Dirigible People changelog

4.0.47 2026-10-24

Changed

• People block: names are now H2 headings by default (job titles H3), so a directory placed under the page title no longer skips a heading level for screen readers. The cards look exactly the same. A block already set to another Heading Level keeps it; under an H2 section heading, set Heading Level to H3. People category pages use real H2/H3 headings too (screen readers already heard those levels).

4.0.46 2026-10-24

Changed

• Headshot images (People block cards, single person pages, the Person block, author cards) now carry their media library ID in the image markup. Filling in missing alt text from the media library no longer looks each headshot up by its file address (about 20 fewer database queries on a page with a staff directory), and it now reaches every headshot on a large directory page, not only the first 20 without alt text. The images look the same.

4.0.45 2026-10-24

Changed

• People block filter tags load the categories they need in one database query instead of one each (when the categories aren't already loaded for the people shown). The tags look the same.

4.0.44 2026-10-24

Changed

• People lists load with fewer database queries: the People block (Directory, Headshots and Blocks layouts) and People category pages load every headshot at once instead of one by one, which cuts about 130 queries from a 69-person directory. Author cards on posts with several authors and a person's list of their posts do the same. Pages look the same.

4.0.43 2026-10-24

Changed

• Background and Text Color for a person, in the sidebar's Style panel and the color button on the page, now always use the Dirigible theme's picker (theme 5.31.240 or later), and the plugin's own older copy is gone. Nothing changes for builders.

4.0.42 2026-10-23

Changed

• A person's structured data names the site's business as their affiliation by pointing at the business details the Dirigible theme already prints on every page (theme 5.31.101 or later), instead of repeating the site's name and link. Older themes keep the inline affiliation. People the theme had already cached are rebuilt on their next view.

4.0.41 2026-10-23

Changed

• The Background and Text Color picker is the theme's shared one when the theme has it (5.31.240+), so its swatches can be reached from the keyboard and are named for screen readers. It works the same as before.

4.0.40 2026-10-23

Changed

• With a Background picked, the card on Placard and Details Right is a shade of that color, with the same text color, instead of white. Without one, the card stays white on the layout's gray, as before.
• In the editor, the Layout choice's note shows only with Site Default picked, and names the layout it uses now (from People → Settings).

4.0.39 2026-10-23

Fixed

• On the Placard and Details Right layouts, a dark Background with Light text no longer turns the text in the white card white on white. The card keeps dark text.

4.0.38 2026-10-23

Added

• Title Style for a person's name (H1 to H6). Select Edit on the name in the editor, or use the sidebar's new Style panel.
• Background and Text Color (Dark or Light) for the top of a person's page, from the round color button at the top right of the page in the editor or the Style panel. Choosing a background picks the text color that reads better on it, and you can change it after.
• Existing people keep their layout's own title size and background (gray, or dark with light text on Spotlight) until you change them.

4.0.37 2026-10-23

Changed

• In the editor, you type a person's name straight into the page's heading, as on the page. Until there's a name, the heading is outlined as required.
• In the editor, a person without a photo shows an image box the size of the headshot. Click it to set one. The sidebar's Person panel has a Photo row too. Pages don't change.

4.0.36 2026-10-22

Fixed

• Person pages no longer show the email address twice. With Show Email on, the address shows once, as text with the contact details, and the envelope icon is gone from the social links (Placard's footer too). With Show Email off, the envelope still shows as before. This changes only the pages of people who have an email address, while Show Social Links is on. The editor's page preview matches.

4.0.35 2026-10-22

Changed

• In the editor, a person's Layout picker sits on a light gray band across the top, and the page preview starts right below it.

4.0.34 2026-10-22

Fixed

• In the editor, full-width and wide blocks in a person's bio run as wide as they do on the page in the Profile Header layout. Pages don't change.

4.0.33 2026-10-22

Fixed

• Sidebar and Minimal person pages: a person with no categories or tags no longer gets an empty gap where they would be when Show Categories is on, as on the newer layouts.

4.0.32 2026-10-22

Fixed

• Spotlight person pages: on phones the contact details, social links and categories now come before the bio instead of after it, as on Details Right. A person with none of them no longer gets an empty column.
• Portrait person pages without a headshot keep the name, details and bio at a reading width instead of running across the whole page.
• Details Right, Profile Header, Portrait and Spotlight: the categories and tags list no longer leaves extra space under itself, so the Details Right card and the Profile Header band have even padding top and bottom. A person with no categories or tags no longer leaves an empty gap there when Show Categories is on.

