The way that you set a page to be password protected has been changed effective June 9. You will notice the following changes when you are in the dashboard of a UMaine WordPress website: 1. There is a “Password Protection” column in the Pages and Posts screens on the dashboard. Password protected pages now have an icon […]
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Effective June 14, a VPN connection is now required for website editors to access the campus WordPress dashboard from outside the campus networks. As the most popular web content management system (WCMS), WordPress is a regular target for cyber threats. UMS IT has seen an uptick in attempts to login to our WordPress environment, and […]
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Kaltura is the streaming video platform provided to all campuses for use with learning management systems (Brightspace) and websites alike. However, the code Kaltura creates for embedding videos requires some adjustments to work with our campus WordPress environment. If you have a Kaltura-hosted video that you wish to embed on a umaine.edu web page, you […]
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Another academic year is upon us. With the start of our next year of monthly newsletters, now is a great time to remind everyone what Digital Communications offers for faculty and staff web needs on campus. Campus WordPress environment: This is our most common solution. Websites are set up on a WordPress multisite that has […]
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Digital Communications supports over 400 websites as part of umaine.edu, and that number grows every month. We are always available to help set up a new website, and understand that it can take site owners a while to get content ready for launch. Here is a brief overview of our process for creating and launching […]
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Two new buttons have been developed for websites to provide a consistent visual encouraging potential students to begin the enrollment process: APPLY NOW REQUEST INFO If you are comfortable editing web page code in the “text” view of the WordPress editor, these instructions will help you add these buttons today. Please let us know […]
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Have you selected a page or post to edit, only to find that the edit screen is completely unrelated to the content you expected? This is an infrequent, but known issue with our WordPress theme. When this happens, you may notice that the “View page” or “View post” link in the toolbar will say “View […]
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What is happening is due to the manner in which WordPress optimizes image sizes. If you find that you have a page on your old site with an image that is broken in the migrated site, the good news is that it is straightforward to fix. Why this happens If a picture has larger dimensions […]
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