!!ATTENTION!! Please make sure to purge your Story Data Caches under Fictioneer > Tools! If your roles somehow lack permissions, you can fix them with Fictioneer > Tools > Initialize Roles manually. And flush your permalinks for good measure under Settings > Permalinks > Save. If the style is old or weird, clear your browser cache.
If you already did all of that for 5.6.0, you do not need to again. This is just in case someone updates late and does not read the previous release notes. Anyway, another round of fixes and optimizations, plus another capability.
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Highlight: Classic Editor
Yes, indeed. You can now restrict user roles to the classic editor, which further reduces their ability to mess up your site -- all still for those who want to host a community site with Fictioneer, against all warnings. Well, the classic editor is also far less annoying in many ways, probably why so many people prefer it. Gutenberg is constantly buggy and tinkered with. I question the sanity of putting a React app as editor into WordPress. Seems like a rather large technical debt to a transitional technology that's probably not gonna last until the end of the decade. Then we're gonna complain about it like we did with the IE.
Release Notes
- New: Added the Classic Editor capability for roles
- Fixed: Roles should now initialize correctly all the time
- Fixed: Role restriction now properly apply to new posts as well
- Fixed: Select Page Template capability does no longer produce JS errors or block valid updates
- Fixed: The image consent wrapper button can no longer accidentally submit forms
- Fixed: Sticky posts are now ignored in featured lists in blog posts
- Fixed: Custom story pages now honor the visibility setting
- Improved: Select Page Template capability now also blocks the post parent and order fields
- Improved: The role capabilities now also work with the classic editor
- Improved: Remove or hide more fields if they are superfluous
- Improved: Pingbacks and trackbacks are now blocked from being set, disabling them reliably
- Removed: Chapter warning color input; this was a terrible idea to ever add