UBC CMS Upgraded to 3.9 “Smith”
WordPress 3.9 “Smith” details here. Enjoy!
Updates for Admins
If you are an administrator of a site you might be asked to updated your sites meta info via a message that looks like the following. This message will appear only once per site. So if you didn’t see it you some one on your team has updates the information already. The reason for the […]
Mondays Support Clinics Cancelled
We are canceling the Monday support clinics, due to lack of attendance. Please come by the Thursdays WordPress clinics by registering in advance.
CMS Upgraded to version 3.8
UBC CMS has been upgraded to WordPress 3.8 “Parker” . Enjoy!
Add Meta Tags Plugin Added
I know I have said no more plugins but this one is a reasonable request from Medicine. It’s under user control if you want to activate. The plugin allows you to create global meta tags or page/post specific (useful if you want to block pages from being indexed in Google as requested from Medicine). See […]
Nov 25 2013 Bug Fixes
Updated some Wordpress Plugins to fix bugs: Profile Custom Content Type and Section Widget.
Wiki Embed Plugin Update
In order to beef up our security we have added a white list of sites that are can be embed via the wiki-embed plugin. The current list of sites is the following: https://wiki.ubc.ca https://wiki.ubc.ca http://en.wikipedia.org http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki http://www.wikidata.org/wiki http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki http://en.wikinews.org/wiki http://en.wikisource.org/wiki http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki https://en.wikipedia.org https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki https://www.wikidata.org/wiki https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki https://en.wikinews.org/wiki https://en.wikisource.org/wiki […]
Plugin updates.
We just wanted to announce some plugins updates that require your action. Twitter Tracker 3.3.3 We have updated the twitter tracker pluguin which has stopped working because Twitter decided to update their API. The plugin update requires you to authenticate with twitter in order to be able to display the twitter updates on your site. […]
UBC CLF WordPress Theme Now Available
UBC Collab developers: (L-R) Amir Entezaralmahdi, Michael Ha, Lina Kang, Enej Bajgoric, Michael Kam. Missing: Scott McMillan. Photo by: Martin Dee UBC CLF + UBC CMS = UBC Collab Jointly developed by the CTLT, ArtsISIT, and Communications and Marketing teams, UBC Collab (short for “collaborative”) is a centrally hosted and supported WordPress Theme that integrates […]
No more Automatic <p></p> Tags
New plugin allows the removal of the annoying automatic p tags that WordPress wraps around the content. The paragraph tags are added by WordPress through the use of a filter to the wpautop function inside one of the core WordPress files. WordPress adds the paragraph tags after retrieval of the content from the SQL database. […]