The old Middlebury Institute websites that were at www.miis.edu and old.miis.edu are now fully offline. During the redesign of the site we made an effort to add redirects from the old copy of the content to the version on the new website and these redirects remain in place. Nearly all of the content on the old site was public and, as such, can still be viewed in the Internet Archive.

Updates

• Drupal 7.65, 8.6.12, and 8.6.13
• Drupal entity 8.x-1.0-rc2
• WordPress appointments plugin 2.4.2
• WordPress ml-slider plugin 3.12.1
• WordPress ml-slider plugin 3.12.1
• WordPress redirection plugin 4.1
• WordPress wp-accessibility plugin 1.6.7
• WordPress hueman theme 3.4.17

Fixes and Tweaks

• The information imported into Web Helpdesk nightly now includes the disk encryption status of distributed machines, a full list of the latest operating system versions, and a more accurate record of the last person to log in to the machine.
• Last week’s update to the WordPress theme “daydream” should not have been applied and has been reverted.
• Updated settings on the new Schools Abroad site to allow Tier 1 editors to edit any Basic Content nodes, not just those created by them.
• Fixed the left sidebar on the new Middlebury design to correctly check for the new sidebar regions on Top Level pages.
• Changed the redirection type for links on the Offices and Services homepage from 301 to 302 to reduce client-based caching.
• Updated a button icon which links to the CaterTrax system on the Catering website.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new “Offices” site for institution-wide anchor functions.
• Creating new Drupal 8 sites for our schools and programs.
• Upgrading the Course Hub to Drupal 8.
• Improvements to the Service Catalog.

Updates

• Drupal 8.6.11
• Drupal views module 7.x-3.21
• WordPress 5.1.1
• WordPress osm plugin 5.1.1
• WordPress seriously-simple-podcasting plugin 1.19.17
• WordPress velvet-blues-update-urls plugin 3.2.9
• WordPress daydream theme 1.1.0

Fixes and Tweaks

• The Davis sites (Fellows for Peace, Projects for Peace, and United World Scholars) are now all running under HTTPS.
• Fixed an issue with the WRMC weekly schedule where the table would break when shows were accidentally set to overlapping times.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new “Offices” site for institution-wide anchor functions.
• Creating new Drupal 8 sites for our schools and programs.
• Upgrading the Course Hub to Drupal 8.
• Improvements to the Service Catalog.

We have decide not to make the Disable Gutenberg or Classic Editor plugins enabled for both technical and support reasons. If you would like to use the WordPress editor as it was before WordPress 5, you can add a Classic Block to your content.

During testing and support we have come across one issue with the new editing interface: if you had the Category to Tag Converter plugin enabled and used it to convert tags on your site, some of the tags may be “orphaned” and will give an “Unable to save” error when you try to save a post or page with that tag. If you notice this, please contact us and we can work on the affected site to recreated the missing tags.

Updates

• Drupal biblio 7.x-1.0-rc10
• WordPress disqus-comment-system plugin 3.0.17
• WordPress enable-media-replace plugin 3.2.9
• WordPress instagram-feed plugin 1.11.3
• WordPress jetpack plugin 7.1.1
• WordPress the-events-calendar plugin 4.8.2
• WordPress wp-accessibility plugin 1.6.6
• WordPress accelerate theme 1.4.0
• WordPress daydream theme 1.1.0
• WordPress hueman theme 3.4.16
• WordPress responsive theme 3.14

Fixes and Tweaks

• The Streaming page will now automatically clear the cache when a new version is saved, ensuring that the video stream is immediately available.
• Pages in Drupal 8 sites such as the Middlebury Institute and Offices and Services which are not assigned to a menu will now automatically display a menu based on their URL path.
• The copyright notice in the Sustainability site footer will automatically update year-to-year.
• Updated the CTLR contact information in the Course Hub warning emails.
• The Athletics website is now available over HTTPS.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new “Offices” site for institution-wide anchor functions.
• Creating new Drupal 8 sites for our schools and programs.
• Upgrading the Course Hub to Drupal 8.
• Improvements to the Service Catalog.

Updates

• Drupal context 7.x-3.10
• WordPress foobox-image-lightbox plugin 2.6.4
• WordPress foogallery plugin 1.6.17
• WordPress ft-calendar plugin 1.6.1.1
• WordPress nextgen-gallery plugin 3.1.7
• WordPress seriously-simple-podcasting plugin 1.19.16
• WordPress subscribe2 plugin 10.27
• WordPress northern-web-coders theme 3.1
• WordPress hueman theme 3.4.15

Fixes and Tweaks

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new “Offices” site for institution-wide anchor functions.
• Creating new Drupal 8 sites for our schools and programs.
• Upgrading the Course Hub to Drupal 8.
• Improvements to the Service Catalog.

