Weekly Web Updates – July 4, 2016

Several issues contributed to cause our Middlebury WordPress site to run slower than normal early last week. We believe we have mitigated most of these issues, but are still investigating a few. If some operation in WordPress is taking more than ten seconds to respond, please let us know by opening a ticket and telling us the site URL, what action was slow, and the time it happened, as precisely as possible. Thanks for your help and patience.

Separately, there was a Google Calendar outage for much of last Thursday and some of the features of our site, such as Library hours, had to be temporarily removed.

New Features

We have added the Instagram Feed plugin to the Middlebury and MIIS WordPress sites. You can activate and configure this plugin on your site to display a grid of images from Instagram. This replaces the Simple Instagram plugin, which stopped working after a recent Instagram API update.

We’ve created a separate, dedicated site for use in Drupal training workshops.

Updates

Fixes and Tweaks

  • Recent updates to the MIIS global navigation were applied to the Directory, forms, Course Catalog, and GO sites.
  • Fixed a hidden image gallery on the Middlebury Library site.
  • Resolved an issue creating WordPress sites through the Course Hub caused by a change in our production Drupal environment.
  • Resolved an issue in the Course Hub where class-groups were not getting updated regularly.
  • Applied some style changes to the accordion menu in the Omeka NeatLine module.
  • Added new menu and style settings for the Envisioning Middlebury site to its contact form and fixed its menu for mobile devices.
  • Corrected an issue with shortcodes in the NextGEN Gallery WordPress plugin that would sometimes crash a site.