Weekly Web Updates – October 31, 2016 🎃 👻 😱

Our WordPress sites now support embedding media from the Panopto pilot project, after enabling a plugin.

Updates

Fixes and Tweaks

  • Fixed an issue in the MiddCORE email subscription widget that prevented it from notifying site admins of new subscribers.
  • Added MyEmma to the list of domains allowed in the iframe shortcode for Drupal.
  • Resolved several issues with the process that syncs groups lists between the Active Directory and Drupal related to empty groups.
  • The search results page on our Drupal sites can now display results from any of a set of whitelisted custom search engines, allowing us to, for example, show results from the newsroom archive search on the main results page.

Ongoing Work

  • A small redesign of the Middlebury News Room to bring it more inline with the newsletter.
  • Building out the configuration of our CAS, GO, MediaWiki, and Course Catalog servers in Chef, which is a configuration management system. We have already completed this work for our Drupal and WordPress environments.
  • Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
  • Populating mailing lists in the MyEmma email system from Banner.
  • Providing Course Hub access for Schools Abroad courses.