Category: Announcements

Summary

Version 3.0.5 of the Illinois WordPress Theme contains an enhancement to the main navigation as well as several style tweaks and bug fixes. Certain blocks contain updated language and labeling to note future deprecation.

What’s Changed

Enhancements

• Introduced new category and instructional text for deprecated blocks
• Updated the main navigation to display multilevel menus

Bug Fixes

• Added CSS rule to realign heading colors with intended theme
• Added line height rule for WordPress Cover block to prevent overlap on longer headings
• Corrected color variables in Tabs block
• Corrected conditional logic on 404 and Search templates
• Corrected File block button colors
• Corrected Search button widget colors
• Updated instructions for upgrading the theme

Upgrade Notes

Deprecated Blocks

The following blocks will eventually be removed from the theme:

• Accordion Deck
  • Equivalent: Accordion – Illinois
• Accordion Section
  • No equivalent. Functionality included in Accordion – Illinois
• Clickable Card
  • Equivalent: Card -Illinois
• Clickable Card Deck
  • Equivalent: Add multiple Card – Illinois blocks inside a Row block
• Hero
  • Equivalent: Hero (v3) – Illinois

These blocks will now be listed with a “- Deprecated” suffix. The respective equivalents are listed in the theme block descriptions. When possible, use the equivalent blocks for new content. Deprecated blocks will remain supported for the next three releases (at minimum). Users should begin the process of migrating and converting content to the new block equivalents at their convenience. Once a more definitive sun-setting process for these blocks is established by the WordPress Theme Team, the timetable will be communicated on this site and other campus channels. Read the rest “v3.0.5”

Summary

Version 3.0.4 of the Illinois WordPress Theme is a smaller trailer release to 3.0.3 which updates the bundled ACF Pro plugin and admin Theme Settings functions. Visual adjustments are limited to small bug fixes for V2 blocks.

What’s Changed

Enhancements

• Added “- Illinois” suffix to block names to make it easier to recognize theme blocks.
• Added deployment script to GitHub repository
• Added support for latest color themes and accents in V3 blocks
• Updated bundled version of ACF Pro to 6.6.2
• Updated header/footer tracking code to match new format

Bug Fixes

• Added CSS to correct default text color display in V2 blocks
• Corrected functionality of XML-RPC and REST API toggles in Theme Settings

Upgrade Notes

Accordion and Statistic Blocks

In this release the Accordion and Statistic blocks support the usage of accent colors included in the latest version of the toolkit. When editing a page with a previously deployed version of one of these blocks, the markup will update automatically via the block deprecation function. For the Accordion block, the Accent dropdown replaced the old Theme dropdown. In the Statistic block the Accent dropdown only appears if the Theme dropdown is set to Default.

Get v3.0.4

View/Download the Release on GitHub

The theme is available on GitHub: https://github.com/web-illinois/wptheme_university_of_illinois_2020/releases/tag/v3.0.4

Download from Box

https://go.illinois.edu/uofiwptheme_3_0_4

Summary

Version 3.0.3 of the Illinois WordPress Theme includes a significant page structure change and accompanying CSS rewrite. This release removes the block level wrapping of <div> tags, provides new versions of the Hero and Tabs block and includes various style adjustments to accommodate brand recommendations.

What’s Changed

New Features

• Added V3 version of Hero Block
• Added V3 version of Tabs Block

Enhancements

• Added support to render labels in the main navigation
• Reformatted page titles in browser tabs to match brand standards
• Removed block level <div class="uofi-default-block il-formatted"> wrapping
• Updated breadcrumbs to V3 version
• Added internal div wrapping to Accordion, Lede, and Statistic blocks

Bug Fixes

• Added CSS to fix default Gallery Block layout
• Added CSS to correct sidebar link color and formatting
• Corrected Alignment on 404, Archive, Category, and Search page templates
• Corrected Call to Action button alignment/stacking behavior
• Corrected variable reference in conditional logic to fix subfooter links
• Removed off-brand styles from Media & Text block
• Replaced inaccessible orange color of chevrons in megamenu with updated palette

Upgrade Notes

Accordion, Lede, and Statistic Block

In this release an internal div wrapper has been added to Accordion, Lede, and Statistic blocks. When editing a page with a previously deployed version of one of these blocks, the markup will update automatically via the block deprecation function.

Labels in Main Navigation

For top level menu items that have child menu items, input a “#” in the URL field of Custom Link in order to render text as a label in the navigation. Read the rest “v3.0.3”

Summary

Version 3.0.1 of the Illinois WordPress Theme makes visual improvements, resolving style and logic bugs, associated with our recent transition to support the Illinois Toolkit V3.

