New Features

A new website for Science and Mathematics at Middlebury is live. A lot of work from faculty and staff in these departments, as well as College Communications went into putting this together, especially from Jonathan Kemp and Wendy Shook. Check out the new video about teaching these subjects in the liberal arts.

When authoring a News story in the Middlebury Drupal site, there is now an additional checkbox at the bottom of the form to “Show Media Images”. If you check this, a row of 100×100 image thumbnails will appear below your story’s content. The thumbnails will be of the images that you included in your story’s body content as well as the top-right featured image. Each thumbnail will link to the full-size version of the image, so that it can be easily downloaded and shared.

Also new to News content in the Middlebury Drupal site is that the “Show Publish on date for attribution” checkbox will be checked by default. Since we don’t print content attributions, this won’t change the appearance of your content. However, this is required to be checked in order to automatically sort News content in reverse chronological order on the page. With this checked, you will no longer need to manually sort News content on the page.

Updates

• Drupal 6.36*
• Drupal cck 6.x-2.10*
• Drupal 7.38
• Drupal config_perms 7.x-2.1
• Drupal feeds 7.x-2.0-alpha9
• Drupal honeypot 7.x-1.18
• Drupal jquery_update 7.x-2.6
• WordPress Sketch Theme 1.1.1

* These updates apply only to the Middlebury and MIIS Course Hub.

Tweaks and Fixes

• A bug that was preventing the Metatag module’s form from working on the page settings form in Drupal has been resolved.
• The Google Analytics tracking code on the MIIS website has been replaced with a Google Tag Manager, which allows us to manage analytics and tracking without needing to make code changes to the site.
• The CAS login blocks will no longer have an empty header tag appear above them. This was removed to improve site accessibility support.
• The settings page for the WordPress Video Plugin will now appear again in WordPress’ administration interface. This was not appearing due to a deprecated version of the function that checks user permissions. The page contains a link to the plugin’s documentation.
• The height of the left column on department pages is once again correctly calculated to avoid the overlapping of the navigation and address regions.
• RSS feeds displayed in www.middlebury.edu and www.miis.edu via the “RSS Page” module will now refresh approximately every hour rather than every two hours.