All Release Notes
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
- Baseline documentation launched and complete. Ongoing updates will be reported in release notes going forward. Documentation can be found here:
https://macsites.mcmaster.ca/documentation-learning/
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