Pugpig Express Release Notes – Pugpig Documentation

This page contains the release notes for versions of the Pugpig Express Theme for Wordpress. See the quick links below for all releases:

2.14 (Release date: 04/04/2020)
2.12.0 (Release date: 20/02/2020)
2.3.0 (Release date: 17/10/2019)
2.2 (Release date: 2/10/2019)
1.21 (Release date: 19/02/2019)
1.15 (Release date: 7/8/2018)

Important note: The Pugpig Express theme requires WCK Pro, this is licensed and paid for by Kaldor on all Pugpig Express hosted services however if you wish to use our Express theme on your own Professional or Connect instance you need to purchase a licence - you can do this here (price $139 at time of publish).

Pugpig Express 2.14

New features

Youtube links more supported formats
Support for cite fonts

Bug fixes

Fixing default for 'Hide from ToC' on automated importers

Pugpig Express 2.12.0

New features

Adds 'advertisement' tag to adverts when sent to apple news (inside edition)

Pugpig Express 2.3.0

New features

Adding author byline field

Bug fixes

Image alt tags to display as null if no text is set
Image captions are now editable from the visual tab

Pugpig Express 2.2.1

Bug fixes

Fixing boxout paragraphs invalid html
Improved contents page error message
PHP error fix for image sizes
Fixing custom select fields so they display all their values

Pugpig Express 1.21.6

Features

Supports custom CSS on full page images
Supports keywords passed as metadata to Apple News
Supports slug in Apple News

Third party updates

Publish to Apple News

Pugpig Express 1.17.1

Bug fixes

Fix to maintain image position after import and edit
Adding 'data-src' as an allowable attribute

Pugpig Express 1.15.10

Features

Supports Enhanced PDFs (beta)
Improved image size behaviour in NITF imported editions

Bug fixes

Fixes minor bugs raised around YouTube and Brightcove videos
Added styling for left and right aligned images in boxouts (compatible with NITF editions)
Fixing boxouts so they always clear the content above

Third party updates

Publish to Apple News
Post Type Switcher

Pugpig Express 1.14.10

Features

Adding support for mapping free or paid article status from RSS feeds to Express
Improved support for Brightcove and Youtube inline videos (now supports video URL and preview)
Supports feature video (Brightcove and Youtube support)
Adding mapping for video URL in RSS feed to main media video
Adding mapping for image in RSS to TOC image
Improved DFP configuration options and support for DFP banners

Bug fixes

Remove toolbar padding on full page images if no toolbar is visible
Improvements with the flatplan
- Configuration options for flatplan type
- Ability to exclude sections from all editions
- Allow posts that do not have a section to appear in flatplan if categorised by section

3rd Party plugins

Added Advanced Taxonomy Terms Order

Pugpig Express 1.13.0

Features

Set the default skin to minimal

Bug Fixes

Fixed conflict errors for videos and DFP ads

Pugpig Express 1.12.6

New Features

Adding edition ranking to order the position of the editions in the storefront
Basic font customisation
Adding custom templates (WCK swift templates) to default article setting
Adding contents page and TOC settings to placeholders in Express
Adding DFP settings to display every x paragraphs

Bug Fixes

Fallback to Wordpress title if no headline is set (in title tags)
Fixing slider position in the Customiser
Improved image shortcode behaviour
Minimal: small layout bug fixes
Minimal: adding toolbar spacing for templates
Upgrading Simple Custom JS Code Mirror to 5.35.0

3rd Party Upgrades

Duplicate Post
FeedWordpress
Imsanity
JSON Content Importer
Mailgun
Meta Box
Post Switcher
Simple Custom CSS
Slate Admin Theme
Wordpress Importer
Wordpress 4.9.5

Pugpig Express 1.11.1

New Features

Full page image main image displays on contents pages
Adding iPhone X support on layouts
Allow full page image/ HTML zips to be hero stories on contents pages

Bug Fixes

Increase spacing between sections on sortable contents page
Fix author settings so author name and image can display independently of one another
Adding compatibility with Code Injection plugin and shorts layout
Fix for Brand right aligned images showing black background
Remove any unused assets from manifest