Updates

• Drupal 8.6.10
• Drupal ctools 8.x-3.2
• Drupal link 7.x-1.6
• Drupal metatag 8.x-1.8
• Drupal paragraphs 8.x-1.6
• Drupal service links 7.x2.4
• WordPress 5.1
• WordPress foobox-image-lightbox plugin 2.6.3
• WordPress osm plugin 5.0.2
• WordPress twentyeleven theme 3.2
• WordPress twentyfifteen theme 2.4
• WordPress twentyfourteen theme 2.6
• WordPress twentynineteen theme 1.3
• WordPress twentyseventeen theme 2.1
• WordPress twentysixteen theme 1.9
• WordPress twentyten theme 2.8
• WordPress twentythirteen theme 2.8
• WordPress twentytwelve theme 2.9

Fixes and Tweaks

• Offices in the Offices and Services site can now have more than one phone number associated with them and can add a “type” to each number, for offices with more than one location, or offices which want to provide fax or TTY service.
• The Institute site’s homepage can now feature the “Class Profile” component, with a large photo and statistics.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new “Offices” site for institution-wide anchor functions.
• Creating new Drupal 8 sites for our schools and programs.
• Upgrading the Course Hub to Drupal 8.
• Improvements to the Service Catalog.

Updates

• Drupal entity_browser 8.x-2.1
• Drupal biblio 7.x-1.0-rc9
• Drupal views_datasource 7.x-1.0-alpha3
• WordPress instagram-feed plugin 1.11.2
• WordPress jetpack plugin 7.0.1
• WordPress wysija-newsletters plugin 2.11
• WordPress the-events-calendar plugin 4.8.1
• WordPress wptouch plugin 4.3.35
• WordPress hueman theme 3.4.14

Fixes and Tweaks

• WordPress: added documentation of issues and workarounds for Gutenberg editor.
• WordPress: Fixed fatal errors in TwentySixteen theme that prevented some sites from loading.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new “Offices” site for institution-wide anchor functions.
• Creating new Drupal 8 sites for our schools and programs.
• Upgrading the Course Hub to Drupal 8.
• Improvements to the Service Catalog.

We have set up a new training website for Drupal 8 to help people who support that platform get acquainted with its new features.

Updates

• Drupal 7.64, 8.6.8, and 8.6.9
• Drupal admin_toolbar 8.x-1.26
• Drupal biblio 7.x-1.0-rc8
• Drupal ctools 7.x-1.14 and 8.x-3.1
• Drupal telephone_validation 8.x-2.2
• WordPress 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, and 5.0.3
• WordPress advanced-custom-fields-pro plugin 5.7.10
• WordPress foogallery plugin 1.6.15
• WordPress jetpack plugin 7.0
• WordPress redirection plugin 3.7.3
• WordPress subscribe2 plugin 10.26.1
• WordPress the-events-calendar plugin 4.8.0.1
• WordPress widget-shortcode plugin 0.3.4

Fixes and Tweaks

• When deleting a WordPress Resource in the Course Hub, instructors are now given a link to WordPress to also delete the site.
• Fixed an issue with WordPress were error messages for some administrative actions weren’t displayed and users only saw a generic “503 Internal Error” message.
• MiddSTART and MiddGOAL projects with non-percentage participation goals will now provide links to the donors page.
• Resolved issue in the Offices and Services website where group slugs were being duplicated in sub-page URL paths.
• Updated Drupal 8 sites to use the Advanced Link widget in the WYSIWYG editor.
• Fixed an issue in the Searchable catalog where some Course Sections displayed titles that duplicated their Course title. Section-specific titles are now ignored if they are the same as the title of the parent Course.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new “Offices” site for institution-wide anchor functions.
• Creating new Drupal 8 sites for our schools and programs.
• Upgrading the Course Hub to Drupal 8.
• Improvements to the Service Catalog.

We have completed the upgrade of WordPress, which is used for sites.middlebury.edu and sites.miis.edu to version 5.0.3. WordPress 5 is a complete redevelopment of the editor, named “Gutenberg”, which now features a new “block” system for working with media assets and complex markup.

Here is a Lynda course on WordPress 5 to help you get started with this new editor. Skip ahead to section 2, Content Management, as the introductory sections don’t apply to our environment. There is more information about the new features of WordPress 5 in the official announcement blog post. This version also includes a new theme, Twenty Nineteen, which is available for you to use.

Workaround: Get the Classic Editor Back

The new Block Editor has a block for the Classic Editor. Here’s how to add it to your post.