Pitchfork Blocks

A plugin for use with the Pitchfork theme for WordPress.

This plugin adds blocks for the creation of directory and people-centric pages for the WordPress block editor. The block designs are consistent with the ASU Unity Design system for web standards.

Requires at least: WP 6.2 Tested up to: 6.2 Requires PHP: 7.3 Stable tag: 1.0 License: GPLv2 or later

License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Contributors

• Steve Ryan (ASU Engineering)
• John Cox (Knowledge Enterprise)
• Walt Mcconnell (Knowledge Enterprise)

Usage Requirements

• Download the lastest release from Github.
• Install in the normal WP location for plugins which is typically /wp-content/plugins.

Recommended / Required Additional Plugins

This plugin contains blocks that are constructed with the use of Advanced Custom Fields Pro.

• The ACF Pro plugin is also required by the Pitchfork theme.
• The Pitchfork theme contains a script which will prompt the user to install this plugin upon theme activation.
• ASU Engineering provides a licensed copy of this plugin within its standard distribution of WordPress.

Plugin updates can applied from the admin dashboard through the use of WP Pusher or Git Updater.

Configuration

This plugin provides one administration screen located at /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=pfpeople_block_cache. To access the configuration screen, users should have the manage_options capability that is normally assigned to the administrator role.

Configurable actions and options include:

• Setting the length of time that profile data is cached by the site. (Default setting is 30 days.)
• Clearing all cached data generated by this plugin for the site.
• Clearing data related to individual profiles as needed.

Includes

• This plugin conditionally loads the app-webdir-ui package from the Unity project as needed.
• All other styles are expected to be provided by the WordPress theme in use. (Which in turn would ideally load a copy of the unity-bootstrap-theme also found within the ASU package library).

Development

• SASS and JS compile & watch tasks are triggered via Gulp WP and npx gulp-wp from the project root.

Release Notes

See CHANGELOG.md for the a list of all improvements made to the plugin.

We also keep similar notes in the releases section of our project for an overview of what changed with each release.