Weekly Web Updates – December 16, 2019

We launched a new site for the Bread Loaf School of English this week. This is the first of our new sites to use the newsroom functionality that is available for all new office sites. Updates Drupal embed 8.x-1.1 Drupal google_tag 8.x-1.3 Drupal menu_trail_by_path 8.x-1.2 Drupal webform 7.x-4.21 WordPress 5.3.1 WordPress bbpress plugin 2.6.3 WordPress […]…Continue Reading Weekly Web Updates – December 16, 2019

Weekly Web Updates – December 9, 2019

Updates Drupal core 7.68 Drupal Pathauto 8.x-1.6 WordPress jetpack plugin 8.0 WordPress nextgen-gallery plugin 3.2.23 WordPress osm plugin 5.3.2 WordPress restricted-site-access plugin 7.2.0 WordPress instagram-feed plugin 2.1.3 WordPress hueman theme 3.4.33 WordPress responsive theme 3.40 WordPress sydney theme 1.56 Fixes and Tweaks Ongoing Work Creating a new “Offices” site for institution-wide anchor functions. Creating new […]…Continue Reading Weekly Web Updates – December 9, 2019

Weekly Web Updates – December 2, 2019

We have added news and blogging functionality to the Offices and Services site. When the ITS site relaunched on that platform shortly we’ll be moving our news over there. Updates WordPress bbpress plugin 2.6.2 WordPress ml-slider plugin 3.15.3 WordPress redirection plugin 4.5.1 Fixes and Tweaks The MiddSTART site has moved to Blackbaud. The Grants site […]…Continue Reading Weekly Web Updates – December 2, 2019

Weekly Web Updates – November 25, 2019

We are pleased to announce the Course Hub update was completed last week. When you next visit courses.middlebury.edu you will see the new interface. For the Institute when you visit courses.miis.edu you will be directed to the new hub at courses.middlebury.edu, please update your bookmarks accordingly. This image shows the new Course Hub interface.  If […]…Continue Reading Weekly Web Updates – November 25, 2019

Weekly Web Updates – November 18, 2019

This week we’ve updated WordPress to the new 5.3 version. This brings in a number of accessibility improvements to the block editor, including several which were identified by the audit commissioned by the WPCampus Higher Education WordPress users group. This update also includes an admin email verification feature. Every six months, when you log into […]…Continue Reading Weekly Web Updates – November 18, 2019

Learning about Tor and the Dark Web

I participated in DLINQ’s Crypto Party for Activists and Allies and learned a lot about Tor. Of course I’d heard of Tor beforehand, but I didn’t know how it worked and I only associated it with criminal activity and spy stuff. Turns out it is also an important resource for reporters needing to communicate privately […]…Continue Reading Learning about Tor and the Dark Web