Themes and Plugins

March 24, 2016

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 techsupport@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.

Additional Links

Colorful Sidebar Menus

March 22, 2016

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

March 10, 2016

Buttons

March 3, 2016

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
 a 
<a class="btn btn-default" href="https://www.google.com" role="button">Link</a>
 button 
<button class="btn btn-default" type="submit">Button</button>
 input (type: button) 
<input class="btn btn-default" type="button" value="Input">
input (type: submit) 
<input class="btn btn-default" type="submit" value="Submit">

Button Classes

You may use the following btn btn-* classes to produce buttons of different colors:

Class Sample Code Output
btn-default 
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default">Default</button>
btn-primary 
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Primary</button>
btn-success 
<button type="button" class="btn btn-success">Success</button>
btn-info 
<button type="button" class="btn btn-info">Info</button>
btn-warning 
<button type="button" class="btn btn-warning">Warning</button>
btn-danger 
<button type="button" class="btn btn-danger">Danger</button>
btn-link 
<button type="button" class="btn btn-link">Link</button>

Button Sizes

You may use the following btn btn-* classes to produce buttons of different sizes:

Class Sample Code Output
btn-lg 
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary btn-lg">Large button</button>
N/A (default) 
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Default button</button>
btn-sm 
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary btn-sm">Small button</button>
btn-xs 
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary btn-xs">Extra small button</button>

Block Buttons

You may also create buttons that fill the entire width of the parent div by adding a btn-block class. For example:

Update 9.1

March 1, 2016

The UC People plugin has been updated with new features, Authorize.net payment button shortcode is also available. For details, check the Aurora Update 9.1 Change Log.

Update 9

August 25, 2015

Aurora has been updated with some great new features. Including:

  • New Navigation options
  • Improved tools for faculty/staff profiles.
  • Page Layout Builder tool
  • New theme “Hale 2015”
  • and more!

Get all the details at: Aurora Update 9 Change Logs

Update 8.5

June 18, 2015

Update 8.5 was released on 6/17/2015.

  • Sherman: more colors are available
  • Bootstrap 3: version updated to 3.3.4 and Modal is now supported
  • Custom CSS: now fully supports HTML 5, CSS 3 and allows comments

Update 8.4

June 10, 2015

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.