Version 2.17 Release Notes - February 17, 2022

  • #1495: News and Events Archive Years List blocks will now hide themselves entirely if there is no output. Taxonomy Term List blocks and all content list blocks (e.g. Page List, News List, etc) will also do this, but only if configured using a new checkbox under the "No results behavior" section. Previous to this change, block titles would still be output even if there was no output.
  • #1510: Fixed a styling issue where Feature blocks would sometimes be sized incorrectly at certain browser display widths.
  • #1544: The automatically generated summaries that are displayed on various content list blocks are now longer (350 characters instead of 150). Note that it's possible to input your own summaries for each A individual item of content. For example, a page, a news article, and an event are all content items, which correspond to the Page, News, and Event content types, respectively. on the edit form instead. Those are never trimmed.
  • #1545: Fixed an issue where the abstract field was trimmed too short or trimmed off a part of a word in Publications List blocks. The length of the abstract is now longer before it is trimmed, and an ellipsis is always added to help indicate it's not the complete value.
  • #1557: Fixed an issue where the external link icon for linked block titles would appear on a separate line. Linked block title styling has also been updated to clearly indicate the title is a link.
  • #1600: Publications can now utilize a "Full text" field to store additional information. This field was added to support migrations from the older Site Builder ver1 platform.
  • #1603: Added a Start Date and Cell Phone field to the Person A collection of fields that describe a specific type of content, like a news article, a person, or an event. Site admins can add additional content types by enabling optional modules. WDS can also create custom content types for a site. . These fields can be toggled for display in People List Blocks and their values are shown on person detail pages.
  • #1608: The "Admin Login" button on maintenance mode pages has been updated so you are returned to the originally requested page after logging in.
  • #1609: Plain text URLs and email addresses placed into WYSIWYG-enabled text fields will automatically converted to links. Note that for accessibility reasons, WDS does not recommend you write out URLs (especially long ones!) in text. They should be converted to proper links with a short, descriptive label instead.
  • #1613, #1617: Improved the "Visual Inline" method for comparing content revisions so that content is rendered more accurately. Some styling was not being displayed correctly previously.
  • #1635: For sites using the mega-menu option (Horizontal, with exposed 2nd and 3rd levels in mega drop-down), a minimum height has been added to the mega drop-down to improve accessibility.
  • #1648: The automated accessibility checker has been updated to improve detection for "click here" style links, and to better support scanning and showing violations in accordions and slideshows.
  • #1655: The maximum length for event sponsors has been increased to 500 characters.