I have just made available the Like and WP-TweetButton plugins to provide the Facebook “Like” and Twitter “Tweet” buttons for your blogs. Once you have activated one or both plugins, you can customize them from the admin dashboard, under Settings -> Facebook Like Button or Settings -> Tweet Button. If you have used these plugins …
Author Archives: Scott Dellinger
New Blog Theme: UVM 2010
A new theme, “UVM 2010”, has been made available with the look of of recently updated UVM main web site. This theme builds on the features of “UVM 2008”, and includes color variants, a small gallery of included banner images to choose from (or you can upload your own), three customizable widget areas, support for …
UVM Blogs upgraded to WordPress 3.0.1
The UVM blogs service, blog.uvm.edu, has been upgraded to WordPress 3.0.1. This new version supports custom post types and easily created menus, the blog admin pages have been streamlined and now have a better help system, and many other things have been improved. For an overview, watch this: In addition, WordPress 3.0 includes a great …
Service Downtime at 9:00pm, August 4
At 9:00pm on Wednesday, the UVM blog service blog.uvm.edu will be unavailable for a short time while it is upgraded to WordPress 3.0.1. This will add many new blog features and site improvements. A followup announcement will be posted once work is complete.
New Blog Theme: UVM Web 2008
We have made available a new theme, “UVM Web 2008”, with the layout of The University of Vermont’s main web site. This theme shows static pages on the left-hand navigation menu and customizable widgets in the sidebar, provides the various departmental color variations of the UVM theme, and supports custom header images.
Embedding Videos in Posts
People often like to embed videos in blog posts. On multiuser sites like this, though, letting people insert arbitrary HTML code can be a security problem for other logged-in users, and so WordPress strips out embed codes. The alternative, though, is actually easier: simply copy and paste the URL to the video you want onto …
New Blog Themes
Two new themes have been made available: ChocoTheme and Motion. You can preview themes and change your blog’s theme by going into your blog dashboard, looking down the menu on the left-hand side, and clicking “Appearance”. If there are other themes or plugins you’d like to see, just let us know.
Blog Migration
Welcome to UVM’s new blog service, based on WordPress. If you have an existing MovableType blog at .blog.uvm.edu, then for now, nothing has changed. Eventually, we’ll want to switch you over, but there’s no need to panic. If you would like your existing blog contents migrated over now, please contact Systems Architecture & Administration to …