The Office of Strategic Communication and WiscWeb teams are working hard to rebuild as many of the UW Theme features as possible. For an understanding of what has and has not been accommodated so far, please review the list below. Features that are confirmed to be completed are highlighted in green.
If there is an existing UW Theme feature you do not see listed below and would like to understand the status, please reach out via the WiscWeb Support Request Form and we will add it to the list.
Status definitions
Completed
The feature has been reviewed and a replacement has been identified within the block editor and/or the Gutenberg theme.
In progress
The feature has been reviewed and a decision has been made about how the feature will be implemented. The build for this solution is in progress.
In review
The team is currently investigating the feature but no decisions have been made about how the feature will be implemented.
Post-launch
These features will not be ready for launch but that does not mean they will necessarily be deprecated.
Deprecated
The team has decided not to pursue this feature in the future Gutenberg theme.
Please Note:
WiscWeb plugins like Publications and KnowledgeBase Search are separate from the UW Theme and therefore do not exist in this list.
| wdt_ID | wdt_created_by | wdt_created_at | wdt_last_edited_by | wdt_last_edited_at | UW Theme or WiscWeb Feature | Gutenberg Status | Corresponding Gutenberg Feature (if applicable) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:38 PM | jmklinner | 11/08/2025 06:06 PM | Accordion | Completed | UW Accordion block | Unordered (bulleted) or ordered (numbered) lists within accordions will migrate as tightly spaced lists. |
| 2 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:38 PM | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:38 PM | Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) | Deprecated | The Gutenberg theme will not be utilizing ACF and it will not be packaged in. | |
| 3 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:39 PM | jmklinner | 30/07/2025 02:30 PM | Alternating Content Boxes | Completed | Media and Text patterns | Indented sub-links will not work for predefined menus. Also, predefined menu links will come over as static content. |
| 4 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:39 PM | jmklinner | 11/08/2025 06:07 PM | Back to Top Shortcode | Completed | UW Back to Top block | No migration path exists for this yet. |
| 5 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:39 PM | jmklinner | 30/07/2025 02:21 PM | Buttons | Completed | Buttons block | Buttons on red, dark red, and dark gray backgrounds will automatically transition to white. If any other backgrounds are chosen and the display is not ideal, you will have to manually change them (e.g., if using a photo as a background). |
| 6 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:39 PM | jmklinner | 30/07/2025 08:03 PM | Customizer Settings | Completed | UW Theme Settings | The Settings UI pulls the old Customizer data from the database, if it exists. Users will need to flip through every tab in the Settings UI and click “Save” in order for the content to save correctly in the new location. |
| 7 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:40 PM | jmklinner | 30/07/2025 08:04 PM | Document Listing | Post-launch | ||
| 8 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:40 PM | jmklinner | 11/08/2025 06:10 PM | Embed Content | Completed | WP Core Embed block and variations for services like YouTube, Vimeo, Spotify. Custom embed block variation for campus-supported services such as Kaltura | These should auto-migrate as Embed blocks. Note that Airtable has been removed as an embed option due to accessibility barriers. |
| 9 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:40 PM | jmklinner | 09/05/2025 11:50 AM | External Posts | Completed | External link field in right sidebar | |
| 10 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:40 PM | jmklinner | 30/07/2025 08:05 PM | Fac/Staff Listing |
Completed | People plugin and People Listing block | All images will map to the 400px square option, by default. There is no "custom" image size in UW Theme 2.0. When importing, users will need to go into each person's post type page and click Save. This is required in order to bring in the image size data. If that doesn't happen, the images will look like they are there but the image size meta won't actually be in place. |
| 11 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:41 PM | jmklinner | 11/08/2025 06:11 PM | Featured Content Block | Completed | Featured Content Cards patterns | Featured posts populated by post or page content will come over as static content. Also, users will need to manually update the content to honor equal heights. |
| 12 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:41 PM | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:41 PM | Full page light gray background option from Customizer | Deprecated | The theme will not include the Customizer setting to change all pages to a light gray background by default. | |
| 13 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:41 PM | jmklinner | 11/08/2025 06:12 PM | Group of Links | Completed | UW Group of Links block; UW Links block | Equal heights for Group of Links will not be honored in the migration. To achieve this look, users will need to add the “Text-only cards with group of links” pattern and manually add their links back. Also, Group of Links that use at least one in-page link will use the blue arrow style. |
| 14 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:41 PM | jmklinner | 30/07/2025 08:14 PM | Hero Banner (image carousel) | Completed | UW Hero Carousel block | Randomized slide order and hiding a hero banner image will not be available for launch. |
| 15 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:42 PM | jmklinner | 11/08/2025 06:13 PM | Hero Banner (static image) | Completed | Cover block | Users will have the option to choose from a number of predefined patterns for hero/banner styles. Static hero images will get migrated to a Cover block with a Paragraph block within it. |