Pugpig Express 1.10.0

New Features

Allow paid subscriptions in Apple News

3rd Party Upgrades

Apple news

Pugpig Express 1.9.2

Bug Fixes

Fix for linking between articles in the same edition
Fix for slider content logic (slide title)
Fix for slider styling (Dusk, Classic)
Minor styling fixes to Minimal
Improved Shorts highlighting behaviour and scrolling on mobile
Fix for shortcodes displaying incorrectly in the articles
Modified image regex to support imported editions

Pugpig Express 1.9.1

New Features

*Beta* New content slider
New skin: Minimal

Bug Fixes

Fix for 1 column screen option breaking layout
Adding TOC title setting (overrides headline in flatplan too)
Fix to convert <figure> markup in the editor to image shortcodes
Show scheduled post html page
Fix for shorts highlighting first thumbnail
Fix for active thumbnail not being visible after device rotation.
Brand: fix scrolling after rotation
Fix for image captions using ']'
Classic: Fix for isotope.js errors produced on contents page

Pugpig Express 1.8.13

Fixes

Moving gallery icons to top left corner (except on Classic skin)
Classic: updating headline padding and alignment
Fixing oversized content from overflowing containers
Removing suggested content from end of Youtube videos

3rd Party Upgrades

Metabox
Duplicate Post
Wordpress importer
Publish to Apple News

Pugpig Express 1.8.11

Fixes

Improvement to boxout text position if no boxout image exists (Brand only)
Fix for caption text colour (Dusk only)
Adjustments to headline font size to ensure it's a consistent size across all layouts (Classic only)
The removing of unused skin fonts from manifest
Adding new table columns for post types list view
Fix for subtitle/caption displaying on shopping product grids
Fix for gallery styling on brand

Third Party Upgrades

Feedwordpress
Metabox
Duplicate Post
Slate Admin Theme
Mailgun

Pugpig Express 1.8.9

New Features

*Beta* PDF importer to convert pages to Full Page Images content types
*Beta* Pugpig Bolt Social Widget for new product (more details coming soon)
Prettier Dashboard widget
Improved web preview tool
RSS feed update to stop special characters printing in post title

Pugpig Express 1.8.0

New Features

New 'shorts' content type added. See documentation
Ability to hide app toolbar for every content type

Bug Fix

Fixing sanitisation of image caption
Fixing jQuery script and isotope error bug on sortable contents page
Fixing update time of an edition entry if contents page is updated
Fixing colour picker button position on tinymce colour picker
Stop 'pp-media' printing twice and stop other classes being stripped out of image shortcode

Pugpig Express 1.7.1

New Features

Added alignment to inline images (Left, Right, Centre and None)
Added new way to add custom urls and enable data-image-nozoom
Added section tag (classes) to the article body html

Bug Fix

jQuery is loaded if enabled in the Custom JS plugin
Shopping page display correctly on contents page and TOC

Pugpig Express 1.7.0

New Features

Nightmode for Dusk (previously known as Dark)
Added global back to top setting that shows / hides 'Back to top' on all previous and future editions.
Adding custom author field for all content types e.g. articles and providing a contents page option to show author field in contents blocks.

Bug Fixes

Main media image captions display consistently on tablet devices
Classic - Added Dropcap and Author Image
Classic - Body copy alignment fix
Removing Wordpress Admin toolbar
Fix inline images / galleries not adding to manifest correctly

Pugpig Express 1.6.5

New Features

'data-image-nozoom' can be added to figure tags by non super-admins to turn off the tap to full screen functionality

Bug Fixes

Videos display on Dark skin at 640px or less
Section colour is now applied to the same elements as the highlight colour
Section titles now display correctly in the table of contents, even if they contain an ampersand
Contents Page will now update if a post is deleted from the edition
Using the Author Name field for the author rather than the default WP Username - will show on Native Paywall

