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Visual Editor Altering HTML

September 20, 2016

Description

You edited a page through the Text editor, but when you switch to Visual editor, some of the HTML you added changes or is removed. This is known to happen specifically when adding Bootstrap Collapsible Accordion Menus and anchors but may happen with other bits of code as well.

Accordions

If you add a collapsible accordion menu to your page through the text editor, it deletes the following line of code from every panel:
<a class="collapsed" href="#PanelID" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion">
It also deletes the corresponding </a>. Note that this <a> tag wraps each .panel-heading div.

Anchors

Sometimes when you add an anchor on a page, it will later disappear. This does not happen all the time but it appears to happen by either adding an anchor in the Visual editor, switching to text editor, and switching back to Visual, or adding an anchor in the text editor and switching to Visual.

Steps to Fix the Issue

Because there is no known solution for this issue, the best thing to do would be to avoid going back into Visual editor on any page that has a collapsible accordion menu/anchor. If you do go into Visual editor, you could do one of two things:
  • Click Browse next to Revisions in the Publish box and restore the latest version that had the full code (if there are any).
  • Go back and manually re-add the code yourself.

Other Code

If the above suggestions do not solve your issue or you've found other code that the Visual editor alters, please email us at webdev@uconn.edu.

Permalink Page Not Found

September 13, 2016

Description

You've inserted a permalink to one page on your site that is supposed to lead to another page on your site. However, when you click the permalink it brings you to a 'Page not found' page.

Steps to Fix the Issue

If you come across this issue, please email us at webdev@uconn.edu and include a link to your site.

Page Not Updating

Description

You have made changes to a page and clicked 'Publish', but when you view the page the changes you've made are not there.

Steps to Fix the Issue

First, try clearing the cache on the page. To do this, go to the page's editing screen. Then in the Publish section, click Purge from cache. purge-from-cache If this doesn't fix the issue, please email us at webdev@uconn.edu and include a link to the page that is not updating.

Update 9.4

May 26, 2016

Update 9.4 was released today (5/26/2016). WordPress Core was upgraded to 4.5.2 and all central third party plugins were updated to the latest version.

Update 9.3

April 6, 2016

An update to UC People was released today with three changes:
  1. “URL” is now “Link”
  2. “Profile Redirection Link” is available to link People’s name to an external website instead of the Profile Page.
  3. Grid view has new layout choices: 2, 3, 4, or 6 people per row.

Update 9.2

April 1, 2016

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

Prudence

March 29, 2016

Released in February 2014, Prudence is a child theme of Hale. It is named after Prudence Crandall, the state heroine of Connecticut.
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Hale

Hale was the default theme for all new sites on Aurora from July 2013 – August 2014. It is named after Nathan Hale, the state hero of Connecticut.
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Migrating From Other WordPress Servers

March 24, 2016

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, and spelled out in the Wishlist.

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.

Cornerstone

Cornerstone is not a theme that is generally available to Aurora users. Rather, it was designed to be a starting point or a parent theme for all future themes produced by the UITS Web Development Lab. It is also made available to registered Aurora developers. This page is meant to help those developers in using Cornerstone for their own projects.
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Built for Developers

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.

Themes Using Cornerstone

The following is a list a child themes that already use Cornerstone. These themes were developed at the Web Development Lab and best show how versatile Cornerstone is.

Creating Your Own Theme

Cornerstone is a bare-bones theme created to be developed upon. It is possible to create your own theme built upon cornerstones structure. We welcome you to play with the sources files.

Cornerstone Child Theme Starter Kit

The Cornerstone Child Theme Starter Kit is available to help developers get a new project running quickly. You can access it on GitHub.
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Cornerstone basic mode on customization screen.
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Cornerstone basic mode screenshot