Releases

Bug Fixes

• Fixed warning in theme updater code
• Fixed bug preventing the table block from updating on save

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Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug where content of table cells in custom table block wouldn't update

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New Features

• Added cookie notification banner

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Enhancements

• Allows users to set featured image on posts
• Adds @wordpress/env package and .wp-env.json file to blocks directory to help with local development with docker

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Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug where tabs weren't wrapping on smaller viewports

Enhancements

• Update to new UA Systems logo

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Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug preventing the addition of individual list items in the core list block.

Enhancements

• Unlocked all WordPress Core blocks.
• Added support for GA4 Analytics scripts.

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Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with third level page typography being too large for small screens
• Fixed issue with videos not being responsively sized on third level pages

Enhancements

• Repository moved to Github and restructured to also include documentation site

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Bug Fixes

• Fixed some oversized headings in the post advanced settings UI

Enhancements

• Added some capabilities to the news custom post type

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Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug related to text wrapping of email addresses in People List and People Directory blocks
• Fixed bug related to loading of templates in child themes for People List and People Directory blocks

Enhancements

• Updated Finance and Operations link in footer

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New Features

• Added Rich Text editors and title fields for more flexible content in org footer

Enhancements

• Updated link for Visitor's Guide in footer

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Enhancements

• Updated links for Research in footer, News and Events in header

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Bug Fixes

• Fixed text overflow issue in top nav buttons

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Bug Fixes

• Fixed broken visitors link in navigation menu expander
• Fixed bug related to page cloning, where clone steals slug of original page
• Re-centered the video on the front end in the video section block
• Removed margin-bottom from anchor navigation list
• Fixed spacing of block appender buttons
• Fixed overly large headings in settings panel for some core blocks
• Fixed bug where default template selector was no longer hidden

Enhancements

• Made year in footer dynamic
• Clarified help text below "id" fields on all section level blocks
• Hid option to add buttons to 50/50 layout inside of the info section block
• Now, if button text field is left blank, no button appears on the front end in the hero
• Removed character limits on name and title in the people-directory block

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New Features

• Create a new custom post type "News"
• Create a new News Feed block

Enhancements

• Add id field to List Box section block
• Add "Jobs" link to site footer
• Add "Remove Image" button to hero and header config in the editor

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Bug Fixes

• Fix various content areas breaking bounds and overflowing with each other, @ 200% zoom
• Fix event lists cutting off content
• Fix site header position and spacing issues
• Remove duplicating content div when sections are nested

Enhancements

• Update top search HTML
• Allow input editing of phone labels in site footer
• Make events block display entire month, not abbreviation

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New Features

• Added new customizable organization footer
• Added new People Directory block
• Added capability for hero video pause/play controls

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Enhancements

• Made check for default page template config more specific to account for custom templates in child themes
• Removed restrictions on blocks according to page template
• Reworked logic for uploading hero and header images to account for custom child theme templates

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Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with aria label not getting applied to new tabs in tabs area block
• Updated stylesheet to make button style declarations more specific

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New Features

• New tabs area block
• New video section block
• Added support for one level of nested dropdown menus in sidebars
• Added support for one level of nested dropdown menus in main navigation in header

Enhancements

• Changed minimum number of columns and rows in table block to 2
• Restricted usage of certain blocks to specific page templates

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Bug Fixes

• Changed all instances of <i> icon tags to <span> for accessibility
• Added check to events block to see if cURL library is enabled on the server
• Fixed width of Default template on tablet views

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New Features

• Added a stats box block type
• Added a list box block type
• Added support for the WordPress core embed block type
• Added support for Google Analytics to Site Config

Enhancements

• Security improvements related to input validation and equality checks.
• Improvements to how the hero and header areas function and render.

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Bug Fixes

• Addressed header form and general form CSS conflicts
• Fixed issues with hover/focus in footer links and feature-box headings
• Fixed issue with focus outline getting cut off at the bottom on sidebar-nav links
• Fixed keyboard focus indicator on highlight block and info block buttons
• Fixed issues with "Skip to Content" link in the header
• Fixed contrast issues with links in the paragraph areas of highlight blocks
• Fixed issue with empty section ids
• Reworked UA Systems logo so that keyboard focus functions correctly
• Changed absolute paths to relative paths in CSS
• Fixed typo in campus links section of the footer

Enhancements

• Added check to events block so that number of events is never greater than 8 on front end render
• Increased limit on rows and columns in table block

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New Features

• Support for Gutenberg (gb) block editor
• Introduction of new theme-specific gb blocks
  • Info section block
  • Highlight section block
  • Events feed block
  • Call to action section block
  • Featurebox list block
  • Feature navigation block
  • Featurebox block
  • modified image block
  • modified quotebox block
  • modified table block
• Introduction of new theme-specific gb blocks system
  • Sections category
  • Group category
  • General category
• Editor support for tables (via new gb blocks)
• Configurable events from calendar.ua.edu API (via new gb blocks)
• New page templates
  • Homepage (top-level)
  • Guidepost (second-level)
  • Default (third-level)
• New Visual Design
• Introduction of context-driven, component-based system of design (wilson)
• Introduction of new navigational structure
• New brandbar
• New universal header
• New universal footer
• Introduction of new singular responsive nav system (rather than split duplicated)
• Introduction of new documentation website
• New hero area for homepage and second-level templates
• New header image area for tertiary-level page templates

Enhancements

• Page template specific content settings
• Per page and/or global sidebars for page templates that support sidebar menus
• Better baseline security defaults and adjustments
• Accessibility improvements throughout
• Better handling of images as content in an accessibility context
• Better responsive handling of page and site elements overall
• Buttons now have customizable ids for analytics
• Escalate menu editing privileges for Editors
• Semantic HTML structure
• CSS Grid + Flexbox for layout
• New contextually bound CSS specificity
• CSS now follows a modified version of SMACSS
• Vanilla JS throughout and limited in use
• Overall codebase now follows Semantic Versioning

Deprecations

• Removal of support for Customizer in favor of Site Config page
• Removal of support for in-theme widgets in favor of blocks
• Removal of support for default Posts post type in favor of custom post types
• Removal of using <i> element for fontawesome font icons in favor of <span>
• Removal of shortcode layout creation
• Removal of Bootstrap
• Removal of jQuery
• Assets no longer require CodeKit compilation

Requirements

• WordPress 5.7 minimum
• PHP 7.2 minimum

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