Major plugin and theme updates for April 23, 2019

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 1.14.10 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for April 23, 2019:

  • Auto-Close Comments (2.0)
  • Broadcast (43.17)
  • BuddyPress Group Email Subscription (3.9)
  • FancyBox for WordPress (3.2)
  • Front Page Category (3.3)
  • GD bbPress Attachments (3.1)
  • Gravity Forms (2.4) (GravityForms)
  • Gutenberg (5.4)
  • Instagram Feed (1.12)
  • Jetpack by WordPress.com (7.2)
  • Mailchimp for WordPress (4.5)
  • MetaSlider (3.12)
  • Redirection (4.1)
  • Smush (3.2)
  • Yoast SEO (10.1)
  • YouTube (13.1)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 1.14.10 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for April 23, 2019:

  • Author (1.38)
  • Sydney (1.54)
  • Twenty Ten (2.8)

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

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Commons 1.14.8

I’ve just released version 1.14.8 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release addresses the following issues:

  • Increase the number of items shown per page on the Courses directory
  • Improved performance for certain post queries
  • Fix bug in Lucid theme that prevents social icon markup from appearing
  • Fix bug in Reckoning plugin that prevents certain UI options from working properly
  • Improvements to the appearance of the sitewide footer

For complete details, visit the 1.14.8 milestone.

Commons 1.14.7

I’ve just released version 1.14.7 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release, which is also a major-update release for plugins and themes, includes the following fixes:

  • Fixed broken timestamps on some homepage widgets
  • Fixed regression that caused blog title metadata associated with activity items to be improperly modified in some cases
  • Fixed bug that caused Docs comments to be held in moderation queue incorrectly
  • Add embed handler for Piktochart

For complete details on the release, visit the 1.14.7 milestone.

Commons 1.14.6

I’ve just released version 1.14.6 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release fixes a number of bugs, including:

  • Fix bug that caused Teaching Template not to be applied properly to new sites in certain cases
  • Fix BuddyPress “Export Data” screen
  • Add new embed support for Padlet, Sutori, Voicethread
  • Sort Courses directory primarily by course term, with alphabetical as a secondary sort
  • Fix some formatting errors in groupblog emails

For complete details, visit the 1.14.6 milestone.

Major plugin and theme updates for February 26, 2019

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 1.14.7 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for February 26, 2019:

  • Anthologize (0.8)
  • BP MPO Activity Filter (1.3)
  • Business Directory Plugin (5.5)
  • Classic Editor (1.4)
  • Draw Attention (1.8)
  • Edit Flow (0.9)
  • Elementor (2.4)
  • Fourteen Colors (1.6)
  • Front Page Category (3.0)
  • Gravity Forms (2.4)
  • Gutenberg (4.9)
  • Invite Anyone (1.4)
  • Jetpack by WordPress.com (7.0)
  • Media Library Assistant (2.78)
  • MetaSlider (3.11)
  • Ninja Forms (3.4)
  • Open Graph for Facebook (0.0)
  • Quiz And Survey Master (6.2)
  • Redirection (3.7)
  • Subscribe2 (10.26)
  • User Role Editor (4.49)
  • WP Document Revisions (3.2)
  • WP-Polls (2.75)
  • Yoast SEO (9.5)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 1.14.7 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for February 26, 2019:

  • 13Floor (4.4) (Elegant)
  • ArtSee (5.0) (Elegant)
  • AskIt (4.1) (Elegant)
  • Author (1.37)
  • Basic (6.5) (Elegant)
  • BusinessCard (4.4) (Elegant)
  • Cion (6.4) (Elegant)
  • DailyNotes (5.8) (Elegant)
  • eNews (4.9) (Elegant)
  • Hemingway (1.74)
  • Lucid (2.6) (Elegant)
  • Radiate (1.3)
  • Rowling (1.17)
  • Twenty Eleven (3.1)
  • Twenty Fifteen (2.3)
  • Twenty Fourteen (2.5)
  • Twenty Nineteen (1.2)
  • Twenty Seventeen (2.0)
  • Twenty Sixteen (1.8)
  • Twenty Thirteen (2.7)
  • Twenty Twelve (2.8)

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

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Commons 1.14.5

I’ve just released version 1.14.5 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release is a major-update release for plugins and themes. It also includes an update to the WordPress 5.0.x series, which features the new “Block Editor”. Blog authors have the choice of whether to use the Block Editor or the legacy Classic Editor; existing sites default to Classic, while new sites default to Block.

The release also addresses the following:

  • Remove duplicate content from groupblog creation screen
  • Fix bug that caused privacy settings not to be applied properly after server upgrades
  • Condense the sitewide footer

For complete details, visit the 1.14.5 milestone.