Updates

Known issues with UMaine’s WordPress system

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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Updating published email addresses

As you may know, UMaine retired the FirstClass system in May of this year. This means that every email address that ended with @umit.maine.edu will eventually stop working. Please take a look at your website for published email addresses that may need to be updated. You can use the website search feature to help— navigate […]

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Menu content block

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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Update to Events Lists

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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Update to Resources

In March we made some important updates to the UMaine theme in WordPress, the biggest change is how Resources are added to pages and posts. Visually it will look the same, but instead of using the “oembed” method of pasting a URL into the editor, you will need to use the “Add Media” button above […]

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