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.

Major plugin and theme updates for January 22, 2019

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 1.14.5 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for January 22, 2019. Note that this release will also feature an update to the WordPress 5.0.x series.

  • Broadcast (43.14)
  • Business Directory Plugin (5.4)
  • Contact Form 7 (5.1)
  • Embed Any Document (2.4)
  • Gutenberg (4.8)
  • Media Library Assistant (2.76)
  • PDF Embedder (4.0)
  • Query Monitor (3.2)
  • Quiz And Survey Master (6.1)
  • Regenerate Thumbnails (3.1)
  • Shortcodes Ultimate (5.2)
  • Simple Custom Post Order (2.4)
  • Smush (3.0)
  • Super RSS Reader (2.7)
  • SyntaxHighlighter Evolved (3.5)
  • User Role Editor (4.48)
  • WP-Polls (2.74)
  • WP-PostRatings (1.86)
  • Yoast SEO (9.3)
  • YouTube (13.0)
  • Zotpress (7.0)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 1.14.4 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for January 22, 2019:

  • Basic (Themify) (1.9)
  • Hemingway (1.73)
  • Rowling (1.16)
  • Sydney (1.53)
  • Twenty Eleven (3.0)
  • Twenty Fifteen (2.2)
  • Twenty Fourteen (2.4)
  • Twenty Seventeen (1.9)
  • Twenty Sixteen (1.7)
  • Twenty Ten (2.7)
  • Twenty Thirteen (2.6)
  • Twenty Twelve (2.7)

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

Commons 1.14.3

I’ve just released version 1.14.3 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release, which is also a major release for plugin and theme updates, includes the following:

  • Fix bug that could result in duplicate email notifications of blog comments
  • Fix bug that caused the wp-post-to-pdf plugin to trigger errors when image paths generated an HTTP redirect
  • Various database performance improvements
  • Fix bug that caused an incomplete list of pending membership requests show on group admin panels when the group had more than 20 pending requests

For complete details, visit the 1.14.3 milestone.

Major plugin and theme updates for November 27, 2018

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 1.13.14 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for November 27, 2018:

  • Accordion Slider Lite (1.4)
  • Broadcast (43.10)
  • Custom Post Type UI (1.6)
  • Customizer Export/Import (0.9)
  • FancyBox for WordPress (3.1)
  • FooBox Image Lightbox (2.6)
  • Geo Mashup (1.11)
  • Gutenberg (4.1)
  • Jetpack by WordPress.com (6.6)
  • List category posts (0.79)
  • MetaSlider (3.10)
  • OneTone Companion (1.1)
  • Redirection (3.6)
  • Shortcodes Ultimate (5.1)
  • Smush (2.9)
  • The Events Calendar Category Colors (6.0)
  • Yoast SEO (9.0)
  • YouTube (12.2)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 1.13.14 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for November 27, 2018:

  • Author (1.34)
  • Basic (1.9) (Themify)
  • Rowling (1.13)

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

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Commons 1.13.12

I’ve just released version 1.13.12 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release is a major update release for plugins and themes, and includes fixes for the following:

  • Hotfixes for plugin incompatibilities with new server infrastructure
  • Improved messaging in reply-by-email error messages
  • Improved behavior of group Files filters

For complete details on the release, visit the 1.13.12 milestone.

Major plugin and theme updates for October 23, 2018

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 1.13.11 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for October 23, 2018:

  • Advanced Custom Fields (5.7)
  • Blubrry PowerPress (7.4)
  • Broadcast (43.9)
  • BuddyPress (3.2)
  • Gravity PDF (5.0)
  • Gutenberg (3.9)
  • Instagram Feed (1.10)
  • MetaSlider (3.9)
  • NS Cloner – Site Copier (3.1)
  • Redirection (3.5)
  • User Role Editor (4.46)
  • Yoast SEO (8.3)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 1.13.11 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for October 23, 2018:

  • Author (1.32)
  • Basic (Themify) (1.9)
  • Hemingway (1.67)
  • Quadruple Blue (3.4)

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

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Commons 1.13.10

I’ve just released version 1.13.10 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release is also a major update release for themes and plugins. Fixed in this release:

  • Improvements to the registration process to avoid problems with commons username and email address confusion
  • Improvements to the email notification unsubscribing process
  • Removed unneeded “Topic Status” selector from group forum topic creation process

For complete details, visit the 1.13.10 milestone.

Commons 1.13.6

I’ve just released version 1.13.6 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release, which is also a major theme/plugin update release, contains some performance improvements for certain scheduled tasks, as well as some streamlining of the way that data is handled during aborted account registrations.

For complete details, visit the 1.13.6 milestone.