v2.4.1

What's Changed

• Fix phpunit bootstrapping issues by @attackant in #1023
• Add workflow to deploy plugin to WordPress.org by @attackant in #1025
• Date data should be in UTC before passing to strtotime() by @BrookeDot in #1007
• Fix: Get Unit tests passing for 2.4.1 by @srtfisher in #1029
• Fixes #1034 by @attackant in #1037
• Release: v2.4.1 by @attackant in #1019
• Update author URI in apple-news.php by @attackant in #1038

New Contributors

• @attackant made their first contribution in #1023
• @BrookeDot made their first contribution in #1007

Full Changelog: v2.4.0...v2.4.1

v2.4.0-built

A version of v2.4.0 that contains pre-built JavaScript assets for Gutenberg. This version matches what is deployed to WordPress.org, and is suitable for inclusion via submodule.

v2.4.0

• Enhancement: Adds a new Automation configuration to set sections, themes, and other metadata based on taxonomic association for a selected term in the selected taxonomy. This system replaces the Sections configuration previously in use and Sections settings will auto-migrate to the new system.
• Enhancement: Adds UI controls to set options for whether posts should be deleted from Apple News when unpublished in WordPress.
• Enhancement: Adds support for Apple Podcast embeds.
• Enhancement: Adds support for TikTok embeds.
• Enhancement: Makes layout width a configurable property in the theme editor.
• Enhancement: Includes the original article ID in the duplicate article error message.
• Enhancement: Allows publishers to opt out of automatically adding video metadata on posts that contain videos on a per-post basis.
• Enhancement: Disables dropcap when the first paragraph is under a certain character limit and when it starts with punctuation. Adds theme settings to configure this behavior.
• Enhancement: Updates the link button style for all themes to match the Apple standard button style.
• Enhancement: Allows publishers to configure whether images should use the Image or Photo component on a per-post basis. (Photos are tap-to-enlarge whereas Images are not.)
• Bugfix: Capitalizes the word "By" in the default byline and author components.
• Bugfix: Fixes the display of the table component in dark mode to properly apply selected dark mode colors.
• Bugfix: Fixes an issue where posts duplicated by Yoast Duplicate Post are associated with the same article ID in Apple News and updates overwrite the original post.
• Deprecation: Removes official support for PHP 5.6 and 7.0.

v2.3.3-built

A version of v2.3.3 that contains pre-built JavaScript assets for Gutenberg. This version matches what is deployed to WordPress.org, and is suitable for inclusion via submodule.

v2.3.3

• Enhancement: Tested up to WordPress 6.1.
• Experimental: Added opt-in filters for deleting posts that have been unpublished.

v2.3.2-built

A version of v2.3.2 that contains pre-built JavaScript assets for Gutenberg. This version matches what is deployed to WordPress.org, and is suitable for inclusion via submodule.

v2.3.2

• Bugfix: Fixes a bug where the layout body-layout-last is not added to the list of layouts if the body content ends with something other than a paragraph.
• Bugfix: Fixes a bug where galleries were no longer being properly converted to Apple News Format due to a change in gallery markup that was introduced in WordPress 5.8.
• Bugfix: Fixes an issue with enqueueing the Gutenberg PluginSidebar script on Windows webservers.
• Bugfix: Fixes an error in class-components.php if the function is called with an empty list of components.

v2.3.1-built

A version of v2.3.1 that contains pre-built JavaScript assets for Gutenberg. This version matches what is deployed to WordPress.org, and is suitable for inclusion via submodule.

v2.3.1

• Bugfix: Fixes an issue where images with different URLs but the same filename are bundled with the same name when not using remote images, which can lead to images appearing out of order.

v2.3.0-built

A version of v2.3.0 that contains pre-built JavaScript assets for Gutenberg. This version matches what is deployed to WordPress.org, and is suitable for inclusion via submodule.