New Parse.ly Report: “Your Year in Content” Report

We’re excited to introduce Your Year in Content, a year-end report that provides a high-level view of your site’s content performance over the past calendar year.

What’s included

This report compiles key metrics at the site level, helping you assess your content strategy and impact:

  • Total performance metrics – Yearly page views and visitor counts tallied in one place.
  • Top content analysis – Your top 5 posts, most engaging sections, and highest-impact authors.
  • Key content insights – Additional data to give you a full picture of your year’s performance, such as your top-tweeted post or top search-driven post.

Why it matters

  • Inform strategy – Use past performance to guide future content decisions.
  • Team recognition – Highlight top-performing content and contributors.
  • Annual planning – Leverage insights to set data-driven goals for the year ahead.

How to access your report

Your Year in Content report is available now! To view it, replace {{SITEID}} with your site’s ID, such as wpvip.com in the below URL.

http://dash.parsely.com/{{SITEID}}/year-in-content 

Note: This report is available only at the individual site level and will not appear in the reporting section of the Parse.ly dashboard.

Improvements to the Media backup tooling

After listening to your feedback, we’re excited to share an update that makes exporting media backups, a more seamless experience and gives you greater control over your data!

Previously, requesting media backups from the VIP Dashboard had limitations on the total size and file count of the application. We’ve now engineered a solution to these restrictions, which means that you can request backups of any size directly from the VIP Dashboard.

What’s changed?

Prior to this change, you could generate a backup for a VIP application environment’s media library only if it was less than or equal to 3TB in size. It also had to have fewer than or equal to 2.5 million files.

Media backups can now contain one or more ZIP files with the file extension *.zip.
Each zip file can hold up to 3TB of data and up to 2.5 million files.

When generating a backup for environments’ media libraries that exceed these numbers, we split the backup into multiple files, which can all be viewed and downloaded from the VIP Dashboard.

For more details, please refer to the documentation. Reach out to us if you have any questions!

WordPress 6.7.2 Maintenance Release

This minor release features 35 bug fixes throughout Core addressing issues affecting multiple components including the block editor, HTML API, and Customize.

WordPress 6.7.2 is a short-cycle release. The next major release will be version 6.8, planned for April 15, 2025.

If you have any questions related to this release, please open a support ticket and we will be happy to assist.

New Feature Release: Parse.ly Custom Report Capability

We’re pleased to announce the launch of the custom report capability in Parse.ly, an enhancement to the report generation process that gives you greater flexibility and control over your data. This feature allows you to preview and customize your data before generating your final report.

Why this matters

Modern content teams need adaptable reporting tools to make informed decisions. With the new report generation tool, you can:

  • Personalize report structures by customizing the layout.
  • Edit or rearrange sections and metrics to match your needs.
  • Preview data before finalizing your report, ensuring accuracy.

This feature is particularly valuable for teams that rely on tailored insights, allowing them to generate reports that align with their specific reporting needs.

Which reports can I customize?

The first phase of this release makes the new report available within the Details Report. Future updates will extend this capability to additional pre-built reports. No special setup is required to start using this capability.

You can learn more about the custom report capability here. If you have any questions, send us an email at [email protected]—we’re happy to assist!

Call for Testing: Jetpack 14.3-beta

Jetpack 14.3-beta is available now for testing and the download link is available here

Jetpack 14.3 will be deployed to VIP on Wednesday, February 19, 2025*. The upgrade is expected to be performed at 17:00 UTC (1:00PM ET).

*This deployment date and time are subject to change if issues are discovered during testing of the Jetpack release.

A full list of changes is available in the commit log.

What is being added or changed?

Enhancements

  • Blocks: Improve performance.
  • Social: Post character limits are now dynamic based on selected connections.
  • Social: Enable Social post UI for WordPress.com sites.

Improved compatibility

  • Open Graph Meta Tags: Do not display Jetpack’s tags when the SEOPress plugin is active.
  • Social: Remove “Your post” section from previews in favor of newer Social Post UI.

Bug fixes

  • Copy Post: Ensure Copy option is still available on all CPTs after quick edit in post list.
  • Forms: Fix datepicker appearance on dark themes.
  • Forms: Fix field spacing and widths.
  • Forms: Fix permanent deletion of form reponses via quicklinks.
  • Forms: Hide empty radio fields.
  • Forms: Keep content as-is when switching Feedback status between spam and publish.
  • Forms: Prevent error in block placeholder when the Forms module is disabled.