Pugpig Express 1.6.0

New Features

On the Shopping Page you can now insert product grids inline in the body using the ‘Add Product Grid’ button. They are styled using the existing styling fields. You can still add the product grid at the bottom of the content, as previously.
Sites in the My Sites list are now in alphabetical order - but you’ll only care if you have more than one Pugpig Express site
Integration with new Pugpig WordPress Connector functionality: to allow content to be saved without changing the updated date (good for adding adverts to multiple editions)
Finally add base styles for H4-H5-H6 in all skins (accessible in the dropdown in the text editor). These can still be overridden in Custom CSS.
Setting the default taxonomy-to-order-by (for auto-curation) to be 'Sections'
Full Page Images can now have tiled Table of Contents images
Group-by date feature added to the Edition to allow ordering by day (for stacked TOC)

Bug Fixes

Required JavaScript file is now being loaded on the Contents Pages in the Classic skin
You can now use HTML tags in the Shopping standfirst
Back to top now has smooth scroll to the top of the page on article and shopping page
On the contents page, the hero story HTML no longer makes a gap in the page when there isn't a hero story to display
Customise colour default now matches our default theme colours
Gallery mark-up does not get wrapped in <p> tags any more
Articles can now be included in more than one edition, and be protected in a paid edition and not in a free edition - using the tick box

Third Party Updates

WCK 2.1.4 -> 2.2.4
Slate Admin Theme 1.1.5 -> 1.1.6
Announce from the Dashboard 1.5 -> 1.5.1
Simple Custom CSS 3.2 -> 3.3
Imsanity 2.3.5 -> 2.3.6
Mailgun 1.3.1 -> 1.4
Meta Box 4.5.3 -> 4.8.5

Pugpig Express 1.5.1

New: Shopping page content type added
New: Classic skin added
New: Apple News plugin added
Free sample tick box added to articles / Ability to create Edition Previews
Removed buttons from TinyMCE editor (Strikethrough, Indents, Insert Read More and Keyboard Shortcuts).
TinyMCE toggle button removed and both rows always display
TinyMCE colour picker displays highlight, section colours and saves new custom colours
Fix for CKEditor full screen mode
Fix for box-out layouts - now display correctly without images
Fix for small images displaying incorrectly on Dark skin
Table of contents icon upload added to Full page Image
Disabled oEmbed feature (new of Wordpress 4.4.2)
Updated Pugpig Connector 2.4.1
Updated Wordpress Core 4.4.2

Pugpig Express 1.3.2

Fix for video snapshots (Snapshot now displays Youtube image preview)
Offline message display for video content when offline
Box-out selection table is scrollable
Fix for content page isotope image loading
Minor Wordpress (4.4) bug fixes
Removed unused text editor from contents page and products page in CMS

Pugpig Express 1.3.0

Fix for contents page section title positions
Ability to add inline box-outs to article body. Default behaviour of repeatable box-outs remains the same as previous box-out display.
Whitespace is now removed from header group
Ability to link between articles in the same edition
Primary and secondary section colour fields are now colour pickers. Section colours settings can now control the section colour of the toolbar, table of contents and article colours.

Pugpig Express 1.2.8

Optimised the table of contents images
Optimised the contents page images
Minor bug fixes

Pugpig Express 1.2.2

Ability to add swift templates to custom post types
Section colours can be added to a section and can be used to override default customiser highlight colours
HTML Zips and Full Page Images are always hidden from the contents page
Pasting text into Tiny MCE editor no longer adds pp-media tag
Contents page article titles no longer flow into neighbours boxes
Business Skin Article 2 Slug overlays scrolled content
Dropcap feature displays in business skin

Pugpig Express 1.1.9

Added a Summary to the Article - this will be displayed in the app container in the thumbnail view
Custom categories in Express feed don't override Core custom categories
Added optional Dropcap functionality - this can be added to a letter by highlighting it and selecting Dropcap from the formats menu in the second row of options in the text editor
Clean Skin inline images had incorrect styling, resolved and mark-up corrected in Mustache

