The Dining Menus website features a new responsive design, making it easier to use on mobile devices.

We removed the greenday, regulus, edu-knows, and irresistible themes from WordPress, which were not in use on any active sites.

Updates

• Drupal media 7.x-2.0-rc3
• Drupal multiblock 7.x-1.5
• WordPress 4.7.1
• WordPress OSM – OpenStreetMap 3.8
• WordPress The Events Calendar 4.4.0.1

Fixes and Tweaks

• We’ve deployed an update to the BLSE homepage from our colleagues in Communications & Marketing.
• Corrected an issue with the MailPoet newsletter WordPress plugin that prevented the preview and send buttons from working.
• The media button in the WYSIWYG editor for the MIIS Drupal site appears again.
• Fixed an issue with the WordPress Authors plugin that made it appear as though each author wrote zero posts.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new website for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
• A small redesign of the Middlebury News Room to bring it more inline with the newsletter.
• Building out the configuration of our Omeka, and CAS servers in Chef, which is a configuration management system. We have already completed this work for our Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, GO, and the Course Catalog services.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
• Providing Course Hub access for Schools Abroad courses.

There was an issue in the recent WordPress 4.7 update that caused problems with our custom permissions group syncing to that system. If you are the member of a group that is sync’d to WordPress but have different permissions than most members of that group (for example: administrators of the “Classifieds” blog), your permissions to the site may have been set to the lower-level permissions if you logged in to the site over the holiday break (this was fixed by 1pm on January 3rd). If that’s the case, let us know and we’ll restore your permissions.

We have added the Inline Footnotes and BE Subpages Widget plugins to WordPress.

Updates

• Drupal media 7.x-2.0-rc2
• Drupal metatag 7.x-1.19
• Drupal views_slideshow 7.x-3.3
• Drupal webform_validation 7.x-1.13
• Drupal wysiwyg 7.x-2.3
• WordPress Accelerate theme 1.2.9
• WordPress BE Subpages Widget 1.6
• WordPress CM Tooltip Glossary 3.4.4
• WordPress Hueman theme 3.3.4
• WordPress Inline Footnotes 1.1.0
• WordPress WP-PostRatings 1.84.1

Fixes and Tweaks

• The server hosting the Course Catalog was updated using the Chef server configuration tool to better provide system updates and versioning. Additionally, all requests to the Catalog are now handled over HTTPS.
• We applied a security update to the system that sends mail in WordPress which is causing issues with the email preview function in the Wysija / MailPoet plugin. The plugin author promises to have an update available shortly that will fix this.
• Improved the Online Directory’s handling of connections to the Active Directory to ensure that system resources are properly recycled after searches are run, preventing the server from spinning out of control.
• Increased the timeout and improved error handling for photo fetching to the Athletics History Wall to better ensure we import as many photos as possible.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new website for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
• A small redesign of the Middlebury News Room to bring it more inline with the newsletter.
• A responsive design for the Dining Menus site.
• Building out the configuration of our Omeka, and CAS servers in Chef, which is a configuration management system. We have already completed this work for our Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, GO, and the Course Catalog services.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
• Providing Course Hub access for Schools Abroad courses.

Updates

• Drupal diff 7.x-3.3
• WordPress core 4.7 “Vaughan”
• Accelerate theme 1.2.8
• bbPress 2.5.12
• Emma for WordPress 1.3
• Genesis theme 2.4.2
• Hueman 3.3.2
• MailChimp List Subscribe Form 1.5.6
• RokoPhoto Lite theme 1.1.6
• Sydney theme 1.34
• The Events Calendar 4.3.5
• WPtouch Mobile Plugin 4.3.10

Fixes and Tweaks

• go/groups will not show class membership information to non-admins.
• The Drupal Redirector content type has been enabled on www.davisfellowsforpeace.org.
• An additional view display variant for the fellows tables on www.davisfellowsforpeace.org was created that doesn’t contain the “Area of Interest” column.
• The new first and last name fields for student nodes in www.davisuwcscholars.org have been populated.
• Privacy Policy links have been added to numerous footer themes within www.middlebury.edu.
• The default image displayed in the directory and website profile content has been updated.
• The Drupal Google Calendar content-type now properly extracts calendar ids from any Google Calender URL (embed-url, iCal url, etc) as well as allowing calendar ids to be entered directly.
• Added documentation on email re-sending in Webforms.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new website for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
• A small redesign of the Middlebury News Room to bring it more inline with the newsletter.
• Building out the configuration of our Omeka, CAS and Course Catalog servers in Chef, which is a configuration management system. We have already completed this work for our Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, and GO services.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
• Providing Course Hub access for Schools Abroad courses.

Updates

• Drupal 7.53
• Drupal media 7.x-2.0-beta14 (from beta2)
• WordPress Plugins
  • CM Tooltip Glossary 3.4.3
  • Duplicate Post 3.1.2
  • NextGen Gallery 2.1.62
  • Redirection 2.5
  • The Events Calendar 4.3.4.2
  • WPTouch 4.3.9
  • WP-PostViews 1.74
  • WP-PostRatings 1.84
  • Editorial Calendar 3.6.3
  • Widget Shortcode 0.3.0
  • FeedWordpress 2016-1213
  • Featured Video Plus 2.3.3

Fixes and Tweaks

• Improved the video shortcode processing in Drupal to handle additional forms of Vimeo URLs.
• We’ve added Varnish caching in front of the New Library Items site, which should cause it to load much faster if it’s been visited recently.
• There is a new “trainee” role in the Drupal Training website, which includes everyone with an account to better ensure that permission to use the site is limited to people signed in through CAS.
• We have limited the allowed file types for uploaded files in Drupal to include common image and document formats.
• Older versions of the Middlebury Student Life site should no longer get indexed by search engines. We are working on removing old copies of their content in a way that does not impact the live site.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new website for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
• A small redesign of the Middlebury News Room to bring it more inline with the newsletter.
• Building out the configuration of our Omeka, CAS and Course Catalog servers in Chef, which is a configuration management system. We have already completed this work for our Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, and GO services.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
• Providing Course Hub access for Schools Abroad courses.

