WordPress 4.8 features new sidebar widgets for images, videos, audio, and rich text. We’ve added support for these in the past through custom plugins and shortcodes, but it’s now part of the native experience with an improved user interface.
Updates
- Drupal 7.55
- Drupal 8.3.3
- Drupal file_entity 7.x-2.1
- Drupal media 7.x-2.6
- Drupal views_slideshow 8.x-4.5
- WordPress 4.8
- WordPress JetPack 5.0
- WordPress Redirection 2.6.1
- WordPress The Events Calendar 4.5.4
- WordPress themes: Hueman, Illustratr, Twenty Ten, Twenty Eleven, Twenty Twelve, Twenty Thirteen, Twenty Fourteen, Twenty Fifteen, Twenty Sixteen
Fixes and Tweaks
- Applied padding updates to the CCI WordPress homepage.
- Resolved an issue with the Middlebury TimelineJS Shortcode WordPress plugin which was not allowing timelines with hyphens in their ids.
- Relocated the editorial style guide to GitHub.
Ongoing Work
- Creating a new website for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
- Archiving Moodle.
- 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.
- Integrating Panopto (streaming videos) and Canvas (LMS).