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Aurora Update 17.5

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Update 17.5 was released (6/20/2024). WordPress Core was upgraded to 6.5.4 and all central third party plugins were updated to the latest version. 

Each site’s media library storage limit has been increased to 10GB.

Aurora Update 17.4

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Update 17.4 was released (3/21/2024). WordPress Core was upgraded to 6.4.3 and all central third party plugins were updated to the latest version. 

A new calendar plugin has been released with an easy to use interface and advanced display options. For more information go to Events Calendar.

Smash Balloon Instagram Feed and YouTube Feed

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Instagram Feed

Please ignore the email with Subject “There has been a problem with your Instagram Feed.”

“This is a courtesy email sent from the Smash Balloon Instagram Feed plugin on your website to alert you when there is an issue with one of your Instagram feeds.”

 

YouTube Feed

Ignore the link within the Dashboard for YouTube Feed as shown below.  Do Not add license key.

The message states in the blue banner, “Your license key is inactive. Please add license key to enable PRO features.” 

Smash Balloon plugin

Please send an email to webdev@uconn.edu if you have any questions.

Migrating From Other WordPress Servers

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For those of you that have been using WordPress elsewhere, there are a few key distinctions you need know about the Aurora server.

Multisite

Aurora is a multisite installation of WordPress, modeled after WordPress.com. Each site has it’s own tables, but they are in one database, and share the same library of plugins and themes.

Plugins

Plugins are controlled at the Network level in Aurora. The addition of any new plugins to the network is decided on by the Aurora Governance Committee.

Themes

Similar to plugins, Themes are also controlled at the network level. Custom themes are permitted, but must pass a Code Audit process before being allowed on production.

Child Theming with CSS

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Cornerstone was built with SASS, but you can still develop with normal CSS.

Don’t use @import in your CSS file, or your site will break in IE8.

Instead, add this to your functions.php file:

<?php
function link_parent_theme_style() {
wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style', get_stylesheet_uri() );
}
add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'link_parent_theme_style');
?>

Typically, a child theme will @import the css of the parent theme. Bootstrap 3, the framework which Cornerstone is based on, offers very limited support for Internet Explorer 8. By default, a Bootstrap 3 site in IE8 will render the mobile view. One column of content, and the collapse mobile navigation.

Being that IE8 accounts for a sizable (~7%) of traffic on Aurora, Cornerstone makes use of respond.js, which uses javascript to mimic media queries for IE8. However, respond.js will not work on anything loaded via @import. So this alternate method is required.