Major plugin and theme updates for February 21, 2016

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 1.9.8 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for February 21, 2016:

  • Better WordPress Google XML Sitemaps (1.4)
  • Custom Post Type UI (1.2)
  • FD Footnotes (1.36)
  • Inline Comments (2.2)
  • Jetpack by WordPress.com (3.9)
  • MailPoet Newsletters (2.7)
  • Media Library Assistant (2.24)
  • PressForward (3.8)
  • Subscribe2 (10.21)
  • ThreeWP Broadcast (28.0)
  • User Role Editor (4.23)
  • WP Accessibility (1.5)
  • WP Better Emails (0.3)
  • Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (4.3)

The following themes will receive major updates as part of the 1.9.8 release:

  • Canvas (Woo) (5.9)
  • Imbalance (wordpress.com) (1.0)

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

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Commons 1.9.5

I’ve just released version 1.9.5 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release is a major plugin/theme update release, including an update to WordPress 4.4.1 and BuddyPress 2.4.3. The release also includes a number of small bugfixes:

  • Fixed the positioning of Social Paper notification messages to avoid garbled text
  • Fixed the layout of multiple-group notices for forum posts to avoid overlap with forum text
  • Replaced some missing and incorrect elements on the sidebar of the News page

For complete details, visit the 1.9.5 milestone.

Major plugin and theme updates for January 21, 2016

Commons 1.9.5 will include a major update to WordPress (version 4.4.x) and BuddyPress (2.4.x), in addition to its normal major plugins and theme updates.

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 1.9.5 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for January 21, 2016:

  • Alt checker (1.1)
  • Author Avatars List (1.9)
  • Better Search (2.1)
  • BuddyPress (2.4)
  • Collapse-O-Matic (1.7)
  • Email Users (4.8)
  • Front Page Category (2.0)
  • Google Calendar Events (3.0)
  • Media Library Assistant (2.22)
  • News announcement scroll (8.7)
  • PressForward (3.7)
  • Projects (1.5)
  • Rotating Tweets (Twitter widget & shortcode) (1.8)
  • Simple Staff List (1.19)
  • Table of Contents Plus (1601.0)
  • TablePress (1.7)
  • The Events Calendar (4.0)
  • The Events Calendar Category Colors (4.4)
  • Theme Check (20151211.1)
  • ThreeWP Broadcast (27.2)
  • User Role Editor (4.21)
  • WP Ajaxify Comments (1.4)
  • WP Retina 2x (4.4)
  • WP-Polls (2.72)
  • WPtouch Mobile Plugin (4.0)
  • Yoast SEO (3.0)
  • Zotpress (6.1)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 1.9.5 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for January 21, 2016:

  • Canvas (5.9) (Woo)
  • Twenty Eleven (2.3)
  • Twenty Fifteen (1.4)
  • Twenty Fourteen (1.6)
  • Twenty Ten (2.1)
  • Twenty Thirteen (1.7)
  • Twenty Twelve (1.9)
  • WikiWP (1.8)

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

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Major plugin and theme updates for November 21, 2015

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 1.8.17 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for November 21, 2015:

  • FD Footnotes (1.35)
  • Jetpack by WordPress.com (3.8)
  • List category posts (0.66)
  • Media Library Assistant (2.15)
  • Prezi WP (1.2)
  • ShareThis (7.1)
  • ThreeWP Broadcast (26.0)
  • ThreeWP Broadcast Blog Groups (26.0)
  • Zotpress (6.0)

The following themes will receive major updates as part of the release:

  • Canvas (5.9.12) (Woo)

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

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Major plugin and theme updates for September 21, 2015

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 1.8.11 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for September 21, 2015:

  • Blogger Importer (0.9)
  • Category Posts Widget (4.1)
  • Events Manager (5.6)
  • FD Footnotes (1.33)
  • Google Calendar Events (2.3)
  • Google Forms (0.82)
  • List category posts (0.64)
  • Network Plugin Auditor (1.9)
  • News announcement scroll (8.6)
  • Theme Check (20150818.1)
  • ThreeWP Broadcast (23.4)
  • ThreeWP Broadcast Blog Groups (23.4)
  • WP-EMail (2.67)
  • WP-Polls (2.70)
  • WP-PostRatings (1.82)
  • WP-Sticky (1.53)
  • xili-language (2.20)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 1.8.11 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for September 21, 2015:

