Hey! Where’d The Resources Link Go?

Some of you may have noticed that the link to "Students/Faculty/Staff" disappeared from the header of the UMW website. Never fear! All of the information that was available on the Resources page (the page you ended up on if you clicked that link) is still available on the UMW website. In fact, it's been at your fingertips all along. If you click the "Helpful Links" banner at the top-right of any page on the website, it will reveal a box with the exact same information found on the Resources page. The list under "Helpful Links" is built from the same source that builds the Resources page. Hopefully you'll find this tip useful. … [Read more...]

Website Logins Disabled for Maintenance, July 13-14, 2012

Due to systems maintenance, the UMW Website Wordpress logins (NOT UMW Blogs) will be disabled on Friday, July 13 and Saturday, July 14. The website will remain live during this time. Information Technologies will be performing network maintenance. The UMW Web team will be upgrading to the latest WordPress version and updating plugins. We will notify you of the changes once they are complete, and let you know when you can login again. Meanwhile, if you anticipate having to make changes to your site, please complete them by 8:00 am on Friday, July 13. … [Read more...]

Need Site Statistics? Now, it’s In There!

Now you can collect statistics on your site visitors using the Jetpack stats plugin. We've had the plugin activated on UMW.EDU for some time, monitoring it on selected sites to make sure it would work within our multi-network environment. We are proud now to roll this out to ALL sites on the UMW.EDU WordPress domain. Jetpack Site Stats allows you to view visitors on your sites and track your most popular content. With Jetpack Site Stats, you can get an at-a-glance view of  basic information on the number of visits, the search terms/referrers that brought them to your site, the top pages or posts, and the number of clicks off your site and where they went to. Jetpack Site Stats began accumulating once it was installed for your site. If you are in need of statistics that precede the date when Jetpack was installed on your site, please contact the UMW Web Team and make a request for a Google Analytics report, including the site URL and the date range (earliest date is 10/7/2011, … [Read more...]

Making Professional-Looking Email Newsletters

If you've ever wanted a reliable way to send out professional html newsletters, instead of attaching a PDF file, here is your chance. UMW.EDU websites are equipped with plugins to help you create great looking html emails, to allow folks to subscribe/unsubscribe, and to manage your mailing lists all in one location. Using the Gravity Forms plugin, and a FREE online service called MailChimp, you can say goodbye to the PDF newsletter and hello to a better way. LEARN HOW> … [Read more...]

What We Did Today: WordPress Updates

As you know, logins were disabled this morning to allow us to perform updates to Wordpress. These were tested in our staging environment, but please let us know if you perceive any weirdness in your sites. Here is what we updated: Updated WordPress from 3.3.1 to 3.3.2 Updated Plugins Akismet – from 2.5.5 to 2.5.6 Business Hours – from 1.2 to 1.3.2 BWP Google XML Sitemaps – from 1.1.6 to 1.2.1 CMS Tree Page View – from 0.8.4 to 0.8.11 Feedburner Email Widget – from 1.1.5 to 1.1.6 Genesis Nav Menu Amplified – from 1.0 to 1.0.1 Gravity Forms – from 1.6.2 to 1.6.3.3.4 Gravity Forms + Custom Post Types – from 3 to 3.0.1 Image Widget – from 3.2.11 to 3.3.3 Jetpack by WordPress.com – from 1.2.2 to 1.3 MCE Table Buttons – from 1.0.4 to 1.5 Network Privacy – from 0.1.1 to 0.1.2 Page Links To – from 2.6 to 2.7.1 Post Expirator – from 1.5.1 to 1.5.3 TubePress – from 2.2.9 to 2.4.2 Types – Complete Solution for Custom Fields and Types – from 0.9.4.2 to … [Read more...]

Publishing Policies on the UMW Website

As you may or may not know, the official UMW policy repository on the web is in Board Docs. Board Docs is used by the BOV to organize meetings and post minutes. However, it also has document management functionality. The trouble is, it's separate from the UMW website and not terribly intuitive to navigate to and through. Did you know we now have a cool new Wordpress tool that allows you to publish your policies from Board Docs onto your website? If you've been wondering what to do about navigating your users to your official policies now that Board Docs is the official University-wide policy manual, fear not! We've got you covered! Visit the tutorial for more information > … [Read more...]