Updates

• WordPress Hueman theme 3.2.12
• WordPress Jetpack 4.4.2
• WordPress Twenty Fifteen theme 1.7
• WordPress Twenty Fourteen 1.9
• WordPress Twenty Thirteen 2.1
• WordPress Twenty Twelve 2.2

Fixes and Tweaks

• CAS now requires TLS 1.2 when connecting to its service in order to provide additional session security. The Online Directory was upgraded to .NET 4.5 to accomodate this change.
• We’ve added a Google Tag Manager plugin for Omeka and one for MediaWiki. Custom support for this was also added to MiddMedia.
• Scholarships are now included in the post types shown on the MiddSTART homepage and several coding errors were resolved that were preventing comments from working as intended.
• Fixed a login issue with MediaWiki that prevented some users from being able to edit.
• Panopto is now included in the video provider options for the Davis Projects for Peace site.

Ongoing Work

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

We upgraded the servers that run go.middlebury.edu, go.miis.edu, and mediawiki.middlebury.edu. These are now using the Chef server configuration tool to manage settings so that we can ensure proper change management over their setup. The GO service now supports the “https” protocol. Additionally, MediaWiki was upgraded from version 1.26.4 to version 1.28.0 as part of this change.

Updates

• Drupal metatag 7.x-1.18
• MediaWiki 1.28.0
• WordPress Jetpack 4.4.1
• WordPress NextGEN Gallery 2.1.60
• WordPress Social Icons Widget by WPZOOM 2.2.2
• WordPress Widget Shortcode 0.2.9
• WordPress WPtouch 4.3.7

Fixes and Tweaks

• When editing a GO shortcut, the “Apply These Changes” button is now on its own line, making it less likely that you will accidentally click the “Delete” button that used to be next to it.
• Department image banners on the Middlebury Drupal site should now properly link to the department homepage rather than the image file if you have JavaScript enabled.
• Course Hub term builders can now reorder subpage items in the hub.
• The iCal feeds for the Dining Menus site now include the start and end time of each meal.
• The L&ITS wiki now includes icons when linking to an external site. Also, the toclimit classes are in the stylesheet now so that feature will work.
• Resolved an issue with images not loading in the Moodle Adaptive Quiz module.
• The WordPress bbPress plugin went missing and was replaced.
• The Course Catalog  now supports a JSON API to provide course data to the Kurogo mobile application.

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 and Course Catalog servers in Chef, which is a configuration management system. We have already completed this work for our Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, and GO services.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
• Providing Course Hub access for Schools Abroad courses.

You can now set whether your Drupal Webform resends emails when a submission is updated. Some webforms are set up to allow submitters to continue to revise their submitted information and the webform administrator may want to be informed when this occurs. To set this, edit the webform, click “Webform” in the header, then “Form settings”, and check the “Re-send emails on update” checkbox.

Email lists in MyEmma, such as MiddNews, are now automatically populated from lists in Banner each week, ensuring that new members of our community are kept up-to-date on communications. If you choose to unsubscribe from messages, this preference will not be changed by the weekly sync process.

Updates

• Drupal ctools 7.x-1.12
• WordPress Hueman theme 1.1.5
• WordPress Jetpack 4.4
• WordPress Parabola theme 2.1.0
• WordPress RokoPhoto Lite theme 3.2.10
• WordPress Sydney theme 1.33

Fixes and Tweaks

• Corrected a typo in the Middlebury site footer which listed the email address for Admissions incorrectly.
• iCal feeds from the Dining menus site now include the proper start time of each meal, converted to UTC time.
• The Scholar and Student content types on the Davis UWC site now have first and last name fields which can be used to sort the lists of students, rather than the combined name title field which did not allow sorting by last name.
• The default year for students on the Davis UWC site was changed from 2019 to 2020.

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.
• Providing Course Hub access for Schools Abroad courses.

We created a special “Event” content type for the Middlebury Sustainability site, which is now available to use anywhere on the Middlebury Drupal site that you would like to list event information. Documentation on using the Event content type is available on the L&ITS Wiki.

Updates

• Drupal 7.52
• Drupal field_collection 7.x-1.0-beta12
• Drupal phpCAS 1.3.4 (from 1.3.1)
• WordPress CM Tooltip Glossary 3.4.2
• WordPress NextGEN Gallery 2.1.57
• WordPress The Events Calendar 4.3.3
• WordPress Hueman 3.2.10
• WordPress RokoPhoto Lite 1.1.5

Fixes and Tweaks

• Updated the process that builds Course Hub sites for new courses to ensure that it will work for additional course formats, specifically those where the course number contains letters.
• Fixed an issue with the MiddCORE email subscription form where extra line breaks in the email headers were preventing the form from sending confirmation emails to the site administrators.
• We resolved an issue with images on featured articles in the Middlebury Magazine site.
• The default student year on the Davis UWC Scholars site was increased.

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.