Custom Features

Last Updated July 2025

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
• Menus
• Social Media
  • AddToAny plugin
  • Footer Icons – by request, the Web Team can also add social media icons to the bottom of your website linking to your Facebook, Youtube or other social media accounts.

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.

• Slideshow Carousel plugins:
  • Royal Slider – is an image or video slideshow carousel which can be embedded in widgets and as page content. Each slideshow on your sites requires prior setup by Fine Arts web team staff.
  • Genesis Responsive Slider – gives you the option to create a slideshow from featured posts & pages. It can be used in conjunction with the Homepage Feature, see below, to create a hero image featured story area on the homepage.
• 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.