System Change Log - Fire Department Website Solutions from First Arriving

This page will provide an overview of core system adjustments, enhancements and new features as they are added.

Update to Elise 1.3.7
BREAKING: Change ‘Sitewide Announcement’ option to a page selector to allow for VC use
Added options to disable or define alternate mobile announcement
Added hook to show Gravity Form label display by default
FD Recent Posts – Added layout for ‘List w/Image’ but using columns
FD Recent Posts – Added optional link to archive (post type or taxonomy term)
Added option for single news title layout
Added option for Team specific placeholder
Added logic to calculate image sizes based on columns

Added numerous new options to the FD Recent & Single posts widget

Options for 4:3 images, options for images to take 1/3, 1/2 or 1/4 of the space on various outputs.
Options to use title only on output of lists
Hide Excerpt on FD Single Post
Single column for the “Columns” output
Custom excerpt for FD Single Post — this is helpful when you use pages in this area and want to create a shorter custom excerpt. If nothing is filled in, the standard excerpt will be used (unless its hidden).

Added mobile column selection for column layout of FD Recent Posts element. Choosing 2 column for mobile will give 2 columns at mobile width and 3 columns for tweener screens. This is for situations like this where you have limited data and one column will look quirky.
Added year to the post meta section of single pages – which also displays on archive pages like the News and category landing pages (it had been just month and day.
Added meta fields for first and last name to team member data. You can reference the custom meta_key ‘opt-team-last-name’ in the Reorder plugin using the orderby parameter to automatically sort specific queries using this field. You should also set a fallback using ‘slug’ or custom meta_key ‘opt-team-first-name’ for sorting among those with the same last name. This does not change team members already in system, but provides a tool when needed. To utilize, enter team member’s full name in the standard “page title” area, and then first and last name separately in those fields.
Stylesheet tweaks to support the items above.

FD Recent Posts widget now works properly with page categories
Multi Column output of FD Recent Posts widget without categories
Single Team Page “Disabled” by Default (enabling the linking)
Apparatus Settings adds “Unit Title” and “Unit Subtitle” plus High Resolution Image
Title and Subtitle can be hidden from FD Recent Posts/Single Posts widget by checking “Disable Meta Title?” and “Disable Subtitle” when selecting Team or Apparatus
Main Sidebar is enabled by Default when “Page w/Sidebar” is selected
Search template adjusted to include thumbnail, ongoing adjustments to output underway
“Gallery” title now added to search results if content type is Envira gallery.
“News” header in search results will now use whatever is defined in theme options to provide flexibility.
Added “Hide Featured Image” to all post types, especially key on Galleries

Enabled Featured image for Envira Galleries, detailed further here.
Enabled “Defaults” Addon for Envira Galleries. Needs to be set PER site to disable the Envira lightboxes, where to display description, etc.
Created process for WP All Import for Team (and potentially other) pages to bulk import team content, detailed here.
Process created to bulk import “Activity History” style content from third party sites into TablePress as CSV. Confirmed Envira galleries best displayed within TablePress rows/columns.