UCF Spotlights Plugin

Provides a custom post type, shortcode and functions for displaying Spotlights.

Description

Adds a new post type called Spotlights that can be added to pages using a [ucf-spotlight] shortcode. Spotlights may optionally contain a header, copy, link and featured image.

The [ucf-spotlight] shortcode has one option:

• slug - the slug of the spotlight to be displayed

Installation

Manual Installation

1. Upload the plugin files (unzipped) to the /wp-content/plugins directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the "Plugins" screen in WordPress

WP CLI Installation

1. $ wp plugin install --activate https://github.com/UCF/UCF-Spotlights-Plugin/archive/master.zip. See WP-CLI Docs for more command options.

Changelog

2.1.1

Enhancements:

• Added composer file.

2.1.0

Enhancements:

• Added a new default template for single Spotlights to allow for previews to function properly if the active theme hasn't already defined one (fixes "blank page" bug when viewing a single Spotlight).
• Added a <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> tag to the document head on single Spotlights. Supports Yoast if activated.
• Added excludes for Spotlights from sitemaps (WP 5.5+, or Yoast if activated)
• Added some overrides to Yoast settings for Spotlights to force admin toggles to specific values.
• Updated the main plugin file to use absolute paths for require_once's.
• Upgraded packages

2.0.7

Documentation:

• Updated contributing doc to reflect the switch from slack to teams.

2.0.6

Enhancements:

• Added Github Updater support.
• Upgraded project packages.
• Added PR and issue templates, CONTRIBUTING doc, and linter configs to the project.

Bug fixes:

• Added d-block class to links surrounding vertical and square Spotlights to ensure an appropriate outline is always visible when those links are focused via keyboard.

2.0.5

Enhancements:

• Added role="note" to <aside> elements in each Spotlight layout to remove ARIA landmark associations.

2.0.4

Bug Fixes:

• Disabled archives by default.

2.0.3

Bugfixes:

• Fixed output of [ucf-spotlight] when the requested spotlight post does not exist

2.0.2

Enhancements:

• Added minor accessibility improvements to square and vertical spotlight layouts
• Removed faux buttons from square spotlights if a Link URL isn't provided

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed issue with spotlight meta fields not allowing empty values to be saved

2.0.1

Enhancements:

• Added missing plugin description

2.0.0

This release contains breaking changes from v1.0.3 and older. Please review notes below before upgrading:

Enhancements:

• Updates the plugin to remove all fallback styles. The plugin now requires using a theme that loads the Athena Framework.
• The plugin options page in the WordPress admin has been removed, since there are no longer any configurable plugin-level settings.
• Adds a unique layout hook for each layout (ucf_spotlight_display_square, ucf_spotlight_display_horizontal, and ucf_spotlight_display_vertical), replacing the previous ucf_spotlight_display hook that handled all three.
• Adds new layout-specific thumbnail sizes that are sized appropriately for the given layout (ucf-spotlight-square, ucf-spotlight-horizontal, and ucf-spotlight-vertical).
• Adds minor markup adjustments to each spotlight for consistency across each layout, to take advantage of Athena classes, and to fix some minor bugs (e.g. hover states). All spotlights are now wrapped in an <aside> tag, and the horizontal layout no longer includes top-level closing divs (these can be handled at the theme level if needed).

1.0.3

Bug Fixes:

• Debug log cleanup

1.0.2

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed shorthand PHP tag usage (thanks @strmtrpr83)

1.0.1

Bug Fixes:

• Fixes #3 by adding necessary variables and making UCF_Spotlight_Common::enqueue_styles static.
• Added comments.

1.0.0

• Initial release

Upgrade Notice

2.0.0

The UCF-Spotlights-Plugin now requires the Athena Framework to display Spotlight styles properly. Please see release notes for v2.0.0 for other breaking changes.

Installation Requirements

• Any theme that loads the Athena Framework

Development & Contributing

NOTE: this plugin's readme.md file is automatically generated. Please only make modifications to the readme.txt file, and make sure the gulp readme command has been run before committing readme changes.