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
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 […]
Categories: New Feature
It’s deployment day and we’ve got some fantastic updates to share with you. A More Helpful WordPress Dashboard Our mission to enhance the WordPress dashboard experience continues. In this deployment, we’ve streamlined your experience by removing those pesky messages asking for plugin ratings and replacing […]
Categories: Deployment
With the new school year fast approaching, much of our programming efforts have been spent supporting our departments with their last-minute needs, but we still managed some goodies in today’s deployment. Drum roll, please… 🎉 Introducing Our Brand New Homepage Design and Gutenberg-Powered Theme! 🎉 […]
Categories: Deployment
Our most recent WordPress deployment is happening today. Here’s what to know and look for: Better Forms:Every form on our website now includes Google ReCaptcha to protect against spammers and bots. There’s also a new notification on the WordPress dashboard alerting you to forms where […]
Categories: Deployment
As you may have heard, Twitter has been experiencing some instability and that instability has affected most of the world’s external integrations with Twitter. This includes our WordPress sites in relation to a third-party plugin that we use, SmashBalloon Social Feeds, which allows users […]
Categories: Functionality Change, Outage
We will refresh our PPRD database with the latest production data on Tuesday, May 23rd. This means that we will overwrite the PPRD version of your site with the content from your live site. If you are still working on an unlauched site on PPRD, […]
Categories: Update
We will be refreshing our PPRD database with the latest production data in mid-to-late May. This means that we will overwrite the PPRD version of your site with the content from your live site. If you are still working on an unlauched site on PPRD, […]
Categories: Update
Here’s an update on yesterday’s intermittent outages for WordPress sites. Sites are currently stable. The University Advancement WordPress instance suffered a malicious attack that was successfully blocked by IS. The attack also created a large volume of logged errors in the database that produced the […]
Categories: Outage
We are currently experiencing intermittent outages on our WordPress sites. The Advancement WordPress team is currently working with Information Systems to resolve this issue, but we have no estimated time of resolution. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
Categories: Outage