After reviewing hold data and feedback from partners, OverDrive has made updates on how hold suspensions work across its library platforms.| OverDrive
For all sites on our Princeton University WordPress platform, a footer will be added on April 11 to include a link to a University statement on diversity and non-discrimination. The University statement reflects our institution’s approach to diversity and non-discrimination. It has been recommended by the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity that this statement […] The post New Footer Link appeared first on Princeton University WordPress Service.| Princeton University WordPress Service
Website Lifecycle Management for WordPress Web Development Services (WDS) is rolling out a feature on April 14, 2025, that will automatically email website owners when their websites no longer meet our criteria for continuing support. The criteria include no edits for one year. The email will ask the website owner to affirm whether they want to […]| Princeton University WordPress Service
Version 2 of the Editoria11y Accessibility Checker is now available for WordPress, and site admins on our managed WordPress platform can activate it from their site's dashboard. For all newly provisioned WordPress sites, we turn on Editoria11y by default. At some point in the future, we plan to activate this plugin across all sites on […]| Princeton University WordPress Service
The latest major update to WordPress, version 6.4, is now installed on our multisite network. You can preview some of the new features in the following video. This release also comes with the new Twenty Twenty-Four theme, which leverages the full-site block editor and includes a wide selection of templates and patterns.| Princeton University WordPress Service
Update: The scheduled upgrade to PHP 8.1 was successful. If you encounter any issues, please contact webservices@princeton.edu. We have scheduled the upgrade for our managed WordPress platform to PHP 8.1 on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. This is a major upgrade from PHP 7, with some significant compatibility issues with older plugins and themes. PHP 7 […]| Princeton University WordPress Service
The main site of our managed WordPress platform has not had a major redesign since September 2011, when we moved all sites from Movable Type to WordPress. The new site uses a child theme of the Twenty Twenty theme by Automattic, with some minor Princeton customizations. We used the full-width template for most pages and […]| Princeton University WordPress Service
A major revamp of this website is coming soon, but for now, I wanted to provide a quick update. The WordPress 5.8 brought a significant change to the way widgets are edited in the Customizer and the Appearance - Widgets page. By default, the widgets use the Block Editor (Gutenberg) instead of the classic interface […]| Princeton University WordPress Service
WordPress 5 was released on December 6, 2018. This major release includes the new block editor, aka Gutenberg, the most significant change to the WordPress editing experience since WYSIWYG was added. On Thursday, December 20, we deployed WordPress 5.0 to our multisite network. However, we network activated the Classic Editor plugin. With this plugin active, […]| Princeton University WordPress Service