Changes under the hood for WP-OTIS 2.0.0
What's Changed
- Addresses #66
- Adds Transportation Services OTIS characteristics to the Type taxonomy
While this update should not actually make any immediately noticeable difference to your WP-OTIS usage, exercise caution when upgrading and make a backup of your database before proceeding. The 2.0 designation reflects a significant change to the code that updates and inserts POIs.
Our testing for this change produced a seamless experience, but nonetheless, it is potentially disruptive because of way the plugin references ACF fields during sync. The relevant code was changed to improve compatibility for some sites which have their own custom fields that share a name with one or more WP-OTIS fields. This should allow more robust integration with custom themes and plugins going forward, but is worth checking for yourself, and testing the sync process on a development server before deploying to your live site. In addition, going forward, the OTIS transportation services characteristics will be included in the Type taxonomy for POIs. If you want all those terms to be integrated immediately, we recommend running a full sync of all OTIS data after upgrading. Otherwise, the terms will be gradually integrated over time as POIs that include them are updated on OTIS.