider width and alignment.

@spbrown6 Please think though some divider options that you feel fit within the design system. Provide SVGs for all graphical assets.

## Workarounds

Right now, you can use a thin image to act as a divider, but this is technically incorrect as the html should be `<hr/>` instead of an image.

## Additional information

I'd like to depend on images as little as possible here, but I know there's only so much we can do with borders.

Roadmap

Milestones

Theme 3.5.2

Theme 3.5.3