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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
  • 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

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

 

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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 –

UT Branding Bar Example

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:

  1. Go to Appearance > Customize
  2. Click the “CSS Styles” tab in the left-hand menu
  3. 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 –

UT Branding Bar Plugin Example

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

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

  1. Go to Plugins
  2. Search for or find: MU Admin Bar
  3. 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.

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Facebook Page Plugin

To use the Facebook Page Plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/facebook-page-feed-graph-api/):

  1. Request the plugin be added to your site (help@sites.utexas.edu)
  2. Activate the plugin
  3. Place a shortcode where you would like to display a FB status feed
[facebook-page-plugin href=”<name_of_public_facebook_page>” tabs=”timeline” adapt=”true” height=”600″ width=”800″]

If the url for the page you want to display is, http://www.facebook.com/facebook, then the href value for your short code will be “facebook”.

ex:

[facebook-page-plugin href=”facebook” tabs=”timeline” adapt=”true” height=”600″ width=”800″]
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