Category: Announcements

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.

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

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 

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)

This release leverages the 2.7.x version of the Illinois Toolkit.

• Whitespace and other minor CSS fixes have been added.
• Popular settings for new websites have been added as defaults
• example images have been updated

Advanced users who wish to use components provided by toolkit 2.7 can do so by using an HTML block. Future releases over the summer will include native blocks for the components provided in toolkit 2.7.

BugFix Release

• revert to upstream toolkit version 2.3
• minor fix for footer related links

v2.1.1 is a bugfix release. Primary changes are fixes for font sizes and other styles so that styles set in the visual editor correctly persist to the published version of a page. This applies to all blocks that allow setting of font size and style.

Version 2.1 of the University of Illinois WordPress theme introduces three new WordPress Blocks (and a few blocks related to them):

• The Hero Block
• The Clickable Card Block (and Clickable Card Deck)
• The Accordion Block (and Accordion Deck)

The 2.1 release also includes a host of minor bugfixes, many related to harmonizing formatting options made available in the WordPress editor with the new University of Illinois Web Components 2.0 toolkit.css that was added in the 2.0 release of this theme. This release also increases the parity between the page/post display while editing content in the WordPress Block Editor and the final rendered view of the page.