Recently, in order to increase the security and performance of the UMW website, we made some changes to the way logins are handled. For the time being, you will need to be either on-campus, or logged into VPN in order to login to the website. … [Read more...]
Phasing Out The Old Slideshows
February 17, 2014 by Leave a Comment
When we initially launched the new UMW website, we were using a plugin called Easy Page Slideshow (EPS) to allow users to place photo slideshows on their sites. However, as we've continued to add new content to the site, and kept up with updates to the software, we've found that the EPS plugin is causing quite a few problems on the site. As a result, we are working on phasing it out so we can eventually remove it from the site entirely. Before we do so, though, we will need all content managers to make sure they are no longer using that plugin to create their slideshows. We have already deactivated the EPS plugin on many sites throughout the system, but we still have quite a few more to go. … [Read more...]
WordPress Admin Changes
January 24, 2014 by Leave a Comment
WordPress Admin Changes Tomorrow, we will be upgrading the UMW WordPress installation from WordPress 3.6 to WordPress 3.8. While the way you accomplish your normal tasks will remain unchanged, the appearance of the administrative area will change fairly significantly. Everything you use on a regular basis can still be found in the same locations, it might just look a little different than it does right now. Following are a few screen shots showing a comparison of the current interface with the new interface that will be in place tomorrow. As you can see, the appearance of these items has changed, in some places pretty significantly, but everything is still found in basically the same places. … [Read more...]
Why Can’t I Edit My Page?
August 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
When you're trying to edit a page on your site, occasionally, you might not be able to actually edit it. Instead, the editor window will be blank, your toolbar will be missing, and, if you scroll down the page a little bit, you'll probably notice that much of the rest of the editor page is missing, too. More than likely, one of the most recent things someone did while editing this page, was to upload a PDF or Word document to attach to the page. The problem is, the original plugin we used to create slideshows within the site, Easy Page Slideshow, attempts to process those PDF documents as images; when it can't figure out how to create a thumbnail of the PDF, it stops loading the editor page altogether. The quickest way to solve the issue is to delete attachments one-by-one until the editor starts working again. To do so, you can click "Delete Image" in the "Slideshow" box below the editor. When you do so, the attachment will be deleted from the server and the editor page will … [Read more...]
Recent Theme Changes
July 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Recently, we upgraded many pieces of the website, including Genesis, the "parent theme" that helps provide much of the features and functionality found in our website theme. As part of that update, the authors of Genesis removed the option to enable and disable the Primary and Secondary Navigation menus. The UMW website theme used the Secondary Navigation Menu option to determine whether or not to display the gray menu bar at the top of certain sites. As a result of this change, we had to remove the dependency on that option. Therefore, many site owners may now be seeing a large, ugly gray menu bar at the top of their sites with all of their pages listed. If this is the case, you can solve this issue fairly easily. To do so, please go to Appearance -> Menus in your administration area. Then, create a new menu and leave it empty (don't add any links to it). Once you've saved the new, empty menu, choose that menu from the "Secondary Navigation Menu" dropdown box (EDIT: Make … [Read more...]
Urgent Server Updates
July 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Late this evening, the server administrators in IT will be performing some urgent updates and upgrades to the Web server. During that process, we will be turning off the current version of the website, and automatically directing visitors to a backup copy of the site. Any changes you make to the site today will be temporarily lost until the maintenance is completed. If you need any urgent changes made to the site during this maintenance window, please let us know by emailing webmaster@umw.edu. If you are a content manager, you should have received an email message with more information about these upgrades in your email. … [Read more...]
WordPress Updated
July 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
On Friday morning, the UMW website was updated to the latest version of WordPress (3.5.2), and all plugins were updated to their latest versions. Following is a list of some of the plugins that were updated on Friday. If you use any of these plugins on your site, please be sure to check things out and make sure the new versions are working properly. In addition, if you notice any new issues on the website itself, please inform us so that we can look into it. … [Read more...]