4.0.31 2026-10-22

Added

• Four more person page layouts, in People → Settings → Appearance → Default Layout and in each person's Layout: - Details Right: the bio first, with the headshot and contact details in a card on the right. - Profile Header: headshot, name and job title in a band across the top, contact details in a row under them, then the bio at reading width. - Portrait: a large square headshot beside the name, contact details and bio. - Spotlight: a dark band with a large name and headshot, then the bio with contact details beside it. Each has a drawing in the layout picker and a preview in the editor. Existing person pages don't change.

Upgrade notice

• If a site goes back to an earlier People version, people set to one of the new layouts show the Sidebar layout until they're set again.

4.0.30 2026-10-22

Changed

• Edit a person on their page. In the editor, each part of the person's page (headshot, job title, short description, contact details, social links, categories) has an Edit button that opens its fields in a pop-up. Parts a People setting hides are faded with the setting's name, and empty parts say what to add. The page's layout sits at the top with a drawing of it and a Change button, and layouts are picked from tiles with drawings. A person with no bio or short description previews the simpler page visitors see.
• The sidebar's Person Information form is now a Person panel: a line per part with the same Edit buttons and pop-ups, in the page's sidebar and the Single Person block's. Saved details are unchanged.
• Needs Dirigible theme 5.31.216 or later. With an older theme the editor stays as it was until the theme updates.

4.0.29 2026-10-22

Changed

• People settings moved to People → Settings. They used to be under Appearance → Customize → Dirigible People. They keep their values, so there's nothing to set again, and old links to the Customizer open the new page. Settings are grouped as Settings, Authorship and Appearance, with a list of the three beside them. Default Layout shows a small drawing of each layout, the contact-detail toggles sit side by side, and every setting has a short note. Needs the latest Dirigible theme: until a site's theme updates, the settings stay in the Customizer.

Added

• Previews in People → Settings. Under Appearance, a sample person page (a made-up landscape designer, not anyone from your directory) shows your layout and contact-detail choices. Under Authorship, a sample post's author cards show the columns, name style and heading. Both update as you change settings, at desktop, tablet or phone size, before you save.

Fixed

• Show Categories, Show Excerpt and Show Fax start where person pages already were. On sites that never changed them, person pages have hidden categories and shown excerpts and fax numbers all along, while the settings (and the Single Person block in the editor) said the opposite. The settings and the editor now show the same as the pages: Show Categories off, Show Excerpt and Show Fax on. No person page changes.
• Placard person pages follow Show Social Links. Turning it off now hides the social links in the Placard layout's footer too, as on the other layouts. With it on (the default), Placard pages are unchanged.

4.0.28 2026-10-22

Added

• Hovering the People block in the block inserter shows a preview of the site's people as headshots, so it's easier to tell apart from Person and Single Person. The support docs show the same preview.

4.0.27 2026-10-22

Fixed

• A person's page no longer shows "page not found" right after People is turned on. Activating the plugin didn't add the web addresses for people, so their pages answered 404 (with no person structured data) until the Permalinks were saved or another plugin rebuilt them. People now rebuilds them once on the next page load after activation, after each update, and when the people slug changes.

4.0.26 2026-10-21

Added

• People → Import & Export (needs the latest Dirigible theme). Import a staff spreadsheet to add everyone at once or update job titles, emails and phone numbers across the directory, with a preview first and an undo afterwards. Existing people are found by web address, then email, then name, and a sheet with First name and Last name columns works too. Export the directory as a CSV, or as JSON to copy it to another Dirigible site. Exporting needs an Editor or Administrator, because the file holds everyone's contact details.

4.0.25 2026-10-21

Fixed

• A person's structured data prints names and descriptions as plain text ("Jason's Voices", not "Jason’s Voices"; bios without their HTML tags), and leaves blank address parts out instead of printing them as null. People the theme had already cached are rebuilt on their next view.
• The "Website" link on a person's page reads "Website" when the link's title is blank, instead of an empty link.

4.0.24 2026-10-21

Fixed

• Person pages print one set of structured data instead of two: the second copy (with empty email, address and website fields) is gone when the Dirigible theme provides it.

4.0.23 2026-10-14

Changed

• Headshots in People lists and on a person's page download a file sized for how they're shown. Small headshots (Directory, Headshots, and every single-person layout) asked for a half-screen-wide image and now fetch one around 128–160 px wide (twice that on high-density screens), so pages with many people load much less. The Blocks layout sizes each photo to its column.

4.0.22 2026-10-08

Fixed

• The placeholder silhouette for people without a headshot is marked decorative, so screen readers skip it.

