Dirigible Artworks changelog

1.0.45 2026-10-24

Fixed

• Artwork Gallery with Links set to Lightbox Page: clicking a work went to a broken address (a "page not found"). It now opens the artwork's page, the same as Page, and the sidebar shows those galleries as Page. Lightbox Image is renamed Image file and still opens the work's image. Neither mode opens a lightbox (none has loaded since the Dirigible theme stopped shipping one). Existing galleries need no changes.

1.0.44 2026-10-24

Changed

• Long artwork galleries now show 60 works at a time, with page links under the grid and a Load more button that adds the next 60 in place. This applies to the Artwork Gallery block (Handpicked, By Category and By Artist) and the works list on each artist's page. Each page has its own address (?artworks_page=2 and on) that search engines can follow and index. A gallery of thousands of artworks is now about 100 KB of page instead of several megabytes, and builds in a fraction of the time. Galleries of 60 works or fewer look exactly as before.

1.0.43 2026-10-24

Changed

• Internal: the artwork and artist editors' page parts (Edit buttons, modals, the Biography editor) now come from the Dirigible theme, shared with other plugins. Nothing changes in the editor or on pages; with an older theme the plugin's own copy is used.

1.0.42 2026-10-23

Added

• An artwork's first image and an artist's Photo are now also their featured image, kept the same both ways: change one and the other follows, remove the Photo and the featured image goes too. Link previews when the page is shared (Dirigible SEO), site search results and Hero blocks now show that picture. Existing artworks and artists get it automatically, in the background, after the update; where a featured image was already set to a different picture, both are left as they are. Artwork and artist pages don't change. Needs the next Dirigible theme release (it ships first); with an older theme nothing changes.

1.0.41 2026-10-23

Changed

• Internal: the shared Dirigible field reader is updated (v5, also used by Dirigible Documentation). Pages and saved settings are unchanged.
• Internal: the blocks' sidebars and settings previews use the Dirigible theme's shared field editor instead of the plugin's own copy, so the editor script is smaller. They show and save exactly as before. Needs the next Dirigible theme release (it ships first).
• Block sidebars: the Artwork Gallery's category list scrolls when long and saves checked categories in the list's order, long lists of chosen artworks or artists scroll, and block previews can't be clicked into by accident. Needs the next Dirigible theme release.

1.0.40 2026-10-22

Changed

• Artworks and artists now open in the block editor, which shows the page as visitors see it: an artwork's images beside its title, artists and details, or an artist's photo beside their details and biography. Each part has an Edit button that opens its fields in a pop-up, and the Artwork or Artist panel in the sidebar lists the same parts. The fields are the same, the pages don't change, and the Biography keeps its formatting toolbar.
• Dirigible Artworks no longer needs ACF. Every field and block setting stays where it was saved, and pages render exactly as before with ACF active or not. The blocks' sidebars look a little different but have the same settings.

Fixed

• Sample artworks (Dirigible → Import/Export) keep their images and details. On sites that also run Dirigible Manifest they were saved to the wrong fields, so their pages showed PHP warnings and no image. Saving an affected artwork in the editor repairs it.
• The editor's "Add title" placeholder shows again on posts, pages and other content: Artworks blanked it everywhere except artists.

1.0.39 2026-10-22

Changed

• Gallery Name moves to Artworks → Settings (needs the latest Dirigible theme), out of Appearance → Customize → Dirigible Plugins. It keeps its value, so there's nothing to set again, and old links to the Customizer open the new page. The field explains the badge wording it controls: “On View at” and the name, or “On View Now” when empty. On an older theme it stays in the Customizer.

1.0.38 2026-10-22

Changed

• Artworks → Import & Export: a JSON export holds the artists as well as the artworks, and importing it brings both in, artists first, so every artwork keeps its artist on the other site, even one the same file adds (needs the latest Dirigible theme).

1.0.37 2026-10-21

Fixed

• Import & Export keeps the line breaks in descriptions as written (artwork Description and Credit, and an artist's Biography and Biography Excerpt): an import no longer trims a leading or trailing line break or rewrites Windows line endings.

1.0.36 2026-10-21

Changed

• Import & Export: the artwork gallery and an artist's photo use the theme's same-site media fields (needs the latest Dirigible theme; on an older theme the screens don't appear until it updates). Import results are unchanged.

1.0.35 2026-10-21

Added

• Artists → Import & Export and Artworks → Import & Export (needs the latest Dirigible theme). Import artists and artworks from a spreadsheet or another Dirigible site with a preview of every row first and an undo afterwards, or export them as a CSV or JSON file. Artworks link to their artists by name or web address, a title matches an existing artwork only together with its artist, and the Images and Photo columns pick images already in the Media Library.

