Ian McBride just created some new themes for WordPress @ Middlebury. These themes, like most of the Midd blog themes are based on designs by White Whale, the folks who helped us create the new college site. For a good description of these themes, see Ian’s post on the LIS blog New WordPress Themes Available.
 Navy |
 Pastoral |
 Map |
The latest update of WordPress @ Middlebury also added links to plugin documentation on this site from the plugins list. This allows Midd users to be able to get simple consistent step-by-step instructions for how to use a given plugin.
This will also give us an opportunity to link to other Midd blogs that use a given plugin to help illustrate how it can be used.
We plan to update WordPress on June 2nd; the system will remain “up” during this process which should take less than a half hour before 9am ET that day. This is an incremental update that fixes bugs and introduces very few new features.
In addition to updates to the WordPress codebase, we will also make updates to some plugins and themes
The following plugins will be updated:
We have been testing the new versions of these plugins and do not anticipate any change in your use or administration of the blog but wanted to let you know.
The following themes will have updated versions:
Please try out the new version of your theme as soon as you are able and let us know if you have problems/questions. We’ll automatically update all blogs to the new theme versions sometime in the last 2 weeks of August.