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Category Archive for 'plugins'

Plugin upgrades

Posted in plugins, syndicated-posts, system announcements, update, wordpress on Jun. 27, 2012 by

We upgraded a large number of WordPress plugins during the maintenance window this past Tuesday morning. In testing before and after the fact we found only one small glitch that was easily rectified. If you notice anything odd on one of your sites, though, don’t hesitate to contact your Academic Computing Manager or the Web […]

WesScholar Works list failed sporadically

Posted in announcements, Known Issues, plugins, syndicated-posts, system announcements, wesscholar on Nov. 9, 2011 by

For a brief period after the power outage, the automatic listing of WesScholar Works on faculty pages failed sporadically.  We have found the source of the trouble and made corrections so that it should not recur. Many thanks to the faculty who reported the trouble and helped us with their feedback to correct it quickly.

Explanatory Dictionary

Posted in announcements, glossary, plugins, syndicated-posts, system announcements on Jun. 1, 2011 by

We’ve just installed a new plugin that lets you create a glossary for your site. It’s called “Explanatory Dictionary.” When a reader hovers over one of your key words, a definition you provide will appear beside your cursor. Contact your Academic Compu…

Polling plugin

Posted in announcements, New, plugins, polls, sidebar, syndicated-posts, widget on Apr. 13, 2011 by

We’ve just added WP-Polls to our roster of WordPress plugins. Now you can add a poll to your sidebar, manage multiple polls, automatically display results, etc. Contact your Academic Computing Manager if you require assistance creating or managing a po…

Some improvements with 3.0

Posted in plugins, syndicated-posts, system announcements, themes, upgrade, wordpress on Dec. 8, 2010 by

The Wesleyan WordPress system benefits from improvements that come with our recent upgrade to WordPress 3.0. Many site owners will be happy to find that page navigation and external links can now be intermingled, reordered, etc. by use of custom menus. To access custom menus, go to Appearance > Menus. The Search Pages plugin is […]

SlideShare and TOC

Posted in Known Issues, plugins, presentations, slideshows, syndicated-posts, toc on Jun. 15, 2010 by

We’ve just added a couple plugins with some handy functionality The “SlideShare” plugin lets you easily embed slide presentations hosted on, well, SlideShare The “Hackadelic SEO Table Of Contents” plugin lets you drop a table of contents into any post or page simply by adding a [toc] shortcode anywhere on the page. The table is […]