Weekly Web Updates – August 20, 2018

Updates

Fixes and Tweaks

  • When adding a video to the Institute site, the thumbnail generated by YouTube, Vimeo, or Panopto will now be automatically imported and used as the splash image if one is not provided by the editor.
  • Added a Curated Events component to the Institute site which allows the editor to create custom event lists including past events.
  • Improved the editing experience of assigning a page in the Institute site to a menu with the menu_select module.

Ongoing Work

  • Fixes and tweaks for the new Institute site https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/
  • Upgrading applications to run on PHP 7.1.
  • Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
  • Creating a photo sharing platform for the Breadloaf Writer’s Conference.
  • Creating an online Services Catalog