New Features

The Middlebury Institute homepage received a new design. This features three content regions (the slideshow, Important Dates, and Academic Highlights) that can be edited by the Communications team at MIIS in the admin interface directly, giving them more flexibility in ensuring timely content appears on their site.

As part of an update to the WRMC website, we’ve added the Chat plugin to WordPress, which you can now activate to add a chat box to your site. You can try it out by chatting with the WRMC DJs.

At the request of several MIIS programs, we have added a WordPress plugin to that embeds appointment booking from the Simplybook.me service.

We added a block to the Middlebury Drupal site to display tweets from @MiddInfoSec.

Updates

• Drupal webform_validation 7.x-1.11
• Omeka 2.4
• WordPress CM Tooltip Glossary 3.2.10
• WordPress Illustratr theme 1.25
• WordPress OSM – OpenStreetMap 3.7
• WordPress The Events Calendar 4.0.6

Tweaks and Fixes

• We made many updates to improve the WRMC site, at the direction of their board. The weekly schedule now starts the day at midnight, rather than 5am. The “On Air” section only shows up if a show is in progress and the current playing song will be shown based on the DJ playlist and the duration of the song, according to Last.FM. In addition to many other small stylistic tweaks, we’ve fixed a performance issue that caused very long page loads.
• The Quick Chat plugin was replaced with the Chat plugin in WordPress and the former is no longer available for use.
• The Arclite WordPress theme only allowed network administrators to access its settings form. It may now be access by site administrators.
• If you try to view a syllabus on the Course Hub that is private and you’re not logged in, you will now see a “not authorized” message rather than a “no syllabus added” message.
• Fixed an issue on the non-flash version of the MiddMedia uploader that was causing problems.
• The MIIS forms site is now included in the weekly SiteImprove index.
• Navigation for the “Giving” sub-section of the MIIS site was updated in GO, the Course Catalog, the MIIS forms site, and the MIIS Directory.
• The CSS file for the Drupal “Edit Console” is now loaded in a way that allows it to be merged with all the other Drupal CSS files, saving your browser having to issue a separate request to download it.
• We have removed the “Location Type” taxonomy and the “Location” content type from the Middlebury Drupal site. These were used for an older version of the Campus Map. The current campus map is hosted externally.