New Features

The login page for CAS, our single-sign on service, now uses a responsive theme. This should make it easier for you log in to our services on your mobile device, particularly useful for responsive-enabled services like WordPress.

We have added the CommentPress plugin to WordPress, which allows line-by-line commenting on a document.

Similarly, we added the Scripto plugin for Omeka, which enabled crowd-sourced document transcription.

iFrames from SensusAccess can now be embedded in Drupal using the iframe shortcode.

When our front-end caching service, Varnish, is unable to fetch a new page from the Drupal servers and has no cached copy of the page it used to show a gray error page that said “503 Guru Meditation”. We’ve improved this so that it looks like a regular Middlebury page, has a human-readable error message, and a link to Web Helpdesk.

School of Hebrew classes are now searchable in the Course Catalog and can provision curricular resources through the Course Hub.

Updates

• Omeka Scripto 2.0
• WordPress Akismet 3.1.8
• WordPress Bad Behavior 2.2.18
• WordPress CM Tooltip Glossary 3.3.0
• WordPress CommentPress Core 3.8.5
• WordPress Jetpack 3.9.4
• WordPress Post Types Order 1.8.6

Tweaks and Fixes

• The MIIS Drupal site now uses the Institute’s shield for its favicon and the Middlebury and MIIS WordPress sites will now use their shield favicons by default. Individual sites can override this using the WordPress Customizer in the dashboard under Appearance.
• We’ve improved the performance of the query that the Drupal Monster Menus module uses to apply permissions to multiple pages so that it’s optimized for our database software. This operation should run somewhat faster.
• The homepages of our Drupal sites had titles ending with ” |” when the “site slogan” wasn’t set. These extra characters are now removed so that the title of the Middlebury site is now “Middlebury”, not “Middlebury |”.
• We have resolved an error that was preventing some custom splash images from being used on MiddMedia embeds in WordPress.
• The WRMC site was fetching and stores new cover art URLs on every page load, whether it already had them in its local database or not. It now only fetches cover art it doesn’t know about yet, reducing somewhat the 9,000,000,000 records stored previously.
• The Pinterest sharing button on the MIIS Drupal site stories now uses the custom icon that matches the other share buttons.
• Added 10px of padding between the main content region and the content sidebar on the MIIS site to ensure that the text doesn’t run directly against the sidebar, which now has a different background color.
• Resolved a display issue with the Log In / Log Off links in the Course Hubs.
• We added maps for Congo, Ghana, Mexico, and Palestine to the Davis Projects for Peace site.
• We have removed a number of Drupal modules from our sites that were not actively used. These include accessibility, addressfield, bundle_copy, cf, config_perms, content_taxonomy, data, elements, expire, feeds, feeds_oai_pmh, feeds_tamper, geocoder, geofield, geophp, git_deploy, jquery_countdown, kml, middlebury_mobile_detection, middlebury_subjectsplus, migrate, node_accessibility, node_accessibility_statistics, oauth, openlayers, phplot_api, proj4js, quail_api, rules, twitter, twitter_pull, and views_rss. Additionally, the zen theme was removed.
• MIIS Language and Professional Programs are now searchable again in the Course Catalog.