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AWS Service Disruptions Affecting WordPress Sites

Earlier today, an issue with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud platform that hosts all the websites on our WordPress theme, caused temporary slowdowns and errors across multiple institutions nationwide. Amazon has resolved the primary issue, and most services are now operating normally. However, there […]

Categories: Outage


WP 4.1.7 Deployment

In our WP 4.1.7 deployment, we made small child theme updates and refreshed the Button Block to meet current coding standards.  While the frontend appearance remains the same, the Button Block now enforces stricter validation, buttons must include both text and a link before […]

Categories: Deployment


WordPress admin outage and database rollback

We want to inform you of an important issue regarding the UA WordPress system. Due to an unexpected problem, we needed to roll back the WordPress database to 11:30 p.m. today. Unfortunately, this means that any work done after this time will be lost. We […]

Categories: Incident Report, Outage


WP Deployment 2.9.2

Today’s WordPress deployment was a more technical one where we handled many plugin updates, took care of additional accessibility changes, and improved code quality behind the scenes. We are also bidding farewell to the ZenDesk plugin and evaluating a new chat plugin replacement. As always, […]

Categories: Deployment


Please check your accordions

Recently we made improvements to the Accordion block, focused on making the block more accessible for users with screen readers.  However, these changes necessitated giving all accordions unique identifiers. Previously, if you copied an accordion, it would retain the same identifier. As a result […]

Categories: Functionality Change


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