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Prudence 2018

Posted on January 9, 2018October 19, 2020 by Kelly Cosgrove

Accordion Styling

Posted on March 8, 2017January 9, 2020 by Kelly Cosgrove

Code

.accordion .panel {
border:0 solid transparent
}

.accordion .panel-default > .panel-heading {
background:none;
padding:5px;
border-bottom:2px solid #0f4786
}

.accordion h4.panel-title a:before {
font-family:'Glyphicons Halflings';
content:"\e259";
font-size:10px;
padding-right:5px
}

.subpage .widget .accordion .panel-title a {
color:#0f4786;
text-decoration:none;
font-size:18px;
font-weight:700
}

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Code

.accordion .panel-default > .panel-heading {
background:linear-gradient(#eaeaea,#fff);
border-radius:6px
}

.accordion.panel-group .panel {
border-radius:6px
}

.accordion .panel-default > .panel-heading + .panel-collapse > .panel-body {
border-top:0 solid transparent
}

.subpage .widget .accordion .panel-title a {
color:#0f4786;
font-size:20px;
text-decoration:none
}

Code

.accordion .panel {
border:3px solid #000
}

.accordion .panel-title {
font-weight:700;
text-align:center;
text-transform:uppercase;
letter-spacing:2px
}

.accordion .panel-default > .panel-heading {
background:#fff
}

.subpage .accordion .panel-title a {
color:#000;
text-decoration:none
}

.panel-group .panel-heading + .panel-collapse > .panel-body,.panel-group .panel-heading + .panel-collapse > .list-group {
border-width:0
}

Code

.accordion .panel-heading{
border-radius:0;
}

.accordion .panel:first-child,.accordion .panel:first-child .panel-heading {
border-top-left-radius:6px;
border-top-right-radius:6px
}

.accordion .panel:last-child,.accordion .panel:last-child .panel-body {
border-bottom-left-radius:6px;
border-bottom-right-radius:6px
}

.accordion .panel + .panel {
margin:0;
border-top-width:0
}

.accordion .panel .panel-heading {
background:#0f4786
}

.accordion .panel-default .panel-body {
background:#5589C3;
color:#fff
}

.subpage .widget .accordion .panel-heading a,.subpage .widget .accordion .panel-heading a:hover,.subpage .widget .accordion .panel-heading a:active {
color:#fff;
font-size:14px;
text-decoration:none
}

Moving From Hale/Prudence to Sherman/Hale 2015/Prudence 2018

Posted on March 29, 2016January 23, 2018 by Kelly Cosgrove

Prudence

Posted on March 29, 2016October 19, 2020 by Kelly Cosgrove

Hale

Posted on March 29, 2016October 19, 2020 by Kelly Cosgrove

Migrating From Other WordPress Servers

Posted on March 24, 2016April 3, 2017 by Cerrigione, Christopher

Migrating From Dreamweaver

Posted on March 24, 2016April 3, 2017 by Cerrigione, Christopher

From 2002 – 2013, UConn relied heavily on the use of Dreamweaver templates to manage website content. For those of you accustomed to working with Dreamweaver templates, there are some changes you should be aware of.

Automatic Backups – Each and every time you hit Publish or Update, Aurora will save a new copy of the page or post you're working on. You can revert to older copies yourself. This means if you accidentally erase a page, you can always go back to a previous version.
Drag & Drop Navigation – In Dreamweaver, adding, removing, or renaming navigation items was technically challenging and time consuming. Now, you can rearrange your navigation in a simple interface.
No Setup – With Aurora you don't have to configure software with server addresses, port numbers, or other various settings. All you need is a web browser and an internet connection.
Multiple Webmasters – Aurora has a lot of features to support multiple people working on the same site, even at the same time. It will warn you if you try to edit a page someone else is working on. You can create users that can only edit certain pages, or whose work always has to be reviewed before being published.
File and Image Uploading – In the past, this used to require a lot of moving files around into specific folders to get them to appear in Dreamweaver, or setting up a WebDAV client. In Aurora, you simply click 'Add Media' when working on a page, and you can select any file on your computer to upload to the site.
Scheduled Updates – If you need a site change to happen at a specific date and time, you can now just set a timer. The new page, or changes to a current page, won't appear until the appointed hour.
Online Drafts – If you're working on a new page, and want some feedback before it appears publicly, save it as a draft. Send the preview link to colleagues without the worry of it appearing on the main site yet.
Dynamic Homepages – Add news posts, an events calendar, and a photo slideshow, and control them all yourself.
Limited Coding Ability – In Dreamweaver, you had direct access to all code of the page. In Aurora, that access is limited. There is still a Text/HTML view for those that want to write some code by hand, but for those who want truly custom layouts and displays, please read more about Themes and Plugins.
Limited Layout & Color Choices – Aurora is limited to the looks and layouts available under the "Themes" menu item. UITS will be adding more options to this main theme over time, and those interested may want to look into custom themes under Themes and Plugins.

Cornerstone

Posted on March 24, 2016December 26, 2017 by Kelly Cosgrove

Cornerstone was designed from the ground up to be developer-focused. It’s based on the the WordPress _s (‘underscores’) theme mixed with Bootstrap 3. The design philosophy is to enable and turn on every feature we can think of in Cornerstone, and then child themes will need to unregister the features they don’t support. For example, Cornerstone can support header images, background images, and background colors. However, we may not want those features turned on when the site is being administered by someone less familiar with University Brand standards or web accessibility policies regarding color and contrast.

Child Theming with SASS

Posted on March 24, 2016December 26, 2017 by Kelly Cosgrove

The SASS variables available to you come from three possible documents. Cornerstone registers a large number of new variables mostly pertaining to navigation and widgets.

This is the pre-compiled Bootstrap scss in the global directory, and it has hundreds of variables.

Cornerstone registers a large number of new variables, mostly pertaining to navigation and widgets.

Sherman, a child theme built with SASS, can redefine any of the variable in Bootstrap or Cornerstone before they are compiled. Rather than wrestling with a dizzying number of selectors and tracking down every single place a single color or font may be referenced, you can edit a few variables and be 80% complete with your redesign. It’s fantastic!

Once you have a general understanding of the variables and the file structure you can start editing variables.scss. This file contains listed default variables from both Bootstrap and Cornerstone. A change is simple: search for your target tag and change the attribute to whatever you would like it to be.

Example

To change the default link color for the navigation bar you would have to scroll down to the “$navbar” variables and make the changes you would like.

Variables we will be changing. The hex codes would be located here.

Look before any changes have been made to variables.

change variable — Look after changes have been made. Now, the navigation bar links are light blue!

Child Theming with CSS

Posted on March 24, 2016August 22, 2016 by Kelly Cosgrove

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.

Moving from Prudence to Prudence 2018

Homepage

Sleek Accordions

Code

Example

Panel 1 Title

Panel 2 Title

Panel 3 Title

Modern Accordions

Code

Example

Panel 1 Title

Panel 2 Title

Panel 3 Title

Statement Accordions

Code

Example

Panel 1 Title

Panel 2 Title

Panel 3 Title

Bold Accordions

Code

Example

Panel 1 Title

Panel 2 Title

Panel 3 Title

UC Slideshow

Navigation

Bootstrap

User Profiles

Multisite

Plugins

Themes

Migrating HTML Files Onto Aurora

Aurora vs. Dreamweaver

Built for Developers

Themes Using Cornerstone

Creating Your Own Theme

Cornerstone Child Theme Starter Kit

Initial Child Theme Setup

Understanding SASS

Using a Compiler

Editing variables.scss

Example

Editing style.scss

Example