Data Privacy features
We’ve added a couple new settings for sites using Complianz to provide more flexibility in the way third-party analytics and advertising requests are handled:
- Regardless of other configuration, you can force Complianz to attempt to block third-party requests (Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager, Parse.ly, Meta Pixel, etc.) until after the reader has accepted the cookie notice.
- You can additionally force Complianz to attempt to block ad requests (Google Ad Manager) until after the reader has accepted the cookie notice.
By default, both of these settings are off.
We’ve also updated our data privacy compliance guidelines documentation to provide some high-level recommendations and tips that you may want to consider.
Post Inserter Block updates
We’ve made improvements to the Post Inserter Block for Newsletters to speed up load time, fix some bugs, and refresh the styling controls:
- Post with featured images that have been deleted or are missing for some reason no longer cause the editor to load indefinitely.
- Posts without featured images assigned now have improved alignment with other posts.
- The controls for managing colors, font sizes, and other style-related options now appear together in a dedicated styles sidebar panel, more in line with core WordPress blocks.
Post Date and Primary Category options moved
The Newspack Theme’s date options (to use a ‘time ago’ format and show an updated date), and option to override Yoast’s Primary Categories have been moved from the Customizer to the Newspack Plugin. Both can now be found under Dashboard > Newspack > Advanced Settings.
If your site is using any of these options, they will continue to function as usual!
Other changes:
- [FEAT] The Block Visibility option introduced in WordPress 6.9 has now been made available for posts and pages on Newspack sites (#4595 and #2056)
- [FIX] Contact syncing: prevent stale data being pushed on retries and logging improvements (#4562)
- [FIX] Modal Checkout: Name Your Price support for logged-out readers (#2323)
- [FIX] Newspack Blocks: Reinstate fix for WordPress 7.0 editor iframe (#2319)
- [REFACTOR] Updated some components in the Campaigns wizard pages for improved UX (#4588)
- [FIX] Prevent infinite loops from patterns that include themselves (#2327)
- [FIX] Theme: prevent horizontal scrollbar on full-bleed image positions (#2667)
Hotfixes:
In-between official releases, we’ve pushed updates to fix the following issues:
- [FIX] Modal Checkout: prevent empty and misstyled error notices (#2322)
- [FIX] Modal Checkout: add more supported payment gateways to the ‘allowed’ list; they were supported before but stopped working when the gateway check became more strict (#2321)
- [FIX] Newsletters: Improve check for newsletter editor before removing code for unsupported blocks (#2051)
- [FIX] Newsletters: support share block in iframe editor (#2055)
- [FIX] Listings: add support for the iframe editor (#578)
- [FIX] Jetpack: disable Image Studio to restore Media Library custom fields (#4616)
- [FIX] Newspack Theme: minor CSS fixes ahead of the WordPress 7.0 release (#2664 and #2665 )
