This week’s releases include several important bugfixes in anticipation of the WordPress 5.9 release, scheduled for January 25.

Newspack Plugin

  • Feature: Sites using Stripe as the Reader Revenue platform can now configure custom Stripe fee parameters. Look in Stripe Settings in the Newspack Reader Revenue dashboard for the new options.
  • Fix: Fixed several miscellaneous bugs affecting the setup wizard for new sites.

Blocks

  • Feature: Added a new Author List block, which lets you display many WordPress users and/or Co-Authors Plus guest authors (if using this plugin) together in a single query-based block.
  • Feature: Sites using Stripe as the Reader Revenue platform but with Stripe fee parameters set to zero will no longer display the “Agree to pay fees?” option to readers in the Donate block.
  • Fix: Fixed several miscellaneous bugs affecting visual styles related to WordPress 5.9.

Theme

  • Fix: Fixed several miscellaneous bugs affecting visual styles related to WordPress 5.9.

Newsletters

  • Fix: Fixed several miscellaneous bugs affecting visual styles related to WordPress 5.9.

Ads

  • Feature: You can now display ad units in the Above Article, Below Article, and Above Copyright widget areas even if those widget areas contain no other widgets.

Listings

The new features in Listings this week are experimental and subject to change; please contact the Newspack support team if you’d like to turn them on.

  • Feature: Added experimental support for featured listings, which lets you assign a feature priority to individual listings. Listings with a feature priority will appear higher-up in archive pages than non-featured listings, in descending order of priority.
  • Feature: Added experimental support for self-serve listings, which lets readers purchase and manage their own listings or listing subscriptions via WooCommerce. Reader-generated listings are built using the block editor and must be reviewed and approved by an editor or admin user before they can be published.

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