V2.70 / 2.71 – New navigation bar, country selector in footer, Google Sheet integration, Covers carousel style, posts reading time

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 🎩

• PLANET-6256 and PLANET-6007– Implement the new design of the navigation bar and the Search bar design improvement
  • The new designs of the navigation bar have been released!

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

Set up the P4 key Content (Navigation, Footer, Menus, Favicon, Post types) Check out

• PLANET-6257 – Implement the new country selector design
  • The country selector, pulling out all Greenpeace institutional websites, has been moved to the footer, according to the design systems guidelines

• PLANET-6432 – Add reading time length to post details
  • Following the idea, admins can now set up a reading time (e.g. 2min read) for some (or all) post types.

• To configure for which posts you want to display the reading time, go to Admin > Posts > Post Types > edit one Post type (e.g. story or blogs) > Tick the box “Display an estimated reading time on this content” box and all posts of this type will display a reading time.
• The “xxx min read” string is translatable in LoCo, look for the “%d min read” string

• 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!

• 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.

• PLANET-6505 – Post Author avatars: hide on “author override”
  • As overridden Authors lack author page and bio, when the “Author Override” feature is set, the recently launched author image is now removed.

• 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.

• 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!

• PLANET-6106 – Use block examples for Covers WYSIWYG styles
• PLANET-6552 – WordPress upgrade to 5.8.3
• PLANET-6540 – Remove master.k8s from production sites
• PLANET-6384 – Automate new release deployments trigger
• PLANET-5758 – Remove jQuery from header.js
• PLANET-5761 – Remove jQuery from search.js

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