A summary of most important changes to the Newspack suite. For detailed changelogs, see the releases pages of respective Github projects.
January 21, 2021
- Campaigns
- “Preview site as” feature, which allows to view the site as a segment member.
- Segmentation: by favorite category.
- Segmentation: by session read count.
- Manual-only placement (using a shortcode).
- Grouping UI: allows to manage sets of campaigns.
- Deprecation of test mode and “never” frequency.
- Allow inserting campaign using a shortcode.
- Removed padding for above header campaigns.
- Salesforce integration: passing UTM params to created opportunities.
- Ads: added a sticky ad slot.
- Fixed bug that added a question mark at the end of URLs.
January 19, 2021
- Homepage Posts block
- Fixed a bug when searching for subcategories with the same name in the editor.
- Fixed a bug with the “load more” functionality that prevented all posts matching the block attributes from being loaded.
- Theme
- Added a new option to display a custom commenting policy with each comment form.
- Added a new option to show next/previous links at the end of each article.
- Fixed a bug where italicized text was not appearing correctly inside pullquotes, in some themes.
January 12, 2021
- Homepage Posts block
- Customizeable ‘Read More’ link
- Add optional ‘continue reading’ link underneath excerpts
- Theme
- Pullquote and print styles improvements
- French (Belgian) translations