Sherman is a child theme of Cornerstone, and utilizes SASS to be as lightweight as possible. Its design is bold, yet clearly a product of the university. It is named after Roger Sherman, Connecticut’s representative to the Continental Congress, and one of the Founding Fathers.
Author: Kelly Cosgrove
Themes and Plugins
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Themes
UConn currently has four central themes as well as a number of custom themes and child themes created for specific UConn sites.
Plugins
To ensure the security and stability of Aurora, plugins are limited to set number determined by the Aurora Governance Committee. Plugins do get added regularly, but must be thoroughly tested and reviewed for compatibility with existing plugins.
Custom Themes and Plugins
Custom development is allowed for the Aurora WordPress server, but each plugin and theme, as well as any update, will have to go through Code Audit before being allowed in the system. Contact webdev@uconn.edu if you're interested in starting a custom project to get a development environment, and to be added to the developer contact lists. You may also want to look at our Live Sites with Custom/Child Themes.
Colorful Sidebar Menus
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If you add a sidebar with a menu widget, you may notice that the menu is displayed in a very simple manner. Below is code that you can add to your custom CSS to add some style to your sidebar menu. This code will work with websites using the Hale 2015 and Sherman themes.
Code
#page-sidebar .widget.widget_nav_menu {
padding-left:0;
padding-right:0
}
#page-sidebar .widget ul {
margin:0
}
#page-sidebar .widget ul li {
padding:1em;
margin:0
}
#page-sidebar .widget ul li.current-menu-item,#page-sidebar .widget ul li.current-menu-item:hover,#page-sidebar .widget ul li.current-menu-item:active {
background:#0f4786
}
#page-sidebar .widget ul li:hover,#page-sidebar .widget ul li:active {
background:#dbe3ed
}
#page-sidebar .widget ul li.current-menu-item a,#page-sidebar .widget ul li.current-menu-item:hover a,#page-sidebar .widget ul li.current-menu-item:active a {
color:#fff
}
Note: The colors are marked in red — feel free to change them to whatever HEX codes you want!
Result
To see how this CSS code looks on an actual sidebar menu, visit the Development page.
User Roles
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Actions that users can perform based on the role they’ve been given.
Administrator
- activate_plugins
- delete_others_pages
- delete_others_posts
- delete_pages
- delete_plugins
- delete_posts
- delete_private_pages
- delete_private_posts
- delete_published_pages
- delete_published_posts
- edit_dashboard
- edit_files
- edit_others_pages
- edit_others_posts
- edit_pages
- edit_posts
- edit_private_pages
- edit_private_posts
- edit_published_pages
Editor
Author
Contributor
Profile User
Subscriber
Buttons
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To add buttons to your page/post, you must be in the 'Text' editor view.
Compatible Tags
You can make buttons out of the following HTML tags:
Tag | Sample Code |
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a |
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button |
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input (type: button) |
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input (type: submit) |
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Button Classes
You may use the following btn btn-*
classes to produce buttons of different colors:
Class | Sample Code | Output |
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btn-default |
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btn-primary |
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btn-success |
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btn-info |
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btn-warning |
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btn-danger |
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btn-link |
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Button Sizes
You may use the following btn btn-*
classes to produce buttons of different sizes:
Class | Sample Code | Output |
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btn-lg |
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N/A (default) |
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btn-sm |
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btn-xs |
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Block Buttons
You may also create buttons that fill the entire width of the parent div by adding a btn-block
class. For example: