- Coloured alert panels written in the old govintranet theme now display correctly instead of appearing as plain text. Pages carried over from the old theme use its alert styling, which this theme didn’t recognise, so those panels lost their colour and left border. They are now matched to the equivalent Govintra alert automatically, in both light and dark mode, with no need to re-edit the pages. Old alerts with a close button no longer show the button, as it never did anything once the page moved to this theme.
- Fixed the **information alert** style, which took its colour from the site’s own brand colour instead of being blue. On a site branded green or teal, an information alert looked much like a success alert. Information alerts are now always blue, using the same blue as the news updates widget, so the four alert styles — blue for information, green for success, yellow for warning and red for danger — read consistently on every site whatever its branding.
- Added a **primary alert** style for alerts that should follow the site’s own brand colour, which is what the information alert used to do. Use `govintra-alert–primary` in place of `govintra-alert–info` on any alert you want to keep in your brand colour.
- Coloured alert panels written in the old govintranet theme now display correctly instead of appearing as plain text. Pages carried over from the old theme use its alert styling, which this theme didn’t recognise, so those panels lost their colour and left border. They are now matched to the equivalent Govintra alert automatically, in both light and dark mode, with no need to re-edit the pages. Old alerts with a close button no longer show the button, as it never did anything once the page moved to this theme.
- Redesigned the light/dark mode setting in the footer. It was a single button that cycled through the modes one click at a time, and people told us they didn’t notice it or recognise what it was for. It is now three labelled choices — **Auto**, **Light** and **Dark** — shown side by side, with the one you’re currently using highlighted. You can now see at a glance which mode you’re in and switch straight to the one you want.
- The **News updates listing** page can now show a sidebar, using the sidebar field on the page in the same way as other pages. Previously it always stretched the full width of the screen, unlike the news and blog listing pages.
- Redesigned the light/dark mode setting in the footer. It was a single button that cycled through the modes one click at a time, and people told us they didn’t notice it or recognise what it was for. It is now three labelled choices — **Auto**, **Light** and **Dark** — shown side by side, with the one you’re currently using highlighted. You can now see at a glance which mode you’re in and switch straight to the one you want.
- The **News updates listing** page can now show a sidebar, using the sidebar field on the page in the same way as other pages. Previously it always stretched the full width of the screen, unlike the news and blog listing pages.
- Fixed missing icons on sites upgraded from the old govintranet theme. The icons chosen for news update types were left behind by the upgrade, so anywhere a type appeared — the news updates page, the comms hub, the news updates widget, listing cards and the news in brief tile — showed a blank space instead of the icon. Honours and Wonderwall category icons were converted into a form nothing could display and were blank in the same way. Both are now converted properly, and existing sites are repaired automatically on the next visit to the admin screens. Icons you have set by hand are left alone.
- Fixed the **Need to know icon** setting (Options → General). It asked for a CSS class but only ever worked with a plain icon name, so following the instruction gave a blank icon. The instruction now matches what the setting expects, and any value already saved in the old form is corrected automatically.
- Added an **Accessibility copilot** option (Options → General → Text and features). When switched on, content is checked each time a post or page is saved and any accessibility problems are flagged with a warning at the top of the editor. It looks for tables with no header row, hardcoded colours and fonts, images with no alternative text, and unhelpful link wording such as “click here”. As well as the main content, it checks rich-text custom fields such as the sidebar, signpost sections and aggregator free-format areas.
- Added an **Amber** colour option to the News updates and Need to know widgets, giving a warm alternative to the existing colours that stays easy to read in both light and dark mode.
- The text added to a forum’s description now shows at the top of the forum page, above its list of topics. Previously it was saved but never displayed.
- Tidied the forum topic list: the “Topic” heading now lines up with the topic titles beneath it, and each author’s name sits a little clearer of their avatar.
- Images attached to forum topics and replies now open in the same full-screen lightbox used elsewhere on the site. Click a thumbnail to view the picture at full size, swipe or use the arrows to move between several images in the same post, and zoom in for a closer look.
- Removed the empty row that appeared at the bottom of forum and topic lists.
- Fixed the **Enable WYSIWYG in forums** setting (Settings → Forums). When turned on, the bbPress topic and reply boxes now show the full visual editor instead of the basic text buttons, and the richer formatting it produces (links, lists, tables, images) is kept when a post is saved. The setting existed but had no effect before.
- Tidied the forum topic and reply layout: the “Author” and “Posts” column headings now line up with the columns beneath them, and each author’s name sits centred under their avatar.
- Fixed faint text on the Service/News Updates widget links when focused with the keyboard in dark mode. The link now shows in dark text against the yellow focus highlight.
- Draft preview badge added to long page template.
- Fixed the “More” link on the News and Blog widgets. When a widget is set to show a single news type or blog category, its “More” link now opens the news or blog list already filtered to that type or category, instead of showing everything.
- Fixed icons on button-styled links showing in white — and hard to see — when focused with the keyboard. The icon now turns dark to match the text against the yellow focus highlight.
- Fixed Wonderwall entries missing from a staff profile when an entry thanked several people at once. Every entry that mentions a person now appears on their profile.
- Fixed faint text on Wonderwall cards when focused with the keyboard. The name and details now show in dark text against the yellow focus highlight.
- The Wonderwall homepage widget gains an **Expand multiple mentions** option (single-column layout only). When enabled, each entry is redrawn with the award category highlighted in a coloured header on its own line, followed by every honouree — avatar and name — listed down the full width of the widget, rather than the compact default that shows one (randomly chosen) honouree with a “+N others” count. Single-mention entries follow the same layout, so the order is always category first, then the people. The compact card, the two-column layout and the full-width homepage cards are unchanged
- CSS classes added to staff profile fields
- News and blog templates updated to handle hierarchical taxonomies better
- New **cardgrid** shortcode for displaying bespoke linked cards with images and titles
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