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, Filed Under: maintenance

UBS Quarterly OS Patches Tonight (FY17 Q2)

The University Blog Service will undergo a planned quarterly maintenance this evening. Updates to the operating system will be followed by a quick reboot.

Thank you for your patience!

, Filed Under: maintenance

WordPress 4.6.1 Incoming

The University Blog Service team will be updating its WordPress installation from 4.5.3 to 4.6.1 during the scheduled maintenance window on December 1st, 2016. The service will experience outages between 5PM and 10PM while the team performs all update operations.

This release is a maintenance and security update which includes the following changes

Editor Improvements in 4.6

Improved Auto Save Feature
WordPress 4.6 brings improvements to autosave feature in WordPress. Previously, when users disabled revisions, it also affected restoring posts from autosave feature.

WordPress 4.6 will fix this issue and users can restore WordPress posts from browser backups and autosave even when they have revisions disabled.

Highlighting Broken Links
If you are using the visual editor to write posts, then adding a broken URL will be highlighted.
As soon as you add a link, WordPress will check if the link is valid. If you take the cursor to the linked text, then you will see the link in red color instead of the usual blue.

, 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 –

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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