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, Filed Under: News, Themes

Changes to UT WordPress Theme

With the release of Genesis 2.10 (UT WordPress framework), all theme settings have been moved into the WordPress Customizer. This change affects how the custom header logo is set.

Your UT WordPress header logo can now be set in the WordPress customizer. Just go to Appearance -> Customize -> Header Logo. See the page below for more instructions on customizing your header logo.

https://sites.utexas.edu/customizing-the-ut-theme-header-logo/

, Filed Under: maintenance, News

Maintenance Outage: 6/13/19

The UBS stewardship team will upgrade PHP 5.4 to 5.6 on June 13th, 2019. Maintenance will begin at 6 pm and is expected to last for one hour. The service will need to be restarted and a short outage is expected. No actions are required on your part.

, Filed Under: maintenance, News

WordPress 5.1.1

UBS has been updated to WordPress 5.1.1.  See the following link for more information about this maintenance and security patch.

WP 5.1.1

, Filed Under: maintenance, News

Gutenberg Editor Is Available!

WordPress has released the new Gutenberg editor, which aims to improve the content creation experience for your WordPress site.

The “Classic” editor will continue to be available by default for all current and new sites.

Site Administrators are welcome to try out the new Gutenberg editor at any time!

Just log into your site Dashboard, click on Plugins in the left-hand menu, then deactivate the “Classic Editor” plugin.

NOTE (7/25/19): There is a known issue affecting sites with a custom domain that are also using the Gutenberg editor which can cause an error creating/updating posts or pages.  To avoid this error, make sure to always use your custom domain when accessing the site dashboard.  

Use this:
customdomain.utexas.edu/wp-admin

Not this:
sites.utexas.edu/site/wp-admin

, Filed Under: News

SSL Only Available on UBS

Starting today, all site administrators now have the ability to force visitors to view their site over HTTPS!

There is much discussion from Google as well as the US Federal Government as to why you might want to consider it. Least to say when it comes to Google search rankings, those that are HTTPs only get a little boost. This is how you do it.

Getting Started

SSL only is configured on the server on a per site basis so you must activate it for each of your sites individually. Fortunately it’s real simple

To enable this feature on your site, log into your Dashboard and click Settings -> SSL

In the resulting page you will see a “Go ahead, activate SSL!”. Click that button and you’re done! Browse your site and ensure that all content is displaying as you expect.

Encountering Issues?

You may notice images not appearing, styling not being applied, Javascript not running, or your site not behaving as expected. This is likely because there are hard coded references to these resources in your website. Changing them from ‘http’ to ‘https’ will address the issue. If you encounter further difficulties, please submit a ticket to help@sites.utexas.edu for assistance.

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