The blog for personal, club and organization web sites at Lafayette College
Sites hosts personal, club, and organization home pages at Lafayette College. A sister installation, called Depts, is being setup for WordPress-powered departmental web sites.
All traffic to the WordPress pilot site — wordpress.lafayette.edu — and the myriad blogs and sites hosted there is being automatically redirected to sites.lafayette.edu. We plan to maintain this redirection through December 2009.
We’ve upgraded a number of plugins on WordPress:
We also upgraded the Mandigo theme; this fixes a problem with the theme settings page not appearing.
If you encounter problems with your web site after the upgrade, please contact the Help Desk:
We noticed a few things not playing nicely with our installation of WordPress 3 and the Mandigo theme. We are working on remedies.
NextGen Gallery when used with the Mandigo theme: The JavaScript Thumbnail effect for galleries is not working for any of the effects except “Shutter,” so gallery thumbnails when clicked will display the full version of the image instead of within the “lightbox” pop up window. Also, using any other setting other than “Shutter” will prevent Manigo drop-down menus from displaying. We recommend you set your NextGen effect setting to “Shutter” in the meantime.
Mandigo Theme: The Theme Options and HTML Area settings are not accessible at the moment.
Sites has been upgraded to the latest version of WordPress. There are a few cosmetic changes — you’ll notice that web sites are now referred to as “sites” instead of “blogs” — as well as some new features. We’ll be upgrading Sites to take advantage of these new features (including a new menu system and support for multiple taxonomies) later this month once we’ve had a chance to fully document them.
If you encounter problems with your web site after the upgrade, please contact the Help Desk:
We’ve updated several plugins on Sites; these are primarily bug fix releases.
If you encounter problems with your web site after the upgrade, please contact the Help Desk:
Sites will be down as part of an extended network maintenance from 1:15 a.m. to 7 a.m. on Wednesday, April 21, 2010.
We’ve updated Sites at Lafayette to the latest version of WordPress. This iteration introduces some new functionality:
We’ve also updated a number of WordPress plugins. If you’re using NextGEN Gallery (the photo gallery tool) you need to do a quick update by logging in, clicking the “Gallery” link in the lefthand administration column, and then clicking the “Start upgrade now…” link. WordPress handles the rest.
Here’s the complete list of updated plugins:
If you encounter problems with your web site after the upgrade, please contact the Help Desk:
Sites at Lafayette will be down for scheduled maintenance from 3 a.m. to 7 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010.
On this episode of the ITS Coffee Break, hosts Courtney Bentley and Ken Newquist discuss Chris Phillips’ essay “I Hear America Reading: Using Digital Audio to Teach American Poetry,” which appeared in the Summer 2009 issue of Teaching American Literature, and they announce Moodle Hack/Doc Fest V, which will be held at Lafayette.
Tech News includes Windows 7 testing, the Droid smartphone, and DARPA’s new $40,000 balloon hunting challenge. In Help News, Ken and Courtney take a look at the Powerpress plugin for WordPress and announce a new smartboard workshop. Get the podcast.
We’ve discovered a bug in WordPress in which pages that only have a number for a name (e.g., 2009) can’t be accessed. Instead of going to the page in question (e.g., http://sites.lafayette.edu/asite/classes/2009) the parent page loads (e.g., http://sites.lafayette.edu/asite/classes). The problem is that WordPress will not allow page slugs to contain only numbers; if you change the slug to something with a mix of alphanumeric characters, like “classof2009″ then the page loads normally.
Here’s how to change a page’s slug name: