Deployment Archive

Our primary development effort continues to be the creation of new themes that will gradually replace the aging ones in our repository. With that as our focus, todays deployment consisted primarily of maintenance for our existing plugins, along with style, accessibility and bug fixes. Amidst […]

Most of our recent work continues to focus on accessibility, improving code quality and maintenance, but we do have an exciting new feature that we’d like to share with you. Introducing QR Codes We’ve gotten requests for guidance around creating QR Codes for promoting University […]

Today’s WordPress deployment again focused on accessibility, improving the code quality of our custom plugins as well as general maintenance. Download Media Items in a CSV If you spend much time in the WordPress Media Library, you may notice a new “Download CSV” button there. […]

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, […]

Our WordPress 2.9.0 deployment focuses on accessibility tweaks and a move to WordPress 6.4. WordPress 6.4 We’ve been developing with WordPress 6.4 for weeks now. We’re excited to finally release it on our production environment. One feature we’d like to highlight is that images can […]

Our final deployment of 2023 happened today. It’s primarily a maintenance release but there are still plenty of items to make you aware of. Enhancing Stability with Revisions Policy The unlimited revisions per page led to massive database clutter and unwieldy pages. After consulting […]

Our deployments for the remainder of the year are going to focus largely on maintenance tasks, code improvements, and database health. We just finished an audit of the plugins in our WordPress installation, identifying dozens that are no longer in use or had duplicate functionality. […]

We’re excited to announce our latest update to the UA WordPress environment, focusing on specific improvements that directly impact your experience as a front-end user. Here are the key changes in this release that affect your user experience: Blank Pages We’ve been working to prevent […]

More Design Options Pale gold, outlines, shadows, oh my! Deployment version 2.8.9 was released today, and it brings several new design styles to the dashboard. Backgrounds, etc: Columns, groups, and the media + text blocks now have four new background designs to […]

Today’s WordPress deployment was a maintenance release that focused primarily on our plugins. In addition to updating plugins, we identified several that we thought we could safely remove from our installation. We also installed Yoast Premium on all of our sites. Our current Yoast […]