New Announcement Banner and Dashboard Alerts!

We have some exciting updates to share with you. 

Announcement Banner: This one’s been on our wishlist (and maybe yours!) for a very long time, and we’re thrilled to announce it’s finally here. You can now add a site-level announcement banner to all pages on your website. Whether its that your office is closing early or tours are done for the day, you can now keep your website visitors informed. Learn more about how to use this new feature on our WordPress Guide.

WordPress Dashboard: Our mission to enhance the WordPress dashboard experience continues. We’ve streamlined your experience by removing those pesky messages asking for plugin ratings and replacing them with more useful ones. You might see one of these notifications when you next login:

• Blank Pages Report: This dashboard widget alerts you to any live pages on your site that do not contain any content. Having live blank pages on your website can negatively impact your search engine results and offer your users a bad experience. With this alert, you can easily find those pages and improve your site.
• Gravity Forms Notification Alert: We have identified that many Gravity Forms across the University are using the default notification email address. When your website visitors fill out your forms the email notification about it gets lost instead of going to you or a member of your team. Easily resolve those lost notifications with this report.
• Instagram Feed Notification Alert: The Instagram feed plugin requires regular reconnection to Instagram for it to continue to work properly. One feature of the plugin is that it will send an email when this reconnection needs to occur or if there are other display issues. If you need to make this update you’ll see a warning in your dashboard instructing you to change this setting.

All of these alerts are documented in our handy WordPress Guide, and as always, feel free to reach out using the Web Request Form if you have any questions.