4.0.21 2026-10-08

Changed

• People posts that the v4 migration rewrites keep their last-modified date.

Fixed

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

4.0.20 2026-10-06

Changed

• A person's phone, text, fax, email and address no longer appear in the site's public REST API (/wp-json/wp/v2/people) for visitors, so the directory can't be downloaded as a contact list. Person pages and the editor are unchanged.

4.0.19 2026-10-01

Added

• People block: new Heading Level setting (H2–H6, default H3) for person names, with job titles one level below. Pick the level that fits under the section heading above the block; it doesn't change how the cards look, and existing blocks stay at H3.

4.0.18 2026-10-01

Changed

• Starting templates with "Include block content" off now clear the Person block's Copy, Title and Link Text.

Fixed

• On People category pages, names read as level-2 headings and job titles as level 3 for screen readers. Nothing changes visually.

4.0.17 2026-10-01

Fixed

• Website link titles with accents or quotes come through the 4.0 upgrade intact instead of being garbled or emptied.

4.0.16 2026-10-01

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.

Fixed

• People cards and the author card are one stop each when tabbing: the photo link no longer repeats the name link for keyboard and screen-reader users. Photos are still clickable.

4.0.15 2026-09-30

Changed

• Block stylesheet versions are kept in one saved setting and refreshed on updates, instead of a database read and a file check per block on every uncached page load.

4.0.14 2026-09-30

Fixed

• Style fixes to blocks now show in the editor, and on pages that load block CSS as a file, right after an update. Browsers and the host's cache used to keep the old stylesheet for up to a year; each block's CSS now gets a new address only when it actually changes.

4.0.13 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.

4.0.12 2026-09-29

Changed

• The Person block, handpicked People lists and authorship cards only show published people. Drafts, private people and posts that aren't people are skipped until they're published.

Fixed

• Apostrophes and quotes in person fields (job title, address, categories, website label and others) show as curly quotes again instead of the straight quotes 4.0.11 printed.

4.0.11 2026-09-29

Security

• Person details (job title, contact fields, website, social handles) are cleaned when saved and escaped wherever they're shown, so they can't carry markup or unsafe links.

Fixed

• People's duplicate-field cleanup no longer touches other plugins' fields that share a name (like phone or website).
• The v4 upgrade can't run twice at once, and picks up where it left off if a request is interrupted.

4.0.10 2026-09-28

Fixed

• The upgrade that converts legacy People blocks to the v4 blocks no longer strips backslashes from the other blocks on the pages it rewrites, so special characters like "&" in those blocks' settings no longer turn into "u0026" and fail block validation.

4.0.9 2026-09-28

Changed

• People, Person, and Single Person add themselves to the blocks allowed inside a Dirigible Column, Page Blocks panel, and Media Callout copy area. Needs Dirigible Blocks 4.10.96 or later; on older versions nothing changes (4.10.95 already lists them).
• The installable zip no longer includes builder docs, screenshots, or development files.

4.0.8 2026-09-22

Added

• Accessible alt text on showcase screenshots in screenshots.json for Dirigible Support docs (screen readers; pipeline falls back to caption when needed).

4.0.7 2026-09-21

Added

• Sample data fixtures under docs/sample-data/ (WXR + wire + media) registered via ds_sample_data_sources for Dirigible → Import/Export demos and screenshots.

Changed

• Retina front-end featured screenshots (2880×1800) and screenshot manifests for People and Person blocks.

4.0.6 2026-09-16

Changed

• Enable post revisions on people CPT.

4.0.5 2026-09-09

Added

• Add blocks: people.
• Add files: editor.css.

Changed

• Update blocks: people, single-person.
• Update block, editor, package.

4.0.4 2026-09-08

Changed

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

4.0.3 2026-09-08

Changed

• Update blocks: single-person.
• Update package, templates.

4.0.2 2026-07-28

Changed

• Update package, update.

4.0.1 2026-07-28

Added

• Add blocks: people, person, single-person.
• Add files: editor-meta.css, index.asset.php, index.js, block.json, render.php, and 6 more.

Changed

• Update blocks: people, person.
• Update .gitignore, admin, customizer, fields, jsonld, meta, and 5 more.

3.0.68 2026-06-01

Added

• Add blocks: people, person.

3.0.67 2026-05-12

Changed

• Update templates.

3.0.66 2026-02-13

Changed

• Update templates.
• Catch fatal error when term errors out on people placards

3.0.65 2026-01-16

Changed

• Version bump (2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)).

3.0.64 2026-01-16

Changed

• Update fields.

3.0.63 2026-01-13

Changed

• Update templates.