1.0.34 2026-10-21

Fixed

• Artwork and artist structured data prints names, descriptions, medium, dimensions, credit, copyright, places, artist names and category names as plain text ("Jason's", not "Jason’s"; no HTML tags). Artworks and artists the theme had already cached are rebuilt on their next view.

1.0.33 2026-10-08

Changed

• An Artwork's structured data follows the linked Artist's name and renamed categories without saving the Artwork again (Dirigible theme 5.31.98 or newer).

1.0.32 2026-10-01

Security

• Block output is escaped for its context: links, image addresses, classes and other attributes can no longer break the page's HTML, even when a field holds quotes or stray markup. Rich text fields still print exactly what editors enter.

Changed

• Blocks register from a prebuilt list instead of reading each block's settings file on every uncached request.
• Update checks use the Dirigible theme's license handling, so a plugin with no license key no longer sends an empty one.

1.0.31 2026-09-30

Changed

• Artwork galleries and artist pages load faster: artworks and their images are fetched in bulk instead of one at a time.

1.0.30 2026-09-30

Fixed

• Card images load a file sized for the card instead of a full-width one, so pages with cards download less.

1.0.29 2026-09-30

Security

• Updates come only from Dirigible: WordPress no longer matches this plugin to a WordPress.org listing with the same name.

Changed

• The installable zip is smaller: build sources, source maps, right-to-left stylesheets and Markdown are no longer shipped. Nothing sites load changed.

Fixed

• A visitor who lands while the plugin is being updated sees "This site is updating, refresh in a minute" instead of a critical error, and error replies never include server file paths.

1.0.28 2026-09-29

Security

• Artist and artwork links, image sources, srcset/sizes, alt text and layout classes in the Artworks blocks and pages are escaped.

Fixed

• The Customizer can't crash when the Dirigible theme is missing or older.

Changed

• The installable zip leaves out builder docs and development files.

1.0.27 2026-09-22

Added

• Builder-facing docs for Dirigible Support (overview, usage, post types, taxonomies, Customizer, and block Settings).
• Sample data fixtures under docs/sample-data/ (WXR + wire + media) registered via ds_sample_data_sources for Dirigible → Import/Export demos and screenshots.
• Demo link to the live Artworks plugin demo on overview and Getting started.
• Featured showcase images and per-control Settings sidebar screenshots for Art Divider, Artist, Artists, Artwork, and Artwork Gallery.

1.0.26 2026-09-16

Changed

• Enable post revisions on custom post types.
• Update blocks: art-divider, artist, artists, artwork-gallery, artwork.

1.0.24 2026-09-08

Changed

• Version bump (2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)).

1.0.23 2026-08-20

Added

• Add blocks: art-divider, artist, artists, artwork-gallery, artwork.

1.0.22 2025-12-11

Changed

• Update customizer.

1.0.21 2025-12-11

Changed

• Update jsonld.

1.0.20 2025-07-16

Changed

• Version bump (2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)).

1.0.18 2025-03-14

Changed

• Update blocks: artwork.
• Update templates.

1.0.17 2023-09-06

Changed

• Update templates.

1.0.16 2023-02-13

Changed

• Update README, customizer.

1.0.15 2023-02-13

Changed

• Update customizer.

1.0.14 2022-01-19

Added

• Re-add nationality functionality

Changed

• Update blocks: artist.
• Update templates.
• Update version

1.0.13 2022-01-19

Changed

• Update blocks: artist.
• Update templates.
• Removed nationality field on artists

1.0.12 2022-01-11

Added

• Add files: licensing.php.

Changed

• Update admin-min, admin, licensing-min, licensing, .editorconfig, .gitignore, and 37 more.

1.0.11 2022-01-11

Changed

• Version bump (1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)).

1.0.10 2022-01-11

Added

• Add files: README.md.

1.0.9 2021-11-26

Changed

• Update templates.

1.0.8 2021-10-28

Changed

• Version bump (2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)).

1.0.7 2021-10-26

Added

• Add blocks: art-divider.

1.0.6 2021-10-26

Added

• Add blocks: artwork-gallery, artwork.

Changed

• Update templates.

1.0.4 2021-10-25

Added

• Add blocks: artists.

Changed

• Update blocks: artist.

1.0.3 2021-10-25

Added

• Add blocks: artist.

Changed

• Update templates.

1.0.2 2021-10-25

Added

• Add files: CHANGELOG.md, README.md, licensing.php.

Changed

• Enable post revisions on custom post types.
• Update admin-min, admin, licensing-min, licensing, .editorconfig, .gitignore, and 40 more.

Fixed

• Roll ACF blocks back to blockVersion 2 and dedupe field keys across 5 blocks (art-divider, artist, artists, artwork-gallery, artwork).