| 16 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:42 PM | jmklinner | 18/03/2025 11:24 AM | Hide a Row | Completed | Hide a group | Users will need to wrap the content in a Group block and then they will have the option to hide the entire grouping. |
| 17 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:42 PM | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:42 PM | Image | Completed | Image block | |
| 18 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:42 PM | jmklinner | 11/08/2025 06:15 PM | Image and Content Carousel | Completed | UW Story Slider block | No migration path exists for this yet. |
| 19 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:43 PM | jmklinner | 30/07/2025 02:20 PM | Image Gallery | Completed | Gallery patterns | The UW Theme 2.0 block does not accommodate a "Title" like the UW Theme Classic did. Instead, the caption overlays the image in the main view and then disappears when the image is selected. |
| 20 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:43 PM | jmklinner | 30/07/2025 08:09 PM | Image Only Carousel | Post-launch | ||
| 21 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:43 PM | jmklinner | 22/04/2025 01:14 PM | Page Level Meta Tags | Completed | ||
| 22 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:43 PM | jmklinner | 11/08/2025 06:18 PM | Post Listing | Completed | Posts migrate in as Classic blocks that show content as expected on the front end. Users can utilize a Post Listing pattern for display of a post list, which draws upon the Query block. If there is no featured image present on a post, there will be white space to the left of the title in the post listing view. This cannot be removed. | |
| 23 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:43 PM | jmklinner | 11/08/2025 06:24 PM | Related Posts | Completed | UW Featured Post | Will not auto-migrate. Users will be required to rebuild related posts on older posts if they wish for them to show up. |
| 24 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:44 PM | jmklinner | 14/07/2025 01:03 PM | RSS Feeds | Completed | RSS block | |
| 25 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:44 PM | jmklinner | 30/07/2025 02:39 PM | Search Box Shortcode | Completed | Search Block | There will not be a migration path for the search box shortcode. This will have to be manually replaced with the Search block. |
| 26 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:44 PM | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:44 PM | Stylized Quote | Completed | UW Quote block | This option will accommodate both pull quotes and block quotes |
| 27 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:44 PM | jmklinner | 11/08/2025 01:51 PM | Tabbed Content | Completed | UW Tabs block | Update: All content should migrate into tabs. |
| 28 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:44 PM | jmklinner | 30/07/2025 08:12 PM | Text Block | Completed | Paragraph block, Heading block, List block, etc. | The Text Block allowed for a number of actions that will be split amongst several blocks in the future. Features like UW Card Style will be incorporated into patterns for ease of application. Block quotes within Text blocks will not transition automatically and will need to be rebuilt as Quote blocks. |
| 29 | jmklinner | 11/03/2025 07:45 PM | jmklinner | 30/07/2025 02:32 PM | Today.wisc.edu List | Completed | Today.wisc.edu block | Today URLs will need to be updated to use ‘https’ instead of ‘http.’ If using http, the content will not migrate. |
| 30 | jmklinner | 18/03/2025 11:26 AM | jmklinner | 30/07/2025 08:13 PM | --- | Post-launch | Icon block | We are exploring the possibility of adding the Icon block to UW Theme 2.0. There is not a related UW Theme Classic feature for this. |
| 31 | jmklinner | 07/05/2025 05:38 PM | jmklinner | 07/05/2025 05:38 PM | Custom CSS option in Customizer | Deprecated | The site-wide Theme Settings will not include a Custom CSS option | |
| 32 | jmklinner | 07/05/2025 06:42 PM | jmklinner | 30/07/2025 02:41 PM | Widgets | Corresponding widget blocks | Widgets won't appear automatically in your post design. If users wish to display these, they can manually add the widget blocks to their primary news page or create a synced pattern for replicating on individual posts. | |
| 33 | jmklinner | 12/06/2025 05:02 PM | jmklinner | 30/07/2025 12:02 PM | Hero Carousel: Hide a hero banner | Post-launch | This feature will not be available for launch. An alternative option would be to build a pattern that includes all of your possible hero carousel slides and you can place that on the page when you wish to swap out content. | |
| 34 | jmklinner | 30/07/2025 12:01 PM | jmklinner | 30/07/2025 08:14 PM | Hero Carousel: Randomize slide order | Post-launch | ||
| 35 | jmklinner | 30/07/2025 02:17 PM | jmklinner | 30/07/2025 02:17 PM | Column layouts | Completed | Column block | One column layouts are migrated to a Columns block even though these aren't in Columns. This was a decision made to simplify how this content was migrated. |
| 36 | jmklinner | 30/07/2025 02:35 PM | jmklinner | 30/07/2025 02:35 PM | Hero with featured content inset or headline | Completed | Various banner patterns | Any hero images that use these stylistic options will not auto-migrate. Users will have the option to choose from several banner patterns when rebuilding this content. |
| 37 | jmklinner | 11/08/2025 02:21 PM | jmklinner | 11/08/2025 02:21 PM | Gravity Forms plugin | Completed | Shortcode block | Migrates in as a Classic block. Requires the user to click the "Convert to blocks" option in the editor to switch it to the Shortcode block. |
| 38 | jmklinner | 11/08/2025 02:21 PM | jmklinner | 11/08/2025 02:21 PM | wpDataTables plugin | Completed | Shortcode block | Migrates in as a Classic block. Requires the user to click the "Convert to blocks" option in the editor to switch it to the Shortcode block. |