{"id":2632,"date":"2024-01-30T10:31:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T15:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/userguide\/?p=2632"},"modified":"2024-05-01T10:33:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T14:33:21","slug":"winter-website-updates-underway-seo-events-calendar-jetpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/userguide\/2024\/01\/30\/winter-website-updates-underway-seo-events-calendar-jetpack\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter\u00a0website\u00a0updates underway: SEO, Events Calendar, Jetpack"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Digital Communications team has been performing behind-the-scenes work with your websites. You may see changes in the WordPress dashboard once these changes are made:<\/p>\n

SEO \u2014 Moving from Yoast to SEOPress<\/strong><\/h3>\n

As mentioned in our October newsletter, we are transitioning from the Yoast SEO tool to SEOPress for search optimization features. The SEOPress tool is better supported by UMS IT’s Web Technologies team, and will be in use for all university websites going forward. This change has been made to many sites already\u2014 if you see an SEO icon in your dashboard instead of the “Y” Yoast icon, your site has already been updated. Our SEO Workshop is a great way to learn more about SEO considerations for your\u00a0website<\/span>, and can be scheduled for one of our Friday consultation sessions.<\/p>\n

Events Calendar \u2014 Updating event database format<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Our event calendar software was updated in July, and with that update came a new database format for events. The Events Calendar system has an easy process to update this in the dashboard, but large calendars can take some time to update. As we have updated SEO on a\u00a0website<\/span>, we triggered this database update to ensure forward compatibility with future improvements.<\/p>\n

Jetpack removed from websites<\/strong><\/h3>\n

As of Jan. 24 we have removed Jetpack from all but four websites on\u00a0umaine<\/span>.edu<\/a>, and will be reviewing Cooperative Extension websites next. Websites that have specific uses for Jetpack are being reviewed to identify new options for Jetpack features, and we will be in touch as we learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Digital Communications team has been performing behind-the-scenes work with your websites. You may see changes in the WordPress dashboard once these changes are made: SEO \u2014 Moving from Yoast to SEOPress As mentioned in our October newsletter, we are transitioning from the Yoast SEO tool to SEOPress for search optimization features. The SEOPress tool […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":-1},"categories":[6,27,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-events","category-updates"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":6,"label":"Advice"},{"value":27,"label":"Events"},{"value":5,"label":"Updates"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"kirby","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/userguide\/author\/kirby\/"},"comment_info":"","category_info":[{"term_id":6,"name":"Advice","slug":"advice","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":6,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":69,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":6,"category_count":69,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Advice","category_nicename":"advice","category_parent":0},{"term_id":27,"name":"Events","slug":"events","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":27,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":9,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":27,"category_count":9,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Events","category_nicename":"events","category_parent":0},{"term_id":5,"name":"Updates","slug":"updates","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":76,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":5,"category_count":76,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Updates","category_nicename":"updates","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/userguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/userguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/userguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/userguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/userguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/userguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2635,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/userguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions\/2635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/userguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/userguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/userguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}