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Update 9.2

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Update 9.2 was released on 3/30/2016. WordPress Core was upgraded to 4.4.2 and all central third party plugins were updated to the latest version

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.

Update 8.4

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Update 8.4 was released early June 2015.

  • Site Administrators can now give Editors access to Gravity Forms by checking the Gravity Forms Access checkbox under Settings->General.
  • Confirmation emails triggered by updating the admin email (Settings->General->E-mail Address) is disabled. Changes on the admin email is now immediate.

Update 8

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Aurora Update 8 is released on 1/16/2015. This update includes WordPress core version upgrade and many new features such as color options in Sherman, private sites and pages, blog widget filtered by categories or tags, CSS override with code sanitization, redirection tool and etc. The complete change log and user guides are available at

http://aurora.uconn.edu/update-8/