Summary
Version 3.0.7 of the Illinois WordPress Theme has been tested up to WordPress version 7.0.3 and implements Illinois Toolkit version 3.12. This release contains a new icon panel block, several block enhancements, and a variety of bug fixes.
What’s Changed
Enhancements
- Added Action Buttons options to footer in Theme Settings
- Added Button Row block to Accordion Panels, Card, Call to Action, and Tab Panel blocks
- Added rounded tab option for Tabs block
- Updated accent color list for Accordion block
- Updated bundled ACF Pro version to 6.8.6
- Updated header search box to meet new branding recommendations
- Updated social media icons in footer to utilize new recommended markup
- Updated supported Illinois toolkit version to 3.12
Bug Fixes
- Corrected Button V3 centering alignment
- Corrected display of bold headings in the editor
- Corrected color of custom footer links to match branding standards
- Corrected display of tables in Custom HTML blocks
- Corrected full width padding issues
- Fixed formatting on 404 search pages
- Forced long text strings to break, correcting behavior in chromium browsers.
- Removed test menu placeholder from Section Navigation dropdown menu
- Restored ability to hide Featured Image on posts
- Restored function of Video Feature block
- Updated the content filtering to allow icons to properly render
Upgrade Notes
Video Feature
Due to a merge error in the 3.0.6 theme release, site editors may encounter an “Attempt Recovery” prompt for the Video Feature block in the editor. Users who didn’t update Video Feature blocks in the 3.0.6 theme should remain unaffected.
Reminder: Deprecated Blocks
The following blocks will eventually be removed from the theme:
- Accordion Deck – Deprecated
- Equivalent: Accordion – Illinois
- Accordion Section – Deprecated
- No equivalent. Functionality included in Accordion – Illinois
- Clickable Card – Deprecated
- Equivalent: Card -Illinois
- Clickable Card Deck – Deprecated
- Equivalent: Add multiple Card – Illinois blocks inside a Row block
- Hero – Deprecated
- Equivalent: Hero (v3) – Illinois
No further updates will be included for the above listed deprecated blocks. Deprecated blocks will remain included for the next release. Users should begin the process of migrating and converting content to the new block equivalents at their convenience.
Get v3.0.7
View/Download the Release on GitHub
The theme is available on GitHub: https://github.com/web-illinois/wptheme_university_of_illinois_2020/releases/tag/v3.0.7