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...]
Urgent Server Updates
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
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...]
Some Plugins Updated
Today, we've made quite a few updates to the plugins used on the UMW website. Following is a list of the plugins that were updated today. If you notice any new issues on the site, or you come across any questions about the updated plugins, please let us know. BackupBuddy CMS Tree Page View Collapsible Widget Container GravityForms iframe Jetpack by WordPress.com Linkable Title Html and Php Widget by PepLamb MCE Table Buttons Post Expirator Regenerate Thumbnails Smart YouTube PRO Social Media Widget Types - Complete Solution for Custom Fields and Types Viper's Video QuickTags Widget Settings Import/Export Widget Logic WPSocializer (will be phasing out this plugin soon) WPTouch Pro We also removed a few unused plugins from the site. Following is a list of the plugins that were pulled out. If any of these are plugins that you needed on your site, please let us know so we can work on reinstalling them, or offering alternatives. Also, over the next … [Read more...]