In continuing our upgrade of systems to PHP 7.1, we discovered several more WordPress plugins that are no longer in use or no longer working and removed them. These include:

• WordPress Simple Instagram
• WordPress Simple Facebook Connect
• WordPress Random Featured Post Plugin
• WordPress Proper Pagination
• WordPress Postcasa
• WordPress Movable Type
• WordPress Simple Mingle Forum
• WordPress IX Show Latest Youtube
• WordPress Meograph Embedder

Updates

• WordPress CM Tooltip Glossary 3.6.0
• WordPress Enable Media Replace 3.2.3
• WordPress MailPoet 2 2.8.2
• WordPress MetaSlider 3.7.1
• WordPress Widget Shortcode 0.3.2
• WordPress WP Custom Fields Search 1.2.8

Fixes and Tweaks

• Fixed an issue where news and events pages on the Institute site were missing page headers.
• Added new WordPress plugin to allow whitelisting iframe sources.
• Fixed an issue where clicking “edit” on a particular Drupal 8 page resulted in a 404.
• Fixed scrolling issue on Institute website.
• Removed a problematic Drupal 8 module inhibiting upgrade to Drupal 8.5.
• Fixed an issue where nightly course catalog exports were not pulling in new course requirements.
• Fixed issue with catalog export UI css classes conflicting with Firefox plugins.
• Performed security review for new WordPress plugin: FooGallery

Ongoing Work

• Fixes and tweaks for the new Institute site https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/
• Building out the configuration of our CAS servers in Chef, which is a configuration management system. We have already completed this work for our Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, GO, Omeka, and the Course Catalog services.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.