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2013 Spring Web Editor Meeting
On January 14th, 2013 we had a casual meeting with many of our department website editors, the university Website Manager, and staff from the Office of University Relations. The two main topics discussed were about the recent Nicholls Website redesign and changes introduced during the recent WordPress 3.5 upgrade. To give more information for meeting [...]
2012 Nicholls Website Redesign New Theme Information
The Nicholls website has been redesigned with a new look based on several months of work and discussion. Although these changes are numerous and affect the website in dramatic ways, the fundamental content of most Nicholls websites should display as before with a new altered look. There are only a few areas that department website [...]
WordPress 3.5 Media Management
WordPress 3.5 has changed the interface for media management. These changes may be slightly confusing at first, but using the media management areas in WordPress should be much easier. The important thing to remember is that although the interface has been dramatically altered, the features found in the media management areas mostly remains the same. [...]
Web Editor Meeting Spring 2012
On Monday January 9, 2012 at 2:00pm we will be meeting in the Bollinger Student Union, Plantation Ballroom for our second annual meeting for website editors who help maintain the Nicholls website. This will be an overview of recent changes and goals for the Nicholls website as well as discussions about issues and requests from [...]
2011 Summer Nicholls Website Updates
I have planned to migrate the core website to WordPress for over a year. This complicated process was completed on May 26, 2011. The website management is the same WordPress software used by many of the Nicholls departments with some additional features to manage multiple websites and caching to increase performance. Eventually I will migrate [...]
Web Editor Meeting Spring 2011
Many thanks to our Nicholls website editors that were able to attend our informal meeting on January 12th. I have taken the information from that meeting and written a Website Editor Checklist & Notes page where you will find a cleaned up version of the items covered in our meeting. I have also created a [...]
Using the List Posts Shortcode
Another useful shortcode is used to list posts on any page or post. This can make a list of news stories or articles appear in any place on your WordPress website. This simplest usage above will display a list of the two most resent posts published for your website with the date. This example has [...]
Using the List Pages Shortcode
The list pages shortcode is designed to allow you to put a list of pages into a page or post. This can create a table of contents to show child pages or a list of child pages for a particular page. The page list created dynamically so the links and page titles should always be [...]
Using the Column Shortcode
The can be used to create build columns which can be more appropriate for displaying content than using HTML tables. These shortcodes have some special attributes that handle creating all the proper HTML needed to create a column that can be displayed properly. Attributes The actually creates an HTML DIV container with all the proper [...]
How to Migrate to the Nicholls 2010 WordPress Theme
WordPress administrators may have noticed a few changes after WordPress was upgraded to WordPress 3.0. For most Nicholls websites that use WordPress the changes caused no differences other than some cosmetic changes to the administration area. A few websites experienced some problems with older but useful plugins and utilities. For these websites the solution required [...]