Academic Labbook Plugin 0.22.0

Eleventh preview release of Academic Labbook Plugin for WordPress.

With this release, the minimum WordPress and PHP versions required to run this plugin has changed. Before upgrading this plugin, ensure you have upgraded WordPress core to at least version 5.6, and PHP to at least 7.1.

The application passwords feature has been removed from ALP in favour of the new built-in application passwords in WordPress 5.6. Users who use this feature will have to regenerate passwords using their Profile admin screen.

For installation instructions, see here.

It is highly recommended to use the Labbook theme - it fully enables most of the features provided by this plugin.

Changes since last release

0.22.0

• WordPress 5.6 and PHP 7.1 now required.
• Removed application passwords feature provided by ALP in favour of new core application passwords feature. Users using application passwords will now have to regenerate them going to their own user page in the admin area. Note that this removal was planned as listed in the "Development plans in the context of WordPress upgrades" section of the project README file.
• Set default image and gallery image links in the block editor to the corresponding files now that this is finally supported. Note that this feature only becomes visible with WordPress 5.6.
• Change use of wp_localize_script to wp_add_inline_script.
• "Unread Posts" admin bar menu item is now only shown on the front end.
• PHP4 style int typecasts replaced with PHP5+ equivalents.
• Changed users widget to use URLs conforming to the site's current permalink setting.
• Block editor social blocks re-blacklisted after upstream changes enabled them.