Redirection plugin on UBC CMS
The redirection plugin has been available on CMS for several years. It is widely used and offers an important piece of functionality for many sites. Due to the scale of UBC CMS and the way in which the plugin is written, Redirection is no longer suitable or sustainable. As of this morning we have prevented […]
Social Networks Auto Poster (SNAP)
People have been requesting this for some time, so introducing an all new plugin coming from the good people of NextScripts. Read here to find out more.
Deprecating WordPress plugins on CMS
There are currently several plugins on the UBC CMS platform that are either no longer supported by their developer, have potential security issues, conflict with new UBC data policies, or for various other reasons have become untenable on our platform. Therefore, as of August 15th the following plugins will be removed from CMS. If a […]
Important upcoming WordPress changes on CMS
Over the course of the next few weeks we will be going through some fairly large updates for WordPress plugins and themes on the CMS platform. Naturally, we’ll be taking backups as we go. This sort of procedure happens frequently, normally without you knowing. On this occasion, there are several large updates that need to […]
Iso Shortcode Added
The Iso Shortcode has been released for all to use.
Loop and Iso Shortcode Updated
The update inhibits an infinite loop from occurring.
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. […]