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Custom Features

Last Updated March 2026

Many features are added or enabled automatically or must be managed by the COFA Web team, such as:

  • Google Analytics for WordPress – Enabled by the COFA Web team on the day your website goes live. To access analytic and visitor data about your site, please send a Gmail address to the COFA Web team. Discover the power of analytics data and start making data based decisions today.
  • Search – The search form is required on all sites.
  • Footer content (such as department logos, contact information and social media icons)
  • Menus
  • Social Media
    • AddToAny – you have the ability to enable social media sharing buttons on a page or post
    • By request, the Web Team can add social media icons to the header, footer or sidebar of your website linking to your Facebook, Youtube or other social media accounts.
      • AddToAny Follow – follow buttons for your social media accounts
      • Simple Social Icons – icons linking to your social media accounts. This widget allows us to customize the colors to match your site’s branding color palette.

There are optional types of content, called Plugins and Widgets, that can display additional content or provide additional functionality for your site. Contact the COFA Web team to begin using these features.

  • Homepage Feature adds a full width hero image to the homepage only. See demo here.
  • “Teams” allows you to create rows and columns in a responsive grid layout. The typical use of the plugin is for creating a directory of people but it can be used creatively to solve many other layout needs.
  • Tables – The TablePress Plugin allows you to easily build data tables on your WordPress site. Please see the accessibility instructions on this page before publishing your table.
  • RSS – Display content from an RSS feed, usually from a different website. We can use this to embed events from the Department websites.
  • HTML – Add custom HTML. Potential use, includes embedding content from external websites.
  • Ways to Display your News Blog Posts:
    • Archives – A list of links to each month of your blog or news items.
    • Calendar – A clickable calendar to link to your blog and news items.
    • Categories – A clickable list or drop-down menu of the Categories of your news or post pages.
    • Recent Posts – A list of links to the most recent blog or news items on your site.

If you see a functionality or feature on one of our other websites on UBS, let us know and we can try to help.