Updates

• WordPress BadgeOS 1.4.5
• WordPress WP Custom Fields Search 0.3.27

New Documentation

• Make a Drupal page visible only to the Middlebury community

Fixes & Tweaks

• The Middlebury Drupal site and both the Middlebury and MIIS WordPress sites are now using Google Tag Manager to load the Google Analytics tracking code, rather than loading it directly. This change will continue to be rolled out to all of our services. WordPress sites we host that do not use the middlebury.edu or miis.edu domains can continue to load the Google Analytics tracking code in the old fashion.
• We have fixed and improved the check that determines whether a region of the Drupal page is empty and you will no longer see empty carousels or quick links areas.
• The WordPress Video Plugin, which is automatically enabled on all sites, now uses the Jetpack plugin’s method of generating the shortcode for SlideShare embeds as its own method is no longer supported by SlideShare.
• The WordPress Sticky Front Page Categories and Tags plugin is now compatible with sites using a static front page.
• Clicks on Drupal FAQ titles, which expand and contract the FAQ text, are now tracked using a custom event in Google Analytics. These can be found under Event Category “Drupal”, Event Action “Click”, Event Label “FAQ”.
• The last 25% of stories on the Middlebury homepage were being excluded due to an error in the boolean logic that reduces the number of stories shown on the homepage to Internet Explorer 7 users by 50%. Everyone except IE 7 users will now see all the stories which have been selected for the homepage.

Accessibility

I mentioned this at the last ITS Tech Partners meeting and promised to include a link to it in this week’s updates. tota11y is a bookmarklet that you can use to highlight accessibility issues on web pages.

Updates

• Drupal file_entity 7.x-2.0-beta2
• Drupal media 7.x-2.0-beta1
• Drupal metatag 7.x-1.7
• Drupal webform 7.x-4.10
• WordPress 4.2.3
• WordPress CM Tooltip Glossary 3.1.9
• WordPress Jetpack 3.6.1
• WordPress NextGEN Gallery 2.1.2
• WordPress qTranslate X 3.4.2
• WordPress Storify 1.0.9

Tweaks & Fixes

• We have updated the Museum of Art site to use the Drupal Service Links module for the buttons that allow you to share news items on social media. The ShareThis module has been removed from all Drupal sites.

When you click the “Put on Reserve” link in MIDCAT, the form will automatically populate the Call Number field.

New Features

There is now a “simple search” field at the top of the Directory that uses Active Directory’s Ambiguous Name Resolution index to return results from multiple fields. These are all “starts with” searches, so searching for “Joe” will return people whose first or last names start with “Joe”. All of the old search options are still available in the Advanced Search section on the same page.

Updates

• Drupal feeds 7.x-2.0-beta1
• WordPress bbPress 2.5.8
• WordPress Post Types Order 1.8.2
• WordPress qTranslate X 3.4
• WordPress Recent Posts Widget Extended 0.9.9.1

Tweaks and Fixes

• When you are editing a piece of content in Drupal the “Owner” of that content will be updated to be you once you save it. If you wish to set the “Owner” to someone else, you can do so in the Permissions settings while editing. This matches how “Owner”s are already set when editing Page settings in Drupal.
• WordPress sites with the Subscribe2 plugin enabled were sending up to four emails to the author of a post when it was published. This is apparently a “feature” of Subscribe2, giving authors an opportunity to see examples of all the possible emails the plugin is sending to subscribers. These emails are no longer being sent to post authors, but you can subscribe yourself to your own site(s) if you wish to continue receiving emails of your posts. If you were already subscribed, no action is required on your part.
• The “Body” field of Drupal RSS Page content will now be shown when the content is displayed, not just when it is being edited. The body will appear above the list of RSS feed links.
• HTML tables that are wider than the content area in Drupal will now be wrapped in a special element after the page loads that allows for horizontal scrolling, rather than having the table overflow out of the contents region.
• We have fixed issues in Drupal that prevented editors from adding space around images and links around images in table cells. Please note that due to an issue with how Internet Explorer communicates with pop-up windows, editing in IE is still not supported at this time. Editing in other browsers, such as Firefox, Chrome, or Safari is advised.
• The correct space between profiles when displayed as a list of “cards” will now be applied, even if there are non-profile nodes on the page with the list. Previously, these non-profiles had been throwing off the even/odd count on which items to apply the margin.
• The Google Fonts Domine, Open Sans, and Rosarivo are now loaded on the Middlebury and MIIS Drupal sites. These will be used for some text styles going forward, to better match the fonts already in use for print publications.
• The WordPress Jetpack plugin’s Custom Content Type submodule has been re-enabled.
• The Library Hours in that site’s sidebar will no longer include the date as it was always the current day’s date.
• The image slider on the Davis UWC Scholars site is even more slightly faster.