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MacSites Release Notes

All Release Notes

AODA/Accessibility

  •  WYSIWYG – Add H2 WYSIWYG fix so content managers can see casing errors in the back-end

New Features

  • Add MS Stream as a video option in Content Areas and Testimonials.
  • Jump Menu – Add smooth scroll
  • Jump Menu – Added to all flexible elements.
  • People & Resources – Pagination settings added
  • Team Administrator Role Added

Bug Fixes

  • None

Plugins

  • None

Documentation

  • Google Analytics Docs updated
  • FAQs updated

Other

  • Tested up to: WordPress Version 6.2.2

AODA/Accessibility

  • Header & Footer updates.
  • Comm100 automatically detected. When present, skip link generated.

New Features

  • Resources – Searchable keywords added to individual resources. Will return in search.
  • Resources – Sort by date option added to the Resource page template.
  • Resources – Sort order added (ascending, descending) added to the Resource page template.

Bug Fixes

  • Testimonials – Now populating correctly with taxonomies rather. The newest ones no longer override existing ones.
  • Hero Banner – Center logo link options removed.
  • Infographic element – Yellow radiance image, broken link restored.

Plugins

  • Table Plugin – Activated across all sites.

Documentation

Other

  • Tested up to: WordPress Version 6.2.2

AODA/Accessibility

  • Header/Footer – Key nav console error/bug corrected.
  • Error – WPForms – First Name/Last Name multiple form label error resolved.
  • Error – Empty Headings – Added functionality that automatically removes empty headings from pages when populated by WYSIWYG and other elements.

New Features

  • Testimonials – Now supports MacVideo & Vimeo.
  • Dynamic Page Templates – News, Events, People, Resources and Testimonials – Added the ability to customize placeholder text in the search box.
  • Content Areas – Table Builder – New feature is Content Areas to build out simple tables.

Bug Fixes

  • People Cards – Address fields being cut off on People pop-ups are now resolved.
  • Testimonials Page Template – Search – Returns results for all matching fields (no longer limited to title).
  • Testimonials – Back-end – Removed incorrect helper text regarding automatic quote generating. 
  • People – Modified phone number helper text for the back-end to improve content manager clarity.

Plugins

  • None

Documentation

  • None

Other

  • PHP 8 – Fix to events error. Event pages with categories now loading.
  • Widgets – Disable support for block editor widgets.
  • Custom 403 page alerting users off VPN to connect to the McMaster network.
  • Tested up to: WordPress Version 6.1.1

AODA/Accessibility

  • Site Nav Menu – Error resolved – Missing ARIA label (false ul being generated based on child pages)
  • Jump Menu Element – Error resolved – Broken ARIA label on landing page templates
  • Site Search Results – Contrast Errors – Several elements throwing contrast errors have been cleared

New Features

  • People – Pre-filtered page links implemented
  • News – Pre-filtered page links implemented
  • Events – Pre-filtered page links implemented
  • Testimonials – Pre-filtered page links implemented
  • Footer – Social Media Icons/Accounts – Discord added

Bug Fixes

  • Mobile – Left nav now says “Section Menu” instead of empty select box

Plugins

  • Remove external Nav Menu plugin

Documentation

  • No updates

Other

  • Tested up to: WordPress Version 6.1.1

AODA/Accessibility

  • AODA/MPS Footer is now available as English Only, Bilingual or French Only
  • Element – Page Carousel – Now pulling alt text
  • Fixed missing skip link error on all archive pages

New Features

  • Element – Alert Banner – Banners can now be set on individual pages.
  • AODA/MPS Footer is now available as English Only, Bilingual or French Only

Bug Fixes

  • Resource Search – Resource search now works on un-tagged resources.
  • Resources – Modified links on resources are now updating
  • News Posts – Non-functional button for Content Block & Brighter World API elements removed

Plugins

  • ACF Nav Menu – Added code to line 11 to prevent future conflicts
  • Plugin Update – W3 Total Cache (Now 2.2.12)
  • Plugin Update – Events Manager (Now 6.3)
  • Plugin Update – Enable Media Replace  (Now 4.0.2)

Documentation

  • No updates

Other

  • Tested up to: WordPress Version 6.1.1
  • WPForms no longer allows ‘File Upload’ as a field option (Security Improvement)

AODA/Accessibility

  • Resolve Missing Skip Link Errors – Archive Pages now have anchor tags.
  • Waterfall Element – Auto-generated empty headings removed.

Improvements

  • New Feature – New field on ‘People’ cards for Google Scholar link.

Bug Fixes

  • Remove ‘Tabbed Resources’ option from the landing page element population.
  • Waterfall Element – Resolve missing WYSIWYG.
  • Resources reverse-alpha default sort issue resolved (Note: This item was missing from email release notes.) 

Plugin Changes

  • Remove wp-fullcalendar plugin.
  • Move ACF Nav Menu Field Plugin to internal plugin.
  • Resources plugin update.

Documentation

Tested up to: WordPress Version 5.9.3

AODA/Accessibility

  • Back-end helper text for alt text modified. Asking users to use “” for decorative images.
  • Global Header/Footer updates for keyboard navigation improvements
  • Contrast colour issue with breadcrumbs in global search results modified (global css file)

Improvements

  • Update to WPForms plugin
  • Update to ACF plugin
  • File upload restriction settings added to site settings

Fixes

  • [object Object] appearing in link areas resolved
  • Fix image issues on people cards

AODA/Accessibility

  • Duplicate content skip link removed
  • Font size increased for skip links
  • Contrast colours corrected for skip links
  • Code level – extra nav menu ul removed. Corrects several navbar errors across all sites in PopeTech (ex. Empty Link, Redundant Link, ARIA)
  • Hero Banner default alt text changed from “Banner Background Image” to alt=”” role=”presentation”. (Not final fix, further updates planned)
  • Fix contrast errors on banner text. Were throwing a false positive in PopeTech.
  • Testimonials – Broken ARIA reference.

Improvements

  • Table formatting added to WYSIWYG.
  • Formatting label changes in WYSIWYG drop down.
  • Resource sorting improvements.
  • When Mac Experts photo missing, match ‘People’ card behaviour with icon.

Fixes

  • Bug Fix – Empty buttons at the bottom of dynamically generated tabs
  • Resources Search