What’s Changed

New Features

• Added V3 version of Accordion Block

Enhancements

• Updated Call to Action block to V3 version
• Updated Statistic block to V3 version

Bug Fixes

• Added CSS for List block to allow ordered lists nested in unordered lists to correctly display numbering
• Added CSS to adjust text wrapping around images when using the alignleft and alignright controls
• Added CSS overrides to force V3 link styling
• Corrected typo in Vertical Tab block instructional text
• Imported Toolkit v3.6 to fix conflicts with WordPress image upload controls in Toolkit v3.7
• Recategorized Image Feature block to display with other Illinois Theme blocks in the menu
• Removed dummy menu listings from Side Navigation Menu select
• Removed empty Secondary Site Title tags in header and footer to tighten up spacing
• Updated search.php page template to prevent errors in PHP log files
• Updated index.php page template to include <h1> in markup when returning posts

Upgrade Notes

Accordion block

The new Accordion block is separate from existing Accordion Section and Accordion Deck blocks (both will remain unchanged in this release).

Call to Action block

Existing versions of the Call to Action block will automatically migrate to the V3 markup in the editor view. To save this migrated version, you must make an edit on the page then save it. WordPress needs to detect the content has changed somewhere on the page to force the blocks on the page to update in the database. Read the rest “v3.0.1”

Summary

Version 3.0.0 of the Illinois WordPress Theme brings in the updated header and footer along with several visual improvements to correct page alignment and layout. This version includes various bug fixes to support WordPress 6.8.2.

What’s Changed

New Features

• Implemented the new header and footer
• Added HTML support for V3 Builder Toolkit Code

Enhancements

• Improved controls for the Section Navigation linking
• Updated colors for “Heritage 3” and “Arches Blue”

Bug Fixes

• Corrected alignment/margins on the page and post listing templates
• Rebuilt Image Feature block to restore image select functionality
• Rebuilt Button block to restore link functionality
• Removed extra <div> tags getting wrapped around <li> tags
• Corrected alignment control options in Video Feature and Call to Action blocks

Upgrade Notes

Image Feature

Due to necessary accessibility updates, some users may be prompted with an “Attempt Recovery” button when editing preexisting Image Feature blocks. This is expected. Clicking the button will reformat the block content into the new, accessible markup.

Clearing Your Browser Cache

Because of the structural changes to the block controls, clearing your browser’s cache is recommended if you notice other unexpected behavior with the Button block and Image Feature block controls.

Call to Action Colors

Due to a conflict with the V2 and V3 versions of the toolkit scripts, the Call to Action block color theme selections “Blue Gradient” and “Orange Gradient” render with a white background instead of a transparent background as intended. This will be corrected in a future revision to the Call to Action block.

Get v3.0.0

View/Download the Release on GitHub

The theme is available on GitHub: https://github.com/web-illinois/wptheme_university_of_illinois_2020/releases/tag/v3.0.0 Read the rest “v3.0.0”

Feature Release

• Implement Section Navigation #174 Implement Section Navigation  

• Allow href for <il-clickable-cardtoolkit code in Custom HTML blocks #269: Allow href for toolkit code in Custom HTML blocks  

• Fix ability to add links to buttons (Issue 266) #267: Fix ability to add links to buttons (Issue 266)  

• Adding Vertical Tab Component #261: Adding Vertical Tab Component  

• Adding Call to Action Component #260: Adding Call to Action Component  

• Adding Video Feature Component #259: Adding Video Feature Component  

• Adding il-storm-95 to theme color palette #258: Adding il-storm-95 to theme color palette  

• Fix #231 and #246 PHP Fatal error in footer.php lines 158 and 271 #248: Fix PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot access offset of type string on string in …/footer.php:158 #231 and PHP Fatal error in footer.php on lines 158 and 271 #246 PHP Fatal error in footer.php lines 158 and 271  

• Provide a theme settings option to enable anonymous rest api access (issue 214) #245: Provide a theme settings option to enable anonymous rest api access (issue 214)  

• Prevent wrapping of <lielements in uofi default <divs (issue 283) #218  Removed the behavior of wrapping <lis in intervening <divs between the li and the parent <ol/<ul

• Update color palette options to fix two broken and one brand-changed color (issue 281) #281 Fixed some incorrect colors in the Block Editor Color Palette 

Read the rest “v2.5.3”

Feature Release

• New Statistic Block
• New Lede Block
• New Featured Quote Block
• Addresses several PHP warning/notices
• Updated to version 2.15 of the Illinois toolkit
• Upgraded bundled ACF Pro to 6.1.6 (ACF changelog)

Bugfix Release

• Correct alignment and spacing for buttons within the Image Feature block

• New Image Feature with overlay block
• Update to version 2.14 of the toolkit
• Several minor bug fixes/styling tweaks
• Upgrade to bundled ACF from 6.0.5 to 6.0.7 (ACF changelog)