3.0.62 2026-01-13

Changed

• Version bump (2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)).

3.0.61 2026-01-06

Changed

• Update people.

3.0.60 2026-01-06

Changed

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

3.0.59 2026-01-06

Changed

• Version bump (2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)).

3.0.58 2026-01-06

Changed

• Update fields.

3.0.57 2026-01-05

Changed

• Update blocks: people.

3.0.56 2025-12-29

Changed

• Update people.

3.0.55 2025-12-29

Changed

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

3.0.54 2025-12-29

Changed

• Update fields, people, templates.

3.0.53 2025-12-11

Changed

• Update people.

3.0.52 2025-12-11

Changed

• Update jsonld.

3.0.51 2025-10-30

Changed

• Update blocks: person.
• Update README, templates.

3.0.50 2025-10-23

Changed

• Update fields.

3.0.48 2025-10-23

Changed

• Version bump (2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)).

3.0.47 2025-10-22

Changed

• Update templates.

3.0.46 2025-10-17

Changed

• Update templates.

3.0.45 2025-10-17

Changed

• Update templates.

3.0.44 2025-09-07

Changed

• Update templates.

3.0.43 2025-07-23

Changed

• Update README, fields, templates.

3.0.42 2025-07-16

Changed

• Version bump (2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)).

3.0.40 2025-06-13

Changed

• Update README, fields, people, templates.

3.0.39 2025-05-07

Changed

• Update blocks: people, person.
• Update README, templates.

3.0.37 2025-04-18

Changed

• Update blocks: person.
• Update templates.

3.0.36 2025-03-21

Changed

• Update templates.

3.0.35 2025-01-29

Changed

• Update README, templates.

3.0.34 2024-10-30

Changed

• Update templates.

3.0.33 2024-10-11

Changed

• Update templates.

3.0.32 2024-10-11

Changed

• Update templates.

3.0.31 2024-09-11

Changed

• Update templates.

3.0.30 2024-09-11

Changed

• Update blocks: people.
• Update fields, people, templates.

3.0.29 2024-09-11

Changed

• Update fields.

3.0.28 2024-09-11

Changed

• Update blocks: people.
• Update fields, people, templates, update.

3.0.26 2024-08-21

Changed

• Update templates.

3.0.25 2024-08-02

Changed

• Update templates.

3.0.24 2024-04-12

Changed

• Update templates.

3.0.23 2024-04-12

Changed

• Update README, templates.

3.0.22 2024-04-09

Changed

• Update README, templates.

3.0.21 2023-12-20

Changed

• Update README, templates.

3.0.20 2023-02-13

Changed

• Update blocks: person.

3.0.19 2023-02-13

Changed

• Update README, people.

3.0.18 2023-01-19

Added

• Add blocks: people, person.
• Add files: helpers.php.

Changed

• Update README, templates.

3.0.17 2022-12-11

Changed

• Update templates.

3.0.16 2022-10-17

Changed

• Update templates.

3.0.15 2022-10-06

Changed

• Update templates.

3.0.14 2022-05-03

Changed

• Update templates.

3.0.13 2022-05-03

Changed

• Update templates.

3.0.12 2022-01-11

Added

• Add files: licensing.php.

Changed

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

3.0.11 2022-01-11

Changed

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

3.0.10 2022-01-11

Added

• Add files: README.md.

3.0.9 2021-10-28

Changed

• Version bump (3 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)).

3.0.7 2021-09-30

Changed

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

3.0.6 2021-06-30

Added

• Add files: admin-min.js, licensing-min.css, licensing.css.

Changed

• Update admin, templates.

3.0.4 2021-06-23

Changed

• Update templates.

3.0.3 2021-05-21

Changed

• Update templates.

3.0.2 2021-05-21

Changed

• Update templates.

3.0.1 2021-05-17

Changed

• Update templates.

3.0.0 2021-03-08

Added

• Add files: icon-256x256.png.

Changed

• Update templates.
• Move to tailwind

2.2.1 2021-02-25

Changed

• Version bump (3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)).

2.1.2 2021-01-14

Changed

• Version bump (1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)).

2.1.1 2021-01-14

Added

• Add files: index.php, DirigibleLicensing.php, admin.js, options.php, init.php, and 101 more.

2.1.0 2020-12-30

Added

• Add blocks: people, person, single-person.
• Add files: CHANGELOG.md, README.md, editor-meta.css, index.asset.php, index.js, and 11 more.

Changed

• Enable post revisions on people CPT.
• Update .gitignore, admin, customizer, jsonld, meta, people, and 4 more.