  • Attitude (2.0)
  • Canvas (5.9.11) (Woo)
  • Customizr (3.4)
  • Flat Bootstrap (1.6)
  • Hemingway (1.54)
  • Simplicity (1.13) (Woo)
  • Twenty Eleven (2.2)
  • Twenty Fifteen (1.3)
  • Twenty Fourteen (1.5)
  • Twenty Ten (2.0)
  • Twenty Thirteen (1.6)
  • Twenty Twelve (1.8)

The 1.8.11 release will also include an update to WordPress, from the 4.2 series to the 4.3 series.

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

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Commons 1.8.8

I’ve just released version 1.8.8 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release is a major plugin/theme update release. It also features a number of bug fixes:

  • Fixed bulk message deletion
  • Fixed bug that could prevent group files from being downloaded in a zip format in some cases

For complete details on the release, visit the 1.8.8 milestone.

Major plugin and theme updates for August 21, 2015

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 1.8.8 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for August 21, 2015:

  • Category Sticky Post (2.8)
  • Jetpack by WordPress.com (3.6)
  • Media Library Assistant (2.13)
  • PressForward (3.6)
  • Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin (5.1)
  • Subscribe To Comments (2.3)
  • The Events Calendar (3.11)
  • ThreeWP Broadcast (23.0)
  • ThreeWP Broadcast Blog Groups (23.0)
  • Twitter Widget Pro (2.7)
  • User Role Editor (4.19)
  • WP Hide Post (1.2)
  • WordPress SEO (2.3)
  • xili-language (2.19)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 1.8.8 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for August 21, 2015:

  • Attitude (1.9)
  • Canvas (5.9)

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

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Major plugin and theme updates for June 21, 2015

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 1.8.3 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for June 21, 2015:

  • Better Search (2.0)
  • BuddyPress (2.3)
  • CommentPress Core (3.7)
  • FeedWordPress (2015.514)
  • Google Forms (0.80)
  • List category posts (0.61)
  • News announcement scroll (8.5)
  • NextGEN Gallery by Photocrati (2.1)
  • RSS Multi Importer (3.15)
  • Subscribe2 (10.20)
  • TablePress (1.6)
  • ThreeWP Broadcast (19.1)
  • ThreeWP Broadcast Blog Groups (19.1)
  • WP-o-Matic (2.4)
  • xili-language (2.18)
  • xili-xl-bbp-addon (2.18)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 1.8.3 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for June 21, 2015:

  • Attitude (1.6)
  • Twenty Fifteen (1.2)

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

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Commons 1.8

I’ve just released version 1.8 of the CUNY Academic Commons. Version 1.8 is a major feature release for the Commons. Features of note:

  • An events calendar for Commons groups and users. The calendar allows users to create events and link these events to one or more groups. Users can then view events on individual or group calendars. Group-linked events are also hooked into our group email notification system. On the technical side, this feature is powered by a plugin called BP Event Organiser, written by Commons team members Raymond Hoh, Christian Wach, and Boone Gorges. BP Event Organiser is, in turn, an add-on for the popular Event Organiser, by Stephen Harris. Event Organiser is freely available in the wordpress.org repo. BP Event Organiser is available via Github, though please note that it’s still in beta form; a cleaned-up version for general use is planned fo the future.
  • When creating a new forum topic in a bbPress-powered group forum, users can optionally cross-post the new topic to other groups that they’re a member of. This custom functionality was developed by Daniel Jones of the Commons development team.
  • Users can now search through the contents of a single bbPress-powered group forum. This is powered by a custom plugin, bbp-single-forum-search, written by Ray Hoh of the Commons dev team.

The Commons 1.8 news post has a more complete round-up of new user-facing features in this release.

Commons 1.8 is also a major plugin/theme update release, including an upgrade to the WordPress 4.2.x series.

For complete details on the release, visit the 1.8 milestone.