PRC Platform 1.11 – PRC Platform

Release Date: July 2026 Previous Version: 1.10.0 (shipped July 2–3, 2026)

Version 1.11 is about giving editors and designers more control over how charts look across a site, a place to gather everything for a project, stronger social AI checks, and the first scaffolds for Roper search and Religious Projections. Newsletter Builder also picks up scheduled automations and a clearer campaign/transactional setup that landed on the 1.10 branch after the July 3 ship — so this is the first production release that includes them.

What's inside

Site-wide chart themes and palettes, Workspaces for project assets, newsletter automations and setup improvements, AI number checking in Social Builder, a Roper search replacement, Religious Projections groundwork, and chart/SEO reliability fixes.

Newsletters and system emails

Several Email Builder improvements are shipping in 1.11.

Scheduled automations for dynamic system emails. Configure enrollment, send windows, and recurring dispatch for transactional emails that send outside Mailchimp campaigns.
Always-on Campaign Setup sidebar. Audience, segment, and template controls live in a persistent Campaign Setup panel instead of being buried in the newsletter panel.
Transactional delivery mode. New transactional emails default to dynamic delivery; the mode now persists correctly across save/reload. Automations live in the transactional setup sidebar alongside delivery settings.
Slug as the system email identifier. Dynamic transactional emails are looked up by post slug instead of a separate system-email-key meta field. A WP-CLI migrator (wp prc email migrate-system-keys) moves legacy keys over.
Meta persistence fixes. Post meta (subject, preview text, delivery mode, automation config, Mailchimp fields) registers after the email CPTs exist, so editor saves stop silently dropping those fields.

Chart themes and palettes

Charts can now follow a site-level theme instead of only per-chart settings.

Charts > Chart Theme (admins and designers) sets defaults for newly inserted charts — layout, axes, legend, fonts, and more.
Palette designer lets you define named color palettes. Charts that reference a palette by slug pick up color changes at render time, so a brand refresh can re-skin existing charts without re-editing each one.
WP-CLI helpers seed or repair the theme and migrate literal font stacks to preset font tokens.

Workspaces

Publish Workflows gains a Workspaces area under Dashboard — a shareable bucket for everything in a project (reports, quizzes, charts, social assets, emails, images, data files).

Create and share a workspace with colleagues (via the existing watcher/invite model).
Drop files, paste permalinks or Site Editor pattern links, search for posts/patterns, or pick from the media library.
Convert XLSX to CSV in the browser, or create a chart from a CSV without leaving the workspace.

Number check. When AI drafts social copy, the platform can verify numbers against source material via a new prc-ai/check-numbers ability. Editors see a badge in the message UI so unverified or mismatched figures are easier to catch before publish.
LinkedIn threads. LinkedIn is a first-class thread platform with an editable preview and Hootsuite publish mapping. (Also backported onto the 1.10 branch after ship; first production release is 1.11.)
Neutral AI prompts. Generate-message / generate-thread / generate-story prompts require non-editorializing, neutral language.

Forms

A dedicated Forms plugin (prc-block-forms) ships with a forms CPT, synced form block, response logging, Inbox/Spam DataViews, and retention purge.

Roper search replacement

A new Roper plugin replaces the legacy Roper UI with PRC-owned search and result blocks (question, chart, and combined views), including advanced filters and Interactivity API front-end rendering. This meets the contractual deprecation of the old Roper surface.

Religious Projections (scaffold)

Early groundwork for the Religious Projections interactive: a projections content type, /religious-projections URLs, and a context-provider block that drives SPA-style navigation inside the app shell. Treat this as internal scaffolding until the full product ships.

Chart reliability

Several chart-builder fixes land in this release:

Copy/paste no longer breaks charts. Duplicate chart IDs are deduped at render, and there's an advanced Chart ID field (with regenerate) in the controller inspector.
Chart vs Data tab resets correctly when you navigate away and back.
Freeform charts export the full power table for CSV download (not just the first inner chart), and the freeform chart tag is corrected.
Data download respects the allow-download setting.
Exploded bar charts no longer overflow on small screens.

SEO and interactives

Meta descriptions that still stored a bare %post_excerpt% token (from older Yoast migrations) now resolve to the real excerpt instead of leaking the literal token into the page (PRC-244).
The Hispanic Origins interactive works again after a Remote Data Blocks block-name and row-query fix; RDB itself is updated to 1.7.0.

For developers and admins

Settings pages for email, social, and spoken-article rebuild on the native DataForm card layout.
Synced form, quiz, and chart blocks share one SyncedEntityEdit shell.
Root Storybook covers @prc/* packages and the charting library.
Legacy redirects move out of vip-config into plugins / Safe Redirect Manager CSV.
BerlinDB is removed from the platform dependency set.
Default block templates seed for posts and short reads.

What content producers should know

System emails use the post slug now

If you have existing dynamic transactional emails that relied on a system-email-key meta value, run the migrator (or re-save and set the slug) so lookups keep working. Unmigrated posts still fall back to the legacy meta temporarily.

Chart Theme is site-wide

Palette changes can recolor charts that already use a named palette. Chart Settings defaults only affect new charts — existing charts keep the settings they were saved with unless you edit them.

Workspaces are opt-in containers

A workspace is not part of the publish pipeline. Use it to gather assets for a project; publishing still happens on the individual posts.

Religious Projections isn't a finished product yet

The plugin ships as a scaffold. Don't point public traffic at /religious-projections until the interactive is announced as ready.

New default templates for posts and short reads

New posts and short reads now start with a default block template (subtitle, image placeholder, and About This Research pattern where applicable), so drafts open closer to a finished structure instead of a blank canvas.

Learn More

Full changelog: docs/release-notes/1.11/changelog.md
Compare (shipped baseline): v1.10.0...origin/release/1.11
Previous release notes: docs/release-notes/1.10/1-10-announce.md