The menu content block can be a handy page element to display a list of links in a button or list format, and is especially useful when that same set of links needs to be maintained across multiple pages. There is a known display issue with the menu content block’s “Blue horizontal buttons” display option […]
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The article list content block is a great way to feature news and updates on your website. In 2021 we added several new options to this feature, allowing for more options to feature UMaine News on your website by academic area, region, or custom feed. The two options for this block that use the featured […]
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Our UMS IT developers have been hard at work making some important updates to our website in 2021, and this month we roll out two new features: People list content block The People list content block now allows for adding more people to a single list. The limit had previously been 25 people per list, […]
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Article list content block The article list content block now offers more UMaine News categorization options: University News academic areas This categorization option allows you to only display news articles for a particular college, as well as Honors College and Graduate School. University News regions This categorization option allows for display of news articles of […]
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Slider content block The slider content block now has a pair of options. Display a random slide, and restrict to only a single slide. Between the two, there are several uses for this feature: Randomize on, single-slide off If you want multiple features in the slider, randomizing where the slider starts will help change up […]
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We are making some minor changes to content blocks that you may notice, revising the names of some blocks, and adjusting the naming of options for clarity and consistency across campuses. Functionality of content blocks should not change, if you notice anything working differently in October please let us know Bug fixes A longstanding bug in […]
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One of the content blocks we make available is a slider— a content area that allows for an image with a headline that links to something when clicked, complete with forward/back controls to “slide” additional images/headlines/links into view. Sliders (also known as carousels) are attention-getting, but ineffective for promoting multiple features— usability studies have shown […]
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The UMaine website design— ‘theme’ in WordPress terms— is complex, and there are known issues you may encounter: Scheduling feature does not work There is a built-in feature in WordPress where you can create a post or page, and schedule it to publish at a date/time in the future. The feature utilizes a scheduled task […]
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Last semester we debuted a new content block for menus. This will allow you to add links to a web page in one of several menu formats: Bulleted list of links Vertical menu, similar to the sidebar menus Button bar menu, similar to the “call to action” widget If you have used the custom menu […]
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We have an update to the Event List content block that may be of interest to sites using our event calendar feature. The “List Type” options have been updated to allow for specifying categories of events on any calendar. Previously one could only select an event category from the campus-wide UMaine Calendar site. Here is how […]
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