Pugpig Express 1.1.7

Adding Sections to flatplan
Logo on Dark contents page is now stand alone, so works with or without the hero contents item. And sections have been fixed in the static contents page, they will now lay out properly.
Whitespace in the header group has been removed
Main image should had the option of not being tap to full screen
Back to top button is optional
When you add an HTML zip to a contents page, the link is now correct
If the article has no title, it just says 'no title' in the flat plan now
The hero item on the content page's image is included in the manifest
Updating the Contents Page if an article included on it is saved. This means it will be updated when the content is pushed to distribution
Added Tickbox to Simple Custom JS plugin admin page to enable or disable Jquery in the header

Pugpig Express 1.1.5

HTML Zip can now be added to contents page, with image, headline and standfirst. Hidden by default.
HTML zip - can now hide from TOC and add custom tiles Table of Contents image
Full page image - you can now be added to contents page, with image, headline and standfirst. Hidden by default.
Full page image - can now have section for contents page and TOC
When a post that is included on the contents page is saved, the contents page itself will be saved, in order to update the updated date in the atom feed
Font files of type TTF, OTF, WOFF and WOFF2 can now be uploaded to the media library
Caption HTML does not print if empty, so you don't get the little white box in the bottom right of the main image
Add lines to a standfirst and they will be actual line breaks, not HTML
Add JavaScript to the templates using the new plugin - Appearance > Custom JS
Article Slug now shows in all skins
Import an RSS feed with 'rss_main_image_url' set to be the media content url (or other image link) in the feed. A custom field should be created. The image should be fetched and be added to the media directory. The image should be attached to the post and in the main media image metafield. Updating/changing this field to a different image should be possible.
Small visual bugs fixed, no major changes.

Plugins added:

Simple Custom JS
Image optimisation - Imsanity

Pugpig Express 1.1.0

Important note: this release includes a major change to the Contents Page and app Table of Contents Settings options in an article page which will require some content to be reset - please read the following Upgrade Guide on instructions to follow.

Using the headline field for the HTML title
Flushing rewrite rule on activation and deactivation
Contents Page and Table of Contents (TOC) setting improvements:

Added fields for headline and summary overrides
Add settings for 'hide from TOC' for the native app's TOC

Optionally print the contents logo and slug markup
Not allowing phone numbers to be styled by iPhones
Tiles image field name updated
Hero article on contents page now links to the article
Auto-updated so running Wordpress 4.2.3
Updated Pugpig Connector 2.3.8 which includes:

Pugpig - Distribution Service Extension Plugin
Pugpig - Edition Filters Plugin (for Pugpig for Magazines edition storefront)
Pugpig - Full Page Image Extension (New content type)
Pugpig - Visual Flatplan Postback

Minor bug fixes and ui improvements

Pugpig Express 1.0.0

Our first official release of the Pugpig Express Authoring service & Express wordpress theme. This release includes:

A responsive HTML Pugpig Express theme for WordPress
A set of 4 provided content types - articles, contents pages, HTML zips with various layout options within them
A set of 5 provided skins - Business, Clean, Fun, Dark, Brand
Support for custom CSS and fonts
Support for HTML to be edited (using Mustache).
Support for video content
Support for Pugpig Products (Shopping) entry which works with native apps feature
Support for Pugpig Sounds entry which works with native apps feature
Minor bug fixes and ui improvements

Below we have included some more specific detail on changes if you are interested:

Responsive copy length improvements
Reduction on headline size and letter spacing for certain layout/skins
Better handling of low res quality images in layouts
Removal of the 'Insert from URL' option in 'Add Media'
Updating back to top links with #top
Removal of the tap to full screen native functionality (figure tags) off the contents page logo and all headshot images
Adding copyright class to credits so they show correctly in the native apps
Adding help more info text to all entry fields
Re-ordering the creation of custom fields so they makes sense when they are created
Youtube URL is now https to match content
Printing the headshot name and image based on the existence of the name, not the image
Ensure Products section doesn't get printed if there are no products
Removing unwanted scripts and styles from article headers which made pages heavy
Added a statement telling user that they need to publish their draft articles to view the content.