Did You Know – Page 2

May 2, 2017, Filed Under: Did You Know, Plugin Documentation

How to use Simple Calendar Plugin

The Simple Calendar Plugin is an easy way to add Google Calendar events to your WordPress site. This plugin is available to your site by default.

There are a few steps you must follow before embedding your Google Calendar onto your site page.

Create a Google API Key
- Follow these instructions to create your API key.
  - Please note the discrepancy in Project creation after clicking on the “Google API” image
- After you have created your key, copy it to your clipboard.
Activate Simple Calendar from your plugin dashboard.
- Login to your site. From the Dashboard, click Plugins and activate Simple Calendar.
Enter the Google API Key from your clipboard into the activated plugin:
- Calendar > Settings

Set your Google Calendar to public
- https://docs.simplecalendar.io/make-google-calendar-public/
Find and copy the ID for the Google Calendar you would like embedded on your UBS site
- https://docs.simplecalendar.io/find-google-calendar-id/
Create and display a calendar in your site
- https://docs.simplecalendar.io/creating-new-calendar/

For the full listing of help topics for the Google Calendar plugin, please go to – https://simplecalendar.io/

November 1, 2016, Filed Under: Did You Know, News, Plugin Documentation

New UT Branding Bar Plugin

The UBS stewardship team is happy to announce a new plugin called: UT Branding Bar. This plugin is optimized for sites using the UT Responsive Theme.

Activating this plugin will place the University Brand Bar bar across the top of your site.

The University Brand Bar provides visitors to UT websites with a quick identifier of the UT brand and a consistently implemented route back to the UT Austin homepage. – UT Brand Guidelines

Here is what it looks like –

That’s GREAT – but can I hide the existing UT Branding logo built into the theme header?

YES! Simply add custom CSS code following these steps:

Go to Appearance > Customize
Click the “CSS Styles” tab in the left-hand menu
Paste this CSS code into the box “Custom CSS Styles”

#UTbranding {

padding-top: 40px;

-moz-box-shadow: 0px 1px 2px #707070;

-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 1px 2px #707070;

box-shadow: 0px 1px 2px #707070;

background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #FFFFFF;

height: 50px;

width: 100%;

display: none;

}

4. Click Save & Publish

5. Now your site will look like this –

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

If you activate this plugin and would like to remove the Black bar at the top of your site, do this:

Go to Plugins
Search for or find: MU Admin Bar
Click Deactivate

We have added a Log In link in the footer of the UT Responsive Theme that will allow users to log in to their sites.

Please Note:

This plugin was developed for the UT Responsive Themes. It is recommend that site administrators use the UT Branding plugin with the UT Responsive theme. Your results may vary if using a different theme.

June 23, 2016, Filed Under: Did You Know, News

Phase Out of blogs.utexas.edu Domain for sites.utexas.edu

Hello Blog Owners!

In August 2014, the University Blogs Service transitioned away from blogs.utexas.edu to sites.utexas.edu as the service’s primary domain. Currently, this domain is being hosted on the UBS server alongside sites.utexas.edu where all visitors of blogs.utexas.edu are being redirected to sites.utexas.edu.

We are in the process of completing the final stage to this transition and do away completely with blogs.utexas.edu. This will occur in two steps;

First, anyone visiting a “blogs.utexas.edu” URL will no longer be redirected along to sites.utexas.edu but to a page advising of this change. The purpose of this is to give visitors the opportunity to update their applications that rely on the old domain to use sites.utexas.edu instead.

The final step will be to instruct UTNIC to remove the DNS entry for blogs.utexas.edu after which point the domain will be retired and visitors will no longer reach the service.

These changes will occur first on June 30th, 2016 after 5:00 PM. The final “remove” step will occur on August 19th, 2016 by the day on September 15th, 2016.

Be sure to review any bookmarks, podcatchers, RSS feed readers, or any application that relies in some way on blogs.utexas.edu will no longer work. Your websites and content will still exist but will require that it be accessed with sites.utexas.edu.

We certainly do appreciate your patience and understanding during these changes.

Be sure to send your blogs related questions to help@sites.utexas.edu

Best,

The University Blogs Team

EDIT: Updated “remove” date to September 15th, 2016.