The first releases of 2022 bring in a bunch of design improvements! The new navigation bar with its 2 styles (‘dark’ and ‘light), a new search command and the country selector moved to the footer! The covers block gets a new style (carousel), posts now can display the reading time, the tracking setup is now synchronised with the programme tools, the “enhance donate button” feature was removed .


Features 🎩

The transition of the navigation bar

You can now choose between a “Dark” and a “Light” mode in Admin > Planet 4 > Navigation. The footer colour will never change.

The “dark” and “light” styles of the navigation bar. The footer colour will never change.

The P4 country selector, now moved to the footer

The reading time in posts
Enabling the “reading time” for one post type

  • PLANET-5609 – Covers block: Create a Carousel layout style
    • The Covers block now has a new layout allowing to displays a single, horizontally scrollable row of covers!
Frontend rendering of the Carouser Cover style

  • PLANET-6522 – Remove option for enhanced Donate button
    • The “enhanced donate button on mobile” (which used to stick the “Donate” button on mobiles) style is not part of the new design, so we removed it from the P4 settings.

The hidden author image on a post where author is manually overridden
  • PLANET-6452 and PLANET-6451 – Pull “Local Projects” and “Global Projects” values from Google Sheets
    • As a we moved away from Smartsheet, we had to make sure our tracking standards are integrated with the new programme system. Now all P4 sites pull out values from the Global Google Sheets.
The “analytics & tracking” parameters in P4 posts and pages

  • PLANET-6536 – Ensure WPML doesn’t localize feature settings
    • A change in the overall Multilingual plugin setup. Nothing changes for the Admins of Multi-lingual sites!


Bug Fixes 🐞

  • PLANET-6538 – Light YouTube player not used if video is included with Media block
  • PLANET-6489 – Covers: blocks break on page when using the Content style
  • PLANET-6474 – Author description: space when showing more
  • PLANET-6372 – Some images disappear because they use a path on the server instead of the CDN URL
  • PLANET-6549 – New Navbar: GA action attribute not correctly set for the Menu hamburger button
  • PLANET-6548 – New Navbar: site logo link is too wide in screens < 992px
  • PLANET-6338 – Search: Returning duplicate results
  • PLANET-6574 – Media Library: Images are missing from the Grid layout list and the Post picker
  • PLANET-6572 – Submenu: floats over main menu