Major plugin and theme updates for August 26, 2025

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 2.5.14 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for August 26, 2025:

  • Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection (5.5)
  • Blog2Social: Social Media Auto Post & Scheduler (8.5)
  • Broadcast (51.8)
  • Custom Post Type UI (1.18)
  • Event Tickets (5.25)
  • Export WP Page to Static HTML & PDF (4.1)
  • Fullwidth Page Templates (1.2)
  • Gutenberg (21.3)
  • Jetpack Boost (4.2)
  • LiteSpeed Cache (7.3)
  • Media Library Assistant (3.27)
  • MetaSlider (3.100)
  • MetaSlider Lightbox (2.0)
  • Newsletters (4.11)
  • Open External Links in a New Window (1.45)
  • Post Type Switcher (4.0)
  • PressForward (5.9)
  • Query Monitor (3.19)
  • Seriously Simple Podcasting (3.11)
  • User Switching (1.10)
  • WP RSS Aggregator (5.0)
  • WPBot ChatBot for WordPress for Live Support and Lead Generation (6.9)
  • Yoast SEO (25.6)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 2.5.14 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for August 26, 2025:

  • Academica (2.1)
  • Ashe (2.259)
  • Inspiro (2.1)
  • Twenty Twelve (4.6)

For more details on major update releases, please visit our release schedule and procedures page.

Commons 2.5.11

I’ve just released version 2.5.11 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release includes the following:

  • Improve behavior of header images displaying on Ashe theme
  • Fix bug that caused blog images not to be properly shown in blog directory in all cases
  • Improve behavior of header color tools in Academica theme

For complete details, visit the 2.5.11 milestone.

Major plugin and theme updates for July 22, 2025

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 2.5.11 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for July 22, 2025:

  • Ajaxify Comments – Ajax and Lazy Loading Comments (3.1)
  • Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection (5.4)
  • Blubrry PowerPress (11.13)
  • Broadcast (51.7)
  • Constant Contact Forms for WordPress (2.11)
  • Contact Form 7 (6.1)
  • DK PDF (2.0)
  • Easy WP SMTP (2.11)
  • Embed Plus for YouTube Gallery (0.0)
  • Event Tickets (5.24)
  • Events Manager (7.0)
  • Folders (3.1)
  • GD bbPress Attachments (4.9)
  • Github Embed (2.2)
  • Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights (9.6)
  • Gutenberg (21.1)
  • Jetpack (14.8)
  • Jetpack Boost (4.1)
  • List category posts (0.91)
  • LiteSpeed Cache (7.2)
  • MetaSlider (3.99)
  • Newsletters (4.10)
  • Otter – Page Builder Blocks & Extensions for Gutenberg (3.1)
  • Query Monitor (3.18)
  • Quiz And Survey Master (10.2)
  • Shortcodes Ultimate (7.4)
  • Simply Static (3.3)
  • SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle (1.69)
  • Smash Balloon Instagram Feed (6.9)
  • Smush (3.20)
  • TaxoPress (3.37)
  • Two Factor (0.14)
  • WP Grade Comments (1.6)
  • WPBot ChatBot for WordPress for Live Support and Lead Generation (6.8)
  • Yoast SEO (25.4)
  • Zotpress (7.4)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 2.5.11 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for July 22, 2025:

  • Ashe (2.258)
  • Hello Elementor (3.4)
  • Neve (4.1)
  • Sydney (2.55)

As part of this update, WordPress will also be updated to the 6.8.x series.

For more details on major update releases, please visit our release schedule and procedures page.

Commons 2.5.8

I’ve just released version 2.5.8 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release includes the following fixes:

  • Fix incompatibility between Jetpack heartbeat tool and CAC file setup
  • Improve routing logic for group docs
  • Fix bug that prevented invitation modal features from working properly on mapped domains

For complete details, visit the 2.5.8 milestone.

Major plugin and theme updates for May 27, 2025

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 2.5.9 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for May 27, 2025:

  • Advanced Custom Fields (6.4)
  • Auto-Close Comments (0.0)
  • Blog2Social: Social Media Auto Post & Scheduler (8.4)
  • Broadcast (51.5)
  • Embed Plus for YouTube Gallery (0.0)
  • Export WP Page to Static HTML/CSS (4.0)
  • Glossary (2.3)
  • Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights (9.5)
  • Gutenberg (20.7)
  • MetaSlider (3.98)
  • Quiz And Survey Master (10.1)
  • Seriously Simple Podcasting (3.10)
  • SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle (1.68)
  • Super RSS Reader (5.3)
  • TaxoPress (3.34)
  • Two Factor (0.13)
  • WPBot ChatBot for WordPress for Live Support and Lead Generation (6.6)
  • Yoast SEO (25.0)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 2.5.9 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for May 27, 2025:

  • Ashe (2.256)
  • Twenty Eleven (4.9)
  • Twenty Fifteen (4.0)
  • Twenty Fourteen (4.2)
  • Twenty Nineteen (3.1)
  • Twenty Seventeen (3.9)
  • Twenty Sixteen (3.5)
  • Twenty Ten (4.4)
  • Twenty Thirteen (4.4)
  • Twenty Twelve (4.5)
  • Twenty Twenty (2.9)
  • Twenty Twenty-Five (1.2)
  • Twenty Twenty-One (2.5)
  • Twenty Twenty-Two (2.0)

As part of the release, we will be updating WordPress to the 6.8.x series.

For more details on major update releases, please visit our release schedule and procedures page.