What do I need to do?

We recommend the below:

  1. Installing the release on your non-production sites using these instructions.
  2. Running through the testing flows outlined in the Jetpack Testing Guide.

As you’re testing, there are a few things to keep in mind:

  • Check your browser’s JavaScript console and see if there are any errors reported by Jetpack there.
  • Use Query Monitor to help make PHP notices and warnings more noticeable and report anything you see.

Questions?

If you have any questions, related to this release, please open a support ticket and we will be happy to assist.

Get granular with complex database exports through Partial Exports

We’ve made an important update to our mydumper database export functionality: you can now generate partial exports instead of having to export an entire database.

This enhancement gives you more control over your data, allowing you to export only the tables or datasets you need. Whether you’re troubleshooting, migrating specific content, or analyzing a subset of your data, partial exports provide a more efficient and flexible solution.

This update builds on our commitment to enhanced reliability for complex database exports, making it easier to work with large datasets while ensuring performance and stability.

Check out the details in our original announcement here.

Notice: Deprecation of Legacy Authentication in the VIP Dashboard on February 28, 2025

As previously announced, we are deprecating our legacy authentication method in favor of VIP Authentication in the VIP Dashboard. All users who log in via GitHub or WordPress.com are required to upgrade to VIP Authentication to maintain access to the VIP Dashboard. If you’ve already upgraded to VIP Authentication, no additional action needs to be taken.

Deadline for Upgrade

Date: Friday, February 28, 2025

After this date, permissions for your VIP Dashboard user account will be revoked, and you will not be able to view any applications or organizations you previously had access to. 

FAQs

  • Who is affected? Users who log in to the VIP Dashboard via GitHub or WordPress.com. This does not affect users who log in using SSO.
  • What action is needed? Upgrade to VIP Authentication. If you’ve already upgraded to VIP Authentication, no additional action needs to be taken.
  • What if I miss the deadline? If you do not upgrade in time and lose access to the VIP Dashboard, your permissions can be reinstated by contacting an Org Admin for your organization. You will need to set up Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) on VIP Authentication once your permissions are reinstated.
  • What if users in my Organization missed the deadline? If someone from your team hasn’t upgraded on time, they will need to be re-invited to the VIP Dashboard. You can follow these instructions to add them again.

How to upgrade

Here’s how to upgrade to VIP Authentication. Users logging in with SSO do not need to upgrade.

  1. Visit dashboard.wpvip.com/opt-in to start the upgrade process.
  2. Log in to the VIP Dashboard using WordPress.com or GitHub as you normally would.
  3. You may be prompted by WordPress.com or GitHub to authorize the VIP Dashboard to access your account information.
  4. Once authorized, use your current MFA method to verify your identity.
  5. You will then land in the new VIP Authentication setup screen. Select either a passkey, an authenticator app, or SMS as your new authentication method to set up.
  6. After the setup, make sure to save your backup codes in a safe place.
  7. And that’s it! Once VIP Authentication is set up, you can add or edit authentication methods directly from the VIP Dashboard Settings page.

If you have any issues with the upgrade, please contact our support team.

End-of-Life for Node.js v18

Node.js v18 will reach end-of-life on April 30, 2025. This version will stop receiving security updates and will no longer be supported on WordPress VIP beyond that date.

To keep your applications secure, WordPress VIP requires all Node.js environments to be upgraded to Node.js v20 before April 30, 2025.

Before implementing Node.js, please conduct tests in a local environment. This testing should encompass a fresh reinstallation of dependencies, as the behavior of npm install can differ between Node.js major versions.

After local testing of the updated Node.js major version is finalized, you can adjust the active major version for your environment through the Software Management panel in the VIP Dashboard.

Note that when Node.js gets updated, the application’s code is reconstructed and launched with the new version. Rest assured, this update process won’t cause any environment downtime. You can learn more about managing Node.js in our documentation.

On April 24, 2025, WordPress VIP will update all Node.js v18 non-production environments to v20.

On April 30, 2025, WordPress VIP will update all Node.js v18 sites to v20.

How can we help?

WordPress VIP is here to help along the way, and our Support team is always available to answer questions as you and your team work through the update. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you need assistance.