This release carries several improvements in different areas of the Newspack admin experience: from a new, consistent breadcrumb component across Newspack screens, new InDesign export features, and a faster, more flexible UI for managing newsletters.
The modal checkout experience gets some updates, too—read on for details.
New Newspack admin header: breadcrumbs and tabs (#472, #497)
Every Newspack admin screen now uses the same header, bringing it in line with WordPress core and other Automattic products (Jetpack, WooCommerce). The header shows a breadcrumb trail so you always know where you are and can click back up a level, the page title, the Newspack logo, and the page’s main action buttons aligned to the right. The tabs inside wizards have also been restyled to match the WordPress design system.
What’s new
- Consistent header everywhere — Dashboard, Settings, Audience, Advertising, Newsletters, Story Budget, Popups, Listings, Network, Sponsors, Collections, and Multibranded all share the same header.
- Clickable breadcrumbs — the trail at the top shows where you are; earlier steps are links that take you back (for example, from a sub-screen back to its list).
- Action buttons in the header — a page’s primary buttons (Save, Add, etc.) now sit in the top-right of the header instead of down in the content.
- Restyled tabs — wizard tabs (e.g. Campaigns / Segments / Settings) match WordPress, with an underline under the active tab. They work with the keyboard, and Cmd-click or middle-click opens a tab in a new browser tab.
- Tidied copy — screen and breadcrumb labels use Title Case, and “Add New X” is now “Add X” to match WordPress 7.0.
Checkout Button: auto-applied coupons
Added the ability to attach a WooCommerce coupon to a Checkout Button block. A new Coupon field in the block’s editor sidebar lets the author search and select an existing coupon; when a reader clicks the button, that coupon is applied to the cart automatically, so the modal checkout shows the discounted total.
Updated checkout pricing display
The modal checkout no longer renders the static price summary card at the top, favoring the more complete and accurate transaction details table, which is now always shown and no longer toggleable.
InDesign Export Improvements
Platform selection.
You are now able to select the platform the export is for, either auto-detect according to the device requesting it, Mac, or Windows.
En-dash silently converted to em-dash.
Every en-dash (–, U+2013) in post content was being rewritten to an em-dash (U+2014). Each dash now maps to its own code point.
Choose which post types are exportable.
A new “Available post types” setting lets admins pick which post types show the export action on their list screens.
Opt out of photo captions.
A new “Exclude photo captions” setting leaves photo captions out of the export for publishers who don’t use them. Photo credits are a separate attribution field and are always exported. Defaults to off, preserving current behavior.
Faster, more flexible Newsletters list (#677)
Publishers told us the redesigned Newsletters admin screens were slower and more fiddly than the old WordPress list they replaced. This release addresses the four issues they raised, plus a few things we spotted alongside them.
What’s new
- You can now choose how many items to show per page (10, 20, 50, 100 or All), and your choice is remembered next time you visit. It’s saved per user, so your setting doesn’t affect anyone else on the site.
- Choosing “All” loads your entire archive onto one page, so you can use your browser’s find-in-page to search it. A progress message appears while it loads.
- Lists load a lot faster. A page of 100 newsletters used to take up to two minutes on sites with rich content, and now loads in a few seconds.
- Filters (Status, Send list, Author, Categories, Tags, Public page) are all visible above the list, so filtering by status is one click instead of three.
- The Visibility column links straight to a newsletter’s public page, so viewing one is a single click again. It’s still in the row menu too.
- The page title shows how many items you’re looking at, for example “All Newsletters (112)”, and follows your search and filters.
- Trash is no longer a button in the row itself. It’s in the row’s menu, so it’s harder to hit by accident.
- The same improvements apply to the Ads, Advertisers and Layouts screens.
Hotfixes
- [FIX] Network: Preserve embedded block content when distributing posts (#569)
- [FIX] Blocks: Fix express checkout address validation in modal checkout (#597)
- [FIX] Newsletters: Keep newsletter signups working when an ActiveCampaign field’s personalization tag is renamed — previously every signup failed (#573)
- [FIX] Subscriptions: prevent switching to the current subscription (#542)
- [FEAT] Newsletters: Let publishers customize the message shown when Mailchimp blocks a reader from resubscribing (#590)
- [FIX] Make institutional access check URL host-relative to allow reverse-proxied requests (#614)
- [FIX] Don’t delete group subscription owner when a group member self-deletes their account (#630)
- [FIX] Keep anonymous metering logic tied to registered access, if enabled (#671)
Other Changes
- [FIX] WooCommerce scripts no longer removed from non-WC pages that have WC blocks or shortcodes on them (#173)
- [FIX] Removed spurious alert messages when non-admin roles edited newsletters (#579)
- [FEAT] Let group subscription owners rename their groups from My Account, so owners of multiple groups can tell otherwise identically-labelled cards apart (#460)
- [FEAT] Add an in-editor Preview button for content gate layouts that renders the gate on a published post in a modal (#555)
- [FIX] Avoid rendering an empty tabbed wizard page when no tab owns the current route (#672)
- [FIX] Expire on-hold subs after Radar cancels retry (#505)